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Will this set be powermarked? Is there any update on optional packet deadlines?

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Dallas did not play in our game against Penn C so he should have 11 games played

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All you told me here is that you and Will knew a clue, which doesn't really help me since Will is a good player. Well, compare that lead-in to pretty much every single other lead-in you wrote. The others require you to have engaged with the works (listening, score-reading, etc.) in order to buzz, a...

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This piece’s first section is a grave sinfonia that repeats a dotted quarter – eighth motif; that section is followed by two recitatives for tenor. The last part of this clue is simply inaccurate. That section is followed by one recitative and one aria for tenor. When hearing this, I refrained from...

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RyuAqua wrote:Did this tournament classify Javert, clued from the Les Miserables musical/movie, as Other Arts? I love Les Miz, the musical, but I'd severely hesitate to toss up aspects of it in a tournament with no trash.

Yes, Javert was in Other Arts

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Our field cap is 32 unless we get more staffers. Teams that have registered in this thread but have not emailed me still need to do so.

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Okay, so I thought what you were doing here is that transitions and productions can be used interchangeably, I'm hesitant to prove it, but I think you can show that there is a 1:1 correspondence between transitions and productions for DFA's and their corresponding restricted grammar. Applying a pro...

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vinteuil wrote:"Song of the Night Wanderer"—where did you get that translation? It looks like someone misread "Lied der Nachwandler" as "Lied der Nachtwanderer."

These three sites seem to all agree with me

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Could I see the question on "Also Sprach Zarathustra" ? A 3/4-time section of this work begins with clarinets and flutes alternately playing groups of sixteenth notes over another theme that alternates between the trumpet and violin parts; that section features a prominent violin solo. Th...

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I think the parsability of the question text (not really a word, but you know what I mean) is the bigger issue I have with the question. As to the other issue about CSG's and CFG's - you are correct. A CFG without an empty string as part of its language is a CSG automatically. However, my main poin...

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I would call this, The Decameron, and The Arabian Nights short story collections because, even though they have frame stories, they are primarily made up of lots of separate stories. When I was reading through most of the categories in the week before the tournament, I found a recurring problem of ...

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I would have to see the question to be sure, but I believe the leadin to the "grammars" tossup applied equally to "pushdown automata", since they are equivalent to context-free grammars in expressive power. The “proper” distinction can be applied to one type of these systems if ...

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I would have to see the question to be sure, but I believe the leadin to the "grammars" tossup applied equally to "pushdown automata", since they are equivalent to context-free grammars in expressive power. The “proper” distinction can be applied to one type of these systems if ...

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Vernon Lee Bad Marriage, Jr. wrote:There was also a Paul Fussell bonus, I think?

You're right. We can replace one of these. Fussell was in academic other, but it's still probably too much.

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Hey, Saajid. Per my advice, Haohang's been updating the field in the second post. When a user who doesn't yet have 7+ posts edits the first post in a thread, the entire thread disappears until the post is re-approved. I've gone ahead and removed the original field update from the first post to elim...

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OK, yeah, I have absolutely no clue what an "anchor note" is. Any note that stays put like that despite becoming a dissonance is definitely a pedal point, especially if it's the lowest pitch like that. I thought pedal points need to be held out through the bar, not just played after anoth...

Ras superfamily · Re: DRAGOON at Yale (11/16/13) Can you update the field in the first post?

Can you update the field in the first post?

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Pedro Camacho is definitely Bolivian in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter . This is true and has been fixed in the packet The Mahfouz bonus seemed much harder than most of the world literature bonuses. I probably overshot the middle part by a little since it required some in depth knowledge of the Ca...

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Here's my round-by-round take on some of the tossups in this tournament. I thought the tossups were really where I had a lot of issues, and the bonuses were all right for the most part. Some of these criticisms are obviously much less important than others. R2 Canterbury Tales - Is calling this a s...

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The question on Messiah included a lengthy description of the first section of a generic french overture, which basically just says "this piece is a large baroque piece"—not incredibly helpful (maybe more helpful with the word "Sinfony" or something). It did, in fact, say that w...

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Renesmee LaHotdog Voight wrote:I think we heard three bonuses on World War I poetry, for instance.

There was a bonus on Wilfred Owen and one on WWI poetry in general, so there were two such bonuses

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I think my perception of the tournament is skewed with respect to what rounds my team played well in, but overall I think there was a weird concentration of tossups in some rounds either written on topics that either shouldn't be asked in a regular-difficulty tournament, seemed extremely niche or r...

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There was a bonus on Virginia Woolf stuff in one of that later playoff rounds, and we didn't answer Jacob's Room for the third part because the question already name-dropped Jacob. Was that supposed to be like that? Jacob was not mentioned in the question, so this may have been a moderator mistake

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There is a private discussion forum for this set

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I wrote and edited the lit, aural arts, non-film visual arts, computer science, economics, and linguistics. I would appreciate any comments about those subjects. Eric or Patrick will probably explain their division of labor at some point

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Great Neck South is interested as "West Egg" for 1 - 2 team, 0 buzzers, and 0 moderators. The team number is still tentative. Also, is the 200 miles traveled one way? Thanks! It is 200 miles one-way. Also, I need an official email registration from all teams so that I have an address at w...

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From the email just sent out to team contacts: Logistics: Plan to arrive at Meyerson Hall Room B1 between 8:15 and 8:45am. We will move to Williams Hall and begin games at 9:00am. Our schedule will have no byes, so it is imperative that you get here on time so that you can hear all of your round 1 q...

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nadph wrote:All checks must be made out to either "Saajid Moyen" or "Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania"

While I would appreciate this, you may not

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If we get a couple more teams signed up then we may be able to expand to a 30 team field. For now, though, the field is closed at 24 (at least until Maryland and NYU confirm their team numbers).

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Make sure to get a second registration in by Sunday, at which point we will probably set a cap at 24

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Redgrass1 wrote:By the way, I think you mean (teams, buzzers, moderators) on teams registering, based off of what other people have said. It just makes it less confusing.

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out

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We are now at 19 to 22 teams. I encourage everyone who wants to register to do so before Sunday night, at which point we will evaluate possible formats and place a hard cap on the field.

Ras superfamily · Re: QuAC V at Penn (1/25/2014) We will be using HSAPQ 42

We will be using HSAPQ 42

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Given the large number of registrations and our ability to field house teams to fill out brackets, we will actually keep registration completely open for at least another week.

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We are tentatively capping the field at 18

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This tournament has been rescheduled to January 25th, 2014

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We will be running our LIST mirror on either January 25th or February 1st

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This tournament has been awarded a Platinum NSC Affiliation

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Logistics: Registration will be in Meyerson Hall Room B1 between 8:15 and 8:45AM. Games will be played starting at 9:00AM in Williams Hall. Current Field (Teams/Buzzers/Moderators): Carnegie Mellon (1/0/0) Columbia (2/1/1) Cornell (2/2/0) Delaware (2/2/0) Fordham (1/1/0) High Tech HS (1/2/0) LASA (2...

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We are still looking for south/southeast and west coast mirrors. Let me know if your team is interested.

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The field in the original post is up to date. Get your registrations in! This is the only HSAPQ regular season set for the academic year!

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This is the announcement for the 5th iteration of the Quaker Academic Competition at the University of Pennsylvania. The tournament will take place on January 25th, 2014. Questions / Tournament Format: We will be using the HSAPQ regular season set for this tournament. These will be power-marked regu...

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NASAT coordinators, keep in mind that this set will be publicly available shortly after the last mirror is completed. It will NOT be protected as long as Penn-ance was last year.

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Teams interested in mirroring should contact me. We will be looking for and finalizing mirrors as the school year gets started.

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We are driving to Delaware on Saturday morning

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We will be starting at 9:00am and will take orders for lunch at registration. More information has been sent out to team contacts.

Ras superfamily · Re: VCU Closed: Penn Mirror (February 2, 2013) This field is now closed

This field is now closed

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Ridgewood and Charter A were tied at 1 loss at the end of the playoffs and Charter A defeated Ridgewood in a one game final on the last tossup to win the tournament. Full stats and rankings will be up soon.

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Field update: Dartmouth registered 3 teams. If any other teams are interested in signing up, please do so by the end of the weekend.

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