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- Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8131
Re: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
I can only really speak about the science, but some thoughts: Although PPBs were lower than they have been, I thought difficulty control across the set was fairly good. Tossups seemed relatively accessible, and easy/medium parts seemed consistent. I thought the hard parts seemed to fluctuate in diff...
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Thank Yous and Discussion
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9699
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: Thank Yous and Discussion
I greatly enjoyed the science from this set. I thought it was well-written and focused on topics important to scientists. Special shoutout to whoever wrote the intro to finite element analysis, because I now actually understand (kind of) what FEA is. I did notice a subdistributional quirk towards ne...
- Mon May 27, 2019 4:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CANONEXPANSION @ HSNCT
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8119
Re: CANONEXPANSION @ HSNCT
This was a lot of fun, despite some logistical hiccups. I think the fact that the set was written with intentional difficulty variability (the 30/50/20 split) threw some people off when clues appeared "too early," but I enjoyed it. The set had a lot of interesting answerline selections and...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 10:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14559
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
The bonus part on Wernicke said that damage to Wernicke's area could cause expressive aphasia, when I think it meant to say receptive aphasia. The bonus part on "isomer" from the Mossbauer spec bonus seemed to describe isomer shift in the first portion, then define an isotope in the second...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 62727
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
The biology tossup answerlines seemed to skew heavily towards compounds/proteins/complexes, and towards molecular and cell biology in general. Granted, they were still on important answers that I haven't seen pop up a lot before, but it felt more unbalanced than the other science categories. I'd be...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 2:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2308
Re: 2018 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
I wonder if literally any bio player got the tossup on "invasive species". Why would anyone think to give any answer besides mosquitoes to a clue about "gene drive using CRISPR to sterilize "these organisms""? This wasn't even prompted!!! Delaware did in fact buzz with...
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14018
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
* Without commenting on difficulty, I thought the set was very well written. There weren't too many terrible typos, and the pronunciation guides were awesome and better to read than anything I've seen before. Seconding this - pronunciation guides made questions a lot easier to read, especially with...
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 22155
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
Some thoughts: I definitely remember struggling with the mitochondrial membrane TU, as neither I nor Auroni buzzed even after they described and name-dropped the malate-aspartate shuttle. This probably could be improved with a "location and type of action required" player note, or a specif...
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10410
Re: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
a. it seems unlikely to me that someone would have that intuition codified and linked to complex analysis in their head, but not be familiar with the statement of Rouche's theorem. That's me - I've taken two complex analysis courses, but both were at the introductory level (one was a part of a gene...
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10410
Re: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
Could I see the tossups on "complex analysis" and the music one on "2"? I recall buzzing early on the former because it sounded like going around a boundary gave you information about poles, and I think the latter had a giveaway of something like "this is the number of instr...
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 7:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB 2017: General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4053
Re: PB 2017: General Discussion
I thought the science was overall good, although some of the tossups and easy bonus parts seemed a bit hard (e.g. Ising model easy part, the aforementioned cryo EM and Hamilton tossups, metallicity, Lorentz-invariance). Thought some of the non-science bonuses had varying easy part difficulty as well...
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2015 Division II ICT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4639
Re: Question-specific discussion: 2015 Division II ICT
Could I see the "electrophile" toss-up? I remember answering "acylium ion" early on and expecting to be prompted for either "cation" or "electrophile."