Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata

[Father of the Ragdoll]

Please post any typos, packetization errors, formatting errors, feng shui issues, etc in this thread

[mico]

The placement of the "Balkan Peninsula" tossup in, I believe, packet 3 could have been improved. Being the final history tossup in the packet, it was clearly on European history. By using the indicator of "this peninsula," the answerline space was immediately restricted to either Iberia, the Balkans, or, to a lesser extent, Scandinavia or Jutland. Moving the tossup earlier in the packet could go a long way in improving the Feng Shui or possibly changing the indicator.

[tusk of gullinbursti]

I don't know if this goes here or in the other thread, but: in terms of the overall history distribution, I can't recall a single history tossup that either had a woman as an answerline or was themed around women. If I'm mistaken, please correct me, but the sheer fact that there weren't enough for me to remember any seems like a problem.

[cwasims]

"Z-statistic" should be accepted for the "z-score" question - that term also appears on several reputable websites that discuss the concept (and anecdotally I have heard it referred to that way).

[Father of the Ragdoll]

"Z-statistic" should be accepted for the "z-score" question - that term also appears on several reputable websites that discuss the concept (and anecdotally I have heard it referred to that way).

Thank you for pointing this out, more alternative answers have been added.

[Gene Harrogate]

One of my teammates mentioned that Annie Leibovitz's photograph of a nude Demi Moore was on a 1991 cover of Vanity Fair, not Vogue. That's a pretty important mistake to fix considering it's right before the FTP, and I doubt she was the only one to get unfairly negged.

[cwasims]

I'll post this here since I think it's basically a mistake: the bonus on Portugal in pack 10 claims that King John of England has the regnal name "John I" which I do not believe is correct: certainly Wikipedia does not list the name "John I" anywhere in the article on King John and I have never heard him referred to as such. This should probably be changed to a bonus part on John, which I think would essentially preserve the question without being misleading.

[db0wman]

The tossup on electrons has a directed prompt on fermions with "which component?", which doesn't make any sense.

[Snom]

The tossup on cymbals allows for a prompt on "drums" despite "bass drum" being clued in the TU (the other team converted it off of this prompt after power). Not sure if this is a mistake or not, but thought I should mention it.

[zxc]

Bonus 18 of packet 12 claims that Benvenuto Cellini was commissioned by Pope Francis I.

[Bensonfan23]

Bonus 18 of packet 12 claims that Benvenuto Cellini was commissioned by Pope Francis I.

Well that would be a "my bad" on my part, it now correctly just says Francis I.

[AGoodMan]

4. ... Leaders who retired to monasteries during this period engaged in “cloistered rule”.
ANSWER: Heian <BM, World History>

This clue is not uniquely identifying, as emperors abdicated and became cloistered all the way until the 1600s.

[Liarr]

4. ... Leaders who retired to monasteries during this period engaged in “cloistered rule”.
ANSWER: Heian <BM, World History>

This clue is not uniquely identifying, as emperors abdicated and became cloistered all the way until the 1600s.

If this is an issue, the period from 1086 to 1185 is sometimes called the insei jidai (rule by retired emperors), so that could be a way of making it uniquely identifying. Another way to do so would be to mention Emperor Shirakawa as the most famous example of such a retired emperor.

[db0wman]

Not necessarily an "error," but the tossup on monopoles refers to the physicist Blas Cabrera Navarro as "Blas Navarro." He is generally referenced as "Blas Cabrera" in the articles I have found online.

[elyne road]

tossup 15 of packet 6 is numbered as "15. 9.," which i assume is just a copy error

[Bosa of York]

Mea culpa for not pointing this out when I played the set, but the Versos Sencillos/Guantanamera/Cuba bonus refers to Guantanamera as the national anthem of Cuba, which it isn't.

[vrohan]

We heard a tiebreak tossup on Italy largely cluing Calvino (after round 7 ended), and then played a bonus a few rounds later (I think either 8 or 9) that had a part on Calvino. That's all that I remember regarding feng shui, but it seemed as though lots of categories, especially science, seemed to have tossups paired with bonuses in the same category. Maybe I'm misremembering, though.

[whatamidoinghere]

I'm pretty sure A Thousand Splendid Suns is not the sequel to The Kite Runner (TU 8 Round 11).

[Quinctilius Varus]

The wording in the Guantanamera bonus and kite running tossup has been adjusted. While not optimal, the mentions of Calvino in the Italy tossup in tiebreakers and the mathematics in European lit bonus do not overlap in question content.

[whatamidoinghere]

This is awfully minor but technically the sign Joseph Frederick held up was "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" rather than "BONG HITZ 4 JESUS." It also seems like in general there was a lack of alternate answers that included local country names/foreign language names at least in the packets I've read through so far.

[Ehtna]

In the Mary Shelley tossup in Packet 9, Robert Walton's expedition does not discover Victor Frankenstein dead on an ice floe. They find him and his dead dog team stranded on an ice floe and nurse him back to health, during which time Frankenstein tells the main story of the novel. He dies when the monster kills him on the boat and runs away at the end of the book.

[king_crimson]

In the Mary Shelley tossup in Packet 9, Robert Walton's expedition does not discover Victor Frankenstein dead on an ice floe. They find him and his dead dog team stranded on an ice floe and nurse him back to health, during which time Frankenstein tells the main story of the novel. He dies when the monster kills him on the boat and runs away at the end of the book.

Yeah, I don't think Victor is found dead in the Antarctic, but the monster doesn't kill him either. Victor dies a couple days after explaining his story, afterwhich the monster later finds his body and vows to end his ways and his life. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.