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Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

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Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

At least for the fall, when presumably no in-person tournaments will be occurring, the dates of basically all tournaments are going to be controlled by a small number of people, namely those who are logistics managers for each housewrite, plus NAQT and AQBL. This issue of too many sets has only gott...

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

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Midtown Classical
Monrovia
Greenhill
Churchill A
Churchill B
Churchill C
West Point
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Last updated 8/9/2020 1730 EDT

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

Hello all! LONE STAR is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the first mirror of our set, as well as the first mirror of this new season, on 8/22/2020, open to ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL TEAMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY . The tournament will be held online on Discord on 8/22/2020, starting at 10 AM EDT. At le...

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Two announcements:
1. Michael Yue is joining us as a literature editor and general advisor for the set!
2. Our first mirror (to be announced soon in more detail) will be a national online middle school mirror held on 8/22. Get excited to be playing the first tournament of the new season!

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

There are two ways people get better at quizbowl, in general. The way I like to analogize this is with a landscape of sand. New learning is represented by adding sand. Every point on the landscape is a particular topic, and the height of the point is how deeply you know that topic. In general, peopl...

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By contrast, I included Arizona (also Mountain Time) in West Coast because I don't know of any instances where Arizona players really go too far outside Arizona / SoCal or try to do so and so that grouping made sense to me. If this is being run before Daylight Savings ends, as intended, most of Ari...

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We're over 2/3 done and have started rapidly editing. We expect to have playtesting sessions in the near future for people not eligible to play the set (i.e. people older than HS) and perhaps a middle school online mirror in late August, specifics TBD.

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I think there's a distinction to be made here between "coaches" and "adult supervision". It should probably be the case that all HS and MS teams attending tournaments be required to have some adult supervision (NAQT's chaperone policies at NCTs are a good model for this). However, I think it's pret...

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First mirror request received! [EDIT: First two mirror requests received! Thanks so much for all your support!]

MIRRORS
8/22: National Middle School Mirror, Online
12/19: Waukee, Iowa
3/6: Georgetown Day, DC

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It is seeming like, at least for a substantial part of the season, in-person mirrors won't be allowed (even if they're technically allowed within the reopening, I doubt many schools would like the liability issues and actually let them be held). For example, if in-person college classes of people fr...

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I have found that truly engaging with material taught in classes is a great and easy way to become at least above average regionally at most categories, although unfortunately none of the categories you've named are really taught in school (not to worry; this will make you good at the other categori...

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There will be computer science as a small part of the math distribution; I forgot to mention this. Thanks for the catch!

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We have been writing at a remarkably efficient rate and have done 40% of the set in 20 days. As such, we are taking mirror requests for tournaments occurring at any point in the season.

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EDIT: Message reminding players about the date of the tournament no longer applies; feel free to delete

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Nikita Nair and Eric Mukherjee have joined the set team, and the original post has been updated to reflect this. Eric will be editing science.

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LONE STAR (Look Out, a New and Exciting Set of Texan Academic Rigor) will be ready for mirrors from the start of the entire 2020-21 season! I, Daniel Ma, am head editing this set; besides Dr. Mukherjee and Michael Yue, all other set members, as of now, are Texans, hence the name. The set team is cur...

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To clarify, I don't think tossup/bonus cycles should be intentionally of the same category (that does indeed help extreme specialism too much, as Alistair has said), but I don't think they should be intentionally different categories either. It's very discouraging if you're a team that's relatively ...

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Adding to Eric's points, paired bonuses would make tracking conversion data a lot easier. Currently, moderators often skip bonuses (either by mistake or misunderstanding), making it difficult to tell what bonus was read in a given tossup/bonus cycle, therefore making it difficult to read bonus conv...

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Is this Tossups + Bonuses or Tossups only? I assume the former, since nothing in particular has been said, but just wanted to make sure. I was also wondering how many rounds might be used/how long this tournament will take.

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Agree with Michael; Hunter 2014 and 2015 won no legit tournaments so far as I can remember, and Hunter 2016 won only a few. Certainly not undisputed number 1.

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I've been thinking about this post for a while, so it's a bit long. Sorry in advance. I think I have a relatively unique perspective on this matter as someone who, before going to college, was forced for multiple years, as a pretty good player within my level of school, to compete consistently with ...

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I am not in charge of it, but just as a point of information, the tournament announcement for BHSAT will be posted on forums once the date is finalized, as will similar announcements for other tournaments in the region.

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Note of caution: The BHSAT date has not yet been set. It may be 2/29, but it also may be one of the two preceding weeks.

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Packets shall be released soon; no more mirrors will be taken.

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Hopefully the roster shenanigans will depart with DMA

I highly appreciate this mention of my flexible rosters.

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Excited to announce both our first ever online mirror on Discord and our first announced 2019-20 physical mirror at Virginia Tech!

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Is there 0/0 non-US history between the medieval and post-Industrial Revolution periods? I assume there's something I'm missing here...

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2019-20 Mirrors
Discord: 9/14/2019 viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23050
Virginia Tech: 11/16/2019 https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopi ... 6&p=361282
Brookwood HS, Georgia (BISB): 11/23/2019

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And of course, don't forget: If you are looking to mirror a regs+/nats- set before March, Prison Bowl XII is still available!

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As a mostly geo/CE and history player, I'll make some shoutouts the top players in these categories I've played (I have no idea how to rank people in "other academic"). Jonathan Lau, Chinmay Murthy, and Karan Menon I would say are the best geo players I've played against on geo sets. Were Karan elig...

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If anyone wants a Regs+/Nats- tournament early in the season, Prison Bowl XII can be mirrored at the start of the 2019-20 season! Please email us for more information.

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There are currently some games listed where one team has over 30 PPB or PPBB; how should we report any mistakes of this sort or other mistakes coming from stat entry?

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Jacob has been playing amazingly, as everyone has been saying, but, being Hunter's captain, I want to make sure Ian is also recognized among voters as well for how well he played. Ian, as generally a history specialist (with obviously good generalism) playing alongside Jacob with the associated shad...

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We play by shouting "buzz." Hunter generally doesn't set up buzzers in practice due to the amount of time it often takes to organize everyone into teams and the fact that, as you pointed out, it doesn't work as well with large groups. On another note, if your club becomes too big to play as two team...

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8. West Egg Again, a strong team, but they do seem to have had some difficulties beating top teams, namely Hunter. The good news is that at HSNCT they'll play teams not named Hunter I haven't made my own rankings yet, but I just want to say that, perhaps due to the high prominence of Hunter and Hun...

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It's worth noting that at IS 181 (which is obviously not the best sample to use, but anyway), Hunter C got 9 tossups out of 20 on High Tech A and West Egg A, while Ian outscored Jacob, showing that he can scale really well. Analyzing my own young ones, I'd say that they have the benefit of being on ...

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As seen in my updated signature, I'm headed to Yale! I'll probably play some Quiz Bowl while I'm there.

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Well yeah...that means you probably had a huge crash a few rounds later. Eating small amounts of sugar over time works a lot better than eating a huge amount at once. And I don't go too crazy with it, which might be why it works for me better than other people have said. Regarding whether it's susta...

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As usual, I have methods opposite to everyone else...but I might as well post about them. I usually consume an insane amount of sugar through candy and sweet coffee drinks, and I rarely run out of gas unless I'm recovering from a concussion, don't get enough sleep to begin with, or am playing the fi...

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Any predictions for nationals, whether NHBB, HSNCT, or PACE? I'll post my thoughts a bit later, but I just wanted to start the conversation

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New mirror with Chipola College on May 10th!

Additionally, due to issues in creating a discussion forum, please email us any comments about the set.

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Hunter is able to bring a second team.

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Regarding the set itself, I'm not going to say anything specific on the public forum for obvious reasons, and a private forum is being created. But as you have mentioned, there were some small mishaps, which we are now fixing prior to our next mirror. I'm not sure who the moderators in question were...

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A tournament with many players (if not the full lineups) from the regular A-teams of East Brunswick, Ridgewood, "West Egg", "Tenafly, Hunter, etc. is NOT a novice event. You might technically call such a thing a JV tournament or division depending on class eligibility, but it's not a novice divisio...

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I agree on this point strongly; a college difficulty pre-nats tournament seems like a bad idea for a new team. And from what I personally can do, Hunter has consciously tried not to have new teams' first experiences to be with Prison Bowl, for obvious reasons. I just wanted to not that two of the th...

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Thank you so much for coming to Prison Bowl today! By all reports, the games were intense and fun; we hope you enjoyed the tournament and had a great time, and we loved having you at Hunter! Congratulations to High Tech, Team An Won, and Miami Valley for getting 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively! High ...

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Considering the very high rate of drops we have had so far, please don't be turned away by a full field, since you will likely be bumped off of the waitlist.

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If you wish to contact me, just email Hunter quiz bowl at [email protected]

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War · Re: Prison Bowl XII, Main Site (Hunter), 3/23/2019 EDIT: Field closed

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