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Again, they're probably just really good at situational play, but, statistically speaking, it seems like a lot of teams deserved to place higher. Does this represent a flaw in the card system, at least in playoffs? I don't think it's the fault of the card system that Adair got the place they did. T...

If a team is consistently getting zeroes on mathcalc bonuses, they're clearly really weak in math, and if a team is getting thirties, they've got someone with relatively deep knowledge of whatever is being asked (truth-tables, integrals, Pascal's triangle, etc.). Most of the complaints seem to be c...

Would it be nuts to say that literally so few of the nation's competitive teams even participate in a Chip-written event per year that it would actually not really demonstrate an anti-Chip bias to remove this from the Nationals forum? Why does it matter to have an anti-Chip bias? The format and que...

Would it be nuts to say that literally so few of the nation's competitive teams even participate in a Chip-written event per year that it would actually not really demonstrate an anti-Chip bias to remove this from the Nationals forum? Why does it matter to have an anti-Chip bias? The format and que...

Why does this thread exist?

A fair amount of people take DiffEQ in high school No. Yeah a grand total of 0 people from my high school have ever taken this class before graduating. Yeah, see, I took differential equations in high school but still ended up zeroing that bonus. We never learned anything about RLC circuits, but I ...

I have to agree with Mr. Vinokurov. The twin primes conjecture is a fair and common part of the high school national-level math canon. A simple answer of "primes" would simply not suffice for an answer to such a question. However, I cede that the mention of the Sieve of Eratosthenes tended...

Watson Ladd. 12th? You're our hero and all, but really? 12th?!? That's just redonkulous.

The sums on the spreadsheet and your original post are one-off each other, Fred, from Manual down to Alpharetta. Not a big deal, though.

Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast wrote:1 team got Georges Bizet? Wow, that's interesting...considering Carmen is like the most-asked about opera out there.

my impression of many of the teams is that they were not especially active, or else had newer players on them

Seems like next year will be the year of dynamic duos: Jim and Mike, Brandon and Michael, Nishanth and Eugene, and Jackson and Saajid.

Well, the best and most obvious way is to take AP Computer Science, if your school offers it. If not, there are a lot of introductory level computer science textbooks out there which are fairly easy for someone new to the canon to understand. I recommend checking the library over paying for one.

Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:

No thanks.

Then enjoy us refusing to engage you further and refusing to listen to your opinion on math computation.

ok.

I think that BOTH computational and noncomputational math are important and should be present. But, personally, when facing computational math tossups or bonuses, I know how to do them, but I think we are not given enough time (often 3-10 seconds). With the 15 point math bonuses in PACE format, in ...

I think that BOTH computational and noncomputational math are important and should be present. But, personally, when facing computational math tossups or bonuses, I know how to do them, but I think we are not given enough time (often 3-10 seconds). With the 15 point math bonuses in PACE format, in w...