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My favorite thing about the article on UMD is either that it has a subhead for "Past Members," "Current Members," and then "Former Members," with no distinction between 1 and 3, and that all but one of the current members are gone. You could, of course, you know, alway...

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Mewto55555 wrote:I don't know what that Klein thing refers to

Famous problems of elementary geometry: the duplication of the cube, the trisection of an angle, the quadrature of the circle: an authorized translation of F. Klein's Vorträge is what I had in mind.
Which corroborates your point, yes.

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An Update on the Location We've currently got reservations for rooms at both Virginia Tech and Cave Spring High School in Roanoke. There are some pros and cons of both locations that we're currently considering. This is mostly a for-your-information post, but I'm open to listening to thoughts, comm...

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One director of this orchestra produced a saxophone concerto titled from a quote from Kafka's The Trial . In 1961, George Solti was succeeded as its music director by Zubin Mehta, who became renowned for being the youngest leader of an American orchestra. A more recent director of this orchestra ch...

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I'm a bit surprised that Max hasn't reemphasized studying bonuses in response to all of this, especially since he's been such an advocate of it in the past. Bonuses are good. We certainly have never had Grace Liu, but I can certainly say that East's presence on the circuit this year was in some part...

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Here is what I thought would be good: 4/4 Literature (1/1 American, 1/1 British, 1/1 Other European, 1/1 World) 4/4 History (1/1 American, 1/1 European, 1/1 World, .5/.5 Ancient, .5/.5 Other) 4/4 Science (1/1 Physics, 1/1 Chemistry, 1/1 Biology, .5/.5 Earth Science or Astronomy, .5/.5 Other Science...

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Not only anonymity, but let's not forget that having permanence on a given account really helps—moderators only have to ban once! It's really disheartening to see a user sockpuppet over and over again in the same session or repeat offences over many days. I bet that forcing people to log in and prov...

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I would love to see how many rooms [Tammuz] was converted in. My estimate would be around 10%? 1/9/43 in 75 rooms for 13.3% conversion. I think this is unjustifiably low, even if it is a worthwhile topic. With some of the other low conversion rates (Nicholas Nickleby and Edna St. Vincent Millay com...

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Could you post the bonus part that included the Western Schism? I remember not being prompted on "Babylonian Captivity." For 10 points each--give the following about antipopes: A. The first antipope is usually said to be this 3rd-century opponent of Pope Pontian; he was reconciled with th...

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Could you post the bonus part that included the Western Schism? I remember not being prompted on "Babylonian Captivity."

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kievanrustic wrote:4.5/4.5 Literature (1/1 American novels, .75/.75 British novels, .75/.75 Euro and World novels,1/1 Drama, 1/1 Poetry)

I'd say that this needlessly restricts writers, and also seriously discourages religious literature and classical literature.

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I remember thinking that the a few tossups on Day II had pretty difficult answerlines for HS—Veronese and Type II error come to mind—but then I also remembered that there was a Monteverdi tossup (probably also on the way upper edge of HS difficulty) in Round I.

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A lot of times the gist of comp math bonuses is just to see if you know certain concepts. Maybe this is what Matt is alluding to, but perhaps asking for parts like "you would do six factorial" instead of actually asking you to do it might be an idea. I love this idea, as long as it doesn'...

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Ukonvasara wrote:
perlnerd666 wrote:Tammuz.
Excellent, this clearly explains the issues you had with the tossup and provides an opportunity for further discussion.

I would love to see how many rooms this was converted in. My estimate would be around 10%?

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Tammuz.

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I think I had fun playing this.

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Is Dorman not on here twice?

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I LOVED the crossdressing tossup. It's hard to write good questions on novel anwerlines like that but I thought that that one was really well done. I lost a game on this set because I said "Spaghetti Westerns" part of the way through the "westerns" tossup and got negged, then lo...

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jonathanmarx wrote:
gerbilownage wrote:glad to see so many yalies in here :D y'all want to meet up during HSNCT?
I would be interested in at least briefly meeting everyone, although I know it's a pretty jam-packed weekend.

Yes.

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I think that this idea of having a universal difficulty would only work if the answerlines were kept as easy as possible, otherwise there is a good chance that many matches would end 0-0 at lower levels. And that restriction makes it nigh-impossible to write, because otherwise, yes, it will degenera...

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I will be attending college Y next year and plan to poach music questions from my teammates if possible.

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viewtopic.php?f=19&t=14350

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I was wondering if anyone has written a script for pulling game scores from an SQBS file. As a hobby, I have created a rating system (not that we need another one :grin: ) using the scores listed in Ian Drayer's rating files and I would like to be able to add new data to the file quickly. I figured...

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RyuAqua wrote:256 is pretty gigantic and I don't think the HSNCT ever really needs to expand past that number.

Optimistically, could we not hope that every state would have at least 6 schools with at least one nationals-caliber team some time in the future?

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quizbowllee wrote:It was the NAQT Div. II SCT questions.

I was actually surprised at how easy the questions were.

These questions are supposed to be easier than HSNCT questions.

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setht wrote:I'm actually still not 100% clear on whether high schoolers or DII players were allowed to write for DI SCT.

I don't know about DII, but I had something like nine questions each in ICT and SCT DI.

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Yes, they are buried alive.

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JordanKuhn wrote: Learning more[=]having a faint sense of word association regarding a certain subject.

This will certainly cause you to neg more.

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If your stated goal is to convince the layperson that Andy was cheating via numbers, just have a link to the 2011 individual standings and say "That column marked 'N' is wrong answers. Notice how all the best players are wrong quite a few times, even the very best, but Andy was NEVER EVER WRON...

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I do have a question I hope you guys can answer. What type of buzzer system would you suggest I invest in? My county is willing to buy it for me, but I don't know which one you guys would suggest. http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13349 is probably a lot to read, but has a good d...

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Unfortunately, the only tournament left in NC this year is the NCATA tournament (I think), but there are always plenty of tournaments on good questions, many in Raleigh. I definitely encourage you to check out viewtopic.php?f=50&t=13137 and next year's equivalent.

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I remember hearing about Britomart in the Faerie Queene by Spenser in one question and another question asking for this work by Spenser, but I could be wrong.

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I loved the "applied" science questions. Also, whoever wrote the music did a great, great job. I liked the tournament, although the zany answerlines (e.g. "fires") threw us for a bit of a loop. Bonuses seemed pretty badly inconsistent, though: Manichaeism and Cathars in the same ...

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Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant wrote:Radio show featuring Andrew Hart: http://www.kfan.com/player/?station=KFX ... d=23014341

The Andrew Hart part begins at 14:16.

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I think it would be great to immediately cut back on number the moderators. I, for one, am posting this after getting banned without warning for hitting enter a few times. I must congratulate you on the effectiveness of your block system, though; it managed to defeat all of my attempts to access th...

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If people think it's really an issue, NAQT probably can set the high schoolers up so they have very limited access to Ginseng and can only see their own questions. This would make it difficult for those high school students to finish off a set because they wouldn't be able to see if something has a...

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I'm down for this.

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UlyssesInvictus wrote:going for that fraud

If you have to fraud it, you often don't know enough to know if you could be wrong.

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Great set! I personally found a tiny bit of difficulty variability that tended to be subject-dependent (math and lit were often pretty difficult, history and physics was often pretty easy), but it was all definitely high school-appropriate. Did any in particular stand out? Go Tell It On the Mountai...

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Great set! I personally found a tiny bit of difficulty variability that tended to be subject-dependent (math and lit were often pretty difficult, history and physics was often pretty easy), but it was all definitely high school-appropriate.

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http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/ statistics for all games.

Thanks to everyone for great play and good sportsmanship. Thanks also to our staffers.

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Stats for the first six rounds: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

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The Predictable Consequences wrote:If you need a staffer, I'll be around.

I don't think we will, but thanks for offering.

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Registration is now closed.

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Unrelated: could I request that moderators stop making the question-reading speed insanely fast?

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Quick thought: If teams use these rankings as a way to get noticed or get funding (which by all means they should do), it might help to convey somewhere on the rankings site that Fred is a "noted authority" on high school quiz bowl. Anyone who has any knowledge of the national quiz bowl s...

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Due to the limited number of signups, it looks like we won't need any more buzzers or staffers.

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In an attempt to continue an actual topic of discussion: Well, if you feel jumping the bureaucracy like that isn't probably going to blow up in your face somehow, then go for it. However, while I don't have much to back this up with, my guess is that in most cases, particularly with public schools, ...

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Ydiwa wrote:From the limited size of things I saw today, it seems as if one of the mods was saying problematic things too. So yeah, it ain't working too well.

You should probably report them to Kevin or Ben (also, why be squeamish about naming usernames here?)—this is horrifying.

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3. There are way way too many bigots. Slurs get tossed around like nothing. I can't think of a way to stop that (without changing the sexist, homophobic, and other problematic conceptions of quizbowlers in general, which won't be done in a day.) Any suggestions? 4. Impersonators, once confirmed, sh...

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