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I would just like to note that while I agree the letter is longer than it really needs to be, the main things the letter is asking for are what seemed truly important to me when considering whether or not to sign.

I don't think it needs to be too detailed - to preempt the need for #2, I think just asking "what is your project's timeline" (e.g. "My tournament is on XX date," "set production spans from XX to XX dates," and so on) is fine and not that much work on the part of the i...

There’s also the question of how much an administrator should know about misconduct: in my previous head editor hypothetical, the response was simply “yes, this person shouldn’t be allowed to work on your set” vs “no, they’re fine,” but should they know more—why they’re not allowed, for example, or...

I envision high-level quizbowl as the "ultimate tertiary source" - an honest attempt to make an impartial narrative of the sequence of events that have happened at any given time and place in history. I think that quizbowl has never done a particularly good job of serving this role, and i...

Quiz bowl is a sport that means just as much to our kids as it does to the kids that are playing basketball and wrestling in our state right now. To take away this opportunity from them would be terrible, unless we have to cancel due to safety concerns. Guess what else means a lot to kids? Their li...

This is a great thread, Marianna. Thank you for putting this together. This is a great response, from one of the senior/most respected members of the community. Thank you for providing some introspection and thought to this thread, and for your wonderful post history in these threads. [This, in cas...

Men need to be paying attention to these voices and do what they can to make quiz bowl a welcoming place to everyone. The fact you could only come up with a single sentence in response to this thread - that people 'need to pay attention to this' - pains me. At least it's clear you're reading the th...

So to sum up - yeah this needs to be addressed, and not side-stepped with questions over whether this is actually occurring. The reason I asked "How frequently does misconduct occur" was because I think it occurs a lot more than people think. It's not sidestepping the issue to discuss its...

Relatedly, I think the topic of misconduct can be broadly split into three subtopics: "What is misconduct?", "How frequently does misconduct occur?" and "What can we do about it?" While the last question is the one we all want to answer, I don't think it can be address...

Why, exactly, is it that there are more discussions about the trash distribution than the actual sexual harassment that occurred recently? Why does cheating keep getting more attention than harassment? (On that note, why is there always discussion of the problems of 'ending quiz bowl careers' but no...

This is part of a broader issue in qb (if you disagree with me, we have a whole other set of issues to talk about, so I'm not gonna go off about this here), and I have a few proposals: 1. Have the community (especially those most affected by issues like these) collaborate to write a code of conduct ...

On another note, I just remembered: there was a tossup that started with 'In the anime 'My Hero Academia' ...' [answer: grape] which led to a buzzer race in our room (and from what I heard, a decent number of other rooms) on the first line. (There were also apparently people complaining that anime i...

This could just be me, but one of the moderators we brought agreed with me that bonus turnover seemed lower than at other tournaments we've played.

Hey, I thought the set was definitely fun to play! I did want to see the tossup on lit, with the answer line of USA (mentioned Junot Diaz in the body) - I negged with Dominican Republic, probably just because I was tired and heard 'Diaz' and thought of Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but I'm inter...

Hello,

Rising sophomore who just moved to LA area, in process of enrolling at North Hollywood. Would someone mind giving me the contact for the quiz bowl coach there so I can ask about practices/joining/etc? Thanks!

This is a really old thread, but I thought I'd add some stuff for people who are browsing now. For mythology, all of Rick Riordan's books. It may seem nuts, but if you like reading fiction, it's got all the greek, egyptian, and norse myth you'll need to start out with (for the most part, anyway). Pr...