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I am pleased to announce the Southern California site of ACF Fall 2018, to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles on Saturday, November 3, 2018 . Location and Schedule: The tournament will be held on November 3 in Haines Hall . It will begin at 9:00 AM PDT , and teams should arrive bet...

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Last year I read multiple packets of the 2012 Cheyne Film Tournament to Anderson Roloff, who first-lined a bunch of tossups, although I have beaten him to Fellini whom he hates, so he's probably slightly more of a Hollywood player than a European art film player, I could be wrong here.

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Congratulations to UC San Diego A for winning Division I, and to UC San Diego C for winning Division II! Results are on NAQT and on the database.

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UCLA Quizbowl is pleased to announce that the southern California site of the NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament will take place on February 3, 2018. Location: This tournament will take place at UCLA. Details of which building we will use will be announced closer to the date of the tournament. F...

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I wrote a 20-tossup anime packet called JAP last year but couldn't finish it in time for Festivus, so I read it to my teammates. For this Festivus, I'll read that and another 10-tossup packet called WEEB on recent anime (fall 2016 and later) and other otaku culture related topics that I wrote this l...

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Notes on Carthage tossup: It's not really the literal city border but the territorial border since Cyrene is where modern-day Benghazi is and the Arch of the Philanei is on the coast of the Gulf of Sirte. Buzzed off Byrsa from Aeneid knowledge, a bit stockish but a fine clue in power. Might need to ...

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After 10 rounds, UCLA cleared the field, and Westview got second. Top four individuals are Hidehiro Anto, Jason Cheng, Rahul Keyal, and Matt Forster. Thanks to Derek Chang, Yu Hong Hwang, Dominic Reiss, Anderson Roloff, and Aurko Sen for staffing, and stats are here.

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I will probably not be at HSNCT but is a trilby ok

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UCLA is hosting EMT on Saturday, May 6, 2017. If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected].edu. Register by emailing the aforementioned address with the necessary details. In particular, please note the following: Eligibility: Only undergraduate and high school students can play this ...

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As someone who has played certamen throughout middle and high school and played all levels from regionals to nationals, I have had writing a pyramidal certamen set and lobbying for format reform on my mind for several years. I would also be interested in either writing or playing for such an event.

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Irreligion in Bangladesh wrote:Out of curiosity - who moderated this tournament? Was it current UCLA students, non-students, or a mix?

All the moderators were UCLA students.

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As the TD of the tournament, I'd like to give my recollection of this incident, mostly pertaining to Will. November 14 (5 days before the tournament): UCSD had already signed up 3 teams. Will Alston messages me on Facebook, asking how many rounds there will be, and expresses his wish to "get a ...

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Statistics are up. Isaac Biggerstaff was the top scorer, followed by Aseem Keyal, Will Overman, and Eric Chen. If you are one of the aforementioned people and did not get an individual book prize and would like to get one, please message me.

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After a full round robin prelim and a bracketed playoffs, Berkeley cleared the field 10-0. UCSD A came in second with 8-2. Stats will come tonight or tomorrow morning. Thanks to everyone who came out to play, and especially to our staffers: Yu Hong Hwang, Dominic Reiss, and Anderson Roloff.

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UCLA is hosting Terrapin XXIX on Saturday, November 19, 2016. If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected].edu. Register by emailing the aforementioned address with the necessary details. Location: TBD Pricing structure: Base fee: $120 per team Buzzer systems: -$5 each, no maximum Sta...

coldstonesteveaustin · Re: MYSTERIUM - Skype Mirror - 5/7/16 I can read.

I can read.

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UCLA is hosting MYSTERIUM on Saturday, April 23, 2016. If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected].edu. Register by communicating with me over Facebook or any other medium or by emailing the aforementioned address with the necessary details. Location: Haines Hall. HQ is in Room A6. P...

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I'm in.

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Congratulations to Trashed Pelicans for winning the tournament! Because the tournament was a Platinum Qualifier Event for PACE, TP also gained a spot for the 2016 NSC. Full stats are here.

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I thought that the Dennett bonus was completely 30'able with pure title-author binary association.

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The UCLA College Bowl Club is pleased to announce TWAIN XIV: Lupercalia. DATE: The tournament will be held on Sunday, February 14, 2016. PARKING: Parking is $12 at various structures throughout the UCLA campus. More parking information here . We recommend Parking Structure 5. VENUE: Haines Hall. All...

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Regarding the Armenian clue in the Ancient Greek tossup, my knowledge is rusty regarding whether it's talking about aorist or imperfect or present perfect or pluperfect or whatever, but I'm taking a course on the history of Ancient Greece this quarter and my professor mentioned that Armenian was the...

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These aren't errata but: The unit normal distribution has density at zero equal to one over the square root of this quantity. At game speed, I couldn't process this statement and instead buzzed on the sine and cosine clue; I also think that the statement could be interpreted as "The density equ...

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UCLA is proud to announce that we will be holding a mirror of VCU Novice on Saturday, October 31st, as a starter tournament for new players to cut their teeth on before the main collegiate circuit begins in earnest. The full announcement can be found here . Tournament scheduling will depend on the n...

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In packet 1, Mathew Brady should only have one t, and his middle name is apparently just B.

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My regular US History class oddly focused more on Taney's Supreme Court cases that were not Dred Scott rather than Dred Scott, mostly focusing on how Taney differed from Marshall in regards to contract law, so it does vary.

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I think that Shurman's notes is a good introduction to multivariable calculus. It's available for free here.

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For those not at the award ceremony, who were the recipients of the awards?

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Quizbowl is an academic competition format pitting one team of up to four players against another team of up to four players. While a question describing a certain event, person, phenomenon, or entity is being read, the players individually compete to see who can buzz in first with the correct answ...

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Do the lack of lows for some teams mean that some voters didn't put the team on their ballots?

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Just curious, how is the prelim distribution going to differ from that of the playoffs?

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For the conjugation tossup, I said hyperconjugation and was deemed wrong. I protested this but the score rendered it moot, and to my knowledge it should've been accepted.

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Here are my predictions:
1) Harmony
2) Hallsville
3) Glasgow

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I would like to add that giving sole control of the stockpile to Bob Borders is a dumb idea.

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Hidehiro Anto wrote:The Nepal bonus in round 2 did not tell the moderator to not reveal the full answer to the first part, so the second part was rather easy.

Ditto for the Ludwig II of Bavaria/Bavaria/Neuschwanstein Castle bonus in round 1.

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Peter is already wrong: I have not just one, but TWO teammates.

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The Nepal bonus in round 2 did not tell the moderator to not reveal the full answer to the first part, so the second part was rather easy.

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Er, why did the Iolani teams do a two game final instead of a one game final? It doesn't seem like Iolani A had any particular advantage over Iolani B in win-loss record. EDIT: Actually, Punahou had the same prelim record, why wasn't this circle of death resolved the usual way of 2 vs 3 and winner p...

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The Redfield ratio in the nitrogen leadin should be fixed to "106 to 16 to 1." It was really confusing when it was read in our room.

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The Nyx tossup claimed that she and her sister produced Hemera, and I was like, Erebus is a woman? Luckily I didn't neg with Erebus because the tossup asked for the counterpart to Hemera. The tossup on ivory is somewhat ambiguous because in the Aeneid, one door of the portal was made out of ivory wh...

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I recently discovered that you can use the study function on mobile by going to http://quinterest.org/study.php#desktop.

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My email is hidehiro.anto at gmail.

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This is on the same day as Truman Bowl.

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Also, what's up with East Central B's stats? They seem a little bit wonky, with one round of 46.67 ppb while other rounds had no powers or gets but a positive number of bonus points.

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Whoops, it seems like I negged the railroad tossup with tennis court on Infinite Jest. I remember there was a tossup with a clue mentioning Daumier though, could I see that?

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Could I see the art tossup on railroads? I said carriage at the Daumier clue and was promptly negged. Could I see the bonus on alcohol/Markovnikov/primary? After we answered the bonus, our opponents noted that the third part referred to the order of nucleotides as the primary structure of proteins. ...

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Look no further than the Stanford Regionals site for an example of this; there were 6 UG teams at the tournament, allowing a UG title to be awarded and thus a bid to Nationals on that basis, but 4 of those teams were HS teams. Just to clarify, D2 teams count as UG, and there were 4 D2 teams at Stan...

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Regarding UG and D2 eligibility, nothing really changes other than: 1) Trophies and titles 2) UG qualification to ACF Nationals D2, UG, and graduate students can and will still all play the same ACF Fall, Regionals, and Nationals in the same combined field, so in terms of gameplay, nothing is change...

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I believe the tossup on momentum had a clue about c being raised to the three-halves power in the Planck momentum. I can't think of an actual importance of knowing that fact, and it just seems like rote memorization to me.

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Congratulations to Team LaRancho Jolla for clearing the field at the UCLA site of DEES, and to Caltech A for getting second place! Kion You of LaRancho Jolla was the top individual, followed by Sonny Vo from ASU and Eric Bobrow from Caltech A. I'd like to thank the staffers at the tournament: Craig ...

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