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Brian McPeak

I say this because I think this thread is likely to make zero progress if a whole bunch of people just post to say, "My teammate is really good at X. I saw him second-line a tossup on Y one time!" For what it's worth, I'm more interested in those kind of posts than in making any real &quo...

Brian McPeak

The physics in this set was more than competently filled out. The "something for everyone" philosophy seemed to apply here-- I found a handful of questions to be extremely cool (quantization, 2D, amplitudes, jets), and the majority to be quite good in the usual way. My only complaint were ...

Brian McPeak

Wooooo!!!

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so are you guys going to change this to a half social science tournament now or what?

Brian McPeak

what has happened to our once proud club?

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jordan brownstein will dunk on u

Brian McPeak

Cheynem wrote:a gorilla full distro event

is what I would be most interested in

Brian McPeak

The logistics were horrible and were entirely my fault. It would have been nice if we could have replaced more questions to even out the distribution and caught more misplaced clues. But we had some major constraints (studying for ICT, grad school) and writing a successor to Lederberg was never real...

Brian McPeak

Here are extensive stats compiled by Ophir. I put them in this thread since they include answers. PM him if you notice mistakes.

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Here you can ask about or point out errors in specific questions

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There's a private discussion forum which you can request to join.

Brian McPeak

Here's the general discussion thread for AVOGADRO'S NUMBER. I had a great time writing this set-- it was fun to write about some more out-there topics. I do wish we'd had more time to edit submissions and get more feedback on our questions, but I think for an after-ICT diversion it worked out pretty...

Brian McPeak

Mukherjee et al. beat everyone to win this tournament. We'll post the stats tomorrow and I'll set up a private discussion forum because there will be a UK and potentially an online mirror.

Maryland has someone's buzzers. Track down Ophir or me if it's yours.

Brian McPeak

The schedule will be available here.

Brian McPeak

Right now I have 2 Michigan rooms so and 1 Maryland room, so if two more people could let us use their room that would be great. For readers we have Will N, Jacob R, and me, so we need two more of those. If you're willing to read, scorekeep, or let us use your room, post here or tell me tomorrow. We...

Brian McPeak

Galadedrid Damodred wrote:What's the per-20 distribution of each packet, i.e. for which categories will there be fewer questions than in the submission distro?

We will be playing all 24 of each packet.

Brian McPeak

Thanks for writing this set-- it was my favorite that I played all year, mostly due to the excellent physics questions. Stephen did a great job asking about important things that come up in quantum, E&M, classical, and stat mech courses, and the bonuses parts were well-selected in general and fr...

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armitage wrote:Brian, are you aiming to run this Saturday evening after ICT finishes?

That's currently the plan.

Brian McPeak

We will probably have 1+ teams from WUSTL at this. We aren't going to add any more teams at this point, but you guys are free to join up with other teams. Let me know how many people you actually have so I can see if we should make 4 player teams. (Or we can change the schedule, if someone has a go...

Brian McPeak

Based on the number of people who want to play we're going to go to teams of 3 now-- free agents can join up with other teams, though I may veto good players joining teams that already look pretty strong. The reason for this is that I think the ideal schedule is: --5 game round robin with 2 brackets...

Brian McPeak

Sorry if this has made writing for Nats a struggle for people. I hoped it wouldn't because there were so few packet-sub tournaments this year. Anyway, I totally agree that people should finish their Nats questions before writing for this tournament. It looks like almost everyone who is writing for b...

Brian McPeak

Hey guys, try to get your packets to us at least two weeks in advance of ICT, and preferably sooner. Feel free to run answerlines by me if you're not sure.

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I've changed one of the math questions to trash in the distribution since that will be more fun to write and play for everyone involved I think.

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Looks like teams are starting to materialize. Remember to let me know if you're planning to write. Even if you're newer to writing science, I'd still like to get a packet from you-- the editors will give extensive feedback on submissions to people who want it.

Brian McPeak

At the risk of looking like an idiot, it claims the derivative of sqrt(x) is 1/sqrt(x), which is wrong. Oh man, you're so right. I could have sworn I put a 2 in there-- Auroni must have changed it when I wasn't looking. My calc 3 class had a lot of differential forms for whatever reason, so I like ...

Brian McPeak

The most egregious tossup in the tournament was the one on Tibet which said "this country" and consequently caused people to neg with the [correct] answer of "China." I wrote this question. It was an oversight, not a political statement-- I'll fix it for later mirrors. I'm not s...

Brian McPeak

I've decided to push this back to ICT so we'll have more packets and a stronger field. Sorry to people who won't be able to make it. I promise there will be an online mirror too.

Brian McPeak

Well since no teams have written a packet and only one team has registered at VCU, you guys may get your wish. I'll bug people about packets this weekend but if nobody plans to write in the next few weeks we'll push it back.

Brian McPeak

Just a reminder: please register for this.

Regarding packets, please don't submit questions which are too similar, like all cell bio or all organic synthesis. And again, it would be nice to have packets at least two weeks in advance, so start them sometime.

Brian McPeak

We'll stick with VCU Open then. I'd hate to have to find a new acronym.

Brian McPeak

It seems like a lot of good science players will be at different sites at VCU Open or won't be there at all, so I'm considering postponing this event until sometime when all the best players at the same site. Either ICT or Stanford's open may work well for this. People should let me know if they're ...

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Brian McPeak

First floor of Jimenez. If you go in and turn left you'll see us in one of those rooms

Brian McPeak

Here's an actual announcement for A VCU Open Gamified Academic Diversion Recognizing Overall Scientific Notability, Under McPeak, Brian's Editing Responsibility (acronym due to Ophir) Teams: We'll go with teams of two (edit-- three) for now but if more than like 10 teams register to play at ICT we'l...

Brian McPeak

UPDATE: If there is interest, I will figure out how to host a mirror of VICO in DC on August 15th, 22nd, or 29th. It would have to have a field cap of like eight teams, unless one of the UMD players can get us rooms there or something. Please post here if you would be interested in that. If this so...

Brian McPeak

this is amazing

Brian McPeak

I want to take a minute to thank all the editors for making what is probably the most fun set I've played and all the staffers that made this tournament extremely smooth. I also want heap more praise onto the science in the tournament. I had some satisfying buzzes on cool things that I've thought wo...

Brian McPeak

Next fall I will begin studying to get my PhD in physics at the University of Michigan

Brian McPeak

My plan is to have at least 8 packets of 24 tossups. If there are more submissions then we will have more but I'm fine with running an 8 round event and then letting people play the other packets at some other event or on IRC. Or it can wait until the next tournament with a strong field.

Brian McPeak

I'm glad to see that there's interest in this event. I think the team size will depend on which tournament we run this-- Lederberg was at ICT so there were plenty of teams even with four people on each one, but if we host it at VCU open, there may be too few people interested at each site. Maybe we ...

Brian McPeak

Hi everyone! I'd like to edit a packet-sub science tournament to be held sometime in the summer or fall. It would be nice to have it at VCU open-- whether or not this happens depends mostly on how many packets I can get by then. The plan would be to write between two and four packets myself/with coe...

Brian McPeak

There will be a party at my house after speed checks. I'd like at least a vague idea of who's coming so let me know via pm and I'll give you my address.

Bring your own drinks, especially if you want Chris Ray to make you a historical-figure themed mixed drink.

Brian McPeak

I'd also like to hear what people thought about having so much math in the set. I enjoyed having a more than normal because I got to ask about some things I normally wouldn't have. This amount (9/8 out of 15/15) felt like too much though. Another reason that it was nice to have more math is that che...

Brian McPeak

Thanks to Victor for making this tournament happen. Thanks to Stevejon Guth, Billy Busse, and Cody Voight for giving me a lot of feedback on my questions. Also thanks to Cody for writing the CS tossups (Vectors, Normal Form, Knuth) and basically rewriting some of the CS bonuses that I had messed up....

Brian McPeak

Congratulations to Penn A who won an advantaged final against the Alter Kockers. Stats are here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2384/stats/final/ Thanks to Matt Jackson, Matt Weiner, Tejas Raje, Harry White, Logan Anbinder, Chris Heffner, Marisol Brady,Gaurav Kandlikar, and Brick Barriento...

Brian McPeak

Nope, we're not overloaded and would be happy for the extra help.

Brian McPeak

Nah, we have a lot of staffers and rooms right now. Maybe there is a cap, but we're not near it.

Brian McPeak

The Infanta wrote:Hey, can I moderate for this?

Yes please!

Brian McPeak

Gonzagapuma1 wrote:Why was the tossup on the Airbending thing not a "tossup 0" instead of a real tossup? If my team had lost a game based on that funn tossup I would have been very upset.

You're just bitter because I won the trash off

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