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This tool was very helpful for ACF Fall! Thank you for creating it.

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Thank you to everyone who came out to ACF Fall! An additional thanks to our staffers who ensured everything ran smoothly: Alex Shaw, Tracy Mirkin, Cody Johansen, Peter Torres, and Taylor Harvey. Florida A cleared the field to win the Overall and Undergraduate titles, with UCF B coming in second for ...

settlej · Re: 2019 ACF Fall at Florida (11/02/2019) Stats will be updated here

Stats will be updated here

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A variant of this has gone out to all teams, but posting here for reference. Please note the location is not Matherly or Little like normal. LOCATION: We will host the tournament in the Classroom Building 105, located at 105 NW 16th St, Gainesville, FL 32603. I have attached an image of a parking lo...

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I finally got around to looking through the CO packet and putting together my team's rejects. I'll read them tomorrow night at 10PM EDT on Discord.

Edit: packet

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Thanks for hosting this! As always, it was a great start to the quizbowl year in Florida.

However, I'm mostly posting to let you know that the stats link on the db is messed up.

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This is a great guide. Having recently been a mod for the FST Discord mirror (that Mike played) there are definitely things in this post we should have done to improve the player experience. Everyone who hosts an online tournament should re-read this a week or two before the mirror date. During the ...

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One more thing - given the planned festivities for the night after CO, I've been thinking of starting this event later than normal CO Sunday fare. Would people be amenable to starting at 10 AM sharp? I don't expect it to last more than 3 hours, since there are reasonable length caps and no bonuses....

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Could you post the packet please?

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nycaqb1999 wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 19, 2019 2:30 pm
I think Victor was waiting for FST to become clear, and seeing as how the last mirror happened this weekend, it should be soon

Idk if he wants to keep waiting, but there is technically one more mirror

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Hi everyone! Thanks again for tuning into the Discord mirror of FST.

If you wanna give some feedback, you can request access to our private discussion forum by clicking User Control Panel (under your username in the top right corner) => Usergroups => 2019 Florida Spring discussion.

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Legendre polynomials have this property since the inner product of two of them is proportional to a Kronecker delta function. Vectors must be linearly independent if they mutually have this property. The Gram-Schmidt process finds vectors that have this property, possibly (*) normalized. Two vector...

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What is the distribution for the set?

Also, can you make a Google sheet for free agents? I'd like to play this, but I don't really know who is coming. I don't mind playing solo if I have to, but I'd like to find someone to team up with.

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This set had some of the most delightful science questions in recent memory. It has some issues, but it's a good set and I'd strongly recommend playing other mirrors.
Special thank you to the readers who stayed up late reading for us!

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I'm interested as well as my Florida Friendos, Taylor Harvey and Jacob Murphy

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Will this set be available this summer by chance?

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This happened. Here's the packet if anyone wants to study from rejected Nats questions.

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His PIANO stats indicate he still has some work to do at the higher difficulties, but Jesse is a solid generalist This is fair, but keep in mind that at PIANO Jesse was on a team with me and Sean Platzer (history/classics) and Ian Mackenzie (art/art history), so the shadow was strongly in effect fo...

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Sorry for the delay, the end of the semester hit and my life has kinda sucked. However, I'm gonna finally read Florida A's rejected Nats questions in the Quizbowl Discord on Friday night (5/3) around 10PM EST. Unless people have something better to do I guess, in which case I'm flexible.

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I will provide some commentary with my votes; apologies if the commentaries are longer on the UF people, but I see them like five times a week so I have more to blabber about. 1. Taylor Harvey You already heard what I had to say about Taylor. He's number one on this poll. 2. Tracy Mirkin Tracy's def...

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Just wanted to clarify-most of the Auburn players are eligible, while the Georgia people to my knowledge are not. I recognize that this distinction may be somewhat arbitrary. I used the Canadian eligibility criterion of playing two regular difficulty tournaments or harder that were attended by Flor...

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When are ballots due by?

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I think you're confusing head to head with playing off the tie. "Head to head" is simply just counting how the two teams played each other in their previous match up, so if Illinois finished 6-1 and Michigan State finished 6-1, then you would break the tie by who beat who. Playing off the tie has t...

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What is the rationale between not using head-to-head as a tiebreaker? Doing so double-counts the game in question. For a longer discussion, refer to this post . I'm confused about this then. The decision to not play off tiebreakers was based on time constraints, but those threads establish the idea...

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As one of the people who initially thought Rust wasn't worth asking about (I had only looked at it because I applied to Mozilla), I will say that I changed my mind. It has won stackoverflow's favorite language or something like 2 or 3 consecutive years in a row, so it seems like a question that is a...

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I know that Matt Weiner, among others, has in the past advocated breaking out Nats into "divisions." As a stopgap, would it be unreasonable to do that even without using two different question sets? (After all, the lowest-placing teams often come to test their mettle against the toughest questions....

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Could something be done to make editing submissions less taxing? For example, should citations be required so that fact checking is easier? Should teams receive more specific instructions for submission (I'm thinking of stuff like "submit 1/1 with 1 methodological-focused and 1 linguistics" instead...

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Also, I think rounds ended at around 8/8:30PM on Saturday, while the e-mailed schedule allocated time until 10PM for games. Ending early was nice, but this leads me to believe that there was time to play off tiebreakers. (Please correct me if I got any of the times wrong, as that would definitely c...

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[This thread has been split from the discussion on question content, which you can find here . -Mods] I very much enjoyed this set and its approach to the sciences. There was a good amount of creativity (electrides and atmospheric entry come to mind immediately, but there is other stuff I am forget...

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Looking for teammates for this, particularly if you know bio and (organic) chem. But if we overlap that's fine, I'm mainly looking to have a fun time!

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Mnemosyne wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 09, 2019 1:57 pm
What is the planned time for the lunch break? Last year I think "lunch" was at 2:30 or 3pm? If it will be at the same time, I think it should be announced so we can pack actual meals to eat between rounds instead of just snacks.

The e-mail has lunch from 1 to 2 PM

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A private forum has been created for FST, so please request access by clicking User Control Panel (under your username in the top right corner) => Usergroups => 2019 Florida Spring discussion. I hope you enjoyed the set! We would appreciate your feedback.

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Thanks to Georgia Tech for hosting this! It was run really well. We finished pretty quickly even though we were late (sorry about that, we got in later than expected the night before). Special thanks to the two readers who stayed late to read guerilla history!

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So when writing our packets are we free to incorporate things traditionally asked as myth in the literature distribution?

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A private forum has been created for FST, so please request access by clicking User Control Panel (under your username in the top right corner) => Usergroups => 2019 Florida Spring discussion. We would appreciate your feedback!

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A private forum has been created for FST, so please request access by clicking User Control Panel (under your username in the top right corner) => Usergroups => 2019 Florida Spring discussion. We would appreciate your feedback!

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A private forum has been created for FST, so please request access by clicking User Control Panel (under your username in the top right corner) => Usergroups => 2019 Florida Spring discussion. We would appreciate your feedback!

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We'll be playtesting physics this Friday (3/15) starting at 6pm EST if anyone who is not in the server would like to join.

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As the editing is being finished up for the set, we would love to playtest it on some of y'all! :party: If you would like to play some quiz and give helpful feedback to the editing crew, please DM me or one of the other editors on the forums and we will give you the invite link to the FST Playtestin...

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EDIT: Apparently, I'm wrong and grad students can be considered DII. I agree with this for NAQT, since NAQT only bases DII off of SCT/ICT performance. But looking at the ACF website, the rule is: For collegiate tournaments that recognize high-finishing teams and/or individuals of “Division II” stat...

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Aaron's Rod wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:10 pm
You can book by clicking here. Or, to make reservations over the phone, call 215-387-1400 and ask for the ACF Nationals Attendee Block.

The trailing slash in the url takes you to the general reservations page instead of the event-specific one. Here is the link without it.

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I've been wondering about writing questions that cross unrelated sciences. The idea being that a term is more obscure in one domain but more well known in others. Here are some sample questions to demonstrate what I mean: The intent of a design pattern named for one of these structures is to decoupl...

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I've been watching a lot of science youtube as well. Are there any channels you recommend? 3Blue1Brown is really great. The animations are nice visuals to help you cement knowledge and give you a intuitive understanding even if you don't wanna read a formal math book/Wikipedia page. minutephysics i...

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I'm currently looking for good science podcasts and was wondering if anyone else listened to educational podcasts. What podcasts do you find most useful and rewarding? The Nature podcast is the best science podcast I found. It is good for news and staying up to date with pop science stuff, but don'...

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Can we get a field update for this?

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I'll be staying at Florida and doing sciency things for a little while longer as I work towards a Master's in Computer Science.

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Right now, when teams shake hands at the end of quizbowl games, it is mostly a shitshow where people are throwing their hands into a massive disorganized pile-on of players. This reeks of quizbowl. It would be better if teams stayed in the order they were sitting, faced each other, stood in lines, ...

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The teams commented that there were a lot of repeats in answerlines. Lincoln, Mexico, Japan and China were some of the answers used a few times, and lobster seemed strangely popular (although I think that there was only one answerline with it, but it was in at least two questions as a clue). (I thi...

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A private discussion forum has been created for this set, called "2018 FST Discussion".

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Alex Shaw and I are excited to be playing this! We'll be writing a packet as well. Hopefully, we get a full packet done, but I promise at least a half packet.

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