**Important edit. After feedback from the community we have instead switched the game to 60 minutes to allow games to comfortably finish. Because of this we have to start one hour earlier, so new start times are 9am ET, please make sure you are with us on the discord server of the MSO.
The Mind Sports Olympiad https://msoworld.com/ is being held online this year and for the first time ever a Twilight Struggle Championship will be one of the medal events! With a 2 days format, streaming guaranteed at least for the second day and with cash prizes for the top 3 players!
This is very exciting news, both for getting more exposure for the game and growing the community, but even more directly for the high quality competition and streaming commentary we are in for! If you are a TS enthusiast you can register here and join the struggle for the MSO medals. Full details can be found in the registration link ( https://msoworld.com/product/twilight-struggle/ ) with highlights below:
Day 1: (August 29) - Approximately 2pm-11pm London time, 9am-6pm ET with a short break between games for pairings.
-Swiss 4 rounds x 60 minutes per player. Top 16 advance to Day 2.
-A fun day of 4 games for everyone from novice to expert to enjoy and bring together the community!
Day 2: (August 30) Approx. 2pm-9.30pm London time, 9am ET
-Knockout rounds single elimination x60 minutes for the top16 seeded from Swiss results.
-Follow the action from the drivers seat of the world’s elite players as they battle for the medals, $150-100-50 in prizes, and champion bragging rights with the insightful and entertaining commentary of our commentators like Pedro Reguera, Hasan Jamil and Ziemowit Pazderski among others (of course only when they are eliminated).
Important notes:
*All the games are rated for ITSL rating, but you can also play if you don't have ITSL rating (you will start with 5000 as your starting rating)
*Please be prepared if you make the featured tables in the knockout stages that you will be asked to share screen for the commentary stream.
*Registering will close on August 27, but don't wait until the end, because we may not be able to accommodate over 128 players.
For anyone interested in playing an online shogi tournament, the Mind Sports Olympiad is running a shogi championship on Sunday 30th August between starting at 15:30 ~ 20:30. 5 rounds of 10 min + 30 sec on the 81dojo server.
Register first for the tournament at the Mind Sports Olympiad website (https://msoworld.com/) and thereafter register on 81dojo (https://system.81dojo.com/en/tournaments/1365). For UK citizens, the British Online Open Champion and British Online Women's Champion titles are also up for grabs!
REMINDER: there will be 3 Hive tournaments throughout August as part of the Mind Sports Olympiad, you can win real medals!! All the events are on boardgamearena (BGA) and are FREE (no registration fees). You need to register here:
https://msoworld.com/mso-is-open-for-registrations/
and on the BGA tournament page as well.
Here the schedule for all the MSO events https://msoworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/823180B48C7F49B89536AFF85E4E7F46.png
- the first event (all expansions) is gonna be tonight (1st August) at 19.30 London time (GMT+1), I think it's still not too late to register and play!! :D https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=55283
- another one the 5th of August (all expansion but without tournament opening rule) https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=54989
- and a last one on the 29th with only standard pieces https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=56971
IMPORTANTLY even if you are not interested in playing but you are curious about the event, Randy Ingersoll will be doing the official commentary of the tournament on his channel at 19.30 (GMT+1) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDNTTMCjtY7zRhB6VI6L37A and then on the official Mind Sports Olympiad channel from 21.00 (GMT+1) https://www.youtube.com/user/mindsportsolympiad
It's going to be educative for anyone willing to learn, not just competitive players. It's gonna be fun! Hope many of you will watch and take part of it :)
I will be streaming and commentating the entire event on twitich.tv/Caecius with a 10 min delay. Starting in a little bit.
Their site doesn't specify whether handicaps are given and I'm not sure what range of players to expect - if its worth joining as a 9k.
Basically, i want to go for a university abroad, and its almost mandatory for you to have an olympiad medal to get into one, specially if you're an international student. People say that universities want diversity, but art is useless, and tbh, on overall life art is bullshit and only a distraction for more important objectives, it wont get me money and wont make me a scientist.
People say i'm a good artist, and that i should keep working on my skills, but considering the wake of recent events related to olympiads and the fact i'm seriously thinking it is turning me into a degenerate (ended up drawing furry art, not nsfw, just anthro futuristic animals, but i still feel disgusted for drawing such things, and some friends tell me that i'm going down a bad path drawing them), i seriously am considering trying to "murder" my art passion away, and let my skills fade away with time, while at the same time trying to force a passion for olympiads and something useful like basketball.
Are there any ways to kill my passion and turn it into something else? this includes both 3d and 2d art. No, i dont care that i'm "acting childish" for wanting to do something like this. No, i wont listen to comments saying that i shouldnt do such a thing and instead focus on X: I'm here because i want to kill my passion, not become more diverse.
Why am i asking this here? Because everywhere else i asked i was called a bumbling, childish, idiot who wanted to murder "a beatiful swan". A beatiful swan is not getting me into a T20 nor a good place out of the shithole i live
Soo yeah. How can i murder my artistic passion/skills and focus it into olympiads and sports instead?
I did a recap of the 2020 results last year, here, on the 5 most prestigious science Olympiad events. This will be a summary of results in 2021.
I. MATH: https://www.imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=2021
China is no.1 overall, for the third year running, and has the individual top scorer in Wang Yichuan. Russia came in second, with South Korea at 3rd.
II. PHYSICS: https://www.ipho2021.lt/en/results/
Top individual scorer is Kim Kyung-min of South Korea, with participants from China taking 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place, followed by Leo Yao (6th) and Li Zhening (7th) of the US. Country wise, South Korea, China, Russia and the US are top performers with 5 gold medalists each.
III. Chemistry: https://www.icho2021.org/icho2021/closing/
Can't find a page with the results listed. Instead we have this wacky video of the closing ceremony (link above). Top 3 medalist are announced at 26:46 mark. Clean sweep by China, with Yang Shu taking first place.
IV. INFORMATICS (Programming) : https://stats.ioinformatics.org/results/2021
Another clean sweep by China. The 4 contestants from China took the top 4 spots, followed by Rain Jiang of the US.
V. Biology: https://ibo2021.org/results/
No individual results listed, only a tabulation of gold/silver/bronze medalists in no particular order. Best performers (by country) are China and China.... that's the PRC and ROC (i.e. Taiwan). United States have two gold medalists in Judson Lam and Albert Zhang.
Some observations:
- China killing it. Again.
- Ethnic Chinese / East Asians are.... what's the word you guys use? Overrepresented?
- Taiwan, Singapore, HK, Korea, Vietnam are consistently good. Thailand, Indonesia, Japan made good showings too. Malaysia.. lol. Well, Malaysia is loathe to acknowledge its best if skin colour is wrong. And Iran! Iran's performance is pretty commendable.
- Where are the European countries? Europe is the region with (supposedly) the highest human capital in the world. Results do not commensurate. Where the f*ck is the UK? France? Germany? Best European performer seems to be Israel (if you count i
I asked, are you a pole vaulter?
To which he replied ‘No. I am German. But how do you know my name?’
Welcome to the r/JEENEETards Official JEE/NEET/KVPY/ISI/Olympiad Preparation Thread.
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Q. What can we do here?/हम यहाँ क्या कर सकते हैं?
A. You can post about your preparation. What will you study? What have you studied yesterday?/ आप अपनी तैयारी के बारे में पोस्ट कर सकते हैं। आप क्या पढ़ोगे? आपने कल क्या पढ़ा?
Q. Who can make comments?/ कौन कमेंट कर सकता है?
A. Anyone. A ninth class student can comment. A 2nd year dropper can comment. / कोई भी। नौवीं कक्षा का छात्र कमेंट कर सकता है। द्वितीय वर्ष का ड्रॉपर कमेंट कर सकता है।
Q. How should the comment look like? / कमेंट कैसी दिखनी चाहिए?
A. The comment should look like this. / कमेंट इस तरह दिखनी चाहिए ।
Exam / परीक्षा: JEE/NEET/KVPY/ISI/Olympiad
Class / कक्षा: 9th/10th/11th/12th/Dropper
After this you can say anything (exam preparation related) like how you prepared yesterday, what will you read today etc. / इसके बाद आप कुछ भी कह सकते हैं (परीक्षा की तैयारी से संबंधित) जैसे आपने कल कैसे तैयारी की, आज क्या पढ़ेंगे आदि।
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Also, tell everyone about this the Daily Thread, A lot of people should participate. / साथ ही इस डेली थ्रेड के बारे में सभी को बताएं, बहुत सारे लोगों को भाग लेना चाहिए।
Also help others and give them motivation! / दूसरों की भी मदद करें और उन्हें प्रेरणा दें!
u/AnotherSyntaxError_ A moderator of r/JEENEETards
I follow Pita Taufatofua on Instagram - you may remember him as the athlete at the Rio Opening ceremonies who carried the Tongan flag, shirtless and shiny with coconut oil. This week he qualified for the Tokyo Games in his main sport, taekwondo. However, he is also trying to qualify in kayak (didn't make it in his most recent attempt due to an injury, but he has another shot coming up). Has any athlete participated in two completely separate sports in the same Games? Not just different events or disciplines, but separate sports entirely? I asked Pita (thanks, IG!), and he didn't know.
Personally I am looking forward to this more than the next world championship and candidates tournament. It seems like in team tournaments players try a little harder and especially play out drawn positions which I like to see, and the national aspect makes this happen even more.
And the American team is going to be STACKED. Aronian, Caruana, So, Dominguez Perez, and either Shankland or Nakamura. Three top ten players and all over 2700!
I understand life events can have an impact but I still am curious how effective exercise can be.
If I qualified for AIME by passing the AMC test, do I just write that I passed, or is there some document I get from passing AMC that I submit?
Welcome to the r/JEENEETards Official JEE/NEET/KVPY/ISI/Olympiad Preparation Thread.
This has replaced the casual chat cafe from now on. To make a more serious JEE/NEET/KVPY/ISI/Olympiad preparation environment. / इसने अब से कैजुअल चैट कैफे की जगह ले ली है।JEE/NEET/KVPY/ISI/Olympiad की तैयारी के माहौल को और अधिक गंभीर बनाने के लिए।
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Q. What can we do here?/हम यहाँ क्या कर सकते हैं?
A. You can post about your preparation. What will you study? What have you studied yesterday?/ आप अपनी तैयारी के बारे में पोस्ट कर सकते हैं। आप क्या पढ़ोगे? आपने कल क्या पढ़ा?
Q. Who can make comments?/ कौन कमेंट कर सकता है?
A. Anyone. A ninth class student can comment. A 2nd year dropper can comment. / कोई भी। नौवीं कक्षा का छात्र कमेंट कर सकता है। द्वितीय वर्ष का ड्रॉपर कमेंट कर सकता है।
Q. How should the comment look like? / कमेंट कैसी दिखनी चाहिए?
A. The comment should look like this. / कमेंट इस तरह दिखनी चाहिए ।
Exam / परीक्षा: JEE/NEET/KVPY/ISI/Olympiad
Class / कक्षा: 9th/10th/11th/12th/Dropper
After this you can say anything (exam preparation related) like how you prepared yesterday, what will you read today etc. / इसके बाद आप कुछ भी कह सकते हैं (परीक्षा की तैयारी से संबंधित) जैसे आपने कल कैसे तैयारी की, आज क्या पढ़ेंगे आदि।
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Also, tell everyone about this the Daily Thread, A lot of people should participate. / साथ ही इस डेली थ्रेड के बारे में सभी को बताएं, बहुत सारे लोगों को भाग लेना चाहिए।
Also help others and give them motivation! / दूसरों की भी मदद करें और उन्हें प्रेरणा दें!
u/AnotherSyntaxError_ A moderator of r/JEENEETards
Welcome to the r/JEENEETards Official JEE/NEET/KVPY/ISI/Olympiad Preparation Thread.
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Q. What can we do here?/हम यहाँ क्या कर सकते हैं?
A. You can post about your preparation. What will you study? What have you studied yesterday?/ आप अपनी तैयारी के बारे में पोस्ट कर सकते हैं। आप क्या पढ़ोगे? आपने कल क्या पढ़ा?
Q. Who can make comments?/ कौन कमेंट कर सकता है?
A. Anyone. A ninth class student can comment. A 2nd year dropper can comment. / कोई भी। नौवीं कक्षा का छात्र कमेंट कर सकता है। द्वितीय वर्ष का ड्रॉपर कमेंट कर सकता है।
Q. How should the comment look like? / कमेंट कैसी दिखनी चाहिए?
A. The comment should look like this. / कमेंट इस तरह दिखनी चाहिए ।
Exam / परीक्षा: JEE/NEET/KVPY/ISI/Olympiad
Class / कक्षा: 9th/10th/11th/12th/Dropper
After this you can say anything (exam preparation related) like how you prepared yesterday, what will you read today etc. / इसके बाद आप कुछ भी कह सकते हैं (परीक्षा की तैयारी से संबंधित) जैसे आपने कल कैसे तैयारी की, आज क्या पढ़ेंगे आदि।
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Also, tell everyone about this the Daily Thread, A lot of people should participate. / साथ ही इस डेली थ्रेड के बारे में सभी को बताएं, बहुत सारे लोगों को भाग लेना चाहिए।
Also help others and give them motivation! / दूसरों की भी मदद करें और उन्हें प्रेरणा दें!
u/AnotherSyntaxError_ A moderator of r/JEENEETards
