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Thank you everybody for coming, and congratulations to Truman State (Fred Garvey, Donal Ryan) for clearing the field and winning this tournament! Further congratulations to our top individual scorers, Gabe Forrest (114.5 ppg), Fred Garvey (84.5 ppg), and Amith Punyala (54.5 ppg). Full stats can be f...

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The lead-in to the unit interval tossup is not unique to the unit interval; any closed interval can be the fiber of a compact Mobius strip over S-1. I think this clue came from the Wolfram page on fiber bundles, which is just giving an example fiber bundle construction of the Mobius strip (there are...

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Given that I've had requests for both Saturday and Sunday, I think I'll keep the time tomorrow but try to do a second reading on Sunday, if there's enough interest.

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I recently finished a packet on auditory FA of the 21st century. The questions are quite hard and intended to reward knowledge of music being commissioned and performed by ensembles today, though with plenty of clues based in the canon as well. I'd like to read the packet in the main discord this we...

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Thank you to everyone for playing today! Congratulations to Missouri A for clearing the field, going undefeated in a double round robin. Stats can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8 ... und_robin/

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Here's a field update for this tournament:

School (Teams/Buzzers/Staffers)

WUSTL 2/some/some
Missouri 2/1/1
SIUE 1/0/0
Squidward Community College 1/1/0

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I enjoyed this set! Though some people I've mentioned this to have disagreed, I thought it successfully brought down the difficulty of winter a little, while keeping plenty of "zest." Here are some assorted comments I had. With regards to For what its worth, the r tossup was social science...

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FJOIII wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 4:31 pm Please register as soon as possible, but try to register no later than April 20th, 2023 at 5:00 PM PST.

Seems like a rather stringent registration deadline

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I think most everyone is in agreement that the ideal packet archive would have some distinction between widely played, well-regarded sets and more niche or personal projects. Indeed, as Matt said, the archive overhaul will presumably have such structure, either explicitly, or implicitly through diff...

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To add another example of the "solve something" part, the bonus which essentially asked for the lowest non-prime power other than 1 and 6 felt really hard to come up with on the spot. Between the time it took to process that's what it wanted, and to search through the first 10 numbers and ...

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I will stick to providing overly specific feedback on the 0.5/0.5 I'm confident in and say that I thought this set had some of the best math content of any set I’ve ever played (aside perhaps from Illinois Open). My only general criticism is about the distribution: the math had so much analysis and ...

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I have 20 tossups on "Recent(ish) Musicals" originally intended for Festivus this year but finished rather early, so I plan to read them tonight (5/8) at 8pm ET. "Recent" is defined roughly as the last 15 years; the packet is about 75% musicals of the 2010s and 25% the 2020s. It'...

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To elaborate on the ideals bonus part, there are two points that are slightly off: first, it should say that ideals are closed under multiplication by elements of the ring (all subrings are closed under multiplication). Second, whether ideals are subrings depends on whether you require rings to have...

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This composer wrote an E-flat minor piano sonata whose movements "Foreboding" and "Death" were inspired by the bayoneting of a young worker. This composer of 1. X. 1905 used a viola to portray a much-younger married woman named Kamila in his string quartet "Intimate Letters...

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The conformal tossup (good idea btw) should probably accept biholomorphicity before mentioned

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I guess I’ll weigh in on the pro-note spelling side. I don’t really have a cohesive argument, but here is a loose assemblage of rambling thoughts. I don’t quite buy the argument that score clues are comparable to computation clues. The latter are bad because they require doing nontrivial mental work...

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I enjoyed this set a lot. I'm not one for extensive feedback so I'll just give my impression on the music, which is that the score clues seemed rather difficult. I generally think this is a good thing, as recognizable but not "famous" score clues should be more normalized at lower difficul...

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After a longer-than-expected night (or morning, for some), this tournament finished with Tossupsdag på Troldhaugen (Miriam Nussbaum & Sameer Apte) defeating Ben & Jerry Junkin's (Karan Gurazada & William Golden) on the very last tossup of the set. Thank you to everyone who played and sta...

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There is no dedicated space for what quizbowl would consider OFA, though these things may come up occasionally.

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Though we are still sitting at 15 teams, I have decided to expand the field to bring in those on the waitlist. To accommodate this, I have correspondingly expanded the set to 9 packets, which will allow for a 15-team tournament format that guarantees all teams 8 games as originally suggested. I know...

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Since there are a few teams more than the current field cap (including one who have been on the free agents list for a while), I'd like to be able to expand to 16 teams. This would need one to three more players (or an already registered team splitting into two), so I'm going to push the registratio...

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After acquiring a couple more staff, I've raised the field cap to 12. Currently we have 21 players, so a few more would help round out the field - if anyone else is interested in playing or staffing (we need at least one more), please do so!

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I would like to have a couple more staffers secured before expanding, so I'll try to solicit some more this week (to anyone interested in staffing, I encourage you to sign up!). The set has 8 packets, and I was hoping to read as many as possible, so I was considering these formats: 8 teams: round ro...

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As it stands, the original time (5pm on Saturday) is tied for the lead in the poll (along with the same time Sunday) so I will finalize that time.

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Since I've had a few requests regarding scheduling, I've made a quick poll to determine whether there's a better time for everyone. If you're interested in playing this weekend go ahead and fill it out. If there's not a strong alternative I'll leave it at the original time. Poll: https://forms.gle/3...

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This is an announcement for DECAF, a tossups-only classical music set to be played over Discord on Saturday, May 14 (not Sunday as I previously said). More information about the set can be found at the discussion post here . I will set the starting time at 5pm EDT , but this can change by general ag...

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A quick update on what I’m planning for this set. The set is currently upwards of 90% complete. To ensure I’m not rushing the last bits of writing and polishing, I’m tentatively going to schedule a reading for May 14, Monteverdi’s birthday(ish). If interest for this date is low or there is a major q...

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It's tossups only, but if it doesn't fit I have no problem holding the reading online.

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This is a regular text-based set, just taken from the auditory fine arts part of the distro.

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For some time, I have been in the process of writing a Diligent Exploration of the Classical Auditory Fine-arts (DECAF), a tossups-only AFA set that, at current rate, ought to be finished by this summer. The set, which is sitting at a bit past two-thirds of the way done, will consist of 8 packets of...

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I generally thought the score clues in this set were really memorable and unique, but there were a few mistakes: the La Campanella tossup says D-flat instead of D-sharp, and Ophir pointed out to me that the Mendelssohn tossup has an F instead of F-sharp in the melody from the Reformation symphony. T...

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Regarding the continuous tossup (Editors 4), I really like questions with this theme, but I have a few nitpicks. The clue on Urysohn's Lemma says that "a space is considered normal iff for every pair of disjoint sets, there exists a function that separates disjoint subsets that have this proper...

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It looks like we have enough thumbs up to go with 6 ET on 4/5, in the #packet channel on the quizbowl discord.

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I have written 20 academic music tossups of varying difficulty and quality, in which every answerline is a major or minor key. I intend to read this packet in the main discord, tentatively at 6 ET on Monday, 4/5. If this is something that you'd be interested in playing, let me know with the poll if ...

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A couple of thoughts on fixes: "Another partial converse to Lagrange's theorem is Cauchy's theorem, which exerts the existence of a subgroup whose order divides the size of the G and has this property." Alternatively you could throw away the mention of Cauchy's theorem and instead mention...

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Can I see the Lagrange's Thm / Primes / OST bonus? I might have misheard the Cauchy's theorem clue (not that it matters much given the Euclid clue right after it) but I thought it was stated oddly.

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In Packet J, bonus 17, the third part asks for "this 1632 book," referring to the First Folio. I believe the Second Folio was published in 1632, the first was 1623?

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tossup on "three" in math: the object clued in the Hopf fibration and Poincare conjecture clues is a 3-sphere topologically, but it's considered a 4-sphere geometrically (as it is a hypersphere embedded in 4D euclidean space). Although Hopf and Poincare are topological concepts and both u...

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We still have plenty of open spots for this tournament! If you are at all interested in fielding a team, let me know at [email protected].

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WRK is being held this Saturday! We still have many open spots left, so if you would like to come and still haven't registered, please let me know ASAP!

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WRK will be held on October 12. Announcement: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23186

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I'm excited to announce that the Alabama Academic Quizbowl Team (AAQT) will be hosting its annual fall tournament, WRK, on October 12, 2019. This tournament will be played on NAQT's IS-185A set. Registration is at https://www.naqt.com/go/register/10878 . LOGISTICS: The tournament will begin around 8...

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