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The complexities of international payments have been worked out, so I'd like to hold a mirror of SCREEN TEST , a visual film side event, after this tournament. The mirror fee is $13. If you or your teammates are interested, please send me an email. We got through 4 rounds of SCREEN TEST before peop...

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The complexities of international payments have been worked out, so I'd like to hold a mirror of SCREEN TEST, a visual film side event, after this tournament. The mirror fee is $13. If you or your teammates are interested, please send me an email.

sbraunfeld

I'd like to hold a mirror of SCREEN TEST , a visual film side event, after this tournament. The mirror fee is $13. If you or your teammates are interested, please send me an email. Due to difficulties with international payments, I don't think this is happening. I may still try to host it at a late...

sbraunfeld

I'd like to hold a mirror of SCREEN TEST, a visual film side event, after this tournament. The mirror fee is $13. If you or your teammates are interested, please send me an email.

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Thanks for playing. Packet is attached and scores are below.

Conor: 0/2/2 10
Daniel: 1/5/1 60
Leo: 0/2/3 5
Tim: 1/4/2 45
Finn: 1/2/1 30
Pinyan: 0/1/0 10

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I'm planning to read this 11 pm eastern time on Wednesday 6/5.

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I have a packet of math questions originally meant for Mons Mathstrosity II, roughly following the distribution announced for that tournament. It is quite hard. I plan to read it in #packet in the discord some night next week before Friday. If you have time constraints, feel free to pm me. I'll prob...

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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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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.

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I'm considering running a mirror of SHAWARMA II after this tournament. I realize there is a lot of overlap with the NYU site, so I want to make sure there will be enough interest. PM me if you (or someone else on your team) wants to play, and I'll make another announcement by Friday. This is happen...

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I'm considering running a mirror of SHAWARMA II after this tournament. I realize there is a lot of overlap with the NYU site, so I want to make sure there will be enough interest. PM me if you (or someone else on your team) wants to play, and I'll make another announcement by Friday.

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I would be interested.

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Like Finn, I also thought that "unit" was the middle part. Initially, I thought about taking that out and using Pell's as the middle part and adding something from algebraic number theory, but then I decided that would have led to an absolutely (and unnecessarily) brutal question where only one or ...

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I edited the math submissions and wrote the following questions: TUs on the core, sigma algebra, and Grothendieck. I had one other tossup that I don’t think has been posted yet, but has possibly been spoiled for next year and might get posted. I’ll talk about that one if Andrew clears it, since I t...

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Could the epsilon-delta tossup be posted?

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A few comments and questions about the distribution. Questions: Is statistics part of applied math? How broad is "other"? Might it include trash? philosophy? Will packets intentionally include questions of significantly varying difficulty? In particular, should packet writers attempt to include vari...

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I quite liked (what little of) the math I heard. Thanks Samir.

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I think the question on meta-ethics played poorly. I can't imagine someone buzzing early -- say, on the Mackie clue -- and producing "meta-ethics" without at least first being prompted. I'll note I did exactly this, buzzing in with "ethics" on "argument from queerness", and could only disbelievingl...

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The first of these is the tossup on control systems theory. I understand that this is a Reified Thing and have heard of it discussed as such by knowledgeable people, but the issue is that it is (to my understanding) multidisciplinary and incorporates a lot of techniques that can be used elsewhere. ...

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alexdz wrote:Is BUMPY confirmed?

I guess so. I have the set, so assuming a projector and some interested people, neither of which seemed problematic, I don't see why it wouldn't happen.

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I like movies. Would other people be interested in playing BUMPY ? It sounds like there's enough interest in this, so I've contacted the writer. A few logistical points: 1. Is Princeton fine with this being mirrored? 2. Will we have access to a room with a projector? 3. Do the room reservations go ...

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I like movies. Would other people be interested in playing BUMPY?

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I was discussing a potential sequel with Conor at Fall this past weekend. I'm probably going to try my hand at writing it, though work on it probably won't start until I'm done applying to grad school. Also consider this post an open call for writers, I'll need all the help I can get. No LaTeX nece...

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It seems however that the stats for each team have one game repeated twice, so instead of playing 11 games, everyone played 12. Thanks. This has been fixed. Also, are the half packet games considered a full game for ppg? They are considered a half game for individual ppg, but a full game for the te...

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Stats are here. Thanks for coming out.

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I'll add my voice to the chorus supporting Jake's post, and repeat the part about this set being a lot of fun to play.

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It was a great tournament, but for the prelim stats, why are only 4 games showing for the teams in the Marine Le Pen division and the individual stats? http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4281/stats/prelims/ One player on Bard B was from Queens branch of the Bard High School Early Colleges. By...

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Stats are up. Thanks to everyone for coming out.

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Stats are up. Thanks to everyone for coming out.

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Furthermore, I think this fixation on minutiae in Joelle and Sam's post is really unhelpful and I hope people aren't turned off from writing because of that fixation. I only bothered to post about this at your suggestion, and I tried to make sure there was a general point to the post. While my issu...

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The bottom line is, quizbowl is different from class and ordinary English, and coming up with the appropriate pronoun is a great illustration of this. The best thing to do is to approach it on a case by case basis - if you think scenario isn't a great pronoun for "halting problem", it may be worth ...

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I don't know who you are Raj aside from being that one guy who decided to attack the hard work of people who wrote computer science without thanking them a while back in that one thread. I would like to mention that pointing out that errors and ambiguities in questions, particularly in the quite le...

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By the way, for an example of a non-science discussion unmarred by irrelevant personal attacks following a post actually about exactitude in clues, see here. (Note: I am not necessarily endorsing the methods suggested here.)

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People seem to have missed the fact that, despite the title of this thread, the content of the initial post is not "You must read every journal article to check for potential ambiguities in clues, and if you find any, the way to correct your clue is with the following construction: 'It's not , but …...

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The math in this set, while not flawless, was refreshingly good. Both tossups I heard had important early clues that have virtually never come up, namely Marcinkiewicz interpolation (never come up) and Sobolev spaces (come up once). More impressively, every bonus part, with one exception that I don'...

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Stats are up. Thanks to everyone for coming out.

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There's a difference between a caveat and inaccuracy, though I admit it is a bit subjective. A caveat fundamentally should not change the meaning of a clue—you are omitting an assumption in the interest of space. Because the berm is defined in terms of the mechanical energy of waves (though often n...

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I agree that the Ursell's clue is less suggestive / harder than the blowholes clue, and I've swapped them out already. But I really can't understand the substance of the pneumatic clue - it makes sense to talk about the pneumatic behavior of waves, and in fact it's not such an uncommon term - my te...

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I don't see how shorelines is at any point acceptable. Especially on the berms clue. Can someone post it please? While I really have no interest in defending this tossup, I will point out that it's a contradiction to suggest "this tossup was so transparent to everybody" and then to immediately say ...

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The set has been submitted to the archive. Jeremy Hixson wrote all the packets except for Analytic Philosophy, which was written by me. Jeremy's participation in this thread is possible, but I don't think terribly likely. Feel free to discuss anyway.

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Answers similar to Z-p-infinity and C-p-infinity were acceptable. But how is the moderator supposed to know what "similar" means, e.g. that "p-infinity" is sufficiently similar, but "Z-p" isn't? My moderator, after some consideration, decided to "generously prompt" me on p-infinity, I could recall ...

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I have a some comments on the math questions. Since there will be no future mirrors, I'll try not to harp on details, but discuss issues with non-negligible generalizability. I'll also try to place the issues generalizable to non-math subjects first. First, I heard two math tossups at this tournamen...

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Thanks for playing, everyone. Stats are up. The set will be posted once any mirrors at summer Side Event Weekends are completed (or once we are aware there are no such mirrors).

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The spreadsheet has been expanded with new fields for Skype names and email addresses.

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If at least four teams register for CLEAR II, this will run as planned. Otherwise, I would be inclined to run this in some sort of shootout format, in which case the price would drop to $10 per person. Doubles would also be an option. If you have a format preference, post here or email us.

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Charbroil wrote:Are the "Doubtful" packets going to be in the final set?

The biology packet will not be in the set. I tried to contact the person who offered the Chinese history packet, and have not yet heard back, so I think its inclusion is highly unlikely.

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This is no longer being held at Rutgers on 4/23. It will be held as an online tournament sometime later, quite likely in June.

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I think the Hubble parameter question referred to it as the "first rung" on the cosmic distance ladder. I believe it is standard to number the rungs from the bottom (i.e. measurements for closer objects). Furthermore, attempting to correct this by saying something like "top rung" or "farthest rung" ...

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Completed Packets:
Russian Lit
Japanese Lit
Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
Colonial American History
Modern African History
Egyptian Myth
Analytic Philosophy
Baroque and Rococo Art
Photography
Classical Art and Architecture

Doubtful:
Chinese History

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Rutgers has an open spot. If someone from Maryland, or some other free agent, would like to join us free of charge at this late date, pm me.

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