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Some ideas: -Talk to local historical societies for NHBB funding. Some teams have gotten their entire nationals registration fees covered that way. . Thanks for the suggestion, seeing as we live in Lexington I'm sure that our historical society would be more than happy to learn that History Bowl ex...

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I would disagree when u say Bethlehem is the best team so far. CSW looked very vry impressive at HFT, though unfortunately, they did not play Bethlehem. In my opinion CSW could be around top 8 in the country with the addition of their captain Varun

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What do the asterisks mean (like the one next to western albemarle)

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Update: The aforementioned literature side event has been canceled.

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Schmidt Sting Pain Index wrote:The history seemed easier than other categories in terms of clues in power.

Maybe it's because you are a legend at history

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I really hope that I am not "telling people how to post" here, but can we tone it down on the attacks on members of the Harvard team? Most, if not all of the criticisms in this thread have been from people who were not actually at the tournament. The few interruptions did not detriment fro...

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Could Raynor or someone else explain exactly what happened with the reader, because I'm still kind of confused as to how mixing up packets would have cost everyone almost 2 hours.

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Schmidt Sting Pain Index wrote:Thank to Harvard for a great tournament. although the set was quite difficult, we did indeed enjoy. Congrats to State• College on the win.

Yes

Despite the delay, the staffers were very professional and the set was enjoyable. Congrats to State. College for winning, and CSW for placind 2nd

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Would you want to mirror this as a side event during a tournament?

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Could you explain exactly how you did the rankings, for example Lexington had PPBs of 22.35 and 22.33 yet we are behind teams such as DuPont Manual and Alpharetta who have slightly lower projected PPBs than us

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Lexington would be interested.

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This thread no longer makes any sense because apparently "q u b o" now automatically turns into "quizbowl"

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Many of the stats seem to be shifted to the right one column for some reason (like it says 1.00 under 15 whereas it should go under GP)

Also the combined team detail only feature the finals

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Once again, the finals at FaCT, like MITFAT, featured an extremely contested game between Lexington A and AMSA A, with Lex coming out on top by a slight margin (something like 25). Darien placed 3rd, beating out Lexington B, which subsequently placed 4th. Lexington A- Highest PPB and PPG, and 2nd in...

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PEA had a very strong showing on MITFAT, so i expect that they can repeat their success in later tournaments. Hopefully a few non-Exeter teams from New Hampshire can attend some MA tournaments as well.

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The following people agree that pure memorization without understanding is bad in general, and includes quizbowl: Math teachers/ professors and basically everyone you named Unfortunately, in my understanding, pure memorization is what many conceptual math tossups are down to now. People don't care t...

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I learned how to use the power rule to solve derivative problems in about November of my freshman year of high school, expressly for the purpose of scoring points in quiz bowl. I literally knew nothing about derivatives, what they were useful for, or how to do anything except mindlessly apply a rul...

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I'd like to point that in 9 cases out of 10 the person who can do the problem faster is the one who knows more. What i mean by this is that someone who has more experience with problem solving will have a stronger grasp on the technique, thus allowing them to solve the problem quicker. Players who a...

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I am in pharmacy school. Pharmacists do a lot of math. Doing a lot of math quickly is what calculators do. Understanding how the math works and why things are calculated the way they are is the pharmacist's job. Comp math tossups aren't simply a calculation either. Having a calculator won't help fi...

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The top 200 previews used the rankings from the 2013-2014 season, and predicted whether each team would get better, worse, or stay about the same. The preseason top 50 used the information from the top 200 rankings to roughly predict the top 50 teams this season.

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We are now Gold-certified with PACE, meaning that the top 20% of the field will qualify for the NSC.

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Lol basically ya

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:)))) come play sum late night quizbowl

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Sorry about that, we have just removed the minimum fee and instead, set the maximum amount of buzzers at 2.

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Exeter: Has a strong duo of Tanmay and Matthew Robbins, but they need to actually attend tournaments. I am not exactly sure how noted quiz bowl analyst Abhinav Kurada arrived at this erroneous conclusion. Primary sources indicate that Tanmay Khale has NOT transferred to Philips Exeter and thus will...

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Lexington High School in Lexington, MA is pleased to announce the Lexington Invitational Tournament (LIT), to be held on December 20, 2014. We will be using NAQT’s IS-142 set, with 20 untimed tossups each round. All teams are guaranteed 10 games. The field is tentatively capped at 24 teams, and is s...

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There is a practice here right now

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Everyone is welcome: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gx3d ... wv25d4tiaa

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Although there is no universally agreed-upon guideline regarding the use of compound words in the English language, in recent decades written English has displayed a noticeable trend towards increased use of compounds. Recently, many words have been made by taking syllables of words and compounding...

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Could anyone on the Harvard quizbowl team upload the HFT set, unless there's a mirror that's going to happen?

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200% n@@@a by gangsta rap turns me up, as does anything by Katy Perry

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Is anyone interested in hosting an ACF style HSAPQ set?

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I learned who Jeffrey Dahmer is from Juicy J in a Katy song

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I have Casey Wetherbee and Varun Wadhwa with me here: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gwam ... icswhrriua

Click for some l8 n1t3 quizbowl

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Hey Fred do you plan on releasing PACE and/or HSNCT stat adjustments??

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There will be a Skype call tonight at 9pm Eastern.

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Ok, you can just Pm me.

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What i usually do with other people is I just message them on Facebook and see what times work for them.

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Is anyone interested in Skyping or G+ bowling during the summer?

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Is there a timeframe when this year's HSAPQ sets will be posted?

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Conversions on "Rene Magritte," and "John Coltrane," and "Absinthe" please?

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Stats for "Dark Horse" please?

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Lexington's NAQT IS set tournament will be held on December 20th.

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vinteuil wrote:More small updates: the list of tournaments on the right is now automatically generated, and it changes based on the difficulty level selected! You'll also notice some new additions to the list!

what do you mean by "automatically generated"?

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Hey Jacob is there any chance that you could add in all the NHBB questions as well, not just the ones from nationals?

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@Alston, yes we are relatively young, as is AMSA. Our A team roster at HSNCT was David Yuan (Senior, starter) Colin Cantwell (Freshman, starter) Devin Shang (Me, sophomore, starter) Reggie Luo(Sophomore starter) Duncan McCallum (Sophomore) Arjun Sarathy (Junior) Yeah so everyone will be returning ne...

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Lexington could have definitely made the playoffs at HSNCT this year; we were quite unlucky with our matchups,facing 6/10 playoff teams during the prelims, as well as losing a 95 point halftime lead during the final game before elimination. Additionally, one could also make the argument that Lexingt...

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Have stats for this tournament been posted yet?

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