WHAQ II Set Available for Mirrors (2017-2018)
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 12:12 am
Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce that the Washington High Academic Questionfest II (WHAQ II) set will be available for mirrors nationwide (and internationally too, if there’s interest)! WHAQ II will be a regular* difficulty set that is written by current and former members of the quizbowl team at Washington High School in Missouri and the team at the Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio. The set will be head-edited by myself (Jacob O’Rourke); the rest of the editing team is David Dennis, the head coach at Washington (the classical music, current events); Mike Etzkorn of the University of Illinois (Literature); Ashwin Ramaswami, formerly of Chattahoochee High School (Biology, Chemistry, non-Greco-Roman myth); Chandler West of Auburn University (Painting, Other Visual Arts); and Harris Bunker of Michigan State University (Religion, Philosophy, Physics, Other Science).
*An Important Note about the Difficulty of this Set: Last year’s set was widely regarded as being easier than regular difficulty. After seeing how local teams performed at the Washington mirror, I have no intentions of changing our overall difficulty (minor things-such as whether all bonuses have equally easy parts and the second line of tossups are hard enough to be clues at that level-will be fixed based on feedback from last year’s set). If you’re mirroring this set, please note that this will likely be easier than most other high school tournaments (and good teams will likely destroy the set).
We’ll be providing 14 packets for the cost of $10 per team that attends your tournament. If you mirror our tournament, I expect you to have statistics posted within a week of your tournament happening (and the statistics should be posted in a post on the thread for your tournament-for an example of how I want this handled, look here).
For an example of our intended difficulty, last year’s set can be found here.
The set will be available from September 16, 2017 until a few days before the 2018 HSNCT.
Set Details:
The tossups in the set will be powermarked and will run from 5 to 6 lines before the powermark is applied. The bonus parts will be no longer than two lines long.
Each packet will consist of 21 tossups and 21 three-part bonuses, distributed as follows (thanks go to Jason Loy for some of the distributional ideas):
1.5 American Lit (1 tossup and 1 bonus, plus an additional tossup or bonus in each packet)
1.5 British Lit (1 tossup and 1 bonus, plus an additional tossup or bonus in each packet)
1 European/World Literature
1 U.S. History
1 European History
1 World History
1 Miscellaneous History (this is ancient history and questions that don’t fit neatly into one of the other history categories, or just more of U.S., European or World History)
1 Biology
1 Chemistry
1 Physics
1 Other Science
1 Classical Music
1 Visual Fine Arts
0.5 Miscellaneous Arts
1 Geography
1 Trash
1 Myth
1 Religion
0.5 Philosophy
0.5 Social Science
0.5 Current Events
1 Extra Question (This will come from any category other than Trash)
Mirroring:
I’d love for as many circuits as possible to have a mirror of this set. If you’d like to mirror this set, please email me at [email protected] with the subject line “WHAQ II Mirroring” to help me make sure I don’t lose it in my email.
I am pleased to announce that the Washington High Academic Questionfest II (WHAQ II) set will be available for mirrors nationwide (and internationally too, if there’s interest)! WHAQ II will be a regular* difficulty set that is written by current and former members of the quizbowl team at Washington High School in Missouri and the team at the Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio. The set will be head-edited by myself (Jacob O’Rourke); the rest of the editing team is David Dennis, the head coach at Washington (the classical music, current events); Mike Etzkorn of the University of Illinois (Literature); Ashwin Ramaswami, formerly of Chattahoochee High School (Biology, Chemistry, non-Greco-Roman myth); Chandler West of Auburn University (Painting, Other Visual Arts); and Harris Bunker of Michigan State University (Religion, Philosophy, Physics, Other Science).
*An Important Note about the Difficulty of this Set: Last year’s set was widely regarded as being easier than regular difficulty. After seeing how local teams performed at the Washington mirror, I have no intentions of changing our overall difficulty (minor things-such as whether all bonuses have equally easy parts and the second line of tossups are hard enough to be clues at that level-will be fixed based on feedback from last year’s set). If you’re mirroring this set, please note that this will likely be easier than most other high school tournaments (and good teams will likely destroy the set).
We’ll be providing 14 packets for the cost of $10 per team that attends your tournament. If you mirror our tournament, I expect you to have statistics posted within a week of your tournament happening (and the statistics should be posted in a post on the thread for your tournament-for an example of how I want this handled, look here).
For an example of our intended difficulty, last year’s set can be found here.
The set will be available from September 16, 2017 until a few days before the 2018 HSNCT.
Set Details:
The tossups in the set will be powermarked and will run from 5 to 6 lines before the powermark is applied. The bonus parts will be no longer than two lines long.
Each packet will consist of 21 tossups and 21 three-part bonuses, distributed as follows (thanks go to Jason Loy for some of the distributional ideas):
1.5 American Lit (1 tossup and 1 bonus, plus an additional tossup or bonus in each packet)
1.5 British Lit (1 tossup and 1 bonus, plus an additional tossup or bonus in each packet)
1 European/World Literature
1 U.S. History
1 European History
1 World History
1 Miscellaneous History (this is ancient history and questions that don’t fit neatly into one of the other history categories, or just more of U.S., European or World History)
1 Biology
1 Chemistry
1 Physics
1 Other Science
1 Classical Music
1 Visual Fine Arts
0.5 Miscellaneous Arts
1 Geography
1 Trash
1 Myth
1 Religion
0.5 Philosophy
0.5 Social Science
0.5 Current Events
1 Extra Question (This will come from any category other than Trash)
Mirroring:
I’d love for as many circuits as possible to have a mirror of this set. If you’d like to mirror this set, please email me at [email protected] with the subject line “WHAQ II Mirroring” to help me make sure I don’t lose it in my email.