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HSAPQ, in conjunction with the D.C. Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our D.C. Quizbowl Championship at St. Anselm’s Abbey School on Saturday, February 22, 2014! The D.C. Quizbowl Championship will use HSAPQ’s 8-8-8 format: a first and third period of 8 powermarked tossups fo...

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HSAPQ, in conjunction with the New York Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our New York Quizbowl Championship at Ithaca High School on March 29! This tournament will feature the top 4 finishing teams at each of the regional tournaments at SUNY-Buffalo, Ithaca High School , and...

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HSAPQ, in conjunction with the New York Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our New York eastern & NYC metro regional tournament at Columbia University on March 1, 2014! The top 4 teams from this tournament will qualify for the New York Quizbowl Championship at Ithaca High ...

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HSAPQ, in conjunction with the New York Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our New York central regional tournament at Ithaca High School on March 1, 2014! The top 4 teams from this tournament will qualify for the New York Quizbowl Championship at Ithaca High School on March 2...

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HSAPQ, in conjunction with the New York Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our New York western regional tournament at SUNY-Buffalo on March 1, 2014! The top 4 teams from this tournament will qualify for the New York Quizbowl Championship at Ithaca High School on March 29. Bot...

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HSAPQ, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship at MIT on April 5, 2014! This tournament will feature the top 6 finishing teams at each of the regional tournaments at Amherst and Harvard on March 8. Both t...

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HSAPQ, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our Massachusetts eastern regional tournament at Harvard University on Saturday, March 8, 2014! The top 6 teams from this tournament will qualify for the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship at MIT ...

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HSAPQ, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our Massachusetts western regional tournament at Amherst College on Saturday, March 8, 2014! The top 6 teams from this tournament will qualify for the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship at MIT on ...

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Hi, everyone! I’m Max Schindler, HSAPQ’s new board communications liaison. I’ll be doing things like speaking for HSAPQ on the forums and posting announcements for our exciting, brand new state tournament series! If you have any questions, please feel free to email me ([email protected])!

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I looked around a bunch on the forums and couldn't find anything on this (besides the semi-relevant anti-prompt thread from 2 years ago, but it didn't really address this), so I don't know if this was discussed before my time, but I was wondering: why can't moderators tell you what is wanted when th...

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Siddhant is making me post this because he cares too much about fantasy quizbowl, sorry. One of my tossups was misattributed in game 8 (against the Donetsk Metallurgical Academy) -- I got the tossups on Zweig and feeding people though I don't know who they were given to. This allegedly makes him tie...

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Should the tossups be powermarked?

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One thing I like a lot about "this X" is it's pretty easy to hear/latch onto regardless of moderator quality. When I'm reading I always like to put a bit of extra emphasis on the first instance of a pronoun so it's clear for everyone, but it's a lot harder to do that in any meaningful way ...

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When you get to the point where the top high school teams are able to pretty consistently buzz a line or two before FTP in regular difficulty college questions, then it should be no surprise that they're killing HSAPQ/IS-sets (nor should the leadins of those sets be made more challenging to appeal t...

Mewto55555 · Re: Guerilla Side Event for Arrabal? - Pittsburgh, 11/23/2013 I'd be down.

I'd be down.

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13. Every Cauchy sequence within a metric space has this property. For 10 points each: [10] Name this property which, for a series, means that the sum is finite. The harmonic series lacks this property, but the geometric series has it as long as the ratio between successive terms is between negativ...

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Mewto55555 wrote:Can I see the convergence bonus (I think it was from round 2 or 3)?

Also the tossups on interpolation and uniform distribution, please.

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Can I see the convergence bonus (I think it was from round 2 or 3)?

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Grams's Go-Go Boots wrote:And if someone wants to contribute a background image that isn't something that I made in 3 seconds with Paint to amuse myself, get in touch with me.

Maybe a picture of people playing quizbowl or something?

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The standings come out looking like this, so what it will give you is team rankings with W-L and ppg, individual results, and the scoresheet for every game. The thing that looks like PPB it outputs is some other metric, so you might want to ignore that if you decide to use WUStL.

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Sorry for the delays, the set's up. Hope everyone who played enjoyed!

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I find it amusing that the one player whom the initial proposed change would benefit most doesn't even deign to play local tournaments (good teams: this is a bad idea. Play local tournaments.)

EDIT: word forgotten

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If no one else tells me they want this for anything by Friday, I'll post it.

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You appear to have left out Ladue (like, obviously this is pre-season and you're spitballing on little information so it doesn't matter, but with all due respect to only-senior-on-Ladue B David, plugging either of returning A-team members Ben/Jialin into his missing spot here would have turned a T-2...

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If there is desire, I will have a packet of somewhat-short Star Wars mashups done by then. The academic part will be mostly lit, but there will be a few from other categories.

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That's a terrible plan, seeing as characters named Septimus appear in works by Stoppard, Forster, Woolf, Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Saki, and probably a few more I'm forgetting.

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No, the Canadian mirror of Missouri Open is using it (in roughly two weeks I believe). After that, though, it will be.

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Pierre Wantzel used Galois theory to prove some of these problems impossible. Felix Klein wrote a book on these problems, one of whose impossibility follows from pi being transcendental. Gauss proved that the 17-gon was a possible example of these problems that include (*) trisecting an angle, doub...

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Dude, your leadins do not need to be harder. In packet 1, I would literally have only buzzed in the first line of two tossups: Pennsylvania, because I know things about Eakins, and Louis XVI, and maybe Italy if I had figured it out fast enough. I know I'm not the high-achieving high school quizbowle...

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Can I see that tossup on "geometric constructions"? It was in the pyramidal part of the MSHSAA state questions, so I think it was from an IS-set.

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Yeah no, my teammates are comically underrated because of shadow effect, etc. Even if you've got one fantastic individual player, you still need tons of support to complement you in close games or when you have an off-game. My teammates this year included a fantastic secondary generalist who is a to...

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Hey Max I know it does not really matter, but i only heard three packets and buzzed once or twice. You may have confused me with some one else for with the rest of the stats, just an FYI. Thanks again for reading and great set. There was probably someone else whose name was mib_stuff who I confused...

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Last night's scores can be found here in sketchy spreadsheet form. Also, I have updated the stats for the original site . If someone from Sam+Seth+Selene remembers their score breakdown (they combined for 0/1/6/0), or could reconstruct it given the questions, let me know. Also alert me if any errors...

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Mewto55555 wrote:I can read this in the IRC (#schindlit) for anyone who hasn't/won't play (or if you've only played a few packets, we can start with those), at 9:30 CST tonight.

This is happening.

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I can read this in the IRC (#schindlit) for anyone who hasn't/won't play (or if you've only played a few packets, we can start with those), at 9:30 CST tonight.

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I agree that the randomization got weird at times, although I'm skeptical that the S.F. and LA questions needed to be moved per se. Yeah, I was just trying to come up with an example of very similar concepts coming up in two different categories and that was the best I could do off the top of my he...

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I loved the set! One thing that did concern me was some sub-optimal randomization -- stuff we found particularly standing out day 2 was, for example, the lit in the last playoff packet being 3 poems, 1 short stories, or stuff like tossups on San Francisco and LA Philharmonic in close succession (tho...

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If you ever need to search a large quantity of packets, and if QBDB's search algorithm continues to be totally useless for things longer than one word, then a handy trick is to just google "site:quizbowlpackets.com [thing I am searching for]".

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Do any recordings exist aside from that first 3:40 or so of the finals? Huge thanks to PACE, especially Matt W. for a very well-run tournament, and Eric and everyone else involved with the great question set. Every staffer we experienced was either good or great, very helpful and professional, etc (...

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Is there any interest in playing a room of this at NASAT or something? Also, a bunch of people have indicated they want to play this on the IRC or something, I can do that sometime after NASAT for anyone who isn't planning to play a mirror of this at a Missouri Open mirror.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra twice in the finals (though music, phil, so whatever) One very specific thing I would like to be clearer is tossups on slightly more nebulous yet specific answerlines like that "Nixon-Kennedy debates" -- in my room it got prompted on pres. debates and wasn't pulled b...

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Could there maybe be a small blurb released about each nominated person (just a few lines of notable tournament performances/statlines, or for coaches information on what sort of role they take in running the team, or whatever) written by the committee or someone else involved in this process? That ...

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The point is not "Protobowl will never get you anywhere" since that is obviously not true. The point is more 'if you are a science specialist whose primary source of exposure to quizbowl science are the 3604 on protobowl, many of which are from mediocre sets written 3+ years ago, then you ...

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Ugh, that's a huge logical fallacy. High Tech is not magically good because you all use Protobowl, it's good because, due to the nature of your school, you have a sufficient number of intelligent people who care enough to spend their time studying quizbowl. The problem with all these protobowling pe...

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Well, it could take as much as two rounds in tiebreakers after prelims and as much as two after playoffs, which means a total of 13+2+3+2=20 rounds in one day, which sounds a bit nuts.

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Look, I don't understand the point of all the discussions of why this behavior is bad or what purpose Protobowl serves or whether it is an ideal intro to quizbowl or whatever the heck we're talking about now. The point is that PB has turned into a platform for a bunch of immature quizbowl-people to ...

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Obviously cleaning it up would be an extremely desirable thing, but one thing to consider is that /lobby can at times be a good environment for practice between multiple non-stupid users. While activity on HSQB is a fine way of connecting names with schools, trophies, et cetera, it's not going to b...

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Make sure every team has a number to reach you at if they're running late/have to drop the morning of the tournament.

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Congratulations to Benji-Bernadette/MattBo-Rob-Matt on getting bonus points in a tournament with no bonuses! That is because the scores I have for Benji's team v. Raynor's team and for Jacob's team v. Sid's team are off by 10/5 respectively, so SQBS thinks they got bonus points. If anyone had corre...

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Staaats from the upper division -- if anyone has the detailed scores for the two missing games that would be great!

Thanks a bunch to Sid Verma who indeed had the stats ready almost immediately after the tournament, I just lost them in my email inbox

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