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If there is anybody out there with mad computer programming skills who wants to take a swing at this some time in the future to make this into a bit of a more stable analysis process, please contact me... maybe we could even have it web-based for data input? That would make things super-fantastic! ...

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nalin wrote:With that said, any team that has an undergraduate male should be able to get a 10 in the PS3 games bonus.

You got your gender roles in my quizbowl!

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theMoMA wrote:And the countdown until Evan Silberman clobbers the author of that question begins...

As if I am physically capable of clobbering anybody.

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grapesmoker wrote:I am now reading "Emperor and Galilean" so I can win this tournament.

You should probably also read Dark Empire

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Just so people know, Ted Gioia et al are planning on running a Fine Arts touranment, using remainder of the HI fine-arts set plus 6 extra rounds (for a total of 12 rounds.) It will most probably happen on Sunday morning. Are you up to like five side events now? Also, I await the arrival of Rob Myth...

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theMoMA wrote:Today's the last day to tell me your wrong ideas about who is good.

1. Doug Yetman
2. Ike Jose
3-25. Various hypothetical versions of Dwight Wynne

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Just stepping in here -- the editors cannot edit a packet that they have yet to receive. I know that doesn't apply to the editors packets, but it's impossible to have all the questions ready when the last packet submission didn't come in until two days before the tournament started (correct me if I...

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Yeah, my original file for the Hamiltonian cycle tossup has "incomplete" where I clearly meant to type "NP-complete." Kind of inexcusable for me to get that wrong when NP-completeness is what I'm talking about in class this week.

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I split out the crap about printers. This thread is going to be policed vigorously for remaining on topic; all purported hilarity and pointless digressions will be split into AHAN Jr. or the Forbidden Zone.

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myamphigory wrote:Garlic

This is all I need to hear.

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although I can't say the tournament management was spectacular (seeding, buzzer, etc..) The debate over questions will never be resolved. I could use cliche after cliche: You can't please everybody. A good team is a good team no matter what the situation. It is what it is. It doesn't do to throw on...

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everyday847 wrote:Could you enable round report?

Et tu, Watkins?

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As NSC tournament director, I forbid Andrew Hart from taking this job until I have seen some of the NSC set.

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It's quite plausible that I will be able staff this if it ends up happening.

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EncyclopediaCDRom wrote:Happy Patriots' Day

Whatever this is, my Umass class is canceled for it, so woooo.

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Assuming recent IRC conversations are to be taken seriously, Silberman, Watkins, Kirsch, and Cheyne will be playing together under a clever name to be determined.

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I dunno, post your CS and we can figure out if you had good answer choices or not. "Serialization" sounds like a particularly weaksauce answer choice to me but I haven't seen the tossup.

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Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:Perhaps if time is a concern, we could do something like play 4 games of this on Sunday night? If the final gets out at about the same time it did last year, there's certainly plenty of time to start doing this.

Sunday night will be occupied by Matt Weiner's to-be-named experimental event.

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The rooms at GMU for ROBOT are reserved for 8am-7pm. Beyond that, I am unable to comment.

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tracyclee wrote:At least if things work out and I can convince all the seniors that prom is actually an important experience for high school.

I'd pick quizbowl over prom any day of the week and twice on Saturdays.

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From 2003 through 2006, the Team Virginia selection process pretty much consisted of TJ holding some form of tryouts, then four or five TJ people joining one or two other people (often Gov people) in applying directly to the PAC people for a bid, I think, though it's possible that Sean Pickrell tech...

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As of this moment, registration for the 2009 PACE National Scholastics Championship is suspended . The field is not full —there are 56 teams registered right now (out of 64 available slots), and several wildcard applications are awaiting approval. In order to ensure that the field fills up in an ord...

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Quizbowler123 wrote:I'm like 95% sure I'm going to Amherst, and I'll probably play there.

*shakes fist*

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I recommend parking at the Alewife T-stop ($8 a day, no issues getting a spot on Saturday mornings, and you can leave your car overnight if need be) and taking the T to Harvard Square. No mucking about with driving in Boston required.

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Anyone who doesn't enjoy Sun-n-Fun is just a big old grouch. (Who wants to play on my team at UMD?)

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Please to be posting ballots, Matt?

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FredMorlan wrote:Evan Silberman wants money joke here

Anyone is welcome to paypal money to me at any time for any reason.

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theMoMA wrote:The masses demand recognition for their twenty-point achievements.

This feature will be added to Taft sometime before BEeS comes out.

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This thread is now confusing because I made a terrible hash of things by deleting a post accidentally. Please carry on as if nothing ever happened.

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will you buy me a plane ticket leaving from BDL tomorrow morning? If so, I'm your man.

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myamphigory wrote:"varmint"

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aarcoh wrote:
The questions (we will use 10-11 rounds out of the 15 packets) can be purchased for $10.
Why would anyone purchase questions that will eventually be online for free?

To have them faster, and conveniently in paper form? It happens.

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This is of course true. Otherwise we'd have more questions on proper memo etiquette and making day off requests in triplicate. :lol: The point I intended to make before failing miserably was that computer science is becoming more and more a part of modern life, both as an academic interest and a pr...

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I am not a fan of the proposed cut of Programming Language/Scripting. I know that it may be more of a corner case than other categories, but computing is only becoming more important as part of a well rounded education and to the working world as a whole. Programming questions should still find a h...

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everyday847 wrote:a large number of toddlers are playing ACF Fall for some reason

I hope this happens.

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closesesame wrote:EDIT: The edit was to remove the worthless drivel.

You're not allowed to do that either. Come back tomorrow.

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closesesame wrote:Alberto Gonzales defense FTW woohooquizbowldidn'tgetmeintocollegebutitsuregotmealotoflaughsonathursdaywhileireadtheforumsinsteadofdoinghomework

If you don't stop making worthless posts, you will be tempbanned.

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Cheynem wrote:at no time did I want to eat anything instead of playing.

This is probably the highest praise a tournament could receive.

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Why isn't actual quizbowl featured on major nationwide television? And I mean things that are good quizbowl, not "made for TV" quizbowl. Probably because it wouldn't make for very compelling television. Think about a high-level high school quiz bowl match...questions go by at not-ready-fo...

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AlphaQuizBowler wrote:Does anyone know about what time registration generally closes for HSNCT?

They're generally set up into the evening on Friday...I want to say 9, 10pm at least? And then I think you can register before the opening meeting on Saturday if need be.

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I think I sorted out the above problems myself, to wit: -tdb still doesn't like tournaments scheduled over multiple days. This is probably worth fixing soon, in the interest of actual schedules for ICT, HSNCT, and ACF nationals among others. Possibly. Duly noted. -the address for the Dallas airport...

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grapesmoker wrote:send a list of tournaments in the team's area along with the flier.

If people would use the tournament database, this would be really easy to do using the "search nearby" feature! *cough cough everybody*

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I'm also willing to take care of Missouri related stuff, and I've emailed regarding that, but haven't gotten any response... Are you still thinking of allowing independent data inputters? I did receive the e-mail. Setting up accounts for multiple user access is over halfway done. Of course, work go...

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Other than having one team cry when we beat them 525-110, it worked out pretty well. Maybe I'm a bitter, cynical sociopath, but making the other team cry sounds pretty awesome to me. And from my own point of view, being completely blown out of the water by another team is a lot less demoralizing th...

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Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:So did Hampshire really leave early so they could get back to the campus they were already on?

I am going to have a talk with them.

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Congrats to Love in the Time of Quizbowl (Eric and Linna) for winning HIPPIE by going undefeated. All the stats are up on Taft on the above link. Thanks to everyone who came.

BuzzerZen · Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: HIPPIE at Hampshire College 3/7/09 staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats

staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats

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HKirsch wrote:Any updates to be had?

I'm about to send an email to interested parties.

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Hey, so I'm increasingly dubious as to whether I can actually come to this; in fact, in the absence of a compelling need for my presence as a driver or moderator, I would actually prefer to stay home. You are not compellingly needed, though you would still be greatly appreciated and fed lunch if yo...

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dschafer wrote:
everyday847 wrote:But if you click on them again, they don't disappear. Please, son, do something nontrivial for a change.
Replace .show() with .toggle() in the jQuery.

Maybe if I had spent more than sixty seconds learning about jQuery I would've known that existed!

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