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- Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Harris Bunker
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9255
Re: Harris Bunker
Hey all, I'm reopening this thread to share some personal news and testimony. As a few people already know, I signed up for Be the Match in 2021 at Harris' suggestion and matched with a potential recipient last year. This week, I completed a process to extract marrow from my hip bone, one of two way...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 8:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2555
Re: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
I would also like to know the answer to this question.
- Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2079
Re: General Discussion and Thanks
Can you post the version of the set that was played at MIT? I have some (complimentary) thoughts to gather into a post, but I'd like to look through the set first to make sure I'm not just relying on vague recollections. This weekend's mirror reminded me that I never made my promised post praising ...
- Sat Apr 30, 2022 3:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2022 Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12186
Re: ACF Nationals 2022 Thanks and General Discussion
I just realized that I never actually posted anything in this thread. I have a few points I want to raise, and if they revive the now-dormant discussion going on here, so much the better! I’m glad to see that the set’s reception has been generally positive. If you liked questions in my categories (p...
- Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2079
Re: General Discussion and Thanks
Can you post the version of the set that was played at MIT? I have some (complimentary) thoughts to gather into a post, but I'd like to look through the set first to make sure I'm not just relying on vague recollections.
- Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open at MIT (2/26/2022)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2097
Re: Illinois Open at MIT (2/26/2022)
I thought this tournament ran very well. Reading difficult questions all day in masks isn't easy, yet the staffers uniformly performed their jobs with enthusiasm and aplomb. Much thanks to MIT, and to the area staffer(s?) as well!
- Tue Nov 16, 2021 12:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open (open to mirrors starting 11/13/2021)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11742
Re: Illinois Open (open to mirrors starting 11/13/2021)
I'd also be interested in such a mirror, conditional on a workable date.
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BHSAT (Spring 2023) [old thread]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4560
Re: BHSAT (Spring 2023)
We chose the name in reference to CMST , which also shared its name with an existing but wildly different tournament, The Collaborative Middle School Tournament was long defunct when the open-level CMST set was played. The writers of this set have no reason to believe that there will not be a high ...
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 9:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Teammate Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7608
Re: Teammate Appreciation Thread
Now that I've successfully rendered myself no longer a Yale student, I have time to post in this thread about how great my teammates are. (Whoops!) Hasna and Olivia shouted out several deserving Yale quizbowlers upthread. In addition to cosigning everything they said, I want to offer some kudos of m...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13842
Re: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
Time begins at recognition , not at the time of signaling. Yale has two players with the same first name. I have three questions about this circumstance, which also may apply to situations in which two players on different teams have identical or similar names. (1) Are moderators under instructions...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRONYM 14: Global Announcement
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3718
Re: ACRONYM 14: Global Announcement
While reading this tournament's results, I realized that I don't think the ACRONYM 13 set ever got posted. Did I miss it somewhere? If not, could it be posted publicly?
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16000
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Submissions that I especially loved included those on protein folding with DeepMind clues (TU, Brown A), the Hall–Héroult process (TU, Edinburgh A), ray tracing (TU, George Washington A, converted to rays ), desiccation (TU, Harvard A), position in quantum mechanics (TU, MIT B), relativistic clocks ...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - General Discussion & Thanks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4312
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - General Discussion & Thanks
I want to thank some people who helped in producing my categories and reflect on some goals I had as an editor. In addition, I'd be happy to provide feedback to any team on their submissions in my categories. Just send me an email at the address in my profile! I edited chemistry, physics, and astron...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 IKEA - Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5632
Re: Sepcific Questions Discussion
I thought this set was great top to bottom, but one erratum from the bonus part on just-noticeable difference resurfaced in my mind just now: [10] Psychophysics often searches for this threshold, defined as the level of stimulus which a subject detects 50 percent of the time. Weber's law suggests it...
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 4:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Even GHOTIer (GHOTI II 2020 Announcement)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7303
Re: Even GHOTIer (GHOTI II 2020 Announcement)
Did this happen?
- Sat Oct 17, 2020 11:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2020 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5344
Re: ACF Fall 2020 - Thanks and General Discussion
Like many recent iterations of ACF Fall, this set had lots of questions, both creative and down-the-middle, that were well executed and hewed to an appropriate difficulty level. The editors should be proud of this achievement. Unfortunately, also like many recent iterations of ACF Fall, this set had...
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25943
Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
The technical innovations that made this tournament possible were fantastic, and Emily deserves huge accolades for them. I was also very impressed by the amount of goodwill and energy to make quizbowl happen that I saw from this event's writers and moderators, as well as the gratitude displayed by t...
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 5:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25943
Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th)
Should we be able to select multiple packets on the second page? I don't see how to.meebles127 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 5:47 pm Here is the form to signup to participate as a PLAYER in the 2020 Internet Charity Tournament.
EDIT: Better now!
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54833
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
I think it's fair to say that at any given time, there are perhaps two dozen college-graduate quizbowlers whose educational choices have a large impact on the top bracket of ICT and ACF Nationals. Some of these quizbowlers are currently enrolled in graduate or professional schools and playing on eli...
- Sun Feb 23, 2020 12:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6676
Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Overall, this set was fairly easy to read, so I'd like to thank the writers and editors for a decent proofreading job. There were a couple of classes of errors that seemed more prevalent than usual, though, and I'd like to note them for future revisions. My loose impression was that there were more ...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 SCT general discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6472
Re: 2020 SCT general discussion
As a separate matter, we also currently don't have automated checks for things like "there's a reasonable amount of organic chemistry in this set, but the o chem tossups are all clumped in the last 6 rounds." A heartfelt thanks to Billy Busse for catching and reporting a couple clumping i...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Midwest SCT (2/8/20) at Purdue
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2833
Re: NAQT Midwest SCT (2/8/20) at Purdue
I do have one issue with the tournament format, however, which as I understand it was beyond the host’s control. There were ten teams in the D1 field, and according to the Purdue staff, NAQT had instructed them to run a full round robin guaranteeing only nine games to teams not in the final. Combin...
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25784
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
I didn't get points for saying "the prologue to Hopscotch" for the bonus part on the Table of Instructions. Was this a moderator error (possibly because of a long or complicated answerline) or was this a genuine omission by the packet? If the latter, I think the answer line should be expa...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14936
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
I thought this set was very good, though I noticed two errata that I don't think have been mentioned yet: Bonus 16.3 in packet C is written in a confusing way: [10] Description acceptable. The horses in The Derby at Epsom have this specific, unusual trait, which was only discovered upon comparison w...
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - General Discussion Thread
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3676
Re: General Discussion Thread
This set had a lot of interesting questions that I enjoyed reading. I was bothered, however, by a number of long, complex sentences that were difficult to process. Many of these sentences parse correctly if you have the time to sit down and read them on paper or screen, as I imagine the editors of t...
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: STAR BOWL (2019 Spring and Summer Side-Event)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16394
Re: STAR BOWL (2019 Spring and Summer Side-Event)
Is this still happening at NSC? I understand that Victor is very busy with the real event, but is it possible to delegate organization to someone else?
- Thu May 16, 2019 5:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CANONEXPANSION, an experimental science side event ('18-'19)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7854
Re: CANONEXPANSION, an experimental science side event ('18-'19)
I'd also be interested in this.Amizda Calyx, in another thread wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 5:00 pm Are there any plans to run CANONEXPANSION at NSC? I won't be able to make it to HSNCT.
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
- Replies: 90
- Views: 48009
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
I enjoyed this tournament a lot, though it was a reminder of how difficult it is to lead a team at this difficulty. I don't have an overarching thesis to put forth, but I do want to single out some questions and sets of questions I particularly enjoyed. Some of my favorite questions fell outside of ...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 84353
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
Steven's proposal is essentially dual to what Dwight and I have done in the past--we start at the bottom and iteratively work up, rather than starting at the top and working down. It's not immediately obvious to me that one method or the other will lead to intuitively "better" or less disr...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Specific Question Request and Discussion
- Replies: 125
- Views: 22215
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Specific Question Request and Discussion
I enjoyed the large majority of this tournament’s science questions. In the categories in which I have deeper knowledge, topic and clue selection was generally very good. There were some early clue drops, confusingly worded sentences, and very difficult bonuses, but most sets suffer from all those d...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science (2018 Sun God)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19983
Re: Science (2018 Sun God)
To backtrack a bit, I thought the three computational physics bonus parts in this tournament were all clear and straightforward ways of testing for important knowledge. Perhaps the wording has been fine-tuned a bit from the first mirrors, but I didn't find any of them confusing. Tree traversals are ...
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 11:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sun God New England at Brown
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8764
Re: Sun God New England at Brown
This tournament ran very well--in particular, it was very well staffed, allowing advanced statistics to be collected without much hassle or delay. I'm glad to see Brown return to the hosting scene after a two-year hiatus!
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Player tossup etiquette
- Replies: 23
- Views: 16620
Re: Player tossup etiquette
PACE"s rule D11 is similar but slightly stricter and slightly more explicit: 11. If the moderator has begun reading a tossup and has not yet read a verb, or a proper noun, or a word within quotation marks, or a noun or adjective which is a technical term in an academic field, (e.g. "Next t...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 12:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14018
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
In general, I thought that topic and clue selection in this set were excellent. Many topics that come up often at ACF Fall feel very well-trod, but I found this set fresh and interesting to read. Players seemed to enjoy the set as well. Other people have mentioned the typos and the dearth of pronunc...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:18 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 53
- Views: 27353
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
There's a lot of criticism in this thread, so I want to make a point of saying that I really enjoyed reading this set and thought it was quite good. That said, a couple other errors I noted: -Enrique Peña Nieto was AMLO's predecessor, not successor. (CMU A etc.) -The main carbon atom of an ester is ...
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 10564
Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread
I don't think I worded this as clearly as I could have, which is my fault, but the other clues rule out morphemes ("sounds," infants hearing the differences between them). In addition, it doesn't say that phonemes are the smallest meaningful unit of language - it says that they are the sm...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 11:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24143
Re: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
Again, I'm not sure what I could have done here (outside of seeding the playoffs differently, which was decided on before the tournament). Can someone from Penn elaborate on what this method for seeding was? I can think of several defensible ways to seed the playoffs, none of which are consistent w...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Detailed stats
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7801
Re: EFT 2018 - Detailed stats
The Midwest, it seems, is the land of generalists. Here are the top 6 players across all sites ranked by their third -best category BPA: 1. Jakob Myers (Michigan State): History 38.979, Other 29.000, Literature 23.896 2. Matthew Lehmann (Chicago): History 24.932, Literature 23.091, Thought 21.955 3....
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Introducing BPA, a new evaluation metric using detailed stats
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8465
Re: Introducing BPA, a new evaluation metric using detailed stats
This is awesome! Thanks for putting the work into coming up with this. This is also an interesting statistic to look at on a game-by-game basis, though you have to take the results with a grain of salt. Here are the top 10 games from 2018 ACF Regionals by total BPA : Winner Loser Score Winner BPA Lo...
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 31230
Re: Boston Summer Open I
We played FILM and Human Use of Human Beings as shootouts. For FILM , Raynor read all 10 packets at least once over the course of the weekend, with people coming in and out as available. There were superpowers for 20 and powers for 15. Isaac Kirk-Davidoff came out on top; standings were as follows (...
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 31230
Re: Boston Summer Open I
Jacob can't come anymore, so Adam Fine, Nitin Rao, and I are looking for a teammate. Lit and arts knowledge especially appreciated, but we're happy to play with anyone. My email is in the sidebar.
- Thu May 03, 2018 1:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
- Replies: 35
- Views: 21704
Re: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
I'm interested in joining any open team that is looking for a fourth player. When we read a packet from an old ACRONYM in practice I scored the greatest number of points, so I infer that I'm better than Jacob Reed at high school trash.
- Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT ICT: April 14, Chicago
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20369
Re: 2018 NAQT ICT: April 14, Chicago
Has the exact DI tournament format been determined?
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13661
Re: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom le...
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13661
Re: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom le...
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13661
Re: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom lev...
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: 2018 ACF Nationals (April 21-22 at MIT)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 77771
Re: ACF Nationals qualifiers and registration information
What is the adjustment from raw to final A-value? The raw A-value is determined by using the strength of schedule (SOS) factor to adjust each team's actual points per game. Then, at a particular tournament site, if team A places higher than team B but has a lower A-value, then they are both assigne...
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs packets, recordings, and detailed stats survey
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33761
Re: Packets, recordings, and detailed stats warm-up survey
the answerline is the thing the editors won't have changed.. This is an incorrect assumption. Editors will often rework a submitted question to be on a different answerline that preserves the theme of the question, since, as Will suggests, achieving a consistent difficulty across packets is the ove...
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19338
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Also, if anyone could post up the Kubrick tossup, that would be lovely. It was got on the first line when I played it, and I'd be interested to see what the rest of the clues were for it. In one of this director’s films, a Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy is played backwards during a scene in which...
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19338
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
[10] Finally, for the private key one selects an integer d that has this relation to e modulo the totient of n. 3 and 5 have this multiplicative relationship modulo 7. ANSWER: multiplicative inverses Probably a small point here, but shouldn't something along the lines of "the product is congru...