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From what I remember: Constructing a crossover is finding the perfect matchings for an n-partite graph (near-perfect, when n is odd) with # of vertices = # of teams. (equivalently,* finding the 1-factors of a 1-factorization). Though I haven't tried, this can be done in Sage (cf. http://linear.ups....

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Auroni wrote:1) yes
2) VCU Open weekend is preferrable
3) I'd like to help edit/write as much as I can while still retaining the ability to play.

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I will be pursuing a PhD in physics at Yale, and intend to continue playing quizbowl there. I also plan to remain active in high school outreach in New England, though from a home base that's a little farther south. ...and we're back to Yale winning everything in the Northeast again, barring more P...

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I greatly approve of the bracket names.

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vcuEvan wrote:
Mewto55555 wrote: John Lawrence beats Eric Mukherjee to a science tossup, again (10-1)
Did you leave off a zero?

No. John Lawrence is a stud. I believe.

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ICT's coming up and there's no thread! I've decided to kick things off by making a list of exciting prop bets that I'm willing to accept action on. Odds are included and slightly negotiable. Please message me if interested, note you can only take the side offered (so you can't bet on John wearing a ...

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Hey all,

HSAPQ's NASAT tournament is available for open mirrors. Details about the set can be found here.

If you're interested, please email Jacob O'Rourke at [email protected]. If you've previously emailed Matt Weiner about this, you should likewise email [email protected] to follow up.

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It seems to me that accepting both "Prompts are a courtesy" and "Anti-prompts are a courtesy" is logically inconsistent with pyramidality. Let's just say, in an ABSURD hypothetical that would NEVER happen, a writer includes midway through a tossup on B a clue about A, which is a ...

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Matthew Jackson wrote: I agree with this sentiment fully.

Jacob wrote: Still, Kay's point about actually testing if people know what the theorems say (rather than vaguely recognizing the statement) is great, and people should do this more.

The post-Weiner forums are a strange place indeed...

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Ryan Rosenberg ([email protected]) is now handling team applications. The original post has been edited to reflect this.

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As I suspected, "the Plumbers" worked for the Committee to Re-elect the President, aka CREEP. Therefore my buzz with CREEP ought to have been at least prompted if not accepted. I assume instructions for "CREEP" were just not included in the answer line and that Zeke didn't singl...

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I'm curious what other people think about common-link letter functions. I've always found them to be pretty annoying, primarily because they aren't always standardized (for example, I've always written Heaviside with an H, many other people seem to use different letters -- obviously this isn't neg-b...

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Can I see the question on the letter theta, from round five?

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I'd like to express my extreme displeasure at a thus far unmentioned portion of the new state of things, where one is expected to destroy all personal copies of sets they themselves are no longer "licensed" to have once they are no longer at a given school (for example, I am apparently req...

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If I'm at CO I'm in.

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Most regions don't have enough high school teams interested in playing Fall to support a full tournament. I think more high school teams would play this set if a high school-only mirror were nearby. Having to play college teams is likely a deterrent for many high school teams. So this change could ...

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Distribution: Regulation distribution (20/20): Literature: 4/4 History: 4/4 Science: 4/4 Arts: 3/3 RMP: 3/2 or 2/3 Current Events: 1/0 or 0/1 Geography: 1/1 Social Science 1/1 Subdistributions Literature: American: 33% British other than Shakespeare: 32% Shakespeare: 1% European: 24% World: 10% Hist...

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Due to a lack of response from potential hosts in several regions, HSAPQ has decided not to host the regional tournaments this year. The tournament will return in 2016 after consultation with potential hosts/attendees about desired changes to the financial model/other aspects of the event. We are in...

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Due to a lack of response from sufficiently many regional hosts, HSAPQ will only be hosting the state tournament this year (open-entry, 3/1 at MIT). Registration will be open soon at http://www.maquizbowl.com We will be consulting interested hosts and attendees about financial/other aspects of the t...

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The HSAPQ state tournament will be Saturday, February 28, at UNC. The regionals will be on Saturday, January 31. One will be at Wake Forest, we're still arranging at least one more site; please contact northcarolina@hsapq.com if you're interested in hosting it and we haven't solicited you yet. Full...

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The HSAPQ DC state tournament will be Sunday, February 1st at St. Anselm's. For Maryland, the state tournament will be Sunday, March 1 at UMCP. Regionals will be Saturday, January 31 at Perry Hall, Centennial, and UMCP. Full announcements for the above to follow. Invitations have been sent out for ...

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Due to a lack of response from all potential hosts in Southern California, we have decided not to hold the aforementioned HSAPQ tournaments this year. The question sets are still available for hosting as a more traditional invitational tournament, not necessarily on the above dates. Contact HSAPQ if...

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HSAPQ will hold its state tournament Saturday, Feb. 28 at USC. No qualification is required this year; expect regional events to begin in 2016. Full details on the tournament to follow.

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HSAPQ's state tournament will be Saturday, Feb. 28, and regional events will be Saturday, January 31. We're still lining up hosts for these; full announcements to follow.

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HSAPQ is still searching for regional hosts for Saturday, January 31. Contact [email protected] if you did not get a host solicit and would like to host either that day or the following day (Sun, Feb. 1).

States will be Saturday, Feb. 28 at Ithaca.

Full details for all tournaments to follow.

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In addition to the above, the state tournament will be on Sunday, March 1. Another, western regional site is in the works. Full details on all these tournaments to follow.

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The HSAPQ state tournament will be Saturday, February 28, at UNC. The regionals will be on Saturday, January 31. One will be at Wake Forest, we're still arranging at least one more site; please contact northcarolina@hsapq.com if you're interested in hosting it and we haven't solicited you yet. Full ...

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The HSAPQ DC state tournament will be Sunday, February 1st at St. Anselm's.

For Maryland, the state tournament will be Sunday, March 1 at UMCP. Regionals will be Saturday, January 31 at Perry Hall, Centennial, and UMCP.

Full announcements for the above to follow.

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Aaron's Rod wrote: Are nearly all of your cards front-to-back only, then? I imagine that you would have very few cards with unique answers with this method.

Yes, every single one is.

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Will there still be the averaging procedure if a team with a lower value places above a team with a higher one?

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Disclaimer: I use Mnemosyne, so this advice might differ slightly in some ways from Anki, but probably not substantially. Flashcards are the bee's knees dude, awesome that you're using them! 1. What should I actually put on the front portion of the card? - I'm told there's some fancy way where you c...

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Ukonvasara wrote: This year's #quizbowl Festivus celebration will forgo the traditional Airing of Grievances

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I may have a packet for this with a mystery theme!!!

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This is the same announcement as the one posted on HSAPQ's website. High School Academic Pyramid Questions announces that it will be holding the sixth HSAPQ National All-Star Academic Tournament on June 13-14, 2015 at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The tournament will convene at 8:00 ...

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Hey, has a logistics email been sent out about this tournament yet? When/where should we be?

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That's unfortunate; UChicago was planning on bringing at least two and just hadn't gotten a concrete number to register. Were any other teams coming to this?

Edit: wait I just saw the above; is this still too small?

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Of course the Chicago team doesn't have a copy of this set, and of course we aren't reading it in practice right now, but can I re-iterate one more time how terrible this tournament's math is? Please can someone post just those questions for discussion so I can give whoever wrote it some helpful poi...

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Chicago will be bringing some number of teams.

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Hey, I know it's really hard to come up with stuff to fill, say, a 1/1 math distro. That just means you should try extra hard to come up with good answers to make people think 1/1 math is doable. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to reach into the olympiad rabbit-hole and pull out redacted terrible...

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Yeah, if I were a voter wondering if Matt Bollinger were coming back for another year, where in the world could I possibly find that sort of information?!?! Only a special kind of idiot (and based on some of these poll results, there's at least one out there!) would have the chutzpah/lack of common ...

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merv1618 wrote:Does anyone know who's actually going to be on Chicago B?

Yeah, we've actually got our roster lined up, before our school year has even started, before we've seen any of the new first years, and before we've settled on an A team. It's a secret though.

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-Should the (possibly only) prize for winning a tournament be a used book instead of a trophy/plaque/medal? (which, ironically, you mentioned yourself) The very happy medium of trophies/plaques for the top X teams and book prizes for top scorers and players on top teams works incredibly well, in my...

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-Should the (possibly only) prize for winning a tournament be a used book instead of a trophy/plaque/medal? (which, ironically, you mentioned yourself) The very happy medium of trophies/plaques for the top X teams and book prizes for top scorers and players on top teams works incredibly well, in my...

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Really? I thought ProtoBowl was pretty decent. How is it bad for studying as opposed to Quinterest? I've written stuff about this in more detail elsewhere on the forums ( here in particular, you can find more by searching posts with the word "Protobowl" in them written by Mewto55555), but...

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One good way to make improvement to your team happen is by improving your own study habits. I couldn't help but notice this thread , and would recommend you avoid this highly ineffective way to study and just hit the packets instead. A more relevant answer to the question you directly asked is to fo...

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Chicago also lost Charles Tian.

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Chris drives right past the hotel, but doesn't feel like going back around to drop us off closer. He let's us out two blocks away after asking if this is all right. We say our goodbyes, and Chris and JL speed off into the night.

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Chris: "I don't know if I'd say jokingly."

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JL fails to get a pun on the word toy, when he can't think of what you might get a child for Christmas. Chris jokingly suggests that John would buy them sheet music. JL admits that he once asked Santa for a collection of 1910s ragtime.

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Dinner with: me Coates MattW Chris JL Evan MattJ MattBo and Magin.

John and MJ introduce those who haven't played to Puntact, a pun based word game JL invented.

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