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pragmatically it's because nobody has announced a set having 1/1 math before and/or done it well enough to indicate we should continue to?

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Seems like there's a big group for a July mirror, but I'm assuming if I asked people to settle on one weekend those votes would be split. I'm currently leaning towards August 17th-18th to have a buffer after CO. This has the benefit of giving writers more time to polish their sets and not accidenta...

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Due to SQBS limitations I do not have a way to individually record who got final boss tus

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The trash tournament Ann B. Davis had the feature where once a game a player could answer a bonus all by themselves and if they got all three parts they earned 60 points, but if they got any part wrong they earned 0 points. I don't think I'm the only specialist who dreamed of one day seeing that in...

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you appear to have mistakenly placed a mandatory "other history/other academic" question in the other science distribution : I would recommend amending this

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Kudos to ASil for his work on the science. The clue selection, difficulty selection, and creativity were excellent throughout the set (there were multiple tossups where my immediate response was "man that was a fucking great idea") I would also like to praise the tournament for for strictl...

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any specific type?

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Not too much to add re proofreading. When I read the set packet 9 had a repeat world history tu from packet 8 as well. Some of the science in the set seemed VERY hard compared to some of the other questions including those in the science category itself (even a tu at a nats difficulty doesn't need t...

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Hey did like anyone ever like, proofread this set

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Since I was coach at the time, I can supply the following: Current (2020) presidential candidate Peter Buttigieg competed for two years on the Quiz Bowl team for St. Joseph's, IN (the school's name at the time). During his junior year, he was third on the team in scoring and played at the National ...

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Red Panda Cub wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:23 pm The claim in the Finals 2 packet that in Dominion cards that let you draw are called cantrips is incorrect. Cantrips let you draw + give you an additional action.

This tu also tells you immediately it is an action you can do in a card game which doesn't have a lot of possible answers

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In a similar vein to Aaron Rosenberg's request from last year for people to not write tossups on scientists, I respectfully ask that anyone writing chemistry please not submit tossups on elements. Functional groups also frowned upon.

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I don't understand what Berus-Lie is, is this post just some sort of in-joke?

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Are you seriously telling me Socal doesn't contain people who can switch between tabs, click on words and paste things?

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obviously your physical location makes things difficult but how many of these players have you actually seen play

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I'm not a tremendous fan of these kinds of tossups when they try to link a common word since often there are other names used for a term of art which can often lead to questions being confusing if you're only familiar with the alternative terms. An example of this was the 2017 CO tu on "Scannin...

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just learn more things that other people so you are buzzing beforehand or ready to buzz beforehand instead of whatever cheap priming tricks someone is going to suggest

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15. A man gives a thumbs up while inclining his head towards the viewer in this artist’s painting The Lunch, whose composition is similar to his Farmers’ Lunch. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Spanish artist of Las Meninas. ANSWER: Diego (Rodríguez de Silva y) Velázquez [10] The aforementioned g...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:12 pm You put the tournament on the weekend of my birthday again.

I think you're mixing it up with Richard Yu's birthday

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QB etiquette question: With these team formation spreadsheets... should you ask prospective team members first if you can join them, or do you simply assign yourself to open spots? I assumed the former but Alex thinks it's OK to assign yourself. What's the general rule? Also... what time of time of...

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I invite you to make and post your list of the 25 best history players in the greater Naperville area OK. 1. Me, the most important part of this list and also the protagonist of reality 2-25. The first 24 people in your dumb list lol Govind, Asil, and Arjun should also be in there somewhere but I d...

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EAS seemed like a difficult answerline for this difficulty (and advanced stats seem to bear that out). Hey, so this is great example of why you can't always try to argue stuff with empirical evidence from stats. People are not good at chemistry! That being said, electrophilic aromatic substitution ...

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To add on to this discussion on computational bonus parts, perhaps we could look at a bonus part that (in retrospect) I think accomplished its goal well? In particular, I am referring to the CS bonus part on implementing inorder traversal of a binary tree: [10] Three answers required. Binary trees ...

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It's pretty problematic that the tu immediately says this is a structure that protein chains adopt in the first line since it immediatelytu rns the tu into a 50/50 regardless of the difficulty of the other clues

EDIT: oh also that transmembrane thing doesn't really eliminate beta barrels

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hey so i went to a school that was hypothetically in the middle of the state of illinois, which happened to be maybe... less than 5 hours from OSu and like a 7.5 hour drive to umn I sure as hell would want to go to the osu mirror and would be pretty peeved if for some reason the editors of the set r...

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EAS seemed like a difficult answerline for this difficulty (and advanced stats seem to bear that out). Hey, so this is great example of why you can't always try to argue stuff with empirical evidence from stats. People are not good at chemistry! That being said, electrophilic aromatic substitution ...

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stats should be available here
If you have any issues with the stats don't bother me about them I just ripped them from scoresheets

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Asking for a teammate, would Campbell’s textbook be a bit much for a 7th grader to take in? He has a decent understanding of physics and chem, it’s just his bio that’s weak.If it makes a difference, he already has it at his house (sibling) if he's a bright enough kid it should be fine. Understandin...

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The tossup on "antibodies" was extremely cliffy -- all the clues before "Y-shaped" were very hard. I looked this tossup up and it seems fine. I suspect that rather than this tossup being "very hard" that it actually contained words you do not know. In fact, the clues c...

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As a moderator I found this set pretty difficult to read, which from what I remember was due to a lot of run-on sentences (I'd probably have to re-look at the set but it certainly felt that I had to take a breath after some sentences) A decent amount of the set felt kind of rushed (in particular aft...

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what on earth

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yeah sorry that's on me. I wanted to write a tu on carbon-carbon bond forming reactions as they are extremely important and core to organic chemistry education but couldn't think of a great way to word it and just figured if people knew the clue they'd get over the hump of the weird nounage. Having ...

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This year's fantasy FSNL league consists of myself and Tejas Raje. A rotisserie draft was held and the results were as follows, with team Wang having the first pick. 1. Mike Cheyne to Wang 2/3. Carsten and Maryland B to Tejas 4. Robot Matt Bollinger to team Wang Mike informed me that his team's perf...

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if this comes back and fantasy SNL becomes posted again it'd make everyone's day

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:45 pm How would non-qbers know what a power mark is?

a quick urbandictionary search informs me it's an informal way to display an anus in chat

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Uh, are there really no members of either of the teams that won the NSC or HSNCT this year in the player of the year noms?

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a lot of good options were suggested in this thread

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1.82 wrote:
kiwikoalabear wrote: > November 17th for our inaugural novice tournament, NAQT (Novice Academic Quiz Tournament)
Please don't call your tournament this.

seconded: please don't intentionally mislead novices...

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Due to issues with the room reservation process at the University of Chicago, this tournament will instead be held at Northwestern University . :party: :party: :party: Tomate, Chicken Shack, here I come! :party: :party: :party: In all seriousness, if anyone wants food suggestions/needs any help wit...

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Due to issues with the room reservation process at the University of Chicago, this tournament will instead be held at Northwestern University . :party: :party: :party: Tomate, Chicken Shack, here I come! :party: :party: :party: In all seriousness, if anyone wants food suggestions/needs any help wit...

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I for one welcome more tournaments moving closer to my home

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To proselytize for someone I've never personally met, I keep hearing the stat quoted that Clark Smith (of Dublin Scioto) had 20 ppg at ACF Nats--on a team with Chris Ray. That's some astounding deep knowledge. I didn't intend on posting in this thread because HS individual player polls don't make f...

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I'd be down for a british main event
much less inclined for the canadian event

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In general it helps to set up some sort of concrete goals you'd like to reach, perhaps make a list of what you want to go over and make sure you've reached certain parts of it by different segments of the summer

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why would someone a year and a half out of school be at his peak

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will there be more stuff like this next year?

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I really liked the bio answerlines in this set! Basically my only complaint is the Haldane tossup, which was solidly science history (and included several non-bio history clues at that). I personally feel that books written for laypeople should NOT appear in science questions, and especially not *m...

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I appear to be mostly writing pro-British posts at the moment, but Oxford should 1) come higher on your ballots now then they did before and 2) be noted as only missing out on the top bracket by (iirc) 20 points in their tiebreaker game. It's also worth noting that their top of second bracket finis...

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I appear to be mostly writing pro-British posts at the moment, but Oxford should 1) come higher on your ballots now then they did before and 2) be noted as only missing out on the top bracket by (iirc) 20 points in their tiebreaker game. It's also worth noting that their top of second bracket finis...

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Chicago A has won the tournament outright. The second place game will be played in 10-250 at approximately 2:45 PM. Not sure if this has started, but if it were livestreamed in lieu of a final I for one would very much appreciate it. I'm glad you asked Kevin Wang has one going which will hopefully ...

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