Stephen Young, coach of Hunter HS, re: BHSAT XX wrote:Many thanks for... a wonderful set of packets, and a great day of quiz bowl! ... Once again, Bulldog was well worth the trip.
Kunal Naik, Alpharetta (GA) '12 wrote:I would like to again thank Yale for letting us use BHSAT, a set which got good reviews from across the board
Max Timmons, St. Paul Central (MN) '12 wrote:The questions were excellent and not particularly difficult. ...the questions rarely went dead or triggered buzzer races.
As we've done successfully for the past two years, we at Yale will be seeking to establish "mirror sites," or other tournaments using the BHSAT set, where appropriate. The set will be available for use at other sites from the weekend of March 24th until the weekend of May 19th (i.e. the weekend just prior to the 2012 NAQT High School National Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.) If you are interested in mirroring BHSAT, please email me at matthew.jackson@yale.edu for more information. (We're also open to uses for singles events, All-Star Team tryouts, or other legitimate purposes - just email!)
Question difficulty will be suitable for teams preparing for national tournaments later on in the year or for those seeking a moderately challenging tournament; since last year's difficulty hit this standard well, expect the questions to be of the same difficulty as BHSAT 2011, with performance during the year on regular NAQT and HSAPQ sets correlating strongly with performance on this set. We seek to reward earnest experience and understanding of core topics over simple recognition of less-known or more collegiate things. No tossup in BHSAT will go past the sixth line of question text (using 10 point Times New Roman as the standard), and no bonus part will exceed two lines of text.
There will be thirteen (13) packets. BHSAT will not be power-marked. No site of BHSAT may add power-marks to the set or otherwise modify, subtract from, or add to the set in any way. Any site which acts to modify the BHSAT set will owe us an additional 1000 dollars.
Distribution:
4/4 Literature (1/1 each American, British, other European; World is not guaranteed 1/1 per packet)
4/4 Science (1/1 each Biology, Chemistry, Physics, 1/1 Other Science, of which about half will be Math)
4/4 History (1/1 American, 2/2 European/British/Canadian/Ancient, 1/1 World)
{3/3 Religion, Mythology, Philosophy, and Thought
3/3 Fine Arts (1.5/1.5 Visual, 1.5/1.5 Auditory)
1/1 Social Sciences and Civics
1/1 Geography/Current Events}
1/1 Trash/Pop Culture
One of the bracketed categories, at random, will have a tossup excised to make an even 20 for the regular game. The tiebreaker tossup can be from any academic category, including those outside the brackets.
The list of sites is as follows and will be updated:
Main Site - Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 24. Email john.lawrence@yale.edu or see the main thread.
Ohio - Warren G. Harding High School, Saturday, March 24. Contact Warren G. Harding Quizbowl at wghquizbowl@gmail.com or see thread.
Missouri - Tuscumbia High School, Saturday, March 24. Contact Jason Loy at jloy@tuscumbialions.k12.mo.us or see thread.
Louisiana - Tulane/LSU, Saturday, March 31. Email Ryan McLaren at jmclaren@tulane.edu or see thread.
North Carolina - Duke, Saturday, April 7. Email Alvin Shi at hs93@duke.edu or see thread.
DC/MD/VA - St. Anselm's, Saturday, April 14. Email Aidan Mehigan at prof.whoopie@gmail.com or see thread.
Southeast: SC/GA - Georgia Tech, Saturday, April 14. Email Bradley Silverman at bsilverman3@gatech.edu or see thread.
Illinois - ATROPHY at NIU, April 28. Email Brad Fischer at styxman42@gmail.com or see thread.
Southern California - Triton Spring at UCSD, May 19. Email Chris Chiego at ucsdqb@gmail.com or see thread.
