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Is Camille Claudel really leadin material? I don't mean her works. I mean, the fact that she was involved with Rodin. It certainly didn't seem to be quizbowl-famous when I wrote the question, as her name appeared in exactly one packet in my archive, and her relationship with Rodin wasn't mentioned....

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With a caveat I'll get to, I like the idea of someone doing copy-editing only (much easier if said person hasn't seen the questions before and isn't tempted to breeze through them), but certainly the night before at the latest. While it's true that experienced readers can usually gloss over simple m...

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Well, "fortunately" Vanderbilt football doesn't exactly inspire die-hard fanhood, so we always like Saturday events much better. For me personally, it doesn't matter much, but all the undergrads prefer to have Sunday to do work and don't want to get home late on Sunday. There are definitel...

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I think it's great that we're giving recognition and trophies to achieving UG and Div II teams. But, I have a slight fear that this may cause a very small number of teams to think about shifting their membership to win these other titles. I want to strongly encourage teams, on their honor, to play ...

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So what kind of field can we expect for this at the moment?

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In general, unless otherwise impractical, writing substantive clues in your bonus leadin is a hallmark of good quizbowl. Too often at MCMNT, the format was something like this: "Name stuff about an author, for 10 points each." This was often compounded in awkwardness by having a work by t...

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I don't have a problem with Dorman going to Minnesota instead of our site, but like Noah, it certainly does make me curious. Also, for Jack's list, I think it goes School, total # of teams (# JV teams).

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Mike wrote:Hey, I'm Mike from Kansas State University. I was wondering what I would have to do to run a mirror of your tournament on the same day.

Email me (matt.keller at vanderbilt.edu) and/or Andrew Hart (limozeen at gmail.com).

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Any recommendations for a cheap hotel accessible to the campus--ideally along the green line as we'd be coming in to Chinatown anyway? I'm working on figuring out whether renting a car and driving in Saturday or riding the Chinatown bus up Friday night would be cheaper. We've stayed at the Quality ...

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Arc 209 wrote:As of March 5, What teams are probably going to show at ABC this spring?

I'll ask the registration guy to post a field update. From what I hear, the field isn't huge so far, but has some quality teams I think.

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ChopinManiac wrote:And will Vandy be bringing a team to College Park?

Unfortunately, April 5 was the only day we could host our HS tournament, and we settled on it a while ago. I don't really want to think what would happen if the top four of us ditched that.

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You would have better luck in terms of traffic going in and out of BWI, as we did for TIT. Of course, you'd need to rent a car, but the flights to BWI are quite cheap on AirTran. If you have any questions about car rental and travel in and out of BWI I can email you with the details of what we did....

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I'd say I agree with most of the above thoughts. If someone is confusing Buridan and Borodin, I don't think my mind would even think to make sure the distinction was there since they are so drastically different. The most nit-picky thing I've ever seen for pronunciation was last year at ICT. On the ...

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Vanderbilt ABC XXXV will be a PACE qualifier this year as well.

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Another helpful thing for new teams writing packets is to return comments on the questions. At MLK, we turned in a packet, and only parts of 2 questions were used. We put what we felt was our best effort into it, and were kind of shaken that our questions were so bad. It would be helpful to our dev...

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Stanford, Illinois, and Vanderbilt are the other contenders for top 3 spots. While it would be pretty sweet if this were true, we're kind of manic depressive when it comes to NAQT. We can beat a bad team by 100 and a good team by 400 [edit: that means we can also lose to a good team by 300]. A lot ...

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Dr. Chuck, if you happen upon this thread, shall we make this a PACE qualifier?

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Alright, hi, I'm Joel and I played in the College Bowl tournament in East Lansing for Kalamazoo College this past weekend. College Bowl questions are seemingly mediocre and trite so I'm wondering how we can get information for these NAQT or ACF tournaments. Next year is probably the earliest we wil...

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Yeah yeah, sorry. Apologies to matt keller; I didn't know how to reconcile the fact that he's playing solo at ACF with the full team at ICT, then I just forgot. After revising my ballot and putting it into the spreadsheet, it gives me something pretty close to dwight's ordering. You best be sleepin...

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HKirsch said: If I go to ICT, I'll be the only Brandeis person there, and I'll be going on my own funding. With that in mind, is there anyone who might like to split a hotel room? So, wait a minute, from what I hear, you're a GIRL, right? Deal. You're buying the liquor, though. Charles Meigs Hilari...

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rylltraka wrote: We're aiming for difficulty somewhere between ACF Regionals and the SCT.

That's a mighty small window there.

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While we're piling on Jerry's coding work, I thought I'd mention that the queries no longer show which tournament a particular question came from. I'm assuming that's not by design.

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See, it seems to me like there are a lot less tournaments in the fall then in the spring. While that is not a good idea to significantly move ACF regionals, maybe something like Cardinal Classic, TIT, or who knows what might be better served moving up earlier in the year for say October or somethin...

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Update: This was talked over and the official suggestion for next year's Regionals editor will be to try to do it on the first weekend in March, pending non-conflict with too many spring breaks. However, the decision ultimately rests with whoever that person is. It will be two weeks after Sectional...

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I think the major complaint people are having is a valid but in many ways inevitable one: bonus consistency. The fact is that bonus consistency is the hardest thing to modulate, especially when you're facing time constraints (again, nearly inevitable). This brings me to my next point: both editors ...

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I'll plead ignorance on the Gatterman-Koch thing, as I just wasn't aware that clue was referring to a version of Friedel-Crafts. Sorry about that. As for Stanford's translation bonus, I guess I misspoke a bit in my earlier post. I took out tRNA since there was also a tossup on it, and I guess Shine-...

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Ok, well let's see if this works better. I only did the total results for the day.

Final Standings

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Yeah, that's really weird how some people can see them and some can't. Never had that problem before. Who has the link to that program people who don't have webspace have been using lately?

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Matthew D wrote:If Dallas continues to play in college some team is going to have an awesome time with him being on the team..

He said he's likely going to Yale, and yes, they certainly should be glad to have him provided he wants to keep playing.

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The packets used at ACF Regionals Southwest were: 1 - Amherst, South Carolina 2 - Brown A 3 - Columbia, Temple 4 - Dartmouth A 5 - Illinois A 6 - Irvine 7 - Maryland 8 - MIT A 9 - Stanford A 10 - UCLA, Chicago (I would post this in our SQBS results, but I do not know how to do that.) On the assumpt...

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Sorry for the delay, but I found an error I wanted to correct before posting the stats. That correction meant Jim Baker should've been announced as the top scorer after the prelims, so sorry about that. Here they are:

Prelim Standings

Final Standings

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I'll probably have a longer post at some point in the near future, but just a few things on the comments so far. I'm glad people enjoyed the science for the most part. I have to give a big thanks to my teammate Paul for editing the math, as if it isn't stats or linear algebra, I have no clue what to...

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Vandy will have our full team for ICT, the same one that was at SCT and slightly better than the Penn Bowl edition, where we had our #5 instead of #3. ACF is another story. We'll have me, and that's likely it. In a somewhat unusual twist, Paul has Eastern Orthodox Easter that weekend (he's in the pr...

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Congrats to MLK high school for winning our quaint southeast regional. We had 3 solo teams, 2 duos, and after lunch, MLK was only a duo as well. After a double round robin, we split into top 3 and bottom 3 playoff brackets. After this, MLK had a one game lead on USF "B" (Jim Baker), so we ...

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And we're on.

Furman
UF
USF (1-2)
MLK HS
house teams (1-2)

Logistical details above are still relevant.

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Ok, this is getting ridiculous. We now have Furman, USF, and UF, plus some house teams, so we'll figure out what's going on here. Is there really no one else who wants to come?

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Overall, my stat most highly rewards: Maryland, Stanford B, Illinois, and Vanderbilt, in that order, a ways ahead of the rest of the autobid teams and at-large hopefuls. We always seem to find a way to fail miserably at ICT. SCT was the first time we've played as the best 4-person team possible, th...

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once we make sure there aren't any last-minute changes...edit: damn those words

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However, NAQT believes that rapid (and concrete!) discussion is valuable for the the SCTs; players should feel free to include information that "ruins" questions if it is important that it be discussed openly on this forum. NAQT will track such questions and provide a list to hosts using ...

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We're pleased to announce Vanderbilt's 35th Academic Bowl Contest to be held on April 5, 2008. Some of the highlights are below, but to see all of the details, register, get directions, etc., please see: http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/college_bowl/ABC_XXXV_info.html Tournament Format We will agai...

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What I was wondering is whether they are considering playoffs in stats for ICT bids. It might not be fair to include playoff stats because the Upper Bracket would have theoretically had to play "better" teams twice. So I'd presume that NAQT would just use round robin to determine the bid....

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Nobody told anyone they couldn't watch their school's other team(s) during their bye rounds. Oh, I think this must've been during our playoff round vs. FSU, which, as I remember it, was round 13, and some of their DII people were watching. I never thought twice about it, but I suppose that should'v...

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My main criticism of the D2 set: The biology and chemistry in this set was terrible. It seems to me that certain categories were outright excluded in the bio distro, and the chemistry was stupid shit that should not be asked about. There were a couple of fine questions in the literature and history...

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Accepting as a premise that the clock is here to stay, here are some suggestions for making sure games don't end after 13 tossups: 1) There should be a rule requiring that all games go through tossup 18 regardless of when the clock goes off. That seems reasonable to me, even as a fan of timed match...

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Field updated for now. Hopefully we can add in a few more stragglers this week. If finances or whatever are holding back your interest in coming, we can talk.

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I'm sure Bama will post full results, but for anyone dying to know, in DI the top three were: Vandy A (12-0) FSU A (9-3) UF A (7-5) UGA A, the undergrad champ, and UTC were also in the top division after re-bracketing in a pretty competitive group featuring a lot of good matches. Individually, top t...

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I'm kind of curious what "open" means for one of the Florida teams.

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I guess what would be more appropriate to say is that the difficulty was more in demand by the field full of top teams at Stanford than by the field at MIT, as opposed to the answer selection making the difference. Sounds reasonable. This also brings up the point that Matt makes about how dead toss...

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I will say that the question set was far too hard for the field at MIT, although it certainly appears to have been much more appropriate for the Stanford location, where the difficulty was needed to differentiate between the great teams that played there. I haven't seen any of the questions, but I ...

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