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by Everyman
Sat May 09, 2020 10:36 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
Replies: 49
Views: 17310

Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)

Um, you do realize that (a) you'd be playing in teams, and (b) your team has a tied record against our B team, right? We still did the annual Oxford - Cambridge Varsity match when Cambridge A was routinely outperformed by Oxford C in tournaments. You just need to mythologise the Battle of the High ...
by Everyman
Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 65
Views: 8185

Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion

Tewkesbury is north of Gloucester; I believe the bonus part claimed the opposite.
by Everyman
Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
Replies: 50
Views: 10339

Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread

Maybe this is a UK vs US thing, but describing shoes as 'garments' in the red soles tossup seemed odd and threw me off for a bit; calling them clothing would have been clearer.
by Everyman
Sun Feb 26, 2017 12:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2017 (T)TIaC: Discussion of language and vulgarity
Replies: 24
Views: 5175

Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion

Also, many of us at the UK site felt that there was some racially careless language used, which seemed rather out of place. The only place where I think this could have applied was the first clue on the tossup on Francis Scott Key, which is why I put a moderator's note substituting offending word w...
by Everyman
Tue Jun 07, 2016 3:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: UK Player Poll 2016: We the East!
Replies: 26
Views: 14356

Re: UK Player Poll 2016: We the East!

Fun Fact from further analysis #1 - People who completed the poll were on average placed 11.194 by others, whereas they placed themselves 10.4, which is a surprisingly small difference. Fun fact #2 - People at Oxford gave other people at Oxford an average of 149 points, whereas overall (including O...
by Everyman
Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2016 MLK: Specific Questions
Replies: 44
Views: 8030

Re: Specific Questions

At our site, a number of people (including me) were negged for saying Friedel–Crafts on the Friedel–Crafts clues for the electrophilic aromatic substitution question. Should this have been accepted?
by Everyman
Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: General Discussion (Penn Bowl 2015)
Replies: 27
Views: 6495

Re: General Discussion (Penn Bowl 2015)

Am I misjudging the know-ability of Turner's relationship with Virgil;s work? I thought these would be pretty salient upper middle clues. Not at all. If anything, "This probably-British painter was doing mythological scenes from the end of the 18th century" was probably one of the easier ...
by Everyman
Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion (Penn Bowl 2015)
Replies: 56
Views: 15906

Re: Specific Question Discussion (Penn Bowl 2015)

There was a question on Eliot that mentioned her translation of Feuerbach and one on Feuerbach that mentioned his work being translated by Eliot.
by Everyman
Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Science Difficulty
Replies: 10
Views: 4107

Re: Science Difficulty

I've never even heard of the longterm evolution experiment. Is it important enough to merit a tossup at regular difficulty? I came across the Lenski E. coli experiment when doing some general reading for a discussion with creationists; the citrate mutation provides convincing evidence for evolution...
by Everyman
Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
Replies: 95
Views: 30561

Re: Chicago Open Discussion

Further observations on the chem questions. For whatever reason, I find myself disagreeing with Billy about multiple bonus sets. I guess I'm coming at this from a position of ignorance re difficulty, not having played CO, but these bonus sets all seemed fine to me: 9: -Bartoli indole synthesis is al...