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Penn Quizbowl would like to claim February 18th for Quaker Spring Open [SCOP/SHOW-ME].

Thank you to everyone that attended Penn Bowl 2022. Congratulations to UMD A for winning the tournament with a record of 10-3. Stats can be found here. We hope everyone had a wonderful time!

Registration for Penn Bowl 2022 Mainsite is now open! To register, please fill out this Google Form and send an email to pennquizbowl@gmail.com . Registration will close on Wednesday, October 19th, at 11:59 PM. FIELD (Teams/Buzzers/Staffers) John Jay College (1/0/0) Maryland (2/0/0) Columbia (2/1/0)...

This is a reminder that Penn Bowl 2022 is currently looking for mirrors. Check the original post to see available regions. If you are interested, please fill out this google form. Thank you!

Thank you to everyone that participated in the 2022 Penn Bowl Playtest Mirror. Congratulations to Ulugh Beg Observatory Department of Cosmology for winning with an impressive record of 10-0! Full stats can be found here . I liked to thank all our staffers and Zac Bennett for making this tournament p...

Hello everyone. We are pleased to announce the online playtest mirror of Penn Bowl 2022. It will be held on Saturday, September 3, 2022 on Discord. Talia Coopersmith and I (Alex Moon) will serve as Tournament Directors. Eligibility: This tournament is open to all “open” players (that is, players not...

Hello! We are very excited to announce Penn Bowl 2022 (Penn Bowl XXX), which will be jointly written by Penn and the University of Florida. We plan to run this tournament at Penn on October 22. QUESTIONS This year's set will be head-edited by Taylor Harvey. Alex Moon and Talia Coopersmith will serve...

We'll be closing the application at 11:59 pm tomorrow, 2/20. Feel free to reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.

Hey! I enjoyed this set! I wanted to ask if I could see the "epilepsy" and "Eatonville" tossup. Generally, my only complaint was that some of the literature—like these two tossups—were unnecessarily convoluted. I don't understand the philosophy behind tossups like these. Why not ...

Could I see the "hard problem of consciousness" tossup? I remember hearing it drop philosophy of the mind words early, and was frustrated I didn't buzz. Andy Clark’s so-called meta version of this problem asks whether or not this is a problem at all, while a Francis Kammerer paper asks wh...

Could I see the "hard problem of consciousness" tossup? I remember hearing it drop philosophy of the mind words early, and was frustrated I didn't buzz.

How do you write a good poetry tossup? This is coming from a lack of experience and a general dislike of poetry tossups that I have tried to write myself. How do you choose significant lines to clue so that you reward people who have read/studied those poems? For more experienced writers, what sort ...

Recently, I was made aware that people outside of the highschool quizbowl discord weren't aware of what "Pks" were, and I decided (and was urged to) post on the forums about it. "Pks" are when two players trade bonuses with each other using QuizDB. There's a great video demonstra...

It's great that newer sets are being created, but I earnestly suggest that, if CATT still does not have a head editor and is just starting to be written, this set be merged with another or held off on until next year. Refer to Arthur's post for other reasons why: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto...

Is there any possibility to see a Google sheets of the teams competing to see exactly who is going and how many teams are participating?

Thank you everyone for playing. I had a great time writing the packet and I hope everyone enjoyed playing. Here are the final scores: Nick: 20 Deepak: -5 Ned: 15 Matt: 10 Morgan: -10 Erik: -5 Ethan: 30 Sadie: 5 Chandler: 5 Dwight: 10 Taylor: 35 Connor: -10 Ani: -5 Isak: 10 Mike: -5 (Thank you Sadie ...

Hello everyone! I hope you’re doing well. For the last two months, I have been writing a 20 tossup-only vanity literature packet and would love to read it on the quizbowl Discord server. It is called “Everything But Long Fiction” and the subdistribution is as follows: 5 Poetry 5 Short Fiction 5 Dram...

Do you have an idea in mind of what house-write you will use? This sounds like a cool idea, but to the best of my knowledge, most (if not all) house-writes have already been played or are non-existent.

I'm going to UPenn next year! I'm very certain I'll be playing quizbowl, although I'm not sure how serious I'll be about it. If you're on the team, reach out! I would love to meet you.