Missouri Quizbowl Message Board

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Any word on when ATTACK will be open for discussion? There were just a couple of things (one bonus part in particular) that struck me as ridiculous in one direction or the other in terms of difficulty.

Though, overall, I thought the set was super well made. Much love for Mr. Silverman and his crew.

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socalcaptain wrote:Will, there's a spot left on my team. It's yours if you want it.

Let's do it!

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I'm offering myself up as a free agent. Specialties of mine include physics, late 90's - early 00's boy bands, and anything even peripherally related to the show Burn Notice. Anybody want to join up?

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Because I love being a stickler for stats, how exactly did Helias answer 24 out of 20 questions in round 11? 12 negs seems high. Also, their 305 "bonus" points in round 12 is throwing their overall ppb out of whack.

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Is it just me, or did Rock Bridge A get 420 points in their seventh game while only answering 5 tossups?

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MATH 347 - Fundamentals of Mathematics
MATH 241 - Honors Calculus III
CS 125 - Intro to Computer Science
PHIL 105 - Intro to Ethics
LAS 122 - Leadership and Society (Freshman Seminar)

15 hours of fun!

EDIT: Schedule Change.

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Mewto55555 wrote:darn i thought blizzardageddon was this past winter

His name is a reference to the event that gave him an inordinate amount of time to become really really good.

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Also, I can stick around to help staff VCU Trash if y'all need it.

EDIT (8:12pm 7/22/11): Since the trash tournament is shaping up to be team-based and thus requiring fewer moderators, I'll be staffing it only if you really want the help.

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FIREEEEEEWORKSSSSS!!!

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You may delete the "?" after my name; I'll be staffing.

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Papa's in the House wrote:Start a Pandora channel for Explosions in the Sky and let the calming music carry you away.

I fully endorse this activity. Sigur Ros, The Union Trade, and This Will Destroy You have similar effects.

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By the way, what's the distribution for this set that we're using?

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Papa's in the House wrote: William Alexander?

Please, call me Will.

And yeah, I'll definitely be around for this. And unless any team has some serious pop culture/art deficit they'd like to see filled, I guess I'll be staffing!

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Can't happen. By which I mean I won't let it, lest those days in 8th grade memorizing hundreds of digits of it to win a competition seem even less productive. Though the value of pi arises from the circumference/area of a circle in relation to its radius, and that using tau may make that particular ...

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Depending on when this happens, I can certainly help staff. Or play, if somebody wants another teammate.

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Oh hey, something cool to note: MOQBA Singles Championship 2010: Median score: 60.00 PPG Mean score: 65.38 PPG MOQBA Singles Championship 2011 (Neglecting out-of-state players.. sorry guys!) Median score: 66.67 PPG Mean score: 71.67 PPG Isn't Harvard Fall Tournament harder than TJ's tournament last ...

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Will we still be able to squeeze in a full round robin?

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My teammate, Dillon Sandhu, will also be participating.

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Just a preliminary notice before my coach e-mails you; we ARE bringing an A team, and we MIGHT be bringing a B team (pending transportation issues.)

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I feel Coach Brown may have been using some... "abnormal" evidence in his conclusion. In each of the games in that district, either Ladue or Clayton was present, both of whose teams have insanely strong computational math players.

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Well, class 4 probably will be one to watch, but not for upset purposes; it'll just be fun to see how much Ladue can score. It's like their normal domination of Missouri quizbowl, except now Max gets 10 free (math) questions per game.

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socalcaptain wrote:As awesome as the previous thing is...

Bin Laden confirmed dead.

As cool as biting a head off of a snake is, nobody's death should be celebrated in that manner. Just sayin'.

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Mewto55555 wrote:actually solving some problems on the USAMO

Actually solving A problem on the USAMO. Holy crap, haha.

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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that it doesn't help your cause when you say stuff denigrating prom (which may or may not be silly in hindsight but which is in fact the most important social event of high school). Occasionally there are in fact quizbowl players that want to do these CRAZY things like ...

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University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign :D I dig this. I take it you're going into engineering? Mathematics, actually. But I'm totally into the idea of engineering, and it's one of the reasons I chose UIUC; in case engineering turns out to be as awesome as it appears, I have a great school with w...

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University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign

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Hey guys! I was curious, how do you personally prepare for Quizbowl? We all know the conventional way, which essentially breaks down into writing interesting/useful things down and researching what you don't know, which is fine. It works, helps develop some knowledge that isn't strictly for competit...

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Full details will be available soon How soon shall this be? If you have information on hand, please let me know. Don't go out of your way to check, however, since it's more a matter of curiosity than concern. All coaches received an email with the details for the tournament on Friday, Jan 14. Ah, t...

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Charbroil wrote: Full details will be available soon

How soon shall this be? If you have information on hand, please let me know. Don't go out of your way to check, however, since it's more a matter of curiosity than concern.

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All the more reason to be excited for WUHSAC, as the illusive Dylan Becraft will finally be able to unleash his wrath upon us mere mortals.

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I believe Ladue B included some of their A team players. So should we be rating schools with multiple teams on the assumption that their A team would simply be their best 4 players, their B team would be their next 4 best players, and so on? If not, there's some inherent difficulty and even impossi...

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Mewto55555 wrote:I referenced a math computation tossup? I can see why I am hated

You're right, in retrospect that's probably worse. WHAT, 9000?!?

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On the voting topic, how do you accurately measure the skill of a team when they have impressive bonus conversion but not a particularly high ppg to match? I'm thinking of Ladue B at Tiger Bowl, specifically. Perhaps their ppg was artificially forced downward by being in difficult brackets the entir...

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Actually, back in the Spring of '09 (Rolla I believe?) there was a math computation tossup which had the answer of x > 9000. That's obviously what Max is referencing, Charles. No memes to troll upon here. :wink: On topic: His letter almost feels quasi-Stream of Consciousness, at least in the sense t...

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Ah, gotcha. That makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying for me.

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I have a quick question: Since you're writing tossups with simpler giveaway clues to help raise tossup conversion (which I think is a fine concept) does this mean that the preceding lines will be accordingly easier? I'm sure you've figured out a way around this, but I feel like this will lead to a p...

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How exactly does an irc practice work? It sounds like a lot of fun, and I'd like to come along.

Furthermore, glee is a perfectly adequate reason to miss an hour of quizbowl, particularly with all that's going on this season.

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Thanks a whole bunch to you lot at Mizzou who hosted the tournament (which I personally had a blast at, and /barely/ got a book out of) and to anyone else that helped to make it happen! And also, great job to everyone competing, especially those four who very deservedly received bids to nationals. Y...

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If only to give those checking the board for update something to look at, I'd just like to say this awesome tournament is on SATURDAY!!! just two days from now! Woohoo! Sorry if this would be considered spam, but I'm really very excited. Does anyone else share my enthusiasm?

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I can come. Out of curiosity, would you have the ability to expand the field to greater than 16? I'd love to see a few of my teammates compete too.

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Computational math is weak sauce anyway

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Mimicking Sam's response; Eureka's coming.

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With the new 24 team cap, does that mean that the number of teams with invitations to nationals has increased as well?

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Getting all dressed up for an awards ceremony and them forgetting to recognize you. Good ol' Rockwood school district, haha.

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AIME!

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Antoine

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Oddysey

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Worm
(you could do that if you'd like, haha.)

Does your team need new buzzers?

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