The Quizbowl Resource Center

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Time begins at recognition , not at the time of signaling. Yale has two players with the same first name. I have three questions about this circumstance, which also may apply to situations in which two players on different teams have identical or similar names. (1) Are moderators under instructions...

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While reading this tournament's results, I realized that I don't think the ACRONYM 13 set ever got posted. Did I miss it somewhere? If not, could it be posted publicly?

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Submissions that I especially loved included those on protein folding with DeepMind clues (TU, Brown A), the Hall–Héroult process (TU, Edinburgh A), ray tracing (TU, George Washington A, converted to rays ), desiccation (TU, Harvard A), position in quantum mechanics (TU, MIT B), relativistic clocks ...

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I want to thank some people who helped in producing my categories and reflect on some goals I had as an editor. In addition, I'd be happy to provide feedback to any team on their submissions in my categories. Just send me an email at the address in my profile! I edited chemistry, physics, and astron...

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Did this happen?

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Like many recent iterations of ACF Fall, this set had lots of questions, both creative and down-the-middle, that were well executed and hewed to an appropriate difficulty level. The editors should be proud of this achievement. Unfortunately, also like many recent iterations of ACF Fall, this set had...

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The technical innovations that made this tournament possible were fantastic, and Emily deserves huge accolades for them. I was also very impressed by the amount of goodwill and energy to make quizbowl happen that I saw from this event's writers and moderators, as well as the gratitude displayed by t...

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meebles127 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 5:47 pm Here is the form to signup to participate as a PLAYER in the 2020 Internet Charity Tournament.

Should we be able to select multiple packets on the second page? I don't see how to.

EDIT: Better now!

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I think it's fair to say that at any given time, there are perhaps two dozen college-graduate quizbowlers whose educational choices have a large impact on the top bracket of ICT and ACF Nationals. Some of these quizbowlers are currently enrolled in graduate or professional schools and playing on eli...

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I do have one issue with the tournament format, however, which as I understand it was beyond the host’s control. There were ten teams in the D1 field, and according to the Purdue staff, NAQT had instructed them to run a full round robin guaranteeing only nine games to teams not in the final. Combin...

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I didn't get points for saying "the prologue to Hopscotch" for the bonus part on the Table of Instructions. Was this a moderator error (possibly because of a long or complicated answerline) or was this a genuine omission by the packet? If the latter, I think the answer line should be expa...

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I thought this set was very good, though I noticed two errata that I don't think have been mentioned yet: Bonus 16.3 in packet C is written in a confusing way: [10] Description acceptable. The horses in The Derby at Epsom have this specific, unusual trait, which was only discovered upon comparison w...

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Is this still happening at NSC? I understand that Victor is very busy with the real event, but is it possible to delegate organization to someone else?

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Amizda Calyx, in another thread wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 5:00 pm Are there any plans to run CANONEXPANSION at NSC? I won't be able to make it to HSNCT.

I'd also be interested in this.

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I enjoyed this tournament a lot, though it was a reminder of how difficult it is to lead a team at this difficulty. I don't have an overarching thesis to put forth, but I do want to single out some questions and sets of questions I particularly enjoyed. Some of my favorite questions fell outside of ...

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Steven's proposal is essentially dual to what Dwight and I have done in the past--we start at the bottom and iteratively work up, rather than starting at the top and working down. It's not immediately obvious to me that one method or the other will lead to intuitively "better" or less disr...

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This tournament ran very well--in particular, it was very well staffed, allowing advanced statistics to be collected without much hassle or delay. I'm glad to see Brown return to the hosting scene after a two-year hiatus!

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PACE"s rule D11 is similar but slightly stricter and slightly more explicit: 11. If the moderator has begun reading a tossup and has not yet read a verb, or a proper noun, or a word within quotation marks, or a noun or adjective which is a technical term in an academic field, (e.g. "Next t...

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In general, I thought that topic and clue selection in this set were excellent. Many topics that come up often at ACF Fall feel very well-trod, but I found this set fresh and interesting to read. Players seemed to enjoy the set as well. Other people have mentioned the typos and the dearth of pronunc...

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There's a lot of criticism in this thread, so I want to make a point of saying that I really enjoyed reading this set and thought it was quite good. That said, a couple other errors I noted: -Enrique Peña Nieto was AMLO's predecessor, not successor. (CMU A etc.) -The main carbon atom of an ester is ...

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Again, I'm not sure what I could have done here (outside of seeding the playoffs differently, which was decided on before the tournament). Can someone from Penn elaborate on what this method for seeding was? I can think of several defensible ways to seed the playoffs, none of which are consistent w...

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The Midwest, it seems, is the land of generalists. Here are the top 6 players across all sites ranked by their third -best category BPA: 1. Jakob Myers (Michigan State): History 38.979, Other 29.000, Literature 23.896 2. Matthew Lehmann (Chicago): History 24.932, Literature 23.091, Thought 21.955 3....

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This is awesome! Thanks for putting the work into coming up with this. This is also an interesting statistic to look at on a game-by-game basis, though you have to take the results with a grain of salt. Here are the top 10 games from 2018 ACF Regionals by total BPA : Winner Loser Score Winner BPA Lo...

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We played FILM and Human Use of Human Beings as shootouts. For FILM , Raynor read all 10 packets at least once over the course of the weekend, with people coming in and out as available. There were superpowers for 20 and powers for 15. Isaac Kirk-Davidoff came out on top; standings were as follows (...

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Jacob can't come anymore, so Adam Fine, Nitin Rao, and I are looking for a teammate. Lit and arts knowledge especially appreciated, but we're happy to play with anyone. My email is in the sidebar.

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I'm interested in joining any open team that is looking for a fourth player. When we read a packet from an old ACRONYM in practice I scored the greatest number of points, so I infer that I'm better than Jacob Reed at high school trash.

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Has the exact DI tournament format been determined?

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Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom le...

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Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom le...

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Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom lev...

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What is the adjustment from raw to final A-value? The raw A-value is determined by using the strength of schedule (SOS) factor to adjust each team's actual points per game. Then, at a particular tournament site, if team A places higher than team B but has a lower A-value, then they are both assigne...

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the answerline is the thing the editors won't have changed.. This is an incorrect assumption. Editors will often rework a submitted question to be on a different answerline that preserves the theme of the question, since, as Will suggests, achieving a consistent difficulty across packets is the ove...

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Also, if anyone could post up the Kubrick tossup, that would be lovely. It was got on the first line when I played it, and I'd be interested to see what the rest of the clues were for it. In one of this director’s films, a Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy is played backwards during a scene in which...

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[10] Finally, for the private key one selects an integer d that has this relation to e modulo the totient of n. 3 and 5 have this multiplicative relationship modulo 7. ANSWER: multiplicative inverses Probably a small point here, but shouldn't something along the lines of "the product is congru...

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Can I see math bonus whose the last part mentioned something about 3(mod7) and 5(mod7) or similar? I believe the answerline was _inverse_ but I had trouble parsing what was going on. Identify the following steps one takes while encoding a message with the RSA algorithm, for 10 points each. [10] Fir...

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Can I see the tossup on "counting"? I only got to hear the first couple lines (it was during our bye round and was buzzed on quickly). But, I really enjoyed seeing new and original linguistics content come up. also, can I see the tossup on "indices"? The ability to vocalize this...

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That all makes sense and I respect it. However there was a packet called "Michigan A + Berkeley B + MIT A", which led me to believe that our packet was to be used. This packet was built from the one written by what I believe is the "real" Michigan A team (Saul, Austin, and Noah,...

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Could I see the bonus on lift / angle of attack / camber? I think the wording on the last part made me think it was an angle for some reason. Identify the following terms one might encounter while designing an aircraft that won’t stall mid-flight, for 10 points each. [10] “Stalling” refers to a red...

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Can I see the tossup on characteristics? I'd like to see if characteristic functions came up and I just forgot those existed. Seeing the tossup on "price discrimination" would be cool too. I want to look up the papers that were mentioned early in that tossup that made me neg with somethin...

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Could I see the quantum computing bonus? I was glad to see both the adiabatic algorithm and quantum annealing come up, but it seemed a little hard to figure out exactly what the last part was looking for. I really like the physics on the whole, this is just a minor quibble. Identify the following a...

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Could I see the tossup on Al-Ghazali? I’m curious as to where the first sentence is from. A work by this thinker describes the trust in one’s legal advocate, the trust of a child in their mother, and the trust of a corpse in its washer as the three stages of trust in God. This thinker ended another...

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Can I see the tossup on freezing? The cryo-EM clue was a little confusing but the rest of the clues seemed to be fine. Also interested in seeing the bonus on perfect numbers, because I thought I heard the word "perfect" in the question. This process occurs along either a horizontal or ver...

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I'm sorry to be that guy but I was wondering when the final A-values and compiled OphirStats will be up. Selfishly, we want to know if we will be able to take a look at those results before SCT. Final A-values will be released as soon as possible after the British Regionals site, which is next week...

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Someone help me out here. Our team appears in the rankings at #37, but I can't figure out which tournament qualified us. The ones I've checked so far don't give us that aPPB, but I can't for the life of me unearth ACF Fall @ NIU. It doesn't seem to be in the database. It looks like the stats were p...

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Is there a date set for the NYU site?

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The main reason I'd recommend submitting longer tossups is because editors are liable to cut and/or alter clues - so if you give us more to work with, we're more likely to keep your clues. Keep it reasonable, of course - there's probably not a real need to spend the effort writing tons of of ten-li...

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1) Server-side caching stats. When someone initially wants some stats for a tournament, the server will do the calculation and save it somewhere. When someone comes along 15-30 seconds later and asks for the same stats calculation, we'll give them the previously calculated result. This will prevent...

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I see that the posted results, labeled "Round Robin," have Berkeley A leading the field by two games. Were there any more games played after this?

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Thanks for posting results, Justin. If you get a chance, can you post a combined stats file? Thanks!

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Should we be expecting an SQBS report at some point? I know we have the scoresheets in the subforum, but many of the results that are easy to read off of SQBS reports are harder to extract from the raw data or Ophir's summary sheets.

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