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I'd like to thank Ophir for helping me generate these web packets. Please do not share with those who have not played the set. The web packet also have a link to zipped and password protected PDFs of the packets. The current version hosted is the version played by 11/30 mirrors (a link is available ...

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Here are links to the detailed stats of every mirror that chose to use them. Ophir has asked me to mention he was not involved with this set outside of generating the scoresheets, helping hosts address issues, and helping me in generating and hosting the web packets. I will add links here to each ad...

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Will stats from this be posted on hsqb at some point?

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So I'm re-reading through the set finally and I just noticed this bonus: 12. Though compounds with this relationship have similar chemical and physical properties, they rotate plane-polarized light in opposite directions. For 10 points each: [10] Name this relationship between the two compounds in ...

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The clue in the autism tossup has been changed to read "A form of ABA called early intensive behavioral intervention is a controversial method commonly used to treat this disorder."

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To backtrack a bit, I thought the three computational physics bonus parts in this tournament were all clear and straightforward ways of testing for important knowledge. Perhaps the wording has been fine-tuned a bit from the first mirrors, but I didn't find any of them confusing. Tree traversals are...

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The SYBR clue in the PCR tossup is a hose as currently worded. SYBR dyes like SYBR-Safe are commonly used in place of Ethidium bromide for visualizing gels. While yes, this is exactly how you visualize the results of PCR, this is done by performing gel electrophoresis, and if you buzz on the word &...

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Sorry for taking a while to respond to your criticism, Ryan. There's a lot of good stuff here: Is there any reason that "dipole" is explicitly not prompted on? Graham buzzed with this and expected to be prompted before saying dipole moment, but was just negged. Looking at past tossups on t...

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Bonuses were pretty good with some fairly challenging hard parts. A few parts were kind of pedantic or easy to screw up even with a lot of experience (Boltzmann factor, pendulum period, electric susceptibility). As I said in the other thread, I enjoyed the bonuses on the whole, but in many cases th...

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Attached is a zip of the packets.

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Hey everyone, Major apologies to the moderators of yesterday's mirrors who were confused why their spreadsheets were not editable for a 5 minute period during the tournament - this is my fault because I changed something without telling Ophir and without understanding how Google Drive handles permis...

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This tournament was fun to play, thanks for writing it! My subjective impression was that the chemistry and biology skewed harder than the physics, though I'm not sure if this is supported by the advanced stats. The visual art seemed fine, but at times a little bland (more polemically, I felt like t...

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Various things (some of these are pretty opinionated, feel free to disregard): - should "national" be required for "national debt" once you get to the giveaway and it's pretty clear that answers like "household debt" are incorrect? - minor point, but "Mill's theory...

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This is great stuff! One question I had is how we as a community will hash out who gets to determine the crowdsourced pronunciation guides. I think that several extant pronunciation guides can be incorrect to the point of confusing players (I encounter this fairly frequently with Indian names, I'm ...

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Here is the Github link for the project, and here is a video of it in action. The idea is for the community to contribute to a public list of pronunciation guides, which can be applied by writers to their finished packets to reduce the time and duplicated work that comes along with the task. Ideally...

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Working on finishing up detailed stats right now, will email and post in the Discord when done. We'll also get up a discussion forum soon.
EDIT: SQBS stats are up http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/52 ... all_games/

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Due to a miscommunication on my end, the logistics email I drafted earlier today wasn't sent out to all the teams. Should be sent out now.

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aseemsDB has been migrated to a new hosting service that will provide much better performance. Users should see an obnoxious "(new)" next to the name in the navigation bar if they are using the new site (this will be removed in a couple days).

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Really late, but for those who haven't submitted yet, consider voting for Eric Chen in the last couple spots of your ballot.

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Uploaded a zip of the docx packets on the packet archive, it's currently pending.

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A little late to the discussion, but I think the first half of the tiebreaker packet (WUSTL) had three very hard answer lines in a row (capillary electrophoresis, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Shennong). With three way ties being broken using two half packets, it seems like the answer lines could've bee...

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The set is up on the archive, in the version it was played at the 3/10 and later mirrors. As noted in the description accompanying the archive entry, if you want the version of the set played at the 3/3 mirrors (with slightly different packetization and many errors left in), it's available on the we...

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This is just an announcement that this set is not clear yet; there will be a HS coach and player hybrid mirror in Texas on 4/13. The set will be posted on the archive shortly after. While I wait for ownership of the hsqb entry for CMST to be transferred to me, PDF copies of the packets can be found...

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Naveed sent me this link for the log: https://pastebin.com/ES4mzs6e

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This is just an announcement that this set is not clear yet; there will be a HS coach and player hybrid mirror in Texas on 4/13. The set will be posted on the archive shortly after.

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nycaqb1999 wrote:Will this set be posted on the archive?

There is going to be a final mirror of this set on 4/13 run by Chris Romero in Texas and will be posted shortly after.

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Can the tossups on "Senegal" and "Nyerere" be posted please? The paramilitary group FLAM is headquartered in this country and represents the halpulaar population in this country’s northern neighbor. This country dissolved a short-lived federation with its eastern neighbor amidst...

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Could I see the tossup on artemisinin? Is there a particular reason that it doesn't seem to accept or at least prompt on qinghaosu? Jay Keasling has engineered both S. cerevisiae and E. coli to produce a precursor to this compound, the intracellular activity of which results in the inactivation of ...

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Can I see the tossup on Vmax? McClure developed a method of measuring this quantity that relies on “auxiliary” species, in which this quantity is proportional to one minus F. Ratios of values of this quantity are used to calculate reverse and forward commitment factors. The use of coupled assays to...

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Thanks to the work of Ophir, here are some wonderful visualizations of where people buzzed on each tossup. I've also included some tab separated data Ophir prepared, in case anyone else wants to do any visualizations (we encourage you to post the results here). Please do not post this link or any pi...

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16. Answer the following about planting trees in urban spaces to mitigate the negative consequences of urbanization, for 10 points each: [10] Planting trees along sidewalks and throughout cities is beneficial because their shading is very effective at mitigating an effect named for these locations,...

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- Could I see the bonus on species abundance distributions? It felt like the part on "neutral" conflated two related, but distinct ideas, and the part on Fisher's log-series was definitely a deep cut! - I would also like to see the TU on fitness; I saw Paul Turner speak at a seminar, so i...

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It would necessitate rewriting a bunch of clues and the answerline, but "this variable" or "these reaction conditions" might work better. I hate tossups using “this variable” in bio and reaction chem since that immediately narrows it to an answer space of 3 or 4. “These reaction...

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1. Why is p-value being accepted before "x-axis" is read? There's no sense in which type I error is a different name for or a version of p-value. As it happens, I misunderstood the first clue and buzzed in with p-value, but I should have been negged. 2. That being said, the clues about Be...

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Could I see the tossup on type I error? 10. A procedure to determine this value computes the largest value of k satisfying an upper bound of “k over m times this value.” That method, the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure, is used in a setting that analogizes this value to a portion of the “discoveries.”...

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Muriel Axon wrote:At the Minnesota site, I was given buzzes on "Opus Dei" and "sectors" which were actually Sam's.

Fixed!

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For the volva tossup, I buzzed in with "female giant" when the clues were describing Hyndla. ... I feel like that should be prompted or the answer of giantess excluded somehow. On the St Remy question, I said Auvers on the Daubigny's Garden clue before it was mentioned. I guess this is my...

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I'd like to point out that in the McMaster stats, Leo was given the tossups on Simone de Beauvoir and Chinese Indonesians that I buzzed on. I'm not sure where the error happened. Looks like the mod just attributed the buzz to the wrong person, this has now been fixed in the scoresheet. As I underst...

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Could the tossup on "Pavia" be posted? It was negged in almost every room it was read. I don't know much about the topic, but I'd be interested in hearing from people who do. This city’s taverns and brothels were celebrated by an anonymous wandering writer called the Archpoet, who wrote t...

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Edited the main post to include Jonchee, Eric, and Will's help with copy editing and pronunciation guides. Their effort in making this set readable should not go unnoticed.

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I really liked the first three bio bonuses in this set, although the dynamin one didn't seem to have an actual pronoun? It was clear what it intended to ask about anyway though. Can I see the tossup on Ras? I can't remember if there was something in the first line that distinguished the Ras pathway...

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A "core" almost verging on "hollow." Topics I was missing (from the first 11 packets): Italian Renaissance painting Yeah, my bad for this one. The way I chose to distribute the visual art was basically ensuring that I had at least one question for the main chapters of introducto...

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For the Physical Impossibility etc TU, halfway through it was clear it was what it was referring to, but I stayed away from buzzing because I wasn't sure if I remembered the name of the piece completely correctly and just got negged out of buzzing entirely. Maybe if there was a "description ac...

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It was pretty obvious it was talking about van Gogh in the Saint-Remy tossup, but I reckon I'm not the only person that negged it with Arles or some other point of life in van Gogh's personal history. Yale, who swept the NYU site, did not convert Saint-Remy and I reckon it would have a low conversi...

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I thought George Grosz...Otto Dix...Gothic...Schongauer...Unterlinden...altarpiece was pretty transparent, esp. within power. You're totally right, I thought that at this level the answer space would be big enough to prevent this but after looking at stats I was wrong. I'll see what I can do to mak...

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Could I see the tossups on doxa, partition coefficient, and the Isenheim Altarpiece, as well as the bonus about Nagarjuna? A type of “voluntarism” whose name derives from this Greek word was considered conceptually impossible by Bernard Williams. Aristotle added the prefix en- to this word to refer...

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I was tempted to buzz on the first line because so many questions on "this government" are on Weimar. While I do agree that using "this government" does severely limit the answer space (maybe even down to 4-5 answers), do you have any evidence to back this up? Before writing it,...

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Victor Prieto wrote:
CMST Packet 1 wrote: ANSWER: swing jazz [prompt on big band jazz]
Was that prompt there during the tournament? I buzzed in with "big band" and was negged.

It was. This was probably a case of moderator error.

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Can I see the bonus on Cultural Revolutions? One of the dates sounded wrong but I could've misheard. 14. Sheila Fitzpatrick argued that events like the Shakhty Trial and the activities of groups like RAPP contributed to one of these events which took place in the Soviet Union from 1928–1931. For 10...

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Here are links to the detailed stats of every mirror that chose to use them. They might still have some issues with bonus answer lines or categorization that myself and Ophir will be fixing this week. Please do not share with anyone still yet to play the tournament, or post these in a public forum ....

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