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- do the things in the "linear" TU actually have anything to do with each other? especially since you conflate implicitly both the high-school (y=mx + b, i.e. "affine" - and you should probably accept this) and the actual mathematical (y = kx) definition of "linear" in...

My neg on this question is probably a bit peculiar, but I'll still explain what happened from my perspective. Here is the clue I buzzed on, with my buzz marked by (#): In accretion disks, magnetic fields act as springs in a mechanism leading (#) to the onset of this phenomenon, which causes increas...

I want to echo everyone’s praise of Eve, and thank her for being especially understanding when I fell behind early on in the process. Shahar was a very swell science co-editor, cheerily giving lots of feedback, accurately dunking on some of my worse difficulty impulses (circularly-polarized light wa...

-a tossup on both "laminar flow" and "turbulence"? surely there's more in physics, even just fluid mechanics, to ask about. -also, on "turbulence," i buzzed on the adaptive optics clue with "refraction" and was negged. i'm almost positive i just wasn't listen...

Apologies to everyone who negged on the Stirling's formula and replica trick clues in the log tossup due to my poor wording -- will definitely take more care to arrange clues like those so the equation comes earlier in the future.

TU 1.20 on entanglement: "States have this property if they cannot be decomposed as a sum of (*) product states." This clue is wrong, as any state is a sum of product states. Maybe it should be changed to "cannot be decomposed as a product state." Thanks for the catch, fixed! I ...

I think David is being a bit harsh on himself re: physics, considering that it's one of the hardest categories to edit at the hardest tournament, and he had to do it with less time than normal. I had a great time playing this set's physics - there was a lot of stuff I was really excited to hear come...

this did happen unfortunately

Seconding S.A. that I have a ton of music to check out now - thank you to William and Sameer! Two minor notes: 1) I thought the Waterfall etude bonus part could have been a bit more clear that the 27 etudes weren't all part of one set - was a bit confused there, and 2) A teammate of mine pointed out...

I had an amazing time playing this year’s nats. There were multiple questions in pretty much every category that I thought were super cool and/or creative. My mind was blown many times over the weekend. I expected it coming in, but am still consistently amazed with how much cool, important contempor...

I've been (slowly) making my way through The Shock of the New over the past few weeks, and in particular watched about half of the Trouble in Utopia episode the other night over dinner. I was stoked when I heard it come up in the NYC art tossup, but quickly realized that I didn't watch far enough in...

Echoing Emmett, I particularly enjoyed the "famous person doing other stuff" sorts of clues, which were always very fun and interesting, as well as the more biographical stuff: thinking of things like da Vinci's restaurant, Ben Franklin's demography work, Claude Shannon's love for juggling...

This was a fun set - thanks to all the people who worked on it! I thought the science was very good, and the tossups picked innovative ways to ask about core stuff (in particular imo the analytical chemistry tossups did this well). I agree that the computation bonus parts might have been a bit too h...

Henry is definitely deserving of consideration for top 10 literature and top 25 overall; his ppb speaks for itself, and he picked up 18 out of the 40 literature questions he heard in the top bracket. Henry was UNC A's best player for a very large part of the regular season: see stats for ACF Winter,...

This set was wonderful. I think the effort to heavily hit core canon/classroom content made questions feel really rewarding, without sacrificing the excitement and sense of horizon-broadening that ACF Nationals usually has. The succinctness and precision was appreciated -- it was rare that I was uns...

Congratulations to UVA A (David Bass, Alana Dickey, Itamar Naveh-Benjamin) for going undefeated to win this tournament. Duke A (Jacob Egol, Jerry Lin, Payton Schubel, Ashish Subramanian) took second and were our undergraduate champions, and UVA B (Charlotte Goeb, Maria Lyons, Daniel Xue, Kenny Zhang...

I am pleased to announce that the Lower Mid-Atlantic site of 2022 ACF Regionals will be held at Duke on Saturday, January 29, 2022. The tournament will take place at the Classroom Building. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9:00 AM. I, Vincent Du, will be the tourn...

Hi everyone, thank you for playing ARCADIA. I edited chemistry, physics, philosophy, and some of the other sciences (the math, the atmospheric/environmental science questions). Some people I want to thank: Michael wrote the majority of this set’s philosophy. He wrote questions that engaged meaningfu...

This set was fantastic and a lot of fun to play - thank you to everyone who worked on it! I remember thinking while playing that a lot of the humanities categories had a very cool interdisciplinary feel, with philosophy, literature, art, religion/myth, and history all drawing from each other in a wa...

Thank you to all the teams and staffers who came out to Durham today! Congratulations to South Carolina A, who defeated Virginia Tech A in a two-game advantaged final to win the tournament. The DII champion was New Jersey Scholars B, and the DII runner up was South Carolina B. Combined stats can be ...

I had a great time playing this tournament, so thank you so much to the editors, writers, proofreaders, and playtesters, as well as everyone involved with staffing and organizing the tournament! I thought that the questions were uniformly really interesting to listen to and rewarding to play (includ...

Thank you to all the teams that came out to play ACF Fall yesterday! I hope everyone had a good time. Congratulations to Maryland A (Mahta Gooya, David Wang, Connor Mayers, Jakobi Deslouches) for coming in first. They defeated Duke A (Brandon Weiss, Ridge Ren, Payton Schubel, Ashish Subramanian) in ...

I am pleased to announce that the Lower Mid-Atlantic site of 2020 ACF Fall will be held at UNC on Saturday, October 17, 2020. The tournament will take place virtually on Discord. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45AM and gameplay will begin at 9:00AM. Eric Gunter will be the tournament director. ...

Thank you to all the teams that came out to play ACF Regionals yesterday! Virginia beat Duke A in a one game final to win the tournament, and Duke A was the undergraduate champion. Full stats can be found here.

I am pleased to announce that the Lower Mid-Atlantic site of 2020 ACF Regionals will be held at the University of North Carolina on Saturday, January 25, 2020. The tournament will take place at Dey Hall, with team check-in beginning at 8:15 in Dey 305 and gameplay beginning at 9:00. I will be the to...

Thank you to the teams that came out today! Duke A went 10-0 to clear the field, and UNC A came in second. Full stats can be found here.

Due to issues with room reservations, this mirror will now be held on Sunday, October 27th.

Current Field (teams/buzzers/staff):
Duke (2/2/0)
UNC (3/2/?)
NCSU (1/0/0)

Total: 6 teams (out of 8)

Based on staff estimates we've decided to expand the field one more time to 20 teams. Please note that this means that the tournament will now be held in Greenlaw and Bingham Halls, not Dey Hall.

We're happy to announce that the field cap has been increased to 16. This is likely a final field cap.

Current field (teams/buzzers/staffers): East Chapel Hill (1/0/0) Liberty (3/2/0) Virginia Tech (2/2/0) Virginia (3/3/0) Duke (2/2/1) William and Mary (2/1/3) NC State (2/1/1) South Carolina (2/2/2) UNC (3 teams) Total: 20 teams (out of 20) The field cap has been increased to 12. Further expansion is...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be hosting a mirror of 2019 Penn Bowl on October 27th, 2019. More information about the set can be found here . LOCATION/SCHEDULE: The tournament will be held at Dey Hall. Registration will be in Room 305 starting at 9:30 AM, and we will have an o...

Hello, everyone! The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be hosting a mirror of the 2019 Early Fall Tournament, a medium difficulty set, on October 5th, 2019. More information about the set can be found here . LOCATION/SCHEDULE: The tournament will be held at Greenlaw Hall and Bingham H...

Can anybody recommend me books on the history of science/mathematics?