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Ondes Martenot

Also, is Sarah Kerrigan really a good example of a Terran? Probably not. I mean, it is her "main race", if that makes any sense. Are we seriously talking about Starcraft? I mean Jerry, there's no reason why a trash tu can't be written to the same standards as a tu in any other subject. I'...

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Ummm...I'm not too sure. My memory of starcraft is a bit rusty. When writing this I considered using "this race" instead of "this faction" but decided against that in fear that it would make it too obvious that it was about starcraft. Maybe this wouldn't be an issue and maybe a m...

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This is the first thing I plan on doing once I get them back. First I need to actually get them back though.

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So here's the situation At NAQT SCT Yale and us swapped buzzers by accident. We were supposed to swap at ACF Regionals but Yale forgot to bring ours. No big deal, we decided to just swap at T-party the week after. Then it decided to snow and never stop in Troy, so we couldn't make it out. In additio...

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Andy already knows this but really crap weather+horrible road conditions means we can't make it tomorrow.

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Greenland was described as a country in the tu on it, which is only half true and threw people off

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Ok see there is now about 1/1 noncomp math a round which I actually sort of like, but I can't account for all the space cleared by the removal of comp math. Were there any other major changes made to the distribution you can point out?

Ondes Martenot

We're going to publish it, but don't expect it soon. (We have not yet decided on its final content, other than that computation tossups are gone.)

Jeff, has a decision been made yet about this?

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Hey would I be able to crash at someone's place on Friday night? (maybe also saturday night, but definitely friday night for now)

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A lot of these scores add up to over 400 though

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depending on how many people there are, and how cramped people are willing to be, could this just be run on a laPtop? Is this meant to played in a single room?

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Do you know what building on campus this will occur in?

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Yeah that works for me

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Hey so I hope this doesn't come off as sounding selfish, but since we have a long drive back to RPI once this tournament is done, if we could run some rounds of the visual tournament during lunch that would be awesome and I would definitely play (I'm not advocating making lunch any longer than what ...

Ondes Martenot

I can't speak for Tufts Quiz Bowl but I would be highly surprised if we sent a team to a regular difficulty event.

You sent a team to Harvard International last year, which was probably the hardest event during the regular season.

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So I obviously didn't write anything for DI but I did write 41 questions for DII and am curious what people think Round 1 tu: pentagon papers, south carolina, marco polo, khyber pass round 2 bonus: sociobio/gould/p.e. tu: roy lichtenstein, harry reid (yeah, not sure how 2 reid questions wound up in ...

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Well yeah, I knew already we were the UG champion, but I know the UG champ only gets an auto bid if there were at least four DI undegrad teams in attendance

edited to make sense

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Which of the other teams in DI were all undergrads?

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We're also bringing a team. I emailed Jason about a month ago.

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Theory Of The Leisure Flask wrote: I'm surprised Horace Greeley didn't get any votes. Very few teams know who they are. And they're decent, but not incredible. On an NAQT set they averaged under 19ppb this year, which is pretty good. But they never really travel to anything, so i don't see how anyo...

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Doesn't MIT have a buzzer they could let you use? I hear they're really close to Harvard.

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I mean, RPI's bringing two teams and the only members who really have experience reading (let alone reading on a clock) are Matt and I. No one on my team will want me to staff and not play and Matt's geo expertise (and just decent overall level of knowledge) means I really want him playing as well. ...

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I just created my own account on with Harvard parking services (the department code for visitors is apparently 7700), that way I can print my own pass and not have to bug you or Brian Kennedy whenever we go to a Harvard tournament.

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We'll most likely (over 95%) come. Like, I can't give you anything definite since it's still kind of far off but I'm sure we'll be there.

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It's the beginning of our spring break, but we'll be there in some form or another

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Yeah...Brown, which was Jerry, Aaron and Rebecca (?) went undefeated after a double round robin

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I very much enjoyed playing this tournament, which seemed to do a very good job of hitting its intended difficulty. I'll say that I'm not a huge fan of literature tossups about a country, especially if that country really only has one or two authors people will know about, but maybe that's just me. ...

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I also will play, assuming I staff HSNCT

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When will registration for the MIT site be open?

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Assuming I'm there, I'm in. Can write as much or as little as needed.

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1 D1 team and probably a D2 team as well

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Hopefully this doesn't derail the discussion but why is Inherit the Wind considered trashy? I seem to recall reading it in high school...

Ondes Martenot · Re: Delaware Fall Open (12/12/09) Wilmington, DE Who won?

Who won?

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http://quizbowlpackets.com/

It's the top most link

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RPI will probably send a team and buzzer system

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Just looking at the results, I'm a little surprised that LASA from Texas didn't get any votes since they have attended 2 college tournaments this year and put up very impressive numbers at each. Does anyone else agree?

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This is is everything I wrote for this tournament Chem (all tossups): phenolphthalein, glycine, priestly, halogens, hund's rule, gibbs free energy, teflon, nernst equation Bio (tossups): porifera, ATP, thiamine, histones, prion, leprosy, bryophytes, cnidaria, alveoli bonuses: apoptosis/lysosomes/tay...

Ondes Martenot

"RPI", which may just be Matt and I, will be attending.

edit: We'll also have a buzzer system

Ondes Martenot

Also, my main point was in terms of being rejected in favor of a high school team, when high school teams have the opportunity to play at both college and high school events.

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But otherwise, I don't think any team or person should be "pissed" at being excluded from a tourney. They should be motivated.

What? How does this make any sense?

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I am flattered, but somewhat amused, that Eric Douglass considers RPI the 10th best college team in the country.

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Yeah, I completely disagree with what Ryan said. If we had been turned away from a college tournament in our first year of existence, in favor of a high school team, I would have been pretty pissed. It's not that I have anything against hs teams playing college tournaments, on the contrary, I think ...

Ondes Martenot

I imagine RPI will send a team to this

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power numbers on IS #86 were only 77% of what they were on the 2008 sets. It might be possible to attribute this to graduations: perhaps disproportionately many of these teams were dominated by seniors and had a tough recruiting year? Jeff, do you think it's possible that the writers have become mo...

Ondes Martenot · Re: TIT/IO Northeast at Harvard (11/15/09) WIll stats be posted ever

WIll stats be posted ever

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So I'm starting this thread after reading about/playing in some very poorly run tournaments. I don't want this to turn into giant bash thread; what happened happened and we can only make sure such errors don't occur in the future. I have staffed some tournaments but have never actually run one befor...

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At RPI you don't encounter the Diels-Alder reaction until organic chemistry I, typically taken first semester of sophomore year. I know this is just one school, but I find it hard to believe that the Diels-Alder reaction is taught in any sort of freshmen general chemistry course.

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Is this still taking place in buildings 2 and 4? (I assume this was where NAQT SCT was held last year...)

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It makes no difference to us where it is held

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