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OctagonJoe

Those are changes from last year that we are planning on making.

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Carleton College is running the annual SnowCAT quizbowl tournament next month on Saturday, January 22nd, 2011, on our campus in Northfield, Minnesota. The questions used will be the Invitational Series #100 set written by NAQT. The tournament will begin at 9:00, so teams should plan to arrive by 8:3...

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I guess my assumption is that when measuring difficulty level for history questions, it would do to keep in mind both that clue ordering is important, and that - unlike math/science or music - most players have taken years and years of history, including at least one world/Euro class. The problem i...

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Carleton A (Andreas, Jacob Cohn, and Daniel Barter) won the ACF Fall North site in a one game final against Minnesota C (Cresston, Gaurav, Matt Hart). Thanks to all 9 non-Carleton teams for making it all the way out to Northfield to play in the tournament. Stats can be found here . Let me know if th...

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This tournament is less than a week away. The field in the first post is updated as of right now, and will hopefully become a bit more concrete in the coming days. If any schools aren't on there that want to be, including high schools, let me know at gehrinca@carleton.edu or by posting here. All the...

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First round robin
Second round robin
All-star game

Thanks to everyone for coming out today to play TERP. Also, thanks to Nate Kane for the rest of the game show set questions. I hope everyone enjoyed themselves in scenic Northfield.

And don't forget about ACF Fall next week at Carleton.

OctagonJoe

"Registration" will happen from 9-9:30, which can hopefully include doing the draft, too. Games will start at 9:30 or whenever the drafting is done. Other important info can hopefully be found in my first post in this thread or Mike's first post. Field update is a lot of Carleton people, a...

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This tournament is going to be hosted on the second floor Laird Hall on the Carleton College campus in Northfield, MN (as Mike indicated, not at the U of M, even though he posted the announcement). Laird Hall can be located using this campus map . There isn't really parking anywhere right next to La...

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Carleton College will be hosting the North site of the 2010 ACF Fall tournament. This tournament will take place on Saturday November 6th, 2010. This tournament is packet submission for any team that has a player who played collegiate quizbowl before September 1, 2009. More information regarding thi...

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Somebody who understands economics should probably make some witty Marshallian demand joke here. As for me, I think Carleton would be interested, although Mike makes a good point about the possibility of too much quizbowl in the winter.

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One week later probably means Carleton won't be able to go.

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I'm fairly certain my two finals games stats were confused with someone else's, probably Trevor's, since I definitely did not go 1/1 or more improbably 6/0.

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While the tier system I'm using may look like it was based on Magin's tiers for CO predictions and may also not have changed any of the original wording from that post by him, this system was totally made for VCUOM and no other tournament. For Saturday- Tier 1 (I wouldn't be surprised if any of thes...

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Ronnie the Bear wrote:
OctagonJoe wrote:30% might be "more" than music and sports get, but music/sports are getting 50% when similarly combined.
There aren't that many questions on Shaq's albums.

Yet.

Shaq could probably end up in any distribution depending on what you're feeling.

OctagonJoe

I'm still not sure why movies and tv continue to get slighted in distros. 30% might be "more" than music and sports get, but music/sports are getting 50% when similarly combined. I'd probably go 25% sports, 25% music, 40% movies/tv combo, and 10% other as a very rough distro. This way movi...

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This tournament was very clearly flawed, in that Archer was absent as a tossup, bonus part, or even clue all through the set (at least that I heard; perhaps the extra packets can exonerate this set). In some seriousness, though, I enjoyed the set despite my lack of trash abilities, and the winners c...

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I don't know who this "Charlie" is on my team, but he sure looked a lot like Trevor.

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Assuming I don't forget in the next 5 hours, I will bring a buzzer.

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2 seems fine.

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Is this "set" available for the general public? If so, I'd like a copy.

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tetragrammatology wrote:
OctagonJoe wrote:I'm a free agent for Sunday, no clue what my status is for Saturday.
Let's play, maybe with the brothers.

Let's do it.

OctagonJoe

I'm a free agent for Sunday, no clue what my status is for Saturday.

OctagonJoe

It looks highly likely that a 3-4 person group from Minnesota will be heading to this. Details to come.

OctagonJoe

Also, we played online quizbowl baseball yesterday and I found it fun, so we should do that again. EDIT: Online quizbowl baseball proved to be awesome. It should be done as much as possible. More people should join in on the format-oddity fun. I have been keeping baseball-like stats for games, too,...

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Yogesh is going to round out the Davis/Firke/Gehring team.

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I remain eager as a free agent, but I now count 23 teams (45 players). If Carsten or Charlie from Carleton are still looking for a teammate, I am particularly interested. Fearing for CPS students on the streets even more, Rom Since this tournament is taking place Saturday night, I'll be teamed up w...

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OctagonJoe wrote:I am now tentatively teamed up with Mik and Frank. We need a fourth who knows stuff about things.

So it is now looking more likely that I will be teamed up with Frank and Trevor Davis, with Mik being a long shot to make it. The criteria for a fourth still stands for those interested in the spot.

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gyre and gimble wrote:
grapesmoker wrote:Well, the no-penalty deadline has passed and I've only got one additional packet. How about that.
Was that our packet?

Our team is bolded, so I would assume yes.

OctagonJoe

I am now tentatively teamed up with Mik and Frank. We need a fourth who knows stuff about things.

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European history is a whole different ballgame, and one I know a bit less about. The one book on European History that I do keep around though is my old AP European History textbook from high school: A History of the Modern World" by R.R. Palmer, Joel Colton, and Lloyd Kramer . I also support ...

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For the quizbowl diehards, Carleton is in session like normal high schools into June, so if you are driving south on I-35 and your car breaks down around here on a Monday or Thursday night between 6:30-8:30ish we will have some sort of practice going on. Or if you're planning on going to Carleton or...

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If this takes place on Saturday night, I will be playing with Mike Bentley.

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SnookerUSF wrote:I can offer witty banter and occasional buzzes, so hopefully someone will be willing to play some quizbowl with me.

Want to team up?

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grapesmoker wrote:Couldn't he just register on the forums

I've been trying to get him to do that for a long time now.

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Frank Firke would like to staff this. To get in touch with him, send an e-mail to ffirke at gmail.com. Or tell me stuff and I'll tell him.

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Frank Firke wants to be YOUR teammate for this event! He knows visual arts fairly well and would enjoy a teammate who knows classical music and/or other aural arts stuff. Contact him at ffirke at gmail.com to team up with him today! He's a hot commodity!

Also, I'll probably staff this.

OctagonJoe

I'm definitely interested in playing this with whoever.

OctagonJoe

Okay, just to set the record straight, the tossup negged was the last tossup, and you lost by 80 points. The opposing team 30d the bonus after getting the tossup, meaning 40 points is the difference without fixing your score. Add five for fixing the neg and it's 35, 10 for you getting the tossup and...

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I'll probably play this. According to most sources, I know "horrible" trash.

Also, Frank will probably play this and want to win. He's actually good at trash.

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I'm interested in teaming up with people looking to hit the early deadline and who know things I do not know, especially science. There's a very low possibility Frank will be playing this with me, and I know you wouldn't want to miss out on that opportunity if it happens. OctagonJoe@gmail.com if you...

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Bad music nerd confession: I'm not familiar with Tosca . Do the chords of the Scarpia leitmotiv have an interesting quality or sound? I think it would be an interesting clue if, for instance, some character in an opera were represented by three half-diminished seventh chords whose roots ascended by...

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Six teams participated in a double round robin today. Minnesota A claimed first place with a 10-0 record, followed by Minnesota B at 8-2. Congrats to both those teams and thanks to everyone who attended.

Stats can be found here.

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To make everything easier, I've switched the meeting room to Laird 206. I'll be sending out an e-mail to everyone with this information, too.

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Above is probably the final field, unless schools increase their number of teams or drop out. There will be house team(s) of some sort depending on the field needs.

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Ukonvasara wrote:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

(note: field updated)

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Is this a sly way of saying that !!! will be performing at the halftime show?

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The field has been updated for awhile. Carleton will have (a) house team(s), so 3 schools will be represented at least. Otherwise, response to my e-mails has been nonexistent thus far.

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the tossup about Joseph Conrad, I remember there being a clue about one of his short stories I hadn't heard of, then a description of a book I didn't recognize, then it went immediately into what is probably Conrad's most famous quote ("The Horror") without doing anything to maybe reward ...

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More teams should sign up for this tournament. There is plenty of space.

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In which room and building will the opening meeting be held? Also, can you suggest any good places to park near said building?

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So apparently two of our buzzers aren't back from the shop yet like they were hopefully going to be. I can still guarantee the buzzer sitting in my room, but the other two may or may not be fixed by Friday.

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