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- Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: G2G FASTER
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1943
Re: G2G FASTER
I'll pop in at 10 to get wrecked by this.
- Sun May 03, 2020 10:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DECAMERON - Asynchronous guerrilla tournament announcement and signups
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9863
Re: DECAMERON - Asynchronous guerrilla tournament announcement and signups
In light of recent cheating scandals and the persistence of suspicious performances on online events, I am politely requesting that all of my team's matches be played on Discord or Zoom video call. I possess a premium zoom room (Thanks UChicago!) and will read matches on my team's packet (if I'm av...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:52 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: From Tony Taylorism to Pre-Lew Fordism: Baseball in the Second Half of the 20th Century
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8894
Re: From Tony Taylorism to Pre-Lew Fordism: Baseball in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Can't wait to go 1/4/6 on this.
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147685
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
Free Zoom would actually work fine if people wanted to do a tournament by video. The 40 minute limit is not a big deal because you can do one session after another. Does the timer for the 40 minutes limit counts all the waiting time in between rounds? Even if it doesn't, quizbowl rounds can easily ...
- Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8474
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
While this isn't a specific area of expertise for me, I'm pretty sure that Packet 5 bonus 14 part 2 should at least prompt on AGN. I was thinking SMBH because of the M-Sigma clue until a later clue mentioned feedback regulating star formation and I thought that was specific to AGNs rather than anyth...
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 SCT general discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6449
Re: 2020 SCT general discussion
I just want to echo Jacob’s sentiment that I am also an NAQT fan and generally like SCT and ICT but this was unacceptably bad.
If this is the last NAQT tournament i play (which is possible given how bad the SOS modifier for D value is) it would really be a (personal) tragedy.
If this is the last NAQT tournament i play (which is possible given how bad the SOS modifier for D value is) it would really be a (personal) tragedy.
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16829
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
The tossup on "hydrogen" that referred to it as "this substance" had a clue that Rafael, Noah, and I felt was ambiguously worded, referring to the "production of the 21 centimeter line in this substance." I gave an answer of "intergalactic medium" - I assume ...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7884
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Astro (the only subject that I’m really qualified to give an opinion on) was really solid. Loads of real stuff early and answerlines that should be gettable by the end. One exception is the clue on abundance matching which isn’t strictly used for luminosity but it usually is so it’s not that bad. In...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals at Rice (01/25/2020)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1844
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals at Rice (01/25/2020)
Thanks to Andrew for running a very good tournament.
Having not played solo since Early Autumn Collegiate Novice in 2010, I probably would have been mentally finished by the middle of the day if there was logistical bullshit to contend with.
Having not played solo since Early Autumn Collegiate Novice in 2010, I probably would have been mentally finished by the middle of the day if there was logistical bullshit to contend with.
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: JORDU: A Jazz Side Event (Summer 2021)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12058
Re: JORDU: A Jazz Side Event (Summer 2020)
I am very ready to get thoroughly embarrassed on what is supposed to be one of my better categories.
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Preseason Poll 2019-2020
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18114
Re: Preseason Poll 2019-2020
22. Chicago C (projected roster: Halle Friedman, Ian Baram, Edgar Lin, Wonyoung Jang) Placing any C team, even Chicago C, in the top 25, is a dicey proposition. There are plenty of questions about team composition and members' levels of competitiveness, but compared to the teams below them, Chicago...
- Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 31961
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
Hey, so I wrote what was (as far as I can tell) the hardest science tossup in the set, judging from me asking around on the day of - the tossup on oozes , which made it in unedited from our team's submission. I intended for the tossup to link disparate pieces of knowledge about ocean science that I...
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 31961
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
Science history: What we did: We had a science history question (tossup or bonus) like once every two packets. Did that shit work?: Eh. I was more mixed on this. I still think this IDEA is very good - science history belongs in the distribution, and it belongs in the science distribution. It's repr...
- Mon May 27, 2019 2:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5508
Re: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
This is now the Bill Buckner memorial packet
- Mon May 27, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5508
- Mon May 27, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5508
Re: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
This is my time to shine.
- Wed May 15, 2019 9:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6688
Re: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll
Everyone already knows this but the Yale ACF Nats placement in the spreadsheet should mention the lack of "not that bad at quizbowl" person Jacob Reed.
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64321
Re: Player Poll 2019
TeammateShilling.exe Halle Friedmann is really good at visual arts. Underrank her at your own peril especially if you're playing CO, she will still be able to get things ahead of you there. Olivia Kiser knows a shit-ton of random myth and history things. I recall at one point Olivia told me that he ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 2:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 3: General Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1922
Re: Lederberg 3: General Discussion
All games but finals are in here. I have no idea what other information is in here besides stats, but it should have question-by-question category information so probably don't share outside of here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dMkW59MFc4EYUKlxe3MnEFFzM_0YOey1?usp=sharing EDIT: Now with ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 2:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 30726
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Because sets (not counting ACF Nationals 2019) have 1/1 math and usually more. Math that normal people usually care about is clued in almost every science tossup (and as you pointed out logic-based philosophy/thought TUs and probably some SS/Econ). There is no need for 1/1 "Content that is tau...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 30726
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
For starters, people who want a tournament with 1/1 math should feel free to write tournaments with 1/1 math! There is no one "correct" distribution. Not to beat this dead horse again, but do that at something like Lederberg or WAO or Sun God or Terrapin, not ACF Nationals 2019. At least ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Are stats going to be posted for this, or are they a casualty of the paper scoresheets / bad hotel internet? The google spreadsheets for stats are completed for everything up to finals. Someone in the editors groupchat has entered all of the games but one that I missed into SQBS, not sure what the ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 28008
Re: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
Going to SMU for a postdoc working on the DESI experiment. I will probably be around the Dallas area to staff things if asked and am always open to join open teams looking for some science help.
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 30726
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Because sets (not counting ACF Nationals 2019) have 1/1 math and usually more. Math that normal people usually care about is clued in almost every science tossup (and as you pointed out logic-based philosophy/thought TUs and probably some SS/Econ). There is no need for 1/1 "Content that is taug...
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 83161
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
A word of warning: April 13th is the night of "Spring Fling," which, for the uninitiated, is a concert at franklin field that leads to large numbers of drunken and otherwise intoxicated students running around campus with no regard for anything, often vomiting in random places. Probably be...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 3: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1384
Re: Lederberg 3: Specific Question Discussion
I already mentioned this to James at the ICT site, but in case he lost track of my comments in the whirl of Lederberg + ICT: I think the tossup on accretion (round 1, tossup 3) needs some revision. In particular, the second, third, and fourth sentences say that turbulent viscosity (generic or speci...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 3:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 83161
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 8:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
A couple more reminders: I'm working on stats tonight. Should be up tonight or maybe tomorrow if I find motivation to do actual work. Thanks to everyone who venmo-ed me already. Please Venmo me $15 dollars if you haven't yet. I got physical payment from Sorice and Seth, and will track the remainder ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2019 2:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Well, with regards to logistics, of all the tournaments that ever happened, this was one of them. Sorry for the issues that caused what should have been maybe a 4 hour tournament into a nearly 6 hour hellscape. Thanks to everyone who came to play the tournament. I hope you all were able to enjoy it....
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Schedule is attached. Dylan et al, you were warned. Seth is optimistic about using game rooms. The chance of us using game rooms goes up if you come to the staff check-in table at 6 and help set up rooms so please do that. See you all soon. EDIT: Meet in the lobby at 6:30 so we can start the tournam...
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 12:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
I just Facebook messaged all of the people who volunteered a room in the spreadsheet. In the event that the game rooms that Seth spoke of don't materialize, we will need one more room to run this tournament. Please let me know if you have a room that would be available tonight from 6-9:30PM Also we ...
- Thu Apr 04, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Okay, after talking with Joel, here's the deal: 1) we can start at 6:30, but we'll need to break around 7:30 so that staffers can check in and help with set-up. 2) teams providing buzzers to ICT need to check in their buzzers before starting in on the side event. Team buzzers can be checked in star...
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
I have not attempted to find a team because I was unsure of whether we'd be in Chicago on time; if it turns out we will be (which looks reasonably likely); is the TD amenable to allowing five-member teams? We really want to get to 12 teams since that makes a really easy schedule with no byes that a...
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 2:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Oh and if your team doesn't have a name, I'm going to give you the stupidest name I can think of. So do that before I make schedules late thursday night/Friday morning.
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 2:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34282
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Hey everyone, with five days left before the tournament, here's some updates and additional requests. 1. We have 207/240 questions edited for this set, and are well on pace to finish 2. We have 10 teams signed up, and enough free agents to cover two more teams. Please form two more teams ASAP. 3. J...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8073
Re: CO Matchmaking
Now that we know when and where CO will be, the plebeians can start forming teams and writing packets. I'm looking for some teammates. I'm not good at anything, but can one-clue tossups on "Miss America." I write questions for a living so I'm comfortable writing a packet fast. I'll try no...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DATE POLL: Chicago Open
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5479
Re: DATE POLL: Chicago Open
Sure would be nice to know if I’m able to play this tournament in time to write a packet for it.
- Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3870
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
The “negative index of refraction” tossup showed up in two packets. This was the reason for my complaint about not getting a physics replacement since we never had our first clean shot at a physics tossup. While I believe that my complaint is valid for all situations, I understand it is not always p...
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14866
Re: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
Courtesy of Matt: Teams may not object to the specific replacement question which gets read unless it is an exact repeat (See C.13). (In particular, players have no basis for expecting that a replacement question be from the same category as a question which was thrown out, or for expecting that th...
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 4:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14866
Re: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
FYI to future tournament directors, if you are replacing a physics tossup, use a physics tossup.
If you don’t have a physics tossup, use some other science tossup.
If you don’t have some other science tossup, apologize to the teams and yell at the editors before sending some other question.
If you don’t have a physics tossup, use some other science tossup.
If you don’t have some other science tossup, apologize to the teams and yell at the editors before sending some other question.
- Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DATE POLL: Chicago Open
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5479
Re: DATE POLL: Chicago Open
Am i the only one who’s going to graduate between July 20 and August 2?
I guess I’ll play anyway but I should be writing/editing my thesis then.
I guess I’ll play anyway but I should be writing/editing my thesis then.
- Fri Jan 25, 2019 5:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The D-value SOS calculation is broken
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10503
Re: The D-value SOS calculation is broken
Nearly a year has passed since Ryan's original post in this thread, and this year's SCT is fast approaching. Have any steps been taken to tweak the strength-of-schedule metric in the D-value calculation, in response to the flaws that Ryan demonstrated? Doubly noted. As someone who has been personal...
- Fri Jan 25, 2019 3:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: General Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1935
Re: Spartan Housewrite: General Discussion
I did enjoy this set and that may not become apparent in this lengthy list of minutiae, so let me reiterate that before this list of stuff that I hope can be fixed before the next mirror, but is mostly not egregious errors. I haven't really read through the rest of the discussion here thoroughly, so...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 3:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8251
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
This was in fact a bonus part. This word is in the name of a series of namesake lattices, whose simple variety has a packing density of pi over 6. For 10 points each: [10] Name this word which describes a "body centered" structure which has two atoms per unit cell. ANSWER: cubic [accept b...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 3:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8251
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
The rate of this process has been estimated by Chary and Elbaz using the spectrum of the cosmic infrared background and they argue that this process peaks at redshift values of .8 plus or minus .1. NASA has observed this process with its Webb Telescope in an object which contains the brightest star...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8251
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
I'd like to see the "star formation" tossup because I thought I heard a reference to the "NASA Webb telescope" that notably hasn't launched yet already having observed something. I would also like to see the "age of the universe" tossup since I was having difficulty par...
- Fri Nov 16, 2018 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science (2018 Sun God)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19966
Re: Science (2018 Sun God)
I'll only give more detailed comments about the astronomy because that's what I'm actually good at. The velocity tossup desperately needs middle-late clues. Nobody who hasn't buzzed by "dispersion" is likely to buzz before km/s. Something about redshift or radial velocity or whatever. Also...
- Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Specific Question Request and Discussion
- Replies: 125
- Views: 22163
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Specific Question Request and Discussion
13. Wenxiang (“wun-sh’yong”) diagrams are used to determine if protein chains will adopt this structure in certain environments. One of these structures with repeating proline residues is commonly used as a molecular ruler. Over 25 percent of protein structures following this motif terminate with S...