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marnold

(I wasn't sure who was back for Columbia) Assuming this is my Columbia, I know Chris Horng graduated and I think Dan did too. I might play a bit more than I did last year depending how school/job stuff shakes out. For the nationals tournaments, I'm going to make Rafael play even if I have to kidnap...

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Sam Bailey is comically underrated by the quizbowl community at large.

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It would be easier if you could post full teams. Perhaps more pointedly, is the Jeremy White team the usual Professional Trash (TM) players?

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Kyle wrote: Gauthier and Steinbaum

I only want to play this packet

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Hey, so we just had yet another drop from our team, Charlie Dees, Dan Puma, and myself are looking for a fourth yet again. I presume at this point we'd need to pick someone local up, so if anyone out there knows science (or, failing that, anything at all) and is interested, please email/PM me. SUMM...

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If the date changes, I'm withdrawing.

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I will postulate that the number of people who tried to be "that guy who does X at quizbowl tournaments" who weren't mocked or loathed for doing it can be counted on zero hands.

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Cheynem wrote:The Donald himself, Donald Taylor, will be writing some questions for this. He has especially been helpful in writing on non big three sports.

STUDY RUGBY

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There's at least one comically glaring omission from this poll I'm sure wouldn't have happened with such a thread Out of curiosity, who or what do you have in mind here? Is this referring to the lack of 3-25 on one ballot or do you think there's someone missing? The latter. I'll give a hint: his na...

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I'm pretty sure hsquizbowl polls end up with bizarre results any time there isn't a preceding thread where general discussion sorts players into tiers and the obvious names are thrown out so people know to vote for them. There's at least one comically glaring omission from this poll I'm sure wouldn'...

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Is that Google spreadhseet up to date? If that's not where the action is, I'll just post that I'm working as a CO agent again this year. My blue-chip player is a genial, possibly seersucker-wearing Seth Rogen impersonator with strong knowledge of trash, the New Deal and the 1L curriculum. He's inter...

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The 'embarrassment' argument is nonsense. Should we also ban people playing solo because one person beating four can be embarrassing? As I explained, the difference between the situations is that losing to a good, usually older individual can be spun to new teams as "work hard going forward an...

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I wish we could approach this issue on more honest ground than a bunch of posts made in bad faith coming from such great secret motives as "I don't like dealing with annoying Illinois high schoolers," "I'm such a doomed affair that it pissed me off that I almost lost to a great high ...

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I gestured to this in my post in the scheduling thread, but I think it might be a good idea to have a discussion about high schoolers playing in college tournaments. To my mind, there are a few reasons this is not a particularly good state of affairs - I know there are some people who agree with dif...

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Just out of curiosity, can someone explain why the COLLEGE QUIZBOWL FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS argument is being proffered by people who insist on high schoolers playing college tournaments, even sometimes at the exclusion of actual college teams? Is the idea with high schoolers just that we're okay with ...

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Assuming I can find a team of amusing people to play with, I'm probably going to come to this. If you want to be one of those amusing people, let me know (NOTE: must be amusing).

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I was actually just being an ass, making fun of the fact Charles Hang was voicing a concern very explicitly addressed by 2 of the 4 posts in this thread.

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Would it be possible for you to make the answer lines fairly accessible for non-engineers? Has this been addressed? I really have to know if you're going to try to make this accessible to non-engineers and I have no idea whether you're planning on doing that or not. EDIT to mitigate my jackassery b...

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CO trash is on a one year hiatus. It will be back next year.

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The CO Trash cabal is in the conclave, so keep watching the smoke and expect an pronouncement of some sort soon.

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Phase 1 of this tournament was clearly seeded very wrong from the get-go. This led to the Phase 2 brackets being pretty uneven--UVa, Brown, Minnesota, VCU, Harvard, Maryland, Berkeley in one "high" bracket and Michigan A, Rice, Yale, UCSD, Illinois A, Chicago A and OSU in the other. Inste...

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Yale and Minnesota emerged from a massive pileup to play in a one-game final apparently.

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Those are goals, aspects, objectives of the military, not the objective or point.

Never change "MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU" thread - never change.

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The genteel southern courtesy thing was a joke. I was just struck by the fact this tournament had things that were obviously really bad and yet the TD called things a smashing success; in my experience with other regions there would be enough uproar from the players that that wouldn't be the case. I...

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Are you people just too polite to object strenuously when bullshit like this happens at a tournament? Maybe that's a problem.

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I don't understand these last two arguments. You're arguing for the wiki that exists now. Basically all the colorful stuff was purged the last time; the personal stuff that isn't tournament results, TDing and writing was purged last time. And the wiki has fallen into disuse aside from riveting updat...

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Not sure what's mysterious about all this: removing negative and funny things made the wiki less interesting and meant that people didn't want to edit it as much. So they didn't and now it's both boring and also useless. In particular, one of the things the wiki was most useful for was collecting st...

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Yeah, I mean if anyone enjoyed this tournament it would have to be the producers of Sack of Antwerp in gratitude that someone else had made something so bad everyone would forget about how bad their set was for a while. Brilliant! Some more idle speculation about the sinister, true motives underlyi...

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Oh, yeah, I'm not claiming it wasn't hard: obviously I have no idea one way or the other, and I would have even been floored if it hadn't been hard. I was just trying to (light-heartedly) point out the humor of proving its impossibility with "only one team over 17pbb!" when there are teams...

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CHRZ, your argument would be stronger if (1) there weren't two teams within .05 of 17 pbb and (2) it wasn't totally obvious from the first two pages of this thread that the tournament's definition of difficulty would be at its easiest Regionals level. On a related note, I'm not sure what long-forgot...

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I plan on being on being covered up to my elbows in Harold's grease the Friday of ICT, so I will not be part of the Sch-Michael-dic League.

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14 Lawrence A SCT 2011 Region 8 (Region 8) 7.42 0.68 19.87 3.96 0.972 0.90 0.70 6.49 0.59 13.91 1 / 9 295.015 295.015
15 Penn SCT 2011 Region 4 (Region 4) 6.28 0.62 17.23 3.48 0.853 1.00 1.00 5.36 0.53 17.23 2 / 7 288.322 288.322

I think the D2 adjustment factor might need to be changed...

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In fact, a tournament where Stanford would put up 25 PPB, there's a good chance Minnesota would have put up 25.5 PPB or whatever. Teams have different abilities knowing Regionals-level questions and Nationals-level questions. If your question is why National Championships are decided on Nationals le...

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How is that gap less meaningful if its between 23 and 25 than it was between 17 and 19? A tournament held last year where Andrew would put up 25 PPB would also have Minnesota put up 24.8 and Chicago would be putting up 24.2. The games between top teams would be played on such fine margins that thin...

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At high difficulty national championships it's more important to accurately distinguish between the levels of knowledge at the high end of the tail. So looking at the playoffs from Nats last year, it is way more important to have the relatively large gaps between the top teams (Stanford almost .9 ah...

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I think the answer is to get rid of the separate DII tournament entirely and just bump SCT difficulty down accordingly. I think this has already been mentioned a couple times in various threads: is this seriously going to become the next talking point? I hope not because it's crazy. The problem in ...

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NAQT can confirm when they see fit, but obviously if there had been lots of between round overlap we would have stopped and I'm a little annoyed you think otherwise.

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I think my previous post was slightly more hostile than it probably needed to be, so in the spirit of civility I will restrain myself from making jokes based on this

MicroEStudent wrote:the big offender

and merely note his first name was Rick and I'm not sure of his last name.

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Oh, you see, that room was being read by the fifth player from Columbia who was sitting out so when Div 1 lost a round into the ether after a team left and the schedule was reshuffled and one of the rooms played a game that was later stricken from the stats and replayed in the room the teams were ar...

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Cornell and Columbia played each other five times over the course of the tournament: Cornell won games 1 and 2; we won 3 and the two final games. Rumor is Cornell won d2 but that's unconfirmed. Logistically this tournament was at times just a mess. I'll point out specific problems later but Naqt sho...

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Most of the summer jobs I'm applying for are in Colorado, so if this improbably happens I'd participate. I'd also be happy to mention this in the Denver- and Boulder-area trivia circles I'm familiar with.

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A trick I learned from the movie "Bowfinger" is to claim that whatever you're making is intended for distribution in Madagascar and Uzbekistan only, as in the film Steve Martin's character claims that US copyright law does not apply in these countries. Bruce Apostolic King of Georgetown Q...

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David successfully cheated my system last round by voting at the last possible second, but since I already know his policy on Peanuts, I'm voting for Linus and Lucy.

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dseal wrote:Voting for Fairytale of New York.
Linus and Lucy, like all things Peanuts related is vastly overrated.

Linus and Lucy

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I just realized the funniest way to have participated in this tournament would be to have always voted for the exact opposite of someone so you're always directly negating the votes of that particular person (say... David Seal). Better late than never, I guess, so I vote for South Park and Guardsmen.

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Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:I get it. I'm up against the entirety of quizbowl here. I just feel differently than the vasy majority that are opposed to it.

and that's why your are wrong

*dusts off hands*

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Columbia's stats are wrong. The last 2.5 games Columbia A was just Dan Passner because the rest of us had to catch our bus.

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nah, I'll pass

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I just haven't gotten a clear answer yet as to this question: Should I have just stayed home or not played at all? If it means we can avoid the seemingly annual ritual of "I'm good and this didn't cater to how good I am so this suxx," then yes - ten thousands times yes, please stay home. ...

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The entry fee will be $50,000.

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