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Iamteehee

I've sent a logistics email to all of the emails listed for the signed up teams on the spreadsheet from Geoff22224 at gmail.com. Hi, We are going to meet at 9pm or the end of the HSNCT finals (whichever is later) near the Marquis Foyer area on the Marquis level. We’ll quickly go over the schedule an...

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(I realize now I posted my previous post in the incorrect thread.) HSNCT room assignments are out now, so if you have a room you are willing to volunteer, please add it to the spreadsheet . Without 4 rooms, this event won't be able to run. Also, if you have any buzzer sets you are willing to lend me...

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I added a section on the spreadsheet for buzzers a while ago, please volunteer your buzzers if you have any or otherwise we'll have to play slapbowl and I'd like to avoid that. I've decided there isn't going to be a formal mirror at NSC, but I might run an informal shootout. I'm 80%+ sure right now ...

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This happened. I screwed up and didn't write down or record the buzzes during the reading but I think I managed to accurately reconstruct them. The packet is attached to this post. The scores Name: 20s 15s 10s -5s Total score Eric: 8/13/2/3 360 Ben: 2/2/1/2 70 Chris: 0/3/1/2 45 RRP: 0/1/1/1 20 Alber...

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Since we aren't allowed to use game rooms after the finals, for this side event to occur, we require at least 3 rooms to play in, so I've added a section to the spreadsheet for playing rooms. If you'd like to volunteer your room and be eligible for another $5 discount, add your name to the spreadshe...

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I wrote a 20 tossup packet on proteins, where every answerline is a protein or very, closely related to proteins. It is extremely, extremely hard, I'd say that maybe two-thirds of the questions are harder than CO difficulty. Unless some number of people have objections, I will read it in #packet in ...

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No one studies space geo (this isn't quite true, but I do agree that space geography tends to be overrepresented in the astronomy distribution), so that means you shouldn't fill the astronomy distribution with space geography. It does not mean you should completely delete the astronomy distribution.

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I am going to Cornell. Quizbowl will happen.

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I think many people fail to realize how big 1/1 encompasses. All of sociology, economics, anthropology, linguistics, jurisprudence, IR theory, psychology, and some other subcategories of social science I'm probably missing make up 1/1. While it is certainly possible to write several sets worth of 1/...

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I don't buy arguments for more math along the lines of "math is extremely important to all the sciences", "there's a lot of group theory in particle physics and chemistry" and "tensors are really important in a lot of physics", because math things like groups and tensors, insofar as they are related...

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Yes, as well as people who aren't enrolled at all.

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This is an announcement for CANONEXPANSION at the 2019 HSNCT. The fee for playing will be $15/team ($10/team if you bring a buzzer set) so I can pay staffers. It will happen on Sunday evening. I am setting the field cap to 8 teams of 4 players each for now, but this might increase. If you are intere...

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I confirmed about a week ago that I am going to HSNCT so there'll be a CANONEXPANSION @ HSNCT announcement post up very soon. 105 out of the 120 questions in the set are now written. The questions right now are shaping out to be somewhat harder than outlined in the OP and the set will probably end u...

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Banned Tiny Toon Adventures Episode wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:05 pm
you appear to have mistakenly placed a mandatory "other history/other academic" question in the other science distribution : I would recommend amending this

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This may (or may not) be the first time in quizbowl history the packets have been uploaded as both PDFs and Doc (without being in zip files)!

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Playing in the upper division offers you valuable experience playing against stronger teams.

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An update post. Akshay Govindan is writing for the set now as well. The set is approximately 60% complete and well on track to being complete by HSNCT. All the questions written so far are (in my opinion) very interesting, whimsical and enjoyable to play. A few people have asked me if the planned si...

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The forums won't let me attach more than 3 files it seems, here's the team_bpa

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Here are the BPA stats for 2019 ACF Regionals that Ryan Rosenberg (not me!) made.

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Wayzata A seems wildly overranked here, considering that they have no player that plays science, philosophy, social science or a significant portion of religion and mythology well.

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So if I'm reading this right, each event is 5 rounds of 20 tossups for $50 per individual player?

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I would not get your hopes up too high on being able to play HFT in MN. Last year, there was supposed to be a mirror but it got cancelled since there was like one team that was interested in going. MN high school quizbowl teams seem to hate anything which isn't NAQT.

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I personally don't trust the results of Solo very much. Scobol Solo has a history of not being the greatest of sets.

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http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/53 ... /combined/

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At what locations might a team hypothetically qualify for the 2019 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament?

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Canada is part of the universe.

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What's the difficulty of the set supposed to be? MUT, SMT and EMT are all 2.0 difficulty by Ophir's difficulty scale but the OP states a difficulty level of 1.5. Additionally, MUT/SMT/EMT are basically the same difficulty level as EFT, but the set is advertised as between ACF Fall and EFT level. Edi...

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Currently the distribution adds up to 20.45/20.45
Is the geo/misc distribution supposed to be 1.27/1.27?

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Congratulations to Richard Montgomery A for winning a disadvantaged final against Richard Montgomery A! Thank you to all the teams for coming and we hope to see you again! So there were two A teams? Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just looking through the forum, don't know anything about the actual to...

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Ryan Rosenberg wanted me to say something so I'll say that the changing of the pronoun to these bonds on the C-C tossup was at least partially responsible for me negging the tossup with "organometallic" on oxidative addition. Edit: by the time I had buzzed in, transmetalation had been said. While th...

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While MSNCT and IS-A are accounted for in Morlan rankings, they have very little effect on the positions of teams in the rankings.

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It's almost certainly not what you are looking for, but there does exist a speedcheck set on the packet archive. Warning: it's really, really hard and comes with all the eccentricities that 10-year old packets have

http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/745/

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You should totally call this the Metropolis-Hastings tournament

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Can I see the main sequence tossup?

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Since everyone else is posting a discussion thread, I thought I'd make one for MN.
Discuss MN qb

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Since we're talking about CMST, I'd like to say (brag) that I did quite well at CMST as well

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... tail/#p4_6

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I remember the abc conjecture clue was trying to get how on the statement of the conjecture, a and b have to be relatively prime. I found it really hard to parse and convert during game speed though.

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I’m pleased to announce, CANONEXPANSION (Creating Additional Names Or New EXtra Possible Answers Now Science Is Only Natural, thanks to Sam Brochin for the name), an experimental science side event written by Vishwa Shanmugam and I to be played in the 2018-2019 season. CANONEXPANSION is experimental...

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So obviously high schooler co team isn't happening, but I have confirmed that I am able to attend, so I am now looking for a team.

I play (and will be able to write) science and nothing else. I will be able to get 6/6 science done by June 10th and possibly May 27th.

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https://stats.neg5.org/t/r1W6A9_3f/east ... -standings

yes

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The astronomy tossups felt a little on the easy side for me (color magnitude diagrams are quite well known and are a super big deal, afterglow is quite well known and comes up far later on most other GRB tossups etc.). Other than that, the astronomy questions seemed really well written and relevant ...

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woah I didn't know there was anyone in MN hs qb who used the forums

https://discord.gg/rvxTC4M

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SMT
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/
(also https://stats.neg5.org/t/BJ8YuTjcz/smt- ... -standings but i think it was all chimeras here)

Iamteehee

Are any high schoolers here interested in a high schoolers team?

(I’m still not quite sure if I’m personally going yet though)

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Your stats link doesn't work for me. Is This it?

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A post by Brian Kalathiveetil in the discord says it will be in Folwell Hall and that the details *might* have been emailed by Jason.

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I don't have a rigorous studying schedule. Usually when I'm bored in class or at home, I'll read some packets or look over/make some notecards. I'd say I spent an average of anywhere from 10 to 25 hours on doing things for the specific purpose of getting better at qb, mostly depending on how much sc...

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If the date was moved to this Sunday, I probably wouldn't be able to play.

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I'm still available, in case anyone is looking for another player.
I play science.

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Hunter A is definitely underrated here. They just got 26.82 PPB on IS-172 without Daniel Ma.
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... i_results/

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