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Field Update (as of 3/15/2020): TAG Magnet (2 Teams) Plano West (2 Teams) St. Marks (2 Teams) Coppell Strake Jesuit The new Google Form for signup is linked here. Unfortunately due to CALISTO's insistence on having "regional online mirrors", attempting to get irl events hosted during a pandemic, and...

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Why is the fee for this tournament so high? $60 fees are the standards for college sets, where the mirror fees are $40+. I don't see the need to charge such a high amount for a high school set like CALISTO with a $10 mirror fee. WAIT Online is $60 per team BHSAT Online (TU only) is $75 per team JBB...

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I've spitballed ideas on Discord for ideal host cities for a Nationals-level tournament (HSNCT, NSC, NHBB, etc.). While the events mentioned above all have set plans for future hosts, I feel we can find more places that could potentially be used by these organizations. The first iteration of this li...

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Is there a possibility down the line to host a NASAT outside of Ohio?
Columbus is definitely a more ideal site compared to Lexington, however air travel there is quite expensive for West Coast teams.

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Is there any way to send an automated direct message to players upon joining the Discord server? Making clarifications about packet security before they post would be a good way to make sure there aren't any slip-ups (although of course this wouldn't account for malicious behavior). Yeah, Dynobot a...

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This may be slightly unrelated, but for those working on housewrite sets:
Don't use Google Drive. Use a proper system like QEMS or Packetizor.

It's much harder for a rogue writer or editor to retaliate by leaking a massive majority of a set using a question management system.

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TheScientists wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:16 am
Irvine being the last one to seemingly go missing after 2018

Alright, looks like I was mistaken. Irvine HS did play in a tournament last year and have signed up for a tournament this year.

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As a player in this tournament, I'd first off want to thank Karan, Karsten, and the mods for making this event an awesome and fun tournament. Shoutout to the people who created EFT on making a very stellar set. In a 3-way tie for the top, "Say SoCal LUL One More Time, I Dare You" wins by having the ...

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Am I high or did the initial announcement disappear?

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entropy wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:03 pm
Why is there so much Geography?

That and why the massive imbalance between World and US Geography?
Also - what does 1/1 military entail?

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Hi everyone, Unfortunately, IACQBank no longer exists. This is due to IAC not authorizing third-party projects involving their questions, which is reasonable and I do not have any disagreement with the policy. Regardless of the unfortunate news, I want to thank everyone for their feedback and suppor...

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SoCal is still going relatively strong and has been aided by the major flip of the San Diego City Academic League to full pyramidal questions and scoring. Yet Orange County, Los Angeles, and the assorted suburbs as well as many rural counties just have basically nothing or are overrun by Academic D...

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Quizbug2 is an exquisite option if you want an interactive reader for questions from QuizDB. If you'd like a more protobowl-like experience, I'd recommending using Betterbowl (which also pulls from QuizDB). It's currently still in a beta-phase, but it is a functional program and is useful. https://b...

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Josh's and Rohan's analysis are very, very on point. The SoCal circuit this year is quite competitive and strong. I felt I should highlight the current progress of some teams that were part of the Misc. category in Josh's original tier list. Olympian: Olympian has definitely had some rough performan...

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Hey y’all, I want to improve on Current Events but studying it is like reading somebody’s inside jokes and not understanding the backstory. Any way to fix that, and just get a better grip on what’s going on? I personally recommend Wikipedia as the best way to know CE if you want an expansive look. ...

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Hi everyone! I'm really excited to announce the public release of IACQBank v1.0! What is IACQBank? IACQBank is an archive of as many publicly available questions produced by IAC in one convenient place. IACQBank lets you search for questions along with navigating through the archive. IACQBank Featur...

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Banned Tiny Toon Adventures Episode wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:22 am
Hey, not to try to criticize this project before it happens, but aren’t you the kid we had to repeatedly tell not to try running an online event on recycled NHBB questions?

Yes. I learned from my mistakes regarding NHBB Online, and won't ever do it again.

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Hi everyone, this is a call for editors for S ystematic T ransitional A cademic C ollegiate K nowledge S et ( STACKS ), an HS-Nats level housewrite set expected to be available for mirrors in the 2020-21 season. Production details: UPDATE (12/23/2019): This project is suspended indefinitely. We are ...

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This set is written entirely by me, Nicholas Zhang from Teterboro, and the editing of the set will be based on rigorous playtesting and feedback by a team of highly experienced college students and high school graduates: Felix Wang, Anson Berns, Mazin Omer, Jamie Faeder, Will Yaeger, Jason Lewis, M...

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Two teams that have been immensely underrated and deserve to be mentioned: Greenhill The Greenhill A team went 8-5 (tied for 49th) at the 2019 HSNCT, led by freshmen Gokulan Anand and Josh Rubel. Gokulan is a wicked literature player and Josh is a solid history and sports player. Shruti Siva and Jud...

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Thanks for letting me know!
Updated link: https://discord.gg/DAHETBq

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Hey everyone!
We have a Discord server for SoCal QB players and enthusiasts!
Link here: https://discord.gg/jY9tEZ
(Everyone is welcome, discussion is more centered around the SoCal QB circuit.)

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The 2018-19 season is coming to an end soon, and to (hopefully) increase hype for the SoCal circuit, here's the thread for the 2019-20 SoCal season season for things that don't pertain to scheduling.

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On another note - how many HSNCT qualifying events will be in SoCal?

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We also should try to have 3 NHBB tournaments this season with one in OC, SD, and LA. Regarding having 3 NHBB events, would the OC event be running B Set, or C Set? My two cents here, but an OC event isn't really gonna be ideal to have simply cause the "local" OC circuit is pretty miniscule compare...

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Hey! It's great to see that you're taking charge when it comes to improving your school's QB team. For your first question, try to have a short break during practice (say a 5-minute break for an hour practice session) in order to essentially "push" the side conversations away from serious practice t...

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Both.

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I'm new to doing quizbowl (I've only done NHBB to date), and I'm beginning my QB grind. How should I approach to prepping Math?

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weissnichtwo9 wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:47 am
...shoddily-written tossups created from Ameya’s notes, and plagiarized questions. I took one look at it and described it as something that belongs in the Hadean Eon (I might have been overly harsh with that)

Nah - I'd say it was justified. They were really badly written.

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Gae Bulg wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:16 am
Have you considered that you committed plagiarism not only by failing to cite your sources, but by blatantly ripping off previous questions and attempting to make cute edits to them to make them "original" in the first place?

yes

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It's already too late in your scenario (sorry about that!) - but I'd also like to mention that search engines like QuizDB are also a great resource for last minute stuff. YouTube channels like Kings & Generals, Extra Credits, and Historia Civilis are also great last-minute things to binge or play in...

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Here was my main plan for NHBB Online: Have a tournament with "compilation" packets where we'd collect a bunch of previous tossups and make relevant and normal edits to them to prevent them from cheating and whatnot. I also had the idea of throwing in some housewrites too. I promoted it on the Disco...

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They seem to be working as of right now.
https://www.historybowl.com/nationals/past-results/

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Whatever plan I had with using the IS-level set we're working on has already been ceased I do not plan on doing a "tournament" for it

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Final Results: 1st Place - Sam Brochin 2nd Place - Conor Thompson 3rd Place - Nate Rybner, Aadit Juneja, Alan Wu, Steven Wang And if you are wondering, the finals were a 15 TU packet. Do I plan on ever hosting a Discord Tournament like this? Well yes, but but I'll probably just go for only housewrit...

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Due to time constraints - we will be using older, obscure packets for the WC and finals game in order to not cause further delay.
Due to this - we will not upload any packets publicly.
Thank you for understanding!

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A few clarifications: - I just want to make clear that NHBB/IHBB has no affiliation or endorsement of the event. (This has been put in the first lines of the registration form and in the Discord server) - I have made shortsighted decisions as to the creation of the first packet and clues in specific...

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And yes - the other 88 questions are housewrites. So will the Wildcard packet and Finals packet.

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I probably should put a public clarficiation. Based off of IHBB/NHBB packets is defined as basing our housewrites from the rossups tyles and type of topics that you would expect at an IHBB/NHBB match. Out of the 90 tossups we wrote, only 2 were direct copies and we redacted those 2 in the copies tha...

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The preliminary tournament has been wrapped up! Results are attached here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TzFZpStVd2OCM_X_GF01_ixPz95kzRUF7pYePRLWnNI/edit?usp=sharing The playoffs will be on Monday, April 22nd @ 6PM PST on the Discord Server (link above). The Wildcard game will be at the sa...

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We will be hosting a Discord Tournament based off of NHBB/IHBB packets on 4/18/2019 @ 4:30PM PST.
Sign-up here: https://forms.gle/qD6oWqwH3jQM14dz9
Join the tournament center after sign-up here: https://discord.gg/Qre5bjT

Let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks

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Hey everyone!
We have an "un-official" Discord server for NHBB discussion.
Link here: https://discord.gg/rGhj97Z

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I haven't recieved my NAQT Account Activation E-mail. I registered a day ago, and have not recieved anything. I contacted NAQT (at [email protected] and [email protected]) and haven't recieved any response.
What should I do? Should I delete my account and make a new one?

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