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Dwight, Not to be a stats nitpicker, but you probably should be using a t-test here.

cdcarter · Re: GSAC XVI: December 6, 2008 I reposted the packets, now all .docs. Thanks!

I reposted the packets, now all .docs. Thanks!

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http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/archive/molit2008.zip I think I enjoyed playing this set but I was more dead than I was at CO Lit. So my comments are pretty much "Holy shit this tournament had a TU on Nurrudin Farah that's awesome", and "Why the fuck did this tournament have a ...

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http://quizbowlpackets.com/archive/gsacxvi.zip
http://quizbowlpackets.com/archive/gsacxv.zip

Enjoy!

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la2pgh wrote:And, remember, there is no shame, only points.

There is shame. But there are points.

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Chaska beat Tonka in the final. Alex got first in individual, Sam got second.

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Oh, one more thing which may intrigue you. We are probably going to have different question difficulties for the playoffs for the championship and consolation brackets. We're going to write hard, quality tossups for the championship bracket that actually differentiate between teams. For the consola...

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So GINVIT is coming up this weekend. I know South will be there with most of our A team (we lost one to debate). Any conspicuous absences? How bad will these questions be compared to the Ubu set?

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BuzzerZen wrote:The 21 tossups in Brown's ACF Fall packet have a mean character count of 661 with a standard deviation of 18.98. The shortest tossup is 630 characters, the longest is 699.

Now do a regression of char count, and number of lines for this and other packets. That would actually be helpful.

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My metrics were derived from using a sentence from an actual quiz bowl question with spaces and lowercase characters and everything. Six lines of an uppercase letter with no spaces is clearly going to contain fewer characters than six lines of words. In any event, this is why "lines of type in...

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Have these been posted/Where are these posted? I missed this tournament and would like to see the questions. Sorry, I guess I missed this. The edited version has been forwarded to Chris Carter for inclusion on his website. Hopefully, he'll post here when it's up. If you want the set before then, yo...

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I get to go to practice like one a week, every other week. Practices aren't things we schedule any more, we just check around with the team if anyone can be in that day. We all study outside, some more than others, and we come together for tournaments. It isn't the best system, but half my team is o...

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everyday847 wrote:
cdcarter wrote:"Behind closed doors" as an idiomatic translation of Huis Clos turns into In Camera pretty quickly...
OH. Hello, Latin.

Good job, Andy.

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I don't think I've ever said anything but Huis clos , mostly because "huis" was last used out of a literary context to mean "door" about a billion years ago, so it wasn't until I googled it about ten seconds ago that I confirmed that it means "door." And "clore&qu...

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The American Pageant This. ...is probably the worst text book for APUSH imaginable. I don't think so.... Humorous similes aside, The American Pageant is excellent for getting a basic grasp of the high school US history canon. It's excellent for quizbowl, and was my favorite textbook so far. An AP/S...

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intothenegs wrote:
Sonic the Hedgehog and the Fox wrote: The American Pageant
This.

...is probably the worst text book for APUSH imaginable.

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Who will be providing the questions this year?

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http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... ll2008.zip

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Now that this tournament is done, could this years set be sent out to Stanford and/or me?

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PS--Mehdi, please don't post the set as you edited/used it to the Stanford Archive, as I'd like to continue having the DB as played at Valencia there (since so many previous iterations are already there). If you'd like to archive it at Mr. Carter's HS site, that's fine; I won't ask him to put my ve...

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millionwaves wrote:Because the last mirror of IO has run, the set is now cleared for discussion. I've e-mailed it to Chris Carter, who should be putting it up on collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com soon.

http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... io2008.zip

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Although I am all over Jean Genet coming up in high school, he's probably a little too hard, especially if The Screens or The Balcony isn't given. However, this looks like it was a really good (albeit hard) set, that probably hit it's conversion numbers pretty good. you did some great work Ian!

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http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... mp2008.zip

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The best is if you send me a .zip of the files in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format. If you send me something weird, I will either try and fix it myself, or just send it back.

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Several of us have discussed this informatlly here, but I'll throw the question out to the forum: does any state other than Illinois have a frosh/soph circuit? Don't get me wrong--I like having one, but it would be nice to exchange info with other states, and it would be nice to have a source for p...

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South should be there with one or two teams. My coach will be in contact with you pretty soon.

Just as a question, is that Minneapolis North or North St Paul?

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All of NAQT's A-level sets involve a high degree of question reuse with television shows and/or our collegiate IMs. None of them is particularly high-effort (assuming that the other sets still need to be written). 1) You state NAQT A-sets are based on TV show questions, and Collegiate IM questions ...

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Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:I negged the MO tossup on cycads with pandas right before the FTP.

This was probably the best neg I have ever seen someone make.

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Any chance the Ultima questions can be released? I'd love to see what all this hubbub is about, and it'd be a good resource, IMHO.

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http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... mo2008.zip

Here's the set.

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[quote="gaurav.kandlikar"]Chris, is NNT happening at your school this year?/quote] I was about to email you back when I saw this post. I regret to inform you/Minnesota that we will not be hosting a site of NNT. If you are interested in mirroring it, however, you can email Ian Eppler, and I...

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The day's best surprise was Central -- I didn't expect them to be nearly as good as they are. Martin and Christine have impressive, deep knowledge and I'm surprised I didn't notice them more last year. I'm not sure how many other players Central has but those two alone make a very strong team. I re...

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gkandlikar wrote:Prelim Stats

Playoff Stats.

Congratulations to Chaska for winning the tournament. It was good to see all the teams back in action again.

Could we get some Round Report action?

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Direct Link to the set

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This tournament was a lot of fun! Good staffers, good questions, and good competition. Thank you guys, for running it, and for teams coming to play! This will be a good season for Minnesota.

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Where in Coffman will registration happen?

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grapesmoker wrote:So is this done using Google Apps? How is concurrent updating handled?

It appears that it is just a PHP app, and that he is using Google Code to store the code/use a wiki.

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Deesy Does It wrote:Oh god.
Questions Galore got the MSHSAA contract.
This is awful.

Ouch.

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1) To start, pick a tossup to plagiarize on something that is categorically too hard for the tournament to which you are submitting questions! Extra points if it has some exciting or memorable phrasing in it. 2) Once you get an email from the head editor telling you that they noticed one tossup was ...

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If you are a coach or otherwise interested party and don't receive an email within the next hour or so, but would like to be kept up to date on proceedings through that medium, please PM me your email address so that I can add you to our list. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but PMs are not en...

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So I don't have the authority to make a proper announcement just yet, but it's looking like the South mirror of NNT will be taking place on Nov 22, pending getting rooms and administration support. Let me know if this date is a huge issue for your team, it's not set in stone yet.

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The set is posted on http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com

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No the whole who played who confuses me like Card #2 vs Card#5 the winner gets card #2? I really don't understand this system used. Edit: I know I hae never been to HSNCT and will be my first this year, but during the live coverage od HSNCT I looked at the scoreboard and saw the card system for fut...

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R, Is it possible to get any sort of API or better way of accessing the data programmatically besides just parsing the pages?

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Perhaps there is some distinction between "programming" and "NAQT-style computer language literacy" that I'm missing here, but I can't think of any other way to glean "legitimate" CS knowledge (as in, to be able to write halfway decent tossups) than by becoming a CS ma...

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Could you activate Round Report for the stats?

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Oh yeah, the hallmark of most good trash tournaments is the increased amount of the distribution not tied to "big four". Tournaments like the first Chris McCray and CO's Karlfeldt had a much more open distribution, and Karlfeldt's many and varied common link tossups were, for the most par...

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Ukonvasara wrote:I will play in this tournament unless there is an emergency need for moderators or writers.

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As Matt said, the number of problems that are computable in 10 seconds number below 50. This is just completely false. If you go look at the middle school MathCOUNTS countdown round, there are on the order of 100 questions each year, each of which is answered in much less than 10 seconds. And that'...

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Also, the fact that the "canon" of doable-in-ten-seconds computational math is about 30 items wide, making it a race every time between teams who prepare? So my last 3 posts have focused on the need to expand the canon greatly to make this viable. Somehow I wonder if you are reading them,...

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