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The IHSSBCA will be hosting tryouts for Team Illinois at on Sunday, March 1st, 2020 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The tryouts this year are expected to be much more in-depth, so attending players should plan to spend most of the day actively participating. Because of the greater...

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The Illinois NAQT State Championship will be hosted Saturday, February 29th at the University of Illinois [the exact building is still pending]. As always, we are in special need of moderators capable of reading at least 20 tossups of NAQT's Division II SCT set while subject to 10 minute timed halve...

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International Academic Competitions is currently looking for a company, or suitably qualified individual, capable of providing us with battery-powered lockout systems. Each buzzer system must be capable of supporting a minimum of 4 players, although 8 is vastly preferred. Additionally, each system m...

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IAC is happy to announce it is holding the following tournaments in the region: Varsity / JV Northwestern Illinois - Winnebago High School - Saturday, December 14th - on our C Set. Southwestern Illinois - Southwestern High School - Monday , January 20th - on our C set. Central Illinois - Mattoon Hig...

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IAC is happy to announce it is holding the following tournaments in the region: Varsity / JV Connecticut - Newton High School - Saturday, March 7th - on our B Set. Upper Hudson - Bethlehem Central High School- February 1st - on our B set. Greater Boston Fall - Salem Academy Charter School - Saturday...

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IAC is happy to announce it is holding the following tournaments in the region: Varsity / JV Northern Pennsylvania - Wyoming Area Secondary School - Saturday, December 7th - on our C Set. Western Pennsylvania - Southside High School- Saturday, January 25th - on our C set. Southern New Jersey - Donov...

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International Academic Competitions is delighted to announce that the 2020 Central Florida Academic Bee and Bowl will be held at Classical Prep in Spring Hill, Florida on Saturday, March 7th. Like all of our full-day USABB competitions, this tournament is open to all students in 8th grade and younge...

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International Academic Competitions is delighted to announce that the 2020 Georgia Academic Bee and Bowl will be held at River Trail Middle School in Johns Creek, Georgia on Saturday, February 8th. Like all of our full-day USABB competitions, this tournament is open to all students in 8th grade and ...

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International Academic Competitions is delighted to announce that the 2020 Maryland Academic Bee and Bowl will be held at Centennial High School in Ellicott City, Maryland on Saturday, March 7th. Like all of our full-day USABB competitions, this tournament is open to all students in 8th grade and yo...

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International Academic Competitions is delighted to announce that the 2020 New Jersey Academic Bee and Bowl will be held at Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey on Sunday, May 3rd. Like all of our full-day USABB competitions, this tournament is open to all students in 8th grade and younger...

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International Academic Competitions is delighted to announce that the 2020 Illinois Academic Bee and Bowl will be held at Komarek School in North Riverside, Illinois on Saturday, April 4th. Like all of our full-day USABB competitions, this tournament is open to all students in 8th grade and younger ...

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I believe that we were told that we would receive a response in August. Should we take a lack of reply as rejection or has there simply been a hold up? All application decisions have been made, but we are still confirming a few things before we sent out emails. Should we read the continued lack of ...

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International Academic Competitions is delighted to announce that the National Science Bee, which has run for the past four years at the Middle and Elementary School levels, will expand to include Varsity and Junior Varsity Divisions for the 2019-2020 academic year! A full announcement with further ...

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International Academic Competitions is delighted to announce the creation of the National Political Science Bee, a new competition promoting excellence and achievement in civics education for students across the USA. A full announcement with further details can be found here: https://politicalscienc...

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iarehavethestupid wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:43 pm
I believe that we were told that we would receive a response in August. Should we take a lack of reply as rejection or has there simply been a hold up?

All application decisions have been made, but we are still confirming a few things before we sent out emails.

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Looks like on the map that David Kinley Hall is pretty close to the armory--do you recommend parking in the same lots as last year or is there somewhere closer? David Kinley has its own, rather large, lot. The easiest way I've found to navigate people there is by directing them to Lorado Taft Drive...

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International Academic Competitions is currently seeking qualified set editors for the 2019-2020 competition season. Unlike our previous call for writers, we are currently only looking for editors who are already experienced with a healthy body of prior work. The following positions are available: T...

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As it is now past July 8th, applications are now closed.

We will be in contact with everyone who filled out the form shortly.

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Hello everyone! International Academic Competitions is now accepting writer applications for the 2019-2020 season. Writers of all experience are encouraged to apply and training will be provided as needed. We will keep applications open until July 8th at which point we will begin processing applican...

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As someone from northern Illinois who will be getting to Champaign for this, I understand the difficulty and an attempt will be made to host a tryout somewhere in the Chicago-area. However, the point of the original statement was to reflect the reality of the situation. If a Chicago-site does materi...

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The IHSSBCA will be hosting Team Illinois Tryouts on the day after NAQT State, Sunday, February 24th at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Interested parties should fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYRLyO-qb--h6wkjrlgCQweYCkphXjw7R9cfccX6Rhq-R5vQ/viewform?us...

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Hello friends, Per usual, the IHSSBCA, in conjunction with the Academic Buzzer Team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be hosting the 2019 NAQT Illinois State Championship on Saturday, February 23rd. Also per usual, the tournament will require a large amount of staff, across all...

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I definitely initially found it odd that I wasn't immediately given an answer but shrugged it off and assumed it would come at the end. Personally, I would enjoy it more if the answer was given right away but I don't think it is a critical issue. On another note, is it possible to have a message al...

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One quick comment after playing the sample: it'd be nice to get real-time feedback on whether you were right/wrong per tossup, rather than waiting until the end of the sample to know your score. Thanks for the feedback. I'm interested to see if other people agree, or whether they'd find it slowed d...

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Becuase then I can commandeer a bunch of people to work on it all at once and not have to do merging 6 different SQBS files Doesn't it take more than 6 times longer to input a scoresheet into neg5 than into SQBS? (In fact, much more?) You have to go tossup by tossup (40 numbers) instead of just put...

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Stats through lunch (and also live) can be found here: bit.ly/2018ACFUIUC

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The Wei Zhi puts this place 12,000 li north of a place called Dog Slave Country. Xu Fu likely visited this place in his search for the elixir of life and may have claimed one of its mountains to be Mt. Penglai. Red paint used to depict tattooing on haniwa statues is evidence for the claim that some...

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If we are allowed to talk about specific questions, then I would agree that the "sword fight" one was strange. I believe I answered "brawl" or something to that effect, and was slightly surprised that I wasn't at least prompted. The only other one that I found strange was the question about the Gat...

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What did throw me into a rage however was a lit answerline, which I am unsure if its clear so I won't reveal it, which I felt was overly strict. This ended up not mattering in the room I was in but I think it easily could have caused issues. Was it the "sword fight" answerline? I think it could hav...

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Knowing each of the IHSA writers personally, I knew to expect well-crafted passion project, but I was still surprised with how well regionals went. Pros: The math was fantastic and this is coming from somebody who knows next to nothing about math. I've never seen players enjoy math as much as I have...

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Is it just me, or does the 2A field look more stacked than the 3A field? While Southwestern and Latin are both very good teams, which I think are T-2 as far as 2A goes, and I truly think that Uni is the best team in the state when playing 5v5, 3A still blows 2A out of the water. Auburn, Fremd, Stev...

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So, rather than a strict limitation, would a disclaimer stating something like "This tournament is intended for newer teams" suffice to illustrate the idea that schools should consider bringing more inexperienced players over seasoned ones? That will likely keep national contenders from attending b...

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It is perfectly ethical to restrict fields to protect newer players. Below I will paste the IHSSBCA's guidelines about the varying ways we do this. For IHSSBCA Novice which is held early in the year and uses SCOP: A player must have played fewer than 40 varsity-level matches for his or her school’s ...

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The IHSSBCA will be hosting Team Illinois Tryouts on February 11th, the Sunday after NAQT state, in Urbana, IL. If you are interested in attending these tryouts, please fill out the following form: https://goo.gl/forms/S3F3yKUQ2YdXekUe2 It is important to note that with the continuing uncertainty re...

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Hello everyone, The 2018 iteration of the Illinois NAQT State Championships, hosted on February 10th at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is currently seeking staff. We need both moderators as well as scorekeepers. Qualified moderators, who are capable of reading at least 20 toss ups with...

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Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, IL will be mirroring the Ohio Trash 2017 questions on Saturday, January 6th. The tournament will start at 9a, and expect to end around 4p. Entry fee is $15 a player, teams of maximum of 5 players, and can register individually and be placed on a team if ...

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I only managed to hear a few of the packets but it was clear this was a much much better effort than last year. The questions were engaging and worked even for lower-level high school teams. My only real issue, and this is a nit-picky single question concern, is the Berlin Airlift tossup, which I ha...

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Generally, I don't have a problem with schools not conforming to the standard A (strongest) to Z (weakest) as long as they make it known ahead of time and back it up with full rosters. This guarentees that the only real issue I have with it, messing up the seeds, doesn't happen. That being said I wo...

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If you have a half price books outlet near you, consider yourself spoiled. I am under the impression that their normal stores have fantastic deals as well but have never actually been to one.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553382403/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918. I absolutely adore this book. It is easy to read, engaging, and throws a ton of fun and useful information at you. While its limited to World War I it wi...

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Can two people working on the same tournament/division on different devices merge their files into one? In principle, yes, but it's somewhat error-prone. It's better to divide tournaments and scoresheets such that there will be no need to merge except perhaps at a rebracket. If you have to merge, h...

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Where can this sample be found? I've been looking to potentially send my team to a mirror. As of now, it is still uncompiled. The sample packet, after we finish our distribution related discussions, will be posted in this thread. There is no current timetable for when this sample packet will be com...

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I'll preface this post by stating that my role in this project is only feedback based. I am not receiving, nor seeking, financial compensation for my work and as a result am not directly writing or editing any tossups but rather providing guidance to the writers and editors and keeping the answerlin...

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Here are some D2 teams to watch out for, based on what/who I know. Teams are in no particular order. Returning D2 eligible : 1. Illinois (Cole Timmerwilke, Mike Etzkorn) - Give him a couple years, and Mike will become one of the best literature/FA players in the game. You heard it (publicly declare...

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is there a private forum set up now? It doesn't look like it, at least from my end. You can check if it is set up, and eventually join it, by clicking on "User Control Panel", located near the top left of your screen, then clicking on "Usergroups", before finally scrolling down and clicking on 2017...

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With regards to the Athens tossup, that was mea culpa and I ill this as a moment to discuss my regionals writing philosophy has a whole, how I failed in this specific instance, and other issues with the question. The Athens tossup was originally written with the idea of it being slotted in Round 0, ...

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JakobeanEra wrote:
nsb2 wrote:I didn't expect anything particularly great from the set, but some of the questions looked like they were taken straight from Wikipedia, like IHSA questions have been in the past.
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For what it's worth, the Mass Effect clue in the radians tossup comes directly from Simple Wikipedia.

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Here is the tossup in question. Large statues of overweight men on the shoulders of naked servants have been found at the archaeological site of Barriles in this country. Soldier and conman Gregor McGregor tricked hundreds of people into investing in bonds for the fictional country of Poyais, suppos...

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Regionals was definitely a step down from the Prince-led effort of last year but i was surprisingly unrepulsed by many of the questions. I wrote a decent number of the history questions, as well as the film, and, save a few that were the victim of sub-optimal packetizing, they seem to have went well...

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