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by Ras superfamily
Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Closed: Penn Mirror (February 2, 2013)
Replies: 24
Views: 10369

Re: VCU Closed: Penn Mirror (February 2, 2013)

The field cap has been removed because we got additional rooms
by Ras superfamily
Sat Jan 05, 2013 12:33 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: QuAC IV at Penn (1/26/2013)
Replies: 22
Views: 8387

Re: QuAC IV at Penn (1/26/2013)

Our room reservations require us to cap the field at 40 teams. The original post will be updated to reflect this new information.
by Ras superfamily
Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Closed: February 2, 2013
Replies: 38
Views: 18838

Re: VCU Closed: February 2, 2013

RyuAqua wrote:who do I contact to register teams for the Penn site?
Me

Full post at viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13896
by Ras superfamily
Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Closed: Penn Mirror (February 2, 2013)
Replies: 24
Views: 10369

VCU Closed: Penn Mirror (February 2, 2013)

This is the official post for information regarding the Penn mirror of VCU Closed. This tournament is taking place on February 2nd, 2013. For information regarding the questions for this set, please see http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12678. This is a packet submission tournamen...
by Ras superfamily
Sun Oct 21, 2012 12:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
Replies: 63
Views: 12616

Re: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion

Wow this was a major mistake on my part. You are absolutely correct, and I will fix this for the next mirror. I apologize for the mistake
by Ras superfamily
Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
Replies: 63
Views: 12616

Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion

Any question specific discussion should take place in this thread. We would appreciate your comments to polish the set for future mirrors.
by Ras superfamily
Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn-ance General Discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 2030

Penn-ance General Discussion

First, I would like to thank everyone who playtested the set. Personally, I received a lot of help from, in no specific order, John Lawrence, Jonathan Magin, Mike Cheyne, Susan Ferrari, and Auroni Gupta. Eric also got a lot of help from various people whom I'm sure he will thank once he gets on the ...
by Ras superfamily
Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn-ance Discussion
Replies: 0
Views: 1201

Penn-ance Discussion

There is a private discussion forum for this set. You can request access in your user control panel. Please keep specific discussion to the private forum as this set is not cleared. Thank you.
by Ras superfamily
Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:09 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
Replies: 19
Views: 8009

Re: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)

We are currently in our lunch break. We plan to start round 6 by 2 PM
by Ras superfamily
Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
Replies: 19
Views: 8009

Re: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)

This field is now closed at 16 teams. The final email to team contacts will go out shortly.
by Ras superfamily
Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
Replies: 19
Views: 8009

Re: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)

There has been a slight change in the logistics for this tournament. We will be meeting in Williams in the morning, not Irvine. I will send out a final email detailing the logistics for this tournament in the next 48 hours.
by Ras superfamily
Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
Replies: 22
Views: 12327

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)

80% written, ~60% edited. Eric will post a progress bar at some point
by Ras superfamily
Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
Replies: 19
Views: 8009

Re: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)

Hey so this tournament is happening in 11 days. Sign up!
by Ras superfamily
Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
Replies: 19
Views: 8009

Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)

This is the official post for information regarding the Penn mirror of Penn-ance. This tournament is taking place on October 20th, 2012. For information regarding the questions for this set, please see http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13055 Registration Fees: Base fee: $120 per t...
by Ras superfamily
Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: QuAC IV at Penn (Spring Semester)
Replies: 2
Views: 1294

Re: QuAC IV at Penn (November 10th)

We were not initially aware of the conflict with HFT when we selected this date. However, we actually were not able to reserve rooms for this date, so we will reschedule to the Spring semester. Hopefully this will allow more teams to attend.
by Ras superfamily
Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
Replies: 22
Views: 12327

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)

This is the appropriate thread to indicate interest, but we will need official registrations sent to me at [email protected]
by Ras superfamily
Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: QUARK 9/29
Replies: 30
Views: 19691

Re: QUARK 9/29

Is there an east coast mirror for this?
by Ras superfamily
Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:05 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: QuAC IV at Penn (Spring Semester)
Replies: 2
Views: 1294

QuAC IV at Penn (Spring Semester)

This is the announcement for the 4th iteration of the Quaker Academic Competition at the University of Pennsylvania. The tournament will take place during the spring semester of the 12-13 school year. Questions and Tournament Format We plan to use one of HSAPQ’s ACF style sets for this tournament. T...
by Ras superfamily
Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:23 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
Replies: 22
Views: 12327

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)

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There hasn't been much progress since the last update, but we will be writing a lot in the coming two weeks (orientation and syllabus week). We have also gone back and edited a lot of the questions that we had written previously.
by Ras superfamily
Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:46 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
Replies: 22
Views: 12327

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)

We are still looking for mirrors in the following regions:

West Coast
Lower Midwest
Southeast
Florida
UK
Canada

Feel free to contact me or Eric if you are interested.
by Ras superfamily
Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:29 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)
Replies: 83
Views: 30475

Re: KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)

My team needs a new science player if anyone is interested
by Ras superfamily
Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:23 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012
Replies: 131
Views: 55473

Re: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012

I'll staff this tomorrow
by Ras superfamily
Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Buzzer systems
Replies: 52
Views: 33388

Re: Buzzer systems

I have used wireless buzzers at many HS practices. All of my HS practices were on Zeecraft buzzers. Having said that, The wireless Zeecraft buzzers suck. Sometimes they are slow, sometimes they are unresponsive, and sometimes they buzz without touching them. On top of all of that, they cost a ton. O...
by Ras superfamily
Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:16 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF editors and dates for 2012-2013
Replies: 29
Views: 9121

Re: ACF editors and dates for 2012-2013

I would be interested to see what people think about moving back to March, given that the tournament is during or immediately before finals for many schools. I would definitely prefer a March date.
by Ras superfamily
Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:25 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CO Matchmaking
Replies: 21
Views: 7224

Re: CO Matchmaking

My team (me, Jasper Lee, Ashvin Srivatsa) needs a new history player as ours had to drop out. Let me know if you're interested
by Ras superfamily
Wed May 30, 2012 9:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE
Replies: 62
Views: 31082

Re: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE

Having heard the sad news that fellow Bengali quizbowler Eric Mukherjee will not be playing this tournament, I have no prospect for vicarious glory and thus will unfortunately not be attending
by Ras superfamily
Mon May 28, 2012 12:10 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PRELIM: WELD (Wildly Experimental Literature Doubles)
Replies: 65
Views: 22268

Re: PRELIM: WELD (Wildly Experimental Literature Doubles)

I will be playing with Mike Bentley
by Ras superfamily
Mon May 21, 2012 12:06 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CO Side Event Wrangling
Replies: 38
Views: 10503

Re: CO Side Event Wrangling

My lit tournament is postponed for a later event
by Ras superfamily
Sat May 12, 2012 1:51 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PRELIM: WELD (Wildly Experimental Literature Doubles)
Replies: 65
Views: 22268

Re: PRELIM: WELD (Wildly Experiment Literature Doubles)

I'll join someone to play this. Be aware that I'm not good at hard questions.
by Ras superfamily
Sat May 05, 2012 5:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Fall 2012 schedule discussion
Replies: 52
Views: 11480

Re: Fall 2012 schedule discussion

On the contrary, there is something wrong with the Penn tournament, which is that the Penn team has proven over and over again that it is not capable of writing a tournament. When Eric agreed to do VCU Closed instead of Penn Bowl, I foolishly did not assume that Penn would be creating a whole other...
by Ras superfamily
Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Fall 2012 schedule discussion
Replies: 52
Views: 11480

Re: Fall 2012 schedule discussion

Sarah, we plan to run our site on 10/20, but we were assuming that, like October 2011, there would be two tournaments in the month with two weeks per tournament for mirrors

edit: grammar
by Ras superfamily
Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Fall 2012 schedule discussion
Replies: 52
Views: 11480

Re: Fall 2012 schedule discussion

We would like the Oct 20/27 dates for our housewrite and its mirrors
by Ras superfamily
Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2011-2012 Season
Replies: 63
Views: 32186

Re: Player Poll 2011-2012 Season

The way I am ranking players is by my perceived value in adding them to a team looking to win nationals. My ballot: 1. Eric Mukherjee: Eric can be added to any team and make it a national contender, as everyone saw with 2010 Penn. 2. Matt Bollinger: Matt can probably do the same, but unfortunately i...
by Ras superfamily
Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:13 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE
Replies: 62
Views: 31082

Re: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE

I'd like to read for this
by Ras superfamily
Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open?
Replies: 46
Views: 8849

Re: Chicago Open?

I will have an all tossup lit tournament done by late July if people want to play it
by Ras superfamily
Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Statistics for 2012
Replies: 12
Views: 3112

Re: Statistics for 2012

I think there needs to be a point where we assume that the statistics approximate a full A team
by Ras superfamily
Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:30 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Brush Invitational ( 3/10/12) Lyndhurst, Ohio
Replies: 4
Views: 1527

Re: Brush Invitational ( 3/10/12) Lyndhurst, Ohio

1. Hawken (10-0)
2. Warren G. Harding (8-2, won tiebreaker half packet)
3. Beachwood (8-2, lost tiebreaker half packet)

Beyond this, I believe Solon and Copley tied for 4th and Firestone got 6th.

Michael Coates (Warren G. Harding) was top scorer followed by Scott Remer (Beachwood).
by Ras superfamily
Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:57 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
Replies: 119
Views: 46158

Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion

I was disappointed to see that a couple of my questions were actually made incorrect through editing. I don't know if people edit without fact-checking that often, but I would like to emphasize that editors probably should not try to correct factual errors in submitted questions without the source m...
by Ras superfamily
Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals at GWU
Replies: 25
Views: 12756

Re: ACF Regionals at GWU

1 team, 0 discounts
by Ras superfamily
Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals at GWU
Replies: 25
Views: 12756

Re: ACF Regionals at GWU

Penn is going to this
by Ras superfamily
Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
Replies: 42
Views: 12323

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)

Stats are up through the round robin, minus the last round for the bottom 7 teams.
by Ras superfamily
Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
Replies: 42
Views: 12323

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)

We are running our HS tournament in the winter. More specifically, it will probably be in February, but I'm not making any promises.
by Ras superfamily
Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Minnesota Open IV (Nov. 19-20)
Replies: 72
Views: 25518

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Minnesota Open IV (Nov. 19-20)

Magister Ludi wrote:Is there any update about an announcement for the Penn mirror for MO?
I'll try to make sure this happens tonight
by Ras superfamily
Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:32 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Excelsior Rankings (dead forever)
Replies: 91
Views: 38182

Re: Excelsior Rankings

Of course, if you feel that Copley A at SAT/ACT was more of a B team than an A team, you could let me know, in which case I'd alter that in my data, and the next time I updated my rankings, you'd see the SAT/ACT listed under tournaments played by Copley B and C rather than Copley A and B. I'd say i...
by Ras superfamily
Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Excelsior Rankings (dead forever)
Replies: 91
Views: 38182

Re: Excelsior Rankings

Is there a way for me to see what our ranking would be if SAT/ACT wasn't included? Just curious to see what it says for the tournaments I played.
by Ras superfamily
Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park
Replies: 82
Views: 31351

Re: 2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park

Will team rosters be posted for the remaining 8 teams?
by Ras superfamily
Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:37 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Class of 2011 High School Set (Interest Check)
Replies: 26
Views: 7902

Re: Class of 2011 High School Set (Interest Check)

I'm definitely interested in helping out with this, though we would have to make sure to set up a system of deadlines like George did for FNT in order to make sure that it gets done close to whatever deadline is decided upon
by Ras superfamily
Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:16 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: OAC Talk
Replies: 41
Views: 6972

Re: On-going season rankings

2nd quote - What are the odds that out of 6 tossups and corresponding bonuses that it's going to fulfill the 10 categories (or however many there are in OAC)? Even without bonus conversion, a theoretical team could win 10-0 in a 20 tossup game with only one tossup answered (doubt this will ever hap...
by Ras superfamily
Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:40 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PSAT/NMSQT Mirror at Case - 3/5/2011
Replies: 6
Views: 3352

Re: PSAT/NMSQT Mirror at Case - 3/5/2011

Live stats at http://results.scobo.net/CHS/satact Finals stats at http://results.scobo.net/CHS/satact2 Quick recap: Solon was 9-0 after the round robin, and DCC B was 8-1 after the round robin. Solon won the second game of an advantaged final to win 1st place. Copley minus me went 7-2 for third plac...