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I assume this tournament is being delayed until in-person mirrors can be held? Playing a speedcheck tournament online sounds unfun. That is correct. We're specifically waiting for a time when in-person mirrors with strong fields (think CO or a national side event weekend site) can be safely held wi...

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Two clarifications have been made to this original post. The first is to note that the superpowers and powers will be worth 30 points and 20 points respectively, and the second is that we have decided to make rooms much smaller (around 4-5 players each) to give players more opportunities to buzz on ...

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I am happy to announce a yet-to-be-named online tournament for solo quizbowl players! Although this is not a full tournament announcement, I will highlight the main points in this post. Who Can Play? This tournament is open to any players who have either graduated from or are currently (2019-2020 ac...

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13.This object was designed to generalize the positive Grassmanian. For 10 points each: [10] Name this theoretical geometric object from particle physics introduced by Nima Arkani-Hamed in 2013. Scattering amplitudes can be calculated by finding the ‘volume’ of this object. ANSWER: amplituhedron [1...

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We are excited to announce that the common link king Wonyoung Jang has joined our writing team! As CO weekend is looking quite busy this year, we intend to have this set ready for mirrors at any side event weekends taking place this summer.

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_nestorius wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:27 pm Congratulations to Yale X (Stephen Eltinge, Moses Kitakule, Laurence Li, and Auyush Rajasekaran), who went 10-0 to win the tournament. Columbia A (Rafael Krichevsky, Will Alston, Harrison Whitaker, and Noah Chen) took second place with a 9-1.

Was there a final played between the top two teams?

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Apologies for the late notice, but there will not be practice today - we will resume on Thursday of this week

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This happened! We played 6 rounds, although Matt and Eric left after 5 - at the end of round 5, the top 4 were Eric Mukherjee (305 points), me (300 points), Kevin Wang (155 points), and Adam Silverman (145 points). Full Stats for all 6 rounds are listed below. Kai Smith - 16/10/0/17 (385 points) Eri...

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15.366 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 5:25 pm Thank you for making this happen, Kai. (I speak from experience that making this happen hasn't always been easy in past years.)

thank Tim for actually doing the hard work and actually making the reservation!

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The University of Chicago will be holding our customary pre-CO practice in the South Lounge of the Reynolds Club from 1-5pm this Friday, August 2. Anyone attending CO or just in the area is welcome to join us! The Reynolds club is located at the southwest corner of 57th and University, 5706 south Un...

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There will be no practice tomorrow - instead, we will be holding our customary pre-CO practice in the South Lounge of the Reynolds Club from 1-5pm this Friday, August 2. Anyone attending CO or just in the area is welcome to join us! The Reynolds club is located at the southwest corner of 57th and Un...

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The University of Chicago will be holding our customary pre-CO practice in the South Lounge of the Reynolds Club from 1-5pm this Friday, August 2. Anyone attending CO or just in the area is welcome to join us! The Reynolds club is located at the southwest corner of 57th and University, 5706 south Un...

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There was actually a protested bonus part that may have swayed the results of the game, but I am unclear as to Bryan's resolution. In any case, I do not believe there was any desire to play off up to two additional games. IIRC, both protests (worth ten points each) were upheld, so the final result ...

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This tournament is fantastic, and everyone who has a passing interest in music or images (or enjoys seeing things or listening to things) should play this! Although the tournament is quite challenging (in my opinion, the visual arts was a solid notch harder than Jordaens), it still did a great job o...

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Starting today, UChicago will be hosting biweekly quizbowl practices open to the public in the Regenstein Library. There will be practices on Monday from 7-10pm Thursday from 7-10pm in room 503 unless otherwise noted in this thread. All quizbowlers in the area are welcome to attend*. If you are not ...

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Could we get an update on the list of mirrors? I know that WuStl is hosting one next weekend and I would like to see if there are any more mirrors that have been confirmed.

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Difficulty is always a tricky thing. I think everyone in quizbowl wants the set to be only as hard as necessary. But sometimes I feel that it's necessary to stretch difficulty in the service of other goals. To bring up something that Olivia astutely pointed out -- the inclusion of women in quizbowl...

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I know it’s late, but Adam Fine should be in your top 25. Not only does he bench 195, but he also put up 48 playoffs PPG at ICT (2nd scoring to Jacob) and outscored Stephen during Nats prelims. I can't comment on how much Adam Fine can bench press, but by my calculation his PP20TUH was actually 25 ...

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It is my pleasure to announce TAUTOLOGY, a tossup-only speed tournament that will be ready for mirrors in the summer of 2020. The set will consist of 8 packets of 40 tossups, and is being written by myself, Ben Miller and Wonyoung Jang of the University of Chicago, and Evan Suttell of Michigan State...

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The Lives Of The Great Composers - Harold C. Schonberg

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Take all of the following advice with a grain of salt, as all of these tips will almost certainly lead to more negs. However, all of these will certainly make you faster on the buzzer. 1. Stimulation: Caffeine helps to cut down response time and increases the speed of reflexes. 2. Protobowl: As much...

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I'll echo what others have said about the importance of eating a light lunch and snacking throughout the day. Personally, I also try to get a nap in during lunch when possible. Also, if you drink caffeine in the morning, much of it will have worn off by lunchtime, so both re-hydrating and re-caffein...

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Will statistics for this tournament be posted on the database?

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Considering Imaginary Landscape may not be clear, posting these stats is probably not the wisest decision.

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Given that QuizBug is now defunct, are there any plans to create an online/desktop version of this app?

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I think the transparent part of that tossup isn’t just the “being set to music” stuff but the pronoun “these biblical texts” itself. Very few things other than the psalms fit that pronoun at all (maybe the gospels I guess?) so the question can easily be frauded in power. To answer your question, th...

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When I set about to construct my ballot for the player poll, the main criteria that I looked at were statistics from the top bracket of ICT and ACF Nationals (at least for those players who did make the bracket). However, it seems that many people were not using this as a basis for their poll, judgi...

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Upset of the Year (submitted as the "Liberty defeats Penn" award): awarded to the team that pulled off the most notable upset of the year. Examples from last year would include McGill taking a top bracket spot from Columbia at ICT or Northwestern making a run to the ICT finals. If this is included,...

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I came up with excluding players in the same region as the voter because I wanted to prevent players in mega-clubs like Berkeley or Chicago from getting 20 votes from their own teammates, and because I'm going to try to make it easy to finish the ballot in less than 10 minutes (not every question w...

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Econ (6/4): Hotelling, the commons, families, real business cycles, production function, Homo economicus, cap and trade bonus, r > g bonus, shoeleather costs bonus, Vickry bonus I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed the economics in this set, particularly the questions on Hotelling, Production...

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2. I want to prevent people from voting for their own teammates or friends that they see very regularly in the region. My idea to enact this was to have voters identify their region on the form, and then the ballot would exclude players from their region. I've worked up an example of what I mean. T...

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Matthew Lehmann should at least be in your top 20 if not 15; the Chicago B teams he top-scored generally performed better against us than Chicago A did. I could tell anecdotes about how Matthew is one of the fastest on the buzzer, how he regularly beats John Lawrence (and the rest of the Chicago cl...

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heterodyne wrote:Practice will be occurring from 7-10 on Monday 7/10 in Room 503 of the Regenstein Library. If you're not a student, just message me on Facebook where I'm most likely to see it and you can be let in.

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Today, we will be having practice in Crerar 320b from 7-10pm. If anyone has trouble getting in or finding the building, send me a PM via the forums or Facebook.

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Aaron's Rod wrote:We laughed, we cried, we buzz late on opera, and the Lawrence alumni came out swinging from the woodwork. Thanks so much to Ophir and the writers! It was a lot of fun!

some would call them "late buzzes" while the brits would call them "difficulty cliffs"

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Alston spends 26 minutes jerking himself off about how good he is at philosophy.

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After reading a spurious post in the SoCal Quizbowl Facebook group, we pulled over on the side of the highway to watch a promised Columbia Quizbowl hype video featuring Ben Zhang. Sadly, the video was only a link to Usher's hit single "Yeah."

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60 miles from food and we bust out the Slim Jim.

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Kai: "When naming the group chat, does the '+' in B+ go before or after the 'B'?"

Max: "After - how the hell do you not know this?"

Kai: "I haven't had a grade that high in a while."

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Post CVS run food pic. Not pictured: Alston's Giant Slim Jim™

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Our Lady Peace wrote:In the first game between Ohio State A and Chicago A, Ohio State is credited with 10.00 PPB and Chicago with 13.50 PPB. Is this an error? It doesn't seem right.

Chicago B is also dubiously credited with 8.93 PPB in our round 2 match against WashU B.

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Excelsior (smack) wrote:F

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One more thing I just noticed - the tossup on I puritani has an hose in the lead-in: "Luigi Bassi wrote a fantasy for clarinet and piano based on themes from this opera..." Bassi wrote lots of clarinet fantasies based on operas, the most famous of which is actually the one based on Rigoletto . Ambi...

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Here are some specific thoughts I had about individual questions in this set. The tossup on scherzo could have used a more straightforward pronoun such as "this form" or "this genre." While I appreciated the thematic content of the question, I was thoroughly baffled by the term "this title," as I d...

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200 mg (one 12oz cup of coffee) caffeine pills. I use these as a pick-me-up to counteract the post-lunch slumber. I have not had any negative quizbowl related experiences with these, and they don't give me the jitters unlike energy drinks.

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Cody wrote: I have other thoughts about this tournament once the private discussion is set up.

A private discussion forum for ARTSEE has now been set up.

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Here are the questions that I contributed (in the first 7 rounds): Music: Microtonal, 'B,' E-flat,' Perfect Fourth, Oistrakh, Pavarotti, Nielsen, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta , Oboe, Romania, Totentanz , and Russia. Other Auditory/Non Auditory: Silk Road, Le Sacre du Printemps , Bacchu...

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Practice will be today from 7-10 in the Reg, Room 503.

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Apologies for the late notice, but practice today will be from 7-10 in the Reg, room 503.

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A huge thanks to Sean and WUStL for running a fantastic tournament!

I have recordings of the final two matches between Dat Suitable Boi and Missouri Open Squad - once the set is clear I will post them.

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