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math is fun and easy - play this in full at hsnct plz

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...quite a few people who have been organizing and staffing good quizbowl tournaments in the state for well over a decade now which now call themselves the Louisiana Quiz Bowl Alliance . The Louisiana Quiz Bowl Association is not the new state quizbowl organization. The Louisiana Quiz Bowl Alliance...

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More schools seem to be participating in pyramidal quiz bowl, and hopefully this trend will only continue. Good quizbowl has been trending upward in Louisiana since the early 2000s. It took a while to get off its feet, but Louisiana has had somewhat healthy good quizbowl participation for quite som...

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cruzeiro wrote:Yes, this is noted Canadian Rafael Krichevsky being referred to.

He's from CANADA???

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Field: [4 total, cap 6* (tentative)]

Kevin Marshall et al.
Jake Sundberg, probably solo
Louisiana Tech (1, maybe 2)

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This is an announcement for a late mirror of Terrapin XXIX , which will take place on the campus of University of Louisiana at Lafayette on Saturday, April 1. This is an open tournament. Any person who has not heard the set can play. This tournament will take place in Judice-Rickels Hall, across fro...

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All indicators seem to point to this event moving to 4/1/17 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Further details to come soon.

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Are these packets meant to be 12 questions long? That just seems a little weird, thought maybe you might have typed in a wrong number or something.

*totally writing up a packet for this

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Why isn't vibrational degrees of freedom acceptable? It seems overly picky not to accept it. [The tossup was very good, by the way.]

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Can you post the tossup on vibrational modes, please?

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heterodyne wrote:
But also I wanted to leave the theme of this question hidden so that it didn't intrude on people who learned about drakaina from other sources--as Wang did--when they answer the question.
You can just say video games

video games are the source of all knowledge

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Cody wrote:but surely someone has been waiting for the heat kernel to come up, right?!

Referencing the Atiyah-Singer index theorem in your cluing for this is sooooo Harrison Brown-like of you. I smiled when I was reading this question and I applaud you for your excellent choice of clues.

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Louisiana Tech won this tournament, winning both games of an advantaged final to go 10-2 on the day. Rice finished in second at 9-3 and UL Lafayette finished third at 7-3. I presume the stats are forthcoming.

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Auks Ran Ova wrote:

this should be your new avatar, rob

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The Forbidden Zone is not worthy of such a fantastic creature.

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Even though I am no longer a board staff member (sooner or later, my security clearance will be revoked), I think it's kind of silly to act like just because Max is a board staff member, somehow he can't express opinions without it being interpreted as authoritative. Nothing any of the moderators s...

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I think our A team competes just fine with the Georgia's, Alabama's, and Florida's when full strength. It's not a good idea to make global comparisons of team strength based on stats from combined field SCTs played on D2 questions and ACF Fall. Those results are never analogous to comparisons which...

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I, similarly, am entirely entitled to alter my opinion of you and your club’s character based on how you acquired it and whether or not is used. I really hate to drag in specific teams and don't want to impugn the quality of the people on 2015 Chicago B, and in fact I enjoyed playing against them. ...

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I think our A team competes just fine with the Georgia's, Alabama's, and Florida's when full strength. It's not a good idea to make global comparisons of team strength based on stats from combined field SCTs played on D2 questions and ACF Fall. Those results are never analogous to comparisons which...

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I tend to invite new schools to the tournament first, then new teams from already registered schools. note: In the case of last-minute cancellations, there's a higher probability of getting a school that's already coming to bring another team than there is of getting a school to register a team from...

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e - x - p - a - n - d -- t - h - e -- f - i - e - l - d
Next year, if you must! It is for the greater good! I fear that the 2017 D2 champion will not qualify for the 2018 D1 ICT at this rate.

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My initially planned 22/0 math questions are complete and ready to go. I have committed to writing an additional 25/0 or so, but as a rule I'm limiting myself to topics that I'm more familiar with in the hard sciences, such as classical mechanics, GR, quantum mechanics, maybe stat mech, and the occa...

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I swear to god, I'm going to schedule 6 hours at random cheap community colleges every Spring and travel to the worst SCT sites every year until this rule is changed. Twenty bucks say if you come to Florida CCSCT next year you lose to Valencia. I can't play CCSCT because that's actually against the...

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I swear to god, I'm going to schedule 6 hours at random cheap community colleges every Spring and travel to the worst SCT sites every year until this rule is changed. What's so bad about that, right? I will certainly have "earned" my victories and people will come to my defense on the foru...

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If NAQT would expand the ICT fields, none of this would be much of an issue. Every year, there are a few good teams who want to attend but get left out. Expand the field to accommodate the needs of a growing circuit.

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Again, me being there caused an extra bid to spontaneously generate that would not have been awarded otherwise. CU Boulder A would have gotten their D2 bid with or without me there. Right, but assuming that every team accepts bids that they are given (which most teams do), the ones who are really a...

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I would also like to point out that this is not the first time a school has earned a bid to ICT by qualifying at an SCT site outside their normal region. In 2015, Aayush from Waterloo flew down to our site at UCF to play SCT and he qualified to DI ICT. Even though a school outside Florida qualified...

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2. What's the end result of quizbowl for an individual? Sitting at the end of your career, your binary associations fading, your reflexes dulling, your trophies gathering dust If I may politely disagree a bit with this comment for a minute--If quizbowl just gives you books whose pages are left unop...

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I'm interested in playing this as well. If someone needs a rusty science player feel free to PM.

*apparently a physical mirror may have popped up in our region, so disregard this post.

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Auks Ran Ova wrote:
Cheynem wrote:Is CO Trash clear?
yes

Your bonus on Roland Garros was priceless.

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Writing a good tossup that has one or two minor blemishes is >> than submitting a tossup straight out of wikipedia. If you look up Chicago Open mathematics, you'll notice that almost every single clue is directly from the answerline's Wikipedia page or a Wikipedia page that was linked from the answ...

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Supposedly 23 days remain until the excitement commences! Express your feelings about Final Fantasy XV in this thread. Don't forget to set your clocks back in 29 minutes. Unsurprisingly, this means we have to wait another hour for FFXV, as if the wait wasn't long enough. Square Enix, please do not d...

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I'm just curious if anyone watches or plays Smash Bros in the QB community. I watch both professional Melee and Smash 4, and this may sound ridiculous but my mental game and patience is heavily influenced by the professional players in both games. If anyone is interested I would love to play them i...

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I'd like to posit what seems to me an obvious possibility and which Sean himself can confirm or deny. When he said "Penn-ance is in order," maybe he was talking about, you know a pun that would suggest there is something to apologize for, instead of him meaning "you need to write ano...

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I'd like to posit what seems to me an obvious possibility and which Sean himself can confirm or deny. When he said "Penn-ance is in order," maybe he was talking about, you know a pun that would suggest there is something to apologize for, instead of him meaning "you need to write ano...

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Can I demand a mandatory Thai subdistro?

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Will NAQT's new President, Lee Henry, be making any other major changes? Should I be worried that he might fire Seth Teitler? Is this a serious comment? What makes you (and anyone else who thinks this) believe that Lee Henry is somehow magically in cahoots with NAQT? Does Lee magically possess some...

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Learn science, not lists.

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OH MY GOD THESE STATS ARE SO LOUD

Anyway, thanks for hosting! It was a lot of fun.

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Thanks for all your hard work, Matt. The game is much better for your involvement. I have no intention of saying goodbye from the community for a while longer, but I wonder if, as my generation moves on, this might not be a time to assess the state of the game. Are we on a sustainable course? Are w...

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How about a compromise if you don't like carrying cash and checks around, Ike? Maybe you could institute a policy in which you accept alternate forms of payment up until the day of the tournament but not the day of? For instance, sending an invoice and asking for payment in advance in the form of a ...

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This was outstanding! Thanks for writing and please write another set when you get the chance!

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mhayes wrote:No worries. I didn't mean to come across so grumpy in my post. It's just something to keep in mind, especially for a city like San Diego with a large number of transient residents.

WELL NOW I CAN CHALLENGE YOU TO A SKYPE MIRROR ONE ON ONE

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The Sund Also Rises (Jake Sundberg, Dargan Ware, Dwayne Edwards) go 8-1 to take Louisiana Open III. Outlaws of the Marshall (Kevin Marshall, Dominic Lloyd, Tyler Quebedeaux, Nick Rosato) go 6-3 to finish 2nd, and Louisiana Tech in third with a record of 5-3. Prelim stats can be found here. Combined ...

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I just think the editors (Adam, Aaron, and Jake) happened to overshoot the intended difficulty. Actually, that's only partially true! Despite a few unfortunate gaffes in a couple of the bonus questions, my bonus conversion hit 15.57 ppb (which was quite distant from second place amongst those subca...

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Check wikipedia for alternate answerlines. In particular, p-infinity should have been accepted for the Prufer group. Answers similar to Z-p-infinity and C-p-infinity were acceptable. Giving more clues provides some robustness. I'm going to get better at this whole editing thing. Thanks for the feed...

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How could Matt have possibly known that I was thinking about this very thing for months now? Yes, I believe chemistry needs to be cut 20% at higher levels to make way for stronger other science. It's simply not as broad of a topic as the other big two and so I think we can cut it at higher levels to...

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Artin is one of the major modern mathematicians, actually. His contributions to modern algebra are rather prominent. Ring theory gets a lot less coverage in quizbowl circles than does group theory, so I figured I would work some major results from ring theory into one of my editors questions. His na...

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I was going to complain about the math at length, but, in retrospect, I'm not positive there was so much more to complain about than there was in several other science categories. There were a few clunkers (matroids, Prüfer p-groups), some wording problems (that bonus's first and last parts; the bo...

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Sir, you are certainly short-changing yourself with only a $5 increase in the fees. Good riddance, bump it up! You should not be underpaid for creating such a heartwarmingly creative labour of love!

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