The Quizbowl Resource Center

Poll Results are out, again! 1. Livingston A: 110 points, average ranking of 1.08, ranked in 13/13 ballots, highest vote: 1 (dropped), lowest vote: 2 (dropped) 2. Hastings A: 96 points, average ranking of 2.46, ranked in 13/13 ballots, highest vote: 1 (dropped), lowest vote: 6 (dropped) 3. Belmont A...

Not from Norcal nor in hs so I'm not playing this tournament but I'd like to mention that although the registration form on NAQT is working, the link for registration on here is not publicly viewable, which is I assume an error.

I presume this was meant to be put in college announcements?

For the reasons DMa went into above, generally answerlines are not capped, because answerlines should be short in the first place (given that there generally isn't a reason to have long answerlines for most questions), but when they are long it is generally because, without the extra length, they wi...

Poll results are out! 1. Livingston A: 180 points, average ranking of 1.05, ranked in 20/20 ballots, highest vote: 1 (dropped), lowest vote: 2 (dropped) 2. Hunter A: 149 points, average ranking of 2.8, ranked in 20/20 ballots, highest vote: 2 (dropped), lowest vote: 5 (dropped) 3. Hastings A: 146 po...

I assume these rules were meant to help with edge cases and avoid any eligibility issues like what happened last year, but the rules don't seem to have any actual definition of what counts as a high school vs a middle school. I'd assume based on implications that any school offering a grade from 9-1...

Field (18/18) "A Fan Concerning Yoo" (1) Belmont (1) Bloomington (1) East Brunswick (1) Foothill (1) Great Valley (1) "Guilder" (1) Innovation Academy (1) Johns Creek (2) "Lexington Laistrygonians" (1) Mira Loma (1) Montgomery Blair (1) Okemos (1) St. Andrew's (1) Stev...

I am pleased to announce LOCH (Legendary Online Competition Hosted-on-scottie), an online high school tournament on Saturday, January 6th, 2024 ran on the 2023 Scottie set , which is regular plus difficulty. I, Sam Macchi (Vassar College), will be the TD. Rules: The tournament will be using standard...

Pretty sure it's difficulty (blue = below regs, green = regs, yellow = regs+, red = nats; though maybe red isn't meant to represent difficulty of nats exactly because ssnct is regs difficulty even though it is a nats set). It'd probably be helpful to have this marked somewhere on the calendar though.

I mentioned that I was going to create this a couple times earlier this year and so here it is. This thread is meant to serve as the replacement for an end of season player poll, by basically just allowing anyone to shout out any players (or teams should they wish to do that as well) who they think ...

Question about this year's NSC set, is the subject distribution the same as last year's? As I can't seem to find any more updated one than that anywhere.

Nothing like this existed yet so thought it was worth making this, feel free to put any predictions or team shoutouts going into nationals for this year's HSQB season here. Additionally I have created a pre-nats poll for hs teams, you can choose to submit as a t10 or t20 submission, justifications f...

Poll results are in, and here they are: 1. Hunter A: 8 first place votes, 106 points, average ranking of 1.38, ranked in 13/13 ballots, highest vote: 1 (dropped), lowest vote: 2 (dropped) 2. Belmont A: 2 first place votes, 96 points, average ranking of 2.31, ranked in 13/13 ballots, highest vote: 1 ...

A couple poll updates, the poll will close some tbd time on the evening of May 7th. And a couple useful things for people who have not yet submitted polls, the following is a list of northeast teams by Groger rank, and also attached is the most recent update to hbranks as of tournaments from April 2...

Northeast poll link here.

Results will be posted at some point once there's enough responses.
For the purposes of this poll any team from any New England state, NY, NJ, PA, or DE is considered part of the northeast.

I'll post more of my detailed thoughts on the circuit at some point later.

Think a noteworthy middle school level one from the past few years is this or if you count his regular qb tournament debut this. (Once again though he'd done other academic competitions but not qb specifically)

Belmont High School Quizbowl is proud to announce the fifth iteration of BAIT! We’re (tentatively) planning on holding this tournament in-person on 4/1, using the regular difficulty NAQT IS-215 set. Teams and Registration: Teams can consist of up to 6 players, with up to 4 players playing at a time....

Other longer poll (T-30) with space for justifications (either overall or by team) is here . Regardless of which poll you fill out (you can do both) please talk about teams you think are deserving of votes and why in this thread! Poll discussion is just as if not more useful/interesting than poll re...

Registration for this tournament closes this Thursday, 2/2, at 11:59 pm Eastern . If you are interested in playing and have not yet registered a team we have had a few drops and so there is space in the field still! Additionally if a team needs to drop, they will need to do so before the registratio...

The field for this tournament has, as of a couple days ago, filled! We will be expanding the field by 2s as staff count, buzzer count, and interest allows. Additionally a note we neglected to mention in our original post is that we will NOT be using computation math tossups or bonuses at this tourna...

Belmont High School Quizbowl is proud to announce the first Belmont Winter Tournament! We’re planning on holding this tournament in-person on 2/4, using the harder than novice, but easier than regular difficulty NAQT IS-218A set. Teams and Registration: Teams can consist of up to 6 players, with up ...

Is there any plan to do any sort of "mainsite" mirror at Yale?

Upon some further discussion Belmont High School has decided we will be hosting an additional tournament on February 4th, tentatively named Belmont Winter Tournament, set for it and BAIT V both remain TBD.

On a note not really related to the above post, Belmont High School is likely going to be running BAIT V on April 1st, the date is still subject to change and the set is TBD, however we thought it was worth getting it on the calendar now at least.

Registration for this tournament is now closed.

Field Updates: --------------------- Standard Division: (10) Choate (1) Woodland (1) Barrington, RI (1) North Quincy (1) Bronx Science (1) Dexter Southfield (1) Hopkinton (1) Brookline (1) Mansfield (1) BB&N (1) Novice Division: (4) Choate (1) Jonas Clarke Middle (1) Waltham (1) Mansfield (1)

Adding on to the main tournament info, teams in Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont interested in playing KICKOFF Novice should check out this tournament.

Belmont High School Quizbowl is proud to announce the first Belmont Fall Tournament! We’re planning on holding this tournament in-person on September 24th, using the regular difficulty KICKOFF set for our standard division and the novice difficulty KICKOFF Novice set for our novice division. Teams a...

Already updated on the schedule but want to repost, due to potential scheduling conflicts that would reduce our staff capacity the preliminary date for Belmont Fall Tournament is being moved to September 24th.

Belmont HS intends to claim October 29th for a tournament with two divisions, one on KICKOFF and one on KICKOFF novice. This tournament is not replacing BAIT V which we will likely host at some point in March or April.

Post for scheduling New England tournaments for the 2022/2023 season. 9/10 (ACT): 9/17: KICKOFF Eastern Supersite (intended for teams who cannot make the regional mirrors) 9/24: Belmont Fall Tournament (KICKOFF & KICKOFF NOVICE) 9/25: MEQBA Northern New England Season Starter Tournament (KICKOFF...