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Jerry, thanks for posting this. I tend to prefer prefer Jerry's view on question style, but I do want to point out that questions need a balance between the concrete, named clues and the explanatory puzzle-piece type clues. I think Ryan made a comment in the main ACF Nationals discussion thread abou...

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I thought the basic format was pretty neat, and think that this was a perfect time to use it. The ladder format can handle a few people leaving throughout the tournament to catch flights or start a long drive, which really messes up a typical round robin format. For the last side event of a weekend,...

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When compiling information from the evaluations, it's probably worth looking at the trend throughout the day in addition to the average score. Everyone will probably start to fade towards the end of the day as their voices get tired, but some people will only be able to make it 5 rounds before getti...

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From my perspective as a staffer, it seemed like this tournament ran very smoothly for such a large event. I really liked the location, since it was easy to reach the hotel from the airport and there was a lot of food in easy walking distance. If that neighborhood ever gets connected to the subway l...

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I can staff this as well.

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I would love to play this.

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I had a lot of fun working on this set, and I hope everyone enjoyed it. Many thanks to Eric for letting me help to write it and everyone else who helped write/playtest the set as well. It's a lot of fun to learn about the reactions and molecules that show up while researching for this type of tourna...

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It looks like the correct final stats are here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/

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For the teams that are registered, are there any spots on your team still open? Also, are the free agents on the spreadsheet actually planning to play? I have no idea how up-to-date it is, and I don't think I know any of you other than Shan. I doubt I will contribute much, but I would like to play a...

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I'd like to play. I can contribute questions to an early packet and probably answer a few questions in science.

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I'd like to play this. Let me know if you need a teammate.

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From the perspective of a moderator I thought that this was a very good set, and I'm glad that those playing seem to have agreed. There were a very small number of typos and grammatical mistakes in the set, which is impressive given the sheer number of words and sentences in the packets. Also, the h...

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You might be able to squeeze it in during lunch; say everyone playing has to get back 30 minutes faster than the regular playoff start time. There usually aren't many teams that stick around until after finals are over, and I remember lunches typically giving quite a bit of time while the stats are ...

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I'll play this at the Ann Arbor site. Let me know if you are looking for a teammate.

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I would like to play this; let me know if you are looking for a teammate.

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This sounds fun.

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I'm going to bed--I'll leave Mike Cheyne's statement as the last I have to say on the larger issue of nonproliferation. As for whether this tournament will be officially released, I'm not going to decide now or without consulting Ike and the others. Finally, the best thing you could do (related to ...

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2. The Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is an example of one of these reactions, which proceeds using iron in a water-gas shift reaction. ANSWER: hydrogenation This leadin is a good example of the confusion I had with what type of answer was requested. For reference, the Fischer-Tropsch process is a react...

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I generally enjoyed this tournament, and my biggest complaint of bonus variability has already been discussed. I also had a really hard time judging how specific an answer many of the science tossups were looking for, and I don't think that was entirely from lack of QB-playing rust. Could someone po...

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Heyyy, we need some science, one of you want to play with us? Sure, that would be fun. Hey, I'm sorry to do this to you, but I'd emailed Jerry a while ago and he finally got back to me before I noticed this. We should definitely play the next convenient open tournament together! No problem. Anyone ...

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Ukonvasara wrote:Heyyy, we need some science, one of you want to play with us?

Sure, that would be fun.

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I would like to play this, and am looking for teammates.

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I really enjoyed this tournament a lot. A few of the answers seemed unnecessarily hard / overly specific, but in general the really hard questions seemed to be on interesting topics worth learning about. My only real (small) complaint comes is the way the giveaways were structured on tossups like Ja...

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the idea was that Tubman could be made the easy part by linking William Tubman to Harriet Tubman and then asking for the last name. I agree it's a little gimmicky, but I wanted to write a bonus that rewarded knowledge of Taylor and Jenkins-Roberts, and I think that asking for Tubman is an appropria...

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I'd be happy to join a free agent team.

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I'm hoping to make it to this. Let me know if you are looking for a teammate.

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Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.

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Round 7: Should "parallel" be promptable or acceptable for "multi-core" processors? I looked into this and it doesn't look like this is a thing. Are you confusing this with parallel processing perhaps? This is far from my specialty, but I think the issue is what do you do if someone mistakenly says...

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Evan and Cody, thank you for making all these changes. A few more things I thought of: Round 1: Poxviridae should be in the answer line for pox viruses, in case anyone answers that. Round 2: If peptidoglycan is supposed to be an easy part, you should probably mention the word "bacteria" somewhere, l...

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I'll make the answer line more inclusive on the Arab revolt tossup and add some early clues to the Churchill tossup. I moved the Klein clue much deeper on the "blue" tossup. Cody's working on the science. Could the Sargasso Sea tossup be improved by referring to it as a "body of water"? Is that a f...

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Thank you for writing the set. There were quite a few questions I was happy to see, but there are plenty that still need work. For whatever reason, I got the sense that an unusually large number of those ended up in packet nine, so I'll start there. Maybe I only noticed them more because it was a cl...

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Judging from the outcry, I guess we should have done this, but I feel it is worth noting that last year's Chemistry distribution (if distributed at a rate of 1/1 Chemistry per packet) would have only filled 11/16 packets, and th at distribution was not announced by anyone from the VCU, Michigan or ...

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First, people playing this tournament next week might want to know that it only has about 3.5/3.5 science per round, with all of the removed 0.5/0.5 coming from chemistry. I realize the distribution wasn't posted, but people should be able to expect something close to a typical distribution if not o...

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This tournament was a lot of fun to play, and was probably the most fun main event I have ever played. Thank you to the editors and everyone else for making it awesome.

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Do I think that a tossup on the Siemens process would ever be a good idea? Absolutely not Jerry, the answer to the tossup was "silicon," which I think is a perfectly reasonable answer line. I guess that wasn't clear. The point I was trying to make is that there are very important topics out there i...

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I'd like to point out that, although there is a pretty uniform science curriculum that covers many important topics, there are plenty of important, interesting, tossup-worthy topics that are rarely if ever seen in classes. For instance, I would like to think that the silicone chemistry I work on eve...

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I'll staff.

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I was very impressed with how Utica improved over the year, and they should probably be in any top 5 discussion.

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I'm working on getting a Midland Dow team active, and briefly talked to the adviser. Midland High was apparently a decent team this year (for the area), so perhaps I'll be able to get them to travel a bit too. I think I'll be able to get Dow to a few tournaments this year, but hosting something woul...

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I'm a free agent for the main tournament, and could probably read for trash.

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Re: COLT - University of Chicago - 7/31/2011 I'll read for this.

I'll read for this.

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I just don't understand why "college student" versus "not a college student" is any kind of valid distinction. To me, that seems like as strange of a dichotomy to draw as "player who likes pepsi" versus "player who likes coke." There's absolutely no reason why it should be more harmful or discourag...

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I'd play some sequel to NGST as well.

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marnold wrote:I was actually just being an ass, making fun of the fact Charles Hang was voicing a concern very explicitly addressed by 2 of the 4 posts in this thread.

I was pretty sure I had answered it already. Maybe the third post will clear that up.

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If this happens, I would try to make the majority of answer lines reasonably accessible to non-engineers. There will certainly be overlap with things in chemistry and physics (and maybe bio if I can figure out how) in what I had initially been thinking of, but if there isn't much interest I could ad...

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I don't care where mine would get played, if anyone actually would want to play it. Longer events would probably be a good idea.

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I was afraid of that. If this actually happens, I would try to keep answer lines as accessible to non-engineers as possible. If it doesn't, I may end up writing some of the questions anyway and just posting the questions.

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I've been thinking about writing some sort of all-engineering side event for a few months. It would consist of somewhere around 40 or 50 mostly short tossups, with no bonuses. There will probably be a bias towards chemical engineering and materials science, but I'll try to include topics relevant to...

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I have already started work at Dow Corning, a silicones company in Midland, MI. I'm probably done playing non-open tournaments, but I plan to make it to as many opens in the area as I can.

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After some of the issues at this tournament completely unrelated to the questions, I think some basic rules about running a tournament need to be stated. I'm sure Jerry can list these as well as anyone, but they were not followed this weekend and led to unnecessary delays and confusion. I hope and e...

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