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I can think of little more important for getting people to commit their valuable and scarce time to quiz bowl than making sure to respect it , no matter whether they're playing every tournament or stopping by to staff every once in a while. And, best of all, it's actually rather easy to do this ...

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We don't have individual stats from the game (noting that TJ A used and swapped pseudonyms on a game-by-game basis) but it's almost inarguably the TJ - Lakeside (WA) HSNCT final in 2005. This was the closest anyone came to beating TJ all tournament, after TJ previously beat Lakeside 655-155 and 760 ...

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To add to this, most opens are not at the level of Chicago Open, and many are at what would be considered "normal" collegiate difficulty. COOT and NASAT are commonly used for summer opens.

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Drafting yourself is an underrated strategy.

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Not sure what difficulty you're looking for but quizbowlpackets.com has a lot of free questions almost all of which should be pyramidal, but very few of which are limited by category. Most of the questions there are on qbreader.org/db - which both has reading functions and filterable search options ...

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I recommend the haka to strike fear and intimidation into the hearts of your opponents.

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Also late to this thread, but the best thing you can do is 1) Advertise that you exist and what the club is. 2) Play EASY questions in practice (I personally find that an IS-A set is the best for the trash, Geo/CE and other more "popular" categories, though SCOP or another novice set is also good ...

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I'm gonna be a lecturer in cognitive science at Darmouth for the next couple of years. My impression is that Dartmouth's club is dead atm, but if someone restarts it, I'll be happy to staff tournaments and help out in any other way I can. It's worth noting that Hanover High School is located just ...

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Oklahoma State - 38 freshmen Texas A&M - 30 Carnegie Mellon - 21 Michigan Tech - 20 Georgetown - 18 Northeastern - 18 SUNY-Geneseo - 18 An update on these schools: Oklahoma State - played ACF Fall & Collegiate Novice, but nothing since October Texas A&M - played ACF Fall, an online Planetfall ...

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The 2024 David Riley Conference will be held Saturday night of the 2024 PACE NSC in Reston, VA. You can apply to be a panelist using this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... sp=sf_link.

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I would recommend against one person writing a set and selling it without somebody editing, proofreading, or playtesting. I would also recommend against 2-3 people with very little to no combined experience deciding that they want to produce a set. That being said, one of the few pieces of Eric's ...

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I want to add my two cents coming from a club at a small college that had a lot of challenges with recruiting. I agree with most of what Kevin has said here -- a defining part of the club at Bowdoin was that other team members had greater priorities, and it was difficult to get the same team members ...

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I will be moving to New York next month. Not sure how much I will play opens or staff, but my apartment is within walking distance of NYU.

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Owen, it's exciting that you're trying to do outreach, but it's unclear whether there's any planning behind this or if you have any help at all. Is anyone else working on this? What question sets do you plan on licensing (especially for a national!) or would you produce your own? How is UQC planning ...

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I just took a job in New York, so I'll be moving about 30 miles southwest sometime this winter. Not sure how much I'll be available to play opens or staff stuff, but I'll try to when I can.

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Can we get a field update? I hope this isn't current.

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I will absolutely play this.

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Are the NHBB High School 2020 Nationals still being held (online) in December? There is a schedule up on the History Bowl website but I don't think there has been an official announcement. Yes, that is the plan. Don't know much about the schedule but I assume the one on the website would be ...

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This was a very well-run tournament, and it ended just after 6 for most teams (which is great for 10 rounds of online play!). Want to thank Will and the rest of the staff for keeping things moving throughout.

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Packet-sub was a really good way to get some of our younger players to start writing questions -- and is certainly a potential step towards something like the writing mentorship program, WORKSHOP, etc. However, it is a little absurd that Winter is the most expensive tournament we'll play this fall ...

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Can we see the field?

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To account for bonuses, we have changed the start time to 9 am ET. Anyone interested in staffing can sign up with this form. https://forms.gle/ALmJRjuqNgbXvvmg6 This form is for outside staffers not affiliated with a team competing at this tournament. Outside staffers will be paid $20 USD. (We have ...

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Hey everyone, first I apologize if this is in the wrong location. I am not on here very much. I am looking for suggestions for team practice. I trust my team is studying as individuals but it is hard to duplicate good ol' fashioned buzzing. What are your teams doing within these restrictions to get ...

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Is ACF planning on being stringent with what site teams can sign up for? I understand that hosts in New England are hard to come by, but it's a little odd that the Upper Mid-Atlantic host (NYU) would, under in-person circumstances, be a shorter trip for us than the New England host (Stony Brook).

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Can it be clarified as to whether or not students who have chosen to take a gap year (but were enrolled in 2019-20) can play this tournament?

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For what it's worth, I am writing (most of)/editing AQBL's October set, and while there are a lot of questions left to write, it should be a very good set. I'm also penciled in to do a Feb. or March set. This is independent of writing/editing positions Joe may have been advertising, so I can't ...

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Dude, set producers can do whatever they want with their questions; we're not giving NEAT to LIQBA for a variety of reasons that are irrelevant to this discussion, but I'm going to be working on a separate, tossups-only set for him because if Joe gets even 100 teams to play the set, the mirror fees ...

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Hi all,

I'm looking to collaborate with a science writer (experience required in biology and chemistry, physics is a plus) on a tossups-only HS set for the fall. Please email me at michael AT historybowl.com for more details if you're interested.

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A_Failure wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:56 pm In an unexpected twist of events, I intend to go to Bowdoin in the fall and will be quizbowlling there.

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Snoopy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:29 pm Thanks to everyone who played yesterday! It was an excellent event, the largest online Quizbowl tournament ever!

Largest single-division online tournament ever.

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There were a couple notable Feng Shui issues, not all of them which I remember, but one of them was that there was a tossup on Frédéric Chopin only a few tossups after a bonus centering on Kate Chopin. Yes -- Katherine Lei did a very good job of pointing out and listing feng shui issues, typos, etc. ...

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Because of the addition of ACF Winter, the target difficulty for this year's ACF Fall will be lower than in years past. We are intending for the set to be a hyper-accessible introduction to college quizbowl for people with little to no previous playing experience, comprable to the Early Autumn ...

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TJ S&T "C" beat Strake Jesuit in a single-game final to win the tournament. Thank you to everyone who played and everyone who staffed!

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This happened; Del Norte A went 9-1 to clear the field; You, the reader, have ligma went 7-3 to finish second. Thank you to everyone who played!

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Curious: how many years in a row has Hunter been the undisputed #1 now? 6? 7? 4-5 -- Hunter may not have been the undisputed #1 even in 2015-16, considering they didn't even expect do be playing post-lunch at HSNCT that year (back when Sunday was playoffs-only). High Tech was #1 when I started high ...

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How can you ensure that players don't have a way of communicating with one another about when to buzz in?

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I'm pleased to announce a global (not region-specific) open Discord mirror of RAFT for high school-eligible players on 4/18. The tournament will run from approximately 10 am to 7 pm EDT. The registration fee is $60/team, and an initial field cap of 6 teams is being set (we also will not run the ...

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The field has filled; all further registrations will be put on a waitlist. We hope to expand the field, and I encourage interested staffers to reach out to me! The field has been expanded to 16 (EDIT: 20) teams. I'm expanding to a final field cap of 24 teams. EDIT: The field is now full and we have ...

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I want to spin off some of Chris Chiego’s and others’ points in the Nationals thread into its own discussion. The Issue: Building Up More Competitive College Teams Karthik's post really hits at the key underlying issue here, which is what happens to people who don't go to schools with strong, well-es ...

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High Dependency Unit wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:14 pm The field has filled; all further registrations will be put on a waitlist. We hope to expand the field, and I encourage interested staffers to reach out to me!

The field has been expanded to 16 (EDIT: 20) teams.

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The field has filled; all further registrations will be put on a waitlist. We hope to expand the field, and I encourage interested staffers to reach out to me!

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Justine, with regards to the RAFT mirror, I mostly priced it off of the other online mirrors, but I think that trying to get as close as possible to a real tournament experience, on a good question set, can justify the expense. If RAFT ends up being 10 rounds, a team of 4 is paying $15 per person to ...

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Editing the main post to note the entry fee is $60.

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Snoopy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:32 pm
High Dependency Unit wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:13 pm I think you're severely underestimating the time it requires to run 12 rounds on Discord.
Probably, which is why we did TUs-only.

Didn't catch that, my bad!

(mods can probably remove these three posts with some FZ title like "I can't read")

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Field (24/24): Ladue Mira Loma "Church Santa Clara" Detroit Country Day A Thomas Jefferson C Staples TAG Magnet St. Mark's (TX) TJ Classical "Water Gas High School" Stanton College Prep B Georgetown Day School Detroit Country Day B Hwa Chong (Singapore) Ladue B State College College Heights ...

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I am pleased to announce an online mirror of RAFT, the Regular Academic Fall Tournament,. All matches will be run using Discord. This is a closed tournament, meaning teams may only have players from one school. Eligibility: Teams with nearby mirrors of RAFT scheduled for after April 18 will be asked ...

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I think you're severely underestimating the time it requires to run 12 rounds on Discord.

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RAFT expects to run a closed online event on April 18.

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I don't think it's a problem for teams to just aspire to make ACF nationals; that's basically what I'm setting as our team goal for next year. However, Nationals is still too hard, and still incredibly inaccessible for a number of teams. As a student from a liberal arts college, I also feel like it ...

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Borecki/Simons

Max Shatan
Julia Tong
Taylor Harvey
NYU A
Alternate: Jack Lewis

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