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I hate to be that guy, but I would encourage you to branch out and see if you can collaborate with some more experienced writers, or a set that already has an editing team in place, in more of a secondary writing role than a primary writing role. The worst thing that can possibly happen here is you ...

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Hi everyone, Some of us who go to college or went to high school in the northeast are collaborating to edit a HS set for Fall 2020 that we hope will be written primary by high school players from the region. All experience levels are welcome, and more information is on the call for writers here: htt...

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Hi everyone, Some of us who go to college or went to high school in the northeast are collaborating to edit a HS set for Fall 2020 that we hope will be written primary by high school players from the region. All experience levels are welcome, and more information is on the call for writers here: htt...

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Hi everyone, I’m very happy to announce the NorthEast Academic Tournament (NEAT), a fall 2020 high-quality high school regular-difficulty set that we hope will be written primarily by high-school-age writers from the northeast U.S. Writers should expect to receive detailed feedback on all submitted ...

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How strict is National History Bowl about age restrictions for Junior Varsity tournaments? I ask because our team's most active members are no-experience 11th graders. Thus, I worry about us entering the Varsity bracket. They are strict age limits (so they will have to play varsity). There are gene...

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Bowdoin might drive down for this if it is scheduled later in February, though the 15th is not the worst weekend for us.

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Hi everyone -- apologies for a delay that is entirely my fault, but a discussion forum for RAFT is now available. You can ask to join by selecting it on the "usergroups" section of your control panel.

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Big round of applause to Acton-Boxborough, the winners of FAcT XV! Stats for the tournament can be found here . I want to recognize David Rubin for his immense help with stats, as well as our wonderful Yale staffers (Andrew Qin, Louie Lu, James Wedgwood, Hasna Karim, Daniel Sheinberg, Nathaniel Mil...

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the return of AHAN wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 28, 2019 1:14 pm
Bonus #1 in round 5 needs to be fixed. Read it and you'll see why.

Thanks. Sincerest apologies about that. I'll be setting up a discussion forum in the next few days.

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I'd be very interested in knowing if a quiz bowl team is being started up at Hofstra (great, very exciting!) or if Ben Zhang is just planning on soloing this tournament (please don't do this).

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FYI, the University of Illinois ABT has announced their Earlybird tournament for September 28th*, which pushes your first mirror up by two weeks. * - October 12th would conflict with the coaches association's statewide novice tournament. This has been corrected. In that event, I'm open to running o...

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rahulkeyal wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:41 am
Registration for 2019 ACF Fall has opened! We are still working to finalize sites in the Mid-Atlantic, Southern California, and the United Kingdom.

What about New England?

EDIT: Never mind, it's on the form.

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If we don't get more signups, I'm inclined to cap the field at four teams and allow a five-person team or two. Please recruit your friends! EDIT: alternatively, we can break up a team (probably Columbia) to fill the field out Probably best to start with a free agent team and confirm that those peop...

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Workshops (at the regional level – the vulnerable teams are generally not the ones at nationals) would be helpful I was thinking that workshops should be focused at HS Nationals since that's where you see the biggest overlap between the college and HS game in terms of personnel and where you can ge...

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I’ve recently been thinking about starting a thread about supporting quiz bowl at smaller colleges, based on my experiences at Bowdoin thus far, but it probably applies better here and I’ve tried to reply/add to Chris’s points as much as possible. (Issue #1): The best thing that happened to me when ...

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I don't really know about that. 1) I think that if your circuit wants to have a "gentleman's agreement" rule and the Midwest wants to knock each others' brains out on easy questions, why do you care what they do? That might sound a little bit snarky, but I mean it as a genuine question. Is there an...

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Note: This is unrelated to my comments related to packet submission and pricing in the 2019 ACF Fall thread. I got a nice suggestion from someone today to "play EFT, but not Fall," to which I replied something along the lines of "that's exactly what I've been planning on doing." I'm making this post...

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So I actually run a team that has some concrete, rather than hypothetical, issues with the requirements and price structure of Fall With regards to the packet submission, I get why it exists, how it's incredibly helpful to the editors in the production process, and how it can help spur newer players...

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Nicholas, I know a lot of people have left some pretty harsh feedback in this thread, but wherever you end up going with this set, have you considered asking if any other housewrite sets would like to have you on as a writer? Given how motivated you seem to be in writing a set, and how many housewr...

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If any tournament is seriously considering mirroring this set for $2 a team, I recommend they try to find another housewrite and raise entry fees $10 instead. Kevin made some great points about why the setup of one person writing/editing everything just might be a bad idea, and teams are much better...

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What time is this starting on Saturday?

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If anyone in the DC or Virginia area is looking to mirror a regular-difficulty housewrite in the fall or spring, RAFT ( http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=22863 ) is available October 1, potentially sooner, and our team is actively seeking out sites across the country. Contact me if ...

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Mirrors: Illinois: Earlybird at UIUC (IL) - September 28 Eastern Missouri: East Central College (Union, MO) - November 2 Minnesota: Mounds View (MN) - November 2 Virginia: Maggie Walker (VA) - December 14 Metro NYC: Millburn (NJ) - February 8 Ohio: Sidney High School - March 7 Georgia: Commerce Hig...

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This is a mirror announcement for the Regular Academic Fall Tournament (RAFT), a high school regular-difficulty set available by October 1, 2019 . Questions will be written by experienced high school and collegiate players from a variety of programs. I, Michael Borecki, will be head editing this set...

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Based on the poll, it seems like most people would like to play this on July 13th. I’ve set up a spreadsheet where you can create your teams. The mirror fee will be $10 per player, and I’ll likely cap the field at 8 teams (unless there is more interest). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g6yc...

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As a player, I'm personally agnostic between NASAT and Oxford Open, but would be strongly opposed to CamO - one, because I want to play it in LA, and two, because I don't want to play a truncated version of the set (as Raynor indicated would happen if we played that tournament). I think using Oxfor...

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Hey so it should be 1) Clear that this event is not at all affiliated with NHBB 2) Understood that you should never run a tournament on questions written by another organization without their permission, and especially do not charge an entry fee for those tournaments . 3) Understood that you can nev...

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Do you expect there to be a mirror site further northeast than Columbia?

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You could always consider hosting your own tournament. The fact is, though, that traveling an hour to go to a tournament should not be a big deal, especially considering you'll be spending like 8 hours at that tournament anyway. To pitch another tournament, Darien High School is 45 minutes from you ...

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There may be an issue in terms of having enough teams who qualify, but it seems to me that the undergraduate classification would be more meaningful if it were restricted to institutions whose student body is overwhelmingly or entirely made up of undergraduates. It seems like this would have the ef...

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Justin, do you think 2018 ACF Regionals required advanced stats to help the editors with fixing questions? To go off that obviously rhetorical question, people like looking at advanced stats to see how players and teams from across the country compare. Having mirrors without advanced stats fucks wit...

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Hey, so I also started out as a geography specialist and expanded from there (though I was a generalist once I reached high school). I'd strongly encourage you to study history (what grade is your teammate in? If he's a senior then you'll need to replace those points next year), and as people have a...

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Hello, everyone! After checking on the three disputed entries, Allderdice and Boston Latin high schools are outside of the region that I stated at the top of the poll, and I specifically said to avoid schools outside this geographic region. As such, the affected schools will be removed. Changes to ...

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NHBB New England Championships is at ConVal on March 9.

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Can we get a list of the current field?

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NHBB is claiming Feb. 2 for its MA State Championships, March 2 for Connecticut (Newtown), and November 17 for New Hampshire. Boston Fall was initially scheduled for Dec. 8, but I'm trying to move it to avoid a conflict with PAWT (same with New Englands, initially scheduled for March 30). We'll be ...

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troyharris wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:56 pm
Hi Michael,
I noticed on the History Bowl site that Maine was a potential site. Is that still a possibility?

I'll be doing some work on that in the next couple months (trying to get a spring event). It's a possibility, but don't count on it (RI is much more likely to happen, though).

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NHBB is claiming Feb. 2 for its MA State Championships, March 2 for Connecticut (Newtown), and November 17 for New Hampshire. Boston Fall was initially scheduled for Dec. 8, but I'm trying to move it to avoid a conflict with PAWT (same with New Englands, initially scheduled for March 30).

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I did not make the final decision for the date of ACF Nationals, but April 27-28 is the date of NHBB Nationals. NHBB Nationals monopolizes a lot of staff. I supposed I'd be interested in seeing exactly how much overlap there is between the two staffer bases; I'd heard talk that it wasn't as big as ...

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Assuming Karsten Rynearson stays enrolled at Greens Farms for high school, they should be able to legitimately challenge Darien for the title of top team in Connecticut, while Wilton will obviously continue to be a strong team (though I'm uncertain about how solid they will be in literature, science...

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The geography problem is that people don't always know which stats to look at. I don't expect everybody to dig up stats from a random school across the country that has a terrific player but didn't attend every tournament and consistently puts up mediocre showings at national tournaments. Again, th...

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Pablo Picasso 2 wrote:We are discussing the possibility of hosting a NASAT mirror - if are interested in helping out, or playing, please post or PM us.

If this is not in July or the first week of August I will almost certainly play.

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Is there a list of people who voted?

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To throw in a couple cents late in the game: Hunter, Plano West, TJ, and Wayzata should have close to half the spots in your top 20. Playing with other great players tanks your ppg, and to get to the finals of a national championship you need to either have an absolutely legendary player (like Clark...

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I would sign up to play this.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:Meet on the tenth floor at 7:10

Can we push this back? Some people are involved in tiebreakers.

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Are there many people who wouldn't be able to attend the weekend of Aug 4-5? I would love to attend, but that weekend doesn't work for me. Unfortunately, I could only attend if the tournament is July 7 or earlier, or August 18 or later. I'm not going to get my hopes up for a drastic date change, bu...

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UlyssesInvictus wrote:
An Economic Ignoramus wrote:The WQC sitting is rescheduled to 9 on Saturday. A signup sheet is forthcoming.

Edit: here one is https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... p=drivesdk
Sorry, I missed this, what's WQC?

World Quizzing Championships.

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Due to conflicts with FILM and not enough content having been written, we will not be running this playtest.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:
Finally, we need buzzers! I am to understand that team buzzers are locked away for PACE, but any extra buzzers would be greatly appreciated.

I have a set of buzzers that I can (hopefully) remember to bring.

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