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Magister Ludi wrote:once the set is posted

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Aww, but that would take all the fun out of negging on purpose at the last second!

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Hey, welcome to the circuit! It's great to see new teams on the West Coast. (I'm assuming the cut off part was some such good news.) Like Dwight said, the Stanford club website would be a good place to start. Right now we have a rough schedule of the major West Coast tournaments up, as well as some ...

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Hey Andy, any update on this?

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will Stanford be coming to MO I don't think so, unless we get a sudden windfall of infinity dollars from an anonymous Swiss bank. We might mirror it, though, once we figure out what our Fall schedule is going to look like. would you be interested in reuniting our CO trash team? Even if Stanford did...

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Two-Headed Mike Hoover wrote:
gkandlikar wrote:Expect more tossups on the finer aspects of Daler Mehndi music videos and bonuses on movies of Shah Rukh Khan in this tournament.

Gautam

3/7 asha bholse?

An enthusiastic "hell yes" to all of the above.

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I've found it easier to just use a non-restricted text to speech processor (i.e. one built into a Mac, or the one that comes with the Opera web browser) and then just record the output in a sound editor. I've thought about doing this just to hear questions on, say, a long car ride or something. I a...

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(apologies to Andy Watkins for blatantly copying off of his Harvard International post) The 2009 Cardinal Classic XVIII: subtitle to be determined will be happening sometime in February 2009. I'll be TDing the event and Brian Lindquist will be returning as head editor. A more formal announcement wil...

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Is it still considered doping if a coach sics an angry hive of

on his rider?

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vandyhawk wrote:I wrote the furans tu as a replacement for a not-very-well-written ethers tossup

I remember negging with pyrroles after "Paal-Knorr synthesis", though (to the best of my memory) the question hadn't explicitly ruled out thiophenes and pyrroles at that point. I didn't like that.

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I'd love to play in this if it happens somewhere in California, but otherwise I can definitely help edit/write.

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My list:

Everyone, for an incredible weekend. This was my first time at a Chicago Open and I didn't really know anyone, so the fact I managed to have a great time and a lot of laughs means you guys really made me feel welcome. Thank you!

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Yeah, this tournament was a blast to play. Props to Trygve, Andrew, and Rob for letting me play on their team and being great teammates, and for Andrew, Michael, and David for creating a quality set. I think the tournament calendar could use more tournaments like this one.

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This was a really fun tournament to play, and all the moreso because I got to compete against a lot of people I had only known in name. I had a great time, despite sleep deprivation and having half my team's negs. The answer selection struck an excellent balance between things I knew, things I had h...

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I'm just waiting for Schindler's Iceberg, the movie adaptation of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

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As a not-very-good player who has a lot to learn, I like the idea of a rating system. At the very least, it'll be a way of learning (roughly) which answer choices are appropriate for which levels of difficulty. It's also a nice way of seeing how one's own packet stands in relation to the rest of the...

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recfreq wrote:if we held it at one of the coming tournies ... Card Classic

This is a very appealing idea, as we're contemplating having a side tournament or two at next year's Cardinal Classic.

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Archive updated; changed the first post to reflect the updates. Thanks to everyone who sent in the BoB set.

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Thanks to new management, the Stanford Archive finally gets updated. These tournaments have been added: 2001 Artaud 2001 Kentucky Wildcat 2002 Kentucky Wildcat 2003 Auspicious Incident 2003 Kentucky Wildcat 2004 Texas A&M Literature Singles 2005 Jacopo Pontormo Tournament of Manners 2005 Manu Gi...

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New Trier alum team (Jonah Greenthal, Ben Cohen, Nick Matchen, et al.) Andy Sekerak, Jacob Durst, Brian Saxton, "player to be named later" And, here's Mukherjee's list, copied: Yaphe, Seth T., Sorice, Selene Weiner, Mukherjee, Vinokurov, Magin Chris Borglum, Billy Beyer, Sean Platzer, Jim...

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My only objection to the January/February dates is that we're planning on holding Cardinal Classic somewhere in the first half of February. Details are forthcoming, but just a heads up so the calendar doesn't become too crowded like this past winter.

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If there's still room in the field, I'd love to play. Otherwise, I can help moderate.

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I'll play!

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Sign me up as well.

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Yaphe, Seth T., Sorice, Selene Weiner, Mukherjee, Vinokurov, Magin Chris Borglum, Billy Beyer, Sean Platzer, Jim Baker Ray Luo, Matt Lafer, Kelly Tourdot, Ahmad Dees, Meade, Shnu, Trevor Davis Ed Cohn, Susan Ferrari, Andrew Ullsperger Dorman A/B Hart, Carson, Gautam, Brendan Eaton, Gioia, Bruce, Ch...

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How early in the Fall will this event be?

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Most of what I wrote was Science, and I hope that was well liked. Obviously I didn't have a great grasp of everything I wrote, (particularly in physics), and I hope that people point out what could have been improved in those categories. I'll comment on the biology, as that's what I mostly payed at...

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You can also search for text within documents within certain folders, if you have a large archive of .docs and .rtfs. In older versions of Windows, you need to go to Advanced Search Options, but in Vista it automatically searches text within documents. I suggest downloading Google Desktop Search . ...

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Don't know why this isn't up here, but:

2/2 - Cardinal Classic XVII won by Maryland
http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/tournaments/2008_ccxvii/

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I thought that the overall tournament set was put together very well, which for me made playing this tournament extremely fun. Thanks again to the editors for their hard work. I'd be interested in hearing how much the nearly one month in advance packet deadline helped. For now, I'll just comment on ...

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What happened with the shirts? I don't think any announcement about them was made, but I could be wrong.

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A friend of mine from high school went to Clemson. His name is Ryan Boury and he'll be a junior next year. In high school he wasn't the most dedicated quiz bowl player, but he would occasionally stop by practices. I doubt he'd be interested in going so far as to found a team (he's pretty involved wi...

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let's not forget the lovely tossups on "soil" and "bird songs." I can't speak to the bird song tossup, but what's your objection to the soil tossup? I don't remember what clues showed up, and I don't have the questions handy, but soils are an important topic in earth science, th...

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I'll be there as well, and am all for a draft.

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I agree that it's somewhat frustrating to have the presumed biology distribution contain things like "army ants" and "dysentery", and on the whole the science was probably weaker than it could have been, but even that was an improvement over last year. And let's not forget the l...

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In DI, Stanford A is 4-1, with wins against Rutgers, Drake, Rochester, and Williams, and the loss to Illinois A. Stanford B is 1-4, with losses to Harvard, Florida, Maryland, and Toronto (the bye round counts as a win). In DII, Stanford is 2-3.

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Is Camille Claudel really leadin material? I don't mean her works. I mean, the fact that she was involved with Rodin. It certainly didn't seem to be quizbowl-famous when I wrote the question, as her name appeared in exactly one packet in my archive, and her relationship with Rodin wasn't mentioned....

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Count me in for playing as well.

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We've had some talk at practice about the possibility of having a wireless buzzer system, thereby eliminating all cable spaghetti-induced frustration. One of our freshmen has enthusiastically embraced this idea. I personally don't see how it would be practical, as the hand units would have to be pow...

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Speaking for schools on the quarter system, the first weekend in March is towards the end of Winter Quarter, i.e. exams, papers, projects are due. For us, its still two weeks from finals though. I don't think the late date is going to be an issue for people who are dedicated quiz bowl players, but i...

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I too thought this tournament was well-edited and at just the right difficulty level. Some of the stuff I liked: the tossups on Michaelis-Menten (very well-written), Indra, gastrin, Joyce Carol Oates, "Why I live at the P.O.", dwarves, peacock, Long Parliament (though I negged with Rump Pa...

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Quick results: Stanford went undefeated (9-0) to win. In second place was UC Irvine at 6-3. Ray Luo was the top scorer. Full stats should be out soon.

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The Cardinal Classic packet set has been submitted to the Stanford Archive and should be online shortly.

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