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DavidB256

The first three years that I did quizbowl, I only played VHSL tournament, none of which (with the exception of the state championship) kept stats beyond record. These tournaments were staffed entirely by teachers who were donating their evenings and Saturdays to run tournaments that would get throug...

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I'll probably post more comprehensively in the moderate future, but for now I just want to say that playing this set was a pleasure. The math, stats, and stats-spilled-over-into-other-categories (difference-in-differences, kriging, survival, and Bayes) seems to be top-tier. The physics was rad. The ...

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https://www.youtube.com/@smarthistoryvideos

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Their methodologies are clearly displayed on the respective records pages, e.g. These are the all-time best individual performances in single games, subject to the above criteria. Players must have heard at least 10 tossups to be eligible and must not have played under an alias. Only tournaments on ...

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"... mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."

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Check out this quizbowler-curated list of survey-level texts . I especially recommend Rabbi Joseph Telushkin's Jewish Literacy and Rupert Gethin's The Foundations of Buddhism for those respective religions. Seconding Ganon's comments about Avery and paid materials in general; your local/school libra...

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It was an enormous honor to be entrusted with editing 8.75% (9/9 biology, 8/8 math, 15/14 physics, not including tiebreakers) of quizbowl’s hardest set, even if I did obtain the position through a single procrastinatory forums post. I am moderately proud of my work, and definitely learned a lot from...

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Due to a lack of interest from potential editors, I will be giving up on this effort for now. I will probably pick it back up in a few months to attempt to secure a team and calendar slot for 2025 WORKSHOP. I already received messages of interest from three potential writers, so I am confident that ...

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In previous years, sets like PADAWAN and WORKSHOP have served as opportunities for new collegiate writers to get their toes wet while working under the close guidance of experienced editors. There was no such set in the 2022-2023 season, and there are currently no plans to produce such a set in the ...

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My work on the 2023 NSC is my proudest quizbowl-related achievement. Huge thanks for Ganon and other folks at PACE for giving me the opportunity to edit physics and other science. Additional thanks to Ganon for his kind words in the previous post. In April, I tried to quit working on this set after ...

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naan/steak-holding toll wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 1:26 am Beterword-style formats excessively reward conservative play, since you get at least 10 for waiting until the end

Would be interesting to see a Beterword-style format that omits giveaways or has a wider range of point values than 10-20 in order to change this, and maybe reward specialists more.

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I was asked to post about Itamar Naveh-Benjamin . Itamar is the best myth player I have ever seen, especially Norse and Greek myth. He's the best VFA player I have ever seen. He first-lined both Cambyses II and Belvedere Torso at ICT off of painting knowledge. He's possibly the best player in the co...

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Joseph Chambers is the most robust individual to ever quiz.

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We have only received one application thus far. If you know any talented Virginia high school quizbowlers, please encourage them to apply!

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I found the tossup on time series to be extremely confusing. I am currently taking a graduate-level class titled "Applied Time Series," but failed to connect my knowledge of the Durbin–Watson statistic and ARMA models to the indicator "these things," which I suspected was asking ...

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Loved this set. It was my first time playing a set as hard as Nats, and I enjoyed more than I expected to do so. I felt consistently rewarded for knowledge acquired from my academic research. As a slightly below-median player on a slightly below-median team, the extreme variation in difficulty of bo...

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There's also "odd," "even," "inverse," "partial," "random," "cyclic" (not the same as a cycle), "circular" (different from cyclic and cycle), "sorted," "reverse," and others. But setting aside exactly how many...

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Can I see the tossup on alternating permutations? The indicator "these permutations" seems egregiously limited. The only potential answerlines that I can think of are "alternating permutations," "cycles," and "transpositions."

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Hello! The UVA Academic Competition Club is interested in helping to assemble Virginia's 2023 NASAT team. We do not plan to host try-outs, but will instead judge applicants based on their performances at past tournaments. To apply, please email me at djb3ve@virginia.edu with the following informatio...

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To quote the quote in last year's thread: It's that time of year again where people start to hear back from transfer applications, grad school apps, job offers, landlords, etc. and make plans to go places. Here is a thread in which current college players or members of the college quizbowl community...

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rank them below yourself in your top 100 player ranking

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If no one else wants it, I am interested in editing some (possibly improper) subset of osci (ideally just math/stats/CS), biology (ideally not anatomy/physiology), and physics. I expect to have plenty of free time this summer as I take a break before starting grad school in the fall.

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Grateful for the math. I loved the complex analysis tossup on the natural logarithm, the tossup on "tangent," the functional analysis bonus, and the part on queueing theory in the potty parity bonus. I am glad to see the delta method get clued—it was heavily emphasized in my second mathema...

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Seeing that ACF Fall is scheduled for October 15, we now plan to host Cavalier Classic on September 24. I have edited the original post to reflect this. We will have an independent thread for the tournament up soon.

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As mentioned in last year's thread, the University of Virginia is planning to host Cavalier Classic XXV with an NAQT IS set on September 24th, 2022.

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The University of Virginia is planning to host Cavalier Classic XXV with an NAQT IS set on October 15th, 2022. If there is significant conflict with Centennial's aforementioned tournament, then we will consider changing the date. However, October 15th is the only date in the upcoming semester that w...

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One day left to apply. We'd love to see more applications come in.

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Hello! The executive board of the UVA Academic Competition Club (Alana Dickey, Em Gunter, Charlotte Goeb, and myself) is interested in helping to assemble Virginia's 2022 NASAT team. We do not plan to host try-outs, but will instead judge applicants based on their performances at past tournaments. T...

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The math bonus on continuity/uniform continuity/Hölder continuity was, by far, my least favorite part of this set. Writing a bonus that has players list related concepts is bad form. Additionally, the clues for the latter two parts of the bonus are extremely difficult to parse verbally. Like lengthy...

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This tournament was run efficiently. Thanks to the organizers and staffers for making everything go smoothly.

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I'm going to make yet another post to talk about our excellent staffers. Maria and Ben were awesome first-time staffers, despite the facts that each of them has only ever played one quizbowl tournament before. Jeffrey crashed his bike while heading into Grounds in the morning and still stayed until ...

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A logistics email has been sent to all teams signed up for this tournament. Please contact me if no one on your team received an email from me one minute ago.

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I'd like to thank Vincent and the other organizers of this tournament for being super responsive and understanding as it was moved online last-minute due to inclement weather. As far as online quizbowl goes, this tournament was organized well.

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We have had our room request granted by UVA Event Planning, so this tournament will be happening in-person on floors 2 and 3 of New Cabell Hall, given that the weather permits travel. The attached map has available parking circled in red and an entrance to the building marked with a pink star. All r...

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We are currently expecting for this tournament to be in-person. UVA Event Planning has informally confirmed our request for rooms in New Cabell Hall and will formally grant us the reservation pending a response from another University office. In the extremely unlikely event that our reservation is n...

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I do not like the indicator "these artworks" for movie poster s. "These artworks" implies that the answerline is a collection of related works, and not an entire medium. I loved all three math tossups that I got to play: Taylor series , real numbers , and the Law of Large Numbers...

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Last minor quibble is that the inclusion of a clue about the Bonferroni correction in the tossup on null hypotheses seemed very insider baseball and odd I disagree with this statement. The Bonferroni correction and other methods derived from it are common in biostatistics, especially in the context...

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Could I see the bonus on markdown/documentation/Python? I thought it was very easy but would like to see it before I make any other critiques, since my team wasn't the one that received it. This language uses a triple backtick to create a code block. For 10 points each: [10h] Name this lightweight ...

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Who are the editors for this set?

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I thought that the tossup on "commutator" was a tad transparent. What made it transparent to you? I don't know enough quantum mechanics to give a good answer to your question, but I buzzed after thinking "ok it's a thing that acts on two quantum operators and has cool mathematical pr...

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I allocated 1/1 to probability and statistics: there was Ayush's tossup on probability density functions and my experimental design bonus. I remember there being one bonus on factorial experiments and another in the finals packet on some form of experimental design. Perhaps one of them was categori...

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Thank you to everyone who made this set happen! It was super fun.

Two minor complaints:
As far as I could tell, the only statistics content in this set was two bonuses on experimental design.
The biology seemed heavily skewed towards animal science.

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I thought that the tossup on "commutator" was a tad transparent. The tossup on "quantifiers" was probably the first time that I've ever enjoyed a logic question. Dropping "Penrose–Hawking theorems" in power in the tossup on "singularities" seemed far too early...

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Placing tossups on "random walks" and "probability density functions" in the same packet is bad feng shui. Maybe I'm just salty after negging it, but the tossup on "to do" should have said "It's not 'to make'" before dropping "facere," which can have...

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Edit: This post contained outdated logistics info. Refer to posts in this thread made by Mark.

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Thank you to all teams who attended this tournament; it was an absolute honor for Cav Classic to be my first time helping to direct an in-person tournament. I want to give enormous thanks to my co-organizers (Alana Dickey, Mark Bailey, and Em Gunter) and the 15 other staffers who made this tournamen...

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Grouped roughly by genre, then roughly by how much I like them. I'll regret my choices in the morning.

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Requiring chaperones for online quiz bowl is bad, primarily because it is severely inhibitive to most teams. I know for certain that my high school coaches would not have been willing to sit around on Discord for 8 hours for me to play a tournament. I co-directed UVA's two online high school tournam...

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This tournament happened! It went well, primarily due to our amazing staffers: Alana Dickey, Caleb Bales, Finn Arthur, Charlotte Goeb, Daniel Xue, Isabelle Maule, Nima Razavi, Lucia Mayor-Mora, and Yashu Tang. Huge thanks to all of them. Additional thanks to the creators of YellowFruit, Shawrisheets...

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