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The packets are now available on the archive . Also, for posterity, buzzpoint stats from the three mirrors can be found here , though the website might be a bit janky because I did the minimal amount of work to set it up. Note that ~4 questions were swapped out for difficulty/balance reasons before ...

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Stats are up here. Congratulations to keeping up with the cardassians (Jaimie Carlson, Victor Prieto, Kevin Wang) for going undefeated, and thanks to everyone who played! This set is clear now, and I'll upload the packets to the archive in a few days.

anderson

Just a reminder that the tournament is this Sunday. We're currently at 2 (maybe 3) teams, so we need at least a couple more - if you're interested in pop culture ("geeky" or otherwise), I think it should be a fun time and would recommend signing up! Also, please sign up by Friday night if you plan ...

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Based on the poll, we're going to host this tournament on January 5. The first post has been edited with more information.

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We will run a 2nd (and final) online mirror of Lore Dump: Expanded Universe on Sunday, January 5th, 2025 , starting at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern. It will be free to play. Here is a sign-up sheet . I'm currently setting a team size of 3, but we can expand to 4 if there's sufficient interest. (And if ...

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Congratulations to What We Talk About When We Talk About Lore (Finn Bender, Eric Mukherjee, Luke Van De Weghe, Matt Lafer) and The Ones Who Came Before (Dave Byrnes, Tristan Keitz, Sarah Benner, Patrick Quion) for finishing at the top with 4-1 in the playoffs, and Expanded Universalis IV (Brody ...

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I just sent out a logistics email to all the team contacts, let me know if you didn't get it. We're finalizing the field size at 12 teams. Unfortunately this means that there currently isn't enough room for all the free agents, but if you don't have a team and want to be on "stand-by" in case ...

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I'm setting a tentative field cap of 12 teams, both based on the number of staffers and having a good format for an 8-round tournament (prelim brackets of 6 -> top/bottom crossover brackets). There's currently room for 2 more teams. If it fills up, you can add your team to the waitlist and I'll try ...

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Based on the poll and internal preferences, we've decided to run this on September 7. The first post has been edited with basic information and a sign-up sheet.

anderson

This is an announcement for the online mirror of Lore Dump: Expanded Universe . It will be held on Saturday, September 7, 2024 , tentatively starting at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern. Here is a sign-up sheet . You can also put yourself down as a free agent or staffer. More details: There will be 8 ...

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I really enjoyed playing this tournament - a big reason for this is that most questions were interesting and fun to listen to, even in topics like history that I know pretty much nothing about. The math/CS felt well-written and well-balanced. I guess I did wish there was at least 1 combinatorics ...

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Another update: Things have been chugging along, though editing has been taking a lot longer than I originally hoped. Thankfully, Ganon Evans and Benji Nguyen agreed to help out and this set is finally nearing completion (it's about 80% done), so based on the current pace it should be available for ...

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Just to give a quick update on this, the questions have been written (enough for 7 packets, though it's looking like we'll end up with 8) and editing is underway. The distribution is looking approximately like: 5 TV (split evenly among live action/animated) 5 video games 5 literature (including ~1 ...

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(edited 6/25/24 with updated details) (edited 8/4/2024 to reflect 22-question packets) Hi everyone! This is an announcement for Lore Dump: Expanded Universe , a tournament heavily inspired by Patrick Quion and Purdue's Lore Dump and Lore Dump 2 events. This event will be written by a group of my ...

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Sorry for the long delay, but EMACS is clear and has been posted to the archive here . I've also put together buzzpoint stats here (thanks Jordan!) for those who are interested. I've also requested to archive the private forum, but in the meantime, feel free to join the usergroup if you want to read ...

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It took several months, but I've finally put together buzzpoint stats for the CO and online mirrors, which you can view at https://emacs-buzzpoints.vercel.app/ if you're interested. (And thanks Jordan for making the buzzpoints tool and answering my questions about setting it up!)

anderson

Now that the online mirror is done, I plan to post the packets soon, but I'll wait a bit just in case anyone else is interested in running a mirror. If I don't hear anything in the next few weeks, I'll put the packets up on the archive.

anderson

Oh yeah, I meant to post the packets here but forgot to do so earlier, so I've attached them to this post for those who want to look over the questions (but obviously the set is not clear yet so don't spread it around too much). I might also try to set up some buzzpoint visualization at some point ...

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This thread is for sharing any memorable buzzes or other moments.

This is a more general thought, but I just want to say that I was incredibly impressed by the buzzes I saw throughout the day, and it was awesome to see tossups that I thought would play hard get obliterated.

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This thread is for discussing specific questions.

anderson

This thread is for general discussion. (part of this is copied over from the Discord) I want to first thank all the other contributors to the set, who helped make the final product much more diverse and interesting than anything a single person could have made. In particular: Brian Chen/betaveros ...

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There is now a private discussion forum as well.

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Thanks Matt and Ashvin, that really means a lot to me! I've e-mailed out a link to a Discord server for set discussion (I am also happy to send it directly to those who are spoiled) and will ask about making a discussion forum. Especially since this is my first major writing project, I'd appreciate ...

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We're currently at 18 total players and 3 staffers. I'm not sure how many more staffers we can get due to sharing with COLONIAL, so as suggested by Matt we're going to expand the team size to 3 and set a field cap of 8 teams. If we get 2-3 more staffers we can expand the field further, depending on ...

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One last progress update: this tournament is now more than 90% written and edited, and I'm hoping to start playtesting next weekend - I'm still looking for a couple more playtesters, so please reach out if you're interested! This set should be ready for mirrors starting the weekend of July 22, and I ...

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My best guess would be sometime in August/September - I'll set up a date poll when I have a better idea.

anderson

This tournament is now a little under 70% finished. I'm sufficiently confident in the set being ready by mid-July, and it's looking very likely that I'll be playing CO, so I want to check if there's sufficient interest in running this on CO Sunday. Per Young's suggestion, I've made a sheet for ...

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Yep, this is still happening. To give a general status update, the tournament is currently 40% written (and I'm very exited to share the questions we've been working on!). I've recently been ramping up writing and am going to make a push over the next couple months to finish by early July, ideally ...

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(I edited this post on 7/6 to include finalized details about this tournament.) Hi everyone, This is an announcement for EMACS (Event Mainly About Computer Science), a computer science/culture side event scheduled for summer/autumn 2023. It will be available for mirrors from July 22 tentatively ...

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I would be interested in either TELEOLOGY or ACRONYM (though I'm more excited about TELEOLOGY), on Saturday or Sunday.

anderson

What time are you planning on running this at HSNCT? I'm trying to see if I can potentially play Imaginary Landscape or META in addition to this (though I'll admit that it doesn't seem likely given the timing).

anderson

I’m also looking to join a team and would be happy to play with anyone. I know some stuff about video games and “indie” music and have very little knowledge everywhere else.

Edit: I have a team.

anderson

Here is the boundedness tossup: Continuous measurable functions must have this property almost everywhere to be assigned the L-infinity norm. The Riemann-Stieltjes integral can be computed on functions whose total variation has this property. In topology, if for every x, a metric space has a finite ...

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Replying to some math/CS comments: I think Kakutani's theorem is more obscure than the Kakeya needle problem (I could be wrong, though). Maybe swap those clues? I don't think this is necessarily true. For example, if you take any game theory course you will probably learn about the Kakutani fixed ...

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I'll have another music packet similar to my packets the last two years (and with contributions from Diana Gerr this time). There will probably be around 15 tossups.

anderson

A while ago, I wrote ~17 silly bonuses for my Festivus music packet that didn't get played (the content is pretty similar to the tossups, which you can find in the Festivus packet list ; it's mostly recent indie music), so if people are interested I could read them sometime. I'll tentatively ...

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A while ago, I wrote ~17 silly bonuses for my Festivus music packet that didn't get played (the content is pretty similar to the tossups, which you can find in the Festivus packet list ; it's mostly recent indie music), so if people are interested I could read them sometime. I'll tentatively ...

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Thanks to Rob for running this! Even though it seemed even slower than last year, it was still a lot of fun. Scores for my packet were: Alston 3/2/0=65 Will Nediger 0/3/0=30 Arun 1/1/0=25 Matt W 1/0/0=15 Oliver 1/0/0=15 Rein 1/0/0=15 Chris Stern 0/1/0=10 Greg 1/0/1=10 Mike Cheyne 0/1/0=10 Rob 0/1/0 ...

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I'm done with 20 music tossups and might write more by Friday, though I'm also writing a few silly bonuses to cram in more material. Judging from the "Best Albums of 2016" thread, I think at least a decent number of people should have fun with this.

anderson

I'll probably have a music packet for this, similar to last year (~10 tossups on 2016 "indie" releases, ~10 tossups on random things).

anderson

Billy can only make it later in the evening, so this is being rescheduled to 7 PM EST, still on Sunday. I am assuming that this is fine for everyone else who already signed up, but let me know if that assumption is wrong.

anderson

As promised, the Skype mirror is happening and is currently scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, August 28. Time: We'll start at 7 PM EST, and it should take at most 3 hours to complete. If you really want to play this and can't make this date and time, let us know (we're not imagining a very ...

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I posted in the main thread earlier that discussion should wait until the skype mirror (announcement coming later tonight), but given that a decent number of people have played this, it would be nice if there was a centralized place for discussion now*. So feel free to give feedback, talk about your ...

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This set is finished and packetized :party: , and will soon be e-mailed out to all mirrors (currently just Michigan, but if anyone else also wants to mirror this send us an e-mail). The final distribution was: 3.5 Arcade/8-bit/16-bit eras 2 32/64-bit eras 3.5 2000's (6th gen-7th gen up to 2009) 3.5 ...

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I don't know if Anderson can, but I don't know how to make a Skype mirror work from my end, unfortunately. I've tested questions with friends over Google Hangouts before*, so I'd be up for hosting a Skype or Hangouts mirror later this summer. *More specifically, on my mac, I used a combination of ...

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This is the announcement thread for Eternal Sonata , an audio tournament on video games written by Anderson Wang (formerly of MIT) and Jasper Lee (University of Tennessee). We're going to try to finish at least 5 packets of 20 tossups each in time for Side Event Weekend, but if that doesn't happen ...

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I guess the deadline is coming up, but if anyone still has an open spot on their team (or wants to make a team), let me know. I am pretty terrible at trash, but I know things about video games and recent music, especially "indie" music.
Edit: I've found a team, thanks Tejas.

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To add to the trash, Jasper Lee and I have been working on and off on making an auditory video game music tournament (title TBD). Right now we've made ~50 tossups out of a planned 100 or so and could probably finish it by August, though if there's already an excess of trash side events, this could ...

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Mitchell Lee (a friend) and I wrote a small amount of math questions for this. I don't have the set, but looking at the spreadsheet, I think the ones that were used are "numbers", torus, Achilles, and Fourier transform. I also sent in a few CS questions which weren't used; I assume that was because ...

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I'll have 20 (maybe a few more) tossups on random music-related things, including some amount of "indie" music from 2015.

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