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Big O - this was not good. I wanted to neg with runtime the whole time, and I'm sure other people did too. Rob and Trevor certainly have more experience with this, but I've had to use the Master theorem once or twice and it was kind of frustrating to not be able to figure out what it wanted. This t...

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Magister Ludi wrote:
Pilgrim wrote:I'm interested in playing this tournament (and am seeking a teammate). I am also more than happy to staff if needed.
Want to team up?

Sure.

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We will need to combine teams, use double byes, or use brackets with 18 teams. My suggestion is that you make one team of three consisting of Charles Hang (who submitted the last packet that I received and who has no teammate) and the two people whose packet contains the most repeats. That leaves y...

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I'm interested in playing this tournament (and am seeking a teammate). I am also more than happy to staff if needed.

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Since my original post got split off, I'm playing this with Chris Ray.

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I'm playing this tournament with Chris Ray.

something ambiguous wrote:Also, if anybody wants to play this, I can finish my all Byzantine/ middle age slavic history tournament for people to play after this is done.

Yes please.

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I want to play the history and film tournaments the most. I will probably play whatever else happens except for music.

Pilgrim · Re: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE I want to play this.

I want to play this.

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It looks like I will be in Chicago Saturday night, so I'd like to play this tournament. Does any team have an open slot?

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This set is cleared for discussion, and I have sent it to George Berry to be posted. I want to thank my co-editors Will Butler (science), Auroni Gupta (European + world lit, RMP), John Lawrence (arts), and Guy Tabachnick (European + world history, social science, geography). I edited American and Br...

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ieppler wrote:Stats are on the tournament DB.

Link for the lazy.

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stats

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First post has been updated with all packets received so far and a list of teams to whom extensions have been granted. Please let me know if I missed someone - inductive reasoning indicates that this is probably the case.

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This is your reminder that tomorrow is the final packet deadline for this tournament. Any team required to write questions who does not send me a packet or request an extension by 11:59pm PST will not be playing.

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MathMusic wrote:Trevor,

Buffalo is hosting this year, per the ACF Hosting guidelines our packet should be a -$50, not a $0

That's correct; I had it marked on my spreadsheet, but forgot to transfer it over here. Thanks for reminding me.

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The first post has been updated with no penalty packets.

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The first post has been updated with packets received for the second deadline.

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The first deadline has passed. I inserted a list of received packets into the first post - if you believe you sent me a packet but you are not listed there, please contact me ASAP.

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ACF Regionals 2012 will be hosted at the following sites: West: UC San Diego South: Chris Romero at St John's School, Houston North: University of Minnesota Midwest: University of Illinois Southeast: Georgia Tech East Canada/Niagara: University of Buffalo Mid-Atlantic: George Washington University N...

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I'm pleased to announce that my co-editors for this tournament are Will Butler of Georgia Tech, Auroni Gupta of UC San Diego, John Lawrence of Yale, and Guy Tabachnick of Brown.

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With three weeks to go till the first submission deadline, I just wanted to check two things: 1. Is there an editing team for this tournament? 2. Is active work being done to secure mirror sites? Last year, this was not started until close to the date, and as a consequence there were scheduling pro...

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Feit-Thompson Theorem This seems like a a terrible idea for a tossup. I have taken two classes on group theory, one at a graduate level, and this was never even mentioned in either of them. I also am amused by the fact that this set also contained a group theory bonus in which all three parts are s...

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This is the official global announcement for ACF Regionals 2012, which will take place on February 18, 2012. Editors Head Editor: Trevor Davis (Carnegie Mellon) Co-Editors: Will Butler (Georgia Tech), Auroni Gupta (UCSD), John Lawrence (Yale), Guy Tabachnick (Brown) Hosts West: UC San Diego South: C...

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I will play this.

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As far as I can tell from the hotel website, it does not offer a shuttle to/from the airport. How good is the Sunday bus system in Pittsburgh to get to the airport to justify not renting a car? The airport buses run pretty reliably every 30 minutes (I've had a few notable exceptions, but I think th...

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"Blue Rondo alla Turk" Whether this is a good idea for a tossup aside (I personally love the piece, but I think it's pretty hard) I'm pretty surprised that this has been singled out as a hard tossup for this tournament. Isn't this a fairly well-known (maybe top 25?) jazz piece? It's hard ...

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"Blue Rondo alla Turk" Whether this is a good idea for a tossup aside (I personally love the piece, but I think it's pretty hard), it doesn't seem to be executed very well. After a fine lead-in, we get "In the first two minutes of this work, the saxophone twice does not play with the...

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Given that the field for this (with the exception of Maryland) appears to essentially be a conglomerate of free agents, I think a draft might be a good idea to try to get as even of games as possible. Anyone else have an opinion on this? I'm interested in playing this tournament. Given the difficult...

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helios wrote:Final Statistics: http://results.scobo.net/uiucacademicbu ... isopen2011

Edit: Tournament has ended, the team composed of Matt Lafer, Ryan Westbrook, Seth Teitler, and Mike Sorice won 10-0.

That is some, um... exciting bonus conversion.

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Rom and Friends (Rom Masrour, Bruce Arthur, Richard Mason) is still looking for a 4th player. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please let one of us know. I have joined this team, apparently despite the best efforts of Charles Martin to assign me to some sort of free agent team wi...

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I am going to be playing this tournament. I am looking for a team, so if you would like to play with me, email me at [email protected]

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Lapego1 wrote:It's almost certainly not going to be able to occur on 3/5 due to Spring Break. I will update this later today once a more suitable date has been found.

Any word on this? I need to decide whether to go to the main site or not.

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I'm interested in playing this tournament. Given the difficulty of the set, I am looking for teammates.

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This tournament is being canceled due to lack of interest now that OSU is going to the main site.

EDIT: Since I would obviously rather play this tournament than not see it happen at all on the east coast, if someone more conveniently located wants to host a delayed mirror, please contact Marshall.

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The first post is updated. I'm still hoping to hear from a couple of schools.

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-Ludendorf: I don't know enough about this one, but Chris negged with Hindenberg. Maybe there's an issue? He took command of the 14th Brigade after its leader was killed and soon forced the surrender of Liege. Along with Max Hoffman, he was sent to assist General Prittwitz's replacement and planned...

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The Ray Noble song of this name supposedly inspired Charlie Parker's creation of bebop. That's what it was. I misheard "Ray Noble" and then figured that since the question didn't mention "Koko" (which is, by any account that I can find, the song that was actually based on "...

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I felt like this was a fine set for NAQT's distribution and stuff. There were some questions that were fairly hard, but cool like Theodoric This was the last history question into the set Thursday night. I'm quite sure the leadin was (at least!) ICT difficulty, but I didn't have time to write somet...

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On a side note, the CS tossup on “Congestion” seemed like a pretty ambitious thing to ask about at a tournament like this. I admit that when I write 5 science tossups for a packet I tend to write four of them on canonical things and one that is in the shadow cannon so to speak. However, I think tos...

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I'm sorry there's been some confusion about the location of this tournament's mid-Atlantic mirror. Based on an inquiry of mine in December, I guess that Delaware has been considering mirroring this. However, not having heard anything since a reply that essentially said "we'll consider it"...

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Carnegie Mellon will be hosting a mirror of Chicago's house-written tournament The Sack of Antwerp on February 19. This is an open tournament, so there are no restrictions on who can play this tournament or who they can play with. Location and Timing This tournament will be held in Porter Hall (3B o...

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Linus and Lucy.

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Man, why do people keep voting for Tom Waits? It's not even a song! Christmas Wrapping by default.

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I really like both of these songs, but I guess I will go with Fairytale of New York.

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South Park
Royal Guardsmen

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The Pogues
Run-DMC

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TSO
Hives and Lauper

Kurtis Blow
Louis Prima

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The Pogues
The Ramones

Run-DMC
Guaraldi

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Sesame Street
The Kinks
Louis Prima
Royal Guardsmen

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South Park
TSO
The Hives
Weird Al

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