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Invitations are being sent out this morning. We have a public invitation tracker available here . Teams are asked to accept or decline their bids by December 15. We are encouraging teams that know they are going to decline their bid to let us know as soon as possible, so we can invite the next team ...

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This tournament is being postponed to next semester, likely February.

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I just sent out a survey to the 40 qualified teams asking if they would prefer a one-day tournament at a $540 entry fee or a two-day at a $700 entry fee. We'll determine our plan off the results of this survey. I polled on the level of schools rather than individual teams - I thought it was more eq...

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Given that this tournament costs more to attend than ACF Nationals, with few opportunities for discounts, I might suggest online alternatives to canceling? We'll see from the survey, but I don't expect this tournament - with a fee comparable to ICT , the other college national that doesn't require ...

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A belated thank you to all of the staffers who made this event possible: Tomas Aguilar-Fraga, Alex Akridge, Sarah Benner, Christopher Bradley, Randolph Brockman, Joseph Chambers, Eric Chang, Khugan Chan, Ganon Evans, Weillin Feng, Em Gunter, Justin Hawkins, Michael Hays, Devin Humphreys, Kevin Jiang...

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I would suggest looking at most of the pages here. I would strongly suggest reading this page in particular if you want to get better at science.

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Given that this tournament costs more to attend than ACF Nationals, with few opportunities for discounts, I might suggest online alternatives to canceling? We'll see from the survey, but I don't expect this tournament - with a fee comparable to ICT, the other college national that doesn't require p...

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I just sent out a survey to the 40 qualified teams asking if they would prefer a one-day tournament at a $540 entry fee or a two-day at a $700 entry fee. We'll determine our plan off the results of this survey.

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The following information regarding entry fees has been added to the original post. Entry fees The base entry fee is $700 per team. There is a $20 discount fee per working lock-out set that accommodates at least eight players. Schools are limited to two such discounts without special dispensation. W...

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Thank you to everyone that played the qualifier for the Undergraduate Championship. These were the top forty scoring teams. Ohio State B secures the last spot on a tiebreaker over Chicago D. Cornell A - 1380 points Columbia A - 1320 points Chicago A - 1310 points Geodesic University - 1270 points Wa...

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We've created a central repository for information for this event here.

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For those that want to follow along as I assign teams times for their qualifier slots later this afternoon, you can do so at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VYwv0HtQv8f4IS_9EqfNlK8pLOux47Gq0W-ZN_PLpC0/edit?usp=sharing. All teams but two have been assigned a time slot. I'm going to take a break ...

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For those that want to follow along as I assign teams times for their qualifier slots later this afternoon, you can do so at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VYw ... sp=sharing.

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These teams haven't selected their times yet.

Bates College
Benedict College
Chicago A
Chicago D
Indiana
Kenyon C
Notre Dame A
South Carolina A
South Carolina B
UCLA C
Waterloo

You have half an hour to get your selections in.

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These teams still haven't submitted their time selections. Alabama Bates College Benedict College Bishop State Community College Boston College Brown A Brown B Chicago A Chicago B Chicago D Colorado College A Colorado College B Columbia B Columbia C Dartmouth A Dartmouth B Dartmouth C Emory A Emory ...

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The following teams need to submit their time selections before Monday at noon Eastern. Alabama Bates College Benedict College Bishop State Community College Boston College Brown A Brown B Cal Berkeley Case Western Reserve A Case Western Reserve B Chicago A Chicago B Chicago C Chicago D Colorado Col...

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We are now at 86 teams! You can still register at https://forms.gle/XnC5EywqAyBK5HUv8. The end of the day today is the preferred registration deadline. Our official roster page is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ioWaXgrU2BiWn3hi59fpRpYCYpwLNZYwo8Ud_KmWZXM/edit?usp=sharing. It is still in the ...

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Is it too late for someone to archive these? I'm downloading these on Spotify right now but I don't know if I can get them off that platform.

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We are now up to 72 teams registered, surpassing last year's total.

There's still time to register, which you can do at https://forms.gle/XnC5EywqAyBK5HUv8.

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You said there are five HBCUs interested in IQBT, which if I recall correctly is a three dot set. Do you have any concerns about them being introduced to pyramidal quiz bowl playing at that relatively high difficulty? UNC kind of dropped the ball about reaching out to HBCUs about ACF Fall, do you t...

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https://www.qbreader.org/db is your best bet.

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Apologies for typos & unfinished sentences; I'm doing my best to avoid those, but I am very tired. I want to get this posted while I'm inspired to, though. I've been pretty public on the main QB Discord about wanting to use the Undergrad for the purposes of drawing new teams into quiz bowl. I wa...

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I think PACE's B.7 covers this as well: "Players may not use any personal electronic devices (including, but not limited to: cell phones, tablets, laptops, "wearable" tech devices) during the duration of a match. This prohibition extends to any and all pauses in gameplay within a matc...

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We're going to explore adding options on the 1st & 6th for qualifying sessions, if we have interested moderators.

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We're still looking for staffers for this event. We're also exploring expanding the range of qualification times to include November 1 & November 6.

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Here is my review of QBReader.

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I don't really see why a public reading should be required for posting anything, but I definitely think we should filter vanity packets away from normal college tournaments to make the archive more useful for people.

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Students enrolled in a co-op or other experiential course but are under the necessary number of credit hours to be eligible and that meet all the other eligibility requirements may request an exemption to be granted eligibility by email Fred Morlan at fred@iqbtnasat.com. IQBT has added this clause ...

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Hi, I think the eligibility requirements, as currently listed, are too strict and seem to disqualify a lot of people who by most merits are definitely doing "serious undergraduate degrees". Many Canadian universities, as well as several American ones, have students enrolled in co-op degre...

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I was asked this earlier, so:

Kurtis Droge is our head editor. Our subject editors are Matt Bollinger, Noah Sheidlower, Andrew Rout, Briana Magin, Maxwell Ye, Dan Ni, John Lawrence, Emmett Laurie, Vasa Clarke, Caleb Kendrick, & Kurtis Droge.

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Hi Mattias,

I'm reviewing this with the people who helped me come up with the eligibility guidelines last year and we'll have a ruling soon. Thanks!

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I just confirmed that moving forward, there is no sales tax necessary on the majority of instances of using this or other IQBT RSSes.

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I just confirmed that moving forward, there is no sales tax necessary on the majority of instances of using this or other IQBT RSSes.

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I just confirmed that there is no sales tax required on our entry fee for this event this year.

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 8:41 pm 4. Professional wrestling

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We are now up to 25 teams registered! I hope your school will join the list soon.

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DMA already has/had seven mirrors across the country. CREEK+ has/had six. Between the two sets, I think there's one in the spring semester. Those have already been used across large chunks of the country.

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I was going through the spring semester schedule and everything is at least three dots in difficulty except for Booster Shot and the ICT/SCT sequence for D2 teams. If IQBT produced a one-dot difficulty tournament for the spring semester, would there be an interest in mirroring it? I would like to do...

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i am once again asking everyone who uses protobowl to use https://www.qbreader.org/ instead it's got all the features of protobowl, plus better ones like "actually contains sets from within the last five years" (which is especially useful if you want to practice MS questions because that'...

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Just a reminder that the preferred registration deadline for the Qualification Event is October 26. If you register by then, we will do our best to assign you a time slot you request. Teams that register after that date will be fit into the schedule as best as we can on a first come, first serve bas...

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The survey was essentially a tie. The overarching discourse in quiz bowl has been a desire to return to in-person events for things like national championships. It's more appealing for the purposes of outreach to have the national championship in person, and I have been investing a lot of time into ...

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Ed Powers, the longtime coach of New Jersey’s St. Joseph High School’s team, died on September 24. I sadly don’t think I ever met him - if I did, it was only briefly. But we interacted a lot on the forums, especially over the rankings I did. He cared a lot about quiz bowl and often brought a chaoti...

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The Undergraduate Championship tournament will be hosted at Columbia University in New York City.

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IQBT is pleased to announce that we will be hosting this in person at Columbia University in New York City.

This post will be used for tracking the field.

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I'm positive the trophy cost more, but I shipped them all together and can't say for sure. But its dimensions needed a box that the first shipping place didn't have. I like the idea of a large trophy, specifically a literal six foot tall trophy that you slam on your provost's table and say 'give us ...

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The cost of your trophy was $42, +$5 for the logo insert. It was 28" tall, which was the tallest they had available. I would have made it larger if it was an option.

We went with plaques for 2nd-4th. They were 8"x10". They cost $48 each, with engraving.

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Hello all, IQBT is calling for anyone interested in moderating qualifying sessions for our upcoming Undergraduate Championship Qualifier event. It is being held November 1-6. If you're interested, please fill out this form . Moderators will be paid $15 per session read. Each session consists of 70 t...

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Jeff's an admin & he posts in this thread, so optimism runs wild.

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I guess I forgot to put an 'other' option so, uh, just post that stuff here!

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Last year, we did this survey. It was inspired by a similar survey in 2018 . I have removed "Payment for tournaments is too complex" as an option since only two people voted for it last year. I did not add any options, as the discussion in the thread was primarily focused on the issues in...

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