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I have started a wait list. I reserve the right to give some priority to schools that do not have any teams in the field so far.

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I've raised the cap to twenty. Hopefully we can go higher than that, but I can't guarantee there's much room left.

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The new site looks great! A few things I've noticed: -- All 2010-11 and 2011-12 Bowl results are missing -- All 2010-11 Bee results are missing -- The final rounds from this year's Northern California bowl appear to be from a previous year ("Aquaducks"??) -- Nationals qualifiers are not ma...

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I really didn't like this question. I know Beethoven's 7th somewhat well, and none of the clues were of any help until "1812 symphony." I find descriptions like "quarter-eighth-eighth-quarter-quarter" impossible to parse in real time, even though it is referring to an extremely ...

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No, the clue is exactly right. 6-3 is the chord fully written out in figured bass notation, and is therefore not an abbreviation. 6 is the abbreviation. Likewise, for a first-inversion seventh chord, 6-5-3 would be the chord written out in full, and 6-5 would be the abbreviation. Okay, you're right...

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I won't say that the ambiguity isn't real, but you like NEVER see "6-3" used unless it's following "7-4" or similar. Also, as you surely know, "6-3" means, and is said "six-three," not "sixty three." Like I said, my neg was mostly my stupidity. But ...

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The opening of Joseph Haydn's symphony of this number is often described as depicting a sunrise. It is the figured bass abbreviation for a first-inversion triad. Debate exists over the ordering of the second and third movements of Gustav Mahler's symphony of this number. Franz Schubert's symphony o...

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Have you ever read a packet from, say, 2005 in practice and been frustrated by the random trash which no one knows anymore? If they had only asked about "Friends" or "The Office," the questions would still be relevant today. I guess a good rule of thumb is to think about how wel...

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So what is the consensus on Penn State as the Mid-Atlantic mirror? Sorry for the tardiness but we are still interested in hosting if there are enough teams interested in attending. CMU -- and likely many other teams -- would be interested, but (for the third time) actually proposing a date would be...

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Ok, so what about the Putnam, where high school students can officially participate? It's really hard to make a claim like "this doesn't happen in any other organized collegiate extracurricular activity" That's a very good example. I wasn't aware of that. The Putnam comparison actually br...

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I don't see how an example of middle school students competing against high schools is relevant to Stephen's post. The boundaries between middle and high school, and high school and college are quite different, and there's no reason that, in any given interschool competition, the rules governing eac...

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I actually thought that the footballers bonus was fine. A typical field of people wanting to play British questions in America would want to hear that bonus. Jordan Palmer would've 30d it, and the moderator in our room seemed to think we were awful for only getting 10 on the bonus, but our team's s...

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It would've been converted in two rooms except I thought that the answer "solving a differential equation" was too generic of an answerline so I said "solving a partial differential equation". Actually, "solving partial differential equations" would have been acceptabl...

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The "OldOUQSonians" packet was particularly poor... the entire field had 2 ppb less than any other round. I will wait for the set editors to comment on the various issues to do with "de-Briticisation", or lack thereof, but as the lead author of the said packet, I wonder if you c...

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The tossup on solving ODEs made it clear it wasn't integration or differentiation, and that led me away from the actual answer line. This was one of mine. I was interested to hear how it played. Do you think the idea for the answer line was unsound? The dominant practical methods (especially numeri...

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Congratulations to Winchester Thurston, who went undefeated to win this. They, Allderdice, and Alagar Homeschool have qualified for both HSNCT and NSC. Winchester Thurston also qualified a second team for NSC.

Stats are available here.

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This might be true for Fall (certainly in some places where there are enough teams for a field, but, like Cody said, in areas which can't support an all-high school field it seems unlikely), but it definitely isn't true for Regionals-level tournaments. To be clear, I was not attempting to make this...

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Most regions don't have enough high school teams interested in playing Fall to support a full tournament. I think more high school teams would play this set if a high school-only mirror were nearby. Having to play college teams is likely a deterrent for many high school teams. So this change could ...

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Since you asked: a few more (mostly minor) items about the biology questions: [*]Prostate tossup- the Skene's glands clue might be a little too early, although I'm not 100 percent sure. [*]Krill bonus- The second part seems unnecessarily hard with "there were a lot of arthropods" being the...

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Since Andrew mentioned outside-the-box questions, I was wondering if there were any particular questions that stood out as being good, creative ideas. Some of the more interesting questions from quickly going back through some of the packets: Salmon (as I mentioned in the other thread), Koalas/Otte...

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an almost-parody tossup IN THE FINALS on a BBC TV show. To be fair, that packet (nor any packet) was designated as a "finals" packet (I suppose those would have been the nonexistent 13th and 14th packets). I chose, mostly arbitrarily, the order in which the packets were played. The packet...

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I thought the science was one of the stronger areas of this set, so thanks for the good work. The main criticism I have is that some of the tossups (although this wasn't necessarily confined to the science tossups) didn't have enough middle clues and hence had some bad difficulty cliffs. I'll try to...

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In the "Editors4" packet, bonus 10: Pictures at an Exhibition was originally written by Mussorgsky for piano, and Ravel orchestrated it. You have it the other way around.

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Here are my thoughts on this set based on Saturday's tournament at CMU. These are things I presume you would have noticed once you woke up from your post-all-nighter slumber and looked back over the set, but here we go: [*] This set was rife with typos, grammar errors, missing words, awkward languag...

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I've been admitted to the usergroup for discussing this set but still can't see any discussion threads. Has anyone set up a sub-forum yet? I don't think this is something I can do.

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For what it's worth: Based on my experience this past weekend, I would discourage people from using the Oxford Open set, in its current state, for tryouts.

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Teams generally aren't eligible to play in the NAQT state championships of other states.

(If this tournament is an exception to that rule, it would be good to put that information in the original post.)

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Complete stats are now available . Since there weren't enough packets to run a final, Maryland won by finishing one game ahead of Detroit Catholic Central. Rounding out the top bracket were DCC B and Pitt. Top scorers in the prelims were Jordan (Ottawa), Aayush (Waterloo), Neil (Pitt), Jay (McMaste...

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Maryland won this.

Prelim stats are here. Full stats will be up soon.

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Pitt has added a third team, so we're at ten.

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odin_envy_me wrote:that logistics email

has been sent.

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We're at a rather awkward nine teams, and it doesn't look like we'll have enough people for a house team, so I'd love to see one or two more teams sign up.

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Does the Penn State mirror have a date yet?

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Sorry, I haven't sent it yet. (That's a line that I copied from our high school tournaments, where we have an earlier registration deadline.) I'll send it out soon. I have eight teams registered at this point, not nine. If someone thinks they have registered but is not listed under "FIELD"...

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For what it's worth, my invoice for ACF Fall this year referenced not the date of the tournament, but said this instead: Please render payment within two weeks of receiving this document. This on an invoice I received on 9/22, and on another one I received on 10/5 when I registered a second team.

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Is there a date for the McMaster mirror yet?

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Congratulations to the winners in today's Western Pennsylvania History Bee and Bowl ( results ): Allderdice (varsity bowl), Alagar (JV bowl), Senia Walton of South Side (varsity bee), and Rajan Alagar (JV bee). Congratulations also to the Alagar family, who took the top four prelim spots in the JV b...

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Added four more registrations.

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Pitt has registered two teams.

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I voted for Pikeville, but maybe I shouldn't have since they're pretty darn close to a pretend team. Yeah, I left them off by default since they haven't played this year. I'd be interested to hear the arguments for leaving the defending SSNCT champions out of the top ten small schools, and for rank...

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I haven't gotten any official registrations yet, but I have added to the first post a list of everyone who has expressed interest in playing this on the 17th.

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If there isn't enough interest for this, we might be able to move to 2/14. I won't do so now, since there are three teams that have expressed tentative interest here, and the February date probably won't work quite as well for our club.

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The question I remember being seriously frustrated by was the last bonus of round 9, I think it was. The one with three very difficult Pokemon answer lines. Both me and another teammate (he far more than me) have played Pokemon in the past, and neither of us had any idea what any of the answers wer...

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Kinda adding on to what Will was talking about: no team is going to drop a tournament, especially at the last minute, just because they think it'll be funny. Usually it's due to an emergency. For example, at the most recent VCU Winter, our main science players weren't able to go for good reasons: o...

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We're already halfway to our current field cap!

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This year's bee results are here.

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10. "Happy" by Pharrell: Tolerable. But clearly Pharrell hasn't read Thomas Nagel's paper, "What Is it Like to Be a Room Without a Roof?" "Even without the benefit of philosophical reflection, anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with a Happy room-without-a-r...

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MoeMoney wrote: We’d get to see State College and Manheim duke it out in a battle for Pennsylvania supremacy!

This battle would also include Emmaus, who figures to be not far outside the top 100 and who beat Manheim Township not long ago.

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So since I've heard about or listened to almost none of these songs (I think - I've never went out of my way to do so and I keep my car radio on classical music almost all the time), I'm going to marathon my way through the entire list in the next several days and make what should be, more or less,...

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there were 3-4 of the men who frequently chewed each other out in very harsh language for missing questions (e.g. one of them missed something another of them knew, and he would yell "you idiot!" or "dumbass!" across the room). This doesn't even have to be a gendered issue, thou...

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