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This is a very early preliminary announcement for a mirror of the JRPG tournament CULEX that will hopefully take place at HSNCT 2022. Ideally, I would like to run the event on Saturday night as it is a 10-round event with an audio seeding packet tacked on. For more information regarding the set, ple...

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Have you figured out a date and time yet?

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Outside of checking to make sure that all of the tossups are in the right place, Rhythm Heaven has been completed.

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This is the announcement for Rhythm Heaven , a video game based audio tournament to be held somewhere sometime during Spring 2022 (or even Summer 2022). This tournament is a collaboration between myself and Charles "Stompy" H., a fellow video game enthusiast. Format : Most if not all quest...

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Ehtna wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:27 am There will be no clues or questions pulling from the CDI games.

well now i have no reason to spend $300 on that complete copy of link the faces of evil that stares me in the face at the local retro game store almost every day. my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

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*post reserved for field update

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It appears that you have been tapped as having the potential to be the world's strongest answerers of Japanese RPG tossups. En garde! It is with utmost pleasure that I announce that CULEX , my fabled JRPG tournament that many figured would never be written, has been completed! Content is written by ...

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Thanks for holding the tournament! Great use of the technology. Thanks to everyone who staffed! Also, thanks to Drew and the team for reaching out to me (because, like, I'm almost never on the forums these days). Awesome competition. Additionally, I'm happy to have attended a Zoom meeting where I wa...

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ESA A (8-0) went undefeated to win the Matthew Hayes Invitational! Dutchtown A (8-1) came in second, Berchmans (6-3) came in third, and Notre Dame A (5-3) rounded out the top pool. More can be found here: Prelims: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6160/stats/prelims/ Complete: https://hsquizbowl...

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Field (15): (teams/buzzers/staffers)

Loreauville [1/1/0]
ESA [3/1/0]
Anacoco [2/1/0]
Vermilion Catholic [1/1/0]
Dutchtown [2/2/2]
Eunice [2/1/1]
Notre Dame [2/0/0]
Southside [1/0/0]
Berchmans [1/1/0]

expressed interest:

Lafayette

Note: The field has been capped at 16 teams.

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Greetings! The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Club for Academic Competition will be hosting the Matthew Hayes Invitational on Saturday, November 16, 2019 . The tournament will take place in HL Griffin Hall. (updated 9/16) Question set: We will be using NAQT Invitational Series 189A for this ev...

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Congratulations to Andy Huff, John Luke Broussard, Robert Condron, and Sean Doyle for winning Louisiana Open IV with an 8-1 record. Seth Kendall led the tournament in scoring. Stats are available at the address below. Thanks to everyone for coming out! https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5855/stat...

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Field: [teams/buzzers/staffers]

Kevin Marshall [1/1/0]
Sean Doyle, Robert Condron, John Luke Broussard [1/?/?]
Thomas Credeur, Dominic Lloyd, Nick Rosato II [possibly]
Jake Sundberg [1/-/-]
Seth Kendall [1/0/0]

currently interested players:

Andy Huff (possible), Mason Guillot

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Greetings! Louisiana Open IV will take place on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on Saturday, August 3, 2019 , starting at around 9am. We will be using this year's Florida Spring Tournament (FST) set. More information about this set is available here: [http://hsquizbowl.org/for...

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I often take a power nap during lunch. A nap combined with a Dr Pepper and/or some Skittles works wonders. Players often think of the lunch break as a time to eat and chat, but if you think you'll be playing past, say, 6PM, you may be better off taking a nap and snacking at lunch.

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This set was incredible the first time!

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If we want to play Sam's packet, we should probably figure something out soon.

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I’d written most of a packet for this. Since I think the questions are well above the intended difficulty of the tournament anyway, I will probably finish it and read it on the discord in the near future. The distribution of the packet will differ slightly from the posted distribution. Could we per...

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Thanks a bunch for hosting! It was nice to see everyone again.

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The longer Matt Bruce remains a member of NAQT, the longer this thread will get. More people will see it. More people will post in it. More people will begin to lose their trust in NAQT. I am not alone in saying that I love promoting NAQT's content and staffing their national tournaments. At this mo...

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Jonathan Thompson and I are currently looking for a couple of teammates. PM if interested.

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A Very Long Math Tossup wrote:OK, let's get this over with: does anyone have any thoughts on gender and/or sucrose?

as a male who woke up with nappy hair and also had a dr pepper, pibb xtra, and a vanilla coke today, it is difficult for me to concur with the opinions of the OP

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Valefor wrote:
Valefor wrote:Assuming I remember to put it in my backpack before I leave for the airport Friday,
The prize is, in fact, in my backpack.

but which video game shirt are you wearing to the competition?

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I think that every moderator should always know how he or she is doing on time with respect to the rest of the tournament. If you walk into a control room and there are few to no packets left to be handed out, just let the teams know before the round starts that the room is running a little behind a...

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it has been scientifically proven that taking a shower before a tournament will increase your power numbers, so do it

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Chris Borglum and Matt Hayes should be commended for their fedora mastery.

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I see Neelav's already edited the announcement, but I'd like to say I'm excited to be joining the editing team for this tournament. I had a ton of fun playing the predecessor event and hope that we can provide an equally fun experience while learning from some of the mistakes and smoothing over the...

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Can we just agree to split the third topology question amongst algebra and topology? I mean just have 1 braid theory per packet and this will be guaranteed to be the best side event ever.

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There was quite a bit of name dropping, but I didn't mention that in my critique because attempting to change all of those things would have amounted to Conor having to rewrite quite a bit of the set. Yes, it does feel a bit better to buzz on descriptions of things you learned in class as opposed to...

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math player poll: 1. Harrison Brown math team poll: 1. Alabama 2012-13 I'd also like to point to Sam Braunfeld and Samir Khan as great math players, as they scored 48 and 46 powers respectively at Math Monstrosity while playing on the same team . Yeah, this was really impressive, particularly them ...

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dhumphreys17 wrote: Stephen (Why are we here; five rounds) - 19/19/4 (455 points!!; 91 PPG)

Not bad for a physicist! No really, great job. Go math mafia go!

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The Ununtiable Twine wrote:How did this go?

...as in who won the tournament etc etc

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It goes without saying that we have to give a shout out to high school freshman (and one of my former TQBA campers) Eshaan Vakil of Clark HS for defeating two-time defending HSNCT champion Hunter at NSC this weekend. Judging by the morning stats, Hunter put up outstanding numbers in the prelims, as ...

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How did this go?

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jonah wrote:
Fond du lac operon wrote:Packet 6

1. I mean, I'm not sure about tossing up both the surreals and the hyperreals in the same set, but if you must do so, don't have a clue in one .
This would make it worse.

I don't think anyone has ever (intentionally) attempted the empty tossup, although I may be mistaken.

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Packet 11 : 1. Gimbal lock is a very common buzzword for quaternions. 2. Mascheroni is an Italian mathematician. Mascherano is a notable Argentinian soccer player beloved by Diego Armando Maradona. 3. Leaving two of the three statements of the Sylow theorems inside of power is probably not a good t...

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Packet 7 : 1. The Faa di Bruno clue comes up as a repeat later in the packet. You could have probably rewritten that clue as "The nth derivative of an expression defined by this operation can be calculated using Faa di Bruno's formula" for a bit more clarity. I negged this with differenti...

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Packet 3 : 1. In addition to the previously discussed "Argand" clue, namedropping holomorphism inside of power is probably also a bit generous at this level. 2. the idempotence tossup was a hard-ass tossup. 3. Namedropping a play from ancient Greece probably narrows the answerline pool do...

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Now that I've had a chance to skim the packets, I'll comment a bit on the question content. The criticism will be a bit lengthy so it'll probably be divided into several posts. Packet 1 : 1. Brouwer fixed point theorem probably had a bit of an easy power. I would have probably put the Sperner's lemm...

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My general impression of the set is as follows: Problems: 1. LaTeX for the set? I mean it looks nice but isn't really necessary. 2. Equations in the questions? Almost certainly not a good idea, especially that Ramanujan one! Write out the stuff you want people to read in English (we all know that la...

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To be fair, Cody, I hadn't heard the term "Argand diagram" before this weekend either (or at the very least heard that term in a very long time)! I suppose that's because most mathematicians just refer to the complex plane as either the complex plane or C. Naturally, having read MSNCT, I e...

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Admins, can you make a private discussion forum for this set? Thanks a bunch.

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A truly enjoyable experience! Thanks to Conor and to everyone who read for allowing us to play this incredibly fun set. This baby will be quite the permanent jewel for my quadruple crown.

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The date of this event has been updated in the first post of this thread. More information to come.

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math player poll:

1. Harrison Brown

math team poll:

1. Alabama 2012-13

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now i know what it is like to be kevin durant

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Is it really necessary to write a hard couple of packets to help distinguish the best team from the second best team? Why do some people think these teams are incapable of distinguishing between themselves? Does the NBA arbitrarily raise the rim to eleven feet for the Finals? Does a grand slam tenni...

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ACF Nationals seems to have had fewer rounds this year than in the previous umpteen years as well. Each team got approximately 15 matches this year (over two days) as opposed to the usual demanding 18 or 19 round schedule (at least for the top teams). Certainly you can handle 16 rounds over the cour...

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I'm not sure anyone is upset about more quizbowl. We didn't have to break these ties, but since we already had ties we did have to break, there was no additional time needed to run these games. Quiz bowl is always better than the lack thereof. What has gotten into your head, Mr. Reed? Have you ever...

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