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A bit belated, but this tournament was excellently run and extremely fun to attend - thank you so much for hosting! The very smooth rounds + timing made this tournament much less exhausting than I'd have anticipated, especially for a longer than standard set.

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Could we have a field update please? (if teams have signed up already) ty!

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The distribution of 2020 NASAT is below. Notable changes from previous years include the reduction of chemistry and math, and the notable increase in world literature (with a corresponding reduction in American and British literature) Literature: 4/4 1/1 American 1/1 British 1/1 Euro 1/1 World + Cla...

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(This is more of a concrete response than I wanted the tone of the original post to be, so I split this off here) I think one of the better answers to the question is that quizbowl sets should really encourage diverse writing casts, because that minimizes a lot of the above issues. Sets where entire...

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I guess I want this to be a discussion post about the boundaries between facts/clues/jokes you tell your friends and clues you use in tournaments. I've been kinda struggling with this idea a lot, and its always struck me how little seems generally accepted. There are some very broad guidelines of co...

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I'm decent at post-1900 lit/vfa, know a tiny of bit of those subjects from before then, and I "know" "science" (besides chem)

also I have gummy bears, and I say nice buzz and fist bump people, even if they were converting a neg at the giveaway

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Is there an update on when this set will be ready? I'd love to play it whenever it happens!

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Hey all, After talking to some people, I've decided to change the deadline for editor applications to one week from now, December 8th. Additionally, since a lot of people had problems offering sample questions due to this being a busy writing season, I'm going to make sample questions (for editor po...

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Just a reminder - if you're interested in editing for this set please get an application in by the end of the day this Sunday, December 1st. If this date is problematic for you, please reach out and let me know when you can get something in by. If you're interested in applying to write, feel free to...

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I'm cross posting this here, but if you're still interested in editing or writing please check out the call for writers here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23487

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Hello! Since I'll be head editing this year's NASAT, I wanted to put out a post for anyone interested in writing or editing for the 2020 IQBT NASAT set. Note that to be eligible to write, you must have graduated high school. If you are planning on coaching or organizing a main site NASAT team, you s...

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I felt the ouroboros clue in the aromatic tossup could have done with a disclaimer that the answer was not "cyclic" - this was a neg in my room despite seeming like a pretty natural answer.

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Meet up in 2325 asap - ideally we'll start soonish

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Given 8 signups, half of which are tentative, I'll place this as a shootout around half an hour after Scattergories wraps up - there are only 6 packets so I'm not anticipating this ending ridiculously late.

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Hey all, This post is an announcement for a CO mirror of CANONEXPANSION , a fairly difficult science side event that I'll be running (you can find a better description of the set's difficulty in the announcement. ) The set is free to play. Depending on people's availability, I think this would be be...

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Some preliminary notes on logistics, due to the unusual time slot we’re occupying- We’re planning on meeting Sunday night at either 9 pm or a few minutes after finals ends, whichever is later. We’ll quickly go over the schedule and the rooms, make sure everyone is present, and get to starting asap -...

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If you like to play quizbowl or move the scientific needle, please sign up for the QANTA League 1 event next month. You can register by logging into your Qblitz account. Will this event also use questions used at the in-person QANTA League mirror, or will these questions be fresh for participants o...

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Many players would agree that pure mathematical rankings can’t tell the full story about any given team's strengths and weaknesses. Each team has a unique story and personal character which cannot be gleaned off of a mere look at a stats page. This is why we believe player-submitted polls are crucia...

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Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado the results of the poll: 1. Uni Lab A - 153 High: 1 Low: 4 (11 first votes) 2. Auburn - 137 High: 1 Low: 4 (2 first place votes) 3. Stevenson A - 136 High: 1 Low: 4 (3 first place votes) 4. IMSA - 117 High: 2 Low: 5 5. OPRF - 82 High: 5 Low: 8 6. ...

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Just 5 days left to submit a ballot--make sure to get them in! Voter turnout is looking solid right now but could always be better.

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On behalf of the Illinois Quizbowl discord, I, Vishwa Shanmugam, am pleased to announce the 2018-19 ILQB midseason poll. While anyone can submit a ballot, we will ask that you demonstrate your knowledge of the circuit by justifying your ranking. In your ballot, we will ask you to rank any ten teams ...

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Some random stuff that I remember: -I think the Bocaccio bonus part in Editors (6?) claimed that the Decameron was about 5 men and 5 women, escaping a flood -I've heard multiple people negged Yugoslavia with Croatia on the clue about the ustase since those were specific to Croatia -I think labors of...

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Overall, I thought this set was fun - there was a good mix of fun qs on core content and some interesting out there ideas. I generally appreciated the answerline selection and thought there were a lot of well executed ideas. One of my biggest problems with the set was the subdistributing. In the 13 ...

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What criteria was used here? I see that Arjun Nageswaran has put up scores of 42.50, 4.38, 29.17, 19.51, 6.00, 66.67, and 18.42 PPG at tournaments this season. His two best performances were when he was playing on teams where he was essentially playing by himself. While the 66.67 at PACE NSC is (no...

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I hope people don't forget Geoffrey Chen in this poll, because "best player" really shouldn't just mean "flashy 100 point generalist" but should also encompass extremely deadly specialists like Geoffrey. Geoff was: -Probably one of the highest power% players on regular season questions ever, frequen...

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Could I see the tossup on "Special Relativity" from round 27? Also, if/when conversion stats go up would I be able to see conversion stats on the wave theory tossup (round 10) and Portugal (lit tossup from Round 26?) Also also, am I allowed to ask what the distribution ended up being in round 27? Th...

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The initial allegations and the subsequent blog posts in this thread were perhaps the only things I have ever read that have made me feel physically sick. I can't imagine anyone wanting to associate themselves with someone who says those sorts of awful things publicly, and as everyone else has said,...

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I'm heading to the University of Maryland, almost certainly playing as well!

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I don't think I see prison bowl main site on here (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4901/)

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I really really enjoyed this set, and I thought there were a lot of cool tossup ideas and clues (I really really enjoyed the races in myth tu and the electron transfer tus, along with numerous others) I had a couple comments on some stuff: -The pronoun in the above superfluids tossup being singular ...

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Just noting, I think Alex Schmidt (LVA) is a really really big miss after being a first team member last year and staying roughly on par this year. I'm not sure how the teams weight generalists vs. specialists, but I also think Geoffrey Chen (Wayzata) is worth looking at, because he has had really g...

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Any predictions before nationals? (Honestly, this is more me trying to get to know the landscape of the region this year after having been absent for so long) Hunter is probably a clear favorite in the area, and I don't forsee that changing too much. After that, I think that Lehigh, High Tech, and ...

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I'm a big fan of powers per game as a base statistic. Agreed; I find power percentage when used in context is also helpful to distinguish how good specialists are (A player with something like 50/10 probably has really really deep lockdown knowledge in one field, which you can't necessarily say for...

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As a science (mostly physics and math) player, Numberphile, Computerphile, SixtySymbols, and PBS Space Time are some of my personal favorites. I've also heard good things about PBS Eons and PBS Infinite Series, though I haven't watched them myself. Seconding PBS Infinite Series, it's really fun and...

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Is it likely that the field will be expanded?

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I don't think I saw Philly Fall on there (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4481/)

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I actually weighted EFT/Penn Bowl/hard college things less heavily than regular difficulty stuff, partly because the PPB adjustments get kind of wonky when there's only a handful of high school teams playing a set, and also partly because I feel like the national tournaments (especially HSNCT) are ...

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Fk ... sp=sharing

This doc has all of my rationale for voting. If you have any further questions, feel free to shoot me a pm!

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Thanks, I knew I was missing something

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That being said, I don't believe we formed a superteam either. We finished behind one other high school team (High Tech A) and had comparable ppbs to both High Tech A and Lehigh, and played close games against both (within 100 points of each). If you want to argue that chimera teams can demoralize ...

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Can I see the tossup on phonons? I wanted to see what made the first clue phonons and not superfluids. Thanks!

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Given that I was part of the chimera team at Penn Bowl, I want to apologize if any team was indeed demoralized (and I don't mean this in a sarcastic manner). Thinking back on it, I do agree that our seemingly preferred treatment as the only chimera team seemed unfair to other teams who were never gi...

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Gentlemen, Rest assured, in my 18 years of teaching and coaching Scholar Bowl, I have taken plenty of criticism, so I have the ability to do it. I posted this yesterday, but for some reason, it did not go through. I have played and/or coached Scholar Bowl since 1994. I get the game, and the distric...

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As someone who has been interested in getting a group of JV kids at my school interested, I looked through FONS II last year to see if I could use it in practice for JV. While I thought there were some interesting and well written tossups, there were a couple of big things that bothered me. For inst...

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Will a usergroup for this set be created soon?

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D-stem would be down to play this

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Using this theorem speeds up the RSA encryption algorithm by about a factor of 4. All the moduli must be pairwise relatively prime to use this theorem, which is often combined with Euclid's algorithm. This theorem is often explained in terms of soldiers (*) left over when splitting a regiment into ...

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Could I see the question on the Chinese Remainder Theorem? iirc I negged it with Fermat's Little Theorem based off of the RSA clue, which I thought might be technically correct, but I might be misremembering something. Thanks in advance!

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I didn't notice GVQBT here:
Varsity stats https://v1.neg5.org/t/NklSZ_fEdf/stats/team?phase=1 (GSAC)
Novice stats https://neg5.org/t/Nylz579vOz/stats/team?phase=1 (HSAPQ Novice)

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Is it likely that wait list will expand?

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