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I just wanted to say that I had a great time playing solo at this tournament. It was efficiently run and the questions, as all HSAPQ questions, were superb. The set did seem a little harder than 15 though, but that may just be me.

As for the tournament being moved, I suppose that's up to Paul, but is there an actual reason beyond one dude on GDS wanting it to be on May 22? VCU is also hosting a tournament on May 21. Since VCU is not very far from UMD-CP, I would assume that there would be some people who would like to go to ...

Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Even with 12 rounds, we may be done this tournament before 5pm. Last year we played 10 rounds and finished before 4pm.

If it helps, it looks as if TJ will be able to bring at least one and possibly two experienced moderators.

We will be mirroring the LIST set on either the 15th or 22nd of May. Are both of these tournaments still happening? If so, have announcements been posted for each? With the tournament potentially less than two weeks away, it would be awesome to know this. With tournaments on both the 14th and 22nd ...

Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Hey, there are less than two weeks to go and we don't have a big field at all. Why don't you sign up?

TJ just did.

In case it matters, both TJ A and B were undermanned at Mid-Atlantic Championship. TJ A was missing Diana from its traditional lineup, while TJ B was a two man team missing both of its best NAQT players from its traditional lineup and one player working on 1.5hrs of sleep.

wexs883198215 wrote:Hm, I guess there's no point in us filling out that form now? Sorry for being so slow, but we actually did get 4 players to commit to going today...

You guys should come party at Mid-Atlantic Championships with us then.

It is increasingly likely that TJ will be sending at least two teams to this.

Edit: This is the case.

I'd love to help write US History, Euro History, and/or Astronomy questions for this.

Hey with this being under two weeks away, people should sign up to play what we hope will be a great set.

Out of curiosity, will stats from the finals games be published?

A Barehanded Telethon Mirth Gun wrote:TJ B beat TJ A again?

Yeah. This time though TJ B was a three man team and TJ A was a four man team.

For what it's worth, TJ B was missing it's best NAQT player at VA States today and was essentially a three man TJ C at VCU Spring.

EDIT: Thank you for the compliment Raynell.

Do you have any estimate on what time this should end?

I was wondering if TJ could get any confirmation of NAQT receiving our B team's wildcard bid? We sent it in by e-mail two business days and haven't received any acknowledgment that NAQT received it.

EDIT: Thank you.

Perhaps after the impact of snow on last year's tournament schedule, those wild and crazy kids running those tournaments chose to go ahead and stick their tournaments on the dates where there was less chance of a sudden cancellation? So, like, high schools should just never have competitions in Jan...

For seeding purposes, it might help to know that TJ A will be composed of people usually on TJ B.

Out of curiosity, how hard or easy is this set supposed to be?

EDIT: Thank you.

Frater Taciturnus wrote: January 23: VCU Winter Tournament (Richmond, Virginia) (VCU/Vandy)

With this being less than a month away, is it still happening? I don't think that a formal announcement has been made yet.

Carangoides ciliarius wrote:
Frater Taciturnus wrote:February 12 : Thomas Jefferson Housewrite
Is this still happening? Is there going to be a formal announcement in a thread? Or did i just miss it somehow?

Yes this is still happening, although we will most likely use a vendor set. The housewrite will most likely be in April.

We will be using HSAPQ set #17, which is a set of reformatted HSAPQ-produced VHSL questions. The set we will receive will be reformatted from the original VHSL format and will have 15 sets and be standard 20/20 (meaning that many teams in Virginia, unfortunately, cannot play this set) . Does this m...

DumbJaques wrote:The field appears set, though in theory we'd still take additional teams if someone got in touch with me very soon.

Did you get TJ's registration?

Also, for the record, there was no tossup on permittivity of free space. It was the answer to a hard part of a bonus. After the game I asked our moderator if "e nought" or "epsilon nought"(the way you say the symbol for permittivity of free space) was an acceptable answer for &q...

I suppose it's worth pointing out that "JT B" was a three man team for two playoff games at HFT and a one man team for the last playoff game.

Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe is great for Astronomy although it's not cheap new.
The AMSCO for U.S. History is great for picking up U.S. History knowledge.

The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio wrote:How does a team go 3-7 and have a 1.11 BC?

It gets more tossups than another team with a similar PPB three times.

Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Did Jonathan from TJ B really go 9-0-0 against Walter Johnson? That's pretty... unbelievable. I'm assuming TJ B didn't suddenly get 4.55ppb in that round too.

No, he went 4-0-1 that round.

Who should I email about issues with the stats?

Do you have an estimated finish time for this tournament? TJQB is trying to figure out how it is getting back from this. Thank you.

dimhalikias wrote:What does RMP stand for?

"RMP" stands for Religion Myth and Philosophy.

Around what time do you expect the break for lunch to begin? I'm debating if it is worth leaving this during lunch to go to the rallies.

Prof.Whoopie wrote:Also, Brian Potter is this year's David Cohen. It will be interesting to see if Marshall comes to much else this year. I hope they do.

Marshall went to Maryland Spring Invitational last year and did pretty well: http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... mdetail#t8

Unless the Boise State Quizbowl team has unlocked the mysteries of time travel, I think that you accidentally put the wrong date in the topic subject line.

Finally, trash should be early (my team lost a very close match on a Yao Ming part of the final bonus in last year's DAFT and we were not happy). Just a thought, but if you wanted to limit the potential of trash impacting a match, then shouldn't it be placed towards the end? The earlier a trash bon...

Ronnie the Bear wrote: Thomas Jefferson* - Diana, Siddharth, Stephen(?), Olivia(?)

With the exception of Thaila and Greyson, TJ returns all of the people it sent to PACE.

octo wrote:How about good books for astronomy? Not wholly for quizbowl, but of course quizbowl relevancy is always a plus.

The astronomy class that I took last year used Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe, which I enjoyed. It's easy to understand and it covers many astronomy topics well.

Like another TJer, I'm looking for some help with writing high-school level questions, although this time it's U.S. History. I'm wondering how acceptable two part answers are. For instance if one wrote an tossup on Sacco and Vanzetti, it would be acceptable to ask for both of the last names, because...

Of course, this defense of trash pretty much requires a different type of trash than NAQT currently produces. It means more Larry Doby and less Larry Hughes, though I still think that many current figures could be tossed up. I think that this is a most excellent idea. There are many things out ther...

Perhaps reducing trash or geography to around 1/1 distribution and then adding to the Fine Arts?

I remember a question on time dilation that mentioned Ives and Stillwell in the first line and the word "effect." Was it a poor decision to buzz in and say doppler effect? Should I have waited? Yes, it was a poor decision, but no, you should not have had to wait. The question stated that ...

The AMSCO US History book The AMSCO US History book is nice, but I felt that it tended to scratch the surface a lot of the times. I found that America: A Narrative History was a much more comprehensive book. It's also around twice as long as AMSCO, but it's a great book if you really want to learn ...

While this packet is not going to be used, I'm pretty sure that the circle tossup has one clue that is the definition of an ellipse(Yes, Circle's are a special type of ellipse, but still). The specific line is this one: "Apollonius of Perga defined one of these figures as any figure having a co...

In my opinion, studying for Trash is a lot like studying for anything else, except the media (no possible pun intended) is different. For instance, if you want to get good at Literature you read books, poems, learn about authors etc. If you want to get good at non-sports trash you listen to songs an...

A potential type II error did come up at our mirror. Two TJ C players who had been dragooned to play NSC asked to play on the ground that they hadn't themselves qualifed for NSC. Their stats weren't that impressive, so we let them play and they didn't destroy the field or anything like that so it s...

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