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The tournament announcement has been updated to reflect changes in the packet submission and team eligibility policies. Please check the initial post in this thread for the relevant changes.

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Columbia (2-3 teams, 1 buzzer) The rivalry continues :grin: How large do you expect this tournament to be? If a decent field size doesn't materialize, we might consider going to Waterloo. We are actively recruiting teams from around the area; at the very least, we will have a couple of house teams ...

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Field:
Boston College (1 team)
Brown (1 team)
Columbia (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
MIT house (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
Northeastern (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Yale (1 team, 3 buzzers)

TOTAL: 8 teams, 6 buzzers, 0 moderators

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EDIT: These deadlines have been superseded by Matt Weiner's post below . Here are the packet submission deadlines for ACF Nationals: -$100 discount: January 18 -$50 discount: February 1 -$25 discount: February 15 no penalty: March 1 (host teams must write a packet by this deadline to secure their au...

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Hello everyone! Here is the full explanation for how qualification for the 2015 ACF Nationals will work. 1) Clubs who are hosting ACF Regionals: Each host may apply for one host bid, which will be evaluated by an ACF committee after the fall semester of tournaments has concluded. In their bid, teams...

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Thanks to Harvard for hosting this tournament. We enjoyed playing. According to my text history, we finished round 12 at around 7:25 PM. Assuming a start time of around 9:30 and an hour for lunch, this works out to 45 minutes per round. This is far slower than ideal. A major cause of the delays was ...

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Lexington A went undefeated to clear the field. AMSA A broke out of a three-way tie at 3-2 in the playoffs to take 2nd, followed by Phillips Exeter in 3rd and Kellenberg A in 4th. The above four teams have all qualified for NAQT HSNCT. All of them plus 5th-place Gotham have qualified for PACE NSC. P...

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Stats are being updated live at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2324.

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We have reached our 24-team field cap. Additional teams that register will be placed on a waitlist, to be added to the field if teams drop out.

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MIT will host the northeast mirror of DEES, or the Demonstratively Excellent Educational Saturnalia, on Saturday, November 22. This will be a regular-difficulty packet-submission tournament. [UPDATE 11/10/14: This tournament is now packet-submission optional, as described in full detail in Victor's ...

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Update: The MIT Fall Academic Tournament has received gold certification from the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence. This means that the top 20% of teams will qualify for PACE's National Scholastic Championship. As before, the top 15% will qualify for NAQT's High School National Champi...

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The announcement for MIT Fall is now up at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =1&t=16249.

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Registered: Abby Kelley Foster (2 teams; 1 buzzer; 1 staffer) Acton-Boxborough (1 team; 1 buzzer) AMSA (2 teams; 2 buzzers; 1 staffer) Arlington (2 teams; 1 buzzer; 3 staffers) Bishop Guertin (1 team) Brookline (2 teams; 1 staffer) E. O. Smith (2 teams; 1 buzzer) Farmingdale (1 team; 1 buzzer) Fram...

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MIT will host the third annual MIT Fall Academic Tournament on Saturday, September 20, 2014. REGISTRATION This tournament is open to teams from all geographic areas and levels of experience. Teams will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis, so please register as soon as possible. The maximu...

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I can confirm that Neil is back at MIT for at least the next year. The rest of us are all still around as well.

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ACF Nationals 2015 will be on April 18-19, 2015 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Final details are still under discussion.

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The reason I don't want to use Google spreadsheets is idiots troll them by adding the names of players who were never intending on coming. I don't think it's so unreasonable on its face to ask people to form teams and send an e-mail, and use the the HSQB thread to post things like "I am lookin...

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Any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2013 is required to submit a packet . High school players are included in this definition and are subject to the same discounts and penalties as college teams. New quizbowl t...

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Is there a deadline for submitting a bid? We would prefer to have all bids in by August 10 so that we have time to pick one and get logistics sorted out by the beginning of September. However, if an especially strong bid comes in before then, we reserve the right to close bidding and go with that s...

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The full announcement is here . It includes the distribution and an adjustment of the packet deadlines. --mlw [/i] The packet tracking post is here . [/i] Update 8/11/14: ACF Nationals 2015 will be on April 18-19, 2015 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Hello all! ACF is currently seeking ...

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As some of you may know, I will be serving as Communications Officer for ACF for the 2014-15 school year. Thanks to Susan for all her work in this position! If you have any questions about whether you or another player on your team is eligible to play ACF tournaments, please direct them to me at acf...

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I made a grid of game results so far, similar to the ones that Harry and Jon have made for some previous tournaments. It's posted here: http://www.mit.edu/~seltinge/nasat/Standings.html. In each cell, the first score listed is the score for the left-hand team, while the second score is the score for...

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Are you sure that they competed this year? They did, as the following "Documento sin título" can attest: http://qunlimited.com/Varsity.Rank.htm. I think what happened is that, in tracking down the addresses for recent attendees, I merged the 2014 entry for "Harrison" with the 20...

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The Charlotte Amalie tossup was in the playoffs, so presumably fewer than 70 rooms heard it, but since it was discussed somewhat extensively, do you have the conversion rate for it?

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MIT would like to claim September 20 for the MIT Fall Academic Tournament. MITBAT will likely be returning in the spring as well, but the date is not set yet.

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This is great to hear! I sent John my contact information for Marissa Manhart, the last known contact person for the BC quizbowl team. It would be awesome to have another active team in the Boston area.

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Cheynem wrote:13. Stanford (268, highest #15, lowest #17, same)

Is this a typo? If they had been voted #15 on every single ballot, that would only be 264 points, right?

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Harvard B defeated Brown A 425-165 to win a one-game final; both teams had one loss up to that point, with Harvard B losing to Brown A in the previous round and Brown A losing to Dartmouth earlier. Full results will be up later. EDIT: Full stats are posted at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments...

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

Pending a tiebreaker between Vassar A and Northeastern, teams will play crossover games (top 4 against top 4, bottom 3 against bottom 3), followed by finals if necessary.

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With the registration of Vassar B, we have reached 16 teams, so the field is now closed. Teams should be receiving an email with logistical information from me later this evening.

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We are at 15 teams registered. Due to staff constraints, I'm imposing a field cap of 16 until we can guarantee enough staff to expand to 18. If more teams want to come, we'll start a waitlist.

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We held NASAT tryouts after the tournament. The following team has been selected and approved by HSAPQ: Colin Cantwell, Lexington High School Saadya Chevan, Northampton High School Regulus Luo, Lexington High School Shashank Madhu, Advanced Math and Science Academy Victor Pavao, Acton-Boxborough Reg...

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This happened. Sharon took home the championship on a tiebreaker tossup in the second game of an advantaged final, while AMSA came in second. Acton-Boxborough at third and Lexington at fourth completed the top four. There was a lot of intense competition from the top of the field to bottom today. Th...

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Registered:
Amherst (1 team, 2 buzzers)
Brown (2 teams)
Dartmouth (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
Harvard (2 teams, 4 buzzers)
Northeastern (1 team, 1 buzzer)
Stony Brook (2 teams, 1 buzzer)
UMass (1 team)
Vassar (2 teams)
Wellesley (1 team)
Wesleyan (1 team)

TOTAL: 15 teams, 9 buzzers

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MIT will host a mirror of the Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament on Saturday, April 26. As usual, MUT will be a slightly below-regular tournament, somewhere between ACF Fall and regular-difficulty tournaments. Eligibility will be restricted to current high school and undergraduate students; graduate...

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vcpavao wrote:Is there going to be an MITBAT this year?

There will not be; instead, MIT will host the state tournament for the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship. MITBAT will hopefully return next year if we can secure a good date for it.

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Yale A went undefeated in Division I, clearing the field by four games. In Division II, Yale B won the first game of an advantaged final over Harvard A 365-355 on a tiebreaker. As both the overall and undergraduate champion, Yale A automatically qualifies for ICT out of Division I, while Yale B auto...

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Stats after seven rounds are up: DI: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2071/stats/di_morning_%28round_1-7%29/ DII: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2071/stats/dii_morning_%28round_1-7%29/ DI will play another round robin, while DII will finish off their round robin. If there are a cle...

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What's the current plan for the Division I schedule? I already emailed team contacts with this information, but the schedules will be as follows; Division I (7 teams): Double round robin (12 games in 14 rounds) plus finals as needed. Division II (14 teams): Single round robin (13 games in 13 rounds...

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My initial question is why PPB has a factor of sos attached to it? Because, as a factor in the D-value expression, it doesn't stand on its own--it's included in order to measure the expected total number of bonus points in a game, in which capacity it's multiplied by the number of bonuses heard. Wh...

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SCENARIO: A question is on "Inferno," with hints about all parts, and a player buzzes on a hint about Inferno (but previous hints are about Paradisio and/or Purgatorio). Do you mean "A question is on The Divine Comedy , with hints about..."? I don't think your various cases make...

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Hey everyone, this is a reminder that registration will close on this coming Monday, February 3. On or after Monday, my understanding is that we may accept or decline additional registrations as is appropriate to get the best possible tournament schedule. You can edit your registration after that da...

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To be perfectly clear, we are not instituting any sort of hard field cap, in accordance with the NAQT rules. Rather, we're trying to give teams a realistic picture of the projected combined staffing abilities of MIT and Harvard, and to encourage them to bring additional staff if at all possible. Obv...

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Hey guys, Until we secure more staff, we would like to ensure that as many schools as possible can take advantage of our limited field size. Therefore, for the time being we'd like to ask that each school sign up no more than three teams total, and no more than two teams in either division . We can ...

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Hello everyone! MIT and Harvard will co-host the New England NAQT SCT on February 8, 2014. Apologies for the late announcement. Logistics: The tournament will take place on the MIT campus. Registration will be in room 10-250 (note that this is a DIFFERENT room than we have typically used) starting a...

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Apologies for not sending this as an email as requested, but I'd like to encourage reciprocation from other schools: MIT probably has enough players for a second team. I don't see a waitlist upthread, but is it possible that there's enough interest from other schools and staff from Brown to expand t...

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Acton-Boxborough A defeated Lexington 410-315 to take first place. E. O. Smith defeated Arlington 285-240 to take third place. Acton-Boxborough A and Lexington have qualified for NAQT HSNCT, while those teams and E. O. Smith have qualified for PACE NSC. Playoff stats are available here , while combi...

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Playoff stats are being updated live at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /playoffs/.

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The tournament is underway, and stats are being updated live at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/.

EDIT: Full prelim stats are available at the above link. We will rebracket into top and bottom brackets of 6 teams each for playoffs.

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12. One of the most celebrated results of this field is the Whitney Embedding Theorem, which states that any object with n dimensions can be embedded in a space with 2n + 1 dimensions. For 10 points each: [10] Name this discipline of mathematics whose branches include geometry. It is loosely define...

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