General Discussion
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General Discussion
Thanks for playing the 2017 Richard Montgomery-Beavercreek Collaborative Tournament!
If you have any questions regarding the set, please post here. We would love to hear feedback. You can request any questions if you'd like.
Richard Montgomery and Beavercreek split the questions about 50/50.
NOTE: Please do not disclose any question content outside of this thread until this set has been cleared on the archive, which will probably occur just before HSNCT.
With regards to complaints made by tournament directors at the MIT mirror: The writing team has reconciled all of the errors that have been notified to us. We hope that the set will run smoother in the upcoming mirrors.
If you have any questions regarding the set, please post here. We would love to hear feedback. You can request any questions if you'd like.
Richard Montgomery and Beavercreek split the questions about 50/50.
NOTE: Please do not disclose any question content outside of this thread until this set has been cleared on the archive, which will probably occur just before HSNCT.
With regards to complaints made by tournament directors at the MIT mirror: The writing team has reconciled all of the errors that have been notified to us. We hope that the set will run smoother in the upcoming mirrors.
Hari Parameswaran
Beavercreek High School '19
Georgia Tech '23
ACF, PACE
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Georgia Tech '23
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Re: General Discussion
Can I see the Chile question?
Arjun Nageswaran
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Re: General Discussion
It is not Peru, but this country’s city of Punta Arenas became a penal colony after the Mutiny of Cambiazo. Today it is a popular destination for tourists visiting Torres del Paine National Park. Alexander Selkirk was mutinied on this country’s Juan Fernandez Islands, and the Polanco Lift serves this country’s second largest city of (*) Valparaiso. In 1960, president Jorge Alessandri led relief efforts when this country was hit by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. For 10 points, name this country on the Pacific coast of South America with capital at Santiago.Berniecrat wrote:Can I see the Chile question?
ANSWER: Chile
Hari Parameswaran
Beavercreek High School '19
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Re: General Discussion
This is probably a minor issue, but I buzzed in the clue on Punta Arenas and stated Costa Rica, as a capital of a province in Costa Rica is the similarly named Puntarenas. A person on the other team said he would have also negged on that clue. Could you provide more clarification perhaps in the question?
Arjun Nageswaran
Aptakisic '17
Stevenson '21
Harvard '25
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Re: General Discussion
The music theory bonus about intervals didn't have "half-steps" or "minor 2nd" as acceptable equivalents for semitones, but they should all be right I think. Other than that, it felt like South Africa came up a lot, but I wasn't actually counting.
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Re: General Discussion
I played this set back in October, so it may have been fixed, but there was also a bonus part where "triplet" was not promptable for "hemiola," despite the bonus question describing a triple, which is a type of hemiola. It was not accepted in our room, but it was accepted in another room.
Wonyoung Jang
Belmont '18 // UChicago '22
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Re: General Discussion
This happened to us too, and we played it two days ago.Thiccasso's Guernthicca wrote:I played this set back in October, so it may have been fixed, but there was also a bonus part where "triplet" was not promptable for "hemiola," despite the bonus question describing a triple, which is a type of hemiola. It was not accepted in our room, but it was accepted in another room.
Dylan Bowman
Uni '20; Illinois '23
Uni '20; Illinois '23
Re: General Discussion
Quick note: asking for "hemiola" in a bonus part is considerably too hard for a regular high school set.
Clark Smith
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Ohio State
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Re: General Discussion
Berniecrat wrote:This is probably a minor issue, but I buzzed in the clue on Punta Arenas and stated Costa Rica, as a capital of a province in Costa Rica is the similarly named Puntarenas. A person on the other team said he would have also negged on that clue. Could you provide more clarification perhaps in the question?
I will make sure to let the editors know to fix these two things.Thiccasso's Guernthicca wrote:I played this set back in October, so it may have been fixed, but there was also a bonus part where "triplet" was not promptable for "hemiola," despite the bonus question describing a triple, which is a type of hemiola. It was not accepted in our room, but it was accepted in another room.
There was a lot of South Africa-related (as well as music theory) stuff in this set. We felt that though, since no information was repeated, that it was okay.db0wman wrote:The music theory bonus about intervals didn't have "half-steps" or "minor 2nd" as acceptable equivalents for semitones, but they should all be right I think. Other than that, it felt like South Africa came up a lot, but I wasn't actually counting.
Hari Parameswaran
Beavercreek High School '19
Georgia Tech '23
ACF, PACE
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Georgia Tech '23
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Re: General Discussion
Can I see the tossup on "6" in math? I was confused about the clue about dihedral group with this number being non-Abelian, as I was under the impression that D4 was also non-Abelian.
Matthew Siff
Georgetown Day School '20
Yale University '25
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Re: General Discussion
Having this many people in a room guarantees that three of them either know or don’t know each other; that is known as Ramsey of three comma three. The smallest finite non-abelian group has this many elements, and this is the larger number in the first Ruth-Aaron Pair. This number appears in the denominator when one over n squared is summed from one to infinity. (*) This number divides pi squared in the Basel problem, and this is the smallest perfect number. A regular polygon can have at most this many sides and still tessellate a plane. For 10 points, identify this number of sides of a hexagon.Curious Homunculus wrote:Can I see the tossup on "6" in math? I was confused about the clue about dihedral group with this number being non-Abelian, as I was under the impression that D4 was also non-Abelian.
ANSWER: Six
The smallest finite non-abelian group has this many elements - so D3 is the group in question, which has 6 elements.
Joe Czupryn
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Re: General Discussion
This makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
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Re: General Discussion
Please archive this thread.