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I suspect a large number of people may want to know if there is a physical mirror near them, of which only MSU's and TJ's have thusfar been announced, before they commit to playing this online mirror.

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didnt someone already make this joke

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I get why you’d want to write a question on _carbon and carbon_, but saying that you want “these two elements” seems objectively misleading. It seems to me that you could pull off the same thing by changing the pronouns and making the answerline _carbon-carbon bonds_ or _making carbon-carbon bonds_ ...

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Progcon wrote: ↑Tue Sep 25, 2018 7:29 pm the first in-person mirror will be on January 26, 2019.

This is the day of ACF Regionals.

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I think Naveed's point is that the players of online playtesting mirrors (of whom there are typically on the order of 20-40 depending on the mirror's size), who are typically out of college since those mirrors are usually open, may have chosen by playing that online mirror to not staff some other ph...

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Is there/what is the field cap?

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I mistakenly filled out the registration form twice when I meant to edit it, so it should be noted that only one of the listed Delaware teams on the spreadsheet is correct (the one listed as packet-optional). I emailed the ACF Fall email account about this nearly a week ago but no action seems to ha...

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Has no one really signed up for this yet?

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Me, in the thread for this exact tournament last year wrote:Also given that the fees as listed are per-player it might be smart to have that as a field [in the registration form] in addition to the number of teams.

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A Very Long Math Tossup wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 8:34 pm I'm in, if only to see how little I know about the quizbowl meta.

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vengefulsweatermensch wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:59 pm
theking259 wrote:Could we get access to the google sheet of the fields?
Sure, as soon as I get the Google forms script to work!

Has this happened yet?

Bosa of York · Re: Earlybird @ UIUC (10/06/18) October 7 is a Sunday.

October 7 is a Sunday.

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Could I see the "islands" tossup that was mentioned in the other thread?

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I think more high schoolers take world than European history classes anyway. This is probably true: in 2017 nearly 300,000 students took the AP World History exam, while only about 105,000 took AP European History, according to data from the College Board . (For comparison, 505,000 took AP American...

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IMO 2017 ACF Fall was quite a bit better than 2016 (or at least didn’t have any bonuses on impossibly hard Tibetan rivers). I’d tentatively say without having thought about it much that 2017 Fall was one of the best recent easy sets.

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The email address linked in the above post doesn't seem to exist yet? At the very least, both the emails I've sent asking for a distribution have failed, claiming that the address doesn't exist.

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When can registrants expect information regarding when each event will be, how much they'll cost, and other salient information regarding this weekend?

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More worryingly, what's going to happen if Connor Mayers can only staff on Saturday as the sheet indicates, and Matt's the only one staffing on Sunday?

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Do you know if there will be any more mirrors of this?

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Presumably there’s way more young reader literature at MSNCT than HSNCT because young reader literature makes up a way larger proportion of what middle school students will have read—speaking only for myself, I think I was assigned read a total of five books in middle school that didn’t fall into th...

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Potentially you could send the link to hosts and ask them to forward it to teams after that period?

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I’ll definitely play this so long as it isn’t August 11.

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I’d play this.

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I think that a strict promotion/relegation system hasn't been proposed for collegiate quizbowl events (I can't speak with nearly as much confidence about high school) because 1: There hasn't been a tradition in the collegiate circuit of preventing teams from competing in non-novice events; even ACF ...

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Is there a rationale behind not letting closed high school teams play this tournament? Closed high school teams are allowed to play this tournament, but only at designated high school mirrors intended for nationals preparation. An announcement for high school mirrors is forthcoming. Okay, is there ...

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For the SSNCT mirror, who precisely will be in charge of obtaining the packets and collecting and remitting the mirror fees the OP seems to imply will be required? Also, since there's already three teams made, with enough free agents to make one more, it would probably be a good thing if someone in ...

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Speaking as a player on a bottom-bracket team, I thought this tournament was really good and had a lot of accessible content combined with harder material, and hope that future Nationals follow that example.

Also, the tossup on whale falls was great and its writer should feel great.

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In the correct thread this time, the section "who are the defending national champions" lists last year's ICT champtions (switching Berkeley's and Oklahoma's titles as well) and links to last year's CCCT.

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When is this planned for SSNCT? If Saturday night I can staff.

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Do you guys have a conception of what the tournament format is going to be (e.g. how many games each team will play)?

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Will this tournament’s field—preferably including what teams will be UG or D2 eligible—be publically stated?

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I'm not sure this is actually precedented, but I think it would be nice to have a novice/Fall-or-below (that is, not MUT-like) tournament in the Spring, since some schools have Spring activities fairs that can bring in brand-new people then. DII SCT can serve this role (though selfishly I'll note th...

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*Checkers speech [is] within range of a regular difficulty set of tossups [and is] definitely no harder than [...] the Homestead Act I'd disagree with this (but probably not with the Calvin Cycle). As far as I can tell, the Checkers Speech has been a tossup answerline six times--once at NASAT and t...

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This functional group is the result of the Woodward Modification, which features substitution by a benzoate anion followed by hydrolysis. That reaction modifies the Prévost Reaction, which also produces these compounds from alkenes by way of adding iodine. The Upjohn method for producing them is si...

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Could I see the tossups on doxa, partition coefficient, and the Isenheim Altarpiece, as well as the bonus about Nagarjuna?

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In the ozonolysis tossup (round 7), the mod in my room pronounced "periodic acid" the obvious, incorrect way. It might be prudent to put a pronunciation guide there if it wasn't the case that there already was one he didn't see.

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Here's what Young posted into the moderator chat: Hi everyone! Thank you all so much for signing up to play the online open mirror of SMT. Now that we have sufficient moderators available to staff, I can finally send out this email. I’m excited to be holding the first mirror of the set, and am glad ...

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If this past weekend's mirrors were the last ones, could this set be posted when someone gets a chance? Thanks!

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This happened, though Delta Burke didn't. Virginia A won; congrats. Thanks a lot to VCU for hosting!

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What set is this on?

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This year's Rocky Mountain SCT site was won by BYU, a D2-eligible team. However, they did not receive a Tier-5 ICT invitation (for SCT site champions) because fewer than four teams in the combined field were D2-eligible--the qualification rules say that "In the event of a combined-field SCT, th...

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More teams should sign up for this this, but at what point will the tournament be cancelled if no one does?

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Something I just remembered: can we not lead in tossups on Turkmenistan with Door to Hell? It's probably the most notable physical feature in the country. That's debatable. The Karabogazkol and Amu Darya rivers are probably more notable than that at least from a geographical standpoint. But yeah, I...

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What is the adjustment from raw to final A-value?

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Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Paper Planes by M.I.A.
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash

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Are any more mirrors of this set planned?

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Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Toxic by Britney Spears
Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash

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This thinker’s major work targets writers who used logical sciences as “evidentiary proof for the truth of their metaphysical sciences” A minor quibble, but I’m not sure it makes sense to call The Incoherence of the Philosophers al-Ghazali’s single “major work.” It’s his best-known work in quizbowl...

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Could I see the tossup on Al-Ghazali? I’m curious as to where the first sentence is from.

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Could I see the tossup on Moby-Dick? I'd like to make note of what changes were made from my original version.

Also, could I see the tossup on Borges? I didn't recognize the first few clues, which I find surprising because I've read quite a bit of him. Thanks!

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