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cvdwightw wrote:Is the 2007 MCMNT public as well or just the 2008 version?

It is public and is on http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com

Maybe it's just my computer, but Illinois Novice 2008 doesn't work for me on that website.

It doesn't work for me either.

Yeah, I videotaped this year's ICT final, but it wasn't my video camera, so Arnav Moudgil is the person who actually has the video. I don't believe he's put it online in any format yet, though.

I don't know how widespread this knowledge is, but if you end up being stuck with 16 teams, you can still do 2 initial brackets of 8 teams each, and each team will only have one bye game. It's a little tricky to arrange the schedule, but Berkeley's useful scheduling page tells you how to do it: http...

I have no control over the Stanford Archive myself, but it looks like we got some fresh blood in the club to (finally) start updating it again. Hopefully we can start filling the gaps in it by putting all the decent tournaments of the past five years on it. Matt brought up one good point: should we ...

I wrote the Aharonov-Bohm effect question. It's covered in undergrad quantum mechanics courses (maybe not at every university in America, but at least it appears in Griffiths, which I imagine is the most popular textbook for undergrad quantum nowadays). As others have said, it's come up a lot as eit...

But, I have a slight fear that this may cause a very small number of teams to think about shifting their membership to win these other titles. I want to strongly encourage teams, on their honor, to play their best 4 players on their top team...or at least be able to make a good faith argument that ...

DeisEvan wrote:I have heard from several sources that people are planning side events to ACF Nationals.

Since I haven't heard anything about this in over a month, am I correct in assuming that these side events aren't happening? It would be good to know before we book our flights.

Due to great demand, I added Jonathan to the rankings. You can see the rankings are still fairly volatile due to the small statistics: the force of Jonathan's massive gravitational field was strong enough to propel Seth Teitler ahead of Mike Sorice into second place (you can see that Seth outscored ...

Hi, I've been working for a little over a month on a computer ranking system that ranks individual players using a Markov chain technique. I'll give a brief description of the technique, and the present results. If you're bored by details, and just want to see the results, scroll down to the bottom ...

username: lindquist

Brian Lindquist, Stanford

For any set of weak-classifiers, this process is guaranteed to converge to a solution that classifies at least as well as the best classifier. Developed by Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire, this meta-algorithm involves repeatedly reclassifying the training data with the best of the set of original c...

First of all, I'd like to publicly apologize to MIT for getting them the packets so late. Never having edited a tournament before, I severely underestimated the time it takes to compile packets. I'm really sorry for the frustration it must have caused you. The frantic compiling of the packets also c...

There are no mirrors left, so go ahead and discuss.

Thirteen teams showed up to Cardinal Classic Saturday. Based on the number of teams and packets, we agreed to play a full round robin, with one packet left over for a one-game final if necessary to break a tie. At the end of the round robin, Maryland (Jonathan Magin, Charles Meigs, Chris Ray, Mike B...

Hi, Here is the final-ish field for Cardinal Classic: Daniel Orifice Fitting Company Chicago Kannan Chicago C Chicago D Chicago E Maryland UCI UCI/UCLA UCLA A UCLA B Illinois A Illinois B UC Berkeley Brown (w/ Hart) Yaphe/Hoppes/Beyer That makes 15 teams, so we'll probably add a house team to make i...

Yeah, I find Google Docs formatting in general really annoying. I don't think it's quite so simple to just say 3 lines in Google = 6 lines in Word, because Google Docs readjusts the lines when you resize your window, so it really depends entirely on how big your window is. I try copying the question...

The final deadline for submitting packets was yesterday, and I am still awaiting packets from the following teams who have not yet submitted theirs: Illinois A Brown Andrew Hart/Ryan Westbrook These teams should let me (blindqui AT stanford DOT edu) know ASAP when I can be expecting their packets. I...

If I choose the options "tight search", "both", and "both", and I do a search for Rauschenberg, the search results show the same bonus repeated 4 times (once for each of the 4 tournaments in the database). As for additional features you could add, it would be nice if one could restrict the search to...

Just a reminder that the final deadline for packet submission is a little over a week away. So far, I have received packets from these teams: UCI/UCLA Chicago Kannan UCLA Berkeley Also, from the Beaver Bonspiel mirror we have received an almost-full packet from Dartmouth and 4(!) packets from MIT. I...

Previous post updated to reflect current tournament field. Also, Andrew Hart is coming and is looking for teammates. If any teams that are coming need a player, please contact him (limozeen at gmail dot com).

All right, I got a lot of responses. I'll be updating this post with a list of what teams are coming to the tournament.

Teams (as of January 30):
Chicago (5 teams)
Maryland
UCI
UCI/UCLA
UCLA (2 teams)
Illinois (2 teams)
Berkeley
Brown (w/ Andrew Hart)
Yaphe/Hoppes/Beyer
House team

Just a reminder that the $40 discount deadline for submitting your packet is coming up in less than a week. It would be nice to get a firmer list of who's coming to this tournament as well, so that we know how many packets we should expect to be getting. Please let me know as soon as possible if you...

Are you still having trouble accessing the Stanford archive? I'm having absolutely no problems with it at all.

I don't want to make a big deal of it, because it's obviously not, but for whatever it's worth, the Catechism of the Catholic Church from the Vatican's website seems to prefer the terms "The Anointing of the Sick" and "The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation": http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG00...

The bonus on the Catholic sacraments lacked valid alternate answers. "anointing of the sick" is the official name of extreme unction (I very rarely hear anyone actually use the term extreme unction; according to wikipedia it is the pre-Vatican II term). Also, "reconciliation" should be acceptable fo...

Teams that competed at Stanford's ACF Fall tournament already received this information, but I'll just cross-post the results here: Ten teams came to Stanford to play in ACF Fall 2007, held on November 3, 2007. Congratulations to UC Berkeley, who remained undefeated through the round-robin, winning ...

Stanford Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce that Cardinal Classic XVII: The Stanford Quizzin' Experiment will take place on Saturday, February 2, 2008 . Note that unlike some of the most recent Cardinal Classics, this tournament will actually take place at Stanford. The team meeting will be at 10 am i...

This is an early announcement that Cardinal Classic XVII will be held at Stanford University on Saturday, February 2, 2008 . A full announcement will come sometime in the fall, but right now I just wanted to announce the date. This will be an academic packet-submission tournament, with difficulty so...

Stanford definitely plans on sending at least one team to this if it is in Berkeley. We might also go if it's in Irvine, but that's less certain.