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Mild forms of entertainment brought to you by the San Mateo and Bergen County teams at this past ICT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9SMQWg6d-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Gz5o0feVo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDGCm6mTZc

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http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/ ... nn-partner

Didn't know he won the 1986 National Spelling Bee.

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Seemed like there were a lot of kids running around with those headsets, so I didn't know if it was some school-run or student-run operation.

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Wall of Shawarma wrote:It'll be fun to find out which is the ridiculous 1 loss wonder team this year.

Is there free wifi at the hotel? Or am I dreaming since this is a business hotel with astronomical fees for that service?

- from the airport

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grapesmoker wrote:
Kit Cloudkicker wrote:I hear the ACF website will shortly be under new management. Certainly they could and should be posted there.
I'll be updating the website soon and will incorporate all these things into it.

Yes. Yuri has now taken over, as I have been raped over and over by thesis research.

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Someone please tell Jonathan that he doesn't have to wear ties to a tournament anymore.

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millionwaves wrote:What's e-mail?

Seriously, though, that would be an interesting guide to see, indeed. Anyone from Wash U care to comment?

Bleh - just e-mail Raj at rsbhan # gmail.

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vandyhawk wrote:I think he meant you get the same number of credits as taking one round-trip flight, that number being two.

Bleh, never mind. It's been a long night/day for writing questions.

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For anyone who hasn't rented a car for this weekend yet, check this out: http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=462867 You can get the equivalent of one full round trip flight in Southwest Rapid Rewards credits by renting through Hertz for 2 or more days. I think our total came o...

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If anyone need an American Airlines discount, I got a 10% off group of 6 coupon in the mail today - PM me if you want it.

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In my professional opinion, someone here needs to seek psychiatric attention.

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DumbJaques wrote:ACF Regionals 2008: HAL the tossup-reading robot teaches you about canon and cannons, hilarity ensues?

Clear the buzzer system, HAL.

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Consider Omaha, as the drive is shorter by about 75 miles, with less traffic. Southwest flies there. Also consider driving to Boston and then flying to Minneapolis ($280). Thanks for the tip, but Omaha is still more expensive than Midway and 75 miles is not a big deal. Also, Boston is a colossal pa...

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According to mapquest, itÂ´s only 400 miles anyway ... thatÂ´s not as bad as I thought. For such a short trip, that airfare is pretty frickin ridiculous. I am strongly considering flying into Chicago and driving from there. 400 miles is nothing. Consider Omaha, as the drive is shorter by about 75 m...

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So somebody want to write up a new set of rules?

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Nice meeting ya'll (some of you again) at the tournament - good luck in the future.

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Seth Kendall won followed by Harding A which also won the Division II title.

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Quizbowl has enough trouble dealing with getting enough teams to tournaments. You want to exclude non-SEC teams?

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I, for one, don't have time or the interest in writing science history questions, and will only edit such questions when I don't have a choice.

There are simply too many important and interesting topics to write on without resorting to writing about science history.

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If you need a moderator, let me know. I'm just up the interstate in Birmingham.

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This year, I assume, is a bit different, since a large number of people may have qualified via the recent online pretest they had at jeopardy.com. Actually, they changed the procedure; instead of random draws for auditions of 100+, they had random draws among people who passed the test for audition...

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When I was on in '97, they said something like 25,000 people try out and only about 500 are selected, and that's for the regular show. Your odds are likely much worse for the high school or college shows, even though the applicant pool is smaller. Passing the tryout is the easy part. Your folder ha...

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I'm starting medical school at Michigan State this July, and I won't be playing for them at any tournaments (I don't think they go to tournaments, except for CBI, which doesn't count), but maybe I'll feed my addiction by crashing their practices every once in a while. I might play MLK next year too...

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As Eric said, "You want the bonus? You get the tossup." The whole point of having pyramidal tossups is to differentiate levels of knowledge among players and allow the most knowledgable to get the tossup and answer the bonus. If you have problems losing buzzer races, then maybe you should...

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Maybe Mr. Barry is being sarcastic, but he has a very good point. Aside from NAQT Nationals and State, every tournament we go to over the year has bounce back bonuses. On top of that, The timed matches we use in Kentucky generally have a lot of time left over, rather than a lot of questions left ov...

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Oh Mr. Barry, I'm terribly sorry that some of us moderators upset you this weekend. You're right, we should all slow down to accomodate the slow speed at which you claim the southeast plays quizbowl. Next time I read for you at an HSNCT, I'll make sure to slip into the slow, drawling Texas accent I...

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Jason: I know many here claim Chip has stolen questions before. I simply am not familiar with any questions he supposedly stole from some other copywrighted source. I do know that Chip Beall does not write all his own questions. I would suggest anyone with evidence that Chip has used questions unde...

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I went to the NAC in New ORLEANS IN 02 AND 03 AND 04 and I witnessed no favoritism nor did I hear anyone suggest that in talking to coaches and players. I felt and still feel that Chip has made major improvements on his questions compared to my earlier experiences at the NAC in 1988 and 1989 and 19...

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By the powers of Google Translate: http://www.ntv.co.jp/quiz/about.html As for the high school student quiz, the active high school student of entire country competes intellect and the physical strength and teamwork, every year it is the very important event of the usual summer. As for the 1st high ...

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Looks great. Brief correction: for 2006 ACF Regionals, answers no longer have bolding or underlining to indicate minimum correct answers. EDIT: also see some wierd stuff going on in the packet database, but I'm sure you'll be able to work out those problems. If you want, since I can host PHP now on ...

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Alternately, I think it may be time for another West Coast nationals. Stanford and Berkeley bid on ACF Nats one year jointly, but didn't get it. Either the Bay Area or Los Angeles would work pretty well, although flights to Oakland are usually cheaper than to LAX. Jerry, I bet there would be a lot ...

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I'm not quite sure whether or not to believe that one cannot prepare to do well at NAQT. I think there are already a few examples whereby the converse is true - Subash owning the field at the 2003 ICT, Sudheer's (ack!) power runs in the last two are suggestive that one can prepare to do well and eve...

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I know that I am thankful that college quiz bowl has ReinsteinD to sort out our issues for us. How would any of us deal with the complexity without his leadership. Perhaps we should appoint him head of a new college players association (modelled on his Illinois coaches association). "but NAQT ...

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smithson wrote:4: Illinois -- we will bask in the light of the Potru a little longer

I don't know what to expect, a sunburn or seasonal affective disorder.

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Jerry Vinokurov almost found the grail (19/1) at ACF Nationals!

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Questions for ACF Fall 2004 & 2005, and ACF Regionals 2005 & 2006 have now been posted, and with ACF Nationals 2005 being posted as soon this years National Tournament is concluded. Questions are posted at the Results page at: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/results.html . A site redesign i...

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suds1000 wrote:and Jason Paik will be a dick for no apparent reason.

--Sudheer

Only for you, Suds, only for you.

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myamphigory wrote:I was just curious about this, since it came up in one of our matches at Regionals: what is the minimally acceptable title for Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus?

If I remember correctly, the whole thing (this came up in my room).

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is it good to have people answering biology questions based on things they learned outside biology (also e.g. Selene's example with "gonorrhea")? Sure it is. Why not? After all, it's not like you're answering based on a "sounds like" clue or something stupid; you're answering ba...

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A few comments: -I don't see Gleevec as an unacceptable answer for the hard part of a bonus. Granted, I'm in a cancer biology program at Chicago, where Janet Rowley, whose work on the Philadelphia chromosome led to the development of Gleevec, works, so I may be biased here. I encountered Gleevec in...

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As a biomedical engineer, I've taken a boatload of classes with bio in the title somewhere, but I think I've let myself fall in the trap of only writing about stuff that has come up before. It's sometimes hard for me to judge what would be gettable by someone who has only taken, say, intro bio, so ...

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Actually, I think the mitochondria question is not very good. The Margulis/endosymbiosis clue is way too early. Of course, for all I know, the answer could be chloroplasts, but if I was playing against a team with any biology knowledge and they hadn't gotten it yet, I would be buzzing then. I would...

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As for the diversity of question-writing for biology, I agree there is a lot of diversity in topics covered in "biology". On the other hand, I don't know how many evolutionary-developmental biologists there are there. I'd enjoy a question that is disciplinarily "biogeophysical chemis...

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After hearing some rather uneventful biology questions over the last couple of years, I think I can safely say that biology question-writing in general lags behind writing in the physical sciences and math. Take the case of physics, one can find topics coming up in each of the sophmore-junior under...

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stench of Wikipedia I just wanted to point out that ACF Fall is guilty of the same as well, if there is anything guilty about that. EDIT: also after reading your message completely, I don't think it is justifiable to level possibly correct criticism during a tournament . During a match is not the t...

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My point isn't that being "taciturn" (or, with all due respect to Mike, being a jerk) has no "effect on other participants." My point, rather, is that unless someone actively harms another person during a tournament nobody has the right to raise this kind of fuss about "beh...

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What is this, high school? Come on, people. We're all adults here. If someone wants to be "glum" or "sulky," he has every right to be. It's one thing to come to a tournament while sick and spread germs to other players, but as far as I know nobody has ever been harmed by an outb...

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grapesmoker wrote:What is it, "grail"?

Getting all twenty tossups.

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Briefly,

Vanderbilt A ran the table at 12-0, with Kentucky Seth Kendall at 3 losses in second. Barring some controversy, Seth scored a grail against UT-Knoxville B. Seth won the scoring title, followed by Monica from Louisville.

More should be upcoming from the great folks at Knoxville.

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Just a quick reminder - games have yet to be played in Knoxville. Please refrain from discussing questions until the end of Sunday night.

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