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Hi,

Are there enough staffers to expand the field?

Thanks.

Just a quick post that after Saturday's mirror of IKEA, a college set, I'm pretty convinced that TJ B is a top-15, if not t-10 team. They were able to take a near-full Texas A to the last tossup and go 4/5/1 on a shorthanded Maryland, along with nearly beating us too, all this being shorthanded (The...

Just curious,

Wasn't 2020 Terrapin PIANO difficulty? It's classified under College Regs (7) right now.

Thanks!

Thanks for clearing this up.

Although this tournament did have some logistical issues, I really did enjoy the questions and had a great time playing the tournament, even for 12 hours.

Thanks for the LIT team for writing a fun, challenging set and the Duke team for hosting!

Two underrated teams next year are Langley and Centennial. Centennial has senior Anthony Duan, who is a very good history and geography player, but they also bring up Anurag Sodhi from their ms feeder. Sodhi is a top-tier MS player and seems to scale up pretty well. Centennial usually has a really s...

Plugging a podcast that some friends and I made a couple months ago. It's a rundown of what we (collectively as a group) thought would be a possible top 25 for 2020-21. Feel free to check it out if you need any inspiration. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEx9X1iL7Wo I might write something later if I...

dmv kids who are good. matt siff is #1. abhinav scary naqt player and very good lit player. rank him overall. justin posner is also super good. the amount of points he puts out with abhinav on his team is pretty ridiculous. he also eats books so he'll get good fast. rank him too overall. katherine i...

Will there be samples for each of these events?

Richard Montgomery A is a very, very good NAQT team and an excellent mACF team. Previously, they've had some neg issues and bonus problems, but it seems like they've cleaned that up. They are seriously underranked and are a top 10 caliber team. Langley is also very good. William Orr is the best lit...

Here are the results! Overall Poll 1. Matthew Siff (12), Georgetown Day School 2. Katherine Lei (12), Montgomery Blair 3. Abhinav Karthikeyan (11), Richard Montgomery 4. Justin Posner (11), Richard Montgomery 5. William Orr (10), Langley 6. William Wang (12), Thomas Jefferson 7. Chris Tong (11), Mon...

We have almost 20 ballots! Keep em coming!

As Abhinav has already touched upon the top ten overall players, I'd like to focus on underclassmen and players from TJ. For freshmen, Cavan Gabaldon O'Neill from BASIS put an impressive fifty powers over eleven games on IS-190. He's a strong generalist who will be getting better throughout the year...

Greetings everyone. As you all know, the 2019-2020 Quizbowl season was sadly cut short by COVID-19. Therefore, due to popular demand (I asked in the DMV Discord), I have decided to announce a 2019-2020 DMV Player Poll. The poll will work very similar to the one Groger Ranks did last year, (https://h...

CabbageHugs wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 11:20 pm

king_crimson wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2020 7:27 pmElliott is a very good player.

Not sure about that but thanks?.....

I scale like a fish on a bicycle

I mean Elliott, you did very well at 190. You're also a freshman and so much better than I am when I was a freshman lol.

Hi, played the Georgetown mirror and want to see some of the tossups again. When will a discussion forum be up? Thanks.

As the season reaches 2/3 of the way through, a lot has changed in the DC area. The class of 2023 is pretty promising and I'd like to highlight them as well as shill for a couple of my teammates. Similar to Gus' post, I'll be focusing on underclassmen (2022 and 2023). 2023: Elliott Lee (TJ): As the ...

You seem to be in the same scenario as me. Honestly, memorizing clues and knowing as much as you can about books will not guarantee that you power the question, sometimes even if you've read the book. Truth be told is recognizing first-line clues isn't fully you're fault, you just aren't thinking a...

To clarify, this will be run on IS-190, right?

Hi Justin, Welcome to the forums! It's always great to see high schoolers get excited about quizbowl. I think what you're asking is a natural question for someone entering the community and starting to take the game seriously. I think it also expresses a couple misconceptions I've noticed elsewhere...

Thank you Matt for the headsup! also, it was really fun playing you at Penn Bowl Online, you did great!

Hello everyone! I'm a rising sophomore at TJHSST. I recently joined the school's quizbowl club, and have been doing pretty well due to my summer grind. During the summer, I was able to gain a lot of literature knowledge from a combination of reading packets and carding literature along with the occa...