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100

This board game was born in 6th-century India, although castling wouldn't be an option until the 17th century.

What is Chess?

100

"Decolonization is not a metaphor" declared this pair of scholars, who are less popular in the academy today than they may be in debate rounds.

Who are Tuck & Yang?

100

This monumental city hosted NCFL nationals this past year, students walked the mall and took in the Smithsonian after their elimination.

What is Washington DC?

100

Walk under the Big Fan at LEX, or drive in from CVG to access this first leg of the Triple Crown.

What is the (UK) Tournament of Champions?

100

Tabroom.com is a project owned and operated by this organization, once known as the NFL.

What is the NSDA?

200

This pen-and-paper challenge involves populating a 9x9 grid of numbers such that boxes, rows, and columns have no repeated digits.

what is Sudoku?

200

This Baudrillard Scholar with a serious interest in games and the university has drawn criticism for her work in predictive policing.

Who is Hoofd?

200

At NCFL grand nationals, debaters often choose this option when they win the coin toss, knowing that it feeds two birds with one scone.

What is choosing con/neg?

200

Fly in across the bay to SFO, or land closer by at OAK for this California Invitational.

What is Berkeley?

200

this alternate URL adds rainbow flair to tabroom, and was briefly taken offline recently.

what is tabroom.gay?

300

This Canadian board game, in which players collect colored wedges to prove their knowledge, describes itself as an exercise in frivolity.

What is trivial pursuit?

300

This scholar debated Noam Chomsky in a 1971 televised showdown over the question of whether an innate human nature existed, or whether such naturalistic claims were pernicious operations of power

who is Foucault?

300

At the revered NCFL national championship, the rules indicate that, even when asked, debaters are under no obligation to do this, the bare minimum required for acocuntability to sources.

What is share evidence?

300

BDL is the most common regional choice for this Connecticut invitational, but the smaller HVN is closer by.

What is Yale?

300

After an article published in Breitbart, these became impossible to view on tabroom without logging in.

What are judge paradigms?

400
This game, in which players place stones on the intersections of a 19x19 board, was foundational to Deleuze & Guattari's account of the war machine.

What is Go?

400

"The Old Mole" and "The Big Toe" are both essays by this philosopher, who spent his youth working in the French National Archives.

Who is Bataille?

400

The NSDA district tournament won't help you get to Grand Nationals, instead you'll need to qualify through one of these, another term for a bishopric.

What is a diocese?

400
Grab a sandwich from Frontera as you land in ORD for this November tournament. Your other option is MDW, but you won't need to fly at all this year.

What is the Glenbrooks?

400

While tabroom's tabulation software was born from Bruschke's Computer Assisted Tab program, the website was initially a side project started by this former Newton South High School coach.

who is Chris Palmer?

500

This competitive word game uses a 15x15 grid, its greatest player Nigel Richards holds 5 world championship titles.

what is Scrabble?

500

This feminist scholar was expelled from the Freudian School of Paris by its founder, and effectively ostracized from the French Academy as a result. Her works include "Marine Lover: of Friedrich Nietzsche" and "An Ethics of Sexual Difference".

Who is Irigaray?

500

At NCFL Grand Nationals, this service precedes the awards ceremony, although it is no longer done in Latin.

What is mass?
500

Take a flight straight to this sharp-edged tournament and challenging round robin by connecting through CLT before landing at RDU.

What is Durham?

500

This software, used to tab WUDC and WSDC, has a cute name, but lags behind tabroom in terms of the ability to leave feedback.

What is Calico Tab / TabbyCat ?

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