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Is there an established start time for this, or is it just going to be "whenever trash ends"? Will there be a break for dinner before, or is trash going to end early enough that we can play through this before a late dinner?

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dtaylor4 wrote:What I have, I sent to Bruce.

And Bruce is currently in Bosnia, so you might have to wait a little while.

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You've still got me in the free agents list, despite also having me on a team above.

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I am now a definite and will be playing this event with Mr. Mukherjee.

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Bruce has asked me to post this information: "Spring Offensive will operate as scheduled, starting play one hour after HSNCT matches end, which would place the start time at approximately 7 PM Central. If you want to play, please show up to the elevator lobby in the Hyatt, and please bring any avail...

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I'm playing this on a team with Matts Weiner and Lafer as well as Eric Kwartler.

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dtaylor4 wrote:Updated through R4.

I'm still only seeing the one through round 2.

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Maybe.

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Did not play, will not play, etc.

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When I was in high school, it was widespread knowledge* that Ezell-Harding had a class devoted to quizbowl.

*Veracity of knowledge not guaranteed.

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Is it at all possible for NAQT to pay for the transit of a third party who knows what's up to act as a co-TD with the ACUI-ran regions and act as something of a big sibling and as someone prevent things like over-zealousness and the like? I essentially did this for the Knoxville site, but without a...

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By phone call from Bruce Arthur, here's a short version of what happened at the end: Harvard and Brown were both undefeated heading into the last game of the playoffs; it finished 300-300. Harvard had a protest rejected over a bonus part. Ted gets the tiebreaker. Harvard then went on to win the fina...

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Sir Thopas wrote:why not just Hillel?

There was a tossup on Hillel (which I wrote) in last year's RMPFest, and Bruce wanted to avoid asking on the exact same answer lines.

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Magin/Weiner/Jerry/Eric vs. Bentley/Passner/Kwartler/Nagler (not for competitiveness but for the near-grail performance of the Magin team) Magin's team put up 380 against my team... in the first half. That's 380 in a 10-tossup, no-powers half of Chicago freakin' Open. And they scored 610 with a bon...

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Cheynem wrote:all-time worst questions

The one I always bring up in this discussion:

Patrick's Press wrote:China has had many dynasties. I bet you thought this was going to be a history question. For 10 points, spell "dynasties".

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Matt Weiner wrote:[Brad Rutter] returned to the NAC in 2006 as a moderator.

Brad Rutter was also moderating at the 2004 NAC, which I attended, so that date of 2006 is not entirely accurate.

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Shockingly in 2009, there are scanners that exist in your college, and the corresponding software that will allow you to scan to Microsoft Word. It still takes time, but just pointing out that there is another option. I'd never considered it. Not that I don't keep up with new technologies like the ...

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This is a minor point, but there is not much of a difference between mitzvah and commandment. Three of those clues would point towards Commandment as much as or more than Mitzvah. This question is technically correct once rituals are mentioned because rituals are not commandments, but there was a s...

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I have to give some props to Seth Teitler as reader, who didn't bat an eye instead of doing what I would do as reader and collapse into hapless laughter. Obviously, I should have said the last name, but I was concentrating so much on pulling the dude's name that I was like, "Patrick...Roy, that's i...

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BG MSL Champs wrote:
Cheynem wrote:From CO Trash:

ME: Patrick Roy
ANSWER: Brandon Roy
Did you say this like "Roy" or like "Wa"?

As his teammate, I can tell you he said it like "Roy".

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I have no complete results, but Bruce Arthur sent me a text message saying that Toronto D (featuring Bruce) won the Hamilton site.

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LIST OF TEXTBOOKS FOR MATH: -Serge Lang's Algebra, for Abstract Algebra (and I think Galois theory?) -Free Probability textbook yaaay: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html -Silverman's A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory, and the more advance...

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I pledged to Auroni to make a post about this after Mizzou Open was completed, because I've been seeing a little increase in a trend of people doing this. Can we agree right now to stop picking numbered UN resolutions, presidential orders, and the like for hard bonus part answers? We had one submit...

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When I was a senior in high school, my team (a first-time NAC competitor) was eliminated from the NAC by a lower-seeded perennial NAC team in a round featuring three questions on the geography and culture of their home area.

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DumbJaques wrote:
It's a discount for kidnapping people named Phil.
Sweet!

Watch your back, Durkos.

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I won't be at HSNCT and thus will not be playing. I'd otherwise definitely form a team with you, Ted.

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There has been one reported death from swine flu in the USA, and it was a small child who also reportedly had several other illnesses. During the last week, roughly a thousand people died of regular influenza.

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Matt Weiner wrote:First they came for the scientists geographers...

Fixed.

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I missed a question on Tintin? :( One polity featured in this series remembers the fourteenth-century defeat of Baron Staszrvitch with the motto, “Eih bennek, eih blavek.” That place uses Cyrillic orthography but has a language closely resembling the Marols dialect of French. Mineral water near Klo...

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BuzzerZen wrote:Yeah, my original file for the Hamiltonian cycle tossup has "incomplete" where I clearly meant to type "NP-complete." Kind of inexcusable for me to get that wrong when NP-completeness is what I'm talking about in class this week.

And likewise inexcusable for me to miss this upon reading it.

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As a side note I guess, I might add that this was the editors' replacement for my original math tossup. This was a CS replacement for a math tossup, as we wound up with a math bonus written to fix some distributional problems in your submitted packet (which can be discussed in private, as can the p...

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I'd like to thank the following people for helping me finish my portions (math and computer science): Mike Bentley, for writing most of the CS for the editors' packets, and for helping edit the CS. Evan Silberman, for freelancing two CS questions. Alejandro Lopez-Lago and Eric Mukherjee, for playtes...

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I'd just like to know which nine coaches voted that the Driver's Ed distro should be increased. If there were some way to mail them a slap across the face, I'd do it.

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ValenciaQBowl wrote:Y'all should come down to Tampa for the triple RR with me, two Valencia teams, Billy, and maybe some ragtag UF team. If we're lucky, maybe SC or UGA will come down.

Flights to Tampa are so cheap (i.e., cheaper than driving or flying to Maryland) I'm considering this.

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It's looking less and less likely that I'll make it to HSNCT this year. I'll probably be willing to write some questions, though, maybe for a finals packet. Of course, if I can make it, I'll want a team.

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There's a lot on Church St. off of Harvard Square that's a cash lot, but it's expensive and you can't park yourself. We used it a few times during my first two years. EDIT: Google maps link to the lot: here . Zoom out and you'll get a bearing of where it is in relation to Harvard Square and the camp...

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To support what Matt's saying, he made this excellent post with a variety of Nielsen ratings for major sports events. As I have pointed out, though, that was the season after the return from a lockout in a year when the Stanley Cup finals featured the two teams with the least following in the US, s...

pray for elves · Re: GUERRILLA - 4//3/09 or 4/4/09 - Dallas, TX Did the 20s get listed as 10s?

Did the 20s get listed as 10s?

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enagler at gmail

Thanks in advance.

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It also allows for the presence of math calculation to appease teams that like that sort of thing. I think it's getting old. In all the games we played on Saturday, nobody on either team ever actually chose a math calculation bonus. All other categories were regularly chosen, however. Did anyone in...

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If I make it to HSNCT, I'll play.

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In terms of things that were actually repeated in submissions, the most egregious things were getting roughly 10 submissions on the X-men in various forms (seriously, guys? This wasn't the Eric Mukherjee Memorial Trash Open), about five submissions on Kanye West, three on Blink 182 (really?) and may...

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I'll address a few of the specific criticisms in the morning when I can actually think, as I've just finished driving back from Atlanta. I appreciate the positive comments and the constructive criticism that most of you have been giving us through the discussion of this event; it's good to hear that...

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TRASH hasn't released their sets, but I think you can buy them.

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am·a·teur n. 1. A person who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession. Unless there's some secret shadow trash circuit where players make enough money to support themselves playing tournaments, I'd say that every player is an amateur. I agree ...

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Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:I thought answers weren't cleared for discussion anyway.

They're not, strictly speaking.

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[T]o use the Sorice packet as an example again, I think more than half of the tossups were on (or chiefly on) pre-1970s things. I know you don't have the packets yet, but this specific characterization of the Sorice packet is rather inaccurate, as my count is significantly lower than half. The pack...

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So, this afternoon I noticed that I apparently failed to save the final version of the Mike Bentley packet, which featured a bunch of proofreading fixes plus headers and numbering. Alternately, the final version got saved in the wrong place. Either way, the one that got sent out shouldn't have been ...

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Also, thanks to everyone who freelanced: Brice Russ Evan Adams (Dan Goff, but he did some editing too, so he's separate) Eric Kwartler Billy Beyer Charles Meigs Trygve Meade (a little extra once he found out he wouldn't be there) Dave Letzler I apologize to the people I've forgotten; I'll add you in...

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Packets have now been sent out to all of the hosts. The email they were sent with included both my phone number and Fred's; call one of us if there are any problems.

I hope everyone enjoys the set.

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