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One more thing: even if some sites still aren't decided, there seems to be literally no downside to announcing partial sites. Whatever slight decrease in professionalism would result frim slapping a TBA on a region, it would be massively weighed out by giving the rest of us time to plan travel and p...

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Lauren's post is Good.

NAQT should also keep in mind that certain circuits require aggressive outreach to obtain a decent field, which is much easier to do when you have an official tournament announcement.

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I disagree with this critique for the reasons Graham mentioned above, and also from a quick search, it seems most tossups on "dipole" (the system) accept "dipole moment" (the quantity) but not vice versa, for whatever reason. Perhaps because it's generally correct to say that, f...

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a) They play very differently from almost all other questions. It's hard to switch from quickly answering to carefully thinking about whether your answer fit the minutiae of the question. b) Because they are easy to mess up with a small mistake, there will almost certainly be a fraction of players ...

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The bottom line is that without a strong showing of support for a Minnesota mirror -- whether underlain by a formal rule directing teams there or not -- it just won't happen. I encourage people who would be likely to play a UMN mirror to list their names or their teams on this spreadsheet . The mai...

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So, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the UMN site would require Illinois players for a decent field, but the OSU site wouldn't---the problem being that OSU is a slightly shorter drive from Chicago than UMN. What if the editors allow both sites, but require special approval for people trave...

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I went to Michigan State as an undergraduate and road-tripped with Joe, Connor, and Ryan Dillon to Minneapolis for Minnesota Open -- that was just the sort of thing you had to do to play! There was an entire era when the main site of Minnesota Open was an event that people would travel long distanc...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Mon Nov 12, 2018 2:54 pm Regardless of where this tournament is, I'd like to see some hard dates announced pretty soon.

Echoing this. Some of us would like to book flights as early as possible.

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Also, upon further research, I'm not 100% sure I screwed up the clue about time translation symmetry in the Noether's theorem clue for the energy conservation tossup. Does anyone have any feedback here? Think I could probably find a better wording for vis-viva: 3. Banks, Susskind, and Peskin claime...

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Generally, I greatly enjoyed this set, and I felt like most of the tossups did a good job of hitting their target difficulty. Our site had a lot of new players, and even those with zero quizbowl experience were able to convert things. That said, I had a few issues with it: I'm probably biased as a p...

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I think we ended up hitting our target difficulty of "about halfway between 2017 EFT and this past year's Regionals" though the set obviously has a different field than an introductory tournament like EFT. I'm obviously biased but I think it should be a comfortable set for strong novices ...

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I feel like someone should remind people that Dec 23 is Festivus, if that's happening again this year.

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Congrats to Colorado A for winning this tournament, and to Zach from KSU for being the top scorer. We'd like sincerely thank all the teams who showed up for contributing to a wonderful day of quizbowl.

Stats can be found here.

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I played Science Bowl in high school, and I got really fast at mental arithmetic by factoring the time in my head whenever I got bored. This definitely gave our team an edge. Next, let me fill you in on my suggestion. We are a new high school academic team in Kentucky, so our primary format for comp...

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Jean de Daumier-Smith wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:13 pm
everdiso wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:46 pm P.P.G.s
I can't believe I had to read this with my own eyes. It's basically a war crime.

Says someone from a country that calls a packet a "pack."

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If you're looking for survey texts, there's an excellent list here.

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nycaqb1999 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:26 pm Is an online mirror being planned for this set?

Echoing this. If there is one, I will play the

out of it.

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This particular rule change also has the potential to disproportionately impact students with especially challenging life circumstances who might have to take leaves of absence or repeat a grade for any number of reasons, including illness and mental health matters, parenthood, being required to wo...

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Out of curiosity are these types of policies in place for other high school competitions? I imagine most sports have something like this in place. Yes, and depending on the state, 19 year olds can play (see Conor's post above). I'll dig up some sources later, but I have to get to class. Keep in min...

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For Matt/Daniel:

OSU A
Eric W.
Daniel H.
Shan K.

Alternate: Weija

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DROP Yonathan Stone
ADD John Marvin

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Can I see the bonus on integration? My impression was that the question didn't exclude a possible answer of "solving differential equations" for the first part (particularly since it mentions Runge-Kutta). Rather complex forms of performing this operation make use of temporal discretizati...

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UlyssesInvictus wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:08 pm
A Very Long Math Tossup wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:55 pm QuizDB is down right now.
It's working for me as of 10:08 PM. Could you describe the issue you experienced?

OK, it's working again. For about an hour (9pm-10pm eastern), attempting to load the site returned a generic Heroku error page.

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QuizDB is down right now.

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In chess, it is my understanding that there are tournaments, say, for players with Elo of 1000-1500, 1500-1700, etc. Know how strong the people playing your tournament are. Chess has reduced "how good a player is" to a simple number, and made this number trivially easy to look up in an au...

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Could you post the tossup on "postmodernism"? I recall Lyotard's definition being clued very early.

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It might be a good idea for NAQT to publish some sort of "recommended eligibility policy," with final judgement calls left up to the host.

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cruzeiro wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:10 pm Can I see the tossup on British anthropologists? I (and at least one other room) negged with France on the structuralism clue (seemed like bait for Lévi-Strauss)

I also did this. I buzzed at structural, IIRC, but the question was asking about structural functionalism.

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CaseyB wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:09 pm
CPiGuy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 06, 2018 2:41 pm
100% Clean Comedian Dan Nainan wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:36 pm Can the list of submitted packets be updated please?
It's now been two weeks since the September 22 deadline, and the next deadline is today. A submitted packets update would be great.
This.

Also this.

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I've added a "date updated" column to the sheet, with formatting based on how recently the contact info was updated.

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I think it would be a good idea to have an annual top-down project in which we go through every school on the list and verify that the contact info is current and actually works. Plenty of people forget to update the old list when they leave their club, I've been burned by outdated contact info in t...

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Individuals wishing to compete at high school tournaments must not turn 19 until after the current competition year—in other words, if they will still be 18 or younger as of next July 31. This seems like a pretty big change, especially to be announced a month and a half into the school year. If som...

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So, about a year ago, I was in the exact same position, albeit with a college team rather than a high school one. Our old club president and our faculty advisor both left at the same time, so I ended up running our team. The most important thing is to be enthusiastic . You can't make people study, b...

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OK, reaching out to honors colleges is actually kind of working. Let it be known that Chris Chiego is a stone cold outreach genius.

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ezubaric wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:58 pm Perhaps move tournament to Sunday to get around the TV tournament issue?

We want to make sure we'll have enough experienced staffers, and I'm flying out to a conference that Sunday. I believe several other people have conflicts as well. We're definitely considering it, though.

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Though I don't want to say numerical advantage would be the absolute deciding factor, Colorado's six-person ICT team from last year definitely deserves a mention Ah, someone has finally stumbled across the real reason we brought six people to ICT (I still can't believe anyone bought that story abou...

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So, I'm really worried about getting a field for Fall (currently it's just us), and outreach isn't really working So far: - I've contacted incoming freshmen at other Colorado schools, but none of them are interested - I've emailed activities directors at every school on the front range, but I didn't...

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If any well-funded programs want to fly out a B/C/D team, we'd greatly appreciate it. Colorado (and Boulder in particular) is a wonderful place to visit.

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You should definitely consider walking away, at least temporarily. I can only speak for myself, but the people are a pretty big part of the reason I do quizbowl, and while I'm fine not being best friends with all of my teammates, I wouldn't even show up to practice if I didn't enjoy interacting with...

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I'm surprised no one's mentioned this by now, but our very own Jordan Boyd-Graber will be on Jeopardy this Wednesday!

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Fun fact: under PACE and ACF rules, buzzer faking and other "psychological ploys" are considered minor misconduct, and multiple instances can get you ejected from a game. Also, the miniscule advantage that a team would gain from buzzer-faking could also be gained from spending a few hours ...

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It looks like notifications weren't going out for the last couple weeks, due to a bug that caused the parser to fail when attempting to process a tournament that had already been processed. It's fixed now, and some of you have probably recieved emails with a backlog of tournaments.

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I'm in, if only to see how little I know about the quizbowl meta.

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How would non-qbers know what a power mark is? They may not get the joke, but they'll at least get that " girl (*) power" is something related to, y'know, girl power. a quick urbandictionary search informs me it's an informal way to display an anus in chat Are most people going to associa...

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We'd like to thank ACF for graciously allowing us to open the field to high school teams.

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Just a reminder that QBNotify can't see your tournament if it's not posted to the hsquizbowl.org database ahead of time. Please add a database entry, even if there's already one on NAQT's website (and, of course, post an announcment on these forums).

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QBNotify can now display a map of all upcoming tournaments! I've been working on this for a while, and it's finally here. (no login required, check it out on the front page: https://qbnotify.msmitchell.org/) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/275279348855209984/483041159816413226/2018-08-25-1632...

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Due to a lack of rooms in the engineering center, the tournament has been moved to Hellems.

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All regions now show up on the map, and the resolution of US states has been increased. GeoJSON is wonderful.

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You can now view a map of your notifications!

(Caveat: this feature does not yet work for territories, Canadian provinces, DC, or the UK, since I don't have shape data in an easily parseable format. This will be fixed shortly.)

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