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Were stats for this ever posted?

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The Norcross mirror has been canceled, so Wildcat at Northwestern is last scheduled mirror.

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Tryouts will be happening in two parts on Skype. One part will be a mandatory session on Sunday 5/18 moderated by Auroni Gupta, and for the other part, players have a choice between Thursdays 5/8 and 5/15 sessions moderated by Wilton Rao. Players must attend both parts to be considered. EDIT: We've ...

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I'll be joining the quizbowl gang at UChicago.

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I feel like allowing this would probably take away from the other players actually trying to make a place - especially considering that your specialties may conflict with some players and not others. I did this last year and I assumed it didn't cause too much of a problem for Hunter. I personally d...

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HSAPQ will be hosting their annual NASAT at Ohio State on 6/14-6/15. New York has historically sent a team of 6 each year, determined by tryout. Last year , the NY team consisted of Irit Huq-Kuruvilla (Ithaca), Wilton Rao (Hunter), Max Servetas (North Babylon), Alec Vulfson (Irvington), Cyrus Zhou (...

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Congrats to Dunbar A! I hope everyone enjoyed the set. As a reminder, Prison Bowl is not clear for public discussion until Monday, May 19, 2014. If anyone has any comments or feedback on the set, we would love to hear from you at hchsqb@gmail.com or in the Prison Bowl private discussion subforum (jo...

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I hope the set was enjoyable to play! Please remember that Prison Bowl isn't clear for public discussion until May 19, the Monday before PACE NSC. If players have feedback on the set, I encourage them to email us privately at hchsqb@gmail.com or join our private discussion subforum by going to User ...

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Norcross High School in Georgia will be mirroring Prison Bowl on May 3!

Prison Bowl was quite well-received last Saturday at our main site, so please contact me at [email protected] if you're interested in setting up a mirror.

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Also, the Chinese performing arts bonus was something I found stupid and an unnecessary ppb killer. I would be interested if there were conversion stats on this bonus. Conversion stats for the Hunter site have been crunched. This bonus averaged 18.13 ppb in 16 rooms. The 0/10/20/30 spread was 1/6/4...

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I'm starting a very in-depth grammatical analysis of each tossup, but I'd like to know if it would actually be worthwhile. Uh, would it? I was also going to do interpretation and stuff like that, but there were many nitpicky mistakes that I noticed. Wow, thanks. Feel free to email/PM me with the re...

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Hi. It appears our match against West Egg is wrong. The final score according to our sheets was 570 to 100 not 360 to 100 and our ppb was definitely not 13.12 in that match. Just wanted to point that out. Not sure why that mistake is there. Thanks, this has been fixed. Same error in the combined fi...

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Apologizes for the delay. Afternoon games including crossovers and combined stats have been posted. Attached are the morning and afternoon schedules to help you navigate. Please let us know at hchsqb at gmail if you spot any errors. Finishes in the top tier brackets are below. 1-4 were broken by cro...

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Thanks for your comments! I'll address the parts I'm qualified to address, ie Chinese performing arts along with social science and philosophy, and leave science/history to Sarah and Jonathan respectively. Regarding the Chinese Opera, I think it was probably more esoteric than you originally thought...

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- What even is this Chinese performing arts bonus. I really hope this is trash, and even so, this should probably be a bit easier This was shadow puppets/Beijing opera/xiangsheng, and was part of the other visual arts distribution. All three of these are academically studied subjects, and indeed, t...

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Again, it would be really helpful to hear why you're requesting a question ! Artists often paint fruit baskets to demonstrate their prowess at replicating everyday objects. For 10 fruity points each, name some things about artists who depicted them: [10] This artist included fruit in many of his sti...

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The Yam-Eating I thought was very misleading and thank god I did not buzz on it. It's typically best to avoid phrasing that is overused in tossups for a different thing as the first clue and then have a ton of people neg it. Again, I don't think it's the responsibility of the editor/writer if playe...

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Thanks Sean, for those detailed comments! As the literature and philosophy editor, I'll address those questions, as well as any misc questions I wrote. - Not straight up accepting "integer" seems a little cruel to me I don't understand how this is cruel. The difference between a primitive ...

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Again, since the goal of this thread is to discuss questions, we'd love to hear *why* you're requesting a question, not just can you post question x. Josephus described this man’s death as occurring at Macherus. This man’s famous acts were said to happen at either Ænon or Bethabara. When the father ...

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Chunky Sean wrote:Hi. It appears our match against West Egg is wrong. The final score according to our sheets was 570 to 100 not 360 to 100 and our ppb was definitely not 13.12 in that match. Just wanted to point that out. Not sure why that mistake is there.

Thanks, this has been fixed.

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One composer from this country wrote a concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra named after The Trial. His orchestral L.A. Variations was premiered in 1997, during which he was under tenure conducting for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Another composer from this country included a march-l...

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Thanks for the detailed comments, Sean! 1) Two of my teammates complained that the visual art was not so great. They mainly bemoaned the lack of Renaissance era artists and a large amount of common link questions on "this country", "this object", "this person", etc. ins...

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Updated prelim stats have been posted here . Please email us at hchsqb at gmail about any errors or typos. Playoff, crossover, and combined stats will be posted by midweek. We deeply apologize to Kellenberg, which should have advanced to the top playoff tier in place of West Egg A, but was relegated...

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Trash is not thrown out until the fifth day of this festival. Prior to this festival, an effigy of the Kitchen God is smeared with honey and torched, and an inverted fu and couplets are hung beside doors. A legend associated with this festival warns of a child-eating monster that is scared by loud ...

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We'd rather take more time to put up more complete and accurate stats, so I've taken down the prelim stats previously posted and we're aiming to get completed stats up around midweek. Apologizes for the delay. I'd like to remind teams that the set isn't clear until May 19, when the last mirror concl...

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To get the discussion started, here are some concerns that have been brought to our attention at our Hunter site. Please feel free to discuss these aspects, as well as any other concerns you have. - In general, more alternate answers and promptables should be specified in answer-lines. - Science tos...

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If you'd like to see and discuss a specific question or two, this is the relevant thread. We'd like to hear your feedback or concerns about any requested questions. That is, instead of a request to see a question, it's much more helpful for us to hear why you are requesting to see it. EDIT: Let me b...

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We'd love to discuss general trends in the set in this discussion thread. If you want to discuss or see a specific question, please direct your attention to the other question-specific thread. General trends would include difficulty level or evenness either of the set as a whole or in specific categ...

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Some quick results of the crossover:
1. Charter A
2. High Tech
3. St Joseph's A
4. Charter B

We're going to fix the prelim stats tonight and tomorrow. Playoff stats will be up soon as well.

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Prelim stats have been posted here . See Sarah's post above for playoff rebracketing. Jack Mehr from St. Joseph's in the In Praise of Shadow Sneak bracket was our top prelim individual scorer with an astronomical 96 ppg. Our next six individual scorers were Sean McBride from High Tech with 91 ppg, M...

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Scratch my penultimate post with the convoluted format. The field has closed at the magical number of 36, so teams can expect the following format. Prelims: 5 games in 6 brackets of 6. The top 2 teams in each prelim bracket will qualify for the top tier of 2 brackets of 6. Subsequent teams will ente...

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~~We still have 1 spot open in the field. We're hoping not to run any byes or house teams, so let me know if you're interested in sending another team.~~

EDIT (3/21): Field is closed at 36, we're all set now.

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We are pleased to announce that the field cap will be raised from 36 to 42 teams. Wheatley A-C, Scarsdale, Gotham, and Bergen C are now in the field. EDIT (3/20): Ignore the below format, it's defunct now! For our current 36-team format, see this post . Prelims will be round-robin in 7 brackets of 6...

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As a heads-up to waitlisted teams, we're considering raising the field cap from 36 to 40 or 42 teams. In the interest of ending the tournament at a reasonable time, any expanded field format we consider would not add extra rounds. We're working on the reservations for additional rooms, and we'll kee...

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Could I see the Byron/Shelley bonus, the Thatcher/Argentina bonus, and the Leviathan tossup? Vasari and the Iditarod guy both seemed excessively hard as hard parts. I don't know much about comp sci, but I think the answer-line for CPU should account for the possible answer of "processor", ...

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This set was pretty fun to play. I thought this set generally did a good job crafting creative and original bonuses that still were of reasonable difficulty (Quechua ponchos and Minoan bull-leaping come to mind). I'm not a math person, but I was also happy to see math functions being tossed up (e^x)...

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Hunter cleared the field. I'm not sure what everyone's record was, but placement for top 7 is below. There were 7 qualifying spots here because of low turnout upstate. 1. Hunter 2. Kellenberg 3. Irvington 4. North Babylon 5. Bronx Science 6. Highland 7. Ardsley Full stats are apparently going to be ...

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The field has reached its cap of 36 teams, and additional teams will be placed on the waitlist. It's very likely that teams drop as we approach March, so I encourage schools to register and occupy a spot early in the waitlist.

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czheng0708 wrote:if more outside mods are needed, I think we may be able to provide another one.

Thanks for the offer, but we're set for now. We'll keep it in mind if our staffer situation changes.

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Prison Bowl has now been platinum-certified by PACE, so the top 25% of the field (top 9 with a field of 36) will qualify for PACE NSC in DC in May! There are only 4 spots left before we reach our current field cap, so I encourage interested schools to register promptly. EDIT (3/17): 11 teams will qu...

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Teams from the waitlist have now been entered into the field, bumping our field up to 30 teams. There are only 6 spots left where our field cap currently stands, so I encourage schools to register promptly!

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As a player, I try to put in at least 30 minutes a day on quizbowl outside of practice. It this something everyone should be expected to do? I've found that it's difficult to specify exactly how much time people should spend outside of practice learning for quiz bowl purposes. While some players mi...

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We expect the tournament to finish by 6:00pm.

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We're excited to announce that Northwestern University in Illinois and Norcross High School in Georgia will be mirroring Prison Bowl again this year! Dates are still being confirmed; we will keep you posted when they are.

EDIT: Northwestern's Wildcat is tentatively scheduled for Sunday, May 18.

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Apologies for the delay. The registration form is up now. A reminder that while you may register as many teams as you'd like at this point, only the first two teams will enter the field and the rest will be placed on a waitlist until January 15.

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Hunter College High School is pleased to announce the seventh annual Prison Bowl on Saturday, March 22, 2014 . Hunter is located in a brick castle at 71 E 94th St between Park Ave and Madison Ave in Manhattan, New York. The tournament will be directed by Marianna Zhang and Sarah Hamerling, who can b...

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Before I took a couple courses in philosophy, most of my exposure to philosophy came from philosophy blogs. SEP and IEP, mentioned above, are superb resources but their articles are often dense and long, which can get boring and technical for people making their first dips into philosophy. I'll seco...

marianna · Re: Scarsdale Tournament- 1/11/14 To whom should a check be made out?

To whom should a check be made out?

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We're happy to announce that Prison Bowl will be mirrored at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee! The date is ~~tentatively May 3~~ April 19. Details and tournament announcement are forthcoming.

EDIT (1/25): The Vanderbilt mirror will be held on April 19.

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Thanks to Harvard for running a packed tournament! Thanks also to the super cool Stephen Eltinge and other readers. This was a really fun experience for our teams. Apologies to DCC and Ridgewood for skipping out on our superplayoff games - we had to catch the last bus out of Boston. I'll second the ...

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