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- Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7475
Re: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
SC won game 1(430-205), game 2 is happening now.
- Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7475
Re: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
After 10 rounds, MW went 10-0, SC went 9-1, an advantaged final is happening now.
- Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7475
Re: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
Stats through round 3 are up at: http://people.virginia.edu/~wab2m/eftst ... dings.html
- Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7475
Re: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
Registration is planned for 8:30-9:00, I will send an email tonight with the exact location and other helpful info.Matt Weiner wrote:Cut VCU to one team please.
What's the start time for this?
- Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7475
Re: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
I have updated the field listing in the first post. We will definitely be meeting in New Cabell hall.
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7475
Re: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
Yes, so you your best bet for free parking is to park near the stadium. There are closer places to park, but the probability that there will be open space is slim.PN News wrote:Is Uva still replacing every parking lot anywhere near campus with a building
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7475
Re: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
Of courseThe Shockmaster wrote:Might you be looking for extra staff for this shindig?
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Post here if you don't want required geography at ACF Nats
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4483
Re: Post here if you don't want required geography at ACF Nats
I don't like geography.
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7475
EFT Mirror at UVA(10/3/09)
The UVA Academic Competition Club is happy to announce that we will be mirroring EFT on October 3rd. I will be serving as TD for this site, so please email me at wab2m@virginia.edu to register. Pricing Base fee: $100 Buzzer discount: -$5 each Staff discount: -$10 each Location This Tournament will m...
- Wed Sep 02, 2009 4:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT 4 at Brown (Saturday, October 3)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 31169
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT 4 at Brown (Saturday, October 3)
I put in a bid to host it.DumbJaques wrote:Is this going to be hosted at UVA? We don't have a Mid-Atlantic mirror lined up (for this or Minnesota Open), so it'd be cool if the UVA people could update us on the status.
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT 4 at Brown (Saturday, October 3)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 31169
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT 4 at Brown (Saturday, October 3)
If maryland doesn't want to host it, we probably could.
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bias towards named things in science: does it hurt the canon?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10778
Re: Bias towards named things in science: does it hurt the canon
It's okay to thirty a bonus or one-line a question if you're a good player. Really, it is. You don't need to go off and complain about how the Kutusov-Glasberg-Watanabe Effect needs to be moved later than the second line. You don't need to tell everyone on the board that Eyring-Theunissen Theory is...
- Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CaTO/TaCO Discussion
- Replies: 84
- Views: 13603
Re: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
It was that a large chunk of the science skewed to science history or science biography (Kekule, anyone?) and that the minor science avoided earth science and astronomy altogether. I forgot about that question. I think there were more clues in that question about Gravity's Rainbow than about the th...
- Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CaTO/TaCO Discussion
- Replies: 84
- Views: 13603
Re: CaTO/TaCO Discussion
While I was disappointed with the relative scarcity of science in this tournament, I enjoyed the tournament a lot. A couple of things however: 1.Please don't use the "X worked on the Encyclopaedia Britannica article about Y" clue, this is not particularly helpful on tossups about scientist...
- Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open II at VCU - Saturday, August 8
- Replies: 114
- Views: 46566
Re: VCU Open II at VCU - Saturday, August 8
I am looking for a team and willing to write some questions.
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Oh my god what if I don't know eight factorial
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5311
Re: Oh my god what if I don't know eight factorial
Luckily, it is only weakly NP-HardThe Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:That's not just hard, its NP-Hard.grapesmoker wrote:Actually, it's just solving the knapsack problem.Cheynem wrote:That is pretty hard, when one considers all the mathematical options for groceries. Ten choices for pudding alone!
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 51270
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
Apparently Mike Bentley is no longer coming, so the Evan/Myself/Andrew Alexander team is looking for a new 4th player. Our packet was submitted a long time ago, so no writing is required.
- Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Math Computation, Round 23748234
- Replies: 125
- Views: 28325
Re: Math Computation, Round 23748234
I recently read an article which has many parallels with this discussion.
- Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30008
- Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing science questions for science players
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15859
Re: Writing science questions for science players
Janeway's and Parham's are also very good textbooksThe Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote: -Immuno: Kuby's Immunology
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49560
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Why? and under what category does such a question fall?mujason wrote:I guess I'll confess to the questions I wrote:
Chess computers bonus
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49560
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
I don't have a stake in any outcomes, and certainly don't speak for NAQT as Jeff does, but the per tournament distribution should be a complete non-issue. Questions are scattered evenly across packets. I look through the social science last night just to confirm that, despite what someone said, the...
- Wed May 20, 2009 1:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30008
- Tue May 19, 2009 11:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30008
Re: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
ACF#3 is now ready
- Thu May 07, 2009 5:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30008
Re: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
I've been informed that it is no longer taking place and that I should go ahead and post the 4Q set hereDiocletian wrote:Since it is not listed on the HSAPQ website, where is this tournament?The 4 quarter set is being used next week in Texas
- Wed May 06, 2009 12:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30008
Re: HSAPQ: Fall Tournaments Sets Available
NSC-1 is now available
- Sun May 03, 2009 7:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals question thanks/discussion
- Replies: 75
- Views: 14694
Re: ACF Nationals question thanks/discussion
Looking back at the question on the Halting Problem, I believe Chaitin's constant was name-dropped far too early. I recognize that computer science has far, far from a fleshed out canon, but to me Chaitin's constant comes second only to "undecidable" and "something stopping" for...
- Fri May 01, 2009 5:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 3.0
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10032
Re: Player Poll 3.0
Why?theMoMA wrote:Will Butler is now eligible for this poll.
- Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tournament Discussion Committee of the First International
- Replies: 76
- Views: 13202
Re: Tournament Discussion Committee of the First International
Writing a tossup on Multithreading is a horrible idea and while some might disagree with me, I think that writing tossups on things like phagocytes is a bad idea for the same reason that writing tossups on things like "carnivores" is a bad idea. A better tossup would be on a specific cell ...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Weekend of Quizbowl II (3/14 + 3/15/09, Fairfax, VA)
- Replies: 118
- Views: 55968
Re: Weekend of Quizbowl II (3/14 + 3/15/09, Fairfax, VA)
In all the games we played on Saturday, nobody on either team ever actually chose a math calculation bonus. All other categories were regularly chosen, however. Did anyone in the tournament choose a math calculation bonus? How many times were they actually chosen? Just curious. In the room that I m...
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Early College at Guilford Invitational--The "Quaker Bowl"
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4508
Re: Early College at Guilford Invitational--The "Quaker Bowl"
Did North Myrtle Beach actually come to this tournament? Curious to see if they actually attended one this year finally. Again, our school couldn't afford it. I am the only person on my team willing to pay to go to tournaments, and please don't treat this like were going to travel to 20 tournaments...
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Logistics Discussion, or, Finishing on Time.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5122
Re: ACF Regionals Logistics Discussion, or, Finishing on Time.
It is coming, and in fact I could use some help testing such a system.grapesmoker wrote:The randomization problem is a perfect argument for why an online collaborative system of packet editing would be a great boon to quizbowl.
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT VA State Championship?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 767
Re: NAQT VA State Championship?
Does anyone have any info about the NAQT VA State Championship? It is listed on the NAQT website as happening March 7 at UVA, but I've not seen any announcements for it in the Tournament Announcements forum, nor have I received any other email, snail mail, or anything else about it. I tried to emai...
- Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/MD/VA Date Claim 08-09
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7191
Re: DC/MD/VA Date Claim 08-09
It is looking like we are going to have to change the date since I am having problems getting rooms on that date.AHS Eagles wrote:Does anyone have any info on NAQT States beyond Will's post stating that 3/7 is the date? Does anyone have registration information, such as the fee schedule, in particular?
Thanks,
- Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CARDINAL CLASSIC XVIII MIRROR@UMBC, 2/14/2009
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6948
Re: CARDINAL CLASSIC XVIII MIRROR@UMBC, 2/14/2009
It's looking like we won't actually be coming....DumbJaques wrote:Once again, could we get a field update for this event? I've heard from various sources that UVA and William and Mary and VCU and other people are attending, but it would rule to have it officially posted.
- Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT Private Discussion Forum
- Replies: 129
- Views: 22897
Re: SCT Private Discussion Forum
Registered as tachyonwill
- Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: SCT East at William & Mary (2/7/2009)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7765
Re: Announcement: SCT East at William & Mary (2/7/2009)
UVA will be coming with one DII team
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CARDINAL CLASSIC XVIII MIRROR@UMBC, 2/14/2009
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6948
Re: CARDINAL CLASSIC XVIII MIRROR@UMBC, 2/14/2009
UVA is probably coming.
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/MD/VA Date Claim 08-09
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7191
Re: DC/MD/VA Date Claim 08-09
VA NAQT States ~3/7
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
In the semifinal match between Gonzaga and Gov, Gov won 420-260. In the finals, WJ beat Gov 425 to 240. Prelim stats are located at http://www.student.virginia.edu/~quizbowl/cav13/cav08_standings.html . Playoff stats are located http://www.student.virginia.edu/~quizbowl/cav13/playoffs/playoff_standi...
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
Gonzaga, Walter Johnson, and Maggie Walker went 4-1 in the top bracket. MW and Gonzaga had the lowest points per game so they played a play in. Maggie won this game and is now playing Walter Johnson in the finals.
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
I am uploading stats after each round here. http://student.virginia.edu/~quizbowl/c ... dings.html
- Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
I have never received an email saying that they were coming, if Godwin is coming now would be a good time to tell me.fisherman wrote:Is Godwin registered?
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: RIOT I 11/22/08
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3879
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: RIOT I 11/22/08
UVA is planning on bringing at least one team and I am in the process of another team even as I write this.
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
This is not set in stone yet. I would like to have consolation rounds and there probably will be.intothenegs wrote:What will the prelims/playoff format be, and will there be consolation rounds for teams that don't make playoffs?
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
Update:
Eastern Montgomery
Cave Spring 2
Auburn High School 1
Honaker
Gonzaga
Collegiate 2
Monticello
James Monroe High School
TJ 3-4
Fairfax
St. Catherine/St. Christopher Hybrid 2
Gov 2
Walter Johnson
Total: 19
If you have registered and you are not on the list please let me know.
Eastern Montgomery
Cave Spring 2
Auburn High School 1
Honaker
Gonzaga
Collegiate 2
Monticello
James Monroe High School
TJ 3-4
Fairfax
St. Catherine/St. Christopher Hybrid 2
Gov 2
Walter Johnson
Total: 19
If you have registered and you are not on the list please let me know.
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
Do you have an email address I can contact you at?
- Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
Dear Will, Fairfax HS competed in the previous three Cavalier Classics, but this year we were inadvertently left out of the contact loop for the October tournament. Having said that, is there still any slots open for our team next Saturday?........please let us know asap. Thanks! Dave Carr Academic...
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:46 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
Hopefully between 5 and 6.
- Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22364
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
I will post a field update tomorrow. At the moment it is looking like we will have registration between 8:30 and 9 in Wilson 402(A map is here http://www.virginia.edu/webmap/ACentralGrounds.html) Price breakdown: $80: first team $60: each additional team -$10 buzzer discount (each, limit 2) -$40 mod...