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At slowest, Lisle SCOP shouldn't run past 3:45. Clean-up and stats may take longer than that. How do you compute "at slowest"? Is this "if ACF finals are necessary, some mods take 45 minutes per round, and some teams are 30 minutes late coming back from lunch"? If so, that would...

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Cheynem wrote:Just to clarify: is this just a "play two rounds and call it a night" type event or are you actually planning on running the whole tournament ...

I would love to play the whole thing out, but I'm not sure what other people's expectations are.

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The start time is (would be) heavily dependent on SCOP's end time. It looks like SCOP should have a pretty excellent cast of moderators, so that's a positive sign. I'm not sure how many rounds to expect at SCOP though. Brad? Greg?

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I can definitely look into it, but I really need an idea of how many teams we're expecting. If this is just a SCOP survivors party it should be workable. If Chicago and Northwestern (and/or others) want to send teams it'll take more effort. SO: Reply if you are interested in playing the Illinois TER...

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IMSA tentatively plans to bring 5 players, and I have another who would like to staff. I'm working on getting a roster.

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I would be very interested in doing this. Do we have any idea how many people are willing to do the NIU TERP party? If it's a relatively small number (like 4 teams worth), I can look into using IMSA facilities. I may have more luck with this than IMSANITY since it will be smaller and everyone will b...

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Is the field update upthread accurate?

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By the way, how long would this take to play if it did happen?

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The Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy (IMSA) is writing a mACF tournament, named IMSANITY, to be held on January 15, 2011. The tournament is being written by the varsity team and coach and edited by Noah Prince and Mike Wong (IMSA player). The distribution is: 4/4 Literature 4/4 Science 4/4...

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I would be very interested in this.

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This was an awesome day of quizbowl. Thanks to Anant and Dan-Don for making it happen. Congratulations to Loyola A on the victory.

It was great to see the middle school division. The students seemed to all have a great time. Congratulations to SAA for a very nice win.

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Bonito wrote:Buzzers are fun things to play scholastic bowl with. Please bring them.

Wait, wait, wait: I thought this was a quizbowl tournament.

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jonah wrote:It would be inappropriate for me to email you the set, which is why I totally didn't just do that.

You're right, it would have been very inappropriate. Glad to see you finally developing a sense of decorum.

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I'd like to make a seemingly unrelated post, but trust me on this. Can people please provide me some examples of bad questions from Masonic last year (or point me to the set, if it exists somewhere)? I'm not talking hoses or antipyramidality, but things so bad a layperson could see them. Some exampl...

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the sad part is i ran across this bonus on monday: 30 Points 4. PHYSICAL CHALLENGE BONUS: Choose one member to do situps in 30 seconds. Another member may perform foot-holding services, and you'll receive one point for the number of situps you do rounded down to the nearest 5 with a maximum of 30 p...

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Westwon wrote:When did they announce that they were moving back to a conflict with Ultima?

In the invitation email I got this afternoon.

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What the...? So Fremd announces it's moving to February 5 so as to not conflict with Ultima, then it announces questions by Geringer so that I'm looking forward to going, then it announces it moved back to conflict with Ultima. I guess this is a net positive with better questions will reach the mass...

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Eh, I guess the issue of 3 teams in the top division is moot, because I realized that our van capacity divided by 5 was less than 3 (another advantage of 4v4 IMO). I did sign up two teams for the competitive division, though.

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I can now confirm that:
(1) My assistant coach is willing to moderate.
(2) My assistant coach is a she.
FWIW, said assistant coach is Kristin Strey.

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Regarding the Wheaton North Kickoffs, how does the split of divisions affect qualification for nats? Also, as I have never done Kickoffs before, how limited is space? Can I register 3 teams? If so, is it bad to enter them all in the competitive division? Is there some preferred placement of B and C ...

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As I have said, I would like to moderate for this tournament. As I have not said, I have an assistant coach who may want to moderate, but I'll leave that decision/announcement to that person. He/she reads these boards, so when he/she sees this post, he/she should indicate preference regarding modera...

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Are there any limitations on how many teams a school can enter at this point? I would like to bring 3 teams, and will put a check in the mail as soon as I get official word on how many teams I can bring. IMSA will bring a buzzer system, and I would like to moderate if possible. I have two varsity pl...

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Let me just say that it would be a real accomplishment if I could get it down to $100.

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As I've already told some of you, there have been some developments that will make it difficult for IMSA to host the IMSANITY tournament on January 15, 2011 as planned. We have the building reserved, and we will be allowed to host, but the registration fee would be quite high. I think it would be be...

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IMSA would officially like to bring three teams. BTW, can you please post an official fee structure soon? My school takes awhile to get checks out, and I have to turn in all my registration documents to the school together, and then the have to find a vendor number, and then they file a form to requ...

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I like how, in order to convince me that an hour was too long to spend coming up with these permutations, you spent over an hour coming up with (and posting) permutations.

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Just a thought, but if you wanted to limit the potential of trash impacting a match, then shouldn't it be placed towards the end? The earlier a trash bonus, the more likely it is to be read, right? Yeah, it's a double-edged sword I guess. By putting a trash bonus at the end, one of the following be...

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I am trying to put a tournament together for the first time, and I need to actually place the questions we are writing in some sort of order within each round. How should this be done? I tried to think of some properties a packet ought to have. First, bonuses and tossups are not paired. I did want t...

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Well, I guess I will be the first to sign up for GHOST without retracting. IMSA would like to bring teams (at least 2, possibly 3 if there is room). Also, we have people available to help staff if needed; do you know what your current staffing needs are?

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Science and Arts Academy would like to bring a team. (They don't have an official team or coach, which explains me posting this on their behalf.)

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IMSA would like to bring two teams (possibly another if this is run 4 v. 4) and can provide a moderator if needed.

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We profess not to care about our crappy state series, yet we still discuss its results as if it's worth jack. Everyone needs to accept the fact that the results of IHSA (and even Masonic) State DO MATTER, even to teams that play good quizbowl. When administrations see state hardware, they support p...

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I completely agree about the field getting better, and Champaign is a great example. I really like what Centennial's coach is doing, and there is a lot of talent to be tapped in Champaign-Urbana.

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Well, I wouldn't say Carbondale is "rebuilding". Good point. But Carbondale doesn't seem to bring many non-seniors up north, with Ben the notable exception, so I'm not sure what to expect as far as a supporting cast. Ben is certainly good enough to take the team pretty far by himself thou...

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1. IMSA 2. Lockport 3. Downers Grove South 4. Streamwood 5. Proviso East 6. Wheeling 7. Joliet Catholic 8. Grayslake North 9. Rich South 10. Senn This. On a more serious note, IMSA stands to be pretty strong this year even without Bonny and his 100 TUs in the IHSA state series. I can't predict resu...

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What about Erdos? Far more famous for his ludicrous life story than for his mathematics, much of which (actually, everything I've encountered) is well out of the reach of high schoolers--for the most part, anyway. And this is really a problem. I've studied a lot of the work of Erdos. He did a lot o...

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"Modern" usually implies (and, as far as I can tell, thus far in this thread has been used to mean) "contemporary". Considering that most high school math courses include only work done centuries ago (algebra is all 1000 years old, geometry older, and the calculus is about 200 b...

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I'm not sure where people got the idea that I was advocating a tossup like "...FTP name this American mathematician who won a Fields Medal in 1928" A: Douglas . What I meant by "the canon" was answer spaces for tossups AND bonuses AS WELL AS clue spaces for both. I never said any...

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If I can't think of more than two interesting clues about a math tossup answer, then... I disagree with your logic. The difference is that people recognize clues they would not be able to think of, and recognition is what quizbowlers do. It's like P v. NP: easier to check an answer than come up wit...

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I think some people are misinterpreting. Certainly I don't think I could tossup Stephen Smale just because he won a Fields medal. What I am saying, though, is that for the math canon to expand, the class of Fields medalists is a nice place to start as they are the analogy to Nobel winners in science...

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Math just seems especially prone to topics that are interesting, important, and gettable, but don't have sufficiently many clues that are unique, concise, and suitably graded in difficulty. Yes, I see your point, and I have had to throw out some really nice answers for this reason. At the same time...

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I heard something that intrigued me the other day. My school is writing a tournament for January 2011. Naturally, I am writing the math questions. I told a member of my team that I was about 1/4 done and he said something to the effect that it's hard to write math since the math canon is so small. (...

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Westwon wrote:The IHSA would accept changes if the majority of coaches were in favor of them.

Fair enough. I suppose this is a case of lazy notation. I should be more careful to differentiate between "the IHSA" and "the IHSA Scholastic Bowl community".

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I just mentioned that because it listed teams that had won multiple state championships and it neglected to mention teams like Wheaton North and Stevenson. It doesn't really matter though. I can only hope that in the future we can find a way to make IHSA Scholastic Bowl more like quiz bowl. Yeah, I...

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Yeah also because Wheaton North won 3 championships in the early 2000s I believe. It takes a lot more than three consecutive state championships to write your name in the annals of history, Wheaton North. Also, thank you, Charles, for that highly intriguing, enlightening, and relevant account of Il...

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Please demand that noted TD and coach David Reinstein not waste 10%, 5%, or any positive proportion of Solo on computation. It will make you better. Sincerely, Jonah ^THIS. I have read through a bunch of old Solo packets of late, and I must say that the non-computational math is almost always bette...

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Dan-Don wrote:Also, where's Dayo?

Banned obv.

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rjaguar3 wrote:Since I do not believe there will be any more uses of this packet, I just submitted it to quizbowlpackets.com.

Thanks!

Was this mirrored?

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KHAAAAN please wrote:Is IMSA playing HSNCT?

Unfortunately not. It's in the middle of our final exam season.

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Dan-Don wrote:EDIT: Jonah tells me it does. I really wanna see it though!

It was a pretty good set from what I remember. Some of the questions were really excellent, so I was a little upset my varsity team didn't get to hear them.

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