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Is there a reason you can't have a team at your high school? I'm originally from mid-Michigan and I distinctly remember the Mt. Pleasant area having a good deal of high school activity, albeit on after school league meets (which I don't necessarily believe are inferior to Saturday tournaments). Unle...

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Kouign Amann wrote:Orthodoxy is a great place to look.

Where else are you going to get your distribution of saints being depicted with the head of a dog? I'm far from any sort of religious studies aficionado, but there's some really interesting stuff in Orthodox Christianity.

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I have a packet of 40 album tossups that I'll read in the IRC at 11pm EDT, unless people have objections to that time. A good number of the questions are very difficult, but if you liked the Hunter/Hirsch packets, there should be some stuff here you'll enjoy. Yeah, I know this is a year late, but p...

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The Stately Rhododendron wrote:public transit

"What public transit?"
- most every team out there

I have a feeling that there simply aren't public transit options for a good deal of, if not most teams outside of the largest metro areas in the country.

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kdroge wrote:So it looks like I'm tentatively going to be around for this. Is there anyone looking to form another team(s) for Saturday?

Yes.

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Connecticut: C+ Yale's high school tournaments anchor a small but growing group of teams playing good quizbowl in the Constitution State. There's still a strong lack of penetration into many of the urban areas, but the Middlesex/Darien pipeline seems to be growing a stellar team there and longtime ...

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Yeah, stats and probability are grossly underrepresented, especially given their wide applicability and use in not only the "hard" sciences, but also in things like Psych, Anthropology, Sociology, and the like.

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One thing I thought of last night, that I don't think has been mentioned anywhere for any subject, but was helpful to me, is to go to talks and colloquia. When I was in undergrad, the Society of Physics Students would mail out lists of talks being given and every now and then (it probably should hav...

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I'll note I've learned a fair amount of quizbowl math from reading cheap Dover books. As much as I love Boyce and DiPrima (and its little historical sidebars), I still had to pay an arm and a leg for it. A lot of Dover books are under $10 and if you're Kindle-oriented, under $5. Also, at the risk of...

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History of Designate Bowl, as I recall it: It's definitely a Chicago thing. I think it was at some tournament in late 2008, early 2009 at UIUC where Sorice was reading for a team that included myself, Marnold, and David Seal. I forget exactly what the context was that had us trying to jokingly buzz ...

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History of Designate Bowl, as I recall it: It's definitely a Chicago thing. I think it was at some tournament in late 2008, early 2009 at UIUC where Sorice was reading for a team that included myself, Marnold, and David Seal. I forget exactly what the context was that had us trying to jokingly buzz ...

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Cheynem wrote:You can write whatever you want, but I also think that "open" tournament doesn't always have to mean "harder than regular."

I'm a big fan of this idea and would most likely play a nearby regular-ish difficulty open tournament.

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Before anyone really gets their hopes up, some caveats/disclaimers: 1. This was done in just a few weeks as a final project for my text mining class. Only tossup questions were used. More than anything, the instructor wanted to see how well I could use Perl and regular expressions. Currently it's no...

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So I spent a couple weeks on and off trying to make a quick and dirty question classifier using multinomial logistic regression. Using a fairly small dataset (3 HSAPQ tournaments in the training set, 1 HSAPQ tourney in the test set), I was able to get around 80% overall accuracy, which seems tolerab...

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I've never had any travel problems except during quiz bowl trips. On the way back from my first tournament ever - 2010 Collegiate Novice - one of Nolan Esser's tires blew out, leaving us stranded in mid-Michigan. This is pretty tame as far as quiz bowl travel disasters go, but in retrospect, it was...

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About 95% sure I'll be in Michigan when this happens. Looking for teammates. Also, I'll express interest in doing side events if any happen on Saturday, rather than Sunday.

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Hello all, So I'm in the middle of taking a class on Text Mining and have to submit a proposal for a final project (or else do the boring standard project). I was wondering if any work has been done into finding ways of having a program work through question text and determine its category. I think ...

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RexSueciae wrote:I will be present and may possibly have a Warren Zevon themed packet of questions (no actual knowledge of Warren Zevon's music necessary).

Now I have to show up.

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TU on the Endor Holocaust Theory, please.

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I might have more to say later, but a few quick notes: 1. I'm thrilled you guys kept my cinematography bonus. I was proud of that one. 2. Answering "The King" should be acceptable for "the dauphin" in the Huck Finn bonus, because, like, he's totally called that. 3. I might have m...

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Just to be clear, the ACF shorthanded/financial duress is still in efffect, correct?

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The first few months of my freshman year of college. UChicago practices in those days were 12+ people in one big room with a knot buzzer system, playing free-for-all tossups for 3 hours. Andrew Yaphe, Seth Teitler, and Subash were all in the room, and Zeke visited occasionally. Some nights, I didn'...

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Mostly correct, but The Highwaymen and maybe just maybe Bad Company warrant some mention.

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My Team USA - TR - He covers military history, along with biology and natural sciences, plus he's just a well-read guy. Also, I assume he'd do well at 19th century American politics, and all manner of election of 1912 tossups. I would worry about him having a negging problem. T. Jefferson - early A...

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I'd love to see the Edmund Fitzgerald tossup because you know ... Michigan. Also, the Millerite tossup if possible. My brother named our 2012 fantasy baseball league "Mayan Doomsday Countdown" and the next year it was called "The Great Disappointment."

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I like that this is basically the quiz bowl version of "Slumdog Millionaire" without you know, the not cheating part.

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I'm interested in playing the first and possibly the second, but most likely only if the final product is mirrored nearby (either Ann Arbor or somewhere in New England).

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Nothing in this thread even remotely compares to David Seal's "Bang Bang Boom" dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP4HYuBUNFY The video is from April 2007; the moves are timeless. I am stunned (and incredibly happy) that there is a record of this. As I recall, this was either right bef...

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La Maga wrote:
JL beginning his reform of the Chicago team

I said it before and I'll say it again:
Barbershop Quartet

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Also, if you're friends with Seth on facebook, check out the recent photo of him with a baby. Since it's not qb related, I didn't post it here. Also I don't like disseminating images of kids without permission.

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Found the original. It's part of the "Seth Teitler thinks/Seth Teitler despairs" diptych. It was posted to fb by Bruce in January 07. Here's "Seth Teitler despairs" for good measure:

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More Seth! (Seriously, if anyone knows where to find the original of this photo, please post it! The pose and the bat shirt are both so great.) This photo originated on Berkeley's quizbowl webpage and was taken in one of our regular practice rooms. Hmm... I was sure that one came from the practice ...

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Feeding Kannan ICT 07

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Ukonvasara wrote:
Michael Arnold: Style. Class. Grace.

(Fun fact: this was taken at a Waltham-area Wendy's after ACF Nats 2008, to which I got a ride in Matt Keller's sweet rental Mustang.)

And Seth's Bat shirt!

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I'll also note that 2007 UIUC was pretty beastly if I remember correctly.

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Are we just talking A-teams here? Because I'll note (only somewhat in self-interest) that the Chicago team of aught-nine won ACF, ICT, and Div II ICT, with Chicago B pulling some pretty sweet upsets.

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Did this happen and if so, stats?

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So I read for this tournament and noticed a few things that might (or might not) merit some attention/discussion: First, I'd like to say that the Sham-Wow thing was a terrible and stupid idea. At Yale, we started a little bit behind schedule and I remember being really miffed that I had to read that...

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Could someone post the time derivative question? As a reader, I remember thinking tossups whose alternate answerlines require nearly as much text as the question itself might not be a good idea.

Habitat_Against_Humanity · Re: ACF Fall 2013 Northeast @ Harvard (11/02/13) Awww yeah, bracket names.

Awww yeah, bracket names.

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I feel like those who have to write packets are experienced enough in quizbowl to know that in the fall there is a tournament called "ACF Fall," which requires teams to write packets. Given that they know well ahead of time that this tournament exists and that writing questions can be a pa...

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If anyone wants to discuss the set, there's a private forum called CO Trash 2013 discussion. I think David approves requests to join.

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Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:Just saw this. I might be able to staff.

My schedule's looking free. Sign me up to staff.

Habitat_Against_Humanity · Re: DRAGOON at Yale (11/16/13) Just saw this. I might be able to staff.

Just saw this. I might be able to staff.

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A majority of the posts in the college discussion forum are by people I'd consider elite quizbowl players. This is a bit intimidating ("I'm not qualified to join this discussion"), but it also makes the threads cool to read ("These people know their stuff"). I'm not sure if I'd ...

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The email was sent to Nolan Winkler whose email forward to me was just seen. If you haven't gotten it, I'll forward it right now.

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I'll echo spending half an hour every night watching your favorite network's evening world news. Aside from geography, you get some history, ce, and other stuff. Also, King of the Hill. I've gotten probably two tossups on Laos based on the show's mentions of Luang Prabang.

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Some quick responses: To Mike: Raging Bull: I know very little about classical music; I wanted the question to be more academic. My fault on that one. You may be right about the Cedar Point question; when I thought of it it seemed interesting, but I can see why it doesn't play out well in practice. ...

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I read and listened to the rounds, so I don't have much to contribute. I would have powered the TU on Mongol invasions of Japan and I know very little history. There were some really cool answerlines. I really liked the Mods/Rockers TU.

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While I like the idea of centrally ordering CO food, improvements need to be made. I got proper lunch on Saturday, I know others did not. I did not get a proper lunch on Sunday since almost all of the chicken was consumed before the trash finals ended. More food or more specific central coordinatio...

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