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I am happy to announce that we are expanding the field to 24 teams with the possibility of expanding to to 28 teams if there is interest. As the tournament is under two weeks away, I strongly encourage free agents to coalesce into teams. In order to accommodate such a large online field for a TUs+Bs...

I'd also like to float the idea of increasing the tournament fee by $10. Doing so will allow us to fund scorekeepers, which I think are especially helpful for online events.

CPiGuy wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 5:39 pm Given the apparent huge demand for this tournament, would people consider running a second online mirror if there are a significant number of interested people left out by the first one?

I am open to this idea.

In other news, we are expanding the field to 18 teams.

warum wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 3:58 pm Is it required that the webcam be pointed at our hands? Or is a built-in laptop webcam that can only view our face OK?

Built-in webcams are fine.

Hey Everyone! I will be coordinating the logistics for this tournament. Given both the novelty of the Zoom tournament as well as the intense interest in this specific event, please bear with me a bit. Registration: Teams must officially register for this tournament by emailing me at dhothem[at]uoreg...

I'm open to the idea of bouncebacks, but not if their inclusion adversely affects the schedule or field size. My personal preferences prioritize playing a round robin over bouncebacks. My concern with bouncebacks is the added time that they take. Based on the online mirror of TO, 9 rounds per day is...

I'm late to the party, but you can find a Jupyter Notebook template similar to the one I use to compute BPA on my github.

I'm much less interested in playing a TU only event and signed up under the assumption that we'd play bonuses. I've found that bonuses are a nice way to stay engaged during an online event.

I am in the middle of completing a fairly hard packet on underrepresented art in the quizbowl canon. The packet will consist of somewhere between 20 and 30 tossups primarily focused on art produced by groups that are frequently underrepresented in the quizbowl canon. Some questions will focus on und...

There have been a number of Eyes packets read in the Discord before. Copying and pasting slides from the powerpoint presentation worked fine.

I'm chiming in to express interest in an online mirror of this set. I'm especially interested in hearing tossups and bonuses. Depending upon what readers are available, I would love to play another two-day tournament like TO online. Maybe something in mid- or late-May can be arranged?

Some miscellaneous thoughts on various VisArts bonuses (based on the 2/29 packets that were posted): Steyerl/Goldin/Washington : I liked the concept behind this bonus, but both Steyerl and Goldin seem like hard parts. Plus while "Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC" has come up more i...

Some miscellaneous thoughts on various VisArts bonuses (based on the 2/29 packets that were posted): Steyerl/Goldin/Washington : I liked the concept behind this bonus, but both Steyerl and Goldin seem like hard parts. Plus while "Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC" has come up more in...

So it looks like the 28th was the winning date. The TO team have been discussing how best to run the mirror. Given the length entailed by a Nats- set, plus a discord mirror, would people still be interested in playing and staffing if we had to split the mirror over multiple days? (i.e. the first 7-...

We are changing our Week 9 set from LIT to WORKSHOP. Please see the following post for more details.

Hey Everyone! Due to the rebranding of the Longhorn Invitational Tournament as a Fall tournament, we are changing our Week 9 Fantasy Quizbowl set. Instead of using LIT we will use WORKSHOP. Governors are allowed to play anyone currently on their rosters provided that they were eligible at the time o...

The Fantasy Quizbowl League (FQL) is currently monitoring recommendations from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control about the novel coronavirus outbreak. We are also closely monitoring NAQT's and ACF's responses to the coronavirus outbreak. In light of Longhorn Quiz Bowl...

You know the deal. Post your lineups by 9am ET on 3/8/2020 if you plan on using an eligible player from the online mirror. Otherwise post your lineup by 9am ET on 3/14/2020. I've decided to go with LIT over WORKSHOP because there are a comparable number of pre-Nats mirrors and LIT overlaps less with...

8. In 1971, the Cook-Levin theorem showed this problem was the first in a new class. For 10 points each: [10] Give this problem of whether variables can be assigned such that an expression evaluates to true. The central expression of this problem is typically written in conjunctive normal form with...

Hothem/Bollinger

Itamar
Clark S.
Rafael K

Team: Adam Fine (Chi A)

Alt: Berkeley A

You know the deal. Post your lineups by 9am ET on 02/22/2020. Matchups are on the scoreboard.

I figure it behooves me to necro this thread since it seems likely that this situation will happen again. The combined-field Northwest SCT site was won by Washington B, a DII team, but since the only other DII teams at that site were all from Boise State there were only DII teams from two schools, ...

Daniel H
Itamar
Rafael K

Team: Berkeley A

Alt: Clark S

Hey Everyone, SCT is upon us. Please post your fantasy lineups. Matchups are on the Scoreboard.

Are there any plans for an online mirror?

Edit: Also, I thought some of the quantitative questions were a bit weird. For ex., asking for a "magic angle" of 1.05 degrees, or the precise number of bandits in a Chinese gang (118? forget the exact question. but maybe that one is OK, if it's well-known.) There seemed to be a few quest...

Will's post does an excellent job capturing all of my first impressions of this tournament. Individual questions were clearly written and technically sound, but also very challenging for a variety of reasons. I'm looking forward to the public release of advanced stats (which is a great program for R...

Seemed a bit silly having "contrast" as an answerline twice with pretty much exactly the same sentence as a "giveaway." There's definitely no problem with having repeating answerlines in different subjects, but it felt strange to see the same clue used.

Itamar
Daniel
Rafael

Berkeley

Alt: Clark

Hey Everyone, Regionals is upon us. Post your Week 6 Fantasy Quizbowl lineups here by 9am ET 1/25/2020. Matchups will be announced shortly.

EDIT: Matchups can be found on the Google Doc

Itamar
Clark S
Rafael K

Alt: Daniel H

Team: Berkeley

Hey Everyone! This is a reminder to post your lineup by January 18th at 9am ET! You are able to play anyone from the already run online and Canadian mirrors, provided they are otherwise eligible (and on your roster prior to the tournament)

I'm looking for teammates for CO. Historically my teams are competitive at VisArts, Physics, OSci, and finishing in the bottom bracket at CO.

I'd be interested in an online mirror, if it's happening. Is there any info on this? To encourage people to play this tournament in person, we are not currently planning on having an online mirror. However, starting next month, I plan on play-testing my categories. If you can't play the set in-pers...

Hey Everyone, Please post your Week 5 Fantasy Quizbowl lineups here. Please post your lineup in this thread by 9am ET on 1/11/2020 This week's matchups are: Shanmugam/Chen vs Rosenberg/Minarik Grossman/Settle vs. Laurie/West Malouf/Mitchell vs. Prieto/Chowdhury Mayers/Shatan vs. Lewis/Kendrick Hothe...

Runaway

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha...

Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde - Royals Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt vs. Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me Cour...

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Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. IDLES - Danny Nedelko Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing vs. Ariana Grande - thank u, next Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Danny Brown (ft. Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, and Earl Sweatshirt) - Really Doe Lorde - Royals vs. Gorillaz - On...

Individual Penn Bowl BPAs for all mirrors are available here. Team BPAs and RMPSS BPAs will be up soon.

I compute Visual Arts and Auditory Arts BPAs* for the non-UT mirrors. Others were working on all around and other subject BPAs before me, so I will let them post their results if they'd like. You can find the individual VisArts BPAs here and the individual Auditory Arts BPAs here . I will add team B...

Hothem/Bollinger:

Rafael K
Clark S
Tim M
Alt: Daniel H

Team: Adam Fine

Hey Everyone, Please post your Week 4 Fantasy Quizbowl lineups here. Please post your lineup in this thread by 9am ET on 11/9/2019. This week's matchups are: Shanmugam/Chen vs Malouf/Mitchell Mayers/Shatan vs. Simons/Borecki Rosenberg/Minarik vs. Lewis/Kendrick Prieto/Chowdhury vs. Grossman/Settle L...

Hanson Hao
Steven Liu
Daniel Hothem
Berkeley A

Alt: Tim Morrison

How did this tournament go?

Hey Everyone, Please post your Week 3 Fantasy Quizbowl lineups here. Please post your lineup in this thread by 9am ET on 11/2/2019. This week's matchups are: Shanmugam/Chen vs Mayers/Shatan Malouf/Mitchell vs. Simons/Borecki Rosenberg/Minarik vs. Laurie/West Prieto/Chowdhury vs. Lewis/Kendrick Gross...

tiwonge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:24 am Matt (Colorado) and Daniel (Oregon) split their games. Since Daniel had to leave to catch a flight and couldn't play a tie-breaker, they agreed to just call it a draw.

Daniel was top scorer overall.

Big thanks to BSU for hosting and to Matt for graciously suggesting a draw unprompted.

I thought the set was great, but had some minor quibbles with the two math questions. Maybe it was moderator error, but I remember the sine tossup describing the topologist sine curve as the "union" of sine with 1/x. Could someone post that tossup? My other issue was with the final part of...

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