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- Tue May 10, 2016 10:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Canadian Player Poll 2016: We Have Prizes!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14484
Re: Canadian Player Poll 2016: We Have Prizes!
I'll note that Tamara Vardomskaya should be on everyone's ballots because she led the Chicago C team with 23 PPG and 7 powers at the stacked main site of "stanford housewrite" and put up 21 PPG as part of the Chicago C team that finished 20th at ACF Nationals. am Minnesota player, can con...
- Tue May 10, 2016 8:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Canadian Player Poll 2016: We Have Prizes!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14484
Re: Canadian Player Poll 2016: We Have Prizes!
Friendly reminder: I'm a Canadian citizen.
- Tue May 10, 2016 7:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (CO Sunday?)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15834
Re: The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (CO Sunday?)
This alone is enough to make me regret not coming to CO. (You know, not that I would be a top scorer anyway. And, I guess I could just buy a copy, but that's lame.)women, fire and dangerous things wrote:Criterion Blu-Rays (of Yi Yi...).
- Tue May 10, 2016 1:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2016: Don't Vote for Jerry Kramer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 28828
Re: Player Poll 2016: Don't Vote for Jerry Kramer
Sam Bailey is #1 at witty repartee.
Jason Asher is probably okay at making bread.
Jason Asher is probably okay at making bread.
- Mon May 09, 2016 4:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason Roundtable?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4527
Re: Postseason Roundtable?
working on it!Dr. Mike Cheyne wrote:shan needs to be fatter
- Mon May 09, 2016 1:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: radiohead can't spell the word "full"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 649
Re: radiohead can't spell the word "full"
Ironically, my love of Radiohead faded long before they released a studio version of "True Love Waits." (I like the new album a lot, but not as much as college freshman me probably would have.)
- Fri May 06, 2016 8:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2016: Don't Vote for Jerry Kramer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 28828
Re: Player Poll 2016: Don't Vote for Jerry Kramer
I'll start with the Northeast, tossing in around a couple names that aren't above for good measure but might be worth considering (I won't discuss myself or who I plan on voting for) for Top 25 material: I'm a bit confused here, since at least three of the listed players were on the top 25 last yea...
- Thu May 05, 2016 1:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16602
Re: Specific question discussion
A few quibbles around some of the biology which occured to me whilst I was reading at the UK site: The second clue in the Adipose Tissue tossup read, "The resident macrophages of this tissue may release pro-inflammatory cytokines like IL-6 and TNF-alpha". They may do, but so do the tissue...
- Tue May 03, 2016 9:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2016)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 31186
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2016)
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED to next year's Twin Cities-area tournaments.CaseyB wrote:I will be attending Michigan Tech in the fall to start an MS in Mathematical Sciences. I do wish to remain involved in quiz bowl while at MTU.
- Mon May 02, 2016 6:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16602
Re: Specific question discussion
With the qualifier that I know nothing about this clue, I assume that Auroni's comment on the threonine clue is that if you don't know the preceding clue, you don't know which of the functions of threonine's H-bonding ability the question is looking for. (I would also have buzzed on the wood frogs c...
- Mon May 02, 2016 5:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Thanks and general discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11647
Re: Thanks and general discussion
There seem to be a few distinct arguments here regarding the biology: (1) That there's too much ecology/evolution in the set; (2) that there's not enough molecular biology/biochemistry in the set; (3) that the biology in the set is not core/curricular enough. Andrew H and I already copped to (2) lon...
- Mon May 02, 2016 11:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16602
Re: Specific question discussion
Jennie/Kai: Thanks for the feedback on the auditory arts! I'm glad to know someone got some mileage out of those clues. 5. Computing the expected value of this operation, when it defines a stochastic process, can be done by solving a partial differential equation, as in the Feynman-Kac formula for B...
- Mon May 02, 2016 10:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Thanks and general discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11647
Re: Thanks and general discussion
Ike: We already agreed upstream (and I guess more explicitly, in a private conversation between me and Eric) that there was a lack of molecular bio/biochem and apologized, so I figured that was that and was kind of annoyed to see even more people piling on with the same complaint. That said, with re...
- Mon May 02, 2016 1:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Thanks and general discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11647
Re: Thanks and general discussion
I would agree with you that it's wrong to say that the biology in this tournament biased too far in favor of any particular topic. However, the biology distribution was extremely problematic because it was heavily biased AGAINST molecular biology / biochemistry. In the first 12 packets (the packets...
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 9:24 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Map of Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22711
Re: Map of Quiz Bowl
I don't know if this map is intended to be just for the listed tournaments in 2015-2016, but (as Paul hinted), this is missing MN teams like Carleton College, St. Olaf, and St. Thomas, as well as Augustana in South Dakota -- which, together with University of Sioux Falls, is starting to make inroads...
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:57 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: 25 for 25: A Definitive List of the Greatest ACF Players
- Replies: 29
- Views: 28358
Re: 25 for 25: A Definitive List of the Greatest ACF Players
This list is missing Joe Nutter, and in particular the time he helped us beat Ohio State at 2014 Nats by pulling a clutch 10 on a Tacitus bonus.
- Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT at Minnesota -- 04/23/2016
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2891
Re: MUT at Minnesota -- 04/23/2016
After two last-minute drops from St. Thomas and St. Olaf (FOR SHAME), we ran a double round-robin with the six remaining teams. Minnesota A (Jason Asher and friends) cleared the field. Carleton came second. Thanks for coming!
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- Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 31799
Re: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
Not to beat a dead horse, but Thomas Bradwardine is great, and contemporary logicians like Greg Restall and Catarina Dutilh Novaes still look to him as a source of fresh ideas for solving philosophical problems. This brings me to a more serious point, which is that in philosophy, old ideas are alway...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 31799
Re: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
The lovely TU on Kieslowski mentions in the first line a scene in Bleu where Juliette Binoche's character watches a man play the recorder while stirring sugar into her coffee. A truly lovely scene and an excellent choice for a lead-in. However, she stirs coffee into a bowl of vanilla ice cream duri...
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: AVOGADRO'S NUMBER Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3851
Re: Question-Specific Discussion
My "Personal Knowledge" question which got (wisely) turned into a Michael Polanyi question, still retained some of the original pronounage, i.e. the original clues referred to Polanyi as "this book" while the new clues used "this man." Yeah, there was one "this bo...
- Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: AVOGADRO'S NUMBER General Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7338
Re: AVOGADRO'S NUMBER General Discussion
One issue that could bear on the issue of subdistributions is that we were instructed to use as many player submissions as we could in the submitted packets. That principle made sense, since people who submitted packets were doing us a favor, and because submissions came quite soon before the tourna...
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 12:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16602
Re: Specific question discussion
It seems like this has resolved itself, but I largely agree with Will's reasoning. The fact that even the Classical period use of the Mannheim rocket was split among multiple countries (present-day Germany, Austria, etc.) shows that you can't really name a country off of "Mannheim rocket" ...
- Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT @ UChicago (4/30/16)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4347
Re: MUT @ UChicago (4/30/16)
Any schools that wanted to come to this site but can't are welcome to Minnesota on April 23.
- Sun Mar 27, 2016 10:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Thanks and general discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11647
Re: Thanks and general discussion
Was it just me or was the bio in this tournament really heavily skewed towards ecology and evolutionary bio? "Really heavily skewed" is an exaggeration, unless I suppose those questions were front-loaded in the packets. I count maybe two-and-a-half ecology/evolution tossups (decomposition...
- Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Thanks and general discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11647
Re: Thanks and general discussion
I have no clue what this refers to.The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:Shan Kothari has...eccentric taste.
- Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: AVOGADRO'S NUMBER
- Replies: 81
- Views: 42076
Re: AVOGADRO'S NUMBER
Reminder: Get those packets in!
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 9:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16602
Re: Specific question discussion
The HIC (H-I-C) gene down•regulates the development of these structures in carbon-rich environments. Regulation of these structures in response to water potential can be iso•hydric or an•iso•hydric. The Ball-Berry-Leuning model couples carbon assimilation rates to the conductance of these structure...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16602
Re: Specific question discussion
Will: I can't speak to the Delacroix issue, and you certainly might have a point on that one. I did talk with Sam about the Gauss-Markov clue, and neither of us seems that inclined to change it. "Bias" doesn't seem to be a correct answer -- there are other unbiased linear estimators ( at l...
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 4:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT at Minnesota -- 04/23/2016
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2891
MUT at Minnesota -- 04/23/2016
The University of Minnesota Quiz Bowl Team will be hosting a 2016 mirror of the Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament (MUT) on April 23, 2016. MUT is a below-regular difficulty tournament. Only undergraduate and high school teams are allowed to play. You can read about the set here or see the DB listin...
- Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: "stanford housewrite" Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14494
Re: Question-Specific Discussion
(The above also happened in our room.)
Could someone please post the tossup on Chinese (from poetry)? I felt hosed by it, but I want to see if my complaint is valid or not.
Could someone please post the tossup on Chinese (from poetry)? I felt hosed by it, but I want to see if my complaint is valid or not.
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 12:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO 2016 Editor Search/Discussion
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10215
Re: Chicago Open Team Formation
Probably doesn't affect much, but I think it's unlikely I'll be at CO this year and I'd be happy to kick in a decent number of editor questions (although not necessarily edit a subject). I am also in this situation. The field season will keep me out of reach for most of July, so I don't want to be ...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 SCT general discussion
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5168
Re: 2016 SCT general discussion
Really enjoyed the Anthro in this set (as an Anthro major). The mention of Appadurai (even tho I find him... prolix) in the India TU, the "salvage ethnography" bonus and the truly fantastic "documentary" TU all spring to mind as examples of quizbowl talking about things people i...
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 5:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
- Replies: 58
- Views: 25111
Re: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
My research indicates that that study is actually quite well known. I think I first came across it in an issue of Mental Floss , the subject editor had independently heard of it, and I found plenty of other references to it. I agree that the specific study's author was necessary to uniquely identif...
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 3:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
- Replies: 58
- Views: 25111
Re: Question-specific discussion: 2016 Division I SCT
I did not like the tossup on reading music. The first clue referred to a study by Ole Irving Jacobsen (who?) on the pattern of fixations and saccades while reading music. Your eyes can move in saccades when looking at nearly any scene with attention; the fixation-saccade pattern is one of the most c...
- Sun Jan 17, 2016 1:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Minnesota (January 30, 2016)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3389
Re: ACF Regionals at Minnesota (January 30, 2016)
That is the current field for this tournament.
- Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7721
Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
Thanks to Donald Taylor (presumably) for a Spyderco stainless steel pocket knife! I now have the urge to cut everything...
- Fri Dec 25, 2015 1:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7721
Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
Much thanks to the mystery sender for Larisa Shepitko's Wings and Ascent ! They look awesome and you've introduced me to another Soviet female director, which I appreciate. (and introduced me to Criterion's Eclipse series which looks awwwwesome) Enjoy! (And yes, Eclipse is terrific!) By the way -- ...
- Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8498
Re: Best Albums of 2015
MALIK: To Pimp a Butterfly -- TPAB is, yes, "important," but it's also both really fun and musically ambitious. For an album to be all of those things at once is incredible. AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP -- This was a tough one because I have no interest in either of these. I have noted with growing a...
- Thu Dec 17, 2015 11:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7721
Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
My gift should arrive by the 23rd.
- Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (Missouri Open 2015) Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 15597
Re: (Missouri Open 2015) Specific Question Discussion
I took Stephen's suggestion and combined it with the rewording of the second sentence I'd mentioned before. Thanks for the suggestions, both of you.
- Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Wodern Morld 2: Kill_All_Basketbloggers.exe
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3518
Re: Wodern Morld 2 Actually the Things I Like Are Extremely
interests?Stefan HSQBRankovich wrote:my note rests
- Tue Dec 01, 2015 3:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (Missouri Open 2015) Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 15597
Re: (Missouri Open 2015) Specific Question Discussion
There was a math bonus where the answer was "distance." Should "norm" have been acceptable? The other math people there agreed with me that it should have, but I never got to reread the full question. I recall it saying "the Euclidean this ...", which is begging for so...
- Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:38 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7721
Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - 11/29 Deadline
In no particular order: 1. A CD of music by a contemporary composer, preferably under 45. Doesn't have to be "classical" -- I like Vijay Iyer as much as the next guy. 2. Something that might be useful to a field scientist. For example: A weatherproof hat, wool socks, a decent pocket knife,...
- Sun Nov 22, 2015 1:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl at University of Washington - 11/21/15
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2117
Re: Penn Bowl at University of Washington - 11/21/15
There are a few games where particular teams have either anomalously low PPB, or total bonus points ending in 5. It might be good to take a second look at these.
- Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Missouri Open Mirror at MSU
- Replies: 45
- Views: 26448
Re: Missouri Open Mirror at MSU
Players at this site are welcome to discuss the protest resolution (or anything else about the set) in the MO 2015 subforum.
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 3:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (Missouri Open 2015) Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 15597
Re: (Missouri Open 2015) Specific Question Discussion
It would be nice if the world worked in the idealized way that Professor Kothari dreamt up in his ivory tower, safe from the hostile fortunes that afflict those of us suffering under the tyranny of the Real World, but alas, it does not. Given the state of the tenure-track job market these days, thi...
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 2:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Missouri Open - UMN (11/14)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7633
Re: Missouri Open - UMN (11/14)
I think I went 5/8/2, not 8/8/2, in round 9 (not least because the latter results in the teams combining for 25 tossups). Thanks! As you could tell, I had some trouble deciphering handwriting. (Andrew Hart also noticed that a moderator docked you guys 100 points in round 2, which is also now fixed,...
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 12:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Missouri Open - UMN (11/14)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7633
Re: Missouri Open - UMN (11/14)
I went 1/1/0 in the first round, not 3/6/1. Presumably Rob went 3/6/2 and the fiendish statskeeper done screwed up. Sorry, that was my fault and will be fixed shortly. On a related note, I find it questionable that we went 3/20/2 over the course of 24 questions in Round 6. This one was Peter's faul...
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 12:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Missouri Open - UMN (11/14)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7633
Re: Missouri Open - UMN (11/14)
Stats are up. For about five rounds (until Andrew left), Andrew Hart and Rob Carson broke the Hoppes-Mikanowski limit, even after multiplying by 5/6 to correct for 24/24 per round.
- Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Missouri Open - UMN (11/14)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7633
Re: Missouri Open - UMN (11/14)
The Dickson Poon School of Law cleared the field with the team. Stats coming later tonight!