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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 accurate.

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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 A...

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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 reall...

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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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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 Coll...

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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 tour...

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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-e...

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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 Christia...

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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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We have a few mirrors scheduled for April, but if they fall through due to COVID-19 we are prepared to offer a discord mirror for interested teams.

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AKKOLADE wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 12:36 am Any word on this?

Yes, sorry we're all very busy and now is an even worse time, but we have an editing team and I hope to have everything set in the next week.

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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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