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There are still two packets I haven't heard in this event - packet 1 and packet 6. My team was in the room both times when a reader read the wrong packet. I don't want to pile on about things like distribution issues, bad questions, too much meta, or bad organization; these things are well-documente...

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I thought that, for the answers I knew something about, the questions were solid to very good, and Jeremy is to be commended. However, there were a few correctable issues; for one thing, a tossup on "Kazooie" should not come after Banjo-Kazooie has been mentioned in a bonus in the same packet. The d...

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I had a great time playing this tournament I submitted a CS tossup that was not included; admittedly, it may not have been a great question. I really didn't feel like there were that many questions on literary collections, which seems to have been a big complaint by some people at the MIT mirror. I ...

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Next thing you know, people will be claiming that "eponymous" is overused in quizbowl, too.

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I can probably staff this, although it depends on when I'm getting back from Nashville (where I'll be for the Florida vs. Vandy game).

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dtaylor4 wrote:Mike Sorice, [...] for inventing a form of quizbowl enjoyed by many, including most of the Minnesota contingent, Tryg, and myself.

I wish to hear the details of this new form of quozbowel [sic].

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Procul wrote:
la2pgh wrote:I'm not sure what sports you all are playing, but I've never experienced temporary blindness or vomiting after quiz bowl.
And you call yourself a real quizbowl player.

These symptoms start to manifest themselves after playing Chicago-Open-2008-length tournaments.

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Ned Gravelshirt wrote:From today's coaches round:
Given: Bridge on the River Kwai
Correct: Mikhail's Navy

Is that a hilarious misspelling of McHale's Navy?

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I'll staff this.

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Greg, if you're saying "possibly Oak Ridge" because of me, I can assure you that they have become close to inactive since I left (actually, they probably were fairly active in the next year, but after that...). Oddly enough, I never played MLK in high school, despite going to a number of in-state to...

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theMoMA wrote:Please note that there's no longer a Friday night quizbowl event, but I'm trying to see if we can get a basketball court for any interested ballers.

This had better happen, Andrew.

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I will also be at this tournament, and I do not have a team at the moment.

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I think you have us confused with RIT or something. We're located in Troy, NY (right outside Albany), about 160 miles from Brandeis I must've misread the abbreviation in your signature. You're absolutely right; Rensselaer is much closer to Brandeis than CMU, and I should stop trying to comprehend t...

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aarcoh wrote:Hopefully a couple of teams from RPI could attend the Brandeis site but this is totally speculative as I'm only in the early stages of forming a team.

There's nothing wrong with driving to Brandeis, but the Carnegie Mellon location is about 100 miles closer.

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Step 1: acquire a USB number pad (available for under $10) Step 2: rip off the number keys and solder buzzers and wires in their place (parts should be under $20 to just get some cheap buttons and wires) Step 3: since you're a computer guy, write code to handle locking out and buzzing in on your com...

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Long as we're talking about the finer points of "minor science", how much statistics was in this tournament? I seem to remember there being one stat question all day, but I wasn't keeping count. I don't know how many stats questions there were in this tournament, but given that stats are usually co...

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From everything I've seen, people who do research in biology, chemistry, physics, and astrophysics often wind up doing a decent amount of programming and get exposed to some CS concepts that way.

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When will we see stats?

Also, I recommend using the extra packet from yesterday as the finals packet for the novice tournament. "Harder playoffs" would be a slight understatement.

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theMoMA wrote:Go Sergio!

YOU KNOW SERGIO?!

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everyday847 wrote:"All elliptic curves with integer coefficients correspond to weight-two modular forms. Why?"

It is obvious from the definitions.

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Read this article. Especially consider the "How to buy a buzzer system" section.

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cornfused wrote:Homo habilis stood out as not being history. But 9/11 and Clinton worked fine, though they were a bit easy due to its recent nature.

In the room where I was reading both 9/11 and Bill Clinton went until just before FTP.

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dtaylor4 wrote:Prelim stats can be found here.

Overall stats can be found here.

...The stats are the same at both links.

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...Curling is already a Winter Olympics event. It doesn't get to "replace" anything.

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metsfan001 wrote:Questions on "hors d'oeuvres", always a good idea.

And yet you 20d the "Greek foods" 20-point bonus during the PACE all-star game.

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leftsaidfred wrote:
ValenciaQBowl wrote:Tyson Homosexual
Fixed.

I believe you mean "Autocorrected."

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wowitsquinthaha wrote:We got destroyed.

Doesn't matter; two high school sophomores playing without any help at a tournament like this one are to be commended regardless of how you finished.

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I take great offense to things like Hausdorff spaces and integrals being labeled as "trivia". Call it "math theory" if you want a name. Also, as no high school I've ever seen offers courses in point-set topology, Hausdorff is not a good answer selection for a high school tournament, even if I've wri...

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I will be playing this event with Evan Silberman, Eric Douglass, and Bryn Reinecke.

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aaargh please stop it questions on "forward slash" or "question mark" or "asterisk" or whatever are not good computer science questions Love, A Computer Science Major Thanks for saying this true statement, Computer Science Graduate I wholeheartedly agree with what has been said here. Love, Another ...

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Video exists of this year's ICT championship game, but I'm not sure if it's been officially published online yet. You may still be able to get it, though.

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Who's representing Tennessee at this?

Also, Silberman, you can thank Mike Tyson for that malapropism (sort of).

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My name, like Jonathan Magin's, does not have a long a; Nag (rhymes with hag) - ler (same pronounciation as Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Persei 8).

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Kit Cloudkicker wrote:There is no question that I will participate in and win this competition.

Edit: Does the entry fee have to be paid in Jew gold?

I'll take you down, Kwartler.

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Tegan wrote:Manheim Township identified IBM as the company behind the Think Pad laptop computer

That's not even true anymore! Lenovo has been making them for the last three years.

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Assuming I make it to Chicago, I'll be moderating, as I've told you.

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For the record, I'm not sure what the underlining was on the requiem TU, but I only said "Requiem" when I could tell it was an unfinished mass (not sure where exactly, probably near where Charlie buzzed or slightly after) and logically deduced it to be this one (since I couldn't think of others). I...

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Adamantium Claws wrote:stuff

Someone needs to edit this post; questions are being reused at the next phase, apparently. After that, those of us who visited will post more about what we saw, I'd guess.

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I'm going to play, but I'm still looking for a team.

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Gunnells wrote:I love sports, but NAQT overemphasizes sports in their trash questions.

I'm 99.9% positive NAQT has a sports distribution separate from the rest of their pop culture distribution.

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quizbowllee wrote:Kyle, please come over for gay sex.

Are you propositioning Mr. Haddad-Fonda?

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I have known people at Brandeis to triple major in disconnected fields, including one math/music/linguistics major and a bio/music/anthropology major.

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I, having graduated (or rather who will be graduating Sunday) from Brandeis, will be taking a year off to work while I apply to law school, and during the year off I'll be in Knoxville, TN (a.k.a. "home"). I will probably go to a few opens, depending on money, and if someone needs a free agent for a...

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metsfan001 wrote:Only one-tenth of people in America even receive TV One! Why are we even discussing this as a possibility?

I had never even heard of TV One until this thread.

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This morning on an old A-set I 30'd a bonus on "White and Nerdy". The hard part was identifying the "gentrified sport" they were playing in the music video. At Penn Bowl this year, I answered a tossup on "White and Nerdy" on the first clue - that the version of the Schrodinger Wave Equation mistake...

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evilmonkey wrote:I believe TRASH Regionals was looking at November 15, but I may be wrong

TRASH chooses a weekend, so tournaments on the Saturday are not a problem as TRASH Regionals can be on a Sunday.

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I will probably either play or staff this event, with a very small chance I'll miss it.

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I plan on playing this event.

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By the way, I really liked the trash in this tournament. It managed to cover things I was interested in and was probably the right difficulty, although that Led Zeppelin and MASH bonus was really easy. Thanks. I was hoping the MASH bonus was acceptable, because like Dark Eric said, it's a tough sho...

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Regarding the logistics issues, particularly lunch--would it make sense to have lunch provided next year? Are people willing to pay an extra $20/team or whatever it would take to cover this? At Chicago, we have typically provided lunch at tournaments--not in an attempt to spend the infinity dollars...

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