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It would be trivial to use the advanced stats to see that this is in packet 8, and then just go to it yourself, but A Nature article by Marcus R. Munafò and George Davey Smith argues that responses to this phenomenon should focus on triangulation. In 2017, Susan Fiske drew controversy for alleging a...

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I'll also say that I liked the dephosphorylation tossup, and didn't think that that answerline was excluded by the question referring to it as a "modification."

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Is there any update on the progress of this set or plans for mirror sites?

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From Packet L, Tossup 8 ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa (“YO-suh”) [or Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa ] From Packet O, Bonus 16 ANSWER: Federico García Lorca [prompt on García ] Similarly, I recall that in the past I've been prompted if I said "Márquez" for Gabriel García Márquez. Why are thes...

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The Krebs cycle tossup probably should have accepted _tricarboxylic acid cycle_ or _TCA cycle_.

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As long as small fractions of the interested parties in this tournament are making requests for when it should happen, February 15 is fine for me but if it were changed I would prefer it get moved earlier into January than later.

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jdpasspawn wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:49 pm Alt: Andrew Yaphe

It's a bold strategy; let's see if it pays off.

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I believe is also contrary to the half-packet distributions we were assigned for Regionals, which I recall included something to the effect of “European/Canadian/Australian History.”

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The packet 12 question on Greece claims that noted person from Alexandria, Egypt, Constantine Cavafy, was from there. Also, the tossup on acetate in Finals 1 says that it has a "conjugate pKa of -4.76." I'm not sure I've ever heard the term "conjugate pKa" used to refer to the pK...

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Alcohols having a broad peak in IR spec due to hydrogen bonding was mentioned in both the hydrogen bonding bonus part and the alcohols tossup. This is a fantastically minor quibble but there should probably be a pronunciation guide on periodic [“purr”-“eye”-oh-dihc] acid (by analogy with peroxide or...

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jinah wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:31 am If a team wishes to outsource part of its packet to a player not expected to play on that team (e.g. a student who has graduated), it must first receive approval from the head editor.

What is the rationale for this?

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I suppose I can't blame you if this is the only day you could reserve rooms, or if you did so before knowing that Maryland's EFT mirror would be the same day, but it would be reasonable to assume that this could lead to relatively few teams attending this tournament. Also, as I've noted for the last...

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:47 pm Mid-Atlantic: Maryland?

To be clear, does this mean that a Maryland mirror is not yet confirmed, or that it is confirmed but the date has not yet been? In either case, is there an idea of when details regarding it will be confirmed?

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Yeah, both of those sets of arguments are reasonable. Thanks!

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Split from Parsing Answerlines thread - Mgmt. At the risk both of iconoclasm and derailing this thread, surely the simplest significant quality-of-life improvement to be made in quizbowl packets would be to put bonuses between tossups and have the bonuses associated with dead tossups be skipped; th...

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wow your so good at literature

edit so this doesn't get FZ'd: I strongly believe that you and whoever you're getting anecdotal information from overestimate how much Chinese poetry most high school quizbowlers know.

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Will this be open? Do you have an idea of the general date (eg this summer, this fall, next summer)? How much of this has already been written?

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In any kind of studying, it's best to be practicing on questions harder than you're usually going to be playing; that way you'll be seeing clues that appear at the beginnings of tossups or in the hard parts of bonuses more frequently as they're used as middle clues and middle parts at harder difficu...

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it should probably be noted that i had literally no input with anything for the entirety of the season; this success was purely the effort of Victor and Jacob's decisions, so congratulations to them.

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The Billiards Fool wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 8:23 pm Eric Wolfsberg

Vote for Emmett for nicest person, but don’t vote for me in this poll. I can’t scale worth

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:55 pm I've only seen him play once and he went 0/0/1, but my gut tells me Jack Mehr should definitely be ranked in the literature poll and probably in the overall poll.

I played with Jack at PIANO; can confirm that he is very good both at lit and in general.

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Essentially, this is the classic "pick 2 out of 3" situation: * Large ACF Nationals, with more than 40 teams * Championship bracket with 10+ teams playing a full round-robin * Tournament of a length that writers and editors can produce at a high quality; that moderators can read without l...

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Illinois Admin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:50 pm 2/2 Euterpe - music (1/1 Classical, .75/.75 “other,” and .25/.25 whimsical)

To be perfectly clear, does "classical" here mean western art music, or music from classical antiquity (I'm assuming the former)?

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This was the best reg+ set I have ever played. If you’re implying that this set was too easy, then, uh, have you considered the possibility that you’re very good at quizbowl, because I think a lot of other people would disagree strongly with that. My apologies if by reg+ you merely mean “harder tha...

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Various people have expressed concern over a seeming lack of non-computer science math in this set. Would it be feasible to post a list of the questions in this set considered math and computer science so it can be determined if this was the case? Despite this issue (which I don’t actually care abou...

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I seem to remember a tossup on neutron star mergers which clued LIGO -- is my memory mistaken or did this happen? If so, LIGO's first detection of gravitational waves was definitely the result of a black hole merger. My memory of this question is that that sentence was saying something about LIGO's...

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What determines whether an UG or D2 finals game will need to be played? Also, is there are a list of teams that will be UG or D2-eligible; the A-value spreadsheet may not be accurate to the rosters teams are bringing to Nationals.

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I would assume that the change in the tiebreaker policy is because having fewer tiebreaks reduces the likelihood that any one of them will take overly long and slow the tournament down. I know that last year Delaware was involved in a tiebreaker determining if teams would go into the bottom or secon...

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Given the exuberant praise this set has received, would there be interest in an online mirror for people who didn’t/can’t play it at ICT or HSNCT? I would be happy to staff such a thing, or to organize and run it if Jason would not prefer to do so himself.

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Y'all will probably hate this, but at early Delta Burkes (from 1998 till about 2007, I figure) I would have exactly one bonus in the tournament, usually coming in Round 7 or after, which had four five-point parts, and which asked the team captain to designate a player to answer one part based on an...

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Is there an explicit limit on the number of players a team may have on their roster (i.e. with subbing in and out)?

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I think that having more difficult questions in later packets (i.e. "the playoffs") is a bad idea because many sites will have different schedules, resulting in different packets being in the playoffs. It makes absolutely no sense to have a more difficult packet in the sixth round of preli...

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Is it correct that there are 13 teams registered for this tournament out of a max of 12? Is the field size staff-limited, rather than buzzer or room limited?(Delaware may or may not end up sending a team to this, but if it does I can staff)

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I think the second sentence of the Alexandria tossup saying that a "king of this city" commissioned the Septuagint is somewhat misleading; Ptolemy II was pharaoh, or perhaps King of Egypt, but to my knowledge neither he nor anyone else was ever "King of Alexandria." It might be b...

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To be perfectly clear, it is Toronto who is out of line here.

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Why is it that Colgate was offered a hosting autobid? My understanding (though I will admit I wasn’t there) was that CYPRAS, not the Colgate club, provided both the TD and a large portion of the staff.

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but isnt that not chicago b then

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Is the Chicago B registered [at the OSU site] the same Chicago B that's playing this at Hopkins two weeks prior, did Chicago drop their second team from the Hopkins mirror and that post just hasn't been updated, is the second Chicago team at Hopkins actually Chicago C, is "Chicago B" [at ...

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Is the Chicago B registered here the same Chicago B that's playing this at Hopkins two weeks prior, did Chicago drop their second team from the Hopkins mirror and that post just hasn't been updated, is the second Chicago team at Hopkins actually Chicago C, is "Chicago B" here a questionabl...

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There may be an issue in terms of having enough teams who qualify, but it seems to me that the undergraduate classification would be more meaningful if it were restricted to institutions whose student body is overwhelmingly or entirely made up of undergraduates. It seems like this would have the ef...

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Is there any update about the date of the Johns Hopkins site of this?

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Also, why on the NAQT website is Princeton A ahead of Delaware A in the overall rankings but second to them in UG? EDIT: Looking at it more closely, I guess the answer for this is that the UG finals series was counted only for the UG rankings and not the overall rankings, since you don’t do an advan...

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I'd like to echo Charlie's praise for the speed at which this tournament went (though Delaware had to leave later due to an Undergraduate finals series [which Delaware won over Princeton A in the tiebreak of the second game of a disadvantaged final after beating NYU A for the right to play them, unl...

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Could a field update be provided?

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Given that it's less than a month away, can an announcement for the Maryland site be posted?

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(This is not directly related to this year’s nats but I’m not sure where else to say it.) In the first post of this thread’s linked post explaining ACF Nationals qualification , an explanation of how each team’s A-value is calculated is deferred to NAQT’s explanation of the D-value calculations thro...

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One would think that the sheet shouldn't have a free agents area since this tournament is closed.

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Could we get an update on the wait-list (preferably including in what order teams on it will be added)?

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I’m not fantastically knowledgeable about music, so I’m not sure if it’s technically correct to call the Große Fuge a string quartet, but I feel like that tossup should have accepted fugue in the first two sentences that were talking about it.

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My opinion is probably both the least important for a good field, and the least affected by Will's idea of anyone who could be called Mid-Atlantic, but I'd go up to a Yale site.

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