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I'm interested; hopefully I can get a CMU team together.

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Carnegie Mellon Quiz Bowl will host a mirror of Oxford Open on its Pittsburgh campus on Saturday, January 17, 2015. Despite the name, this will be a regular closed collegiate tournament. You can read more about the set here . Field : Due to staff limitations, the cap is currently at 10 teams. We wil...

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Did "Lehigh Valley" really have a round with 11 negs?

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Top four teams were (I think)

1. Tippecanoe C
2. Hampton
3. Tippecanoe A
4. Winchester Thurston A

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Are there plans to add any sites between Maryland and Chicago?

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Carnegie Mellon Quiz Bowl will host the 2015 NAQT Western Pennsylvania Championship on its Pittsburgh campus on Saturday, February 28, 2014. Questions : NAQT set IS-146. Each school in attendance will receive a complimentary hard copy after the tournament. Format : standard NAQT format . Rounds will...

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Thanks for posting. I hope people enjoyed it anyway. Lest I sound like I had a miserable time on Saturday, I assure you I didn't. It was definitely fun to finally get to play ACF Fall. I was just frustrated that most of the issues that came up could have been obviated with just a little bit more for...

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You could conceivably argue that 4.6 applies inasmuch as the team got points for answers that were not the correct answers to the bonus they should have been read ("through moderator error"). But that's a pretty weird interpretation. I would argue that deciding which bonus question should ...

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Wasabi wrote:Oops, I forgot to mention: I'm not opposed to running a late online mirror for those locations who failed to get a mirror organized, or simply have a conflict.

When would you envision holding such a mirror?

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I would suggest first trying to get local schools to host one-day events on pyramidal questions (outside the local league, that is). Once players and coaches are exposed to higher quality questions, you will have a better chance at getting the league to switch. I think most people in this community ...

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My understanding is that they already closed the field. I will check with Brandon since no one from Pitt really reads the forums.

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Because I was playing Thanks for bringing up the other thing that annoyed me. Why was there a house team playing? I ask for two reasons. First, the whole field received an email the week of the tournament begging teams to bring staffers. It read, in part, "[A] few extra staffers would make a b...

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I'd like to second Rama's point, people should see which bracket teams were actually in for the prelims. It might be hard to see from the way the stats are displayed now, but the prelim brackets were very uneven, hurting several teams. Yes, we need to talk about this. "Very uneven" is an ...

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Who ended up winning things here?

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Final stats have been uploaded. An undefeated State College won after narrowly defeating Hubbard, 315-305, in the final round of the playoffs.

State College, Hubbard, and Manheim Township have each qualified a team for HSNCT. Those three plus Hampton have qualified a team for NSC.

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Stats will be uploaded here:

http://stats.cmuquizbowl.org/MB14_standings.html

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I was wondering if I could see the tossup on sodium hydroxide (I think that's the one?). My teammate buzzed in early and said lye and is pretty sure it should have been accepted and was pretty upset at the time. I don't remember what the first one or two clues were, but it sounds pretty wrong to sa...

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I found the "rhapsodies" question confusing, actually -- I negged with something stupid, but then thought it was "piano concertos" until the end of the question (so almost surely would have otherwise negged with that). I forget what exactly the pronoun was, but I think it was ju...

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The "conceptual" questions (species counterpoint, tonal harmony, "how many strings are on a violin"—although that part got kind of insulting) were cool, but there were so many of them that I have to wonder about the repertoire that they were pushing out of the distribution. I'd ...

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We are switching to untimed 20-tossup rounds. I have updated the original post accordingly.

Also, with some cancellations, we still have four open spots.

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Among other places you can find it (it seems to me mentioned in an awful lot of things that talk about Rhapsody in Blue): http://books.google.com/books?id=50e_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=%22wait+for+nod%22+rhapsody+in+blue&source=bl&ots=crxUSZywcb&sig=JKB28Wr40bMAKE_qim-U6s...

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So I'm wondering about the first clue to the "rhapsodies" tossup... what was it referring to? I'm skeptical that it's actually uniquely identifying and well-known enough to mention in a tossup.

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Is there any university on a regular semester system that lets you drop or withdraw classes for the spring semester in the middle of April? What exactly are we talking about here? How are we going to enforce it? For our upcoming spring semester we're allowed to drop classes until May 1 (although we...

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I think "graded courses" or better yet "courses taken for credit" (some schools don't have grades) is about as standard as you're going to be able to get. I don't think "standard credits" is a thing that actually exists. Agreed. My school uses "units," where ...

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Just wondering: how does 25.3 ppb on an A set translate into aPPB? Also, I am pretty sure that Lexington only attended 2 tournaments; their last ppb (just 17.32) may be incorrect -- that would mean that the appB from an A set is -9..... Note that the italicized numbers indicated pre-season projecte...

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Just two more spots left!

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We have expanded to 18 teams. Further soft caps will be at 20 and 22, with a hard cap at 24, all pending acquisition of more staff.

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If possible, please, please, please make sure that your multiple teams are arranged such that A>B>C>D etc. Tournaments with round robin pools will go under this assumption. You can help make sure this is true by asking for rosters prior to the tournament. At one of our high school tournaments last ...

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We have reached our first field cap of sixteen teams. I will put additional teams on a waiting list until I can secure enough staff to expand. Teams that can provide competent moderators or buzzer systems will have priority on the waiting list.

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Ok, thanks for the clarification.

More likely than not, we'll be headed your way, seeing as the field at Penn has filled up.

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Is this tournament still happening? I'm wondering why the host is sending its players to another site on the same day...

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I'll do it for Pennsylvania.

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My public library system back home (Lancaster, PA) holds a used book fair every year, also in a gymnasium, where almost everything 50 cents (and then they drop the prices by half on the last day). Among my finds this year was "Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form" --- 1150 pages...

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We're already halfway to our initial field cap, so don't wait too long to register!

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Mellon Bowl is now a PACE Gold Qualifier. The top 20% of the field will qualify for NSC.

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Does using computational math questions affect the qualification guidelines? There's no longer any mention of it on the website, but the certification form still asks about it.

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Carnegie Mellon Quiz Bowl will host Mellon Bowl XII on its Pittsburgh campus on Saturday, November 1, 2014. Questions : NAQT set IS-140. Each school in attendance will receive a complimentary hard copy after the tournament. Format : standard NAQT format , with the exception that rounds will be untim...

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Carnegie Mellon will host a mirror of the novice-level Introductory Collaborative Collegiate Set on Saturday, September 13. Registration will start at 9:30, and play will begin at 10:00. To register, please email nadig[at]cmu.edu with the number of players, teams, and functioning buzzer sets you wil...

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Mellon Bowl will be on November 1. Formal announcement to come soon.

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CMU will most likely bid for the Western PA championships for either February 28 or March 21.

Pitt will probably hold their fall IS-set tournament on 11/15 or 11/22.

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Here are the teams with the largest residuals in the data. Keep in mind that I am using the rankings here, as Fred did, though it probably would make more sense to use the raw data of aPPB vs income. 1. Carbondale 2. duPont Manual 3. UChicago Lab 4. Winchester Thurston 5. Auburn 6. Hume Fogg 7. Mag...

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BobGHHS wrote:What does that column with only 1's and 2's in it after the initial card number stand for?

It's the round during which the first game for each team takes place.

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Can someone post the gel electrophoresis tossup? I negged with SDS-PAGE at the TEMED clue but can't remember if there were clues that specifically applied to non-PAGE techniques before that.

Also, I want to mention that the bonus on esoteric programming languages was delightful.

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One of the things I learned was that if I have a tournament with multiple preliminary pools, I should put my best moderators together. Yes, this means some teams get stuck with worse moderators, but it also means that if the best moderators can finish more quickly, they can go relieve the weaker mo...

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Another problem I have also pertaining to aggressiveness, is that I am fairly sure of the answer but wait to buzz in until more information appears. This is often the difference between a power and ten points for me. I don't think it's right to call it a 'problem' to wait for more information in th...

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So, yeah, I would not really consider bias a factor. Put the best moderators on the games that matter most. Sub out slow moderators/give them scorekeepers if you have the human resources to do so. Hold basic training before the tournament so moderators know how to avoid easy mistakes that slow down...

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We will be withdrawing if a fourth team doesn't register within the next several hours.

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:Here are my nearly forgotten about SSNCT projections.

The Smithville at SSNCT (Ohio) is not the one in your projections (Missouri).

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It would be nice to have descriptions for the videos of the bowl/bee rounds (for the ones where the teams aren't given in the title) so you don't have to hunt through the video to figure out who is playing. (I couldn't tell who was playing LASA in the finals because the audio was so bad.) Other than...

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In all seriousness, what happens when this dude wants to play an ACF/NAQT/circuit tournament? There's almost no way for him to cheat at one of those, and...does anybody actually have plans to ban him? I think a ban would be appropriate until --- at the very least --- he actually admits to what he d...

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