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Fado Alexandrino · Re: NAQT SCT@UWaterloo (3/2/2018) McGill B will play Delta Burke

McGill B will play Delta Burke

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Thanks for taking your time to do this, Ophir. Everyone I know is eager to see the stats when they are up. My bold prediction: The stuff Thomas Young did in his spare time bonus is the easiest bonus in the set by overall conversion and over 50% of teams 30'd it. I will email you some others if I hav...

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I don’t think saying “name and number of instruments” works because it could only plausibly be violins. I spent the entire tossup knowing it was some group of strings. I think having the answer line as 2 would have made more sense. I don’t think it’s a flawed question, just out of the blue eapeciall...

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Thanks to the editors and everyone else involved for a great set. I thought the music in this set was great and much better than last year. I started with a sour taste because the way our mirror was scheduled the saw the two hardest music tossups in my opinion (Finland and two violins) in the first ...

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Can I see the tossup on “two violins”? I’d like to see what works were clued. The tossup seemed hard for this level especially compared to the pretty standard regionals fare everything else was. Can I see the Mendelssohn tossup for the same reason as above? The bonus on ecological succession tripped...

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Neither January 22nd nor February 17th are Sundays.

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Jay Misuk and I would love to play this at CO so we're not just beating up each other at our second summer open. FWIW I value listening to every question you've written while finishing Sunday at a reasonable hour (so like not last year) for this tournament than the fairest of tournament format.

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McGill uses the {President, Treasurer, Internal, External} division Victor pointed out. This has worked ever since I came here but I think both president and external needs to be fairly involved members of the interscholastic circuit for it to be effective. I outlined most of the labour division abo...

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I'm not gonna write anything new for this despite what I said upstream but if enough people haven't heard my Hockey-centric pack I wrote for Paul's Basement ICT mirror this past summer I'd love to read it for this.

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We are pleased to announce, as in true Canadian fashion, this year’s Hybrid tournament. This tournament will be written by Aayush Rajasekaran, Jack van Nostrand, Joe Su, with contributions from Faith Barrett. We will be writing most of the questions, but to not break from tradition, we will be accep...

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Joe Su joesu235@gmail.com - I like board games, but know that I got Set, Love Letter, and Coup as various Secret Santa gifts over the last several years. I'm bad at lying games. - I play Magic: the Gathering, but for the purposes of this I don't want any cards or anything digital. - Sciency apparel/...

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8. One technique in the nonlinear branch of this field uses a so-called sliding-mode. Solving the algebraic Riccati equation is tantamount to solving the infinite horizon LQR problem in this field. That solution arises from solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with linear dynamics, and aris...

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As far as I know, there are two house teams and two U of T teams. The editors have allowed the addition of scab teams at a TBD extra cost to bring the field size to a good even number and make everyone's schedule a bit nicer.

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I think I'm gonna finish my Viennese Classical pack for this.

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Thanks for the feedback, Adam and Billy 1) The RNA question, which had a clue about the TPP riboswitch that was basically unparseable as a sentence and only buzzable if you just ignore the grammar and use a binary association of TPP -> riboswitch -> RNA This wasn't an issue when I read the question ...

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Thanks for your feedback, Noah The mitochondria tossup was bad and I realize how I needed to be more specific. The yeast tossup mentions "technique first applied in this organism". Both player buzzed in on the "2" music theory tossup trying to identify the amount of semitones in ...

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Thanks for your feedback. I admit mitochondrion transport was a stretch, which I sort of wrote panic mode after realizing the submission on just the mitochondrion I thought was fine was actually really transparent when I read it to Akhil. Your John Rutter comment is noted. I thought he was fairly we...

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Please, if you get a chance, join the private discussion forum for this set. The history, literature, fine arts, and biological sciences were finished weeks ago and edited to the best of our ability with multiple rounds of feedback with Jonathan Magin halfway through the week after he was finished ...

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Please, if you get a chance, join the private discussion forum for this set. The history, literature, fine arts, and biological sciences were finished weeks ago and edited to the best of our ability with multiple rounds of feedback with Jonathan Magin halfway through the week after he was finished w...

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I think the majority of the problems from this tournament come from the fact that there was no designated "head editor" to get everyone's stuff together and have a broad sense of exactly what still needed to be done with the tournament. The tournament post mentioned that non-listed categor...

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Science is still 1/1 each of bio, chem, phys, other. Other's distro will be largely submission driven.

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Does this mean that the tournament will finish sufficiently late on Sunday that attendees should plan to travel Monday morning? If so, this is a welcome change for staffers. Thanks! Hopefully staffers with work on Monday would be able to trickle out as they see fit late Sunday afternoon. Interested...

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The first clue to the tossup on artifical islands is neither artifical nor an island. Only game changing protest to an otherwise fine mirror we had up north. I would have preferred pdf packets and a few more pronounciation guides. Content was generally much better than last year.

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Final corrected stats won't be up until I find/buy a new laptop charger.

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Reminder the clocks turn back so don't show up to Sunday's side events an hour early

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Set was very good. I enjoyed lots. Yup, but felt harder than 'regular difficulty' compared to lets say the last two regionals. Bio was hard. Maybe Rein should git gud. But more generally it seemed like there were quite a few randomly hard science answerlines, e.g. Hamilton or cryo EM, but it wasn't...

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The tossup on "festivals" was a great idea but didn't mention either Academic Festival Overture or the arguably most well known festival, Bayreuth. Giveaway didn't even namedrop "Roman Festivals", pre-giveaway was a score clue of Gymnopedies and then you have to connect that to i...

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After a 11 round round robin, Toronto B was 9-1 and McGill A&B and Carleton were all 8-2. Due to the interest of time, we didn't break the 3 way tie for 2nd with packets and so McGill A, who had the highest PPG of the three, faced off against Toronto B in a two game final. Toronto B won the firs...

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I felt the system was easy to learn and use at CO art and I think this a great system to use moving forward. Advanced notice would have been nice for this even if it was using the spreadsheets and questions from a previous tournament just to get a hang of what's going on - especially if a site usual...

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This was a decent but not perfect set.

Is there a medium here for discussing the set or should we send all concerns through to NAQT by email?

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Stats!

Because of a certain recent announcement we're doing untimed 22/22.

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Oh I'm so sorry I didn't type the right thing - the team would lose eligibility if they went, but if they didn't they would keep the eligibility despite having been invited.

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Hi Jeff, Last year about two weeks before ICT, you emailed my team asking if our D2 team could attend ICT. Due to the short notice, we declined the invitation, and also due to the short notice, we were informed that the players on the D2 SCT team would not have their D2 eligibility revoked unless we...

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Is the completion date still ACF Fall weekend?

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I was planning to do a writeup of Top 25 teams, as has been done in past years... I can't speak for anyone else, but I would find this really enjoyable to read and share with my teammates. We have a lot of new players who are very excited about quiz bowl this year, and I think this sort of thing wo...

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I'm surprised that Stanford and Northwestern both were left out on one ballot; upthread Will Alston posted the team changes so they couldn't even make a mistake like with Toronto, who by the way, is losing Jay for ACF events but will still be able to play NAQT.

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I would prefer to play the bonuses, for several reasons I don't wanna list out.

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I thought PADAWAN was a great idea and shouldn't be permanently discontinued because of a few flakes. It seems like if the training is done early enough the flakes can be accounted for. Looking at the names from the discussion post it seems like a lot of those people have gone on to write great thin...

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I am working on Arthur tossups as I watch episodes here and there (err... way too often, probably). I will announce when a well balanced set comes out of it. Collabs welcome.

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I don't remember expressing interest to help out on the next landscapes but I'd be down especially since I should be done the IHO audio arts by 2018. I prefer Tariq to be on a different year than the next landscapes as to not have both 1 year and no music event the following year. I have no preferen...

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McGill stays the same

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aseem.keyal wrote:As someone who doesn't have much interest in geography and played this set on a whim, this set was a blast! Tons of fun and fresh tossups in each packet, I'd highly recommend anyone who's even slightly interested in geography (or not) to play this.

This is a Very True Statement.

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Thanks for coming everyone! Stats Carleton's A team for next year beat Aayush, Jay, Shelby, and Adam while winning both games of a disadvantaged final to take the NASAT title. Adam/Christine were tied with Aayush/Erik after the Celebs double round robin but defeated them in the tiebreaker round 40-3...

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What's the ruling on stuff that's not technically in Toronto? Can I tossup up, let's say, my favourite store in PMall?

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Here are the stats

It's always a pleasure to come down to Toronto for a tournament weekend. Thanks to Meghan and Aaron for another great time.

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Hey due to recent circumstances, some stuff has changed: - NASAT has been increased to $25/person. Andrej will be taking your Saturday fees as he plays everyone. Ted or Cameron will be taking your Sunday fees. - The control room is Paterson 112 - If you don't pay Andrej. Ted, or Cameron your fees by...

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This tournament will be held on the weekend of August 19th+20th. Both days will begin at 9 AM, with the control room of Paterson 112.

The schedule of events will be:
Saturday - NASAT - $25/person
Saturday night - The Celebs - $10/person
Sunday morning - GEODUCK - $10/person
Sign up here

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Write more meta, my dude.

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I will read Kate's side event.

Ian's et al. are unable to come with him, so the team is going to be Jay, Ian, Peter, and myself.

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I'll have Lit and Bork stats up tomorrow or the day after.

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