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Annual Shady Side Tournament for Overachieving Academic Students of Totality

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Hell, if teams want to make last minute travel plans, come on up to the Harvard site and we will give you one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) for writing a packet. Restatement (Second) Section 90 -- Promise Reasonably Inducing Action or Forebearance (1) A promise which the promisor should reasonab...

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William Afham wrote:
theMoMA wrote:I think Ryan's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" from the Impossible Speedchecks qualifies here.
That's got to be one of the best I've ever heard of.

What was the actual answer?

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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Live stats after 2 and 1/3 rounds: http://www.doc-ent.com/quizbowl/acffall08_games.html

That link appears to be broken.

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grapesmoker wrote:I can almost see myself coming to this. What's the best way to get to Columbia?

Drive. And pick me up on the way.

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Aziridine wrote:Anyone got tips, or is this like asking NY to vote for a Republican?

Now, what's so difficult about that?

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NRacademicteam wrote:First of all, who said anything about a blender??

I suggest you consult the QBwiki.

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I played Chip questions in high school, and it is patently ridiculous to suggest that a top team from the PACE NSC or NAQT HSNCT would do poorly on his questions. They might lose a game due to Chip being Chip (as my team did at NAC in 2004, losing to a Westchester team in a round with several New-Yo...

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NRacademicteam wrote:What none of you realize is the actuality that math questions, despite not being able to be answered before the end of the question, are in fact pyramidal.

NRacademicteam wrote:pyramidal

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

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I gotta ask- why were there 10 people on the Tulsa team? was it that people just showed up at varying times of the day or were 10 people there the entire time? If I had to guess, I'd say that since they were hosting, they probably had all the staffers rotate in and out so they could each play a few...

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Actually, the theory is what you should be learning in class. All those problems you do are merely to reinforce the theory.

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AlphaQuizBowler wrote:What does FTSNOP mean?

For the stated number of points.

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Whig's Boson wrote:Mandy Moore

Whig's Boson wrote:MANDY MOORE

Do you really need to ask this question?

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ClemsonQB wrote:Unless Vandy lost that last game to UTK, I believe we were tied with them at 2 losses a piece. Either way, my day was too long as it stood and the major traffic jam on the way home didn't help matters.

Vandy did lose that game to UTK.

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I just wanted to throw out the fact that Evan Nagler is an awesome reader. Evan, if you feel like spuriously flying across the country just to read ACF Fall, we have a spot for you (we wouldn't pay for any of your expenses, but the option is there...) While I appreciate the offer, I'll probably jus...

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Despite the late start to the UF-Vandy football game on Saturday night, I can confirm that I will be showing up to staff this on Sunday. I can also bring my own laptop if you plan on running a paperless tournament.

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It wasn't a full circuit, but I definitely played in a couple of tournaments intended for "JV" (= frosh/soph) teams in high school. The only one I can remember by name is the Cookeville Cavalier JV Wonder Bowl.

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al3xWal3x wrote:and on that note, whats ACF? (like, whats the diff between ACF and NAQT?)

Consult QBWiki.

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Magister Ludi wrote:Was this the rumored Herbie Hancock tossup I heard about?

Yeah, that's the one.

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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 pac...

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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 i...

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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 ...

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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 tourname...

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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 ...

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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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