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- Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LaTeX for quizbowl, again
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7969
Re: LaTeX for quizbowl, again
There's a weird character in word "Jörmungandr" in the first part of bonus 10 that I don't think is supposed to be there. Fixed. That was an artifact from the pronunciation guide style used in the original document (inserting middle dots between syllables of hard-to-pronounce words); inci...
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009-10 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 13026
Re: 2009-10 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
I know, I have the packet; I'm wondering why it is not promptable, given that time dilation and acceleration are both phenomena that are key to the twin paradox. It doesn't really mean anything to say only one twin experiences time dilation - time dilation is a relative concept. If my understanding...
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
The full results for Cardinal Classic XIX, including the Lit/Fine-Arts "singles" tournament, may be found here: http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/tournaments/2010_ccxix/ Sorry about the delay. I'd like to thank all the teams that came to the tournament. I'd also like to thank Jacob Kalichman, P...
- Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
The current field for Saturday is:
University of Washington - 1
UC-Berkeley - 2
CWRU - 1
Bellarmine HS - 1
Stanford House - 1
Total: 6
If we stay at 6 teams, we'll play a double-round robin, followed by an advantaged final if necessary.
University of Washington - 1
UC-Berkeley - 2
CWRU - 1
Bellarmine HS - 1
Stanford House - 1
Total: 6
If we stay at 6 teams, we'll play a double-round robin, followed by an advantaged final if necessary.
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
Have you guys decided whether or not you will be able and/or willing to run the Lit/Fine Arts singles side event after the tournament? It seems there is succificient interest from a players. Yes, we'll try to run the Lit/Fine Arts singles tournament after the main event. Staff might be a little tig...
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
The tournament will be held on the second floor of the Nitery, Lasuen Mall and White Plaza, Stanford, CA 94305. Free parking is available in the nearby Tresidder parking lot. Registration will be at 9:00AM, with games starting at 9:30AM.
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
The base fee for high schools is $60.Trap-Jaw wrote:Bellarmine is 95% likely to bring a team, although it will likely be an amalgamation of our A, B, and C teams. However, we need to know how much we have to pay to play.
- Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
Yes, we'll have one or two house teams. I should have mentioned that.Bentley Like Beckham wrote: Is Stanford going to have a house team or two to boost the field if teams don't show?
- Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
Can we get a field update? It would be great if more than like 4 teams were signed up for this tournament. The field hasn't changed since the last update. It would be nice to hear from some of the SoCal teams, but this has been a busy month for quizbowl tournaments, so I understand if schools can't...
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Winter at Stanford
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12789
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Winter at Stanford
The stats for the playoffs may now be found here:
http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/qb ... inter2010p.
Sorry for the delay.
http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/qb ... inter2010p.
Sorry for the delay.
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
This tournament is taking place on Feb. 27. See the top post for a field update.
- Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (choose a date!)
Sure. Updated first post in thread.Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Also, would you guys offer a travel discount?
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT West (Region 15) SCT @ UCLA, February 6, 2010
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6971
Re: NAQT West (Region 15) SCT @ UCLA, February 6, 2010
I don't want to repeat last year's desperate efforts to make a four-team Div 1 field. There are some major teams still missing in action. Where are you, Stanford, UCSD D1, UCI? Stanford is tentatively planning on coming, but there haven't been a lot of firm commitments yet within the club. We'll pr...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9423
ANNOUNCEMENT: T-Party Mirror at Stanford (2/27)
Stanford University will be hosting a mirror of T-Party on Saturday, February 27. Teams from this site will NOT be required to write packets, but can receive a $15 discount for submitting anything between a half-packet and a full-packet (packets are due by 2/7). The tournament will be held on the se...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Winter discussion
- Replies: 83
- Views: 16523
Re: ACF Winter discussion
Photons are spin one, dude. And no one calls the graviton a "gauge boson," although there is a sense in which it gauges the Poincaré group. But "only (known) massless gauge boson" is a perfectly good description of the photon. That'll learn me. Well, sorry about distributing fal...
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Winter discussion
- Replies: 83
- Views: 16523
Re: ACF Winter discussion
Stop doing this! How many particle physicists are even playing this tournament? The answer as far as I know is zero. The second two parts of this bonus are entirely opaque to me; granted, I'm not a particle guy, but I have some basic familiarity with neutrino physics by way of cosmology. There's no...
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Winter at Stanford
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12789
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Winter at Stanford
Room 216 of the Old Union.wmrowan wrote: Location: The tournament will be held in the Old Union, Lasuen Mall and White Plaza, Stanford, CA 94305. Free parking is available in the nearby Tresidder parking lot.
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2009-2010 Academic Tournaments
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8772
Re: 2009-2010 Academic Tournaments
No, we're not doing Cardinal Classic this year.
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Post here if you want required geography at ACF Nats
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6853
- Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BASQUE at UC Berkeley 7/25/09
- Replies: 58
- Views: 17823
Re: BASQUE at UC Berkeley 7/25/09
It looks like Stanford will just be bringing one team (me, Andrew, and Jeff). We can bring a buzzer system.
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NorCal 08-09
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2222
Re: NorCal 08-09
They were already posted in this thread.FredMorlan wrote:Do you have results for NAQT NorCal states?
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Northern California NAQT State Championship Results (3/7/09)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1312
Northern California NAQT State Championship Results (3/7/09)
I guess this tournament was never advertised on these boards, but for those interested, the NAQT State Championship for Northern California was held at Stanford University on March 7. Mission San Jose A won the tournament, going undefeated. The full results can be found at this link.
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cardinal Classic discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 16587
Re: Cardinal Classic discussion
Well, I'm probably more disappointed by this set than anyone. I don't like to point fingers, but I guess people who played on this set deserve an explanation, and the fact of the matter is that not all of my co-editors finished editing the questions that were assigned them. It wasn't a "laissez...
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science Non-Strosity: Discussion (mid-Atlantic: STAY AWAY)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3355
Re: Science Non-Strosity: Discussion (mid-Atlantic: STAY AWAY)
Thanks for making this event happen, Dwight et al. I really enjoyed playing on it. Speaking just for myself, I found the quirkier answers an amusing addition to the set. After listening to endless descriptions of random proteins and amino acids, it was nice to be able to get tossups on things like &...
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT Private Discussion Forum
- Replies: 129
- Views: 22931
Re: SCT Private Discussion Forum
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- Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: West NAQT SCT, 2/7/09 @ UCLA
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10409
Re: West NAQT SCT, 2/7/09 @ UCLA
Fourth Division 1 team: Where are you? I'm trying to convince some more Stanford players to come to Sectionals. Right now, we've got 8 Div I players signed up, and I might be able to convince one or two more people to come. With 8 players, forming into 3 teams wouldn't be so horrible (better than h...
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34412
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
Here's the latest field update. Please let me know if there's anything incorrect here: Missouri UCSD Magin, Bentley, Arthur, Beyer UC Irvine Berkeley (x2) UCLA Chicago (x5) Free Agents: Hannah, Alejandro Given this field, it seems likely that we'll try to make a 13-team tournament. The free agents s...
- Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Winter West
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6272
Re: ACF Winter West
It looks like some games are missing in the stats. I know the stats are missing for the second game between Stanford A and Irvine. Any chance of those games being entered in, or are the stats sheets lost forever?
- Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Trophies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2197
Re: Trophies
On the westcoast, I believe ACF Fall at Irvine gave out trophies, but ACF Winter at Caltech did not. I certainly agree with you that giving out trophies for non-Nationals tournaments is stupid. It seems to be just another financial burden on hosting schools, and as a player, I don't really want a tr...
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: leaving tournaments early part II: the revenge
- Replies: 64
- Views: 11623
Re: leaving tournaments early part II: the revenge
Believe it. I observed this exact attitude this weekend at ACF Winter.Theory Of The Leisure Flask wrote: Seriously, I don't believe anybody thinks "gee, tournaments always start late, let's lollygag!"
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34412
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
A reminder that the final (+$40) deadline to get in your packets is this Sunday, Jan. 25. So far, I've received packets from the following teams: Arthur, Bentley, Beyer, and Magin UC Irvine Berkeley A UCLA I'm still expecting packets from Missouri, Berkeley B, UCSD, and some unknown number of Chicag...
- Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Winter West
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6272
Re: ACF Winter West
Stanford is bringing two teams.
- Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34412
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
If you're trying to get from San Jose Airport to Stanford with public transportation, you can: 1. Take free shuttle from SJC to Santa Clara train station. 2. Take Caltrain from Santa Clara to Palo Alto train station. The Palo Alto station is just a block away from "campus," but due to the ...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:12 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Statistical Tiebreakers
- Replies: 47
- Views: 60296
Re: Statistical Tiebreakers
Added some more tournament data. I now have all college tournaments from 2008 and the second half of 2007. The new numbers, with 106 data points:
Bonus Conversion: 0.6981 +/- 0.0446
PPG: 0.6792 +/- 0.0453
PPG Differential: 0.6415 +/- 0.0466
Head to Head: 0.4906 +/- 0.0486
Bonus Conversion: 0.6981 +/- 0.0446
PPG: 0.6792 +/- 0.0453
PPG Differential: 0.6415 +/- 0.0466
Head to Head: 0.4906 +/- 0.0486
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:07 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Statistical Tiebreakers
- Replies: 47
- Views: 60296
Re: Statistical Tiebreakers
Okay, I have a spreadsheet with all the datapoints available here . Also, I noticed that one of my datapoints accidentally appeared twice, because I had two copies of the same tournament in my directory. I removed the extra datapoint, and here are the new numbers (based on 53 points): PPG: 0.7170 +/...
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:41 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Statistical Tiebreakers
- Replies: 47
- Views: 60296
Re: Statistical Tiebreakers
Dwight, that looks really nice. I didn't realize TI calculators had that type of capability built in. The p value looks like exactly the thing we want to be looking at. How hard would it be to make splits for, like, record or tournament type using your script? Splitting up by tournament type is just...
- Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:55 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Statistical Tiebreakers
- Replies: 47
- Views: 60296
Re: Statistical Tiebreakers
I've made a bit of progress on this. I've written a script that scans the "*_games.html" SQBS files, and finds cases of where 2 teams face each other multiple times. It then finds all the opponents that those 2 teams have in common, and keeps track of both teams' stats for the games they p...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9992
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
I'll certainly play this, provided I'm not needed to moderate. The 20-tossup distribution sounds fine to me.
- Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:01 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: The importance of precise language in question writing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19956
Re: The importance of precise language in question writing
I see this problem a lot in physics questions as well, but it seems understandable to a certain degree. It's way more difficult to write physics tossups that uniquely point to a specific answer than, say literature tossups. Even speaking as someone who studies physics, I find it incredibly difficult...
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:37 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Statistical Tiebreakers
- Replies: 47
- Views: 60296
Re: Statistical Tiebreakers
This looks pretty cool. Regarding what the margin of error on these numbers is, I'm pretty sure you can just use a binomial distribution. In that case, the standard deviation on the number of successes is just sqrt(n*p*(1-p)). So, for example, Mike said point difference had a success rate of 65.79 p...
- Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EuroFest at Mizzou Open
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13808
Re: EuroFest at Mizzou Open
I'd certainly play a mirror of this if it were in the Bay Area.bt_green_warbler wrote:Anyone else up for a west coast mirror?Whig's Boson wrote:I would like to see the tournament mirrored in other parts of the country if possible (not necessarily on the same weekend).
- Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34412
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
Any word on side tournaments? This would definitely affect Caltech's coming. Micah "Science? Movies?" Manary Yogesh's movies tournament will definitely be happening. I haven't heard about any other side events, but I believe I speak for Arnav when I say that we'd like to hold another side...
- Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:49 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Statistical Tiebreakers
- Replies: 47
- Views: 60296
Re: Statistical Tiebreakers
I was actually thinking of doing this a couple of months ago, but I never got around to it. I think with my database of tournaments I was using to calculate my individual computer rankings, I should be able to write a script to do a bunch of these comparisons. I might try working on this over the we...
- Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: Stanford MO Mirror
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1962
Re: RESULTS: Stanford MO Mirror
All the stats for the Stanford mirror of the Rob Pilatus trash tournament are now posted, and can be found here . The trash tournament was held Saturday night (Oct. 18) after the Minnesota Open mirror. For convenience of schedule, we wanted to have four teams, so we allowed players to form 5-person ...
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Update to Computer Rankings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3237
Re: Update to Computer Rankings
I've added PATH statistics to the website now. If you click on the "PATH" link at the top of the column, you can see every player sorted by PATH. -The "George Berry" who played for the CNU/JSR team at EFT as "Kearney" (W&M), W&M for ACF Fall (VCU) and Titanomach...
- Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Update to Computer Rankings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3237
Re: Update to Computer Rankings
For instance, just using an example from my own stats, it looks like I get the same outcome for a good game in which I was outplayed by #8 Matt Keller (70-90) as I do for a game in which I laid an egg against #40 Bruce Arthur (0-20). This is false. You would indeed get the same outcome for a (70-90...
- Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Update to Computer Rankings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3237
Update to Computer Rankings
I've finally had some time to update my quizbowl computer rankings. You can find them, as usual, here . Here's what I've done since my last post about these rankings: 1) I've improved the SQBS text parser, so it's better at recognizing names. For example, it now automatically realizes that "Jer...
- Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: First semester college academic tournaments
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13256
Re: First semester college academic touraments
UCLA is also hosting its EFT mirror on Oct. 4.wd4gdz wrote:FSU is hosting its mirror of EFT on October 4th.theMoMA wrote:This will be updated periodically. Are there any tournaments I'm missing as of now?
- Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 16332
Re: VCU Open Discussion
Thixotropy is not that obscure; if you have any background in fluid dynamics, chances are you've heard of it hell if you have a background in ketchup you've heard of it I predict that at next year's ICT, the science distribution will include a bonus on "FTPE, identify the following condiments ...
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History Doubles Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3201
Re: CO History Doubles Discussion
Also, did the West Coast mirror of this happen? Um, sort of. It was planned for Sunday evening, but there were only about 6 or 8 of us around at that point. Also, apparently we technically were not supposed to be in the rooms past 5 pm (although no janitors ever came to kick us out). Oh yeah, I bel...