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Also worth mentioning that I'm happy to run Lederberg as a shootout at NSC and HSNCT

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I should mention what people did: Will Alston contributed to almost all categories, and cracked the whip on things like pronunciation guides, accessibility, and difficulty control Justin French wrote almost all of the math, and generally did an excellent job of it. Jonathen Settle contributed to phy...

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Lots to do here, so I have to make a quick post then edit in specifics when I'm not at work. I'd like to thank the staffers, esp James Lasker for TDing when I couldn't, and the writers Will Alston, Justin French, Jonathen Settle, Geoffrey Chen, Jaimie Carlson, Abhinav Godavarthi, Steven R. Silverman...

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Feel free to discuss specific questions here. Any criticism, no matter how small, is appreciated! A copy of the version of the set played on 4.5.2019 is available in the General Discussion thread.

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Bump. Is this still happening?

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I'd like to echo James and thank the players, staff, my fellow writers, and NAQT for making this tournament possible. I hope that people enjoyed it. Two orders of business: 1. I have much more to say about the philosophy of this tournament when I'm not tired, and I eagerly await everyone's feedback,...

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Hey everyone, with five days left before the tournament, here's some updates and additional requests. 1. We have 226/240 questions edited for this set, and are well on pace to finish 2. We have 10 teams signed up, and enough free agents to cover two more teams. Please form two more teams ASAP. 3. Ja...

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Obviously you can do and eat whatever you want, but it's just kind of uncomfortable to hear about a (relatively) uninvolved person ironically celebrating the theft of one of my (and my teammates') potential peak life experiences. I don't think a yearly Two Minutes Hate is especially productive, nor...

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I feel like at this point it's probably not worth pursuing. At worst, I think you come off as a vindictive crank to someone who doesn't understand the full implications. At best, I don't think it will actually lead to anything. What I will say, though, is that I think compared to other "cheati...

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In 2013, we discovered that Andy Watkins is human scum who cheated 3 ICTs worth of people out of a fair contest , including his own teammates. Worse than any other cheater before or after him (Baselius, Cam, Amit Bilgi, Steven Hines, Josh Alman, Scott Putzig, and Joe Brosch), Andy was uniquely one o...

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Hey everyone, a couple announcements. 1. This set is on track to be finished for ICT. It is over 75% written as of right now. 2. I would like to have an online mirror of this tournament after HSNCT. However, I will probably be unable to host it, because I'll be finishing up my program and moving aro...

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Because there were 14 teams for 15 packets, our team was denied the chance to play for a place in the final (we were x-2 along with Kim et al). Ideally this kind of thing would not happen.

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I told Adam about this one already, but Vestibular schwannomas (also known as acoustic neuromas, acoustic schwannomas, acoustic neurinomas, or vestibular neurilemomas) (cf here: https://www.uptodate.com/contents/vestibular-schwannoma-acoustic-neuroma) I've also heard that the top quark TU will be mo...

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Amizda Calyx wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 4:56 pm• HIV bonus: the AZT description sounded pretty standard for several NRTIs, although I'd have to hear the specific clues to be sure.

Unfortunately they all kind of sound similar, but combivir is only zidovudine plus lamivudine. Also I don't think quizbowl is ready for bonus parts on other NRTIs.

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As I remember it, I got an FB messenger from Dave Madden around 2PM (it was a Thursday) while I was doing labwork (either running a gel or collecting colonies). Originally I thought that I'd kick in a few questions and call it a day, then realized that he was in way worse shape than I realized. The ...

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Obviously, buzzer races in the first sentence aren't desirable and are, in fact, bad - probably worse than dead clues. But if less than 1% of the field are buzzing on the first line of the vast majority of questions, are we just wasting everyone's time? Fred's asked an excellent question here. As a...

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For 12 teams, I would suggest a prelims of 6/6 to a crossover (split each bracket into top 3 and bottom 3, carry over 2 prelim games for every team). This takes the same number of rounds as splitting 4/4/4 but it keeps 50% of the field in contention instead of 33% and reduces variance in placement ...

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Hey everybody, more updates. I would ideally like to have either 8 or 12 teams (8 would make a 7 game round robin and final, with an extra packet for play-in; 12 could be run in prelims of 6/6, then playoffs of 4/4/4, then two packets left for finals). Otherwise we would have to either have byes (wi...

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Hey, super last minute, but my schedule shifted literally this morning. If there's space for me on anyone's team, I'd be happy to join.

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Cody wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:49 pm Since it's around the time people start booking flights (including me), is there a potential start time that we should plan for?

Sorry for the delay. Lets target 630PM as a start time. I would recommend ordering food during the tournament as well.

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I'd like to thank the playtesters for their helpful suggestions, Billy Busse for some help with the chem, and Will N. and Graham Reid for stepping in to finish a handful of questions when I was on call at the hospital. Please feel free to make any comments on the bio and chem. In general, I tried to...

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To echo what Rob said, would you be okay with running this Friday night? There are several reasons that might work out for the best. At some past ICTs I've been busy with tournament setup work until pretty late in the evening on Friday, so if GOLBEZ ran on Friday night I'm not 100% sure when I'd be...

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As Seth, Rob, and others have posted, I certainly think it's possible that both events will be able to run comfortably over the course of ICT weekend. How many packets/rounds do you think Lederberg will end up having? Hey Jason, thanks for being accommodating about this. It's currently 10 rounds of...

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So production on this tournament is proceeding well - unfortunately I've noticed that Jason has claimed ICT for his video game set, and I have neglected to be proactive about picking a date. I'm open to suggestions - would people consider playing this at CO? Is there enough space at ICT for both eve...

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The SYBR clue in the PCR tossup is a hose as currently worded. SYBR dyes like SYBR-Safe are commonly used in place of Ethidium bromide for visualizing gels. While yes, this is exactly how you visualize the results of PCR, this is done by performing gel electrophoresis, and if you buzz on the word &...

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Want to strongly concur with Billy above about the utility of application-based bonus parts, but will note that when you write application-based bonus parts, its important to understand how people actually absorb that information. The comparison to score clues is very apt. An example of such a part ...

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Eric, are you perhaps explaining why you thought it was okay to distribute someone else's tournament? I apologized for that already, and if I knew it was going to come up repeatedly I certainly wouldn't have sent Chicago Open to two groups of people I'm writing tournaments with for criticism and il...

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There's no reason that a question set, in the form it was played, can't be immediately disseminated to those who played it. If you want to take a few extra days to clean up spelling and grammar before sending it off to the archive, that's great and should be encouraged. But given how quickly memory ...

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This is a great question to ask, Jacob. But I wish it had been asked with names redacted so that the specific personalities involved wouldn't mask the larger, more important issues. I'm in agreement. This thread, and the recent revival of the Quizbowl and Mental Health thread could have benefited b...

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Well. Lots to unpack here. The real question isn't when questions "belong" to a set, it's when sabotage is acceptable. I agree with Rein that, to an extent, you have a right to withhold further labor if you feel alienated. I don't think you have a right to pull the set *backwards* because ...

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Regardless of my opinions on everything else, I shouldn't have sent out the set without your approval - it is yours, after all. That was a mistake on my part and I apologize.

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Small correction on my part: Ellie Warner (Cambridge) and Tamara Vardomskaya (Chicago B) were also in the top bracket.

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I'm tracking the boycotts in a spreadsheet here, to show what percent of the 2018 ICT field is boycotting: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cx2xRfNFtAllrd4agjlC3FY7CJhGPM7ehkVFG4bArLo/edit?usp=sharing I will add a column for individuals later. I'm really quite exhausted by everything that's h...

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On what date was the written grievance submitted? Or did I miss that in this thread?

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I don't exactly have the power of the purse anymore, but I can say this: -I wrote about 300$ of questions for NAQT in the past week, kicked in some well-received questions for HSNCT, and I advise a lot of science writers (who are at a premium, lest you forget). I cannot in good conscience continue t...

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For a variety of reasons, I’m not going to go into details about the following here, but I have somewhat of a personal stake in this issue. Nothing comparable to the trauma the victims of those alluded to above ever happened to me, but I was indeed a victim of abuse of power within a sexual context...

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Summer practices over Skype are also a great way to stay motivated and interested.

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Hey everyone - reminder that this is still a thing you should contribute to! We're stagnating a little.

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If anyone near Nashville needs an assistant coach or occasional moderator/volunteer of some kind starting in mid-2019, please get in contact with me

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2. On the other hand, you could also argue that this is an unwieldy exercise--that really any lines of the Macbeth thing would be correct and even some description like "Macbeth's soliloquy after hearing of his wife's death" is also correct. There are also arguably a fair number of answer...

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This is still happening (I have all the answers picked out) but will probably be postponed to 2019, after Lederberg 3

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*Of course, you could be talking about similar types of clues, but you really need to explain yourself by what type of clues. If you're really talking about a more general case of clues and not just a super specific set of clues, then I retract this part of the post. Absolutely, thanks for bringing...

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This is the exact sort of post I was just talking about in the ACF Nationals thread. It's one thing to confirm an understanding or ask a question, but you have explicitly accused NAQT of completely and unalterably compromising the championship portion of the ICT. That's the most serious charge you ...

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So, the clue in question does not mention Meckel's diverticulum—just the pertechnetate scan. When we checked that out, we saw that the pertechnetate scan detects gastric mucosa. And the duodenum can have ectopic/heterotopic gastric mucosa. So while it seems clear that the pertechnetate scan most of...

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I think the fact that some publishers choose to reprint facsimiles of that etching on modern book covers in no way changes that the question was about a specific work of art that served a different purpose - I don't think "the cover to La Mer " would be an acceptable answerline for The Gr...

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I heard a story I want to confirm. Apparently in the Columbia vs Toronto game, there was this tossup on the small intestine: Though they are not from this organ, Caco-2 cells grow to resemble its cells. Congenital ectopic tissue in this organ can be detected using a pertechnetate scan. Different par...

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Man this is that kind of thread, huh. I dont' really want to litigate that CS tossup (I know which one you're talking about, and I'm pretty sure I know the moderator you're talking about) - I was offering my opinion on why I'd take that answer. I actually have read papers about that problem as well ...

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I forgot to say this earlier. I thought the social science in this set was really excellent and incorporated lots of things that social scientists actually do/care about, particularly methods (that surveys question, the Supreme court question, and the bonus part on Cohen's kappa stuck out to me as g...

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In general, I thought this tournament hit its marks very well. In particular, I want to praise the fact that there were not that many dead tossups in our games, and on top of that the tossups that did go dead were largely on reasonable answerlines that we probably should have known anyway. Especiall...

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