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In order to prevent the field from clogging up, we will not allow additional two- or three-person teams for the time being (the Borglum and Grant teams will be grandfathered in, but please try to fill up your teams as soon as possible - that's why we have this thread ). But what if a team with only...

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In order to prevent the field from clogging up, we will not allow additional two- or three-person teams for the time being (the Borglum and Grant teams will be grandfathered in, but please try to fill up your teams as soon as possible - that's why we have this thread).

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A friendly reminder that the first deadline is just under three weeks away. Please register if you have not done so already but have a complete team.

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Philadelphia: #1 Agueroooo #7 They Think It's All Over #3 Wambach #4 QUIERO LLORAR Milan: #1 Rio #2 McFadden #3 Bergkamp #5 Iniesta Everton: #1 Iwelumo #2 Release the Kraken #6 Do not scratch your eyes #5 All Africa Sporting: #1 Thatcher #2 Neville #6 Messi #4 Crazy guy

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gettysburg11 wrote:Mike and I have agreed that there will be a full soccer corollary to this bracket, and that one will definitely have a high seed.

I support this product. I suggest that it also include foreign-language commentary so we can include gems like this.

EDIT: I am slow.

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What Mike said. As an example, last year we received one packet in which most of the tossups were 14 lines or longer, most of them on extremely hard topics. This is NOT the point of CO. We don't want to send packets back for rewrites if we can avoid it, but we will if necessary. EDIT: Also, there wi...

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This is the official announcement for Chicago Open, which will be held the weekend of July 23-24 at the University of Chicago. The main tournament will be held on Saturday, with Trash on Sunday. The tournament will be edited by a team comprised of John Lawrence, Matt Jackson, Mike Cheyne, Mike Bentl...

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If there are no further objections, we'll tentatively set Chicago Open for the 23rd (official announcement forthcoming).

EDIT: Announcement is up. Mods, you can close this thread.

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Greetings,

Now that the CO editing team is mostly formed, we would like to hear the audience's opinion on various dates. Please select which dates you will be able to attend (you may select up to all 3), and feel free to post here if you have any concerns or comments.

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I am also willing to co-edit physics and chip in questions elsewhere.

Lagotto Romagnolo · Re: VCU Open ‘15 @ VCU (8/8/15) I should be able to staff SHEIKH as well.

I should be able to staff SHEIKH as well.

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I wouldn't take it as far as Ike, but I think the idea of having 3-4 summer opens every year is a good solution to the current glut of tournaments at places like CO and VCUO. As nice as it would be to distribute the side events across the summer, let's remember that we have only a finite number of ...

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I will also suggest a possibly repulsive change for next year: move the packet deadlines forward by a week. As long as CO continues to follow the giant round-robin format (which I still support), we can't combine packets. Even the packets that come in 2 weeks before the tournament must be edited. If...

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In Judaism, it seems like there are infinitely more rituals and practices that occur in everyday life: meals with specific food, specific prayers or actions, things to build, etc. It's not just the number of rituals, it's the sheer amount of text behind them. The full Talmud runs anywhere from 18 t...

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It seems fairly rare for the top team to break 20 PPB, as it's only happened twice. I don't really see a problem with this in itself. Three times, but it doesn't change the picture: ...no team in history has ever put up 22 ppb on Chicago Open (and only one team even cracked 21: the Yaphe/Teitler/Ke...

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I'd be interested in seeing some questions from previous tournaments that people would consider "receive 15 points if you are Jewish." This example is from a high school tournament, but it illustrates the point: This holiday sees the singing of the Chad Gadya, and some observants use an o...

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The tossup on Shavuot led in with a clue to the effect of "The John Doe-like placeholder name Ploni Almoni comes from a book read on this holiday." One of our opponents buzzed in before the word "this" and said "the Book of Ruth," which of course would have been correc...

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Today is the final deadline. Please submit the remaining packets!

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I don't want to turn this thread away too much from the "theoretical" designation, but inasmuch as it seems to define "theoretical" as "not quizbowl computational math," here's another idea. If you want to learn upper-level math but, like me, can't stand long purely the...

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The old NSC format did have its charm, but by all accounts it was a nightmare to edit, with 3 different types of bonuses.

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There is no shame in asking people for help writing a tournament. I feel this is a norm we should promote. I'd like to extend Bruce's point to a few other tasks. Warning: the following is also a personal attempt to exorcise old demons, so apologies for schmaltz or preachiness. There is no shame in ...

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A different type of discussion, but what did the readers at this year's NSC think of the formatting and style of answer line in the set? The choice of font for the set appears to be similar, if not the same, as the font used for the past two ACF Nationals, and I thought it was rather easier on the ...

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One thing my team noticed was a bit of a difference between auditory and visual art. There were numerous tossups on specific compositions, operas, or other musicals pieces, but very few tossups on paintings, sculptures, and other works of visual art. At the end of the tournament, we could only thin...

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First, I'd like to thank the arts writers: Mike Bentley, Eddie Kim, Nathan Weiser, Shan Kothari, Aidan Mehigan, Jasper Lee, Carsten Gehring, Ike Jose, and Fred Morlan (EDIT: and Dan Puma) (plus Auroni, of course) for their contributions. They provided many excellent ideas and questions and it was a ...

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This was fantastic. A huge shout-out to Ike, Billy, and Andrew for writing it!

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I think there is a place for questions like this that lack clearly-named reference points in places like a side tournament, but this question would not be a good idea in most contexts. Quiz bowl is inherently based on remembering names of things, and for that matter, so are most conversations outsi...

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I don't remember which packets they were in, but: -The answer to that bonus on conservation of mass was rendered as "conversation of mass." And when I was reading it, it seemed like it was actually looking for conservation of mass and energy. Or maybe the words "and energy" were ...

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FWIW, I thought it was a blast, niche though it was.

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Ah, I guess I confused "differential equations" with values of the differentiated function. Sorry about that - this question is fine as is.

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I seem to remember the Dirichlet question saying that his namesake boundary conditions give the value of a function's derivatives at boundaries, when in fact it's Neumann conditions that give values of the derivative and Dirichlet conditions that give values of the original function. Or maybe I'm mi...

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EDIT: moved my post to the science thread where it belongs.

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Eh, I'd say the Brahms rhapsodies probably pass the test (albeit not by leaps and bounds) for "opus numbers famous enough to be buzzable", especially since the rhapsodies don't have an alternate numbering system like his symphonies or chamber works. Jasper's general principle still holds, ...

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I think these were great. Specifically, I've always felt that music theory is underrepresented in most tournaments, so I appreciated questions like the counterpoint bonus, which reward people for actually writing and playing music, more than most music history questions do (not to sound simplistic ...

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Aaron Rosenberg suggested that lead-in for the Mussorgsky question, and it seemed notable enough to musical layman me to be worth using. I found that clue while digging around the internet, and it seemed important enough to be worth using - Night on Bald Mountain is one of those pieces that's notor...

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Agreeing with Ike and Stephen above. And I think this point merits further expansion: I think it would add a layer of depth (that vis-art in quizbowl seems to lack currently) if we shift toward "art history" rather than just "art." There's been a lot of discussion this year about...

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After looking at the finals packets, I think I overstated the distributional skew; there was still a decent amount of modern stuff.

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what the second-to-last movement of the Monteverdi Vespers is After doing some digging, I think this was my bad, but I'm not sure what the best way to solve it is. There are in fact two magnificats at the end, but for some reason many recordings seem to exclude the second one, thus effectively leav...

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I do apologize for the inconvenience I caused by interrupting the trash tournament. I'm still not happy about how the scheduling worked out, but yeah, the best thing we can do in the future is communicate and budget time better.

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Here are the stats. Because this was a shoot-out, we decided it would be more fun to play with no negs. We also had a few late arrivals. People who heard all the packets John - 930 Matt J. - 150 Jordan Beckenstein - 80 Aaron - 220 Max - 70 People who heard 2 (maybe 3?) of the packets Evan A. - 10 Ch...

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This was a really fun tournament. Thanks to Jonathan, Dave, Jacob and Rebecca for writing it!

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There, you see, it was written for a narrowly defined set of Virginians.

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Wiener's team won the VCU mirror. Warning to future sites: be careful where you use the UVA packet.

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote: these should be harder than regular season high school tournaments, but certainly not as hard as high school quiz bowl tournaments.

I assume that second phrase was intended to read "certainly not as hard as college quiz bowl tournaments"?

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(I'm glad at least one person liked the Vivaldi Gloria tossup! I was a bit worried about that) Well, I only got it near the end and I don't remember the early clues, but what I'm saying is that the answer choice itself was good. what was the 1/1 Mozart? And do you consider him "early music&quo...

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Echoing the above - this set was quite fun to play on the whole. Also it ran very smoothly - I wasn't there in 2011 or 2012 but logistically I thought this was the best CO I've been to, so thanks to the excellent readers as well as Joe Su and co. for that. I expect others will have more to say later...

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This was a really fun tournament. Thanks for writing it Auroni! EDIT: I'm not a big fan of long lists of 'tossups that I liked', but I'll make an exception here: the End of Time, the Midnight Channel, Carmen Sandiego Word Detective even though I screwed up the title, hanar, and "would you kindl...

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Will this be held Saturday or Sunday?

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I first-lined the Schopenhauer tossup at SUBMIT from watching Neon Genesis Evangelion. Not a bad alternative to reading him.

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Still looking for a teammate; message me if you're interested (all the more if you know FPS, sports, and RTS games).

EDIT: Found one.

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This gif features Jerry shouting the infamous "That's--That doesn't mean anything! That does not mean anything! LITERALLY!"* in response to a bonus at FICHTE 2. Was it this bonus? [10] Orthogonal functions such as the Hermite and Laguerre polynomials can be normalized using this other fun...

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