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This is the date claim thread/schedule for the New England circuit for the 18-19 school year.

I will keep this post updated with all high school/middle school tournaments, nhbb tournaments and college tournaments open to high school players in New England and national tournaments.

Phillips Academy will try to host the usual two tournaments next year.

NAQT sets
Housewrites
National Tournaments
NHBB tournaments
College/Open tournaments
Middle School Tournaments
Vermont Circuit
*denotes tentative date/set

September 1:
September 8 (ACT):
September 15: MIT Fall (IS-177)
September 22: PAQT2 (IS-176A)//Yale FAcT (IS-178A)
September 29:Sue Pasco Opening Tournament@Essex High School

October 6 (SAT):
October 13: EFT at Yale
October 20:
October 27 (ACT): Boston Latin SCOP Novice*//Boston Latin Scobol Solo Mirror//GHOST@Hanover HS//Penn Bowl Mirror@Harvard

November 3 (SAT):
November 10: Harvard Fall Tournament
November 17:NHBB New Hampshire and NHBB Boston Area Fall
November 24:

December 1 (SAT):
December 7 (This is a Friday): PHAT@Essex HS
December 8 (ACT):PAWT II (IS-179)
December 15: CMFT V@AMSA (IS-180A)
December 22:
December 29:

January 5: ABWIT (IS181)
January 12: LIVMIT (WHAQ)*
January 19:
January 26: Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl Playoffs

February 2: AMSA Middle School Tournament//NHBB MA State Championships
February 9 (ACT): Scottie@Plymouth
February 16: BHSAT
February 23:MIT Spring (RMBAT)

March 2:/NHBB Connecticut
March 9 (SAT): Vermont NAQT Championships//NHBB New England @ Conval
March 16:
March 23: ATHENA II@Lex/
March 30: BAIT II (Prison Bowl)//Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl FInals

April 6:
April 7: IPNCT
April 13 (ACT):
April 20:
April 27:NHBB nationals weekend

May 4 (SAT): SSNCT Weekend
May 11:MSNCT Weekend
May 18: Massachusetts State Championships@Phillips Academy (SCT DII, hopefully)
May 25:HSNCT Weekend

June 1 (SAT):
June 8 (ACT): PACE NSC Weekend
June 15:
June 22:

Awesome, thanks for making this!

It's prior to the beginning of the school year, but I imagine many local kids will still be around, so heads up that we'll be running a Boston Summer Open (Cambridge Open + side events) in early August. Many of the side events, and probably CamO itself, should be appropriate for high schoolers.

http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21286

Plymouth would like to tentatively reserve the date of September 22 for the PRAT 2 (Plymouth Regional Academic Tournament). The set is in TBD mode at this point.

Troy Harris
Plymouth, NH

Harvard would like to reserve November 10th for the HFT Main Site.

Plymouth is calling their tournament the PAQT 2. Please note the change where it is listed on the date forum. We have submitted the date of September 22 for approval and are just waiting for the administrative go-ahead.

Boston Latin School would like to tentatively claim October 20 for a novice tournament. More info soon.

Belmont High School would like to claim March 30th for BAIT II, which would tentatively mirror Prison Bowl.

Lexington tentatively claims January 5th for LIVMIT.

AMSA would like to tentatively claim Dec 15th for CMAT - Central Mass Academic Tournament. Snow day, Sunday, Dec. 16th. Almost certainly a NAQT set.

Also, we'll be hosting a middle school tournament on February 2 if any of you have affiliated middle schools or are looking to do some outreach/feeder program development.

MIT would like to claim September 15 for MIT Fall. Set TBD.

Phillips Academy is tentatively claiming Dec. 8 for some sort of IS set under the name PAWT.
We're also even more tentatively claiming the weekend before HSNCT for 2019 state championships, which should also help for nationals prep to all the teams that are going.

Yale would like to claim February 9 for BHSAT 2019.

Some of these are still somewhat tentative, but the main events of the Vermont schedule for 2018-19 will likely be:

* 9/29, Sue Pasco Opening Tournament at Essex HS - NAQT A-level set from 2017-18.
* 10/27, GHOST, New Hampshire vs Vermont tournament at Hanover HS - Questions TBD.
* 12/7, Pre-Holiday Academic Tournament at Essex HS - NAQT A-level set
* 1/26, Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl Playoffs
* 3/9, Vermont NAQT Championship
* 3/30 Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl Finals.

We would love to see more circuit teams up here, especially for PHAT in December, which has drawn at least 58 teams every year since 2012.

Lexington would like to claim March 2nd for ATHENA II, which will be run on the ATHENA II set.

NHBB is claiming Feb. 2 for its MA State Championships, March 2 for Connecticut (Newtown), and November 17 for New Hampshire. Boston Fall was initially scheduled for Dec. 8, but I'm trying to move it to avoid a conflict with PAWT (same with New Englands, initially scheduled for March 30).

Hi Michael,
I noticed on the History Bowl site that Maine was a potential site. Is that still a possibility?

troyharris wrote: ↑Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:56 pm Hi Michael,
I noticed on the History Bowl site that Maine was a potential site. Is that still a possibility?

I'll be doing some work on that in the next couple months (trying to get a spring event). It's a possibility, but don't count on it (RI is much more likely to happen, though).

High Dependency Unit wrote: ↑Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:34 am NHBB is claiming Feb. 2 for its MA State Championships, March 2 for Connecticut (Newtown), and November 17 for New Hampshire. Boston Fall was initially scheduled for Dec. 8, but I'm trying to move it to avoid a conflict with PAWT (same with New Englands, initially scheduled for March 30).

We'll be running Boston Fall on November 17.

james.wedgwood wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:52 pm Yale would like to claim February 9 for BHSAT 2019.

this thread: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic. ... at#p349968 seems to indicate that bhsat is actually Feb. 2, which would also conflict with an nhbb tournament. can this be clarified?

MIT would like to tentatively claim March 16 for our Spring tournament. We have not decided on a set yet.

Lexington will be changing the date of LIVMIT from January 5th to January 12th.

NHBB New England Championships is at ConVal on March 9.

Acton Boxborough Regional High School would like to change our tournament date from April 6th to January 5th. We would like to use NAQT packets.

Would just like to say that we have confirmed that IS-179 will be used at the Phillips Academy Winter Tournament II. The link to the forums thread is: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22031

With BHSAT set for Feb. 16, Plymouth plans to run a Scottie mirror on February 9.

troyharris wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:06 pm With BHSAT set for Feb. 2, Plymouth plans to run a Scottie mirror on February 9.

Not that this affects the Scottie mirror, but the date for BHSAT was changed to the 16th (http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 80#p350699) (Vincent please edit the post thanks)

The Hands Resist Him wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 9:44 pm

troyharris wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:06 pm With BHSAT set for Feb. 2, Plymouth plans to run a Scottie mirror on February 9.

Not that this affects the Scottie mirror, but the date for BHSAT was changed to the 16th (http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 80#p350699) (Vincent please edit the post thanks)

Yes charles

Thanks, Charles.

We will be using RMBAT for the MIT spring tournament.

Hanover will no longer be hosting its planned mirror of CAST. Therefore, both the date (March 23) and the set are available. I expect it'll be a strong set, so I urge any interested parties to contact William Golden.

Are there any upcoming tournaments that would consider doing 20 point powers, no negs, and bounce backs on bonuses? Obviously NSC's distribution and question style is also different, but I'd just like a chance to get an idea of how it affects gameplay and strategy. I know few NE teams go to NSC, but I think it's worth it to give the format a try. It would be best on a harder set.

cthewolf wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 5:47 pm Are there any upcoming tournaments that would consider doing 20 point powers, no negs, and bounce backs on bonuses? Obviously NSC's distribution and question style is also different, but I'd just like a chance to get an idea of how it affects gameplay and strategy. I know few NE teams go to NSC, but I think it's worth it to give the format a try. It would be best on a harder set.

Any team considering this should factor in that bouncebacks take a surprising amount of extra time and require very disciplined/skilled/trained moderators (to avoid accidentally revealing bonus parts). Moreover, most non-NSC sets don't have bouncebacks factored into their writing, which can lead to some unfortunate "well it's the other one then" situations.

Brief reminder that the main site of BHSAT XXVIII will take place at Yale on February 16! More information is available here.

Due to problems with getting rooms on 3/16, MIT will be moving its spring tournament to 2/23. Expect an announcement soon.

I just wanted to remind teams in the northeast that NASAT is the weekend of June 22nd and we'd love to have you all competing!

ATHENA II has been rescheduled to March 23rd. Teams interested in attending on this new date should contact Megha or myself.