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Alejandro

Update completed. I'm still working on fixing the forums logo; that should get finished in a couple days.

Thanks.

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I'll be upgrading our version of phpBB, which runs the forums, late on either August 8th or August 9th, 2020. The forums may be down for several minutes. If you notice any problems or bugs after the upgrade, please let me know.

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Feedback for Alejandro's bot: [...] • It's more rigid in how the tournament will work. It can set up a schedule for you and create round/room pairs, but can't currently do things like support a cross-bracket playoff structure or making sure the best teams aren't playing each other in the first game...

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A new version of the bot is out. The bot now supports the following: Checking the schedule of the tournament with !schedule Rebracketing with !rebracket, which will create new rooms for those rounds and assign the correct roles to those rooms Checking the list of commands with !help If you want to u...

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The Quiz Bowl Discord Tournament Assistant bot sets up all of the channels and permissions needed to host an online tournament on Discord in minutes. It will ask the tournament director for a list of readers, list of team names, and the number of round robins. From there, it generates the round robi...

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Using an .xlsx as the input file doesn't really work, and it's easy enough to change into a csv. If you have Excel 2016 or later, you can also use Power Query to calculate BPA by adding the Excel table as a source (disclaimer: I work on Power Query). Here's a sample for ACF Regionals 2018 . The app...

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3. An implementation of Ophir's "jumping between tossups and bonuses with the stroke of a single key" outside the context of advanced stats. I am guessing this should be fairly straightforward, though I could be wrong. You can split the window into two, depending on your viewer. You can do this in ...

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6. A comprehensive feng shui-incorporating packetization tool, such that the intersection of every reasonable non-contradictory feng shui request can be implemented. Just a warning from someone who's tried this in the past: even simple sounding constraints, like no two questions in a row on Japan o...

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Upgrade completed. Forums went down for ~15 minutes. If you see any unexpected changes, please PM me.

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I'll be upgrading our version of phpBB, which runs the forums, late on February 4th, 2020. The forums may be down for several minutes. If you notice any problems or bugs after the upgrade, please let me know.

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Now, since each individual category is too small, they're concatenated into major categories: History: 6 Fine Arts: 6 And then these groups of "excess tossups" would be split among the packets. Does the packetizer respect minimum/maximum category and subcategory quotas? Like Mike, I've struggled wi...

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* Tossups will be hard-capped at 8 lines. Please feel free to submit tossups that are longer than 8 lines, but do not submit any tossups that are shorter than 7 lines, or we will send them back to you. It seems like the other references to 7 were changed, so I just wanted to double-check: can we su...

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Can I see the traveling salesman bonus? I want to see if there were clues that distinguished that part from the Hamiltonian Cycle problem.

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Could I see the tossup on lines?

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The reason the data set is relatively small is that I had to manually read and categorize 60 packets worth of questions. In R, I used the total number of words in each category as a variable. Unfortunately, I won't have much time to work on this for some time, but hopefully I'll get around to it so...

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The Ununtiable Twine wrote:Round 3's score between Benji and Jonathan/Alejandro seems a bit low - perhaps this is the right score but it seems really low compared to the others.

Those numbers look correct. It was a low-scoring game.

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I'm interested in playing this. I'm willing to be a free agent.

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Incomplete list of major changes to the A-value list by eliminating HS teams: Washington's final A-value would have increased by more than 50 points, although their raw A-value only increased by 2 points, because the order-of-finish correction averaging it with Saratoga HS would have been eliminate...

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Could I see the max-flow question? I believe that "network flow" or "flow networks" should be promptable or acceptable for much of it since the question asks about a group of problems and max-flow problems are generally classified under network flow/flow network problems (see here for an example). I...

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I don't have too much time these days, but I'd be willing to help out on the security end. I can also help write test cases if needed.

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I've gotten at least 3 tossups on or mentioning Howards End based solely on this scene from The Critic.

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A lot of computer science questions at the high school level are on data structures or basic algorithms like sorting. An AP Computer Science study guide should help, especially if you can find one for the now-discontinued AB test which covered more data structures like stacks and heaps.

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There hasn’t been any work done specifically on BEeS for over a year, so we decided to release the source code. Much of it is incomplete (and could use a code quality cleanup), but there is a packet parser that can read doc and docx files and convert them to formats like HTML and JSON. The success r...

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We can gather conversion data about tossups in a straightforward manner, but we cannot do the same for bonus parts because we only record the bonus total. If scorekeepers kept track of which parts were answered we could get bonus part conversion data which would help determine the actual difficulty ...

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I can moderate.

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There's question that stands out and it was the first tossup in either rounds 10, 12 or 14. (I want to say one of the first two but I really cannot remember.) Anyway, it was on something math related (I don't recall the answer.) but it read something like "First do this. Then do this. Then do this....

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As requested I used the 2010 ACF Nationals to test the stat we used. To test only the stat I did no sorting based on W-L. As such the statistic was able to predict the Preliminary outcome to and overall accuracy of 71%. This is better than the calculated values for other tie breakers, and this is t...

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A couple of points. 1) The giveaway for the queue tossup is misleading. A "horizontal stack" does not describe a queue since a horizontal stack would still be a last-in, first-out data structure (unlike a queue, which is first-in, first-out). 2) There were too many tossups asking for "Xs of Ys." Ans...

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We should be bringing 2 teams and a buzzer system to this tournament.

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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:I think Alejandro said that Claremont might be coming, but that could be old information.

We're having trouble finding transportation again, although there's still hope. If we can't get a car, though, is there any feasible way to get to Irvine through public transportation?

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A couple small issues:

There was a question in DII on the New York World that seemed to reuse the leadin from last year's SCT.
The set bonus has a confusing description for intersection: it says that it is the operation that takes the elements from X and Y, which can also describe union.

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Thanks for the feedback. It is highly likely now that ASU will host something on March 19. However, we have a new question for all our California comrades: Would you be interested in a MUT mirror, instead of/in addition to a Sack of Antwerp mirror? Depending on interest from U of A (which is imposs...

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sportfreak1881 wrote:Sure, at [email protected]?

Yes please.

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sportfreak1881 wrote:I am having problems with format that isn't covered in the readme
What are possible problems in an answer line that reads
ANSWER: James Franco

Nothing looks wrong there. Can you send me the doc file with that answer?

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The link seems to be broken. I forgot that our college is undergoing power tests for the next few days, so server access will be sporadic. What do you do with questions that have answer lines like: ANSWER: Marriages of Elizabeth Taylor [accept stuff like Weddings, Espousals, Nuptials, or Matrimony ...

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I wrote a program that takes packets saved as Microsoft Word doc files and translate them into a QBBot-formatted packet, QBML, or HTML. You can get it here . Looking over the readme file is recommended. I would appreciate any feedback on the parser. Let me know if it has any problems translating a p...

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Christmas Wrapping.

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Linus and Lucy.

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1) Christmas Time in Hell
2) Christmas Wrapping

Abstaining my vote for the other two.

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I know that there are 3 UCLAers interested (Guy, Ray, and Jerry). Do any teams have space for one of them. UCLA will contribute to your team fees proportionately. Right now we have 2 extra spaces that you can use. Also, if it's not too much of an inconvenience would you guys be able to pick me up f...

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I am now the only person from Claremont attending. I would prefer to play as a free agent if possible.
Also, the earliest I can arrive at UCLA will be ~9:00.

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If we can resolve transportation/lodging issues we should be able to bring 1-2 teams and a buzzer system.

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We should be sending a full team to this.

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I am interested in attending. I'll see if anyone else on Claremont wants to attend; if not, I'll go as a free agent.

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We should be bringing 2-3 teams and possibly some staffers.

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Congratulations to UCI who defeated UCSD A 415-285 in the final. Playoff stats can be found here.

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Prelims stats can be found here.

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A few questions from us out-of-staters: 1) Does Mason Hall have an address I can use to punch into my GPS? I found it on the campus map but I couldn't find an address. 2) What are your suggestions for free/cheap parking near Mason Hall? 3) How bad are the LA-area interstates on Sunday mornings? We'...

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Due to obtaining of car problems and public transit maybe not working for us to get there by 9:00, we may only have 1 team. We have 1 driver as of now, so If there is an odd number of teams, can you schedule one UCLA bye for the first round and then the rest of UCLA will show up at 10:00ish (assumi...

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That is the opposite of fixed. I'm assuming the problem is that I still have a tentative team for UCLA. If not, what is incorrect? Field update: UCLA - 2 teams (2 buzzers) UCSD - 2 teams (at least 1 buzzer) Case Western - 1 team Caltech - 1 team (2 buzzers) Claremont - 1 team Claremont (tentative) ...

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