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Cheynem wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 4:23 pm Like all the Carper winners? Who are they? Where did they come from? Where did they go?

Carper Winners: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let's Find Out!

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Going through the 2/29 questions: U(1) is still not a hard part at this level, IMO. Harder than SU(3), though. I obviously cannot see conversion stats, but the shikimic acid / Tamiflu / Diels-Alder bonus seems to lack a medium part. People can name one flu drug pretty easily, especially now with vir...

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I think both questions were executed well, but Packet 11 currently having a tossup on Raman spec that clues surface enhanced Raman spec along with a bonus on electrons/plasmons/polarons is bad feng shui.

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There were a couple of questions that felt too easy and flat in difficulty (basalt ... ). I'd like to see these questions, since I may be misremembering. The majority of this substance is derived from a reservoir modeled by Workman as the product of a primitive source losing LREEs [“L R E Es”]. Sam...

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The Helen tossup in round 1 seems to have been classified as Classical lit, even though all the clues seemed to be American. Do you have access to the packets or stats? Because they have not been publicly disseminated as far as I know, and it seems weird that some people receive access to these thi...

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Can I see the original PIANO question on "Polish"? 11. A story in this language describes a Ulysses-like novel called “Gigamesh” whose syntactic structure forms a blueprint of Notre Dame cathedral. Michael Kandel is best known for translating books from this language, including a colle...

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The Helen tossup in round 1 seems to have been classified as Classical lit, even though all the clues seemed to be American. Do you have access to the packets or stats? Because they have not been publicly disseminated as far as I know, and it seems weird that some people receive access to these thi...

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SU(3) being associated with QCD is relatively well known, even by non-science players. No. I'm not saying every non-science player knows it, but I bet quite a few have a card on SU(3) and QCD or just associate them from that fact having come up. That bonus just has an unclear difficulty structure, ...

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Oh, also, can I see the Markov chain tossup?

I want to double check because I believe the lead in referred to Markov blankets, which I don't think are really "blankets of Markov chains"

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Not sure if this is the place to say this because it is the "specific question" discussion, but I don't wanna nitpick without first saying that I had a terrific time playing this set. It seemed like early parts of questions rewarded "real knowledge" of the material (as much as qb...

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Settle/Grossman

chris r
eric w
doug s
illinois a

alt:
halle f

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ValenciaQBowl wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:02 am Cool, thanks for the update, Tejas. I'm hearing that UF may bring 2-3 teams, so let's hope it's three, as that could get us to six teams.

PS--I'll have a good wireless buzzer with me.

We are bringing 2 (and they both should be registered)

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Here's the DII version of the hydrogen tossup. Hendrik van de Hulst predicted that this substance can undergo a spin-flip transition to produce a radio wave feature known as the 21-centimeter line. The spectral classes of stars were originally arranged alphabetically based on the observed strength ...

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Does "this substance" sufficiently rule out buzzes of "ISM" or "IGM" on the 21-cm line clue? I wasn't sure what to say when I heard it. I don't know enough about the subject (obviously) to say whether or not those answers were ruled out by earlier clues, though.

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As a moderator, I appreciated the intent of the complicated answer line warning, but I found that putting it at the very top of the pack meant that in practice, I completely forgot about where the complicated answer actually was and to pay extra attention to it once I got into reading the pack. So ...

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The science of this set was fine, from what I could tell while playing. There were occasional cliffs and some lead-ins that seemed a little soft for DI SCT, but that happens sometimes and nothing felt egregious. Outside of that, the most annoying thing about this tournament was the terrible subdistr...

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Can I see the tossup on learning from, I think, Packet 9? That question seemed to have a questionable answerline/pronoun combination that made it frustrating to play. In game, it seemed like the intent was to name machine learning methods, and then have the player say "machine learning". H...

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Grossman/Settle:

Chris Ray
Eric Wolfsberg
Doug Simons

Illinois A

alt: Emmett Laurie

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Can the thread for SCT be posted?

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Iamteehee wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 1:20 pm Proteinbowl 3 is probably happening at ICT.

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own

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Fuddle Duddle wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:56 am
women, fire and dangerous things wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:28 am Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City

Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha...

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Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde - Royals Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt vs. Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me Court...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk - Stonemilker Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Tame Impala - Let It Happen vs. Grimes - Oblivion Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky...

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#1 Lana del Rey - Video Games vs. #16 Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best #8 Childish Gambino - This Is America vs. #9 Weyes Blood - Movies #5 M83 - Midnight City vs. #12 Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk #4 Azealia Banks - 212 vs. #13 Fiona Apple - Every Single Night #6 Adele - Rolling i...

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Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. IDLES - Danny Nedelko Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing vs. Ariana Grande - thank u, next Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Danny Brown (ft. Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, and Earl Sweatshirt) - Really Doe Lorde - Royals vs. Gorillaz - On...

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#1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness #8 Taylor Swift - Blank Space vs. #9 Jamie xx (ft. Young Thug & Popcaan) - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) #5 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company vs. #12 M.I.A. - Bad Gir...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - Old Town Road - Remix Drake - Hotline Bling vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Bon Iver - Holocene vs. Perfume Genius - Queen Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) vs. Björk - Stonemilker Beach House - Space Song vs. Rosalía - Malam...

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#15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People… #15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magnolia #15 Future - Mask Off vs. Burial - Come Down to Us #16 Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - Ol...

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So one thing that stands out to me from these combined 11/16 stats (thanks for assembling these by the way!) is just how difficult the middle parts of science bonuses were overall in this tournament, which was a bit jarring especially relative to other categories that seemed to actually control thi...

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In Packet 8, TU 20, I think this clue When this quantity is high for magma, explosive eruptions occur. (*) should be moved out of power; it's something that comes up in introductory geology courses. Also, one could argue that the clue also applies to "amount of dissolved gases/volatile content...

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Cold Stone Steve Austin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 12:23 pm
The packet 10 tossup 15 on curvature wrote:The value of this quantity for a circle of radius r is “one over r-squared,”
This should be “one over r.”

Thanks for catching that! It has been fixed.

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The dephosphorylation tossup has been very straightforwardly modified to be on phosphate . Hopefully this improves playability, reduces negs, and removes any factual errors. Again, let me know if you still have any concerns with this! Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements. In E. coli chemota...

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Thanks for the feedback on lysis! I modified the answerline to say: ANSWER: lysis [accept hemo lysis ; accept cyto lysis ; accept osmotic lysis ; prompt on activation of the membrane attack complex or activation of the MAC with “What process is the MAC responsible for?”; prompt on descriptions of di...

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First, I'm surprised I'm the first to comment on the dephosphorylation tossup, given that it was negged in 62.5% of rooms across all sites. The lead-in has a number of problems: CheY can autophosphorylate; most of phospho-CheY's dephosphorylation is catalyzed by CheZ; linguistically, CheY isn't eve...

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Can someone post the Allan Bloom/Republic bonus? Thanks. This writer rebutted H. D. P. Lee’s insistence that translators of Plato must “discover what he means,” because “if one hurries too quickly “behind” Plato’s speech, one loses the sense of the surface.” For 10 points each: [10] Identify this s...

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Two minor-ish comments on the bio (which was overall, like all of the science, quite good IMO): First, I'm surprised I'm the first to comment on the dephosphorylation tossup, given that it was negged in 62.5% of rooms across all sites. The lead-in has a number of problems: CheY can autophosphorylat...

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There were some inconsistencies. Some of the hard parts (literature in particular? e.g. Invention of Morel ) were "quite gettable," while a number verged on "whyyyy" (John Knowles Paine) or "oooof" (science had a bunch of these). Some, e.g. Apollonius+Flaccus or Tepozt...

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Additionally, in the number theory/prime bonus, the bonus says "in the field of integers", but integers are a ring. Oof, good catch! That part now is changed to refer to the class number of the field of rational numbers. Finally, I was confused by the "kernel/image" tossup's clu...

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Rafael said he knew what the question on the EPR paradox was talking about, but wasn't sure how specific the question was going to be and thought the clues also would apply to quantum eraser experiments (I do see that the question said "thought experiment" but I take it there are quantum ...

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I hope everyone enjoyed playing the science! I didn't have much of an overarching vision for the set, but I tried to keep most of the answerlines pretty tame while still challenging the top players with the early clues. The power rate on science was decent (quick average across categories is ~26%), ...

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This tool was very helpful for ACF Fall! Thank you for creating it.

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Thank you to everyone who came out to ACF Fall! An additional thanks to our staffers who ensured everything ran smoothly: Alex Shaw, Tracy Mirkin, Cody Johansen, Peter Torres, and Taylor Harvey. Florida A cleared the field to win the Overall and Undergraduate titles, with UCF B coming in second for ...

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Stats will be updated here

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A variant of this has gone out to all teams, but posting here for reference. Please note the location is not Matherly or Little like normal. LOCATION: We will host the tournament in the Classroom Building 105, located at 105 NW 16th St, Gainesville, FL 32603. I have attached an image of a parking lo...

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I finally got around to looking through the CO packet and putting together my team's rejects. I'll read them tomorrow night at 10PM EDT on Discord.

Edit: packet

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Thanks for hosting this! As always, it was a great start to the quizbowl year in Florida.

However, I'm mostly posting to let you know that the stats link on the db is messed up.

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This is a great guide. Having recently been a mod for the FST Discord mirror (that Mike played) there are definitely things in this post we should have done to improve the player experience. Everyone who hosts an online tournament should re-read this a week or two before the mirror date. During the ...

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