Tournament Bangers 4

Catholicisme

This lecture was delivered at Rutgers University on September 9, 2021.

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About the speaker:
Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Aristotle’s Four Causes and the Possibility of Science | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

This talk was delivered on November 4, 2021 at Cornell University.

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About the Speaker:
Fr. Andrew Jordan Schmidt, OP, grew up in North Dakota and received a Bachelor's degree in English and East Asian Studies from St. John's University in Collegeville, MN in May 2002.  After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural China, he entered the seminary, studying for the diocese of Bismarck at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, MO from 2004-2006.  He joined the St. Joseph province of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in the summer of 2006, and moved to Washington, DC to study at the Pontifical Faculty Immaculate Conception where he earned an STB and MDiv in 2009.  In the Fall of 2009, he entered the STL program in Biblical Theology at The Catholic University of America.  Upon completing his Licentiate degree in 2012, he was ordained a priest at St. Dominic's parish in Washington, DC after which he was assigned as associate pastor to St. Mary's parish in New Haven, CT.  In the Fall of 2013, he returned to Washington to pursue a doctorate in Biblical Studies at The Catholic University of America. During his time at The Catholic University of America, Fr. Jordan has served as a teaching assistant and teaching fellow in addition to taking on various posts in the STRS student association.

The Bible as Revealed Truth and its Relationship To Rational Thought | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

This lecture was given on March 3, 2022 at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

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About the speaker:
Gregory T. Doolan received his B.A. in political theory from Georgetown University in 1993 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 2003. He taught philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. from 2004–05 and joined the faculty of the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in 2005. Dr. Doolan’s research interest is in the area of Aquinas’s metaphysics; in recent years, his focus has been on Aquinas’s account of the Aristotelian categories of being. A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Doolan currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.

Why Should We Believe God Exists? | Prof. Gregory Doolan

This lecture was given on March 16, 2022 at Duke University.

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About the speaker:
Fr. Jonah Teller, O.P., is a friar of the Dominican Province of Saint Joseph. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Dallas in 2011, entered the Order of Preachers in 2013, and was ordained a priest in May of 2020. He holds a licentiate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

St. Thomas Aquinas and Josef Pieper on Creation | Fr. Jonah Teller, O.P.

Joe and Grettelyn talk to Mike Creavey of The Gracious Guest about appreciation for creation and how to bring Chesterton into students' lives. For more from Mike, visit

Chesterton and Wonder at God's Creation, with Mike Creavey

"I will admit that I'm scared of Gooseworx. So, you know how I'm aware that this is a fictional tournament and nothing is real? I think Gooseworx is too. She doesn't seem to even care if she wins or loses. Sometimes she'll say something horribly morbid and look at the "camera" like she's on a sitcom. I don't understand her."

This track and art was made by @e-twoup.

Track Sources:
The Living Tombstone - Epoch (Songs by similar cover artists)
Stupendium - Why Did I Say Okie Doki? (Nerdcore)
Dan Bull - No Man's Sky rap (Nerdcore)
The Living Tombstone - Cut the Cord (Songs by similar cover artists)

Why Did I Say Epoch

CONTESTANT 12: Fighting Mascot Team

Track By: @spring-souls

What's this? My god, the most famous video game characters of all time! That's right, the Nintendo E-Shop Bag and the Frog from Flipnote Hatena! Everybody knows these two! R-right? No? Too bad, they're in this tourney and nothing you do will ever change that, you powerless fool. Fuck you.

SONGS USED:
Robin Sparkles - Let's Go to the Mall (Shopping)
Synthpuff - You Reposted in the wrong Stuffmart (Shopping)

How I Reposted Your Stuffmart

CONTESTANT 02: Dave Strider

Track By: @dafisha21
Thumbnail By: @kirbofunnyman

That's right, it's THE author of SBAHJ! wtf is homestuck? Never heard of it. Sounds like some lame knock-off of SBAHJ, which is way better. After hearing that there's a deliberately bad tourney being made, the Lord of Irony himself has decided to bless us with his presence. Can he make it to the end in TIME? Find out when voting begins i guess

SONGS USED:
100 gecs - Stupid Horse (Ironic Music)
Madeon - All My Friends (House Music. Dave is from HOMEstuck)

stupid friends

CONTESTANT 12: Fighting Mascot Team

Track By: @babybowser101

What's this? My god, the most famous video game characters of all time! That's right, the Nintendo E-Shop Bag and the Frog from Flipnote Hatena! Everybody knows these two! R-right? No? Too bad, they're in this tourney and nothing you do will ever change that, you powerless fool. Fuck you.

SONGS USED:
Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (Animation Meme songs)
CrusherP - ECHO (Animation Memes)

How English Of You!

CONTESTANT 14: Gay Bowser & Gay Luigi

Track By: @unknown_artist10
Thumbnail By: @babybowser101

Nice of the hosts to invite us to Anarchy Tourney, gay Luigi? I hope they made lots of tracks! That's right, joining us in Anarchy Tourney are none other than the most sensational LGBT icons of this world! How far will they make it? Find out in... idk i dont have a real schedule for when i actually start the voting period lol 

SONGS USED:
Patricia Taxxon ft. Ashley Sharp - sbb_pop (LGBT Artists)
No Straight Roads - VS. Sayu (Not Straight)
Ke$ha - Die Young (LGBT Artists)
No Straight Roads - DK West Encounter 1 (Not Straight)
100 Gecs - Ringtone (LGBT Artists)
Tyler, The Creator - GONE GONE, THANK YOU (LGBT Artists) (The creator of this mashup said they're most likely bi idk)
Lil Nas X - C7osure (You Like) (LGBT Artists)

No Straight People

art and music by: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/rhsP7

A.M.S
System booting up. 50%. 80%. 99%. Booting up complete
this is the Automatic Matching System, take 2 characters and mashes them together to make 1 unique character. this machine decided to host this tournament for his pleasure and how far he can create people.
Sources
original songs / iconic songs from other tournaments
(airplanes, what, Jetblack redaction)
songs about machines
(cogs in the machine, money machine, computer love)
sources used:
notme/prizm - wide once-ler walking (Iconic songs)
Dhmis 4 (machines)
Daft Punk - technologic (machines)

wide computer walking

welcome to mix and mash, we are a 4 character tournament that bases primarily on fusion.

come join: https://discord.gg/KM24ejunCp

icon inspired by: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/YAfR

wide computer walking

Mix and mash: booting up