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- Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2005 NAQT ICT Results
- Replies: 46
- Views: 30279
I'm looking at the stats, and it looks like one prelim bracket might have had Chicago A (2), Stanford (4t), VCU (9), and Princeton (10)? Is that accurate? That's an awful prelim bracket. It was a rough prelim bracket (technically, VCU and Princeton were tied for 9th); Stanford, VCU, and Princeton w...
- Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:38 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Nationals aftermath/discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 60668
But S-matrix is too hard? I must be getting too out of touch; do people not learn what an S-matrix is in quantum mechanics courses? It's been three years since I took quantum, and I couldn't associate S-matrix with any concept I remembered upon reading this post. When I looked on page 66 of Griffit...
- Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nats Results
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7982
- Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HS Seniors Bound for College Thread
- Replies: 155
- Views: 77699
To further add to the litany of contact requests, how do I get in touch with the Caltech quizbowl people? As Dwight said, [email protected].edu will get to the responsible parties. They're on spring break right now, so they might be distracted. As for practices, I know that they currently practice o...
- Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Predictions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8338
For the sake of completeness ...
As far as I know, both Caltech teams will be D2 (unless Eric Margelefsky went to nationals while at Cornell, which a Googling doesn't support), and one team will be UG. According to Parag's last e-mail, the people going are:
Parag
Eric
Irene
Grace
Ilya
Jim
Cecilia
Xiao
Parag
Eric
Irene
Grace
Ilya
Jim
Cecilia
Xiao
- Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:16 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Regionals Commentary
- Replies: 51
- Views: 55806
- Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT predictions
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8396
This might be the product of getting squashed by Berkeley for four years, but I think that they are being seriously underranked. A team of Jeff, David, Jerry, and either Paul or Brendan would be a serious contender for the top spot. I suppose it all comes down to rosters, but I would be very shocked...
- Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The essential CBI & ACF & NAQT
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7610
That was from the 2002 or 2003 Technophobia, I think, and was also question #22 or so in a theme pack where all the tossups consisted of the events listed in that tossup. Yeah that was one of Jon Pennington's infamous theme packets. People seemed to like it enough, though. It won the best packet aw...
- Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:24 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: SCT commentary
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71051
(Mid-Atlantic) SCT
but one bonus in particluar was dreadful Do you mean the cigar quotes? That was certainly a Div I question. I'd say that that was easily the worst question of the day. I felt that Maryland did an admirable job with organization given the number of teams. Despite the initial delays, that we got out ...
- Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:00 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Yale BoB quick results
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1993
- Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Yale BoB quick results
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1993
Yale BoB quick results
Here's what I remember after a 12-team round robin: 1. Harvard (10-1) 2. Columbia (9-2) 3. Princeton (8-3) [Head to head over Rutgers] 4. Rutgers NB (8-3) The top scorer was Jason Keller of Rutgers. I thought the questions were, overall, quite good. The distribution was a little uneven (three physic...
- Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer Fright
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7076
- Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Technophobia Update
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3124
- Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Wikipedia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4393
I think that it's wrong to absolutely condemn Wikipedia as a reference source. Because it's easy to Google, it's often easy to use for getting the gist of what a topic is about, and searching in other languages using Google (i.e. sartre site:fr.wikipedia.org) is a good way to get alternate titles fo...
- Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Technophobia Update
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3124
So I'm hoping that this went out in an e-mail to everyone who was there, but the results of Technophobia IX have been posted on the Caltech QB webpage. http://quizbowl.caltech.edu/T9_standings.html These results don't include the outcome of the final (I'm assuming there was one, since Berkeley Jerry...
- Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Brief Cornell Results
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6399
Re: Brief Cornell Results
At what point during the day was it announced that only the results of the playoffs would determine the final standings? This was announced during the distribution of the schedules in the morning. It was announced that 1) prelim records would be thrown out 2) a final would only be played if the pla...
- Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH West Regionals
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1652
TRASH West Regionals
The person in charge of this at Caltech is too lazy to post here, so I just thought that I'd remind teams that TRASH regionals at Caltech is still accepting registrations (and will be for two more weeks) but it would help them to know who is planning to come. Full details are here: http://quizbowl.c...
- Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Technophobia Reminder
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3834
- Mon Sep 20, 2004 7:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Technophobia Reminder
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3834
- Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Technophobia IX
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2044
Announcement: Technophobia IX
An announcement for Technophobia IX (November 6, 2004) is now on the Caltech Quiz Bowl webpage:
http://quizbowl.caltech.edu/T9.html
It's going to be the same weekend as TRASH regionals (to be held on Sunday) ... more details on that later.
http://quizbowl.caltech.edu/T9.html
It's going to be the same weekend as TRASH regionals (to be held on Sunday) ... more details on that later.
- Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Best West Coast Tournament
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2266
Best West Coast Tournament
Have I forgotten any? I'm not including tournaments that didn't use their own questions (i.e. mirrors and central source tournaments).
- Thu Jul 29, 2004 5:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Best team in the nation?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12168
I forgot: Princeton is getting Jordan Boyd-Graber. I don't know if he's going to play, but if he does, he might really help--he's quite good on science, and that's something Princeton's been lacking for a while. Well, delusional statements about my ability aside, I do intend to keep playing. Edit: ...
- Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Seniors, what colleges have you applied to, or attending?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 59057
Wesley Matthews was the leader of that team both administratively and on the buzzer; however, they did have other players, so there may be some veterans hanging around who will help get something started. The last time Oxy had a team that competed was my frosh year, and so anyone there with Wesley ...
- Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 72153
As for the person who said about Stanford Labe, I couldn't find an explicit NAQT policy about this, but a strength of schedule measurement would flush those out (which I haven't done, but Jason worked on). I don't see how it would; Jason's proposed SoS measurement would reward all teams in the West...
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 72153
WAIT LIST 1. Wofford (Southeast) 2. Truman B (Southwest) 3. Stanford Labe (West) //this invite would force Stanford D1 host bid 4. Florida B (Southeast) 5. Case Western (Canada) Since I know the West sectionals best, I thought I'd throw in my two cents. This has Stanford Labe being invited before B...