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Muriel Axon

Childeric III wrote:
Excelsior (smack) wrote:communicate normally on bonuses
between this and "lede-in," it's going to take a while to get used to this newfangled quizbowl lexicon

bonuses is old news!

Muriel Axon

Childeric III wrote:
Excelsior (smack) wrote:communicate normally on bonuses
between this and "lede-in," it's going to take a while to get used to this newfangled quizbowl lexicon

bonuses is old news!

Muriel Axon

So what I gather from the Canadians' posts in this thread is that Canadian history is just a parade of prime ministers. That was what you intended, right?

Muriel Axon

I'm a free agent at NSC. I know some bio (especially ecology/evolution/organismal bio), a little chem and earth science, and math. My only request is that prospective teammates by okay with the name "The Competitive Excluders." (Shoot me a message if you want to team up.)

Muriel Axon

I thought Jacob was going for this post, which would have been appropriate.

Muriel Axon

In the spirit of the Cooley Law School rankings, my ballot is just:

1. Matt Bollinger
2. Shan Kothari

Muriel Axon

I'd be fine with making this thing regular difficulty, and I can help to play difficulty cop.

setht wrote:I demand and support this tournament, but have no space to offer.

-Seth

Damn, we were hoping to hold it at your countryside villa.

Muriel Axon

In response to Shan: I identified those as especially hard answers under the assumption that no one would contest that they are hard. If someone can show me the conversion numbers demonstrating that they were converted at the same rate as anything else, I'll gladly partially retract that statement....

Muriel Axon

Make sure your seatbelt is fastened wrote:Shan Kothari has joined the project to work on the Biology + Other Science

I'll note further that I've tied my participation to whether there is demand/support/space for such a tournament, so that's something that I'd like feedback on.

Muriel Axon

Yeah, I also don't buy the reliance on the subjective feel of a small number of people. We should know by now that that's colored by all kinds of situational factors, ranging from how well your particular team is doing to whether the coffee was good at breakfast. I will say that on the whole, this t...

Muriel Axon

I'm seen Kenji Golimlim get consistently good buzzes on geography.

Muriel Axon

I also wish that we discussed individual categories more (ranked Top 5 for each category, for example). It would give more recognition to specialists (science players being the obvious ones, but even specialists in particular humanities categories) who might be getting shut out of the poll, because...

Muriel Axon

This philosopher analyzes the word deinotaton in the “Ode on Man” from Sophocles’s Antigone in a lecture course that analyzes the title river of a German poem as an enigma at encompasses both locality and journeying. This philosopher uses a silver chalice to illustrate Aristotle’s four causes in a ...

Muriel Axon

Maybe I'm just being over-dramatic here but I think I'm a rather curious case for this list. Please don't overrate me due to my high ppg. I could certainly pick 25 active players this year I would consider more valuable to a team trying to pursue a national title, but that's just my own criteria. D...

Muriel Axon

Oh, the irony of Patrick Liao as Captain America...

Muriel Axon

I've never had any travel problems except during quiz bowl trips. On the way back from my first tournament ever - 2010 Collegiate Novice - one of Nolan Esser's tires blew out, leaving us stranded in mid-Michigan. This is pretty tame as far as quiz bowl travel disasters go, but in retrospect, it was...

Muriel Axon

Fill out the entire sheet! This includes the round and moderator info up top and the score boxes down below. Whenever I've run stats, I nearly always run into one or two people who don't total up tossup and bonus points; not only is it annoying to have to check other peoples' math, but I've uncovere...

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Philosophy: Shan of Minnesota’s Timaeus tossup My favorite tossup of the tournament! And I thought I had Ike to thank for it. You do have Ike to thank for making the last 2-3 clues significantly better! In general, I was impressed by how much better the questions we submitted came out post-editing ...

Muriel Axon

Harvard was missing SRIRAAAAAAM at ICT, resulting in a 90% reduction in maidens swooning during Harvard games.

Muriel Axon

I've never had any travel problems except during quiz bowl trips. On the way back from my first tournament ever - 2010 Collegiate Novice - one of Nolan Esser's tires blew out, leaving us stranded in mid-Michigan. This is pretty tame as far as quiz bowl travel disasters go, but in retrospect, it was ...

Muriel Axon

Well, of course you can make things a little harder by withholding information. I'm not a history player and I don't know who the Victual Brothers are, but I'm sure they could be a hard part if you give less than all the easiest clues for them. I'm not saying that editors should necessarily be oblig...

Muriel Axon

Minnesota was, technically speaking, a top bracket team, and we 0'd a few bonus. That's fine: There are plenty of holes in our knowledge, etc. etc. As Jacob says/implies, the problem is that there were bonuses that just seemed brutal even for the top teams as a whole. There are a few bonuses with ha...

Muriel Axon

Well, I agree with Marshall. I'm not a history player, but the notion of "list-based studying" sounds pretty darn odious to me. I'm sympathetic to the Steinbaum-ian perspective here, as anyone who knows me would know, but I don't think this is a fair characterization. I'm sure that if som...

Muriel Axon

I got the tossup on "Palenque" at Nationals from playing this Nancy Drew game in 4th or 5th grade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Drew ... arlet_Hand

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This tournament was very enjoyable: Basically, it delivered the kind of intellectual experience I want from Nationals, where there are so many cool things coming up that I feel compelled to write them all down and look them up afterward. I might make a post later explaining in more detail what I lik...

Muriel Axon

I'll be moving to Stamford, Connecticut for work. I don't really intend to play much unless there's some side event that's right up my alley, but if you're running a tournament close to Stamford, get in touch with me and I'm happy to staff if I'm free. At WWE headquarters? They told me not to tell ...

Muriel Axon

Shan might be referring to when you took mild umbrage at him not knowing who Theodore Roethke was. I was actually referring to a time (soon after ICT 2012) when a younger, more naive me wrote to Bradley from UCF: I was surprised to learn during lunchtime that you guys had won the bracket outright, ...

Muriel Axon

I will be pursuing a PhD in physics at Yale, and intend to continue playing quizbowl there. I also plan to remain active in high school outreach in New England, though from a home base that's a little farther south. ...and we're back to Yale winning everything in the Northeast again, barring more P...

Muriel Axon

Despite having produced Matt Lafer some ten years earlier (I think), my high school/district was a mess. None of our coaches lasted more than a year - the first one, the only one who actually coached, got arrested for soliciting a minor. Wayne County had a bizarre setup in which teams played one NAQ...

Muriel Axon

I don't know if Jeff has already enlisted staffers, but I'd be happy to staff, or otherwise to play if there are four-person teams. I'm not actually good at history, but I will probably get >0 questions.

Muriel Axon

4. The NADPH oxidases DUOX1 and DUOX2 were first characterized in this gland for their role in making hydrogen peroxide. Anaplastic cancer of this gland is always diagnosed at stage IV. Propylthiouracil and methimazole inhibit a peroxidase that helps synthesize two tyrosine-based hormones made by t...

Muriel Axon

Along the lines of what Jon said, can someone from Rutgers explain why this tournament was so understaffed? Did people commit to staffing but flake out? Or did you fail to get enough volunteers? You should never have to take people who drove or flew in from far away, expecting to play, and impress t...

Muriel Axon

I wrote the Oye Como Va / drums / Gillespie bonus. I didn't notice the overlap until I staffed the tournament on Saturday. You're right that it was a little strange to have those two in adjacent packets. I would have altered my bonus had I noticed it before the first mirrors, but I'm comfortable wit...

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7. An oft-parodied advertisement preceding episodes of this podcast involves a girl who is inexplicably unable to pronounce “Mailchimp.” For 10 points each: [10] Name this podcast narrated by Sarah Koenig, whose first season covered the controversy surrounding the arrest and trial of Adnan Syed for...

Muriel Axon

If any of you have comments on the actual set, feel free to join the private discussion forum by going to the User Control Panel, clicking on the Usergroups tab, and requesting membership in "2015 MUT Discussion."

Muriel Axon

I hope we can all distinguish between "legal rights" and "community norms." You have the legal right to leave a tournament whenever you want, but if you keep leaving unreasonably early, I wouldn't let your team register!

Muriel Axon

If this runs again, can we have some firm limits for difficulty so that nobody writes packets where most things go until the end (or dead)? Writing whimsical questions is great, but not when there's 13 lines and then a buzzer race.

Muriel Axon

Would there be any interest in a wacky philosophy packet, along the lines of what I wrote for CAHOOTS earlier but 1) wackier and 2) not all 20th century? I'm just asking ahead since those questions took an anomalously long time to write.

Muriel Axon

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.

Muriel Axon

Minnesota A cleared the field, with Carleton A coming second. I just emailed the stats to Rob.

Muriel Axon

Kilroy Was Here wrote:I once lost a match to Dylan Minarik partially because I said "triwizard tournament" for a tossup on what I think was the ryder cup. So there's that.

ding ding ding we have a winner

Muriel Axon

1) Yes, maybe with someone who knows physics if possible.
2) If it's at VCUO, I don't plan to play anyway, so it hardly matters to me.
3) I'd be happy to edit or consult on biology (especially ecology/evolution/organismal biology/taxon bowl) and phil/SS of science. EDIT: and math

Muriel Axon

Peter13 wrote:47. Carleton University - Carleton will win this tournament hands down..at being the most fun group of quizbowlers to be around. Expect Nick Penner to 30 a tossup on 'fun'.

I would be impressed if anyone 30'd a tossup on anything.

Muriel Axon

2. This composer used a plagal half-cadence to end the exposition of one piece’s first movement. Schoenberg orchestrated this man’s Piano Quartet No. 1 and wrote an essay about this man “the Progressive.” This composer used a natural horn in his Horn Trio and wrote his Clarinet Trio and Clarinet Qu...

Muriel Axon

Our opponents that round (Shan Kothari and Joe Nutter of MSU I think) did everything they could to convince me that I needed to go to the E.R. since I said it'd been 8 or 9 years since I had a tetanus shot but I didn't since they were trying to get rid of our best player in a big match. I don't rem...

Muriel Axon

To quote myself:

Thanks to all teams for playing. Hope you enjoyed it! There is a private discussion forum; please feel free to request to join the 2015 MUT Discussion usergroup in your User Control Panel.

Muriel Axon

To quote myself:

Thanks to all teams for playing. Hope you enjoyed it! There is a private discussion forum; please feel free to request to join the 2015 MUT Discussion usergroup in your User Control Panel.

Muriel Axon

Well, it will be really impressive if you get points without being there!

Muriel Axon

Thanks to all teams for playing. Hope you enjoyed it! There is a private discussion forum; please feel free to request to join the 2015 MUT Discussion usergroup in your User Control Panel.

Muriel Axon

Oh, I should note that the version of the question I just posted is the version read at Waterloo. There may have been modifications since.

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