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- Sat May 09, 2020 10:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17309
Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
Um, you do realize that (a) you'd be playing in teams, and (b) your team has a tied record against our B team, right? We still did the annual Oxford - Cambridge Varsity match when Cambridge A was routinely outperformed by Oxford C in tournaments. You just need to mythologise the Battle of the High ...
- Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8181
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
Tewkesbury is north of Gloucester; I believe the bonus part claimed the opposite.
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 10339
Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread
Maybe this is a UK vs US thing, but describing shoes as 'garments' in the red soles tossup seemed odd and threw me off for a bit; calling them clothing would have been clearer.
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 12:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (T)TIaC: Discussion of language and vulgarity
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5167
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
Also, many of us at the UK site felt that there was some racially careless language used, which seemed rather out of place. The only place where I think this could have applied was the first clue on the tossup on Francis Scott Key, which is why I put a moderator's note substituting offending word w...
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 3:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UK Player Poll 2016: We the East!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14354
Re: UK Player Poll 2016: We the East!
Fun Fact from further analysis #1 - People who completed the poll were on average placed 11.194 by others, whereas they placed themselves 10.4, which is a surprisingly small difference. Fun fact #2 - People at Oxford gave other people at Oxford an average of 149 points, whereas overall (including O...
- Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MLK: Specific Questions
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8027
Re: Specific Questions
At our site, a number of people (including me) were negged for saying Friedel–Crafts on the Friedel–Crafts clues for the electrophilic aromatic substitution question. Should this have been accepted?
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion (Penn Bowl 2015)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6493
Re: General Discussion (Penn Bowl 2015)
Am I misjudging the know-ability of Turner's relationship with Virgil;s work? I thought these would be pretty salient upper middle clues. Not at all. If anything, "This probably-British painter was doing mythological scenes from the end of the 18th century" was probably one of the easier ...
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Question Discussion (Penn Bowl 2015)
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15905
Re: Specific Question Discussion (Penn Bowl 2015)
There was a question on Eliot that mentioned her translation of Feuerbach and one on Feuerbach that mentioned his work being translated by Eliot.
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science Difficulty
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4107
Re: Science Difficulty
I've never even heard of the longterm evolution experiment. Is it important enough to merit a tossup at regular difficulty? I came across the Lenski E. coli experiment when doing some general reading for a discussion with creationists; the citrate mutation provides convincing evidence for evolution...
- Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
- Replies: 95
- Views: 30557
Re: Chicago Open Discussion
Further observations on the chem questions. For whatever reason, I find myself disagreeing with Billy about multiple bonus sets. I guess I'm coming at this from a position of ignorance re difficulty, not having played CO, but these bonus sets all seemed fine to me: 9: -Bartoli indole synthesis is al...