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anderson

What time are you planning on running this at HSNCT? I'm trying to see if I can potentially play Imaginary Landscape or META in addition to this (though I'll admit that it doesn't seem likely given the timing).

anderson

I’m also looking to join a team and would be happy to play with anyone. I know some stuff about video games and “indie” music and have very little knowledge everywhere else.

Edit: I have a team.

anderson

Here is the boundedness tossup: Continuous measurable functions must have this property almost everywhere to be assigned the L-infinity norm. The Riemann-Stieltjes integral can be computed on functions whose total variation has this property. In topology, if for every x, a metric space has a finite ...

anderson

Replying to some math/CS comments: I think Kakutani's theorem is more obscure than the Kakeya needle problem (I could be wrong, though). Maybe swap those clues? I don't think this is necessarily true. For example, if you take any game theory course you will probably learn about the Kakutani fixed po...

anderson

I'll have another music packet similar to my packets the last two years (and with contributions from Diana Gerr this time). There will probably be around 15 tossups.

anderson

A while ago, I wrote ~17 silly bonuses for my Festivus music packet that didn't get played (the content is pretty similar to the tossups, which you can find in the Festivus packet list ; it's mostly recent indie music), so if people are interested I could read them sometime. I'll tentatively schedu...

anderson

A while ago, I wrote ~17 silly bonuses for my Festivus music packet that didn't get played (the content is pretty similar to the tossups, which you can find in the Festivus packet list ; it's mostly recent indie music), so if people are interested I could read them sometime. I'll tentatively schedul...

anderson

Thanks to Rob for running this! Even though it seemed even slower than last year, it was still a lot of fun. Scores for my packet were: Alston 3/2/0=65 Will Nediger 0/3/0=30 Arun 1/1/0=25 Matt W 1/0/0=15 Oliver 1/0/0=15 Rein 1/0/0=15 Chris Stern 0/1/0=10 Greg 1/0/1=10 Mike Cheyne 0/1/0=10 Rob 0/1/0=...

anderson

I'm done with 20 music tossups and might write more by Friday, though I'm also writing a few silly bonuses to cram in more material. Judging from the "Best Albums of 2016" thread, I think at least a decent number of people should have fun with this.

anderson

I'll probably have a music packet for this, similar to last year (~10 tossups on 2016 "indie" releases, ~10 tossups on random things).

anderson

Billy can only make it later in the evening, so this is being rescheduled to 7 PM EST, still on Sunday. I am assuming that this is fine for everyone else who already signed up, but let me know if that assumption is wrong.

anderson

As promised, the Skype mirror is happening and is currently scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, August 28. Time: We'll start at 7 PM EST, and it should take at most 3 hours to complete. If you really want to play this and can't make this date and time, let us know (we're not imagining a very larg...

anderson

I posted in the main thread earlier that discussion should wait until the skype mirror (announcement coming later tonight), but given that a decent number of people have played this, it would be nice if there was a centralized place for discussion now*. So feel free to give feedback, talk about your...

anderson

This set is finished and packetized :party: , and will soon be e-mailed out to all mirrors (currently just Michigan, but if anyone else also wants to mirror this send us an e-mail). The final distribution was: 3.5 Arcade/8-bit/16-bit eras 2 32/64-bit eras 3.5 2000's (6th gen-7th gen up to 2009) 3.5 ...

anderson

I don't know if Anderson can, but I don't know how to make a Skype mirror work from my end, unfortunately. I've tested questions with friends over Google Hangouts before*, so I'd be up for hosting a Skype or Hangouts mirror later this summer. *More specifically, on my mac, I used a combination of S...

anderson

This is the announcement thread for Eternal Sonata , an audio tournament on video games written by Anderson Wang (formerly of MIT) and Jasper Lee (University of Tennessee). We're going to try to finish at least 5 packets of 20 tossups each in time for Side Event Weekend, but if that doesn't happen i...

anderson

I guess the deadline is coming up, but if anyone still has an open spot on their team (or wants to make a team), let me know. I am pretty terrible at trash, but I know things about video games and recent music, especially "indie" music.
Edit: I've found a team, thanks Tejas.

anderson

To add to the trash, Jasper Lee and I have been working on and off on making an auditory video game music tournament (title TBD). Right now we've made ~50 tossups out of a planned 100 or so and could probably finish it by August, though if there's already an excess of trash side events, this could b...

anderson

Mitchell Lee (a friend) and I wrote a small amount of math questions for this. I don't have the set, but looking at the spreadsheet, I think the ones that were used are "numbers", torus, Achilles, and Fourier transform. I also sent in a few CS questions which weren't used; I assume that was because ...

anderson

I'll have 20 (maybe a few more) tossups on random music-related things, including some amount of "indie" music from 2015.

anderson

There are also quite a few games in which teams got a 5 mod 10 number of bonus points.

anderson

Arnav Sastry and I will be playing as "Sonnets from the Rogueportuguese"

anderson

I'm interested in playing and will team with anyone who doesn't care if their partner only has fake knowledge of JRPGs. PS - There is now an audio packet of questions as well. It's just the gift that keeps on giving! Man, I wanted to be the first guy to write audio video game tossups (I made enough ...

anderson

I'm interested. Second half of April or later would also be best for me.

anderson

I'm interested in playing this and am looking for teammates.

anderson

I'll be going to MIT and plan on playing quiz bowl.

anderson

Unfortunately, due to a combination of a lack of interest and some school policies that we can't seem to work around, we are canceling this tournament.

anderson

Hi,

I sent an e-mail to you on March 19 asking to register (to pinyan@gmail.com), but unfortunately, it looks like it didn't go through. Could you confirm that you didn't receive any registrations from Wissahickon, just to make sure? Thanks.

anderson

Due to a combination of some logistical issues and the fact that we would have to pay massive fees to keep the school open on a Sunday, this tournament is now rescheduled for 5/5/2012. I'd like to repeat that even if you're slightly interested in coming, please e-mail us at wissahickonquizbowl AT gm...

anderson

I'll play.

anderson

Wissahickon should be fine with almost every date. The one exception would probably be March 25, since it's right after our own tournament (well, assuming that we get enough registrations to run a tournament :wink: ) February 12 is one day after the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament, so I (and possibly ot...

anderson

Wissahickon High School will be hosting Wiss-Wash (Wissahickon's mirror of Washington University's WUHSAC) on March 24, 2012 , as our team’s (Andrew, Nate, and Anderson) graduation project. To register, please email us at wissahickonquizbowl AT gmail.com with school name, number of teams, number of ...

anderson

Hi, Thanks to Mr. Powers for a well-run tournament! I want to apologize again (and explain to everyone else why we have a 0 against GNS A) for our brainlessness after the prelims. We were sorta confused because our moderator told us to go to the cafeteria after round 3 for a lunch break, so we decid...

anderson

Hi,

We're fine with the field being split into two divisions, given how difficult this set seems to be. We'd choose the expert division.

anderson

Wissahickon is planning to host a tournament sometime late winter/early spring, which will also be our team's (Andrew, Nate, and I) graduation project. Right now, we're going for March 24, but this date isn't set in stone; if more teams could come on February 18 or 25, then those dates would also wo...

anderson

I'll just leave this here...

anderson

I'll have to talk with my teammates to confirm, but we'll probably end up going to the history bowl. Which means for now, it seems more likely that we would be able to come on May 14th. If the majority of our team ends up not being able to go to the history bowl or if we are unable to find a driver,...

anderson

Hello, A few weeks ago, I sent an e-mail to the address provided on the NAQT website, asking if our team could participate in the NJ or DE state championships, instead of PA's, as we live in the Philadelphia suburbs and the drive to State College would be about 3.5 hours. I'll quote the response I r...

anderson

We thought the tournament was very well-run, despite a slight delay in the preliminaries, and everything went very smoothly. Thanks to everyone at SJHS who helped with making it a fun day! And overall, the set was great. I'll be sure to talk with my teammates, and hopefully, we can get at least 2 te...

anderson

Thanks to everyone at Charter for making this a fun tournament. We had a lot of great readers, and everything was run smoothly the whole day. Overall, it was awesome, and we had a great time. Happy holidays to everyone! There are a few corrections, which are pretty minor: In our 5th round game again...

anderson

Our team really enjoyed going to this and had tons of fun playing, so thanks for running a great tournament! All of the moderators we had were pretty awesome, and it was run fairly smoothly, although some of the questions were a bit, let's say, sub-par, which isn't your fault of course. Also, hello ...

anderson

I think s8k4 and Arsonists are pretty spot on when they say math shouldn't be grouped with science, especially at the high school level. Yes, it's true that "Mathematics, by definition, is a science", but that doesn't mean having 3 math and 4 science questions in a set should be considered as 7 scie...

anderson

The tournament was great fun, and our whole team really enjoyed it. We originally had some students who were hesitant at driving 2 hours to a quiz bowl tournament, but afterwards, they all said that it was a great experience and that they would like to go to more competitions in the future, so thank...

anderson

Although I'm a junior, I was also only introduced to quiz bowl this year, so I'm in a similar position. Most of what I'm going to say probably seems obvious already, but oh well. For me, pretty much all of my studying has been reading through packets+looking interesting things up on wikipedia. I'm i...

anderson

Thanks to everyone who helped organize/volunteered/baked cookies/etc. for the tournament! Our team wasn't really sure what to expect, and in the end, the way the tournament was run (pretty much every part of it) really left a good impression on all of us and made for an extremely fun day. It also mi...

anderson

Hi, just to clear things up, I'm the student who registered the Wissahickon team. I attend Wissahickon High School (no surprise there) and I'm trying to organize a quiz bowl team there this year, but the administration is pretty annoying when it comes to starting a new extracurricular activity, so i...

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