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Hey all, I contributed a handful of tossups and bonuses for this incarnation of Delta Burke. The following tossups and bonuses listed below are what I contributed (these are off the top of my head), please let me know if you felt these were enjoyable or not. Tossups & Bonuses: (History) Japan T...

First of all I would like to thank you for putting together a set every year. I know writing is not an easy task and having a reliable set to play every year, such as Delta Burke, is a really nice feeling as a player. That being said, I had a few problems with the set this year. The biggest issue I ...

Since the season has concluded the set will be uploaded sometime today. A big thank you to all the mirror hosts and teams that played the set. Despite the fact that the set can't be improved for future use I still urge anybody who played it to send us feedback(using either a private message or the e...

This was amusing although it suffered from some problems that will hopefully be fixed in future iterations. There was almost no randomization. At one point there were about five tossups on stadiums in a row. Difficulty was very much on the easy side, especially if you were born pre-1990. I'm not a ...

From what I saw on the scoresheet Laferbrook's score was added incorrectly, this was corrected when I entered the stats.

I'll reiterate Collin's previous message that if any free agents wish to play please move your name into a team slot. Parks and I are both adequate readers so I can't see this event lasting for more than an hour and a half. I am not opposed to reading this *after* GM7 as long as the majority of the ...

First of all I would like to apologize to some of the wording I used in my previous post. I was extremely frustrated by isolated cases of lacking answerlines and this caused by wording to flat out say it lacked alternate answerlines which is untrue. As for the difficult I found it to be mainly on ta...

Since this weekend had a multitude of events I'll give feedback on them as separate entities. USGO Test: All I did for this was hand out the test, keep time, and made sure everyone was being honest. Everything ran on time(as far as I could tell) and the students seemed to enjoy the test. Subject Exa...

Congratulations to everyone that competed in Charger Challenge! As one of the chief writers of Potatoville if you have any feedback about the set do not hesitate to email me at tylervaughan1995@gmail.com This feedback will be shared with the other editors and writers to help further our development....

I think Chris gave a good overview so I don't have much to add. However, while I'm not sure of your reasons for using a housewrite I advise against it. Your tournament will be the first interaction these kids have with good quizbowl and I think it would be best to use a more established set for the ...

I am only including players from Illinois, since that is the only place I am confident about naming rankings for. The players listed below are those I feel could be on the first list or the second. They are in no particular order. Jennie Yang Cole Timmerwilke Evan Pandya Matthew Lehmann Andrew Sali...

After 7 rounds the Uber division has broken into upper and lower brackets.

Upper
Auburn A
Northmont A
Hinsdale A
Norman North
DCC
UC Lab
Harmony
IMSA A

Lower
Bloomington A
Hallsville
Stevenson A
IMSA B
Sidney A
Barrington A

After round six the standings for Uber are as follows: Teams not from Texas: Auburn A 5-0 Northmont A 4-1 Hinsdale Central 4-1 Bloomington 2-3 Norman North 2-3 Stevenson 1-4 IMSA B 0-6 Teams Not From Oklahoma DCC 4-1 IMSA A 4-1 Harmony 4-1 University of Chicago Lab 3-2 Sidney A 1-4 Hallsville 1-4 Ba...

A good way to learn clues that come up a lot in toss ups(and thus sometimes early) is to use a database search. The most popular one(and really the only one that works) currently is http://www.Quinterest.org. But a database has its limits(it only has so many packets) and there's always the possibili...

Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:Wasn't there only one Wisconsin team at NHBB?

I believe only Williams Bay attended Nationals. That being said only 3 Wisconsin teams, JV included, qualified for nationals.

The only thing i have to add to this is to make sure your pseudonym is believable. My senior year of high school we went to many tournaments with a "fun" pseudonym(including HSNCT), I had more leeway with this as my coach was aware of what we were doing but simply did not have the money no...

Has anyone bothered to contact the other sites who plan to mirror this set (wheelersburg specifically comes to mind). If people who were connected with this set were being lead along about the completion I have concerns about hosts who were independent from FKT.

I felt like the nullification bonus was too easy, but having taken three semesters of APUSH in high school opposed to the standard two i'm unsure if I'm correct in my judgement. I have a question regarding a protest at the Chicago site. In our game against Minnesota B they buzzed in on the play toss...

I've heard rumors regarding the completion of this set. Is there any official statement?

QuizbowlDB is essentially obsolete. The best database search at the moment is http://quinterest.org/ and should be used instead.

I'm not sure if anybody from Wisconsin frequents this board but I thought I would give this shot. From what I saw this year Wisconsin has numerous teams(although the ones I saw seemed to be History bowl teams rather than just quizbowl) but none of them went to very many events(even those close to th...

As Jacob O said, I felt the consolation rounds were poorly organized. What was supposed to be a 7:50 staff meeting didn't start until 8:30 with games not starting until almost 9:30. I think the best solution is for NAQT to appoint someone (doesn't have to be an NAQT member; a lot of the consolation...

I liked the set overall with only two points of note. I think the toss up on Jay's treaty was perhaps a little too easy? From what I can tell after talking to numerous players the clue about vacating the northwest territory seems to be pretty well known. On the other end of the spectrum I want to pr...

I sent an email expressing interest in this around two weeks ago. Is this upcoming logistics email going to be the first email sent out or did I miss some sort of conformation email?

I've always wondered why NAQT continues to do things like putting Seth and Selene, or Bernadette and I, in the same room, when either of them/us are more than capable of competently reading a round and would mean one fewer room getting through 16 tossups per game. I had this thought when we had Fre...

I would like to apologize to Sidney for forfeiting the last round but we left at around 3, returned to the central time zone, and still got home at around 11 pm. I would like to thank Fred Morlan and the really cool scorekeepers/moderators I never did get the names of. Everyone was friendly, funny, ...

Cumberland, Greenville, Litchfield, Macomb, Piasa Southwestern, Riverton, and Westmont will all be competing at SSNCT today and tomorrow. Good luck to all these fantastic small schools.

We drove to HSNCT in Atlanta last year from northern Illinois(~800 miles) and we'll be driving to Kentucky(~450 miles) in three weeks Our HSNCT trip was possibly the most fun experience I've ever had in quiz bowl but we did stop overnight both on the way there and the way back which might have stopp...

As the last month before HSNCT and NSC starts I thought it would be nice to have some discussion about the two April tournaments. I'll start with DONTQUIT since it's happening first. Field (11): Auburn A, Auburn B, East Mail Company, Fenton, Fremd, Hinsdale Central, IMSA A, IMSA B, Metea Valley, Ste...

I have a little experience with being on the freshman side of things. Last year we had a senior who was far better than the rest of the team seen here and here . There are three benefits to having inexperienced/newer players play with you rather than their own B team. 1. You can serve as an adviser ...

While not nearly as exciting nor competitive as Masonic, I thought I would take a few minutes to speak on Kaneland's tournament. To very little surprise Auburn B cleared the field 7-0 and took home the trophy. While it's hard to judge based on the massive difficulty difference between JAMES and HFT ...

The overall tournament was fun(despite are abysmal record) and showed just how much my teammate and I need to study before we go to Atlanta in May.


A big thank you to Brad and Kristen not only for hosting this tournament but for also all the other work they do for quiz bowl.

Auburn beats Belvidere North 400 to 370 to claim their sectional.

Auburn 3-0
Belvidere North 2-1
Kaneland 1-2
Stillman Valley 0-3

Belvidere North Sectional

1. Auburn
2. Belvidere North
3. Stillman Valley
4. Streator

Questions were good, the only complaint I heard from my teammates was a 3rd part of a bonus asking for three answers.