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by Daedalus
Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: ESPN @ UChicago (3/23/24)
Replies: 7
Views: 2397

Re: ESPN @ UChicago (3/23/24)

Sufficient interest has been shown! We will be playing TELEOLOGY (probably 3?) Saturday after ESPN. Format TBD, most likely a 1-2 room shoot-out.
by Daedalus
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: ESPN @ UChicago (3/23/24)
Replies: 7
Views: 2397

Re: ESPN @ UChicago (3/23/24)

Sorry for the late reply to all this. I have set up a tab on the signup spreadsheet that people can use to indicate interest in playing TELEOLOGY 2, either Saturday after ESPN (start time ~6 PM based on CMST) or Sunday in conjunction with other side events (or both, interest-wise). If at least 8 peo...
by Daedalus
Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:12 am
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: ESPN @ UChicago (3/23/24)
Replies: 7
Views: 2397

ESPN @ UChicago (3/23/24)

I am pleased to announce that the University of Chicago will be hosting a mirror of ESPN on March 23, 2024! I, Adam Fine, will be serving as tournament director. In a huge upgrade from my previous work as tournament director, I will resolve protests via sending them to the ESPN discord. If you have ...
by Daedalus
Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:08 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: ESPN (Spring 2024, 3.5-4 Dot)
Replies: 10
Views: 8248

Re: ESPN (Spring 2024, 3.5-4 Dot)

Sorry for the delay - big deadline this Thursday. Announcement for the Midwest mirror will be up Friday.
by Daedalus
Mon Jun 12, 2023 7:46 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 53
Views: 50704

Re: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion

Apologies for the lateness of this post, I took a month off of all things quizbowl after Nats and then my computer broke. That said the science at this tournament was excellent and deserves to be posted about, even a month and a half after the tournament. First, the negatives: there were 2 (two) tos...
by Daedalus
Sat Nov 05, 2022 11:49 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CMST II @ UChicago (11/19/22)
Replies: 11
Views: 4087

Re: CMST II @ UChicago (11/19/22)

The unofficial spreadsheet is up to date, i.e. there are no teams that have officially registered that are not also on the sheet.
by Daedalus
Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CMST II @ UChicago (11/19/22)
Replies: 11
Views: 4087

Re: CMST II @ UChicago (11/19/22)

This tournament is just over two weeks away! A reminder to:

a. register your team if you have not done so already
b. if you are a free agent, email other free agents to conglomerate
c. sign up to play/staff the Logomachy mirror

See everyone in two-ish weeks!
by Daedalus
Mon Sep 19, 2022 2:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CMST II @ UChicago (11/19/22)
Replies: 11
Views: 4087

CMST II @ UChicago (11/19/22)

I am pleased to announce that the University of Chicago will be hosting a mirror of CMST II on November 19, 2022. I, Adam Fine, will be serving as tournament director. Unlike certain past events hosted by UChicago, this tournament will be adequately staffed. If you have any questions about the tourn...
by Daedalus
Mon Aug 15, 2022 5:48 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Wordcounter: A Google Docs Add-On
Replies: 2
Views: 1743

Re: Wordcounter: A Google Docs Add-On

Updates: wordcounter works for any document formatting (including final packets), rather than needing a specific heading layout the output is now formatted in a much easier-to-read table (see the github for screenshots) the internal logic for identifying question/answerline text has been made much m...
by Daedalus
Tue Aug 09, 2022 5:54 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Wordcounter: A Google Docs Add-On
Replies: 2
Views: 1743

Wordcounter: A Google Docs Add-On

I created a Google Docs Add-On that adds a sidebar containing word and character counts for all the questions in a (properly-formatted) category Google Doc. Here is a screenshot of it being used on leftover science questions from WORKSHOP 2022: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8041675/18376...
by Daedalus
Mon Apr 04, 2022 12:17 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 NAQT ICT: Division I specific question discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 2345

Re: 2022 NAQT ICT: Division I specific question discussion

Could I see the tossup on particle beams, please? In particular, I'd like to know why "particle collider s" was promptable and "particle accelerator s" wasn't, given that those terms are generally used interchangeably for "the larger apparatus in which particle beams are use...
by Daedalus
Sun May 03, 2020 5:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 9113

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion

Packetization issues: if I remember correctly, packet 2 had 2 computational chemistry questions, and packet 12 had 2 E&M physics questions the chem in packet 2 was lone pairs/MO theory stuff, but I think lone pairs had enough non-purely-comp chem clues that I'm fine leaving it where it is. Pack...
by Daedalus
Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 9113

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion

13. One effect involving these particles is derived by defining a quadratic form on pairs of Weyl [v”eye”l] spinors and taking the determinant of the associated matrix. Smirnov and Mikheyev predicted that decreasing the density of matter along the paths of these particles can resonantly enhance the...
by Daedalus
Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146936

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

My point re: Tejas was that, despite the fact that his power count more than tripled between FO and TO, he was not an outlier in my data set (my original post mentions him 5 times as an example of someone who clearly didn't cheat but had comparable-ish stats to Chris - clearly if I was accusing Teja...
by Daedalus
Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146936

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

Clearly the evidence was compelling enough that it prompted Eric to come clean after defending himself for the past week. One potential downside to revealing the method to the community at large would be that future cheaters, having internalized this thread, may change their behavior in a manner th...
by Daedalus
Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146936

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

Ike wrote in the discord: Just wanted to post this here since it was brought up. The timing of Eric's post has nothing to do with Ottawa Hybrid's mirror. It had to do with me formulating the statistical evidence, double checking that I crossed all my ts and dotted my Is and showing it to Eric ourse...
by Daedalus
Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146936

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

I think an important point lost in all of this statistical discussion is that, all we're proving is that Chris's performance at TO was anomalous. I think my post disproved a few common explanations (Jordan and Matt played together! The history was easier! He had different teammates!), but it's impo...
by Daedalus
Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:44 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146936

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

I took Anson's dataset and did the logical step of normalizing power counts by tournament (so that each column had a mean of 1, but the exact value doesn't matter). Here's what the data look like (no color-coding, sorry): https://i.imgur.com/rCtQZDtl.png then, just like others have been doing, I cal...
by Daedalus
Mon Apr 06, 2020 10:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146936

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

NOTE: this post is long and probably not structured great. Over the past few days, I've been doing some analysis of TO, FO, and MWT stats to try to determine if anyone cheated at the TO online mirror. The raw stats spreadsheet I used is attached (EDIT: apparently not? not sure why it's not attaching...
by Daedalus
Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 7
Views: 1101

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Thanks and General Discussion

There was 2/2 orgo (aldol condensation, aromaticity, lithium/polymerization/Wittig, bicyclic/spiro/chirality) and at least 1/1 orgo-adjacent (fatty acid biosynthesis, thiamine/carbene/base) in the first 11 packets, which seems alright to me. It does appear that some answers that were supposed to be ...
by Daedalus
Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:26 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 9113

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion

There are also some questions I'd like to see... variance. 20. This quantity contributes a factor proportional to “1 over: the sample size times the bandwidth” to the risk of a KDE. The EV of the quantity: “an estimator minus a function” squared can be decomposed into the square of the EV of “the e...
by Daedalus
Thu Feb 27, 2020 7:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 9113

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion

Round 4 : -Free radical was confusing to several players because of the pronoun choice. Can this please be posted? 5. Indirect measurement of atmospheric concentration of one of these compounds using methylchloroform showed that its concentration was, surprisingly, nearly constant. These compounds ...
by Daedalus
Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:33 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 7
Views: 1101

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Thanks and General Discussion

I edited the chem, physics, and (most of the) math, and am pretty pleased with how things turned out, especially the physics. I wrote a total of five questions for the set, and one of them was in myth; that means that 93% of the wonderful content I was the nominal editor for happened because of my w...
by Daedalus
Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 9113

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion

note: I have slightly modified the aromaticity tossup since it was played, but no clues were added or removed 20. Shu-Li You’s group pioneered a class of reactions in which compounds lose this property known as CADA reactions. When a nucleophile displaces a substituent of a molecule with this proper...
by Daedalus
Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:10 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25363

Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata

I think the question on the "oxide" anion was rather confusing, given that the majority of the question was on the formation and usage of silica, a covalent compound. The question would have been clearer as a tossup on just "oxygen" (as "this element").
by Daedalus
Sun Nov 17, 2019 6:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 66
Views: 14356

Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion

Two minor-ish comments on the bio (which was overall, like all of the science, quite good IMO): First, I'm surprised I'm the first to comment on the dephosphorylation tossup, given that it was negged in 62.5% of rooms across all sites. The lead-in has a number of problems: CheY can autophosphorylate...
by Daedalus
Thu Aug 15, 2019 7:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
Replies: 43
Views: 19221

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)

Borrowing 100,000 Arrows wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2019 6:40 pm The target difficulty of Terrapin Open is halfway between ACF Regionals and ACF Nationals... no more than a third will be above ACF Regionals difficulty (with at most one CO-only answerline per category).
How can you write a Nats-minus tossup on a CO-only answerline?
by Daedalus
Tue May 07, 2019 7:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2019
Replies: 92
Views: 63830

Re: Player Poll 2019

I know it’s late, but Adam Fine should be in your top 25. Not only does he bench 195, but he also put up 48 playoffs PPG at ICT (2nd scoring to Jacob) and outscored Stephen during Nats prelims. I can't comment on how much Adam Fine can bench press, but by my calculation his PP20TUH was actually 25 ...
by Daedalus
Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:47 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Players Choice Awards
Replies: 52
Views: 37572

Re: Players Choice Awards

I think Yale B (Moses Kitakule, James Wedgwood, Hasna Karim, Michael Kearney) beating Columbia A (Rafael Krichevsky, Ben Zhang, Gerhardt Hinkle, Daniel Shao) 310-235 at Regionals should be in the conversation for upset of the year.
by Daedalus
Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: BHSAT XXVII @ Yale (2/10/18)
Replies: 11
Views: 7937

Re: BHSAT XXVII @ Yale (2/10/18)

Thanks to everyone for coming! Hunter A took first place by clearing the field by three games; Lexington A defeated West Egg in a 1-game playoff for second. Full stats are available here. Hope everyone had fun!
by Daedalus
Sun Dec 03, 2017 6:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT SCT at Yale (2/3/18)
Replies: 0
Views: 2895

NAQT SCT at Yale (2/3/18)

Yale Student Academic Competitions is proud to announce that the 2018 New England Sectional Championship Tournament (SCT) will be taking place at the Yale University on Saturday, February 3th, 2018. This tournament is open to all college teams, and will be a qualifier for the 2018 ICT , which will t...
by Daedalus
Sat Sep 30, 2017 8:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2017 Early Fall Tournament (EFT) @ Yale
Replies: 5
Views: 4737

Re: 2017 Early Fall Tournament (EFT) @ Yale

Thanks everyone for coming! Congratulations to MIT A, who defeated Amherst A 340-200 in the first game of an advantaged final, and Columbia Azure for getting 3rd. (SQBS) Stats are available here - contact Will Alston about advanced stats.
by Daedalus
Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:32 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: FAcT XIII at Yale (09/16/2017; New Haven, CT)
Replies: 3
Views: 4692

Re: FAcT XIII at Yale (09/16/2017; New Haven, CT)

Thanks to everyone for coming! Congrats to Darien A for defeating Andover in the first game of an advantaged final, and to Wilton for placing third. Full stats are here.
by Daedalus
Sat Jul 29, 2017 5:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NASAT + Side Events at MIT (July 29, 2017)
Replies: 15
Views: 7670

Re: NASAT + Side Events at MIT (July 29, 2017)

Stats are here. Big Ballers defeated The Committee to Legalize Ranch in game 2 of an advantaged final to take the tournament.
by Daedalus
Thu Jun 08, 2017 11:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open 2017 - July 22nd
Replies: 60
Views: 37997

Re: Chicago Open 2017 - July 22nd

Will there be an extension to the June 11th deadline for teams with players that are staffing PACE?
by Daedalus
Mon Mar 06, 2017 2:03 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
Replies: 90
Views: 20238

Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion

Err, the other one? The parts were Sumer/Dumuzi/Cain and Abel. Thanks again.
by Daedalus
Sun Mar 05, 2017 9:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
Replies: 90
Views: 20238

Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion

Can I see the Sumerian myth bonus? Thanks!
by Daedalus
Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT SCT at Yale (2/4/17)
Replies: 0
Views: 2245

NAQT SCT at Yale (2/4/17)

Yale Student Academic Competitions is proud to announce that the 2017 New England Sectional Championship Tournament (SCT) will be taking place at the Yale University on Saturday, February 4th, 2017. This tournament is open to all college teams, and will be a qualifier for the 2017 ICT , which will t...
by Daedalus
Mon Oct 03, 2016 4:23 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ACF Fall (HS only mirror) @ Yale (11/6/16)
Replies: 2
Views: 4043

Re: ACF Fall (HS only mirror) @ Yale (11/6/16)

UPDATE: Yale's ACF Fall mirror has received Platinum certification from PACE! The top 25% (rounded up) of the field will qualify for the PACE National Scholastic Championship, which will take place either in late May or early June 2017.
by Daedalus
Sun Aug 14, 2016 10:34 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ACF Fall (HS only mirror) @ Yale (11/6/16)
Replies: 2
Views: 4043

ACF Fall (HS only mirror) @ Yale (11/6/16)

Hello! I am pleased to announce the Northeast site of ACF Fall 2016 , to be held at Yale on Sunday, 6 November 2016 . ACF Fall is the year's premier introductory-level collegiate quizbowl tournament, and we do hope that you join us at this event. Location and Parking In-person registration will begi...
by Daedalus
Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:21 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: BHSAT XXV @ Yale (2/13/16)
Replies: 3
Views: 4217

Re: BHSAT XXV @ Yale (2/13/16)

Congratulations to Wilmington Charter, who defeated Bethlehem A in a one game final, 440-250, to win BHSAT XXV!

Full stats for the tournament are already available here thanks to the superhuman statkeeping efforts of Ben Zhang.
by Daedalus
Fri Jan 29, 2016 2:04 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: BHSAT XXV @ Yale (2/13/16)
Replies: 3
Views: 4217

Re: BHSAT XXV @ Yale (2/13/16)

UPDATE: BHSAT has been Platinum-certified by PACE, meaning that the top 25% of our field will qualify for the PACE NSC.

3 spots remain!
by Daedalus
Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:56 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: BHSAT XXV @ Yale (2/13/16)
Replies: 3
Views: 4217

BHSAT XXV @ Yale (2/13/16)

Yale Student Academic Competitions is pleased to announce that our twenty-fifth ( :party: ) annual Bulldog High School Academic Tournament (BHSAT) will be held on Yale's campus on Saturday, February 13, 2016. The tournament will use untimed rounds of 20 tossups and bonuses from our housewritten BHSA...