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Mirrors [as of 7/29/2020]:

Toledo League Varsity (October)
Mahoning League (January)
Ashtabula League tournament (February)
Portage League tournament (February)
Missouri Fall Academic Tournament (to be announced)
Main Iowa site (to be announced)

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I support the idea of a governing body that could hand out bans for misconduct. I feel that it’s more accountable when done on an organizational level instead of on an institutional level, especially when you’re at an open tournament not even associated with an institution. As some people have alre...

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Hi all! As we're starting to get to 100% written and our editors are working their magic, I'd like to put out again that this set is open for mirrors, and I would like to put out a call for playtesters. Email me at [email protected].edu what categories you're interested in playtesting, and I'll star...

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I am very happy that our crime fighters managed to completely obliterate these villainous packets! The dastardly Dr. Bike (Mike Cheyne) managed to buzz his way to first place on the first packet, but our heroes Finn and John Lawrence managed to defeat him and tie each other on the second packet. I a...

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We decided to change around the times for these packets: instead of two nights, we're going to both packets on Wednesday night, the original packet starting at 9:00 EST and the second packet starting at 10:00 EST. We're doing this so we can maximize the amount of players on the second packet! If you...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 11:02 pm What time these nights?

Well that would most certainly help for a packet reading! We're going to do 9:00 p.m. EST both nights as a start time.

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We're sending up a Bat Signal for you guys to play this set! These are some of the funnest questions I've ever written, and on top of the original questions I mentioned last post, Eli and I have both written two supervillain tossups: these are pretty difficulty vanity tossups worth 20 points! So sin...

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Hi all, I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these extremely crazy times. I wanted to continue a discussion which I started on Facebook, which can be found here . Specifically, I wanted to provide some clarifications, get some points across, and have a more formal discussion than my or...

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Hi all! I'm very happy to announce that Eli Issokson and I are working on producing two packets themed around everything and anything Batman. This project began from Eli creating a 20/20 set which was read to people for the first time on 5/13. The end packets will consist of edited versions of those...

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Hi friends! I hope everyone is happy and healthy right now. Little update from the team: this set is still being written as scheduled, and we are still on the same timeline pre-COVID-19. We are approximately 54% complete with writing the set. Our goal is to be done writing by late June so July can b...

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I'm not sure what the cost of a premium Zoom room is, but I'm willing to chip in to purchase access to one if necessary for the tournament!

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I don't want to to turn this thread into the cheating tribunal, but if it's an open secret that some people cheat...why are they allowed to play? Why aren't they being publicly shamed or called out? I'm not in the know here, so if there's some open secret list of known or suspected cheaters, I'd li...

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I'm not completely sure what it would look like, but I think it would be cool to like save/store some of the live blogging done at national tournaments like HSNCT. There's a lot of content/details that get lost if they're immediately captured in the moment, so to speak, and I think that storing some...

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Hi all, I've found that my greatest weakness in writing right now is making discernible medium parts at any level. I know how to give an an easy question, and I also have a good feeling for what a difficult part is, but I struggle with recognizing and then writing what's a medium part. This also tra...

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Congratulations to Minnesota Cow for clearing the field yesterday! I want to thank everyone for coming out and playing, and specifically thank Susan Ferrari, Tony Cosimini, Carson Melinder, and Andy Swiston for being an amazing staff that ensured that the tournament got done an appropriate time. I'm...

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What? Did someone say live stats? Oh yeah, here they are!

https://stats.neg5.org/t/fSY52laGk/mich ... -standings

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Going to go ahead and cap the field at 8 teams. Sending out information tonight and tomorrow!

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I'm really looking forward to the field here! Make sure if you're interested, you register here soon!

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Field [8/12] (As of February 26th)
Minnesota (3)
Bradley (1)
Grinnell (2)
DePaul (1)
Iowa (1)

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I wanted to throw out there that I really appreciated the increased number of directed prompts in this set. One of the most frustrating things in the world is being prompted around a difficult answerline that you actually know.

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Thanks to Minnesota for hosting, and thanks to Rob, Carsten, Paul, Danny, and Erik for moderating!!!

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Alex Dzurick is finishing off our editing team, focusing on Social Science, Current Events, and Geography!

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Update time! As we seriously begin to get writing, I'm happy to welcome Amogh Kulkarni as our history and philosophy editor. Shohom Chakraborty, Aditya Sivakumar, Annie Lin, and Aidan McWilliams have also joined the team as writers.

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Proud to announce that Eric Chang is now our Visual, Other Fine Arts, and Mythology Editor, and we also welcome Stefan Calin to the team as our science editor! As we start writing over winter break, we're still looking for a history, philosophy, and social science editor, so let me know if you're in...

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Hello everyone! It is my great honor and pleasure to announce the Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Tournament (MCMT) for the 2020-2021 season. The set will be available for mirrors at the very beginning of the 2020-2021 season. For some context, January 2nd, 2020 marks 15 years since the passing of Matt Cv...

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Hey Cade, Like with any other category, the best way to lock down your subject is via immersion. This sounds daunting, but realistically in the case of Current Events, it just means keeping up to date on the news. How is this accomplished then? For quiz bowl (and in general; being up to date is very...

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Hey all! On behalf of the University of Iowa Quiz Bowl team, I am pleased to announce that the North site of this year's Michigan Winter Tournament will be held at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday, February 29th, 2020 . The details about the tournament can be found here . This w...

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Hey Drew and Chandler, just as an example of this from this year's packet, we had 3-4 different submissions from different teams all on Fire Emblem, which was synthesized into one question. Similarly, there were like 3-4 submissions all about Frankenstein, which turned into just one final question....

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I played on a team who submitted a packet that wasn't used (Purdue B), and heard some of my clues used nearly word-for-word in other packets, often very early in tossups I would not normally be able to get since they'd normally be well outside my categories. This strikes me as something that should...

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Cabrini Green is not in Bronzeville. Probably I'd say it's on the Near North Side; the Latin School of Chicago coach said it was in Old Town. The bonus clue that mentioned the connection between the words "Adonis" and "Adonai" was super cool! That was a mistake on my part for not indicating that th...

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I thought this set was very good, though I noticed two errata that I don't think have been mentioned yet: FWIW, the respondent in the room where I read this bonus part was able to articulate a description that I thought was good enough, as he communicated it had to do with the feet all being off th...

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Steeve Ho You Fat wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:38 pm The Boeing 737 MAX isn't a Dreamliner, and none of them have crashed in Malaysia.

Oh shoot, I conflated details from the MH 370 disappearance with the recent Boeing Crash in Indonesia! That's an editing mistake on my fault and I apologize.

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Hey all, it was an absolute blast to help edit this set. I remember being really on the fence about whether I should apply or not, but looking back, I'm really glad for the experience this set has been. I first want to thank Rahul for doing an awesome job of head editing and communicating. I never f...

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Forgive me if I am treading ground already covered in this discussion, but one thing I'd like to speak about from experience of being on a new team in the Upper Midwest circuit is that of transportation. Naturally, as a newly found club, we are not given as large a budget as other established progra...

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Hey all! I know for all us, quiz bowl has made up a significant time commitment - be it in the form of writing, editing, studying, organizing, directing, etc. I was curious for my resume, what aspects I should highlight about quiz bowl to make sure it comes across as a vital activity and part of my ...

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I have some friends here at university who would love to hear these questions! Do you have an idea when the set will be posted at all? We would be super grateful here! There's a chance we may do GOLBEZ as a trivia night with the local game dev community where I live, which is why I haven't posted i...

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I have some friends here at university who would love to hear these questions! Do you have an idea when the set will be posted at all? We would be super grateful here!

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What sentence length and distribution are you all looking at? I'd say for trivia nights, definitely one clue/sentence. We play with about 20 tables of roughly 8 people, so for our format, one clue works since there isn't enough time to stretch out every question. Distribution I wouldn't go crazy wi...

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This is a really good idea! And probably more practical in a college setting than posting a flyer or going from classroom to classroom. I'd be very interested in doing this at VMI. Do you all write the questions yourselves or find them from the internet? If you write the questions what kind of dist...

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Hello! I don't know a good place to do this, but I wanted to express that I would be interested in writing for any packet sets this year. I wrote for WHAQ III last year and I went through the PACE mentorship program in writing. I would love to be involved in any way, thanks!

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Hello friends! I hope summer is going well for everyone! Up at Iowa, we have a freshman introduction week in August. Our Quiz Bowl team hosts a fun trivia night there, which is where I first met our team. Anyways, I see this as a big opportunity to get freshman talent and participation involved in o...

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I think one could write some great bonuses in the Skyrim packet. Do you plan to upload the packets online afterwards? Yes! I do plan on uploading the packets. I would love to work together on writing the Skyrim questions and maybe we can make into a couple packets versus the oneshot I had in mind. ...

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Hello adventurers of Pandora and Tamriel (sorry)! To practice question writing and to have some fun with two of my favorite titles, I'm currently in the process of writing a 20/20 packet about the Borderlands series in hype for the 3rd game with plans to make a similar packet for Skyrim content afte...

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11/10 Tournament, I wish I had one of those Men-in-Black pens so I could play it again!

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Finals stats have been uploaded to the hsquizbowl database!

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Congratulations for WUSTL A for winning the tournament 8-1 and thus forgoing a final! Thank you to all the teams for coming out to our little shindig and we hope that we can support bigger and better tournaments next year. Thank you!

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Eeeeeeeeek! It's live! It's live! The stats are live!

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We are a little under two weeks if you are still interested!

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Field (As of 3/01/2019):
WUSTL (1/1/3)
Northern Illinois University (1/0/0)
Truman State University (1/0/1)
Iowa (1/lots/1)

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I'd love to play this sometime; as of now, I don't know my schedule for tournaments, but I'm down for an online tournament if I can't make any of the main sites.

I'm basically only good for like 2008-onwards, but I think all video game questions are fun!

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