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OctagonJoe

Quick SnowCAT results for the curious:

1. St. Thomas
2. DLS A
3. EP A
4. Blake A

Pretty solid showing from a lot of teams, although it's too bad Minnetonka decided they couldn't make it.

OctagonJoe

Carleton is interested in sending a team or two to this site. I'll e-mail more specific information once we figure out who's actually interested in attending.

OctagonJoe

I guess Greg's question no longer applies, but I would like to point out that Carleton College is hosting a site of ACF Regionals, which would be closer than 8.5 hours for Appleton and some other places. I can be contacted at [email protected] for anyone interested in attending.

OctagonJoe

Carleton College will be hosting a site of the 2010 ACF Regionals. This tournament will take place on Saturday, February 20th, 2010. As is the usual with ACF tournaments, any team with a player who played collegiate quizbowl before September 1, 2008, must write a packet to play this tournament. More...

OctagonJoe

This tournament happened, with a crazy draft to start it off. Team captains were Brendan, Andrew, Rob, and Frank/Andreas, who switched off each round playing and reading. After a quadruple round robin, Rob and Brendan's teams were tied, so a one game playoff gave the championship to Brendan's team. ...

OctagonJoe

Jeremy White has refused my offer to have FOGHAT read after this tournament, so no dice there. Still, any teams interested in playing should e-mail me at gehrinca at carleton.edu to say so, or OctagonJoe at gmail.com on the offchance Carleton has been blocking people's efforts to communicate interes...

OctagonJoe

So, it's less than a week before this tournament happens and that field in my first post is still as up to date as it can be. Any teams interested in playing this tournament should really register soon. Also, I've still not received any word on using the FOGHAT set, but I'll send Jeremy White anothe...

OctagonJoe

No, see. A tossup that has to be answered as "houses of the dead" because that's the answer line that is actually on architectural details of houses whose only owner is both historically notable and dead. Well, that has about as much to do with House of the Dead , the game, as House of th...

OctagonJoe

These would seem to be prelim stats. I am not responsible for any of the content of the stats, but Mac sent the SQBS file around and I needed a reason to procrastinate. I have no idea if playoff stats exist or will exist. Thanks to Macalester for getting this finished, though.

OctagonJoe

To clear things up: I answered midgets on Saturday, was obviously wrong, did not protest or feel angry (think more along the lines of ashamed). On Sunday night, Mike C. read the questions on the IRC, Magin buzzed in, correctly said children. I commentated, "Oh hey, I answered midgets for that, ...

OctagonJoe

The field has not really expanded since this thread started. If it increases people's interest in attending, I've asked Jeremy White if we could use his FOGHAT set Saturday night as a relaxed, post-THUNDER trash playing deal, but he has yet to get back to me. If that happens, I'll post more details ...

OctagonJoe

Earthquake wrote:Since there isn't really a canon for trash

Despite trash expert Frank Firke's presence on my team, I don't get how trash figures into the distribution, especially given the above quotation.

OctagonJoe

This is the official announcement for the Carleton College mirror of THUNDER, with packets being written by Trygve Meade, Eric Mukherjee, George Stevens, and John Lawrence. This tournament is scheduled to take place on October 24, 2009. A complete description of THUNDER can be found here . The tourn...

OctagonJoe

And who would want to miss out on a trip to scenic Northfield. It's the town of cows, colleges, and contentment.

OctagonJoe

Wow, Gran plots are really hard. I'm not sure how much they're actually used either - if you have firsthand experience with it feel free to dispute me. We used Gran plots a fair amount in my Equilibrium and Analysis chem class this spring, although this was not an introductory course. That said, I ...

OctagonJoe

I'm apparently playing on two teams according to the current field update. I do not think I am up to this task.

OctagonJoe · Re: VCU Open Music August 8, 2009 I'll read for this

I'll read for this

OctagonJoe

In IS 82A, I believe there is a tossup on Philo Farnsworth. While I'm sure he's an important dude and all, I really don't think an A set is the place for him to come up. Doing a quick packet search, the places he's come up most recently (and not always as a tossup or bonus answer) was VCU Open last ...

OctagonJoe

I will play this if any team will have me, or staff it as needed.

OctagonJoe

I'll say I'm playing this, but it would probably be better for all if I just read for it.

OctagonJoe

I believe that clues like minor tributaries of a river, ascents of a mountain, and so forth aren't very interesting clues and rely on memorization. What kind of geography clues do I enjoy, personally? I like clues about important/interesting places in a city/country (that rewards people who have ac...

OctagonJoe

I'll go ahead and assume that Carleton is either bringing a team or sending players to this, and I will make sure everyone knows the tournament may go past 3 in the afternoon.

OctagonJoe

that the first day's packets were only finished a few hours before the tournament was scheduled to get underway, and the second day's packets had to be finished Saturday night; and that so many people had to be exhorted at the last minute to pitch in just so the set could be finished. I don't know ...

OctagonJoe

tetragrammatology wrote:
OctagonJoe wrote:I need teammates and can be contacted at my username @gmail.com, on IRC, here, by telepathy, etc.
Let's play together!

Sounds like a plan

OctagonJoe

Right now Mike Bentley and I have formed a tentative team for this. If you know music and I guess TV, we have a spot for you. Frank and I are looking for a team for this, and Frank knows a lot of music (while I've never seen him play a trash packet, he normally cleans up music trash at academic tou...

OctagonJoe

I need teammates and can be contacted at my username @gmail.com, on IRC, here, by telepathy, etc.

OctagonJoe

I plan to beef up on my science this summer so by the time this tournament roles around, I would probably call myself a "science player." I also pretty much only know Latin American and Spanish history/literature, but that can get a few points here and there. If you don't care much about ...

OctagonJoe

Frank Firke and I are looking for teammates, I think, so talk to me at my username @gmail.com or elsewhere if you're interested. A spot will be reserved for Quentin Roper if he wants to team up/take care of science again.

OctagonJoe

I'm pretty sure that tournament is dead and buried, as Paul Drube has said multiple times. Hopefully he's right.

OctagonJoe

I'm still looking for writing teammates if people are still without a team. Frank from Carleton will likely write and possibly play, so a group of 2 looking for teammates would be ideal.

OctagonJoe

I'm not sure yet if any other Carleton players are interested, so at this point I'll join any team looking for a player. Responses here, at OctagonJoe @ gmail.com, or on the irc will work.

OctagonJoe

If you know you're going to lose energy during the day of a tournament that's important to you, it might not be a bad idea to load up on carbohydrates the night before. Eating a lot of pasta for dinner before a tournament will keep you supplied with energy and eating things like apples or Fig Newton...

OctagonJoe

That's what Frank thought the score was after I just talked to him about it.

OctagonJoe

I think the final score of the second final is wrong. Trevor had a score ending in 5 and needed to get one bonus part to beat us, so I think the final score was something like 280-305 (although I'm basing this only off of recollection and not a stat sheet. I'll ask Frank about it if need be).

OctagonJoe

Hopefully I won't be giving too much away by saying this, but one tossup at this tournament used a leadin that I think was used as a leadin at Tartan Tussle, which uses an IS-A set. While this leadin was definitely a bit more clue dense, I'm almost certain it was the exact same as from a set intende...

OctagonJoe

Was it ever stated whether this is singles, doubles, or quads, or is that just implied somewhere?

OctagonJoe

Carleton will not be getting a team together for this. Sorry for the late notice.

OctagonJoe

Created one

OctagonJoe

Grinnell likely came out in second, since Carleton B was down to one player at the time of the playoff game. David from Grinnell was the high scorer.

OctagonJoe

I think some of the stats for Carleton A got mixed up, but none of the problems seem all that significant. Thanks to Iowa for running a tournament that was enjoyable and ran on time.

OctagonJoe

Fixed that round error so round reports would have a more complete meaning. I think the prelims and the new combined stats should be good now. The playoff stats have some errors, but I think you can figure out what you need from the combined stats.

OctagonJoe

Alright the combined stats are up, and hopefully everything looks good.

OctagonJoe

If those stats aren't going to be disputed, I can enter them in. I was planning on combining the playoffs and prelims once I had those stats available as per another's request.

OctagonJoe

I don't have the stats sheets, but I'll try to figure out what's up with the missing game. As for the "final", Iowa and Minnesota agreed to simply have their last game be the final instead of playing and then having an advantaged final. Minnesota won, which should be in the playoff stats.

OctagonJoe

Results for prelims and playoffs.

OctagonJoe

SnowCAT got scheduled against the Lake Conference Championship (weird, since they are both NAQT events), meaning teams like EP and Chaska will be unavailable (unless they just can't keep away from the beautiful campus here).

OctagonJoe

Alright, scratch that. We may send one team or no one at this point.

OctagonJoe

Last I knew Carleton was likely to send a team to this, and, if I remember correctly, the new date should only help those who might not have been able to make it.

OctagonJoe

I've heard through the grapevines that Carleton is now hosting the SCT North instead of St. Olaf.

OctagonJoe

Again, you're talking about public high school freshmen who had never played/heard of quizbowl before this year, since there is no middle school in the area who plays (contrary to my repeated steps to start such a thing). So, yeah. I went to a public high school and started playing quizbowl my fres...

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