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I wonder if there are some potential reforms such as: 1. More strongly encouraging good packet submissions, with perhaps the definition of "good" being slightly relaxed for ACF Fall, by the use of discounts. Having edited packet submission tournaments, you get a sense of what packets are ...

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This was an immensely fun set, and I'd like to thank the writers for coming up with such creative questions.

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Banned Tiny Toon Adventures Episode wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:35 pm I'd love to score -7.5 ppg at this

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Hour 1 transcript: Aaron Rosenberg: Alright everyone, welcome on behalf of PACE to the 2019 David Riley Coaches Conference, er, Players and Coaches Conference. My name's Aaron, and on behalf of PACE, thank you all for coming. We do this every year for the improvement of quizbowl and the community, ...

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Where is "The Judge" buzzer system in this? I feel like it's the best choice for a school hoping to make a solid, long-term investment in a buzzer system. The Judge is a great buzzer system, but everyone I know who's tried to order one in the past couple years has had a hard time getting ...

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Maths Wizard (Tau is King!) wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:43 pm Question: if someone attended the all-star game but wanted to "come to" the discord to listen, say, just to see how other people do on the pack and because it was a good time, would that be allowed?

As a mod of the QB discord: stuff like this is totally fine!

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Strongly agree with Rahul and Will here. A $0 deadline would be extremely helpful.

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First of all, it's always great to see new teams popping up, especially in sparse circuits like the southeast. To answer your questions: 1. About what number of teams should be our limit? Even though we could field many, is two or three the regular number? As many teams as you can afford, assuming a...

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Practice will be in Duane G2B60. Note the new location! This is in the far east wing of Duane (the one closest to the geology and math buildings), one level below street level. Make sure to enter from the east end of the building, as other doors may be locked in the evenings.

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For anyone in the Colorado front range this summer, the University of Colorado Boulder will be hosting open practices from 6 to 8 PM on Monday nights. Practices will start on June 3rd and end on August 19th, and anyone is welcome to attend. I'll finalize the room reservations on Monday morning and u...

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Congrats to Boulder B for winning the tournament, and to Henry Cafaro from Fort Collins for being the top scorer! All teams played exceedingly well, and this was a very fun tournament to watch.

Stats are here.

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The University of Colorado Boulder will be hosting a mirror of WHAQ III on May 18, 2019. Location and schedule: The tournament will be held on May 18 the Engineering Center (subject to change). The tournament will begin at 9:45 AM MST, and teams should arrive by 9:15 Additional information will be e...

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Computational math or actual math?

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Due to school, research, and other writing commitments, this set will be postponed indefinitely (though it will eventually be finished).

Sorry, everyone.

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...collect a bunch of previous tossups and make relevant and normal edits to them to prevent them from cheating and whatnot... All this does is prevent a cheater from directly looking up the packet, which not an insurmountable barrier. If someone's going to cheat in an online tournament, they can s...

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Look, if you had just said "let's play some old NHBB questions on Discord," this would not be a problem in the slightest, and you would have saved a lot of effort on your part. Trying to turn it into an actual tournament with some house-written stuff and some modified versions of old packe...

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If this happens in the bay area during July, there's a significant chance I'll show up.

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The fact that this set had exactly one plasma physics tossup out of 50 physics tossups is somewhat annoying, especially since that question (Debye length) used a lot of non-plasma clues and wasn't even heard until the second finals packet. I understand that sub distributional errors happen, and it's...

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Could someone post the question on reconnection? Some people in the plasma department got really excited and want to see it, and I don't have our binder.

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Agreeing with Will, Geoff, and Jonathan here. I knew it was either Boost or the C++ standard library from the first clue, but I sat until Boost was mentioned.

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- The data science tossups on time series , regression discontinuity design , and age , all of which delved into topics I've either worked with before or read a lot about, and which are very important in the social sciences ... - The tossup on dynamic light scattering , an important technique that'...

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Seeing Billy's post reminded me that my comments on the physics were long overdue, so here goes. In general, the physics in this set was extremely well done. Individual sub-disciplines were well-balanced, plenty of novel-yet-still-convertible things came up, I felt like most of my buzzes came from r...

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Unless I'm misparsing the clue in the _potentiometer_ tossup, I think it would be helpful to rule out encoders before the clue about their being used for positional feedback for servo mechanisms - I'm fairly certain its possible to use optical encoders to keep track of servo position as well. Agree...

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I agree with Arnav's post, but Let's Encrypt is probably sufficient. I doubt there's any need to use a paid CA.

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I greatly enjoyed this set, especially the physics, which I felt did an excellent job of rewarding Real Knowledge (TM). My only complaint is that it was a bit heavy on high energy.

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Despite NAQT stuff being generally outside of my wheelhouse, I greatly enjoyed this tournament. Most of the questions were extremely well executed, and the weirder answerlines tended to be on the more interesting side. Questions that I particularly liked: - The drifts tossup in the final did an exce...

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Another point: in the pop culture distribution, I would suggest reducing the number of TV questions. This is not because TV is an unimportant topic, but rather because TV tends to have a much more bimodal distribution of knowledge than other pop culture areas - people who watch a given show tend to...

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Due to some last-minute changes/a budget surplus/other factors, it turns out that we will also be bringing one woman to ICT. I know this is on very short notice, but if anyone wants to trade roommates, please PM or email me.

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I'll be happy to staff the ICT mirror.

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Agreeing with Billy here. I thought a lot of science did a good job of rewarding real knowledge and challenging a very strong field while still remaining accessible. I'll make a full post on physics and associated things tomorrow night. In general, I felt this was an excellent set, and I'd like to a...

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If any of you have any advice/an insider's guide for a long-time player, but first time hoster, feel free to DM, email or reply to this post. It would be greatly appreciated. I'll try to make my intentions known to my advisor and the schools in the area as soon as I get a better grasp on how I'm go...

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Field update:

Boulder A
Boulder B
CEC Aurora A
CEC Aurora B
Grand Junction A
Grand Junction B
Grand Junction C
Rock Canyon A
Rock Canyon B
Regis Jesuit
Weld Central A
Weld Central B
Weld Central C

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Echoing Joe's sentiment---this was a very fun tournament on a very strong set.

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I'd also like to apologize for the overlap with Science Olympiad. This was unfortunately unavoidable, since we already have to schedule against Science Bowl, Knowledge Bowl, History Bowl, and other events. We'll be hosting more tournaments later this semester, which will be scheduled some time in th...

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This won't be strictly enforced, but we highly recommend that teams limit their rosters to no more than 6 players (and preferably no more than 4-5, if the 5th and 6th scorers would be able to play on their own). If the registration fee is a barrier to splitting an oversized team, email us.

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It is my pleasure to announce the Colorado State Quiz Bowl Championship on March 9, 2019, hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder. At this tournament, teams will be able to qualify for both HSNCT and NSC. Location and schedule: The tournament will be held on Saturday, March 9 the Engineering Ce...

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Thanks for coming, everyone. Congrats to BYU A, who defeated Colorado A in a one-game final.

Stats are here.

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The post originally listed the wrong registration link. This has been fixed.

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OSU
Shan
Joseph
Eric

Alt: John

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Is "meme" just what British quizbowlers call "stock"?

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I'm pleased to announce that for the fourth year in a row, CU Boulder will host the Rocky Mountain site of NAQT's Sectional Championship Tournament. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at matthew.s.mitchell@colorado.edu Location and schedule: The tournament will be held on Saturday, F...

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In addition to full tournaments, people read old packets on the quizbowl Discord from time to time.

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We've found it useful to have a separate novice practice on easier questions, followed by a practice at regular difficulty for the whole team.

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Saltasassi wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 6:09 pm The California mirror of ACF Regionals will be held on January 26, 2019.

You should probably change the title from 1/28, then :)

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Did anyone collect the Festivus packets for archival purposes? If not, I volunteer to do so; please email me your packets (hartam@gmail.com) so I can put them on the database. I'm currently collecting packets, but I've been traveling recently and haven't had time to follow up with everyone. I'll ha...

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We already have a History specialist and he gets pissed whenever I steal points from him. It's great that you want to branch out more, but this really needs to be addressed. Unless you're wantonly negging him out of things he's likely to know, he should be happy that the team is getting tossups ear...

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Silverman wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:11 pm So is this happening? I sadly don't have a packet but I'll definitely play; the packets announced so far all sound fun.

It is now.

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OK, no one else has stepped up to do this, so I guess I will. If you've got packets, read them in the Discord tomorrow. We'll start around 10:30 AM, Mountain Standard Time.

Please sign up on this sheet. It would be nice to have more mods, but I'm fine doing it myself.

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touchpack wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 2:18 am Can you guys decide on a date soon? I work ~26 weekends a year and need to request time off well in advance.

As someone flying in, I heavily second this.

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I'll probably have a half packet of of weird mashups and other miscellaneous oddities.

EDIT: I'm also willing to step up to moderate.

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