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Could I see the tossups on primes and variance please? I'll also add that I was frustrated by the tangrams tossup as well, since they don't seem to have any importance other than being a cute puzzle, and aren't really something you would hear about while learning math. 6. The bootstrap method was d...

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I also uploaded Jonah's wonderful stats to hsqb, so now you can peruse both sites at your leisure!!

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Northwestern took the tournament by winning the first game of an advantaged final against Chicago A 570 to 130. Thanks to everyone for coming to the tournament, and especially for dealing with delays between buildings. Thanks also to our excellent staff for keeping this tournament running quickly. F...

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The field is closed at 20 teams.

Each team should have received a logistics email by now; please email me if you did not receive the email or have any questions.

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Congrats to UChicago A (Ali Syed, Rohan Gandhi, Teddy Knox, and Jack Chaillet) for defeating UChicago B (Abby Kuchnir, Jake Carbone, Noah Levine, and Amara Balan) in a one-game final, 435-290. Complete stats are here , and please contact me at jasonzhouw@uchicago.edu with any stats corrections. Than...

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Live stats can be found here

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cornfused wrote:Could we get a field update? I'd like to make sure Northwestern's registration email was received.

Sorry about that; the field is now updated.

We have enough rooms for 20 teams, so that will be the new cap as long as we can obtain enough staff.

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A logistics email has just been sent out to all teams. Please email me at [email protected] if you did not receive it.

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The University of Chicago is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of NAQT's Collegiate Novice (IS-158C) set on Saturday, October 8th. I, Jason Zhou, will be tournament director. Cost : $15 per person Discounts : Buzzer systems with at least eight functional buzzers: -$5 each Buzzer s...

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The University of Chicago is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of Early Fall Tournament (EFT) on Saturday October 22nd, 2016. I, Jason Zhou, will be the tournament director. Details : EFT is designed to be an introduction to college quizbowl, so it will hopefully be rewarding fo...

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With regards to size of teams for events like Listory, while we would prefer keeping teams at doubles, now that the registration period is over, I think it is alright for some teams to form triples if they so desire. I don't really understand the point of this policy. This tournament is doubles... ...

Emperor Pupienus · Re: MYSTERIUM @ UChicago (5/7/16) Final stats now available

Final stats now available

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Congratulations to the Biting Cardinals for defeating DCC in the second game of an advantaged final, and thanks to all of the teams that came out!
Final stats will be posted later this evening.

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Live stats can be found here:

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3713/

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A logistics email has just been sent out. Please email me if you did not receive it.

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Prelim Stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

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I've just emailed all the teams the logistics. Please email me immediately if you did not receive the email or if there are any discrepancies.

Emperor Pupienus · Re: MUT @ UChicago (4/30/16) The field is now full

The field is now full

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The University of Chicago is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of MYSTERIUM, on 5/7/2016. I, Jason Zhou, will be the tournament director. The field will be capped at 10 teams for now. For more information about the set, please investigate the global announcement. Cost $120 per t...

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One that comes to mind is the Hippodrome question, where an early buzz of Constantinople was not prompted. There may have been others, I know some readers mentioned there were very few alternate answers throughout. Yeah I was also slightly confused on this because I didn't hear that they needed a &...

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In the AAA bonus, I thought that the third part on Owen Roberts mentioned that he was the Chief Justice, which was not the case.

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The University of Chicago is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of MUT, Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament, on 4/30/2016. I, Jason Zhou, will be the tournament director. For more information about the set, please investigate the global announcement. Cost $120 per team Discounts B...

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DumbJaques wrote:Can these stats not be uploaded normally? Perhaps I'm missing something, but I can't even access the individual detail page, for instance.

It has since been uploaded to hsqb.

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

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Can the tossup on Richard Nixon be posted? I think I got hosed by the tossup. The first line mentioning "this man" quoting Teddy Roosevelt's line "The light has gone out of our lives" pretty much triggered an instantaneous buzz from me with Jawaharlal Nehru, who made an extremel...

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Stats are up
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3158/

Please contact me with any corrections.

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Congratulations to Chicago D (Samir Khan, Calvin Chu, and Annie Xu) for defeating Chicago C (RJ Graham, David North, and Aviv Hargil) in the first game of an advantaged final to win our mirror of VCU Novice!!! Thanks to all the teams who came out to play, and I hope you all had a great time!! Stats ...

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Current Field (18) Knox College (2) Loyola (1) NIU (3) Northwestern (2) UChicago (10) The logistics email has been sent out. Please call/email me with any questions! Registration will run from 8:30 to 9 am in Kent 107, address 1020 E. 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637 Edit: Added registration/meeting time ...

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The University of Chicago College Bowl team is happy to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of VCU Novice on Saturday, October 10th. More information about the set and eligibility rules can be found here: hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17650 Entry fees : $15 per person, minimum ...

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VICO and We Have Never Been Modern will be doubles unless player interest out paces staff interest; this seems likely to be the case for SHEIKH given the poll results, so we'll do SHEIKH as triples to start. How many staffers do we have? At the moment, we only have enough players listed on the spre...

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Hopping on the discussion about history questions, there was a couple of early clues that looked rather egregiously easy to me. Evian accords was still in power, which anyone with any knowledge of the Algerian War of Independence should know. The first words of the Dien Bien Phu tossup (if I remembe...

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I am also looking for a team, if anyone is looking for a fourth. I have some decent classical and american knowledge.

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I'm sympathetic to this but I also am unsure how big a problem it was--those questions were spaced out (packets one and eight) and did not overlap clues. In retrospect, I probably could have taken out the "Coffin Handbills" clue as pretty much everything about JQA in that tossup is about ...

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In similar vein to Will Alston, I almost lost a game because I negged the question on the "Adams" family on a Quincy Adams clue because Quincy Adams had already been an answerline for a bonus. In fact, the clue for the tossup (coffin handbills) and for the bonus (Tariff of 1828) are both f...

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Guarav Kandlikar, Foster Hughes, and I will be playing on a team together.

EDIT: And Athena Kern

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So how are teams working for this?

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In the course of studying for ICT, I wrote a packet of super-hard (but by no means impossible) history questions that I can read to people in the hotel on Saturday night or Sunday morning if there is enough interest. The packet consists of 21 seven-line tossups without powermarks that follow the di...

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It's hard to judge pyramidality; I mean, one person's knowledge is another person's uncertainty (which is probably the point of the game). Your criticism seems a little weird to me. You recognized the Miracle of Brandenburg clue, then the Imperial Academy one, then the War of Austrian Succession. T...

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I think that if you know the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg, or the Battle of Adrianople, so well that you can buzz on those two clues, then you deserve fifteen points. I will admit that I would not have known the Valens clue until Thervingian or maybe even Fritigern. I feel like it is much ea...

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Would you mind posting the Empress Elizabeth and Valens tossups? I personally found their early clues suspect. The lead in for the Elizabeth tossup was that she was the person who's death constituted the 2nd Miracle of the House of Brandenburg. As far as I can tell, the Miracle of the House of Brand...

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I will probably play this tournament, providing nothing drastically unexpected occurs with my summer plans. I'm definitely willing to write packets soon and I occasionally snag some history or music.

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I'm currently planning to play this, but I have not yet pinned down my summer plans, so it is still in flux.

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jasonzhou wrote: Yeah so does anyone who knows more about Roman history want to provide an answer here? I'm quite sure that Africa and Egypt are considered different provinces, but did anyone else think it's confusing? The Romans divided the northern coast of the continent whose entirety we now cal...

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Whoops, it seems like I negged the railroad tossup with tennis court on Infinite Jest. I remember there was a tossup with a clue mentioning Daumier though, could I see that? You're not the only one. Someone on our team did that too. 2015 DII SCT round 11 wrote: Augustus banned all senators from ent...

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Would you mind posting the Egypt tossup? If I remember correctly, the second clue was that it was the largest grain producer for the Roman Empire other than Africa, which is kind of confusing. Yes, they are different provinces, as Africa refers to the Tunisia/Lybian area, as far as I know, but it wa...

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I would be interested in playing this tournament and expect to not know a majority of the answers!

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League 1. Nichols looks good with a cast of good players putting up points led by Sr. Rebecca Reagan putting up 27 PPH. Nichols will be competing for the League title again this year. We did graduate a lot of seniors, and we have reloaded decently, but expectations are almost certainly not as high....

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I liked the packets a lot. I thought the second (I think?) clue of the Yorktown tossup, referencing the band playing the "World Turned Upside Down" or whatever it is was a bit easy for a second clue, but that could be just me. I feel like that is in every high school us history textbook. I...

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Ithaca's game against Cooperstown was 435-80 - it must have been entered wrong into the stats. Overall, this was a pretty fun tournament. It went much later than I and most people there would have liked, and some of it seemed controllable. For example, I thought that the deciding the circles of dea...

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