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Gautam

Many teams should have received emails with a link to the invoice. If you have not, then we're either expecting packets from you or I just have not been able to enter your org's details into our new system. I'll continue to work on the invoices over the next few days, so you should expect it soon. I...

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All registered teams can expect an update about payments by EOD Friday. -Gautam Hi folks- My apologies I haven't gotten this info out yet. Just haven't had a chance to work out a PO box arrangement, but I promise it will be done tomorrow. You can expect invoices over email beginning this weekend. T...

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All registered teams can expect an update about payments by EOD Friday.

-Gautam

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Hey thanks to Jacob and Will fit writing this set. I had a fun time playing the five packets that were read for Skype bowl. Thanks for writing that TU on secular stagnation. I think it was a cool topic from the "big problems of our time" list. I might suggest making it clear early on in th...

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Hey thanks for organizing this, and a big thanks to Richard, Jason, and... a 3rd person who didn't read for us, I think... for reading VICO!

Gautam

I'm assuming this is still happening this weekend? Looking forward to play VICO.

How are VICO-only participants being notified of the start of the event?

Gautam

I've enrolled at the U of Houston, taking some math/CS classes as I prepare for grad school.

I might play whatever things I'm eligible for, which probably only means SCT.

Gautam

If you are really hurting for staff, let me know. [email protected]

Gautam · Re: ACF Fall at Rice (11-7-15) I'll staff this.

I'll staff this.

Gautam

Dang, I have to pick Gaurav up at the airport at 3:30 Central on 9/6. Welp, I guess I'm not playing this...

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Mike Bentley wrote:Alright, I'll host some form of online mirror of this tournament. Will need to check my schedule for the best date. Will be sometime between August 22nd and September 7th.

Appreciate it, Mike! Any of those dates sound good.

Gautam

Is there any interest for playing this over Skype? I'd love to do that on the weekend of the 22nd or the 31st.

-Gautam

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Hey, are any of the attendees at this site driving over from the Detroit area on Saturday morning? I would appreciate a pickup from Novi if possible.

Let me know. Will compensate gas monies.

-Gautam

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women, fire and dangerous things wrote:The side event schedule has been added to the first post.

Thank you!

Gautam

I'm probably not looking closely enough, but it's a little difficult to figure what the side-event schedule is (if any has already been determined.)

Can someone (Will?) move this information to the first post, so it becomes easy to find?

Thanks
GK

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This is such a bizarrely random and seemingly unnecessary solution to a problem that doesn't exist that I really don't know where to begin, but like... who needs this? Who needs their cash from writing a tournament so badly they need to lose 5% to a commission? Could they not get a payday loan or s...

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How much money do you estimate this organization would need to hold at any one time? Off the top of my head, I'd estimate that a typical non-ACF-or-NAQT college tournament would generate at most around $3000 in mirror fees, and with at most 5-6 such tournaments existing in any given 3-month window,...

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Amanda is aware of this, but I thought I'd post here as well; I actually realized I have some work function in the afternoon of the 13th, so I'll be leaving post-lunch. I believe Amanda might have some updates to the schedule necessitated by my afternoon departure.

-Gautam

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Oh hey, more people signed up for this. Awesome.

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Thanks to Will et al for writing this.

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Amizda Calyx wrote:I might play at HSNCT, if that's still a thing.

What she said, except change "might" to "will."

Gautam

The economics in this set was fantastic, by the way. Thanks. Using "length scale proportional to square root of time" as a lead-in for _diffusion_ seems too easy. But more importantly, it is true of any phenomenon that obeys a diffusion equation. Besides esoteric examples, this includes a...

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Rank-ordered:
1. Science
2. Modern
3. VICO
4. History

I'm probably only going to play only one side event on Sunday, so that I can hang out with my aunt in Novi. So that said, my preference is for Science on Saturday evening and Modern on Sunday morning.

Gautam

Auks Ran Ova wrote:I'm tentatively planning to play this site with Gautam and Auroni. Looking for a fourth. Will update as situation warrants.

As of last night I've booked my tickets to come to Michigan, so I'll be playing here regardless.

Gautam

Yeah, I think I would enjoy this side event much more if I were playing it in a more leisurely setting rather rather than during a long weekend of quizbowl. Would pay a premium to play this on skype. Same as above. I'd like to actually play Tricon once. But I probably won't enjoy it if more than 15...

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How cruel of you to hold this at a tournament to which I (probably) can't come! I'd love if there were a Skype mirror at some point. What this guy said. Hopefully I will have learned more things by the time this hypothetical Skype mirror happens, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it either way. Yeah, I think...

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Thanks to Naveed, Saajid, Evan, and the not-quite-namesake-of-minor-apoptotic-pathway Dan PUMA for reading!

And for the editors of the set for putting it together! I enjoyed it.

-GK

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Gautam wrote:I'll play. Thanks to Dan et al for taking their time to do the open mirror.

I think I'm putting the lene in Sethlene. Or maybe just the ene? Who knows? See you folks tomorrow at 9 am Central

Gautam

The Nepal bonus in round 2 did not tell the moderator to not reveal the full answer to the first part, so the second part was rather easy. Ditto for the Ludwig II of Bavaria/Bavaria/Neuschwanstein Castle bonus in round 1. Sorry about that. I wrote both of these bonuses and didn't really think about...

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I'm based out of Houston, TX now and help with some tournaments here (mostly the ones hosted by Rice since they're a train ride away.) If you need me to staff, I am happy to help if I don't have other things going on. I might look into the possibility of starting a club at U of Houston at some point...

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The FWP question threw me off. I don't think it's the fault of the question, but the copy of the guide to New York we have on our house is called the WPA Guide to New York (though it mentions the FWP on the cover). http://www.amazon.com/The-WPA-Guide-York-City/dp/1565843215/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top...

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I had been helping out Andrew with some feedback on the Econ for several NAQT tournaments. But this year I decided to write some last minute questions for DI after a long hiatus. I felt very rusty coming back to writing questions for NAQT, but I ended up enjoying the experience. Much more than I hav...

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I addition to that cricket bonus, which I'm sure was the best one in the whole set, I wrote the tossups on New Girl, the bonus on "saudade", the tossup on "glass", the bonus on Monterey Jazz Festival, the tossup on art in LA, the bonus on Pottery, and that "biology" tos...

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p-vs-vp wrote:omg statistics is bae, and does not come up often enough.

I think MUT has always had a statistics question or two between '08 and '11 when I wrote them. But anyway, I liked what Cody did with that TU.

Gautam

I'll play. Thanks to Dan et al for taking their time to do the open mirror.

Gautam

Matt drafted me in the first ever Westbrook Experiment at IO '07... because I purportedly knew science. I don't know if this duo went on to win the tournament on place second, but one of those two things happened. And it's unfair to call it a team, because Matt did 99% of the heavy lifting. He proba...

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Thanks to Auroni et al for putting together this tournament. Questions were pretty good for the most part. I liked the tossup on Dance. There were bunch which could have been easily reconstructed to allow more middle clues/less difficult answerlines. Those tossups on "Shakti", myogenesis, ...

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Thanks to Maryland folks for hosting this event. Things went pretty smoothly, and I'm glad everyone was able to fit in a lot of side events.

Gautam

I hate to be "Follow editor instructions" police, but here are basic things from my other thread that teams submitting packets should do: Here's a basic set of things you can do, for instance, starting with higher-impact items at the top: 1. Write questions of the appropriate difficulty. W...

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I think it'd be a great idea to approach this with a "what are editors looking for" angle, and work with raw submissions rather than final packets. There's still a gap between editor expectations of submissions and actual submissions - I don't think this is a controversial statement. Recen...

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I'm glad Cody brought this topic up in the other thread. I find myself thinking along similar lines based on my observations staffing various events and playing the occasional ones. I've had a chance to participate in more circuits than I used to previously, and have also seen a wider skillset among...

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Congratulations to Andrew and Nathan!

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Great work by Victor in gathering the right resources and bringing this to fruition. Thanks to all the other editors who chipped in at short notice, too. It's great to see folks stepping up. Victor, it's unfortunate that you'd had negative experiences working on a tournament. Taking a break is a gre...

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That tossup on Meselson-Stahl experiment was not very good. There aren't too many things it could have been after the clue on centrifugation + CsCl. The 9/8 math ended up making the "other sci" category substantially harder. I speak from a perspective of one who doesn't know much of the ma...

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Most of the econ was fine. The TU on M Friedman was not very great - the part about maximizing shareholder value, which I think was in the second sentence, is really real-world famous.

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I'll offer to moderate this event.

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How many high school teams are there in Illinois? I thought it was less than 100 Approximately 550. How many that play more than one tournament and their conference a year? Approximately 200. I'm guessing that if you want to estimate the number of active teams in a state, you can multiply the numbe...

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minusfive wrote:. Similarly, world literature can't be written originally in English: sorry Chinua Achebe/Wole Soyinka/Ngugi wa Thiongo/Lin Yutang, you aren't "world literature!

This specific point has been clarified, cf. http://acf-quizbowl.com/tournaments/201 ... stribution

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the charm wrote:
This should never happen and was likely a mistake by the editors/writers.

whoops. Dylan's right. That was totally a last-minute change I introduced to make the 3rd part of that bonus easier. My bad. Sorry about that.

Gautam

Additionally, I do think that ACF and quizbowl in general could do more to accommodate one-man teams, financially. A lot of the discounts for short-handed teams are geared towards newer, less experienced teams, and more experienced players who find themselves on one-man teams can feel a lot less we...

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