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Thanks to everyone for coming out to Quaker Fall Open yesterday! We hope you all enjoyed your time at Penn and the tournament as a whole. Additionally, thank you to all our staffers, especially our external staffers: Margaret, Antonio, Bern, Ryan, and Kurt! Congrats to both DCC A, who won the Open D...

Hi all, A couple of important updates surrounding QFO: 1. Per University policy, we require every visitor to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to the tournament. Additionally, Penn requires all visitors to fill out Penn's OpenCampus symptom/exposure check and get a Green Pass prior to the e...

Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, we will not be hosting this mirror. Apologies for the delay in this announcement.

FIELD (Teams/Buzzers/Staffers) Open (11/16): Great Valley (2/5/1) Manheim Township (1/0/0) Staples (1/0/0) “Wild Bohrs” (1/0/0) DCC (2/2/0) Ithaca (1/2/0) Camp Hill (1/2/0) Wilmington Charter (1/2/0) Downingtown East (1/1/0) Novice (10/16): Manheim Township (2/0/0) Carver (2/0/0) Wilmington Charter ...

The quizbowl team at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce our sixth-annual Quaker Fall Open, to be held on Penn's campus in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, December 4th, 2021. Divisions and Questions: This tournament will have two divisions: Open and Novice. The Open division will use...

Hi all, We are considering running a closed nationwide high school mirror of Penn Bowl 2021 (via Discord), and are looking to gauge interest in such an event. We would ideally be looking to run this mirror in either mid-December (the 11th or 18th) or mid to late January (15th, 22nd, or 29th). More i...

I have a couple of thoughts about Penn Bowl that I'd like to share. First off, I'd like to thank the Penn club for hosting this tournament. Hosting an in-person tournament right now can be very tricky with the number of restrictions that universities have put in place, so I commend the Penn team fo...

Congratulations to Virginia for winning Penn Bowl over Maryland A in a one-game final! All the final stats can be found here . Feel free to PM me if you find any mistakes/errors. Thank you to all the teams that attended Penn Bowl this year! Additionally, we'd like to thank all our staffers - both cl...

Update: We will be closing our registration and finalizing the field on Wednesday, October 20 at 11:59 PM EST. If you or your team would like to register for the main site, please do so by then. Additionally, if you would like to cancel or change your registration, please do so by the date above. An...

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 1:16 am What are the details for the start/end times of the main site event?

Our opening meeting will be at 9:15 in Meyerson Hall, and we will likely go into the early evening.

URGENT: We are still looking for mirrors in the following areas: North Mountain West California Northwest If your club is affiliated with one of these regions and you would like to host a mirror of Penn Bowl, please email pennquizbowl@gmail.com as soon as possible. We are still asking for mirrors on...

Registration is now open for Penn Bowl! In accordance with the University of Pennsylvania's policies, we are asking that every person who intends to come be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In addition, each attendee is required to have a Green Pass through Penn's Open Campus system. More informat...

Update:
We are still looking for mirrors for Penn Bowl on the 23rd and 30th. If your school has any interest in hosting, please email us at [email protected].

Update: We sent out the logistics email earlier today. Please contact [email protected] if you did not receive this email. Thanks!

Just a reminder that sign-ups are still open for this playtest! We’re ideally looking for a few more teams/players.

I am pleased to announce the online playtest mirror of Penn Bowl 2021 to be held on Saturday, August 28, 2021 on Discord. I (Jack Sugrue) will be serving as tournament director for this online playtest mirror. Eligibility: This tournament is open to all “open” players (that is, players not currently...

I am pleased to announce Penn Bowl 2021 (Penn Bowl XXIX) for the Fall semester of 2021. We plan to run this tournament (in-person) at the main site on Saturday, October 23, 2021. QUESTIONS This tournament will be written by a team of writers from Penn. The team of editors consists of Taylor Harvey (...

More specifically, the collegiate section is a mess. Finding (regs-level) packets to read in our club's practice is made far too difficult by the fact that probably 50% of the packets in the "college" section are obtuse, single-packet open-level sets. This isn't what the majority of colleg...

Hey Ya!

Some of my personal favorites are Extra History and Crash Course, but there's so much more out there than just those. What do you all think is good in the genre of YouTube education?

Mr Brightside
Hey Ya!

More Weight wrote:Not fun to read:
Rushdie
Heart of Darkness

I made the mistake of reading Heart of Darkness this year. Didn't really understand a word of it. On the other hand, though, I just read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and had a great time with it.