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Plenty of space on teams for all the events!

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I will have more coherent thoughts on the structure of this tournament later, everything since the rail situation has been a nauseous sleep deprived blur. Stats are here. Please check for corrections in your name (I've already been informed of some). I will send the results to NAQT no earlier than t...

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What was the conversion for the Mir question? Some math bonuses seemed like 0 or 30 bonuses. The most egregious example was the one that asked for the second derivatives of three expressions. That's an easy 30 for anyone with calculus knowledge, 0 for those without. What is the intended difficulty o...

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This was really fun. I'll pm you some minor comments. My favourite moment was when Ted asked me a content question before the tournament, I said idk, and of course it shows up and neither of us or others in the room know the answer. What's the online format going to be? We did tossups only, so if bo...

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My five hour train ride from Montreal to Toronto has turned what could be up to a ten to eleven hour ride. It's not actually that bad though, with nobody sitting beside me, free wifi, and the attendants coming around with free food after around hour seven. Good thing the tournament starts at 10 tomo...

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This sounds like a great idea for the second summer open. The 60 USD mirror fee, while probably the correct amount in general in terms of writer compensation (which goes for regular academic stuff too), is much higher than expected for a subject tournament.

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I'm a huge fan but also bad at qb, would love an irc or skype readthrough. Glad its season 10 and before. Ladonna gets on my nerves. There's a podcast about a year old called Elwood City Limits that is hosted by two Canadians in their mid 20s and I would recommened it for sure. They point out a lot ...

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I think this shortening should especially happen to regs+/nats- stuff as a friendly way for both new players and new staffers to be introduced to hard stuff, and also to get a good number of games in without spending too much extra time (which is inevitable because of worse players and readers).

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NHBB also has hosted some stuff in BC, Alberta, and more consistently in Quebec. Quebec is a weird situation because their equivalence of secondary and postseconday schools go 7-11, 12+first year, 2nd thru 4th year. Generally, the NHBB teacher supervisors say that just doing NHBB is too much work fo...

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I can read for this and all other Sunday stuff too

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I'm gonna play the sports thing and staff everything else.

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Hello everyone! This is the announcement of this year's Carleton Side Event Weekend. Here is a list of available stuff for reference. EDIT: The schedule and costs of the events have been posted in the next post. XENOPHON will be moved to the late afternoon/evening of August 12th at Toronto, the same...

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Are there other cool at-home stuff like this

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Staffing ballot: I use a magic formula to balance quantity and quality. 1) Rick "Rhino" Catibog - all around nice guy who will staff everything and do whatever's needed to help out. Brings buzzers and is willing to travel to staff. 2) Me - makes the best memes in Canadian QB 3) Aaron Dos R...

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Stats!

Hope y'all enjoyed yourselves. Thanks especially to Shervin, Yana, Dmytro, and Kyla for coming to staff, and Julien who popped by later to read in place of me so I could go finish up the stats.

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This is a tough ranking to tackle. I used some magic formula to balance things like specialism/generalism, scaleability, etc, without looking into non-playing related skills like how good they are at reading or how nice they are as a person. A common question I ask is: Would I rather be a trio witho...

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Is a Sunday, June 25th mirror on the packets they will play on Saturday a possibility?

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What is the target difficulty of this tournament? In previous years the guideline was "SCT D1", but it wasn't really followed.

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Don't rely on public transit to get you back from lunch!

Start time for Sunday is going to be 9 AM as well, in order to adjust for the lunch break and to get all the out of towners on the road by 3pm. Expecting a double round robin from 9-12 and, lunch until 1:30, and then semis and finals.

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Remember there's a regular difficulty tournament coming up this weekend, followed by a trash tournament! Don't cast your ballots to soon.

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The control room for this weekend will be Paterson 115. This is the same building that SCT and the mirrors of Fight the Power and HIT occurred earlier this year. Please be ready to play for 9 am on Saturday and Sunday The buffet will NOT be open. As such, Lunch will be tentatively scheduled to be 90...

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3) The Canadians proved themselves. This goes beyond McGill sneaking into the top bracket - Toronto getting 11th and 14th at Nationals shouldn't be overlooked, especially in light of the fact that they were ranked 24th beforehand. Their stats weren't stunning or anything, but it's getting the W tha...

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You should vote for Rein Otsason in your science player poll. A big part of Toronto's success is his specialty in the physical sciences. His weakness at bio harms him moderately, but it wouldn't be a far stretch to call him a reasonable candidate for top 5 physics players.

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Results are as follows. Apologies for not remembering the names of the bee finalists. Results should be on the website soon. BOWL: Senior: UTS, Bayview, RSG (8 teams) Junior: Lisgar, UTS, Westmount (10 teams) MS: UTS, "Awesome History", Selwyn (5 teams) BEE: Senior: UTS, RSG, Colonel By (~...

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Aaron's Rod wrote:Will Nediger is Canadian.

Will Nediger is the only person to have won ICT, ACF Nationals, and Reach for the Top Nationals. Has anyone come close to winning all three of ICT, ACF Nationals, and University Challenge?

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I'm pretty sure this format was used for ACF Nationals 2015 and CO 2016. Two brackets shared a common room and the round order was adjusted (since it doesn't really matter what order you play the other teams) so that every round, two teams from one bracket had byes and two teams from the other playe...

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What are the roadblocks with ACF Nationals moving to a hotel?

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This situation seems like a bunch of teams fucked up and not on ACF or whatever. With responsible teams ACF buying like 10 buzzer sets seems wasteful... Furthermore, it's clear that there are enough buzzers out there (even locally) between official organizations (NAQT, PACE, NHBB, but NHBB was confi...

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Alston spends 26 minutes jerking himself off about how good he is at philosophy. hey man I just needed a break from hearing about the 2013 international linguistics olympiad Ha! So we're not the only qb team with this problem! Doesn't help that he also went the year after and came like 3rd or somet...

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On a smaller note, McGill upsetting Columbia to make the top bracket also deserves a mention. I'm glad to be a member of the worst top bracket team ever. We've always had a good matchup against Columbia for some reason. Also having the original 3rd seed missing their best player helped. There's a 6...

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I'll continue the tradition of writing but not showing up. I'll write a packet set up like an IHBB packets, but only if you promise that you read the third quarter like reach snappers.

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4. I think NAQT would be more willing to distribute packets electronically if people weren't distributing packets all over the place. Respecting copyright would be a good start. Even if you subscribe to the "have not" and "have much" theory of money, there are a LOT of free pack...

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So, what about this: First, how much does NAQT make on selling the packets? I'd be shocked if it were that much, and would bet that I'd be perfectly happy with distributing that cost among the 32 teams that go to ICT. (I guess it's possible this isn't true... but at the very least, it would HAVE to...

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The Canadian championships this year will be held at Lisgar Collegiate Institute (29 Lisgar St. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) on April 29th. Please see this link for more details. Teams should already be aware of this information. Further questions about the tournament itself should be directed towards N...

Fado Alexandrino · Re: Attain the Summit 2 @McMaster - April 15, 2017 Looking for a team!

Looking for a team!

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Okay, so I will be staffing HSNCT, so I guess I could run it Saturday night, but people who've been to it before will have to answer the following three questions for me: 1) would it be feasible to run a 12-round (including finals) tossups-only tournament after 7 at night? It probably wouldn't get ...

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These continue to be cool. Best one so far has got to be map 29. Two suggestions: 1. For proportional symbol maps and dot maps, it would be helpful to know if these represent all the possible things or just the top some number of possible things. the small purple dots (there are nineteen) indicate t...

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I will submit a pack again!

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I'll post stats after figuring out how to deal with the 25/20/15/10/-5 scoring scheme

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http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

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Hi we have rooms now! Meet in Paterson 115 at 8:30 for the history tournament. If you're coming only for FIGHT THE POWER hiphop tournament be there by 1:30, ideally we'd start not long after that. Schedule: - History - 9am to ~12:30pm - Hip Hop - 1:45pm to ~4:30pm The EYES mirror has moved to Saturd...

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Well, I assume they're going to get more specific in the private discussion forum, but I also think that this sort of drive-by mockery isn't exactly productive. I thought the set wasn't perfect, but it was enjoyable and particularly in some areas was really very strong. Yeah, this was not a "c...

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Hey I need to get other stuff done tonight and tomorrow so final stats for this and ACRONYM aren't gonna be up until Tuesday.

A hodge-podge team of Rafael, Ian, Huma, and Paul won the tournament.

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Missed the sports discussion, but to respond to Erik's post -- Sports Canadians care about are incredibly different from what the target audience for pretty much any non-Canadian trash field cares about. A generally aware Canadian isn't going to get stuff at a level harder than "regular/regular...

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Carleton University will be holding an open mirror of the Oxford American Tournament on May 6th. Post here or contact me through any means to register a team or express interest as a free agent. A team formation spreadsheet will be created closer to tournament day to sort out any remaining free agen...

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The first step to take at this time is to remove Patrick Liao from any position of authority and make sure if he ever decides to be in charge again make sure we have an eye on him at all times. Few thoughts over the past few years, as an observer now, prompted by an episode involving the previously ...

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Hi everyone, The sign up for these tournaments can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tPRyODB6OaT7WAS-CRvjPeMZ6UlLbygy7QEYh0ARXUc/edit?usp=sharing Eyes has been moved to Saturday at the University of Ottawa, as Carleton was unable to book rooms with a projector, but Ottawa has. T...

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jasonzhou wrote:Are there more mirrors of this set planned? If so, this discussion should occur in a private forum.

Yes, Canada's doing a mirror on the weekend of 3/18-3/19

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The link worked for me, just booked my room - maybe I got the last one?

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