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I can't imagine a team that doesn't do better or worse depending on their mood and how much sleep they got. Berkeley B's top bracket run looks very compelling - knocking off Northwestern after their cinderella run and Penn for good measure, wish I had a chance to do that at my first Nats. Seems like...

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Cytokines such as IL-1 and TNF-alpha promote this process. Ibuprofen is an example of a "non-steroidal" drug that inhibits this process. answer: inflammation Wouldn't all of these clues also apply to "fever" or even "pain"? Although I do understand that the NSAIDs clue...

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Pretty interested in this at an NYC or adjacent site.

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I thought the bio was just fine - my only issues were the lactate leadin and the repetition of adrenal glands, the latter of which I can see isn't the biggest problem. The "easy" answerlines felt appropriate for the overall flavor of the set, at least at our site, and I appreciate the deci...

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Also, I think the first clue in the lactic acid tossup actually points to lactose -- Eric buzzed on the MacConkey agar clue and was negged, although at the end we let him have it since I believe the wording implied that the answerline was fermented to produce the pink color. I made the same neg, bu...

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I just updated the final field. Note that Sameen will be directing the tournament.
After the main tournament, we're planning to run Scattergories (first) and then Floreat, time permitting.
See you all Saturday.

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Here is the final field: Ahmed/Cohen/Lai/Zhuang Rutgers Penn Alston/Mukherjee Bobrow NYU Columbia Vinokurov/White/Yu ------------------------ We have the rooms confirmed, so are there any other teams thinking about forming that haven't gotten in touch yet? Are there teams that would be interested bu...

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Can we mirror it? What's the mirror fee?

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Sorry - I meant in the sense that we may or may not have bye teams reading depending on the staffing situation, so a minor caveat emptor. Of course it will be open.

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Hi all, As previously discussed, there are plans to have a mirror of Oxford Open at NYU on Saturday, 3/25/17. Registration : Email me to register a team or if you want to see the team formation spreadsheet. Or if you can staff! That would be awesome. Fees : $40 (mirror fee) + $5 (to pay the staffers...

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It looks like the preference is for Oxford Open, and on 3/25/17, so we'll go with that. The site will most likely be NYU, with the exact location pending. Since we're planning to run it with bye teams staffing, the field cap is 9 teams, for now. Apologies to anyone who picked 4/1; I didn't see that ...

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Things are starting to get organized. Please fill out this form so we can figure out the date and set to use, and I can make the results into a team formation spreadsheet later. Thanks!

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I've talked to some people about potentially organizing an Oxford or Cambridge mirror in NYC in the last two weeks of March, or in April avoiding either national. I think this could be a self-running tournament if we can find enough staff and the field isn't too large; it could also be staffed using...

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WAO was held at Columbia earlier today. If you played and are interested in finding your stats, I've posted them here.
Columbia cleared the field, followed by the Amherst open abomination. Hope everyone had a fun time.

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I live in a rock and have listened to exactly one (full) album released this year: Elza Soares - Woman at the End of the World, so I submitted it. Best or not, it's worth a listen.

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Looks cool but I don't have easy access to a printer, I find it awkward to look at a pdf, and I'm a lazy waste of space. Have you thought about putting it into Across Lite? It's free and there's a guide to converting your puzzle. I haven't used it before, but it looks pretty simple to follow.

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3. ACF Fall becomes a PADAWAN-style training ground for inexperienced writers. There's a lot of good writing talent in the community that goes untapped because a lot of people don't ever get the chance to write for an event because they aren't well-known enough. It would be a good way to simultaneo...

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I think the issue of writing questions that have subject-area overlap, which writers could never predict would be cut, would need to be addressed by this scheme -- this year, I submitted questions on Kansas and Jeannette Winterson that had really strong overlap with editor questions, and I would be ...

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I would play a mirror of this in New York or online in the winter or later. Bring the pain.

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One thing I noticed in this set is that it made a seemingly-conscious decision to include no foreign language alternate answers in literature, and even specifically asked for English titles in some questions (but not all). Was this actually a conscious choice? In any case I think it's definitely bet...

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Cheynem wrote: 47. ANDREW WANG (Illinois)...
46. RICHARD YU (WUSTL)

Perfect.

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York negged the female nudes tossup with "women artists" on the namedrop of Nochlin, I think. He probably just brain farted the pronoun, but it makes me curious to see the wording of the question. Could you post it?

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2012 in Hong Kong history I liked this question, and I blame myself for not converting it. It maybe could have been easier with some clues about mainland China CE like Bo Xilai / accession of Xi Jinping, but it's within your license to write the question this way. Anyway I liked the set a lot and w...

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I'm glad I got roped into playing this set last minute. it was really worth experiencing this kind of refreshing material at the tail end of my qb career.

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The 1793 tossup went 1/12/12 in 16 rooms. Skimming the other tossup conversion data puts it firmly in the bottom half of Points per Room (along with such diverse topics as the transit of Venus, partially ordered sets, or Durban) and with a really high neg rate (comparable to the tossup on Pavel Chic...

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I hope teams average 528 ppg and have a chance to retake the set in the fall

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I'm interested.

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Itamar Naveh-Benjamin : He's not in the Northeast, but I'd like to make a plug for Itamar in the top 25. Due to his location in central Missouri and lack of teammates, he's not that well known, but when he plays with established players like Richard Yu at "stanford housewrite," he shows t...

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Wow, I'm really sorry that happened. I'm not personally in possession of our buzzers and didn't have the presence of mind to check them before either national, nor did I take a close look at the tag NAQT left since I didn't have any indication that it was our buzzer that was missing the cord - if so...

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Brian, are you aiming to run this Saturday evening after ICT finishes?

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I was mistakenly given points for saying "hospital" on the "children's hospital" tossup instead of being prompted; I don't think I would have pulled the answer if I had been prompted (it seems like this happened to others). I think the wording should be adjusted so people don't r...

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I thought, taken individually, the bio questions in this set were great, and it looks like ecology took up a fair part of the distribution, but through the packets I played it definitely felt like there was (and maybe I'm completely off-base) an overabundance of anatomy / medicine with some cell bio...

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Great News, Will Mason Fans! We will have him back for both Nats

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This is cancelled due to lack of interest.

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For the tossup on O(n log n), would "n ln n" be acceptable? Also would you be able to post the tossup? It should, because the log base does not affect the complexity --- This isn't important anymore (although the set doesn't seem to have been released on 2/7 as stated), but I just got a c...

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The genetic linkage tossup's leadin confused me. Two SNPs can definitely be in LD with each other. Sorry, it looks like I didn't research enough / know what words mean, and ended up garbling a source that claims "Whereas QTL contain many linked genes, which are then challenging to separate, GW...

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1793: This might just be a personal preference of mine, but I really don't like tossups on years. When you study history in an academic context, specific years don't really matter. Chronology? Sure, that's important- so write a question on the origins of the Committee of Public Safety. Specific dec...

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WUSTL will be hosting the NAQT Novice tournament on the IS-150C set on Saturday, February 27th, 2016. This is a tournament intended for players with little to no collegiate quiz bowl experience. I apologize that the announcement is coming so late. The tournament field is capped, tentatively, at 12 t...

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Auroni wrote:[10] Name this single-stranded non-coding genetic material, derived from hairpin-forming transcripts. Unlike a very similar type of molecule, it does not require full complementarity to base-pair with mRNA after being incorporated into the RISC ("risk").

That fix looks good.

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How exactly does the miRNA bonus distinguish it from siRNA? Both are incorporated into RISC and base-pair to mRNA, and the leadin clues seem rather obscure.

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This New Zealand documentary looks pretty sick. My 2 cents: I briefly watched this video games review series called "Extra Credits" in 9th grade or so, and was surprised when Will Mason told me they somehow spun off a history series ( link ). It covers some pretty broad topics and is accom...

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vinteuil wrote:Carey/Sundberg or Kurti/Czako

It's just in Wade...

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I liked the concept of that tossup. But,

Round 4 wrote:After Iran, this country is home to the second-most Zoroastrians.

is this right?

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The set is uploaded here. Thanks for your patience.

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Hi all, I'm sure people have plenty of thoughts about this year's ACF Fall set, and I'd be happy to hear them. I'm aware that the set had major TU difficulty (particularly Euro lit, philosophy), bonus variance, and repeat issues. The short answer is that I underestimated the amount of work needed, a...

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I thought the trash/mixed academic/"cute" NAQT was pretty well-executed--it seemed a little more conservative than NAQT usually swings, but I also can't imagine anyone really complaining about the stuff. I haven't seen anything past packet 11 yet, but I thought the tossup 2014 Forest Hill...

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We finished a brisk double round robin with WUSTL A clearing and Illinois' A and B teams tied for 2nd, which Illinois B won in a tiebreaker game. Stats for all games may be found here . Thanks to all the teams who attended, and to Brandon Daake, Alex Dzurick, Charles Hang, Sawyer Magnus, Will Mason,...

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I imagine people are just being more cautious about signing up their teams when they aren't sure what the rosters will be, which is perhaps an unwanted side effect of the half-packet system. -------------------------------------- Additionally, the following change was made to the announcement: "...

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This post will be updated with the list of packets received prior to 11:59 PM Pacific on the date given. Sunday, 9/13/15 : (-$30 deadline) 24 packets Berkeley A Berkeley B California Polytechnic Central Connecticut State Central Oklahoma Dartmouth A Clemson UGA A UGA C Lawrence A Louisiana Tech A Mc...

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WUSTL will be hosting a mirror of the VCU Novice set on Saturday, October 3, 2015. The tournament will take place in Eads Hall, with teams congregating in January Hall 110 for opening/awards. The field is tentatively capped at 12 teams. The set announcement, including eligibility requirements, can b...

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