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Hey everyone. This is the announcement for the Quaker Academic Competition II at the University of Pennsylvania to be held on November 21, 2009. We will be using HSAPQ set 10 (switch to 9), which is an ACF-style set (rounds of 20 tossups with 3-part bonuses). The current field cap is 32 teams , with...

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2) "The mirror fee will be $40 per non-house team." That seems about 33% higher than normal??? I thought it was $40 last year as well ($40 per team at the Penn site went to the editors at least). I'll inquire about this though. EDIT: Confirmed. We'll be sticking with $40. Some reasonable ...

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Here's the announcement for the 2010 incarnation of Penn Bowl, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. I am tentatively claiming 1/30/10 as the date for the tournament as long as facilities says it's okay. Post here if you foresee any problems with this date while there is stil...

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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Yeah; I'm saying that "it has been tossed up once, demonstrating that a nonzero number of clues that exist about this thing" or "someone somewhere teaches it" are both invalid criteria because they create a situation where nothing is hard.

Oh ok, I should read things.

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On that scale, nothing about which there are clues / is taught about in some class somewhere is actually "that hard." Well, unless that "somewhere" is among a minority; I've gone through two semesters of junior-level physical chem, including units on perturbation theory in gener...

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Matt Weiner wrote:3 people who posted "looking for team" messages and I didn't see claimed by any team

Razvi
Butler
Byrne

Turns out I'm busy that weekend, so you can take my name off here. Sorry for any confusion.

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Coral Gardens and Their Magin wrote:I am also looking for a team for this. I know some stuff.

There's a decent chance I'd be coming to this now with Chris White if you're interested.

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Yeah, you're right. I'm guessing they didn't put too much effort into the mathcomp questions. Wow, yeah, I'm really sorry about the L'Hopital's rule brainfart (and apologize to anyone that messed that up) and the aforementioned linear independence one (though the second clue hopefully ruled anythin...

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DumbJaques wrote:Certainly no one we encountered at our site had heard of any of those people, and I do not think it's a factor of age

Lies! Magin read a book by Bill Rodgers and almost pulled it in our game.

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Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:There were 19 tossups in the finals? I am counting through right now and I don't see any missing numbers or missing tossups in the document I sent you.

There was a L'Orfeo repeat (the question was slightly different, but Aaron and Ted seemed to remember many of the clues) and no extras.

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DumbJaques wrote:Also I have just confirmed that Andrew Kincaid will be attending Eurofest as well as Fake Trashionals. Adjust your lives accordingly.

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Dasein wrote: Haber-Bosch--The stock 1% world's energy clue

This is why it was just before the giveaway if I'm correctly remembering the way I edited it. I don't think certain stock clues are a problem if they're late enough in a question.

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RE: S waves. Yeah I agree listening to it now, what finally appeared in the set was probably a little transparent (S waves don't travel as far, etc.). I ended up doing some clue shuffling on that one, and somehow that sentence ended up as the second clue...agree it could've probably used a different...

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I'll hopefully be finishing up our submitted packet in the next few days, so you should have that soon. Sorry for the delay.

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If the "flask" question was written as above, then it seems people are just reflex buzzing off "Buchner". The wording describing the Buchner flask is kind of weird, but if you read "arm" as "side arm" like I did, you would see this does not pertain to a Buchne...

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Re: HPLC, I'm glad it showed up because I spent a summer doing it weekly. I'm not sure about how unique the clues were, though without looking at it. For me, because I know HPLC exists and everything in the question up to where I buzzed seemed to apply to it, I buzzed off the reverse-phase clue I th...

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I'm pretty set to play the Maryland mirror and write for my team's packet but would not be able to do 6/13 or 6/20 for sure.

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I really enjoyed the bio/chem at this tournament. I think Dwight lived up to his word of making the bonuses at least 20able by people who know the stuff. I certainly don't think we 0'ed any over the course of the weekend. I'll also put myself down as a fan of some of the common link tossups on compo...

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To weigh in on this, the only time me or my teammates ever heard was 9am. This was yelled by a staff member in a very, very crowded hallway to which we did not stick around in. We had no reason to assume this was misleading, so we attempted to get there at 9 am. Some annoyances, including traffic/p...

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There's a good chance I'm attending. I am soliciting teammates at the moment.

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The rush to start on Sunday resulted in a top-bracket team (Sorice's) being functionally forfeited to ASU for being 15 minutes late... only for the next round to start 20 minutes after the first one was finished. Even worse, they were late because they thought Sunday rounds started at 9 instead of ...

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You still bailed on a tournament that is roughly an hour's drive for you. That's not cool. To be fair to Bill, he had given Tim some indication that they weren't interested in coming the second day, but at that point I think it was too much of a mess to rearrange the schedule, so some teams got mor...

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In case people are wondering, this tournament has concluded with "Bill O'Reilly A Bold, Fresh Piece of Insanity" (David Murphy, James Quintong, Jeremy White, Mark Richey) winning the first game of an advantaged final over "Degrees for Some, Miniature American Flags for Others!" (...

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Nitro/Meisenheimer Complex/Janovski reaction I don't know--I think this is a reasonable bonus at a post-Nationals difficulty level. I learned about Meisenheimer complexes (in fact we had to draw them on a midterm) in orgo 2, and, I mean, they are pretty important to any unit on aromatic substitutio...

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Penn would gladly attend ACF Fall here with multiple teams.

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I'd love a copy Ike, [email protected].

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Penn regrettably won't be able to make this one.

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I think the scorekeeper forgot to mark down some powers in our first round against GW; I have us down as going 4-9-3 instead of 1-12-3--I don't keep indiv stats, but I know I powered at least 3. Doesn't change the outcome majorly though. Congrats to Chris Ray on yet another impressive performance in...

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Brief results for those interested. Six teams played a double round-robin with "FJO" (Chris and SteveJohn from UMD) going undefeated. VCU was second, and I believe Penn was third. It'd be nice to see some stats from this soon.

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Cheynem wrote:But what about the Disney Channel Original Movies tournament?

Whoa I'd write this.

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I guess if all else fails, we'll see if buying the sets up is a possibility. NOT UNDER MY WATCHFUL EYES. http://nathanbowers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/my-first-8-eyed-monster-toy-sculpt.jpg edit: (at least if you're using club funds for it; using your own money is fine, though I feel it's my r...

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Lapego1 wrote:Our packet will be in by March 1. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Yeah, sorry about that. Apparently my "lofty" goal of finishing a packet in a week was too much. It's over halfway done and will DEFINITELY get to you by this weekend.

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The stats are incorrect in that I didn't play either of our last two games against Pitt and Cornell. Also, I feel like my stats might've been switched with someone in at least one game though I didn't keep individual stats, so not sure.

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We'll officially have two teams and two buzzers.

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This ends up being the first day of our Spring Break, so I'm not sure how many other Penn people will be able to make it. However, I'll surely be there to play in some capacity.

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Our packet will be in by March 1. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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So it turns out there isn't as much work on our packet as I thought. Probably the best I can offer is like a half-packet by Sunday if you still think you need it.

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Just wondering if Science Non-Strosity will be mirrored since most people seem to want to play it as a side event if possible. Sometime Sunday (before trash for example) would be preferable from my point of view if it ends up happening. Also, I'll be able to get a final count of teams for you early ...

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On the actual CC commentary front, we just started playing these in practice. I found the tossup on "Biotin" somewhat bizarre; B7 isn't really notable other than the fact that you take it as a supplement if you want your hair or fingernails to grow quickly. The tossup also contained a clu...

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Penn was thinking of putting forth an optional packet that I'm told is well underway. I'll try to make sure it gets to you later this week. I'm hoping we don't have to pay the penalty since our team would likely be sophomores and freshmen and wouldn't have to submit a packet anyway.

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This is just to confirm that Penn will be bringing only 1 team and 2 buzzers to this event.

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Regarding what's been said about the Penn/TRASH exchange, I gave the go-ahead for this thing to happen when Sid mentioned it to me, provided we could work something out fee-wise so that we're not in the hole afterwards. It's not like the people in charge have been hearing about this for the first ti...

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Beam me up, Charlie. I'm "Lapego1".

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If it involves discounts, Penn would write at least 1-2 packets for this.

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Ok. If people are interested, I think the following will be going down: Maryland will host a mirror of the movies tournament and the science non-strosity on Sunday morning, probably beginning at a somewhat more leisurely hour (say, 10 am). We'll just squat in Jimenez, which has a surprisingly good ...

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Tower Monarch wrote:So, I will play this tournament (probably solo, maybe w/1-2 Cosbyites) iff Quint Carr shows up. People who know him, make this happen.

If it's iff, then you can make this happen by playing.

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mfasulo1 wrote:IMPORTANT UPDATE!!!!!!!!

Is there no chance it can be run somewhere else on campus or elsewhere nearby? I mean, I wouldn't mind even if it meant walking or driving half an hour out elsewhere.

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Just out of curiosity, is there any chance the Pittsburgh site could give us a field update? If you want to know, it would probably be best to just email Dwight Kidder directly....I'm not sure if he reads the forums regularly. Here's what I was told when I registered us: Right now Division I is: Ed...

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There was a bonus part on the Equipartition theorem that states that the Kronecker delta times the temperature is a constant? That's not its most common statement, but also, I don't think that makes any sense-- Temperature is usually a continuous function while the Kronecker delta takes values of z...

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Yeah, sorry about that heat equation one. In the one you submitted, the only uniquely identifying clue was the mention of Fick's Law, so in my effort to speedily amend that, I seem to have forgot the word "second", which I intended to stick in but somehow forgot. I avoided mentioning Lapla...

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