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I liked the set overall, but one thing my team noticed was that the literature bonuses were on the easy side, whereas history bonuses seemed quite difficult relatively. I'm not a lit player but I knew close to all the medium parts, but my team (anecdotally) did worse on history despite being more ...

A third installment of sorts will be happening tomorrow evening, Monday, May 13.

This character’s […] the only man to shoot an arrow through a golden fish’s eye. I think this is clue is confusing at game speed (I believe our opponents negged with Arjuna; perhaps they heard the version above). It would probably be good to insert the phrase “another character” somewhere, or just w ...

Nobody has brought this up yet but after thinking about it I believe I have a case to make. In my opinion the price index question should have had a prompt (or accept) on “inflation”. The identifier “statistic of this type” is quite vague, so someone could reasonably think that the answer is just “st ...

I enjoyed the tournament overall. Below are the tossups that I think need fixing or are otherwise problematic (some of them are typos so should be fixed before the next mirror). TU 1.5: I think you can Gettier this (before power!) using the fact that "The Origin of the Work of Art" and The Work of ...

I registered on QBlitz for the second mirror; how do I change my team name? Also am I actually in the second mirror?

Really enjoyed the math in this set. However there were a few errors that I will point out. Playoffs 1: the bonus part on ideals is wrong Playoffs 7: the third clue on “symplectic” has to say what the Lie derivative is with respect to (eg a Hamiltonian flow); it is not 0 for a general vector field. S ...

I will be starting a math PhD at Berkeley this fall and plan to continue playing.

We will be providing free lunch for all competitors (thanks to the MIT Undergraduate Association). More details will be sent out to registered teams soon.

MIT is hosting our Spring Academic Tournament on April 30th. See here for details: viewtopic.php?t=25873.

MIT will be hosting its Spring Academic Tournament in person on Saturday, April 30th, using Prison Bowl XIV. More details about the set are here: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25604. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45AM ET and gameplay will begin at 9AM ET. I (Swapnil Garg) will ...

Following up on my previous post; I would appreciate a response. Advanced stats were advertised for this tournament (in both the set announcement and Harvard site announcement) and it has been over four months since the set was clear (and seven months since the Harvard mirror).

When will advanced stats for this tournament be posted?

While I sympathize with the unfortunate circumstances of online quiz bowl, I take issue with the packet limitation reason. College quiz bowl sets generally have at least 13 packets, with many having 15. Granted, this is an online tournament, and there has been some discussion about reducing the ...

I heard that this tournament doesn't have an advantaged finals; could I ask for the reasoning behind this decision? I could be wrong, but to me it seems pretty standard in quiz bowl to have advantaged finals by default, foregone only with a good reason (like a large number of rounds or playing the ...

Congrats to Harvard for clearing the field 10-0! Stats are here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6 ... all_games/.

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Registration will close on Tuesday, January 5. No penalty drop deadline will be 3 pm eastern time on Friday, January 8.

Field (6):
Harvard (1)
Brown (1)
Yale (1)
Kevin Wang et al (1)
Michael Kearney et al (1)
Team Vincent (1)

MIT will be hosting a New England/Northeast mirror of FLopen on Saturday, January 9th, 2021. The tournament will be online. This is an open mirror, but the intended audience is New England college teams, so please keep that in mind. The registration fee for this tournament will be $90 per team. To ...

Are there plans to have some kind of advanced stats at this tournament? For example, TangStats (https://gemeln.github.io/) was used successfully at the BLAST online high school mirror in April (https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23908, https://grogerranks.com/2020/04/18/blast-online ...

It seems like the current plan is to play an 11-team round robin. Given that there are currently two house teams, would it be possible to do either a 12-team round robin (keeping the same number of rounds) or a 10-team round robin with rebracketing (like ACF regionals at Yale this year, and Penn ...