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In addition, I recommended that the judges and readers pre-read the question to determine potential alternative answers I can just see whatever group of people decides this talking about potential alternative answers and coming up with the solution of making more questions multiple choice and 3-way...

To clarify, was the A/The Member of the Wedding question part of a multiple choice/matching question or a free response one? In regards to the comparatively high percentage of math questions, has anyone recently tried sending, for example, a few of the state's ARML representation? It's quite possibl...

I think we might want to start a different thread for doing this type of comparison...but I agree that the PAC should do something to address this. The easy way is to require exact titles, thugh this is not always the fairest, best, or most logical approach. Aren't exact answers already required? O...

Well, yes, I'm really only talking about the finals, especially now that the semis don't seem to each involve six teams. I've only witnessed two finals (95 & 96), which were decided by (I think) 5 and 15 points, but they both had pretty dramatic changes in the top three all the way until the end.

Despite the fact I don't like the PAC format, today's final match was actually really exciting. The top four teams all had a legit shot to win. Don't most PAC finals end up like this? When each team is only getting a few questions, there has to be a huge variance on the possible outcomes -- much, m...

So TJ wasn't on the ballots at all of two that didn't have them 1st? I think we have a Cal-UT situation!

How were the other 9 first place votes distributed?

A link to audio of that round (and all the others) is posted in the other NAQT thread.

Is SC's team still selected by a two-day tryout? Who is (are) the current coach(es) of the team?

Where are the audio rounds?

The problem with Vegas is that you run the risk of 2AM dorm evacuations because someone brings back a hooker, who ends up macing him (and it gets into the ventilation system).

Ahh, there was a money prize? Congrats. We didn't fare so well in the other semifinal from y'all.

I think there already was a hs national in Las Vegas. 1996? Mr. Barry's team was even there if I recall correctly.

The letters of invitation to each state school officer to send representative teams are mailed each year from Florida's Commissioner of Education and the COO of Panasonic, so unless there is already a method in place, the State Dept. of Education usually just accepts bids from the individual schools.

I must be getting too out of touch; do people not learn what an S-matrix is in quantum mechanics courses?

They are much more likely to learn one of the other S matrices (overlap matrix) that pops up in an introductory QM class going over simple Hartree-Fock theory.

This is from the PAC website:

That's Pansonic, not PACE, yes?