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I'm very glad this discussion has started and generally agree with everything said by Tora, Jacob, and Marianna. A word about paper packets: if I recall correctly, the main reason national tournaments exclusively use paper is because of several (or perhaps many; I'm going off hazy memory here) incid...

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Also my apologies for the snippets of missing audio in the first hour, which occur at:

1:49 (first part of Jackie's introduction)
3:58 (Jackie's speech on volunteering gets cut off)
4:39 (missing a sentence or two from Ankit)

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PACE is now transcribing the audio and we will post the transcript soon. I would also like to point out some key resources referenced by our panelists: The misconduct reporting form Max Schindler's speech on studying at the 2015 edition of this conference Max's written guide to studying for quiz bow...

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Thank you again to our panel and everyone who attended! We hope to post the recording this week, with a transcript to follow shortly thereafter.

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To clarify: registration is not mandatory, it is merely to ensure we have enough seating and so we can notify attendees in the event of changes.

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As a preview, three topics we will cover are:

- Staffing, volunteering, and writing for the first time
- The impact of team rankings on the community
- Conduct and interactions between community members of different ages

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Our panelists are: Alex Damisch - ACF Treasurer and Misconduct Rep Matt Bollinger - University of Virginia Alumnus Ankit Aggarwal - PACE and NCQBA Jackie Wu - PACE Vice President of Outreach Olivia Lamberti - Adlai E. Stevenson High School Sohum Shenoy - Charter School of Wilmington Dennis Loo - IMS...

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is pleased to announce that the David Riley Coaches Conference will be held at this year's National Scholastic Championship on Friday night June 7th, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Reston, in the Lake Audubon Ballroom (this is not the s...

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Congratulations to Columbia on their win! I edited the physics for this set, which I hope players enjoyed. I extend my greatest thanks to Billy Busse, who offered excellent advice on all the questions and contributed some of his own when I needed help. Thanks also to Andrew Wang for writing 3 other ...

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First, thanks for your hard work on the physics in the set! I think it turned out quite well and touched on many important and interesting topics. I think your philosophy on "new" or "unusual" answer lines was probably for the best. While I agree with with your point about physics being highly inte...

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Yes, the Birkhoff's theorem clue was my bad and I'll add 'spherically symmetric' to that line. EDIT: Also, Dennis actually wrote that tossup on the "Core" for the math category. Perhaps it's closer to econ, but many math departments do offer courses on game theory so I thought it was fine where it s...

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Now that I can access the "color" question from Editors one, I can confirm my suspicion that the first two clues are nearly unbuzzable and if you do buzz on them you are either a) the Eric Weisstein's world of astronomy page that the clue was taken from or b) about to neg with "Infrared" because in...

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always always always err on the side of too much information, playtest when you're not sure, and listen to your playtesters. This. Better a buzzer race than an unhelpful clue. And if someone throws a fit because they've read book X or played piece Y a certain number of times or love thing Z so much...

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Congrats to Chicago on their win and thanks to all the teams who played! I edited the music, other auditory arts except jazz (which I outsourced to Dylan), physics, and other science except CS (also Dylan) and math (Dennis Loo). I can’t thank these two enough for the work they put in, which I think ...

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As an addendum to the above, I have a request for the science distribution: please remember to vary the types of answer line. In particular, please do not fill the 5 tossups with answer lines on individual scien tists . One per packet is fine (as is zero!), but often those questions are just elabora...

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I refuse to use Venmo. I personally don't trust Venmo, and I certainly didn't appreciate being asked to sign up for it the day of CO by participants who had not communicated their intention to pay that way beforehand. But, given the app's proliferation, it would behoove future TDs to make Venmo ava...

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The theoretical physics seemed very biased toward QM/QFT, with there being relatively little classical mechanics (I guess the action tossup probably had some of those clues, but that question was deeply flawed and was probably powered in every single room with a good science player), E&M, stat mech...

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Amizda Calyx wrote:Is there a reason our packet hasn't been posted :(
Also why is round 1 encrypted still.

My mistake, I'll fix that tonight.

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I think a lot of the difficulty of this tournament came from the science. My impression was that the "engineering slant" (I'm not saying that every question was written from that perspective! Just more than usual.) might have contributed to the difficulty of the science, given how few of the scienc...

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Also, if you're interested in editing CO 2017, now would be a good time to speak up (feel free to email me, John, and Matt, although none of us are going to veto it).

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First, some additional thanks are in order. Matt Jackson deserves every bit of praise above and more. His comments were helpful across all subjects. He also designed the schedule, with assistance from Jon Pinyan. I'd also like to thank Adam, Ewan, and Shan for their contributions to the physics and ...

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Also, please email me if you need an invoice for reimbursement.

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vinteuil wrote:Now the "individual detail" page has the same problem.

Try it now.

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Once the remaining packets have been read in the IRC or elsewhere.

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Yes, I heard. I'll fix that once I get home tonight.

EDIT: Found internet, should be fixed now.

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Looks like removing Dan from the SQBS file bumped all your stats down one row, Chinmay. I'll fix that. Anyone else with stats corrections can post here or email me.

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Combined stats are here but the scoresheet for the round 15 game between "Just what is it" and "Golgari Glenn Ross" is missing. Did anyone pick it up, or keep their own score during that game?

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Young Mukherstein won the tournament outright with a 14-0 record. Full stats to follow later this evening.

Thank you to all the staff for making this tournament happen.

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Live Stats

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Fine, you'll get your new name.

Dan Passner, Chinmay Kansara, and Charles Martin have kindly signed up as our 20th (saviors) team. They still have room for one more; email the tournament official address if interested.

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An update to let you know that all packets have been received, and we have finished aligning team names. I will email each team before the tournament with final registration fees.

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A reminder that the +$60 deadline is tonight. Teams who do not get their packets in risk being dropped from the tournament.

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A reminder that the +$25 penalty deadline is tonight.

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We now have sufficient staff to run the tournament (but more are welcome!). Anyway, as you can see, Team Oklahoma has dropped from the field, leaving us with 19. Needless to say, this is a bad number. A 19-team round robin on Saturday is completely off the table. Nor do we wish to run the tournament...

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Also, we still need at least two more staff - preferably experienced moderators. Please let me know if you're interested!

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Attention: Due to the NSC, the no-penalty deadline will be extended by 48 hours if your team has at least one person staffing the NSC. That means you have up to and including 11:59 PM Central on Tuesday.

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Effective today, we are expanding the field to 20 teams. But please, keep the good packets rolling!

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We're currently deciding whether or not to expand the field to 21 teams or keep it at 17. A big factor in making this decision either way is knowing if there's enough interest from teams and prospective staff to make this viable. If you're on the fence about attending and would go if space existed, ...

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Because more than 17 teams have expressed interest in playing CO, we'd like to do another poll. It is possible that U Chicago will grant us additional rooms and therefore let us expand the field. However, this will require us to abandon the full round robin and switch to a bracketed system. Matt Jac...

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In order to prevent the field from clogging up, we will not allow additional two- or three-person teams for the time being (the Borglum and Grant teams will be grandfathered in, but please try to fill up your teams as soon as possible - that's why we have this thread ). But what if a team with only...

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In order to prevent the field from clogging up, we will not allow additional two- or three-person teams for the time being (the Borglum and Grant teams will be grandfathered in, but please try to fill up your teams as soon as possible - that's why we have this thread ). But what if a team with only...

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In order to prevent the field from clogging up, we will not allow additional two- or three-person teams for the time being (the Borglum and Grant teams will be grandfathered in, but please try to fill up your teams as soon as possible - that's why we have this thread).

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A friendly reminder that the first deadline is just under three weeks away. Please register if you have not done so already but have a complete team.

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What Mike said. As an example, last year we received one packet in which most of the tossups were 14 lines or longer, most of them on extremely hard topics. This is NOT the point of CO. We don't want to send packets back for rewrites if we can avoid it, but we will if necessary. EDIT: Also, there wi...

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This is the official announcement for Chicago Open, which will be held the weekend of July 23-24 at the University of Chicago. The main tournament will be held on Saturday, with Trash on Sunday. The tournament will be edited by a team comprised of John Lawrence, Matt Jackson, Mike Cheyne, Mike Bentl...

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If there are no further objections, we'll tentatively set Chicago Open for the 23rd (official announcement forthcoming).

EDIT: Announcement is up. Mods, you can close this thread.

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Greetings,

Now that the CO editing team is mostly formed, we would like to hear the audience's opinion on various dates. Please select which dates you will be able to attend (you may select up to all 3), and feel free to post here if you have any concerns or comments.

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I am also willing to co-edit physics and chip in questions elsewhere.

Lagotto Romagnolo · Re: VCU Open ‘15 @ VCU (8/8/15) I should be able to staff SHEIKH as well.

I should be able to staff SHEIKH as well.

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I wouldn't take it as far as Ike, but I think the idea of having 3-4 summer opens every year is a good solution to the current glut of tournaments at places like CO and VCUO. As nice as it would be to distribute the side events across the summer, let's remember that we have only a finite number of ...

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