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cornfused wrote:
gaurav.kandlikar wrote:Eden Prairie Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce that we are hosting the EPITHET Tournament on Saturday, February 14th, 2009! This will be an academic tournament mirroring questions from Prison Bowl II.
So what's it stand for?

Eden Prairie Invitational Tournament from Hunter: Ex Trash

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JelloBiafra wrote:
JackGlerum wrote:
scquizbowl wrote:that wisconsin video
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greg peterson, zurvan has, in a rare, uncharacteristic move, chosen you to do something about this.

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cornfused wrote:
millionwaves wrote:1/0 atmospheric science/oceanography.
What was this?

Perhaps a tossup on Ekman.

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No St. Olaf when this is right in their back yard....

Disappointing.

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Jerry, could you update the list of teams that have submitted packets?

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Lapego1 wrote:I'd play. If I can't attend, I could probably write some.

This.

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SEE HOW POWERFUL THAT VOTING BLOC IS!

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I am a part of the April 11 works best voting bloc.

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I don't really see the point of having conglomerate teams that are expected to be better than the rest of the field. In the case of TIT, it seems like a team of Eric and Ike would fit that bill even if it's not a traditional "superteam." If the tournament director okays it, I'm fine with ...

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Look more closely, my friend, and you shall find the Mississippi State TIT announcement.

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cornfused wrote:I see two announcements for MUT mirrors but nothing for MUT. Also, when's MCMNT?

According to this thread, we're supposed to stay tuned for more info. It will definitely happen in march.

I will correct the Penn Bowl at GA Tech momentarily.

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I thought this would be a good time to make a list of Spring Semsester tournaments. This will be something like what Andrew did for last semester. Jan 17/18: * ACF Winter at Yale, Georgia, Carleton, Michigan, Missouri S&T, Caltech, J. S. Reynolds Community College, University of Washington, and ...

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I'm surprised that so few have mentioned textbooks as a source of quality material, especially for science. I ended up using a fair number of textbooks in our libraries to get good clues for a large portion of the science at Minnesota Open. The best thing I like about textbooks is that there are so ...

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I'll play this.

I'll certainly attend CC and ACF Nationals, and CO but am not 100% sure about the rest.

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Yes, all entities should post here, especially if their tournaments are held across the nation (such as various SCTs, TRASH regionals, etc.) It is also important because we are seeing larger numbers of people who have the means and interest in traveling to tournaments that aren't within their vicini...

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I did this recently:

Given: eyes of drosophila
Answer: pancreas

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Hello

Thanks to Gaurav, we now have all the statistics entered into SQBS and available for all.

The Prelims can be found at this location, while the playoffs (including the 2nd place tiebreakers and finals) can be found here.

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So, here's the deal. We have rounds 1-6 saved, so it's not as bad as we thought it was. However, we all have finals starting tomorrow. I will do my best to ensure that the stats are posted by Friday night.

I hope that works with you guys. Sorry about the delays.

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sam.peterson wrote:Sorry to be annoying, but are you guys able to post results tonight?

Hey,

Sorry about the delay in stat posting. We recently realized that the stats were not saved properly; we do, however, have paper copies of the stats which we will be entering into SQBS as soon as possible.

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BuzzerZen wrote:INDIA: Idiosyncratic New Distribution is Incontrovertibly Awesome

Excellent! Thanks for coming up with this :)

DumbJaques wrote:
I also don't intend on having many other commitments to quizbowl for the upcoming year
Good luck.

I will certainly need it...

GK

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Hello I am currently working on writing a short vanity tournament. It will be about 6-7 rounds, consisting of 20 tossups each distributed in the following manner: Distribution 4 Biology 4 Non American Literature 4 Painting 3 Non US History 2 India-related content* 2 Organic Chemistry 1 Economics * A...

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If this happens, my desire to attend CC will know no bounds.

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We should be there with a few teams.

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answers Does it not occur to you that a vast number of these answers continue to be hard for the high school level? Tossups on Cauchy-Schwartz, Maclaurin, Cantor, Runge-Kutta, Lagrange, Stewart's theorem, and bonuses on things like Hyperbolic/Lobachevsky/Bolyai/Reimann are all hard and unnecessary....

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I think whole discussion could use a healthy dose of "quizbowl is something I enjoy because I get to hear about all these things I don't know " rather than "quizbowl is something I enjoy because I can answer about things I know." This year, 5 schools sent teams to Tartan Tussle (...

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Hello, It occurred to me that quiz bowl currently lacks a resource where one can look at really well written questions and learn what makes those questions well written. This doesn't have to be big; a packet of 24/24 (even questions from old tournaments are okay) would be big enough. While doing the...

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Are you sure you want to edit a tournament right in the middle of finals, Auroni? Unless you get done with the packets a couple of weeks before the tournament (I think this starts converging to 0 probability really quickly; alternatively you can get done with studying a couple of weeks before finals...

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Saiem wrote: I would certainly like to advocate an expansion of the Math and Computer Science canon

Special interest groups itt.

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JelloBiafra wrote: I think reducing it to .5/.5 is still enough for lovers of chemistry to be satisfied with the chem in the tournament.

No.

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To rectify this problem, I'd like to see the science distribution (the 4/4 that ultimately ends up in packets) to this: 1/1 Physics 1/1 Biology 0.5/0.5 Chemistry 1/1 Other Sciences* 0.5/0.5 TBD *Tournaments that I edit at least have 1/1 Other Science, but there was some disagreement over this was t...

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Just to clarify, I think a lot of material that's worthy of being chem gets shoved away into the physics distribution too. A lot of the thermodynamics and quantum chem things which could easily be under the chem distro are usually placed in the physics distro. 50% ochem is too much and I strive my h...

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It's understandable to be supportive of a team. The school can be supportive by providing rooms, extra funding through either the activities department or fundraisers, or (and this would be a lot more beneficial) turning these fans into actual players. Instead, by "supporting" the team th...

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I'd like to apologize for the repeats in the categories I edited (there seemed to be more of them than in the other editor's work). For some reason, over the last few days of editing, my search utility was not functioning properly, and as such, I was working off of memory. In retrospect it was not t...

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I worked on Bio/Chem/Other Science (minus Csci), Painting, World History, and Geography. I received some good submissions in all categories, but surprisingly, the geography questions were the best overall. I will talk about submissions and stuff later tonight. Until then, if you have individual ques...

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Please ignore the previous post with statistics. Statistics are now available at: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~kand0028/quiz_bowl/stats/acf_fall_2008/ACF_Fall_2008_standings.html Unfortunately, I forgot to keep separate statistics for prelim/playoffs. The above link reflects the overall statistics includi...

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Chicago C, Minnesota A, Carleton, Lawrence A are in top bracket. There was a tie (by record) for the fourth spot, which was broken by PPG.

Things are going pretty well.

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Somewhat live stats:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~kand0028/quiz_bo ... dings.html

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grashid wrote:UTC

Those will continue to be a mystery to most of us until we get to see those packets.

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I have some scoresheets too... for some odd reason.

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Since I'm in the process of writing a packet, must the gender of the protagonist not be revealed until the later clues? I don't think so. Maybe saying "the protagonist" for the first clue is fine, but I think there are enough works with female protagonists that saying "she" pret...

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it seems that many of the easy tournaments that don't necessarily have immaculate questions like EFT get blasted on this forum, Are you high? Everyone came on this board and praised the EFT overall as a very good low-level tournament! I think he's saying that tournaments which are not EFT/ACF Fall ...

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Overall, this tournament represented an unfortunate trend in quizbowl of being less accessible to new teams, and simply an exercise for grad students with years of experience and the occasional brilliant freshman. I anticipate that, as a result, quizbowl at the college level is going to shrink away...

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I could be wrong, but I think Colin's reference to Washington Ave Bridge is to the one in Minneapolis, not the Spider-Man/Gwen Stacy one. Then again, I could be misunderestimating Colin's fanboyness. I thought it was all clear that John Berryman was the subject of that reference. Anyway, the list o...

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The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote: I wouldn't hesitate classifying the science at this tournament as post-nationals difficulty

Yeah, I really do tend to overshoot difficulty targets... I'll try to tone it down in future tournaments I work on.

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If NAQT had more writers, we'd produce more regular Invitational Series. I take an issue with this. If I am not mistaken, NAQT has 100+ writers; is that not correct? How are these many writers not enough to be able to produce several quality tournaments every year? I suppose I can offer my own expe...

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Hey, if I am not mistaken, Andrew intends to put on another tournament with the remainder of the blind packets and writing some new packets, which (according to him) will be ready by IO at the earliest. He only mentioned it to me last night so I will let him talk about it here.

--GK

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everyday847 wrote: EDIT: I'm really interested in feedback, public or private, on the science in the Harvard packet (round 15 at the MN site). It was hard, I know; I'm mostly concerned with whether it was good.

I'll get back to you sometime later this week.

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theMoMA wrote:While you're fixing that, would you mind turning on the Round Reports, Gautam?

Yeah.. I'll do that soon.

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Hey, First of all, I'd thank people for all their submissions; they were really great, and it definitely put less of a strain on us to produce good questions from scratch. I'd like to know what people thought of the science at this tournament. I mostly worked on Bio/chem/phys/math and most of the ot...

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Stats are posted.

Thanks to everyone who came.

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