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Hey, Jerry, could we get an updated account of packets? I'd like some sort of confirmation that ours was received. (there was also a question in the email that I'd like an answer to when you get a chance)

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If someone in the UK wants to run a mirror of ACF Regionals, we can work something out. Get in touch with me if you're interested at grapesmoker@gmail.com. Yeah I'd posit that ACF events are probably more international friendly than NAQT events. You'll get a lot less of American pop culture, sports...

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DumbJaques wrote:Isn't HI on this date?

Yes, this is the only day we can host due to spring break.

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VCU is not hosting SCT or Regionals. Maryland is hosting Regionals, and is about 60 miles further away from Pittsburgh than Columbus is. I understand that the extra hour can make a difference in whether you go the morning of or not, and I hope all of these issues are taken into account. Yeah, the m...

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Okay yeah this tournament has been postponed. We most likely are looking at the week of 2/27 to hold the SCT with due respect to Maryland and VCU both hosting ACF Regionals (We hope to attend) and T-Party respectively. Please if any further questions are wanted, please do ask and I will hopefully b...

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Okay yeah this tournament has been postponed. We most likely are looking at the week of 2/27 to hold the SCT with due respect to Maryland and VCU both hosting ACF Regionals (We hope to attend) and T-Party respectively. Please if any further questions are wanted, please do ask and I will hopefully b...

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CMU will be there with 1-2 teams assuming I can find time to write a packet.

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CMU will hopefully have one team each in DI and DII.

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Location and Timing Registration will start at 8:30 am in Porter Hall 100 (2B on this map , with games beginning at 9:00 sharp. Free parking can be had in the Morewood Lot on Forbes (P12 on the map). Who can play this tournament? Only undergraduate (and high school) students can play this tournamen...

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One of the questions cited above reminded me of something: I don't believe that Descartes actually uses the phrase "cogito ergo sum," in Meditations . I'm fairly sure that particular phrase comes from Discourse on Method and the text here supports that claim. That bonus part gave contradi...

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I currently plan on being at HSNCT, in which case I will definitely play this.

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CMU is hosting the Mid-Atlantic MUT mirror - I don't think it would be fair to run that set here. Actually, this is scheduled for the same weekend as MUT - this should be avoided by having either this event or MUT run a different day (at least in our region). Certainly it's better for everybody if ...

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At some point, you should probably look at situations where a team can have a slightly variable performance per game (based on packet); just adding a random value from (-.5,.5) to the true rating for a given round and calculating the ELO then might be an okay way to do it. Maybe I'm missing somethi...

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I have a hard time believing Mike Sorice performed worse on this set than 4 high school teams. The conventional stats certainly don't imply that. I think this is largely caused by the hilariously terrible bracketing at the Chicago site. If, for example, you were using average PPB as a park factor, ...

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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:I don't think quizbowl gets to be the arbiter of what "good" and "bad" pop culture are in a tournament about pop culture any more than we can omit questions about French history because we find France boring.

Wait, does this mean I shouldn't do this for ACF Winter?

Shit.

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Hey, could we get stats for this at some point (even if they are missing a couple of games)?

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FWIW, I spent most of that question sitting on the buzzer thinking "hey, this is clearly a swing-era bandleader who played the clarinet, time to wait for a clue which will allow me to distinguish between Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman." Miller played trombone. I guess his music did promin...

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CMU should have 1-2 teams and 1 staffer (me) for this.

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Things that would be good to know: - Target difficulty. Will this be 5.5 line tossups on regular difficulty answer selection, or will this be 5.5 line tossups on Andy Watkins answer selection? - When will this set be available for play, and what period would you like potential mirrors to be in? Also...

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I'd like to propose a draft if the field size doesn't improve (I'm fairly certain Chris already knows this, but "CMU" is me playing solo).

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Due mainly to the fact that I will be participating in the Bataan Death March that is CMU's Operating Systems class in spring semester, CMU Novice isn't going to be happening this year - you can take it off the list. Hopefully we can make this happen next year, but no promises.

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CMU is only bringing one team. It is not yet decided whether we will stay for trash.

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There is a good chance that some CMU people will stick around for trash if it happens Saturday, but since we are likely day-tripping, Sunday wouldn't work for us.

Also, we are officially bringing two teams.

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CMU is coming to this tournament with 1-2 teams.

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Cowboy Bob Orton wrote:There's a reason IT manager and software developer are not the same job.

And neither has anything to do with theoretical computer science, which is assuredly a science.

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If there is sufficient staff I will play this and am looking for a teammate. I don't know arts.

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I have heard from Mike, and they are indeed fine with teaming up, so consider our teams officially combined.

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I don't think having a definite distribution for every round is either feasible or desirable. Assume for the sake of argument that there is some "ideal distribution" that every round should aspire to (I'm really not sure if I agree with this or not, but it's irrelevant). Now, with splittin...

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I agree with pretty much everything that Sorice has written in this thread. I think Matt's position is pretty silly; even if we accept his argument that players fit into categories of "lit players," "history players," and "science players" and that these groups should g...

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CMU will almost certainly bring a team, with an outside shot at a second.

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I guess I support this.

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I definitely plan on playing this fantastic tournament.

Pilgrim · Re: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09) CMU will bring 1-2 teams.

CMU will bring 1-2 teams.

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Is Egyptian mythology really being relegated to the "grab bag"?

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I am planning on attending and playing in this fine tournament, and I would not be adverse to completing a packet sooner rather than later. If you would like me to join your team, you can email me at [email protected]

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I will probably play this if just for the CS, but if there is a shortage of staff I can do that too.

Pilgrim · Re: VCU Open Music August 8, 2009 I can read for this.

I can read for this.

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Matt Weiner wrote:People coming to this site who are writing packets:

Kirsch/Watkins team
Carson et al team

These teams are the same.

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Hey, I guess I need a team for this. Email me if you're interested.

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Censorship in Burma wrote:all three of those things show up in regular tournaments a lot

[citation needed]

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theMoMA wrote:I'm leaving town on Sunday afternoon, so I'd appreciate if we could play the lit tournament on Saturday.

I'm not sure if I am available Sunday, so I would also prefer this.

Pilgrim · Re: Sun N' Fun Mirror at University of Minnesota (7/11/09) You forgot Trygve.

You forgot Trygve.

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The Gold Gringo wrote:but I can't think of any other second movement with a well-known english horn solo.

Concierto de Aranjuez has one, for what it's worth.

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Solution: massive rewrite, because the second sentence doesn't really work well without the first to pin it to a specific group. Try this: "One leader of this people was Fritigern, who defeated and killed the Emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople after they crossed the Danube into the (*)...

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One character in this novel is sent to prison on charges of corrupting a minor named Gabriel, while another was arrested after trying to help Dr. Americo escape from Argentina. Those two men, Valentín and Molina, share a cell and eventually form a relationship. For 15 points, name this Manuel Puig ...

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Although by Spanish custom his surname is properly Garcia Lorca, he is more commonly known by his mother's surname

Source: http://www.enotes.com/house-bernarda/author-biography

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everyday847 wrote:I had forgotten about that one; really, listing the three best players in men's tennis isn't hard at all. This was the easiest gimme thirty of the tournament, unless I'm missing one.

The cats bonus where Sabertooth Tiger was the hard part pretty easily takes that crown.

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2) (on the part that actually didn't matter) try to preempt any claim that the implied answer had common usage (the relevant Google search comparison is 20,900 to 370, where the top results of the latter are generally people seeking answers from discussion fora) What exactly does common usage have ...

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The moderator instructions specifically said that teams do not need to repeat a common noun already given in the question. I was under the impression that the question asked for a type of number, not a type of integer - if this is incorrect, Gauss should have just been accepted outright, since a &q...

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Also in the first packet, I know that it may not have been necessarily the fifth part, but the clue "In the fifth part of one of his major works, he utilized an a priori" this may have led some people off track by thinking of Kant. Granted it would have been too early in the question, but...

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