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fett0001 wrote:Did UVA not play USC?

Akhil, on facebook, wrote:missed it in round 9, but Cody has the scoresheets

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I've been out of the loop for a while, so forgive me if these sentiments have already been shared, but it's super cool to see so many first timers(AFAIK) like Liberty, McGill , Oxford, Kenyon, Waterloo and DCC registered for ACF Nats. Carleton University, and RIT as well I think? Yay for the growth...

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Kumbla wrote: 4x12 into 4x12

Double byes would be nice if the day goes really really long.

Kumbla wrote: Bracket 3
Waterloo

If this happens, I'll pretend to eat my shoe.

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A knowledge bowl question, ca. 1999: "Complete this joke by using the name of an Asian nation: Your knapsack is brown, but my..." uzbek is tan wait But seriously, I've been at this for ten minutes and I can't think of a better answer. Is-real? My Afghan is tan? North Korea? That might be ...

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Could I also see the tubulin tossup? The "dynamic instability" part of one clue and "this type/class of/one protein" threw me off and I negged with microtubules (a bad neg), but I was wondering why dynamic instability should be associated uniquely with tubulins (outside of just ...

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I wrote:
Joel Gluskin is not wearing a sports cap (500-1)

I didn't see him wearing a sports cap!

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United Airlines not :capybara:ing up some of our flights worse than they are right now (9001-1) At least one of our players get stranded overnight Friday in one of Dulles, Newark, or O'Hare (1-1) :sad: Note to NAQT personnel: The correct people have been notified of our crisis. I don't think these o...

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What's the over under on the amount of caffeinated soft drink Max drinks?

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The plane train breaks down on me again (2-1)

Joel Gluskin is not wearing a sports cap (500-1)

The Canadians don't eat lunch at a buffet (10-1)

The French guy on my D2 team makes it through the entire day without being asked to repeat his answer slowly and in English (50-1)

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I think there's enough interest for a McGill current + alumni team. Will confirm when I can.

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A reporter from a community newspaper came to a recent Ottawa tournament and produced this. It focused on Lisgar as Colonel By is not part of the region this paper targets.

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If I go to PACE, I'd be happy to staff this event if I already heard it at HSNCT.

If there's not enough interest at HSNCT, you could just do 2 or 3 rooms of soloists and promote/relegate.

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Lots of fun was had! Thanks to my team, the staffers and everyone who braved this very fun set! Also, stats correction: The substitutions of the newly-renamed Team Cody Voight hasn't been handled correctly. For instance, Jordan did not play all 5 games of the prelims. Perhaps someone can go over th...

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I'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing, but there seems to be a lot fewer organic chemistry questions on reactions named for people as there were back when I started in the late first decade.

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I helped out with the production of this set somewhere between the levels of that of Nick and the other writers. Looking back on it, I apologize for several of my internet or other questions for being too hard. I should have made easy parts a lot easier, although I think the harder parts were justif...

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For yet another example, I can't imagine anyone would want to hear a bonus on a niche topic outside of the popular consciousness, such as minor webcomics or YouTube channels or personal-care product brands, that is constructed as though the topic is actually squarely within the popular consciousnes...

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There are several mistakes in the stats, these will be fixed in the upcoming days.

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I think many of these alleged pictures (though I've only ever seen one?) are more about something team-internal like an advisor/captain saying "If you beat [Top Physics Player] to a physics tossup, I'll pay for your soda," which is obviously 100 percent fine. I've seen two, and the prize ...

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This tournament is the best thing ever. Stats can be found here . There is word of people wanting to mirror this in Ottawa for anyone who was unable to attend today. So please don't discuss this with Ottawa people (or of course, online until all mirrors conclude). If said Ottawa mirror happens, it w...

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The tournament was really challenging but in a good way. Stats are here. Jordan Palmer's team won. We split 4/2 after these prelims. Full stats will be up eventually.

Thanks for teams coming out to Queen's!

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Here are some updates. Queens will have 5 staffers, which is awesome up to 7 teams. If other people are willing to staff that would be great. We currently have six teams registered. From prior experience, and the fact that many people have registered in pairs, it seems like there will still be team ...

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Will there be book prizes? Will there be a neg prize? How much is the parking fee in the structure next to Mac-Corry/Victoria Hall? Which buffet dining halls (Ban Righ/Leonard Hall) will be open, and how much are they? I will let the Queen's club know of these questions and make an update as soon a...

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I think the appropriate knowledge can also be tested by saying something like "What is the new <value> if <parameters> is/are increased/decreased by a factor of <x>" rather having to have specific numbers calculated.

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I am offering my services as a staffer or a player who will occasionally answer some sports and internet trash.

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Rooms booked are some of the D and E rooms in Mackintosh-Corry hall, the same place ONQBA provincials was held in 2013. The meeting room will most likely be D216. I will sort out some details with Queen's in the coming days, including how many staffers they can commit. I am also looking to start thi...

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Also, was anyone able to buzz on the Poco sostenuto - Vivace clue? I got the tossup here off of a guess. I wouldn't have buzzed if you hadn't mentioned it was in 6/8 because I don't pay attention to tempo markings (Even though I once bought the score from a used book store). Slow-fast is common, bu...

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Can I please see the music tossups on the number 6 and Beethoven's 7th symphony? If I recall correctly, the second clue in the '6' tossup was a fairly easy theory clue, something I had encountered in 10th grade music class. The existence of the Beethoven's 7th symphony tossup surprised me. I believe...

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RexSueciae wrote:
Fortunately, my Secret Santa's gift survived its month-long stint in the bowels of UVA's mail. Thank you to Joe Su of Ontario!

And a belated thank you to His Holiness Sri Sri Lord Eric Mukherjee, King of UCS and Grand Guru of Science for Karajan's Christmas Album!

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I think Matt Weiner said that he'd support an analogous rule in this thread, in which your first collegiate tournament starts the clock. Would this not discourage high-schoolers from playing college tournaments? If you play a college tournament as a ninth grader, you'd lose UG eligibility after fre...

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[*] Despite (again) what the original announcement said, this set was not "tailored to a North American audience" in any meaningful way. I mean, maybe the joke's on me because the only specific promise you made was that there were no cricket questions (which was true), and I think everyon...

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[*]There was a triangle tossup that mentioned triangles in the tossup [*]The tossup on solving ODEs made it clear it wasn't integration or differentiation, and that led me away from the actual answer line. [*]The tossup on magma mentioned that it was classified as "mafic" or "felsic&q...

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Once Aauysh or a forum staffer gives me ownership of the tournament, the stats will be up here.

Please let me know if there are any mistakes or if you want to retroactively give yourself or your team a nickname.

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Just a question about the distribution: Is music theory (e.g. the Harmony tossup) considered classical music or other auditory arts?

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To take a little detour from the subjects I know best: The chemistry seemed very difficult, especially compared with the physics and biology, a sentiment that was shared with several other players at the site. My non-high school background in physics consists of a two-course honors intro sequence i...

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The round robin has finished.

The 4/3/3 split is:

Top
McGill 9-0
Ottawa 8-1
Waterloo 7-2
Cornell 6-3

Middle
Waterloo B, Cornell B, Toronto each 4-5

Bottom
RIT 2-7
Carleton 1-8
Western 0-9

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Hi everyone! The George Oppen mirror for Ontario and surroundings will be held at Queens University, in Kingston Ontario, on February 28th, 2014. Please email 11pa22 queensu.ca cc'ing joesu235 gmail.com if you're interested in staffing or playing this tournament. This is the fee structure. Base Fee:...

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Carleton University has a player named Skye Walker. My birthday around when I went to staff ICCS this year, and the Carleton team surprised me with her delicious homemade cupcakes. At this year's MSNCT and HSNCT, http://www.naqt.com/stats/player.jsp?contact_id=135975 was the stats room's favourite n...

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The Canadian field enjoys my meta questions. If I were to do something equivalent for this, clues would exclusively come from qbwiki, stats pages, and forum posts so I don't offend anyone I don't know. Hey, writing a tossup on a famous quizbowler I have never met is just like a trash question on a f...

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This format seems interesting and makes awkward numbers work. However, would a record-based playoff be more efficient than a standing-in-bracket playoff to adjust for possible imperfections in the seedings? So something like the top twelve teams by WL/PPB make the playoffs with all undefeatedsandr X...

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Lisgar does open community "trivia nights" pub quiz style. We charge $10-$20 (depending on the "extras" we provide) for 10-15 rounds of trivia, and hold it two to three times a year on Friday evenings, and they last usually around from 7pm to 10pm. For these events, we also do ot...

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:Any chance these will be uploaded to the database soon?

Edit: Also, how many packets of questions went unused at Fall?

How many packets of "good" questions were unused at Fall? Is there enough to engineer something out of it?

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Thank you to all that took extra time out of your schedule to salvage this. It was definitely not the best tournament I have played, but it was very good. However, Charlie said this tournament was regionals with the side of caution, but I definitely saw some answer lines on the harder side. The midd...

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Stats are up. We could have done a 4/5 rebracket but people had to leave. Email me corrections, but I did not bring scoresheets with me, so I'll trust you guys.

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Waterloo won an advantaged final over Ottawa. I will post stats before tomorrow evening.

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This is why many top high school teams play college tournaments. We wanted to see how we stacked up against other top HS teams. College tournaments require that you write questions. We are really not up to that. Delta Burke and MUT are very good easier collegiate tournaments that don't require pack...

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Lisgar will be holding a mirror of the BELLOCO set at Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Downtown Ottawa on Saturday, December 6th, 2014. This tournament is open to teams of all experience levels. The tournament will use the BELLOCO set produced by Bellarmine in California. This set was rated "exem...

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I thought this tossup was also pretty hard. The slow movement of Beethoven’s ninth includes a famously difficult solo for this instrument that begins with an ascending C-flat Major scale. Near the beginning of the scherzo of Beethoven’s fifth, this instrument plays a loud theme that has the same “sh...

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Name: Joe Su Email: joesu235 gmail.com 1. A quizbowl relevant book that doesn't deal with Science or Fine Art 2. Anything by Karajan that's not Beethoven 3. Nerdy (in the academic, not the gaming/movie/comic/etc sense) apparel not from the XKCD store (Honestly, surprise me, I think the best stuff I'...

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t-bar wrote:Columbia (2-3 teams, 1 buzzer)

The rivalry continues

How large do you expect this tournament to be? If a decent field size doesn't materialize, we might consider going to Waterloo.

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I liked this set very much (my first ever ACF Fall!), and almost all the questions were enjoyable. I regret not having played prior editions of ACF Fall. In addition to certain tossups that were out of place because they were too hard, there were some other questions that were on the far other end o...

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