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RhymesWithBee wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:08 pm Here's hoping this works, this is my first time posting here, definitely a different music taste than everyone else here lol

?? how is that dif this is literally flawless

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I appear to be 4 miles away from tech. Wish me luck in getting there!

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I appear to be 4 miles away from tech. Wish me luck in getting there!

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shout out to big al fregeau

Good Goblin Housekeeping · Re: A Semi-Serious Charity Tournament (7/31/2021) this set is an absolute blast

this set is an absolute blast

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i look forward to your tossup on the planet venus that uses the indicator "this star" but more seriously that's a reasonable point i just think indicators should be accurate to modern understandings of things because it is important that players know what is being asked for If someone wan...

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i look forward to your tossup on the planet venus that uses the indicator "this star" but more seriously that's a reasonable point i just think indicators should be accurate to modern understandings of things because it is important that players know what is being asked for If someone wan...

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no I will continue to do so and couldn't care less because given the nature of myths involving fire it's clearly treated as a substance since the people telling those myths did not understand the nature of fire

your take is bad and wrong kthx

thank you for reading my essay

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yeah it's been a pretty long week

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 12:21 pm 2 PM real time. Check.

No, Eric definitely said 1 PM real time buddy

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So this is... an event... with people?

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Rude of you to not use ladbrokes. I for one would love to make a case for the late Amos Oz

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Strong teammates, weak teammates, that is only the selfish perception of people. Truly strong players should try to win with their favorites. I like your style. You understand what's important. Go on -- the CHAMPION is waiting.

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For lack of a less tautological way of explaining it, you study for nationals by learning things that are likely to come up at nationals. Nats can be really hard! But to be honest, a team that can consistently snipe every tossup (but like, the stupid hard ones too) pre-FTP is probably able to consis...

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I'm disappointed that Neff, a "history buff interested in wars and military battles" wouldn't even engage mike sorice in a fight :(

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if we were asking about video games the kids know we'd just be properly asking about club penguin (2005) pbuh all day anyways right

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naan/steak-holding toll wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 6:07 pm I personally think it's hilarious

bruh we get it jacob isn't funny x o x

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Man I go through all of the trouble to block Elon fucking musk on twitter and I can’t escape reading this jawn

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This is the actual analogy for all teams that have been mentioned https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/6c/17/f26c171e41b012c3b100e238d98c9b1a.jpg https://66.media.tumblr.com/fbdbbb0dfd80c183b4b0ca353775036a/tumblr_o8q52vc2411u8qp61o3_1280.png https://www.mygeekconfessions.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07...

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Banana Stand wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 3:44 pm
Cheynem wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 3:43 pm Why are Columbia and Chicago the only two teams booked for this hypothetical finals?
Because they’re the only S-tier teams this season

disrespectful towards itamar

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heterodyne wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 3:17 pm A Yu-Gi-Oh match is composed of three duels. I suggest that Columbia and Chicago B have a play-in game to conclude ours– the winner can then play Chicago A.

wouldn't Columbia first play Chicago, then both teams would have the option to swap in players from their side decks for the following game

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 2:33 pm
2. The option of an online Nats is at least worth being put on the table.

(Mike's other points are good and right)

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db0wman wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:40 am↓

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I would like to play this and would not like to commit multiple days to this

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In a similar vein, how does this set distinguish astronomy and astrophysics? Seems a bit arbitrary as currently set up (not that the way people have historically chosen if something in the vein of a "physical chem topic" goes in chem or phys isn't, but if the set's explicitly labeling them...

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Clearly the evidence was compelling enough that it prompted Eric to come clean after defending himself for the past week. One potential downside to revealing the method to the community at large would be that future cheaters, having internalized this thread, may change their behavior in a manner th...

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I accept Eric's apology and wish to commend him for having the courage to admit to this. The act of playing quizbowl can be a really frustrating experience - especially when you know you've heard something before, feel that you really should know it (or used to), and feel weak and powerless when yo...

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this is either going to be the best packet ever or I'll be very disappointed. Either way I look forward to going 0/2/6 on it :)

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Oof, I've been outed as a fraud

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1/64: June v Sip 32/33: july v february 17/48: December v february 16/49: Kartika v Sotz' 9/56: September v November 24/41: Chaitra v Ashwin sorry only doing this because jacob is a simp for ashwin (who rocks) 25/40: October v K'ank'in 8/57: June v Mak was a little weird to see so many duplicates bu...

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45 seed: Daθušō v Āθrō no Zurvanism here chief all ahura mazda all the time 51 seed: Xšaθrahe Vairyehe v Amərətātō no need 4 more dad hahaha xd 62 seed: Elul v Tammuz while I'm anti tammuz I'm more anti Elul 63 seed: Paremhat v Parmouti in honor of dr manners i voted against the paremhat one 64 seed...

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While I can't be satisfied to discover that I am now worth 2/3rds of a person/poster here are my votes 40 seed: hargelion v Anthesterion 49 seed: Gamelion v Metageitnion 52 seed: Sabatu v Abu 58 seed: Addaru v Tisritum if tisritum was so good why wasn't there a tisritum 2? 60 seed: 1 Deer v 1 Flower...

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i voted wo because connor asked us not to

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In spite of their redundancy I voted overtone and resonance (as well as magnetic) because I associated them the most with science words

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Can whoever's running this just stick my vote in for Undecimber until it wins the event? thx xoxox

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Also with regards to national organizations saving their sets for next year... why the hell should they be allowed to do that? Why shouldn't they be allowed to? The fact that a national competition isn't feasible right now doesn't excuse that. Why doesn't it? If national organizations refuse to rel...

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Speaking as someone who ran a club with zero dominant grad students for 3 years, we had a huge attrition due to the time it would have taken to adjust to sets like MUT and EFT that we were playing in practice. The vast majority of our attrition (if not all of it some years) came well before we star...

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The achievements of my Chicago brethren are, I think, fresh enough in current memory that I need not highlight them at this point. I'd thus like to recognize two other Yalies: Ashvin Srivatsa and Spencer Weinreich. Their performances are best preserved in a tournament that I did not play with them:...

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Oh man, 2013 ACF Nationals! I played this solo as a freshman with very little knowledge of what I was to expect at Nats (besides late buzzes and not a lot of points). I remember before the tournament being baffled that there was a possibility that I would become the D2 champion by default, and after...

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So a goldfish tournament?

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What was up with the bonus that asked for "sigma g plus" ? I couldn't actually figure out what the hell the part wanted and gave A1g because that's what the totally symmetric representation would be on the character table and have never encountered and and having difficulty finding whateve...

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Allyl tossup was a little confusing since a lot of situations don't really treat allyl parts of molecules as a distinct functional group/synthon except for basically the things clued Aerosol tu's electrospray clue was extremely confusing The tossup on pillars seemed kind of problematic - every clue ...

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Can I see the question on _ribose_? Wang and I protested after giving the answer "the 2' hydroxyl", and I'm not sure that was incorrect given what I heard. Versions of this moiety with a 2-prime O-methoxyethyl, or M-O-E, modification are used as ASO (“A-S-O”) compounds. For 10 points each...

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The tossup on "hydrogen" that referred to it as "this substance" had a clue that Rafael, Noah, and I felt was ambiguously worded, referring to the "production of the 21 centimeter line in this substance." I gave an answer of "intergalactic medium" - I assume ...

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Benin Rebirth Party wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:22 pm Asking for hydrogen as "this substance" was pretty confusing.

is hydrogen... not a substance?

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well hyde park has like 2 eating options and northwestern has like, several more and is closer to my (the protagonist of reality) house

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The science in this set was my favorite of the regionals I've played ('18, '19, '20). To add to the discussion about bait, my one gripe is with the "protein" question in packet E (Central Florida A et. al.) I buzzed and answered "protease" when I heard "MEROPS" (I did ...

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Edit: Also, I thought some of the quantitative questions were a bit weird. For ex., asking for a "magic angle" of 1.05 degrees, or the precise number of bandits in a Chinese gang (118? forget the exact question. but maybe that one is OK, if it's well-known.) There seemed to be a few quest...

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