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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...

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...

Caltech A was D2, but Caltech B was not (since it had two grad students).

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...

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

My favorite question of the day (even though I screwed it up and inverted the names) was the question on Wallace Shawn. It was interesting, taught me something new, and was well written.

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...

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...

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 ...

Yeah, forgot about the mirror. Mea Culpa.

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...

I'll describe one thing that we did at Caltech (credit where credit is due ... this was Oz's idea). We would read intramurals, NAQT IS, and SCT D2 (in that order over a series of weeks) to our new frosh and give each of our practice teams a neg-free buzz (and only one) if they buzzed in the "po...

plujan wrote:Parag claimed to not have a packet on hand

For the record, two finals packets did exist ... I guess there was moderator error earlier in the day or apathy in printing.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello, The deadline for teams to ask to not submit a packet for Technophobia is October 6 (as well as the last "early" deadline for Jerome and old-fashioned e-mail submission). To the teams that plan on coming and haven't submitted a packet (the deadline is Oct. 13, plus five dollars a day...

When trying to access the Jerome page Can you be more specific about the error? What link did you click on, and what URL where you on? Were you logged in or not? I just tested the "Submit" page yesterday, and didn't have any problems. This, of course, means nothing, but rules out obvious ...

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.

Have I forgotten any? I'm not including tournaments that didn't use their own questions (i.e. mirrors and central source tournaments).

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: ...

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 ...

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...

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...