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This tournament happened. These are the rankings of the first few places from what I remember 1) DCC A 2) Culver A 3) DCC B 4) DCD A 5) Utica A 6) Kalamazoo Christian 6) Novi A 6) Troy A Full stats and standings will be forthcoming. Prelim Stats: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/782/stats/prelims/

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Cheynem wrote:We do now!

Any other teams bringing one buzzer? WHAT ABOUT YOU, LIBO ZENG

Dang I've been called out haha. We can bring at least 1. Perhaps we'll be not lazy and bring 2. We'll see....

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We'll be coming to this with one team. Hopefully our packet will be done this weekend.

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One thing I remember vividly is that the Spherical Coordinates tossup had a leadin to the effect of "Solutions to the Helmholtz equation in these coordinates involve Bessel functions of the first and second kind." However, this is pretty deceptive as solutions to the Helmholtz equation in ...

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We'll be there with 3 teams, 3 buzzers, 0 moderators. I also sent an email with the same info.

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I'd love to see the EA Robinson TU please. 20) This man noted that “they are all gone away” and “there is nothing more to say” in a villanelle about “The House on the Hill.” This man compares a lonely old man to “Roland’s ghost winding a silent horn” while drinking alone above his town in “Mr. Floo...

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Can someone post the mobile bay question? 19) This body of water is home to periodic “Jubilees,” in which changing levels of oxygen in its waters drive fish, crabs, and other creatures towards the shore and the surface, allowing for massive, easy harvests of seafood. Linked by Grant’s Pass to a nea...

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Can somebody post the rakshasi tossup (from finals 2, I think)? Also the seafloor spreading tossup? (and/or email me the set, ashvin.21@gmail.com) I particularly liked the routing tossup. If I'm not mistaken, the rent tossup dropped the definition of rent still in power. The mark/recapture tossup w...

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Can you post the special relativity tossup? I remember being confused as to what exactly it was asking for--although I think I missed the pronoun. I also recall a tossup on capacitors that perhaps would have been more suited to a high school tournament, dropping dielectrics in the second or third c...

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Laferbrook wins the tournament defeating OSU A in the first game of an advantage final, having only lost to OSU A in the prelims. Stats will be posted shortly.

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Stats through prelims: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

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Some final updates: The tournament will be on the 3rd Floor of Mason Hall on our campus. Parking can be found at: 324 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, MI (between East Liberty and William) 650 South Forest Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI (on Forest, south of South University Ave) This is a rough map with the Parking St...

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Any teams that haven't told exactly how many teams/buzzers/moderators they will be bringing to the tournament should tell me posthaste.

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I thought some of the packets could have been randomized a little better - for example I think there was a packet with 3 consecutive science bonuses if I'm not mistaken, and maybe even a point where literature was jumbled together too. I enjoyed this set for the most part, although I'll note the re...

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I wanted to say that our teams, which consist mostly of very new players, and myself, really enjoyed this set. Also, whoever wrote the "mark-recapture" tossup - that was really, really cool and I loved seeing that as an answer. I wrote that tossup, but the tossup idea was Will Butler's. I...

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Everyone who hasn't already confirmed the number of teams, buzzers, moderators with us should do so by Wednesday, either by posting here or by emailing me at zengl (at) umich (dot) edu

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Unless some closer mirror in the Midwest appeared, we'd come and would prefer January. (MLK seems like a good weekend)

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For anyone who is for sure not playing the set, I'll be running some IRC playtesting for the science I'm editing (physics+chem) on Thursday 9/15 10pm EST, 7pm PST.It'll be in channel #moo on slashnet. I'll probably do something similar for the history I'm editing on Sunday 9/18 or something.

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We'd probably show up to Maryland for this (as long as a closer mirror doesn't materialize) if it was on the 10th or early in January as we're hosting a high school tournament on the 3rd.

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Michigan will probably be there with 2-3 teams and 3 buzzers. Probably won't bring any moderators.

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Magister Ludi wrote:
itsthatoneguy wrote:
Ondes Martenot wrote:Is the Harvard mirror on the 1st or 8th?
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I think we ended up deciding to host it on the 8th if thats not a problem

That should be fine.

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If anyone would be interested in hosting this in the Northeast or the West coast, please send an email to bryanbe AT umich DOT edu pretty soon. (Also, the set is almost done, somewhere around 50 total questions left)

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I would prefer option 1 as it gives us more games and is less of a hassle.

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We'll probably bring like 2-4 teams and 3 buzzers maybe some moderator(s). More details will probably be after our meeting

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Perhaps I am horribly unenlightened, and excluding aesthetic things like "I hate literature tossups on things that have been adapted into musicals/suites", what is the ideal way to discuss a tournament that asks for comments on individual questions in an effort to improve future mirrors? ...

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In the larger sense, I think there's a lot of terrible trends in tournament discussion as a whole and I'm choosing to use this event to make my stand against them for no particular reason beyond the fact that I'm peripherally involved in it. Kurtis's post in particular is just jaw-dropping, but als...

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Alright I'm gonna comment on some of the science, which I felt had some more problematic stuff that hasn't already been mentioned. Part of my post was deleted while i made it, so it gets shorter as the post goes on as I was lazy to retype everything. I felt like there was a lot of history of science...

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Final stats are here: http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

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Prelims stats before lunch: http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

(we're currently missing a game)

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I liked this tournament quite a bit. My main problem with it though was that distributions were never consistent. For example, many rounds would have only 3 science questions and round 15 had 3 (medieval/renaissance) european history and no american. It was probably due to time constraints on editin...

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There appears to be some time issues with DCC staff this yea, mainly that it seems likely that we could get kicked out at 5PM. We've considered what to do about this and have come up with the following solutions. Let us know which one is the best for the most people either by posting here or emailin...

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An 8 PM start time is a bit late for my tastes if we are indeed running 12 packets. I would be pretty surprised if we actually get 12 packets. We have two at the moment, plus the editor's packet, and the packet deadline is on Friday. We're mostly done with our packet (ie only 1 question left), but ...

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I am also proposing that the divisions at the tournament be: Overall (all students eligible) Division I (highest-finishing team without any history grad students) Undergraduate (same as the NAQT or ACF undergraduate rules, basically) with all teams playing in one field but the highest-finishing tea...

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Kurtis and I can bring 3 buzzers.

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Troy returns their main 4 scorers next year. I'm not sure how much they'll improve, but some of their members have expressed an intention to study and get better.

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We will allow open teams of graduated people as long as we judge they are not "super" teams. Not that this matters for me, personally, but will you handle this decision for all mirrors or will TDs from other mirrors make judgments about "super" teams for their own mirror? I thin...

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We will allow open teams of graduated people as long as we judge they are not "super" teams. We prefer people who go to school play with their school. Grad students can of course also play.

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Hello all, Michigan Academic Competitions will be hosting the MIssiles of October (MOO) , a tournament written by the University of Michigan and University of Virginia, on 10/8/2011 in Ann Arbor. Fees: Base fee per team: $100 Additional team from same school: -$5 each Competent Moderator: -$10 each ...

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We intend this tournament to be at that legendary "regular" difficulty. All questions will around 8 lines long and there will be powers. 8 lines in all tossups: notably not the standard "regular" tossup length. We've now made 8 lines the maximum length of a tossup. Many tossups ...

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This is the announcement for the UVA/UMich collaboration named the Missiles of October or MOO. There will be a total of 14 packets and the distribution per packet will be: 4/4 Literature 4/4 History 4/4 Science 3/3 Art (1/1 Painting, 1/1 Music, 1/1 Other Arts) 3/3 RMP (1/1 each) 1/1 SS 1/1 Trash/Geo...

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I'll be playing with Kurtis Droge.

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I'd be willing to write a packet for a guerilla history tournament. I'd prefer regular history distro, even though I'd need help writing some questions if that is the case. However, if we decide to go for theme rounds... prepare for some things that have never appeared before :)

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Michigan and UVA want to write an as of yet unnamed regular difficulty tournament that will be ready in October.

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I'm curious to think which physics questions you thought were ungettable. I made a conscious effort to write on things of primary importance from all areas of physics, the majority of which I thought were gettable by people who know something about physics. Obviously I avoided the stimulus-response...

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So, I'm mostly talking about the final editors-only packets. I felt like the science was very very hard, which made most games basically a packet of 16/16 or 17/17, as those science questions were just not converted. This seems like an issue as it means very little differentiation in the science ski...

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Also, my teammates felt that the there was a significant lack of bio tossups throughout the tournament. This could just be a selection bias due to bio tossups being near the end of the packet or something, but I thought I'd put it out there

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The tossup on the Parthian empire in the finals of D2 began with the clue something like: an offshoot of this dynasty was the Arsacid dynasty. This clue makes very little sense as the Parthians were ruled by the Arsacid dynasty and seems like a very poor thing to begin a leadin with, even though it ...

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Kurtis and I are planning on teaming up for CO (depending on the date of CO and our plans etc) and are looking for teammates, especially those who know stuff we don't (ie stuff that isn't lit or history) :P

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DCC A beats DCC B in the 2nd game of the advantaged final 390-385.

FInal placements are:
1st: DCC A
2nd: DCC B
3rd: Okemos
4th: Novi A
5th: GPN A
6th: Utica, DCD, UoD
9th: Troy, Novi B, DCC D, DCC C
13th: Thurston, University Liggett, Dewitt, Ann Arbor Huron

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DCC A beat DCC B 450 to 200 in the first game of the advantaged final.

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