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That sounds fine to me, but you should ask the editors to make sure.

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I am pleased to announce that Michigan will host the Midwest/Great Lakes mirror of ACF Winter 2010. The tournament will be held on January 16, 2010. To register, please send an email to qbtriumvirate AT umich DOT edu with the number of teams your program expects to bring, as well as the number of st...

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When running a large tournament with a 6-8 game round robin followed by playoffs, finish prelims before lunch if at all possible. This gives the stats person an hour to figure out who is in what playoff bracket/has made playoffs before without getting bugged by impatient teams.

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Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:Quizbowl in the U.P? I am now sans monocle.
This is very good for me.

This is very good for everyone.

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Some of the most memorable games I've seen: First, the 2008 HS NCT game between East Lansing (Kurtis) and Eden Prairie in the playoffs, with winner reaching top 6. Eden Prairie got a huge lead, but Kurtis got a bunch of stuff in the second half and EL won. I think Gautam was there too; was it still ...

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nalin wrote:Solid for now. Post updates.
wave me nalinl AT googlewave DOT com

I think Michael Hausinger randomly found me on wave?

Yeah, I'm hausingerm. I'll invite people once I have the ability to do so.

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The team of Michigan alums defeated Chicago's team in the first game of an advantaged final to win the tournament. Thanks to everyone for coming!

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Thanks. That should be correct now.

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Minnesota beat Illinois in a one-game final.
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Thanks to everyone for coming.

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You have to be careful about just throwing down stuff like Flory-Huggins. It's not something you can just put out there and expect any more than a bare handful of people to even know what you're talking about. Well, yes. It was in a science side tournament, which is where it should be if it is ever...

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Actually, that's a great thing to bring up, Aaron. Circuit physics should definitely be asked about more, if possible. Engineering is an underexplored area of the science canon. I encourage people to make sensible use of it. This. I am in Chemical Engineering, and also taking many Materials Science...

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Many thanks to McMaster for a very well-run tournament. Everything ran really smoothly, and there were no significant delays between rounds. Getting though 12 rounds that efficiently is very impressive.

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Along with not using flimsy wire, don't use those stupid clip connections that get used in phone jacks and ethernet cords. They break way too often. If all external wiring connections can be made like the ones shown below, that would be awesome. Also, being able to separate the buzzer, cord, box, an...

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It seems like time for a field update. Is anyone else planning on having teams here?

Case Western (1)
Illinois (2)
MSU (2)
Ohio State (1)
Louisville (2)
Chicago (1)
Steve Traicoff/Geoff Zmyslowski/Jon Rosenthal

Free Agents
Rom
Matt

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Along the same lines, how badly do you expect to need Michigan's buzzers? Since we seem to be sending a team to the Canada site, we need to figure out how they would most be needed.

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Michigan will in fact have a team here. Do you need our buzzers, or should we send them to Chicago?

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The point of having longer questions isn't better conversion, its to have more clues, and thus theoretically better differentiation between teams. I don't think anyone disputes this. I'm pretty sure Ben's point is the correlation between chosen tossup length and difficulty of the answers to those t...

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Re: THUNDER---Columbus, Ohio (10/24/09) 3 teams.

3 teams.

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We will certainly have at least 3 teams, and possibly a fourth. I'm waiting to hear back from one guy who wasn't at practice today. We have at least 6 people playing trash, and probably a few more. I'll let you know as soon as I hear back from people.

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat · Re: (11/14/09) Illinois Open at UIUC We should have a couple teams at least.

We should have a couple teams at least.

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I had a lot of fun playing this tournament, and my teammates did as well. We knew the tournament would be really hard, and it met our expectations. Since we came knowing that much of the material would be over our heads, viewing the tournament mostly as a learning experience even more than usual, we...

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I had a lot of fun playing this. The questions were very well written, and seemed to be on interesting things. I noticed a surprisingly small number of repeated material, given that there were 80 answers per packet and the tournament was confined to purely science. There were plenty of times when so...

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If Chicago's current 3-team cap stands, we will be sending a team or two. Obviously, this is very tentative.

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We will presumably divide into groups of 8 and have a round robin, then go to playoffs. The playoff structure is not determined at all right now. In answers to our survey, I think we have had just about everything at least once. Answers have ranged from "anything" to "double elim"...

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Bump for field update. We are now over half full.

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One clue I really liked was in the Garden of Forking Paths tossup, where it mentioned the riddle whose answer is time. That seemed to me like a clue memorable only after reading the story a couple of times, which is exactly what an early clue in a lit tossup should be. I didn't really like the trash...

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I'd also like to thank Toronto for hosting. It was nice to see a lot of new faces, and we will certainly go to more tournaments in Canada in the future. It was really nice that you were willing to play the final even after the cleaning people took over the game rooms. We all really like having the o...

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I really liked the set a lot. As Bruce said, there were a few bonuses with significantly different difficulties, but I felt like that wasn't as big as a problem as some tournaments I've been to in the past. There were a couple of misplaced clues that slipped through, and the moderators had seemed to...

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Michigan will be hosting the Great Lakes site of TRASH Regionals this year on November 8th. To register, email qbtriumvirate@umich.edu. We encourage all teams to attend our mirror of FIST on the 7th as well. See http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8280&p=150661&hilit=FIS...

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MORE UPDATED POST IS BELOW. PAY ATTENTION TO THAT ONE! This space is reserved for field updates. Interested (but we still need registration info) GPN (2) Current field: Culver (2) Sand Creek (2) Troy (2) Huron (New Boston) Dorman Chattahoochee DCC (2) Brighton (2) Hartland Novi (2) DCDS Utica Chelse...

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Michigan will probably bring 2-3 teams.
We're very glad that you are hosting.

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Also, we are hosting a mirror of TRASH Regionals on the 8th. A full announcement will go up soon, but teams should certainly come to both.

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A couple of us from Michigan will play.

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A couple of us from Michigan are interested in playing.

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Michigan is planning on sending 2-3 teams

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Michigan is planning on sending a team.

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Michigan will be bringing some number of teams to this. I would guess something close to 4, but our mass meeting hasn't happened yet.

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The rules changed in the last year or two.

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According to NAQT's website, we have IS 90

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Any updates on this?

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Regarding volunteers, remember that in an untimed tournament, the number of volunteers will be cut by 1/3. However, additional "admin" volunteers will likely be needed to parse score sheets. Wouldn't it be more like 1/2? While a scorekeeper is nice to have, he is not necessary in an untim...

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The answer is, of course, both. I'm somewhat curious--have you been able to learn things from Quiz Bowl which have helped you with school? I've never been able to do so, though I've only had the chance to play bad questions up to this year and I only really started trying to learn the canon in the ...

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I would certainly help as well, and I'm sure we could get a group to come up from Ann Arbor.

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If I recall, the format for the "state championship" is unique in that it has fifteen minute halves and the questions are just a tossup, followed by one bonus question (which I always had the suspicion there was no differentiation between the two and that your bonus question was just the ...

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I've scored numerous points over the years on stuff I learned in Jared Diamond's Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel . What (categories of) stuff in particular? Guns, Germs, and Steel might get bumped up in my reading list. Generally history or geography stuff. One of them (don't remember which) ga...

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I've scored numerous points over the years on stuff I learned in Jared Diamond's Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel.

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We are planning on still using an IS set.

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Autumn classic is tentatively December 5.

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I think DCC and DCD will certainly be the teams to beat again this year. I expect DCD to be similar to the East Lansing team from two years ago, which had Kurtis but lost its next top 5 players from the previous year. Neil is really, really, good, and still improving. Troy and Novi will be good, but...

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Fluid mechanics: There are plenty of things there that seem interesting and reasonable for some tournaments to me beyond Navier-Stokes and laminar flow. Bingham plastics We're not at the point where we can start tossuping specific types of non-Newtonian fluids at anything below ACF Nationals. This ...

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