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Also, since Jordan brought it up, the only questions I remember on computer science were "hash" and "tree" (both of which I frauded, making this probably the only tournament where I've answered two computer science tossups correctly). Am I forgetting things (they might have show...

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DumbJaques wrote:I am a model of community altruism, motherfuckers.

You're an inspiration to us all, Chris.

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I had several problems with EFT (the UCLA version), including the endless delays and unexpected room lockouts. But the most blatant blunder is the editing , considering the set we heard wasn't being played for the first time. What were the editors doing after last weekend's EFT? Essay, midterms, la...

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I'll agree and disagree with Casanova - yes, this tournament had a ton of linguistics, but seriously people... THERE IS MORE TO LINGUISTICS THAN CHOMSKY AND SAPIR-WHORF. I must say I did enjoy the fact that Saussure and the Prague Circle came up. I was actually talking on the ride up to EFT about h...

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More extensive replies to come later, but some things first: -The Beloved tossup was actually edited between 9/29 and 10/6 to take out the Amy Denver clue in the first line. Andrew is right, of course. -I actually agree with the complaint about formulaic bonus structure, but I have to wonder about h...

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So lets get the ball rolling. Thanks to Matt Weiner, Seth Teitler, Dan Passner, Susan Ferrari, Charlie Dees and the NKC folks, Pat Freeburn, Ryan Westbrook, and Jon Magin for playtesting/editing/contributing to the questions. All of your suggestions were very helpful. I'd be especially interested to...

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EFT2 At Brown:

http://people.brandeis.edu/~enagler/200 ... dings.html

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http://people.brandeis.edu/~enagler/200 ... dings.html

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The question becomes, then, how do you put a cap on skill level for any given tournament? Granted, the examples Eric cites are the more obvious ones, but what about people in the gray area of skill level like Bruce or Jason Keller (not to draw a parallel between those two whatsoever), who could (and...

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EFT is not a NOVICE tournament...I thought the primary purpose of EFT was to expose new players to the reality of the college circuit without them coming away with the idea that college quizbowl is impossible. Specifically, that includes extremely accessible questions (so that even a match between ...

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Will Run PACE for Reese's wrote:running a high school tournament on college-level questions is tricky

THIS IS NOT AN ABELIAN GROUP

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House-written. Works every time.

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Also, as far as writing the questions goes, these articles would probably make your job a lot harder than if you used some other reference source since they are generally written for a select audience. I found the "problem of social cost" on there. Great for question material. Other than ...

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Okay, I guess I should let a fraction of the cat out of the bag here. I am committed to writing a literature subject tournament for the Illinois Open weekend. However, this hinges upon availability of players on Friday or Sunday. If a worthwhile field is willing to come down early or stay late for ...

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millionwaves wrote:a subject tournament

Sounds like fun (depending on the subject, I suppose). If I end up going, I'd certainly want to stay for some side events.

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What about the other brown people like Micha? How are they? Micha's really good, but he's busy. Something about "real life" or some such nonsense. I predict: 1) Chicago. Seth will destroy everyone, and selene will negate any advantage I provide by beating the hell out of me to all of the ...

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kCobain911 wrote:
grapesmoker wrote: If people would like to see these kinds of lists on the ACF website, I'm sure we could oblige
I would like to see those kinds of lists ...

Same here. I'd also be more than willing to write a few

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DeisEvan wrote:What about a game like Zelda, typically called an "adventure RPG"? Which category does it go in?

It could fulfill either, I guess. Though personally I think its more adventure than RPG (no stat-building, for example. And you actually need reflexes).

DeisEvan wrote:100% GUITAR HERO QUESTIONS

Ugh

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Personally I feel that if you are setting a distribution for gaming, do it by genres. But then again, I think sticking to some kind of distribution for gaming is generally a bad idea. 30% RPGS, 30% fighters, 30% action/adventure/platform, 10% other, distributed historically and by platform. Unless ...

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ACF nats, Penn Bowl, MLK, and ACF fall were all fun sets to play on; I enjoyed all of them about equally.

Best packet, hands-down, is the unedited Lafer/Luo/Vinokurov/Westbrook submission to CO.

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Bruce wrote:Hungarian Spotted Fever.

Coming to a tossup near you.

Oh yes, and if anyone wanted feedback on questions in my area, email me.

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Bruce wrote:
DeisEvan wrote:Dare I ask who the Mystery Teammate of Matt Weiner was, for those of us not lucky enough to be in Chicago?
Chris Ray.

Who also won the neg prize.

No surprise there. I look forward to seeing his 20 negs on the results page.

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Haha, yeah that advanced eukaryotic genetics just osmosifies into your brain while playing quiz bowl :-P. Laugh all you want, but stuff that came up at nationals actually came up on my finals. I killed two birds with one stone. Ok, I know, some of you will be like organic isn't really hard at all b...

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It wouldn't be anti-intellectualism; it's be the fact that someone (not a licensed teacher or curriculum expert, mind you) is telling me that a major part of my career and point of pride for me has essentially been for naught. This gets more to the heart of the issue...what does being a "licen...

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I'd actually kind of like to see this mystery community. I've always wondered what quiz bowl was like from Kansas going west until you reach Cali. Colorado has a decent state tourney, if i recall correctly... other than that, I am not really too sure. I know Kansas has something but they stay stric...

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I have a few as well (art, myth, some science). Drop me a line at Eric_Mukherjee [at] brown [dot] edu

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Michiko Kakutani is truly one of the most well known literary critics of the modern age. Not quite as much as Harold Bloom, but she has still has influenced modern lit. She is also notable for having possibly the most vitriolic pen of any respected critic, and she was (in a much less important vein...

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In my opinion, Ziegler-Natta was not the hard part of the bonus. It was the middle part. Generally, middle parts of bonuses make good tossups, when applicable, like right here. That's probably true, but Ziegler-Natta catalysts come up a lot in quizbowl. Its not something that one would learn in a b...

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This tossup is about a neurotransmitter and it has the word acetyltransferase in it. I wonder what it could be? Serotonin. This question has some chesnuts in it (Jerry beat me to a buzz on it on "Myasthenia Gravis" at practice, and the nicotinic and muscarinic receptors are pretty well kn...

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miamiqb wrote:Also for science questions try to avoid answers that are people; let's not play "Name that scientist".

Jay Sridhar
ACF Fall 2007 Bio/Chem Editor

What about questions about people who have lots of important things named for them? I tend to enjoy those.

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Small sidenote here: I think so. But this fall we're taking the freshmen to Jerry's tournament, so it won't really matter. Make it easy, Jerry! At the risk of sounding like I'm trying to deflect potential blame (although actually I'm interested in allocating what I hope will be credit where it's due...

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BuzzerZen wrote:Batman rescuing a chick:

QE fuckin D

That's Batman rescuing fuckin' Katie Holmes; that's not merit.

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leftsaidfred wrote:Also, Deadpool = AHAN Jr.

No dude. Deadpool = Deathstroke ripoff.

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GURPS Martial Arts wrote:From an older Elvis tournament:

Strepsiades

Huh?

EDIT: I see. In that case, I add the following:

It's Schlosser Modification....
It was modified by Horner....
The adjective "holandric"....

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"Though the boys elect Ralph as their leader...."

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generally agree with this, but I propose one notable exception. At tournaments with difficulty levels (maybe significantly) higher than ACF Fall I endorse and enjoy the occasional biology tossup on an element. While one can critique this idea by saying, "There aren't that many elements that ha...

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P.S. Principal ores with this element include tincal and kernite. A metalloid with a +3 oxidation state, it can form icosahedral crystals in pure form, but it typically exists as a hydrated compound used in fiberglass, adhesives, and detergent. Mined from the Mojave Desert, this is, FTP, what eleme...

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It may be worth adding an addendum about the placement of power marks. It's something that I haven't quite figured out.

EDIT: Thanks Matt

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I'll echo my teammate Dennis' sentiments and thank Athul and the BU squad as well for having us. But I have some points to make here: -Science biography = bad. "blah blah blah he did work in thermodynamics. FTP, name this Lord...". Seriously, this sort of question should never be seen, eve...

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Marco was Jerry's alias. My alias was Jerry.

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Field update?

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I hope it involves robots playing quizbowl

I kind of pictured cyborgs. I had this idea for a brain implant that could look things up on wikipedia that I might try out.

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What's a technology tournament?

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Does quizbowl have a canon? How is it determined? -Yes, in a sense, IMHO. From my limited observation, it seems like quizbowl questions have an evolutionary character, i.e., a particular question will spawn more questions like it, and (in a sort of analogue to he Red Queen Effect) clues from questio...

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I'll staff too.

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I'll echo Jerry's comments and say that I enjoyed this tournament greatly, though I can't speak too much about the difficulty (I put up points, I was happy). Thanks to vandy and the editors and readers for a great time. There were however, a few very transparent tossups here and there that kind of c...

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Thanks also to Kyle Haddad-Fonda, who's buzzer system was used to replace one that wasn't working. And congrats to MIT for the win.

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Will the superpowers, lames, and lightning rounds return? And if we submit a packet early enough to the UTC people, can we get a discount?

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Athul, can we get some results?

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