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Thanks for posting the question, Hasna; as I suspected, the tossup was much more carefully constructed than I remembered. I understand that it's difficult to fully capture these kind of nuances in a 150 word TU, and again I fully applaud you writing creative questions to ask about important and unde...

I was extremely pleased to see that there were 2 (!) human/quantitative genetics content TUs in this set, and I want to thank the writers/editors on writing questions on what I think is a sadly under-asked topic in QB. In particular, the TU on "heritability" was one of my favorite tossups ...

I had a great time playing this set; thank you to the writers and editors for their hard work. For bio, I really enjoyed the TU on allele frequency and heart failure, two topics very close to my heart that seems underasked at this difficulty. In no particular order, I also enjoyed the TUs on lights ...

thanks @michael! i and other science people at my site felt that affinity chromatography was a hard answerline for this difficulty, and dropping "eluent" in power seems like it could lead to some frauding. I think that's a fair assessment, and the stats do indicate that this was indeed th...

I am nearly certain to be going to WUSTL next year for law school. I'll probably be a bit less active (not that I was particularly active this year) but I'll continue to play and staff things when I have time! I’ll be starting med school at WUSTL and plan to play as my schedule allows. I will also ...

I just wanted to drop by and mention that the bonus on soloists who performed with Bernstein was my favorite bonus of the year; thank you for making my day. Really can't get any better than having my favorite symphony orchestra + two of my favorite pianists show up as the three answerlines.

The science in this set was fun; a huge thank you to the editors for their hard work. Off the top of my head, the TUs on hematopoesis, HeLa cells, and Zero Friction all seemed like interesting tossups on fresh answerlines. I particularly appreciated what seemed like a noticeable increase in bonuses ...

I am not good enough to comment on the set as a whole, but I will say that I was overall a big fan of how the increased Math/CS/Applied Science/Data Science distro was handled. The TUs on Webscraping and Solving Differential Equations as well as the bonuses on supervised ML methods and the Pandas li...

Can I see the tossup on proteases? I answered "Trypsin" early and was surprised to not get prompted.

Similarly, if "echocardiogram" is acceptable for ultrasound, "echo" should also be prompted or outright accepted.

A bit late to this, but I just wanted to thank Ryan and other staffers at this tournament for an extremely well-run online tournament that ended at 5:30PM (!). The typical issues that I've seen in previous online tournaments (delays in playoff seeding, role assignment, etc.) were practically non-exi...

Can I see the bonus on adherens junctions? I believe there was a specific instruction not to prompt on desmosomes, so I wanted to see why this was.

Annabelle, I don't think Duke acted malevolently, but I do think that you did act negligently. I feel like you and Duke *do* have an overt bias in this situation, and that it's very clear cut to any outsider looking in. On the whole, this tournament was a very frustrating experience, not only becau...

I'm excited to announce that I'll be starting my MD/PhD at WUSTL! I'll definitely play and staff in some capacity.

Should high schoolers expect "having good knowledge of a subject for a high schooler" to immediately translate into "having good knowledge of a subject for a college student"? (That seems like, among other things, a very low opinion of how much people learn in four years of coll...