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- Fri May 24, 2019 10:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Girls (and Women) in QB Photo 2019
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4654
Girls (and Women) in QB Photo 2019
Please join us at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, May 25) in the 10th Floor Atrium of the Atlanta Marriott Marquis for the second annual #girlsinquizbowl photo! All current and former players, coaches, and staffers who identify as girls or women are welcome (and encouraged) to join. Feel free to conta...
- Fri May 24, 2019 2:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Women in Quizbowl Panel Discussion @ HSNCT Saturday Night
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11284
Re: Women in Quizbowl Panel Discussion @ HSNCT Saturday Night
Due to a last minute change of plans, I'll also be present! I'm so grateful to Sophia for organizing this event and letting me be a part of it on such short notice. Hope to see you all there.
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 7:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: High School Player Poll
- Replies: 42
- Views: 28466
Re: High School Player Poll
I second everything Julia said and would add that she has done a great job leading Darien, including to a T-20 finish at HSNCT. Shoutouts also to Tora Husar and Olivia Lamberti who both inspire me lots. (And I'll quickly add that I know Hunter didn't finish that highly at NSC but I was 51% of scorin...
- Thu May 17, 2018 6:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where are you going to college next year? (2018)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 18644
Re: Where are you going to college next year? (2018)
I'll be at Harvard.
Jon Suh has convinced me to play, but I'm not sure how committed I'll be.
Jon Suh has convinced me to play, but I'm not sure how committed I'll be.
- Mon May 14, 2018 11:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23545
Re: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
I agree, but I don't think we should settle for the idea that the two are mutually exclusive.
- Mon May 14, 2018 10:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23545
I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
Okay, this post is long overdue, and it echoes some of the things I’m going to say in my independent study, but whatever, here we go. It’s recently come to my attention (partly in conjunction with my study, mostly not) that there are several high-level players and officials in the Quiz Bowl establis...
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9453
Re: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
Okay, be sure to let me know. Sorry about any inconvenience the errors may have caused. That said, full stats are finally now up with corrections. I have made no corrections to Great Valley B's games, because I currently have no record of them except the scoresheets our staffers turned in. However, ...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9453
Re: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
Combined stats are now up; however, there are some issues with the bonus points, and they will be resolved ASAP to ensure that rankings can be correct for all. I do not currently have access to the prelim score sheets, but I will pore over playoffs to see if I can find the issue there. After spring ...
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 538
Re: Prison Bowl XI Question-Specific Discussion
I really did enjoy this set and I thought it was the most creative set of the year. That said, I want to address a few questions that I feel could be improved. Packet 1: I felt that the lamb tossup was overall very difficult until the William Blake clue, but I'm not sure if there is anything that c...
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9453
Re: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
Thanks to everyone for coming! Congrats to High Tech A for defeating Downingtown STEM in the final, and to Bard A for clinching 3rd. Stats are now posted (except for the Round 10 game between Livingston B and East Brunswick A; if anyone has those stats, we'd appreciate them). Combined will be up wit...
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 6:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI General Discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 286
Re: Prison Bowl XI General Discussion
Totally agree particularly about the history and auditory FA. The biggest comment we've received so far about the set is that the auditory FA was too hard, so that will definitely be toned down for mirrors. As far as history goes, as per the request of our history editor, the subcat distro was chang...
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 6:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 538
Re: Prison Bowl XI Question-Specific Discussion
Thank you for writing the set! It was really solid, and I had a lot of fun playing it. My nitpicks: -In finals 1, the tossup on Alpha Decay felt neg-baity because it mentioned “Coulomb Barrier,” which is afaik much more associated with nuclear fusion than with Alpha Decay (I may have missed a conte...
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI General Discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 286
Prison Bowl XI General Discussion
Discuss the Prison Bowl XI set in general here. For question-specific comments, use the question-specific forum.
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:57 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 538
Prison Bowl XI Question-Specific Discussion
Post here with comments about/requests to see specific questions. For all other comments, please use the general discussion forum.
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 9:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY NASAT 2018
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4050
Re: NY NASAT 2018
I'm going to start an email thread about this during this coming week. Sorry for my late action; I hope y'all understand, since I was very busy with Prison Bowl XI. Expect an email in the next couple days.
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY NASAT 2018
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4050
NY NASAT 2018
Hi, guys, To the best of my knowledge (and the knowledge of those to whom I've spoken), for the past few years, the NY NASAT team has been organized informally by the Captain of Hunter, so I guess that falls to me this year. After reaching out to a few other schools (GNS, Bard, etc.), we've decided ...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:35 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9453
Re: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
We've reached our field cap of 36 teams! Any teams who are still interested but have not yet signed up will be placed on a waitlist.
- Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9453
Re: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
As hopefully most of you know, March 24, the date of this tournament, is also the date of the March for Our Lives, a national, student-organized protest in response to the recent Parkland school shooting. I have thought long and hard about whether or not to cancel the tournament, and after talking t...
- Thu Feb 22, 2018 6:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9453
Re: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
We are delighted to announce that Prison Bowl XI has just been Platinum certified by the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE)! That status means that the top 25% of teams in the field will qualify for PACE's National Scholastic Championship (NSC), to be held the first weekend in Ju...
- Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9453
Re: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
The field is currently up to date. Please bring buzzers!
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9453
Re: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
The field is currently up to date.
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Mirror Requests
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4332
Prison Bowl XI Mirror Requests
Hunter College High School is proud to announce the eleventh iteration of our annual housewrite, Prison Bowl. Prison Bowl XI will be available for mirrors beginning on March 24th, 2017. It will then be available for play until Sunday, June 10, 2017 (after which it will be viewable to all on the quiz...
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9453
Prison Bowl XI Main Site (3/24/18)
Hunter College High School is proud to present the eleventh iteration of our annual Prison Bowl invitational tournament. This tournament will take place on Saturday, March 24, 2018, and will use the house-written Prison Bowl XI set. Our school, Hunter College High School, is located at 71 E 94th Str...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On talking about high schoolers
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10830
Re: On talking about high schoolers
So as the person to whom the sexist comments in question were directed, I just wanted to say I really appreciate NAQT’s response to this most recent pushback. It’s true that after the comments were posted, I wondered why more wasn’t done right away to address the issue. I also wondered why DCC made ...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia Winter @ Columbia University (12/2/2017)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6594
Re: Columbia Winter @ Columbia University (12/2/2017)
Hunter would like to add a fourth team to the waitlist. It can be in either division.
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIFT XVII, Kellenberg, Uniondale, NY 11/18/17 (IS-170)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12490
Re: LIFT XVII, Kellenberg, Uniondale, NY 11/18/17 (IS-170)
Hunter would like to add a third team to the waitlist.
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 1:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6415
Re: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
Full statistics for prelims, playoffs, and crossovers are now available in the tournament entry (found at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4573/).
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 7:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6415
Re: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
Congratulations to Greens Farms, who emerged victorious from a one-game final with Bard A to win! Ridgewood A snagged third. Thanks to everyone for a great day! Please refrain from discussing the set publicly until it is cleared in April. Statistics should be posted within a week or so. We're so gla...
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fundraising
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4268
Fundraising
Hi, guys! The way our school funds clubs has changed this year. Although Hunter Quiz Bowl's been around for a decade now, we've never had to do any serious fundraising before. Outside of the traditional but low-yield bake sales (and running tournaments, of course), what do y'all do to help raise mon...
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ/PA/CT/Surrounding Area Discussion '17/'18
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10292
Re: NY/NJ/PA/CT/Surrounding Area Discussion '17/'18
Hey, Haggai! Depending on if the date or set conflicts with anything else, there's a definitive chance we'd be down. Miss you around the circuit!
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6415
Re: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
Yep, we have it. Updating the field right now.
- Sun Oct 08, 2017 3:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6415
Re: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
The field is now up to date.
- Tue Oct 03, 2017 2:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6415
Re: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
The field is now up to date.
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6415
Re: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
The field is now up to date, and will close on October 14.
- Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6415
Re: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
The field is now up to date.
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Current State of New York City Quizbowl
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6411
Re: The Current State of New York City Quizbowl
One of my senior year classes is actually an internship with Hunter's vice principal which has a couple of different goals, but one of them is analyzing gender distribution in Quiz Bowl throughout the country, with a particular focus on the New York area (because the rest of the project focuses on e...
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl 3/25 NYC
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14150
Re: Prison Bowl 3/25 NYC
2017 Prison Bowl (Prison Bowl X) has been released on the Quiz Bowl Packet Archive. Enjoy!
- Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6415
SCOP Novice at Hunter College HS, NYC (10/28/17)
Calling all new players or coaches with new players on their teams: Hunter College High School (71 East 94th Street, New York, NY, 10128, between Park and Madison Avenues) will be hosting the seventh iteration of its annual fall novice tournament on Saturday, October 28, 2017. This tournament will u...
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIFT XVII, Kellenberg, Uniondale, NY 11/18/17 (IS-170)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12490
Re: LIFT XVII, Kellenberg, Uniondale, NY 11/18/17 (IS-170)
Hunter would like to register 2 teams and 1 buzzer.
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl 3/25 NYC
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14150
Re: Prison Bowl 3/25 NYC
Prison Bowl X packets will be available on the Quiz Bowl Packet Archive after our set is used for a final event at the end of the summer. Until then, please continue to refrain from discussing question content online, and you can email me at chloe.e.w.levine@gmail.com with any specific and pertinent...
- Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:13 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Women in Quizbowl 2017 Edition
- Replies: 28
- Views: 35177
Re: Women in Quizbowl 2017 Edition
If you want a healthy dose of modern day sexism, just read the comments on the Periscope videos of the HSNCT finals. Thankfully, based off their Facebook thread, it looks like NAQT is taking concrete steps to avoid this sort of thing in the future. Because I'm bad at social media and don't really c...
- Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:26 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Women in Quizbowl 2017 Edition
- Replies: 28
- Views: 35177
Re: Women in Quizbowl 2017 Edition
NOTE: PLEASE POST THIS ONE AND NOT THE OTHER ONE: Copied from my Facebook post (warning: some profanity): The issues with being a girl in Quiz Bowl range from the banal and annoying to the outright offensive. Here’s a list of some I brainstormed over the course of about five minutes: On the more ann...
- Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 NSC set discussion
- Replies: 85
- Views: 54101
Re: 2017 NSC set discussion
I also loved the parentheses tossup (it was probably my favorite lit question in any set this year), but I did hear a few people frustrated to have it in the first round because it seemed difficult -- would you mind posting that question, so I could see where it went after the "Since feeling is...
- Thu Jun 08, 2017 5:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England date claims '17-'18
- Replies: 45
- Views: 43993
Re: New England date claims '17-'18
If anyone wants to venture south, Hunter is mirroring SCOP Novice on 10/28 (probably) and running Prison Bowl XI on 3/24 (almost certainly).
- Thu Jun 08, 2017 5:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ Date Claims '16-'17
- Replies: 45
- Views: 31486
Re: NY/NJ Date Claims '16-'17
My apologies: I posted these on the wrong thread.
- Thu Jun 08, 2017 5:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ Date Claims '17-'18
- Replies: 38
- Views: 25982
Re: NY/NJ Date Claims '17-'18
Hunter will have a novice tournament on SCOP 10/28 (tentatively) and Prison Bowl 3/24 (almost definitely). Sorry about the October conflicts, but hopefully since it's a novice tournament everything will be okay. We already had to submit the dates to our school so we can't change them.
- Thu Mar 02, 2017 11:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: GSAC XXIV Mirror Requests
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10654
Re: GSAC XXIV Mirror Requests
I second that request.
- Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Hunter NY 10/29
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3527
Re: SCOP Novice at Hunter NY 10/29
Field update (as of October 24): West Egg 3/0/4 Ridgewood 4/2/0 East Brunswick 1/0/0 Gotham 2/0/0 Trinity 3/1/0 Tenafly 2/0/0 House (HCHS MS) 1/0/0 If anyone has extra buzzers, we'd really appreciate you bringing them! We're still short a couple sets. We will be emailing all teams with more informat...
- Tue Jun 14, 2016 3:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ Date Claims '16-'17
- Replies: 45
- Views: 31486
Re: NY/NJ Date Claims '16-'17
An update: Hunter's SCOP Novice tournament will actually be October 1, not October 15.
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 11:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ Date Claims '16-'17
- Replies: 45
- Views: 31486
Re: NY/NJ Date Claims '16-'17
Hunter will be running our usual two tournaments, SCOP Novice in the fall and Prison Bowl X (housewrite) in the spring. The dates have not gone through the final approval process but SCOP will very probably be October 15 and Prison Bowl will very probably be March 25.