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Fado Alexandrino

I am pleased to announce that the Eastern Canadian site of 2019 ACF Fall will be held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, November 2, 2019. The tournament will take place at a TBD location, with team check-in beginning at 9:00 and gameplay beginning at 9:30. I will be the ...

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I think there are a solid number of people who are juniors and seniors in college who are not super skilled and for whom ACF Fall is still a very appropriate tournament to play. I think quizbowl tournaments should put the players first, rather than collectively imposing hundreds of writing-hours on...

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BRAINEXPANSION would be a cool name.

Not a neuroscientist myself but several of my teammates would love to play.

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Are conversion stats up yet?

The tossup in pack 21 on shuffling should have an answerline directive on "randomization"

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http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/58 ... und_robin/

I don't have any of the side events stats

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I held a mirror today. Player (rounds played) scores We took turns reading the 8 packets Chris (7) 36 Dr. Renert (7) 29 Me (7) 23 (10 of which came in the round that Chris read -_______-) Erik (7) 12 Aaron (7) 11 Sky (7) 10 Isaac T. (5) 9 Jay (3) 4 Isaac R. (4) 4 Milan (7) 4 Phillip (3) 3 Marcel (3)...

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Could someone send me (or remind Kevin to send me) the packets by the middle of Tomorrow? Kevin agreed on me hosting a mirror tomorrow evening.

Thanks.

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1) Derek So Was a strong support player in 2007-08 and 2008-09 for Sir Winston Churchill. Too bad their captain came to McGill but never played a collegiate game. 2) Rein Otsason Went 52-1 or something in 2011-12 on the way to a national championship, probably a top five season this decade (comparab...

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Rein Otsason should be in your science polls. Aayush Rajasekaran should be in consideration for your literature polls. Both are outside shots for overall top 25.

Nobody's mentioned this so far but I think Eric Xu should be higher up in your polls than where you're gonna put him.

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Where does the estimate of 30-45 minute increase if you played off all rr-playoff tiebreakers come from? I don’t think you’d save much time if, for example, at ICT only the top bracket ties were played off.

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On this schedule we have two byes and play both Chicago and WUSTL in the same round.

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Did the pre-nationals poll even happen this year? It should at least differentiate between ACF and NAQT somehow, these polls tend to lean ACF it seems. I wonder if it would be useful for NAQT to look at whatever limited buzzpoint data on NAQT-specific categories exist over the course of regular seas...

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I think this set did a very good job at reaching those listed goals. Kudos to all the writers for a fantastic job. I wish the set had a bit more interesting ecology though - mangroves and ecological competition both seem sorta overused. I disagree with some of the other posts here and would actually...

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The AGB star tossup seemed like a great idea but poorly executed. If you pull any player who said in their LetterOne interview that science was their weakest subject, they will surely still know that at the end of the sun’s lifetime, it will become a red giant and swallow the Earth. Everything in th...

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This is a terrible decision. Why is the top bracket the only bracket worth playing a tiebreaker for? The difference between playoff brackets is significant not just for final placement (which I suppose you could argue matters less for weaker teams)— it also determines the quality of opponents that ...

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How much more money would it cost to run the proposed 40 team format?

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Every Canadian CO trip just tries to imitate this but fails at doing so.

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Why are the NSC scoring rules the way they are? Are they likely to change in the near future? Why are PACE, ACF, IQBT separate from each other? It seems a lot of them share staffers, leaders, and writers. Would quizbowl be stronger with one unified non-NAQT umbrella organization? In 10 years from no...

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It doesn’t fully answer your question because these tournaments are not held during the regular season, but the Canadian HSNCT mirror has been quite successful over the last several years as an easier option for alumni. In the past, we’ve also used Delta Burke as a tournament geared for open teams (...

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I will be going to Queen’s University for a one year bachelor of education. It’s not conditional on graduating my masters, but I sure hope I can do so before August, cutting any ties I may still have with Les Chevaliers de McGill.

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Hello,

It says in the post for this tournament that it’s difficultly is regular minus (so EFT, Terrapin) but it also says it’s the same difficulty as 2018 FST which in turn is the same difficulty of 2017 ACF Fall. So which one is it?

Thanks,

Fado Alexandrino

Montcalm Collegiate Institute beat University of Toronto Schools A in a tight 1 game final to win this tournament.

http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/56 ... ith_final/

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This was an extremely well run tournament. Thanks to all the staffers and writers for an enjoyable time. I think this had the best online tournament logistics of any I have played.

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Toronto's SCT performance was affected by the fact Sky Li showed up very late.

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I thought NAQT makes hosts rank teams by all games played.

Jonah in the 2017 thread wrote:The hosts of this tournament did not realize that NAQT's policy is to consider all games when ranking teams.

It's a dumb policy but it's definitely a policy.

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At last year's SCT, Toronto D had a playoff record of 4-2 and Toronto E had a playoff record of 5-1, yet Toronto D is listed ahead of Toronto E (as it should be, because they tied in record and Toronto D had a higher PP20).

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I read D2. Here are my comments. I feel the same as last year, namely that this set is the broken child of a downconverted D1 set and an upconverted HS set. However, I felt this year the tossups were better controlled than in 2017 and 2018, but the bonuses were about the same. General comments Contr...

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Thanks Jeff. Would it be possible to see past year's D-value rankings using this new formula?

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I found the music to be excellent. I don’t have much more to say about specific questions because it wasn’t my personal preferences. The one score clue I wanna comment on was the leadin to the messiah, which mentions an ascending scale from C to A without any indication of tempo or rhythm. (You say ...

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I'm curious to hear people's thoughts about physics and other science, in terms of difficulty, subject matter and execution. I tried to strike a balance between important things experts would know about and accessibility/maintaining interest from a non scientific audience. I thought the CS/applied ...

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Canada's SCT D1 field is looking at lot like what the Chicago/Chicago/Northwestern/WUSTL site looked like in 2016. I hope we don't end up in a million way circle of death and knock each other out of qualifying.

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Self-centered post but since my countrymen can't go to HS national stuff we'd love to have it over ICT or CO

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Hi Nick,

Will this be available in Canada?

Thanks,

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Nice seeing y'all this weekend!

Toronto A defeated Toronto J in the 2nd game of an advantage final to win the tournament.

Stats

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Same sentiment as above. McGill A will play.

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Eds 3 Bonus 12: Element 118 is "oganesson" though it seems the listed answer of "organesson" at least redirects on wikipedia. It also incorrectly lists the symbol (listed Or, should be Og) FSU et al. Bonus 12: "gravity waves" should absolutely not be accepted for gravit...

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The opening clue of the Dvorak tossup, AFAIK, is a solo piano work and not a work for violin and piano.

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This was a very good set overall. I liked the creativity of the literature questions especially when the answerlines that were essentially the title but as a person, place, or thing. I thought the score clues for music were sometimes quite challenging. Take for example the lead in to the Bizet tossu...

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The tossup on British mathematicians could have used an answerline directive for England. I didn’t accept it because I assumed they were a mix of countries but another reader did.

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Hello,

When will this poll close?

McGill A will play this together. Should we vote once or four times?

Thanks,

Fado Alexandrino

Tournament will be in Southam Hall 3rd and 4th floors (SA on the map), control room TBD. Recommended parking is P1, and this is located at the bottom left of the map. Please be ready to play for 9 AM!

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Tournament will be in Southam Hall 3rd and 4th floors (SA on the map), control room TBD. Recommended parking is P1, and this is located at the bottom left of the map. Please be ready to play for 9 AM!

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please don't spike akhil's drinks with human growth hormone

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Rooms TBD, start time is 9.

Fees 100/team with -20 per missing player

Staffers get $20

Field:

Meghan/Rein/Ryan/Jenny
Aayush/Nick
Some combo of Breslie/Xdam
Brendan/Rodrigo
McMaster free agents
Toronto/McGill free agents

Free Agents:
Gareth A.

Fado Alexandrino

My laptop sound is dead, rather than trying all day to fix it I'm just gonna call it quits so if someone else wants to play get in touch with the other members of my team. I already paid Will so don't worry about it.

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Benin Rebirth Party wrote: ↑Sat Aug 04, 2018 7:05 pm McGill is:

Akhil Garg, Daniel Lovsted, Joe Su, Derek So

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Thank you all for coming.

The team based event stats are on the database, while the individual event stats will be posted here. Aayush has the stats for RAPTURE and Brendan has the stats for Human Use.

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Entirely Real Landscape scores

cam paul jay erik adam pat
255 70 335 85 50 70

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People who haven't signed up should do so. The control room is Tory 236. We will run over Saturday Lunch, Entirely Real Landscapes , as a shootout for $10 a person, and you will also have to chip into the pizza order in order to conserve time. WORLDSTAR will be 4 (double round robin + finals) or 6 t...

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Is this set still available for mirrors?

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