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Is it taboo if I make my ballot public? I was going to originally but realized nobody did it in the last thread.

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After going through some of WIT (where at least one of the bio and chem each round was for some unforsaken reason replaced with science history) - I've realized I would absolutely not play a tournament without a competent editor in those categories. For that reason, if NO ONE steps up, I am willling...

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5 and 6 can be grouped together in this corollary: always pay attention. Even if its not your subject, or you're not scoring well, always stay in the game. You never know when a clue you know will come up or a buzzer race will go your way. This brings up another point. I don't care how good you thi...

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I understand your point about telling the TD about these things, but remember: none of the players had the knowledge you did about the somewhat suspicious events leading up to it. There are plenty of instances when I've seen someone neg things that were going to come up later by chance (and I've do...

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Are any Ontario teams attending HSNCT this year?

For the first ever time, a Canadian team outside of Ontario will be attending this event (Harry Ainlay - the winners of the 2nd Alberta Quizbowl Tournament). I hope they will not be the only ones!

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Math higher in the distributino than Chemistry? what a joke. Stop proposing things just because your small narrow sample space at Chicago can't answer Chemistry questions early. As I've said in previous courses, it takes a math major to answer math questions and one-two chemistry courses to be able ...

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Maryland, Brown and Harvard should totally sign up for this.

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theMoMA wrote:If Regionals were a qualifying tournament for Nationals.

Oh god. No.

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I'm guessing Canadian teams should just hold tight as per the other thread?

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Apparently we aren't going sorry about that.

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If we do play we'd likely send two teams.

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I'll help but not sure how big of a role I can take on.

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Organic Chemistry takes something like one or two classes before you can understand EVERY organic chemistry tossup. Non-organic chemistry is taught in high school. Ditto biology. You can literally answer some ACF Nationals Bio tossups off clues learned in high school. You can take five or six classe...

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Congratulations to Harry Ainlay for winning the second Alberta Quizbowl Tournament - beating Webber C in the final. Both teams have qualified for HSNCT. Congratulations also go out to Laura Senior of Old Scona B for bring the tournament's leading scorer with over thirty powers! Stats can be found in...

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Can you post the tossup on the pituitary gland?

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The angelfire link appears to be down was this set ever posted anywhere else?

Edit: never mind I got a copy

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Yeah Illinois is totally the middle of quiz bowl nowhere

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reindeer wrote: We may also be able to field a team of our own, if that turns out to make sense.

I am especially in favour of this if it avoids teams having bye rounds

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I remember the good old days when Kurtis could write a summer open event and have 10 teams show up to the Canada site.

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Yeah whenever I read for my old high school I'm probably harsher than usual on them. Goes both ways.

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Just want to say that perhaps the best thing about this tournament (heh this is almost a plug maybe it should go in a forum that is non-private) is that it is enjoyable even if you are not a myth player. I was having a blast (despite winning, like, one game) just because I was learning cool and inte...

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What's the fee schedule going to be?

(and pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee sign up team #10!)

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3. You still have the problem that the clue is about the urea cycle; it was at this point, being thoroughly clue-whiplashed, that I buzzed in with urea because I couldn't figure out what was going on. I'm not saying its a bad clue, I'm saying try to make it a little easier to understand. I would ha...

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I like the above schedule.

It kinda gives each day its own distinctive "feel"

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How late are we going on Saturday? (and when do you estimate the main event itself will be finished?)

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Going to post my full position here: Joe, based on your post, I'm under the impression that you think there aren't other factors that the editors considered in choosing a date. I will list just one: putting any national championship on the third week of April is basically telling Canadian teams &quo...

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Don't most semester schools have finals the first week of May? A quick search of six schools shows that ACF Nationals is the weekend before finals for us and Penn and is in the middle of finals for Ohio State, Virginia, and Michigan. I realize that not everyone's schedule can be accommodated, but g...

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How about a split screen? Someone out there must have decent video-editing capabilities, and if a secondary goal of this video is to get people excited about quizbowl then, well, presentation is important.

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This thread is a pretty fascinating read. (especially liked the North Korea comment) Just curious - is there a similar thread like this one, but for Missouri? Charlie said he had faced a lot of the same things that Kansas is going through now, and has presumably made great progress since then. Would...

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Playing this at the Ann Arbor site. Would like teammates I've never played with before (which is, like, everyone).

If it makes any difference I happen to know science.

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Isn't it kind of self-evident that all that stuff is going on in plants (thus making the "plant" part not necessary for the answer)? It reminds me of that "operas by Smetana" question, which was bad because it's pretty trivial to deduce that all those works were operas. Yes this...

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After finally looking through the questions this looked like a pretty well written tournament. I think, in places, it may have suffered from excessive underlining though, but I'm interested to know if I'm wrong. For example: - requiring "plant" in the tossup on the cell wall. If someone we...

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I'm tempted to say from experience [re: TU/N ratios]: - if you're the best player on your team, no worse than 2 to 1 [ideally should be higher than this] - else 3 to 1. The latter makes sense, I'm not sure about the number for the former. 8 TU and 4 negs is a horrible ratio. Maybe (2-to-1 minus one ...

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Maybe this year the Valencias, Harvards, and UVA's of the world will still be the favorites, but unless our schools start taking ICT a lot more seriously, we are going to fall behind the Icelandic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IcelandicCompulsoryEducationPie.svg America will be fine as long as...

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If completeness is your goal maybe consider incorporating the results of the "Texas Invitational"? ( http://www.texasquizbowl.org/d/12TI/FinalACF/ and http://www.texasquizbowl.org/d/12TI/FinalNAQT/ Would also give a better idea of where high schools compare to some colleges. Some of them, ...

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Unfortunately, this tournament is not happening this year. Apologies.

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May 14th?! Does this date hold some special significance I'm not aware of? No, just who the hell is out of school by May 14th? All of Canada. Though the Canadian dollar is doing quite fine, so I don't think he's advertising $5/hr to us. (On a somewhat related note this is why it's a bitch to get Ca...

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Sir Thopas wrote:
grapesmoker wrote:
Sir Thopas wrote:May 14th?!
Does this date hold some special significance I'm not aware of?
No, just who the hell is out of school by May 14th?

All of Canada.

Though the Canadian dollar is doing quite fine, so I don't think he's advertising $5/hr to us.

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What time in the morning would the tournament start on Saturday?

Also, to those from Maryland, how long would the taxi right from Dulles to the tournament take on a Saturday Morning (8amish)?

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Congratulations to Harry Ainlay for winning the first ever Alberta Quizbowl Tournament, beating Old Scona A in the final.

Full stats (including final) are here.

Congratulations to the top scorer, Giavanna Valacco from Old Scona A, who averaged [final included] 58.89 ppg.

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Stats through lunch:
http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/77 ... all_games/

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The first post is now updated with a field update as well as the official tournament location. There is no need to finalize team numbers until the final week of the tournament, but the more information that is given the better. Obviously, if your school is not yet listed, you have not told me you ar...

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Would there be any way to integrate the stats into SQBS after a tournament? There are no such plans. WUStL is a replacement for software like SQBS. Anything SQBS can do, WUStL will be able to do. It's not clear what benefits users would get out of export into SQBS. Likewise, import from SQBS is als...

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Thanks for all the feedback on the science questions. I think the biggest takeaway for me so far is that I am still a young writer, and I cannot and should not get away with writing/editing questions post-midnight after having a long day of classes. I need to be more diligent about my answer lines ...

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Generally enjoyed this tournament. The science was filled with errors (Gibbs & enthalpy TUs as described above were pure negbait... the GnRH bonus may have been the worst I have ever heard in my quizbowl career. Not even sure the lead-in for that bonus was a proper sentence, and the description ...

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Thank you to McMaster for a well-run tournament (and for the board game that will teach me more about the city of Hamilton XD).

Any chance we could get a set of combined (playoff + prelim) stats?

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The University of Alberta is pleased to announce the first ever Alberta Quizbowl Tournament, to be held on Saturday, November 26, 2011, at the University of Alberta. This tournament will use the NAQT IS110-A set and is excellent for teams that are new to quizbowl. LOCATION: Tory Building Basement - ...

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What if Shantanu buzzed in on a different clue from the one he buzzed in on and said "scimitar"? ...and it wasn't a scimitar? How can a moderator hope to tell this information? EDIT (Don't want to double post): And what if he needed to think o the scimitar clue and it took him a good three...

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Right. So I guess I'll make this official: Alberta is sending 1 team, no buzzers.

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We're interested, but Almas is the only person on the team who's ever played ACF before, and asking him to write an entire packet would not be fair. EDIT: Just to further elaborate a bit, in case this becomes a thing. UWO is a club who very much exemplifies the "novice" Ontario team to wh...

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