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The high school questions are now posted in the archives.

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There are two different things here, televised quizbowl and quizbowl. Televised quizbowl has always been fairly small, with a handful of programs lasting a long time such as the one in DC. Televised quizbowl is probably small and heading in the wrong direction, and its problems won't be solved by ge...

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There is a Zoom Webcast of today's IESA Championship matches, which are at 5:00 Central Time. If you want to watch, sign up at https://www.iesa.org/activities/scb/.

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Daniel makes some good points. One thing that might help is if Groger posted a link to their adjustments whenever they posted a link to their rankings so that those adjustments get seen by more TDs. It probably would also help if they had an explanation of their adjustments on the same page as the a...

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Eric's post is very good, and I am glad he posted it. One thing I'll add is that your team does not need to be large to write a high school tournament. I understand why high level sets have big teams because of the specialization and amount of time required, and I understand why some people overseei...

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I am not a logistician, but I believe the way to overcome a 3% fee is to charge 3% more. I realize this can be a problem if it is unforeseen, but you can foresee it the next year.
I am a tournament director, and a 3% increase in mirror fees announced in advance is not a big deal.

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This is far from a game changer, but it would be helpful if more set discussions were made public eventually. People who set up private discussions of sets before all the mirrors are played should post a public link to those discussions once the sets are posted. There currently are private forums fo...

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Thanks for getting this discussion started. I hope it goes somewhere. The Best of the Best has a few good articles on writing, and it might be the best resource as of right now. This seems like an area where the QBWiki could be good, but as of now it does not have enough interesting content . There ...

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Congratulations to Barrington and Timothy Christian for their undefeated championships. A huge thanks to Giifti Benti, Colby Burnett, Ulysses Capistran, Peter Cipriano, Claudia Danowski, Alex DeWitt, David Edwards, Tom Egan, Akshar Goyal, Jonah Greenthal, Em Gunter, Matt Hasquin, Susan Howe, Michael...

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There is now an opening in the Über-Competitive Division.

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We're full. Evanston B is the last team in. Anybody registering at this point will go on the waitlist.

I still need more staffers.

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This tournament currently has 18 teams in the Über-Competitive Division and 53 in the Standard Division. There is a hard cap of 18 and 54.

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Reinstein QuizBowl has lots of middle school questions available, both competition questions and practice questions. The questions are in IESA format, which means that each round is 24/20 plus tiebreaker tossups, and the distribution is 5/4 Language Arts, 5/4 Math, 5/4 Science, 5/4 Social Studies, 2...

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We will play by NAQT rules except matches will be 20/20 instead of timed. That means 15-point powers, 5-point interrupt penalties, no bonus rebounds, and 4-on-4. I will take any team that registers by the end of the day Friday, 12/9. After that, I will only accept teams if I have enough staff and th...

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Thanks to everybody who participated and helped out Saturday. Results are at https://www.scobolsolo.com/. Congratulations to Charles Young of Barrington for his 2nd consecutive championship! A special thanks to Sandburg for hosting, especially Jeff Brigham. A special thanks also to Jonah for taking ...

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The schedule is now on the website. It is subject to change, but hopefully it won't.

EDIT: I have one free opening to the first high school coach who emails me the name and year of a student who will play tomorrow.

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We have space for one more student.

EDIT: We're full.

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I'm making the schedule Saturday morning. Sign up by the end of the day Friday.

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This tournament will be full at 128 students, 32 moderators, and 32 buzzers. The current numbers are 109, 29, and 23.

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You can see the field here. Hopefully we'll find out soon which state will be the fifth sixth one to have a team. Staffer List: Luis Angeles Giifti Benti Colby Burnett Ulysses Capistran Peter Cipriano Claudia Danowski Alex DeWitt David Edwards Tom Egan Akshar Goyal Jonah Greenthal Em Gunter Matt Ha...

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The 2022 Reinstein Varsity Tournament will take place on December 17 at Barrington High School in Chicagoland. We will have an Über-Competitive Division and a Standard Division. The C++ Set will be used in the Über-Competitive Division, and NAQT IS-216A will be used in the Standard Division. (The sa...

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This is an invitation to participate in the Twenty-Second Annual Scobol Solo, to be held on Saturday, October 29. The tournament is at Sandburg High School in Orland Park, just southwest of Chicago. This is the main site of Scobol Solo. You can enter by using the form at https://www.scobolsolo.com/ ...

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When I was the treasurer of PACE, I got a check for several thousand dollars from a high school that had entered the NSC the year before and was working with an energy contractor named PACE. We worked it out easily, and I did not suggest that PACE change its name.

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I quit PACE a month ago.

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No paywall here.

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(I haven't worked on the HSNCT schedule in several years, and even when I did it was prelims rather than playoffs.) Keep in mind that before the tournament NAQT does not know exactly how many teams will be in the top bracket and the bottom bracket when playoffs begin. That number depends on the outc...

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This announcement actually covers four or five sets. Also see our website . Scobol Solo is a tossup only set. It contains 14 regular rounds, one replacement round, and a 60 question championship round, with tiebreakers for all rounds. It is about 400 tossups total. My current expectation is that the...

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I started coaching in 1994-95. Pretty much every year for the next 20 years I contacted the IHSA about how to improve their tournament. Some of my suggestions were big, and some were small. Sometimes my relationship with them was amicable, and sometimes it was, um, not amicable. Sometimes there were...

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Everything is up. The Reinstein Set entry has both versions of the set.

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Nobody ever has or ever will.

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I lived 4 miles from there from 1990-92 and never heard of it, though I had no connections to quizbowl or middle schools at that time.

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There are three things to do. It is possible, and possibly recommended, to do all three. 1) Make sure that there are good regular season tournaments. A circuit with good regular season tournaments and a bad state tournament is a good circuit albeit a frustrated one. You are already doing this, which...

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After Solo was used last week in Kentucky and Reinstein was used this week in Virginia, I believe that these sets are no longer being played. If nobody contacts me this week, then I will post Solo, Masonics, and Reinstein in about a week.

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Safer places to go are QB Reader and Quiz Bug. Liam is correct that reading and hearing a lot of questions is what you are looking for at this point, and the packet archive allows you to read a ton of questions.

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It's fixed! Thank you to the person who did it.

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All of the sets are now ready.

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Is there an alternative other than emailing that address? I have sent several emails to that address over the course of several years asking for private forums to be dealt with, and nothing has happened.

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Thank you for doing this. I hope that future installments are less depressing than the first one. It's great information either way.

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1) You are a hero. The fact that somebody could be a forums moderator and do something is inspiring to all of us. I don't know who you are, but if you are coming to NSC I'll buy you a meal. 2) Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, moderators can delete or archive threads, but only administrato...

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Do not give any medicine including cough drops to minors without clear parent permission, and even giving it indirectly through a coach is not a good idea unless you know the coach has parent permission. It's still a good idea to have that on hand in case an adult wants it, but don't leave it in a p...

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