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I'm a pretty terrible literature player, and the only reason I'm even commenting on this is because I primarily only read modern and post-modern literature. I've noticed that the east Asian authors are starting to get asked more and more, although I can't ever seem to recall seeing or hearing Yu Hu...

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I'm a pretty terrible literature player, and the only reason I'm even commenting on this is because I primarily only read modern and post-modern literature. I've noticed that the east Asian authors are starting to get asked more and more, although I can't ever seem to recall seeing or hearing Yu Hua...

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No Electricity Required wrote:
Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:
NAQT.com wrote:[ 47.2% ] No computational math at all
Does this mean the computational bonuses will be taken out?
Well, that survey is from 2010 HSNCT, so I don't think that number means that they will be removed (at least not because of that survey).

derp, never mind. I can read.

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NAQT.com wrote:[ 47.2% ] No computational math at all

Does this mean the computational bonuses will be taken out?

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Well, this stat is an individual player stat but it does not attempt to be very team-independent. It tries to describe a player's total value contribution (by incorporating team PPB) and obviously if you're on a team where you can't answer tossups because your teammate negs all the science (or gets...

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Will the packets from this event be available for future use? I am assuming so. They were all really fun. This was a great event. We had a lot of good times playing quizbowl with some great players. This was so fun and I loved it. I really hope that this would happen again as it is a great experien...

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adosreme wrote: video games about non-video games

what is this? Also this sounds awesome

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My team has submitted our packet with bonuses and powermarks and the like. We will be playing under the name Guidon't Need No Education. ALSO, if I have time to write this weekend, would anyone be interested in playing an anime/manga/Japanese videogames side event here shootout style? It would proba...

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Where do we email the packets when they are done?

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Fred, have you given any thought to having a locked and stickied thread where just the rankings go, and then have a separate thread for people to discuss and complain, that way when people want to see the newest rankings, they don't have to sift through the 34674647784236476237864738 pages of people...

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Mewto55555 wrote:WHY IS EVERYONE RANKED ALL WRONG

WHY DIDN'T YOU RANK RANDOM SCHOOL 271 FROM NORTH DAKOTA????????????

EVERYTHING IN HERE IS TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I CAN NEVER TAKE ANY OF THESE RANKINGS SERIOUSLY NOW!!!!!!!!!!

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Ok, since Border's is going out of business this week, I thought It would be a good idea to create a list of good books for quizbowl. They all close on the 31st, and by Thursday or Friday, all books will probably be 40% off. This sounds like a great opportunity for everyone to come together and give...

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Looking at the power stats that got posted in the other thread, a lot of the trash questions were the easiest of the tournament. If "older" trash is a way to keep that stuff in check or line it up closer to rewarding, like, intellectual curiosity, then I am pretty okay with that. Almost a...

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The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:
Cheynem wrote:M*A*S*H
More please.

Agreed!!!!!

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If you are looking to improve on physics, I would highly recommend reading any books written by Richard Feynman or about his works. The stuff in the books are normally quite entertaining especially since he was so eccentric and that helps non science players retain facts better. Also the textbook I ...

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To reiterate a fine line that we've dealt with before, discussing communication in the abstract is fine, specifying the tone of message board posts or particular posts is not. After all, it's equally unproductive to complain about power placement in a face-to-face context. So, if your post conforms...

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This rapper named his label for a historically segregated Tulsa neighborhood. After starting The Black Wall Street, this Compton native released the albums ~The Documentary~, (*) ~Doctor's Advocate~, and ~LAX~. For 10 points--name this rival of 50 Cent and G-Unit with a competitive stage name. answ...

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Current events is a legitimate academic subject; there's no need to lump it with pop culture and GK. Sometime soon the bonus conversion stats for HSNCT will be available and I can go hunting for thirty-or-zero problems. Offhand, I don't see any particular reason why the pop culture of the 1980s wou...

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After checking the distribution of HSNCT if you combine the Trash, Current Events, and General Knowledge together you get 118 Tossups and 135 Bonuses. That comes out to being 18.2% for tossups and 20.83% for bonuses. So basically 20% of the tournament is not academic knowledge. This should definitel...

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It's always been my opinion that if you're not going to use negs in your tournament, powers don't need to be there either. But if you are using negs (as the vast majority of competitions do, and just about every single one we attend all year), then power marks should be included as well. If you can...

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Peltasts were contrasted with these military units, whose tendency to drift to the right was checked by an officer called the ouragos. The Battle of Magnesia saw a successor to this unit defeated once its Seleucid support fell, and (*) Epaminondas added a deep "hammerhead" to the left sid...

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Peltasts were contrasted with these military units, whose tendency to drift to the right was checked by an officer called the ouragos. The Battle of Magnesia saw a successor to this unit defeated once its Seleucid support fell, and (*) Epaminondas added a deep "hammerhead" to the left sid...

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Can I see the tossups on phalanx from IS-105?

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There was a recent discussion (prompted by LIST) about reevaluating the acceptability of biography clues (formerly unilaterally shunned by good quizbowl) - maybe that would count? yeah basically I just think you can't label something as bad, then banish all discussion of it, then never have it appe...

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What are some examples of "bad quizbowl" practices turning into established, good practices? The only thing I can think of offhand is the more widespread use of the powermark, which is not really the same thing. I can think of practices not used that have become established or formerly &q...

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Ok so I will preface this by saying that I didn't really read the other really long posts because honestly they're just too long right now so I do apologize if I am saying something that someone else has already said or made points for or against. Matt, I am very happy that you made that post. It is...

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Have you given any thought to accounting for the individual players on teams? You could make some sort of parameter that takes the players from each SQBS file and rank them nationally while taking into account the strength of schedule, difficulty of set, and the shadow effect. I just think it would ...

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I like the ranking's except honestly I don't think that CR will be better than GOV or Charter. Yeah Brianna, Keyi, and myself are all gone (These are the only seniors our entire team lost), but we retain Bohan who was our best player after me. She is a strong lit player and the other two girls were ...

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You might want to include ACT dates as well as SAT dates because they are becoming even more popular each year. Also I'm assuming that Charter's tournament will either be the second or third Saturday of December.

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I will have to withdraw if the date is moved to the 10th and 11th. As it stands, I would need to leave somewhat early on the 9 anyway.

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For 10 points each--give the following about conservative vector fields: A. The value for this type of integral of the field around any oriented simple closed curve must be zero. answer: _line_ integral or _path_ integral B. The field must be expressible as the gradient of one of these scalar quant...

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I'll take the physics and whatever history or miscellaneous things there are

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nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote: 1 trash
1 current events
1 your choice

can we consolidate these three into one and add one more to the major categories i.e. lit, history, science?

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Delaware If we are, i won't be a part of it (i'll likely never be able to commit to this tournament, to be honest). I don't know of any Charter kids but i'll let them speak for themselves. But i'd be pretty surprised to see a Delaware team attend this. And i can tell you that players from CR never ...

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Carangoides ciliarius wrote:
I wonder how many high school teams these guys could beat? Longfellow has beaten many high school clubs this year, including my own when we were lacking our best player.

What's amazing is how many of the teams in the playoffs came from our area

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I'm game. Raynell wanna do a Mid-Atlantic graduating seniors team?

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Can you please drop us back to two teams and also possibly send me some officialish looking invoice for Charter's wonderful bureaucracy?

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Also, keep in mind that the NHBB format is "tossup heavy" in point allocation, which is in some ways fairer than having 2/3 of the possible points come through bonus questions. What's so unfair about bonus questions? They reward people who know stuff and don't reward people who don't know...

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Also, keep in mind that the NHBB format is "tossup heavy" in point allocation, which is in some ways fairer than having 2/3 of the possible points come through bonus questions. What's so unfair about bonus questions? They reward people who know stuff and don't reward people who don't know...

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OK I will preface this by saying that I wasn't at the tournament because I went to frivolous things like Prom. The thing that jumped out at me the most was the time: 1. Three days for a tournament is absolutely unacceptable. It's very consuming and would cause teams to start missing classes which is...

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I would like a copy

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We're expressing interest now. Umm say 3 teams but that could change

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It looks like Charter probably won't be able to make it

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Got it. I have zero clue how many Charter will have. We might only have 4 or 5 teams. GRRRRR :(

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Carangoides ciliarius wrote:
Any field update, or is this going to be the Charter/CR Challenge?

Just updated, but its mostly us. I'm hoping we have 16 teams so that we can have an easy time scheduling, but otherwise I assume 2 brackets with partial round robins would be the best. Any input?

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I am pleased to announce this years Delaware State Championship tournament, which will be held on March 19th at Mt Pleasant High School. We will be using NAQT IS-105 for the tournament. If you are interested in attending, please let me know, so that I can have your team accounted for, when we make t...

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March is actually turning out be be a. Very busy month for Charter, so if we can make it, it would probably be with just our A team.

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We will most likely be there with probably no more than three teams.

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Yeah we'll be there. Probably 6-8 teams depending if I can get everybody to come. I think the best bet would probably be IS-104

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