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CPiGuy

This is an announcement for Planes, Trains, and Automobiles , a transit-focused geography side event to be held hopefully at the 2020 string of NCTs. There will be at least five packets (hopefully more, but five is the most I can guarantee 100%) of 24 tossups each, with a distribution of: 6 Rail 6 R...

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Co-sign and apology -- the bookstore we get books from usually has a rack with a really good selection of classics and it was not well-stocked this time so we had to scrounge exclusively from the one dollar book rack (from which there are usually a couple great finds but not nearly enough to supply ...

CPiGuy

Michigan Quizbowl is pleased to announce the umpteenth annual Autumn Classic, to be held at the University of Michigan on Saturday, December 7, 2019 . The tournament will be directed by club tournament director David Geering. Location and Schedule We will begin registration at 8:15 a.m. and hold a m...

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we have some staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats Congrats to the top scorers: Chris Ray (OSU) Jacob Reed (Chicago) Matt Lehmann (Chicago) Alex Fregeau (Lewis) Alston Boyd (Chicago) Evan Suttell (MSU) If you want advanced stats, Penn has opened the private discussion forum; so go there to discuss the set!

CPiGuy

Thanks for the feedback, Ben. For what it's worth, the only instance that I can remember of a new staffer having to handle things solo was because one of our staffers left substantially earlier than I thought he would and neither he nor his partner told me this until lunch (at which point it didn't ...

CPiGuy

This tournament occurred. Thanks to all the teams that came up to Ann Arbor! First of all, my apologies for some of the delays that occurred. Many of our staffers were new college players, and I completely neglected to impress upon them the importance of, for example, not letting teams talk substant...

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I was about to make a post about the same thing, Halle, so I'll just add my voice to the "don't leave things early" chorus.

Thanks to MSU for a well-run tournament (and for handling this issue smoothly)!

CPiGuy

We've instituted a field cap of 16 for room reservation reasons. Given the current field, we shouldn't have to expand. We might still be able to if needed, but it's not 100%.

CPiGuy

Another adjustment to the initial announcement: we will be providing 15 full packets and a set of tiebreakers/replacements. There will still be no designated finals packets; teams are welcome to use packets 14/15 or just follow on from the last round if they have fewer than 13 non-finals rounds. Als...

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Shorts are comfy and easy to wear wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:26 am
Can you post a contact email?

Oops, I knew I'd omitted something. Edited!

CPiGuy

The initial post has been updated with the list of submissions received by September 21st. We've also secured an additional site in the Northeast at RIT . Michigan's submission appears not to be in the list, despite our having received an email to the effect that it has been received. I assume we w...

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This happened. There are stats. Thanks to everyone who came!

CPiGuy

The University of Michigan quizbowl team is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of Penn Bowl on October 19, 2019 . As is usual for Michigan tournaments, it will take place in Mason Hall and begin at 9:00 AM, with registration beginning at 8:15 AM. The tournament will be directed by ...

CPiGuy

Reducing air travel by not flying in staff to national tournaments is likely a bad idea, because it reduces the quality of the staff pool while not really making an impact on the environment (as others have observed, those flights are almost certainly taking off anyway, with or without NCT/ACF Nats/...

CPiGuy

The University of Michigan quizbowl team is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a collegiate novice tournament on Saturday, September 21, 2019 . As is usual for U-M tournaments, it will take place on the upper floors of Mason Hall and begin at 9:00 AM, with registration beginning at 8:15AM. ...

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kearnm7 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:13 pm

CPiGuy wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 16, 2019 7:41 pm
What time will this be occurring?
10 A.M. EST Sunday, per above.

oh i'm a doofus who can't read, thanks

CPiGuy

What time will this be occurring?

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angrybird wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:58 pm
derivative with respect to time

While I really appreciate the verbose prompt instructions of "with respect to what", this tossup made the major oversight of not accepting "differentiation" as an alternative to "derivative". This should be automatic.

CPiGuy

Was the inclusion of Monday in the dates intentional?

CPiGuy

thebluehawk1 wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 26, 2019 6:10 pm
I graduated from the University of Maryland and will be starting a PhD in history at Indiana University. I am hoping to get a team going there again. If anyone is going to IU and is interested please email me at hawkjus19@gmail.com.

big ten quizbowl status: 12.5/14

come on wisconsin/nebraska

CPiGuy

Is ACF planning on making changes to their Regionals hosting guidelines to spell out more clearly what happens when an error by a Regionals host causes ACF to have to issue extra Nationals bids (for example, by failing to play off a tie between two undergraduate teams)?

CPiGuy

*If we have a projector/audio, TUPAC/Look at This Photograph/BUMPY II could also happen If you end up doing this at U-M, almost every Mason Hall classroom has a projector and a computer that needs only a valid U-M login to work, so you'd only need one U-M person to be there. I can't be that person....

CPiGuy

Raul Passement deserves your science votes. I played Lederberg with him and he's really scary.

CPiGuy

Our own Matt Failor was allowed to compete (including in HSNCT) at grade 8, so i'm assuming it is allowed in Michigan. Speaking as the TD of several recent U-M tournaments: Michigan doesn't have a state organization overseeing quizbowl (with the possible exception of local leagues? I'm out of state...

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NAQT requires that (absent special approval to the contrary) players only play for the school(s) they actually attend. So middle schoolers cannot play for a high school (unless they also take classes there or have special approval), but a player in grade 8 at a K–12 school could play with high scho...

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Valefor wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:10 am
Conor 110

I... didn't play this, and don't know of any other Conors in quizbowl who spell their name the way I do, so you've either misspelt someone's name or you're mistaken about someone's Discord handle. Or there's another Conor I don't know about, which is also a possibility.

CPiGuy

I'm probably not voting in this poll, but Wesley Zhang has ridiculous geography knowledge -- he got 4-5 tossups a round at Geo Monstrosity / GHOTI, several of them not late in the question.

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Is there an explanation of how the re-bracketing works somewhere? Seems like it's different from past years. i'm confused as to why, say, Great Valley B isn't playing for 49th despite winning their tier 3 afternoon group. I think they are; they just failed to correctly assign teams to columns. The ...

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Again, if you're part of an NYC-based institution (and I know there are a lot of you!), and you think you could potentially help provide rooms for this event, pleeeeease let me know. What about an NYC-adjacent institution? I know NYC proper would be preferable but surely a tournament in New Jersey ...

CPiGuy

There were five ballots in the team poll. Team Poll Results 1. Hunter (NY) [124, 4 first place votes, lowest #2] 2. Hopkins (CA) [116, highest #2, lowest #4] 3. Churchill A (CA) [115, highest #2, lowest #4] 4. Liberty (AL) [106, highest #4, lowest #5] 5. Challenger-Almaden (CA) [97, highest #3, lowe...

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Polls have been tallied. Thanks to the following voters, of whom all 11 voted in the player poll and 5 voted in the team poll: Tyler Benedict (players, teams) Owen Farra (players) Dev Ganguli (players) Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt (players, teams) Aadit Juneja (players) Robert Muñiz (players) Ameya Singh ...

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EDIT EDIT: I've just been reminded that the company logo is literally just the letters "NAQT" with the full name in tiny print below it, which seems less than inspiring to be quite honest. To be fair, NAQT does have some really excellent logos for their individual tournaments, which they use in all...

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i never see pigeons in wheeling wrote: ↑
Thu May 30, 2019 10:00 pm
Why not just roll it into the "eventual" Mons Mathstrosity (the quotation marks being present for a reason)?

well, that tournament is not going to be packet-sub any more, and Sam presumably is interested in playing it.

CPiGuy

Oh, actual comment on question content: The tossup on the "time derivative" should really, really accept "differentiation with respect to time" as an alternate answer and prompt on "differentiation" the same as it does on "derivative". On another note on that question, I'm a huge fan of NAQT adoptin...

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As a moderator, I noticed that this set had a much higher frequency of copyediting issues that interfered with my ability to read -- there was an omitted preposition/article, an instance of "the that" or something like that, or something along those lines almost every round, and sometimes several ti...

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Reminder that you have one week to send me ballots!

CPiGuy

This happened. Four teams played a three-packet round robin. Individual stats were not kept but I have team stats which will at some point be uploaded. Thanks to everyone who played for making GM11 happen, and special thanks to John Petrovich for staffing alongside me! Apologies for the logistical c...

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We're at the aforementioned place waiting for ACRONYM to finish.

CPiGuy

We'll meet at 10:15 (I forgot HSNCT had eight scrimmage rounds) at the circle of chairs outside Imperial A. Hope to see people there -- tell your friends!

CPiGuy

One more thing: The tournament will be free, but you are welcome to remunerate me/Jay for it if you so desire. Don't feel obliged to, though.

CPiGuy

Crosspost from collegiate forum:

Geo Monstrosity 2019 is happening and will be a mirror of GHOTI, a geography set by Jay Misuk.

More details here.

CPiGuy

Geography Monstrosity will happen tonight after the conclusion of scrimmages and ACRONYM at HSNCT. Unfortunately, there is no set being produced specifically for the tournament. Geo Monstrosity at HSNCT is a decade-long tradition that I wouldn't want to see end, so I'll be running a mirror of Jay Mi...

CPiGuy

Did Yash even play in any regular GA Middle School events this year? There's very little individual stats to verify that and none of my players gave me any indication that Taylor Road MS had a player of that caliber at any point this year. Taylor Road's stats at regular season MS events don't seem ...

CPiGuy

Here's my "for your consideration" post, mostly focusing on teams/players who for some reason either aren't represented well or aren't represented at all by nationals stats: Teams Wayzata Central (MN) and Oak Valley (CA) both had >23 PPB in prelims at MSNCT. Despite their poor playoff performances (...

CPiGuy

Hey everyone, I'll be running a national team and player poll for middle school teams and players. The poll is intended to rank players and teams by skill and performance for the 2018-19 season ; this is not a predictive poll for next year. To vote, please send your ballots to me at conchuirgaeilge@...

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literatureboye wrote: ↑
Sun May 12, 2019 8:44 pm
I believe was the deepest run of any Alabama team at any national tournament.

Chandler West said this is the case.

CPiGuy · Re: No Banter Please @ MSNCT Saturday Night (5/11/19) We're in JFK/Midway.

We're in JFK/Midway.

CPiGuy

I'm in. Perhaps there should be a signup spreadsheet?

CPiGuy

I guess we're doing the prediction thing so I'll take Aptakisic, Churchill, Challenger-Almaden, Daniel Wright, Hunter, Odle for top six.

My biggest prediction is that at least one of the top six teams will be someone nobody in this thread picked for top six. There's always at least one surprise.

CPiGuy

After some internal discussion we've tweaked the distribution a bit. Most importantly, it's now 22/22. Length is unchanged.

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