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The only thing that in this set that actually bothered me is the Kate from She Stoops to Conquer tossup. This is more of a complaint to all of QB, but I hate when people use characters as answer lines unless the characters are truly important/unique literary characters. In general, I think people w...

Here's the "flowers" tossup. It does look like the question used "these objects" throughout the tossup, so assuming there weren't any moderator hiccups, you should have been able to choose between the two. 2. These objects are referred to in the original title of a novel in which...

11. An essay opposing these works, which distinguishes between “modern” and “modernist” writers, was written by Robert Graves and Laura Riding, and is called “A Pamphlet Against” these works. In a scene from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Abraham Slender looks for a book of riddles and one of these wo...

Here you go. 4. A track in this genre features a tenor saxophone solo by Tony Pastor against cymbal crashes played by Cliff Leeman; that track was on the B side of a record that included a cover of “Indian Love Call.” It’s not stride, but Andy Razaf wrote the lyrics to a song in this genre that had ...

I'm excited to announce Words and Objects , a side event written by myself, James Malouf, and Bruce Lou with assistance from Will Nediger to be played at summer opens and possibly high school nationals, along with an eventual online mirror. The set will consist of 6 packets of 20 Regs+ difficulty (a...

Final stats for this are here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/

Registered Teams/Buzzers/Staffers: As of 8/4/17 Teams (9): Parikshit Chauhan (Jonathan Luck, Jason Cheng, Brandon Blischak, Nicholas Blischak) I Smell Good (Jeffrey Qiu, Daniel Wang, Boopala Arul, Oliver Ren, Nathan Mar) Chino Hills Big Ballers (Alan Zhu, Shreyank Kadadi, Raymond Song, Andrew Feng)...

I'm pleased to announce that Westview will be hosting Apoorva (name chosen upon the orders of Klaus Llwynog), a Southern California mirror of NASAT taking place on August 5th at Westview High School. More information about the set can be found here . Eddie Kim will be directing the tournament. You c...

I'm going to be heading to Berkeley in the fall, and definitely plan on playing quizbowl there. I know James Malouf of La Jolla is also planning on attending Berkeley and joining their team.

Field (teams / buzzers / moderators): (as of March 20th, 2017) San Dieguito (1/0/0) St. Augustine (2/1/0) La Jolla (1/0/0) Rancho Bernardo (2/1/0) Mt. Carmel (1/0/0) North Hollywood (1/1/0) Del Norte (3/0/0) Cathedral (2/0/0) Arcadia (3/2/0) Torrey Pines (3/2/0) Black Mountain (1/2/0) Canyon Crest ...

Westview High School is pleased to announce the Southern California State Championship, or SoCal State Champs, a high school tournament co-directed by Kevin Yu and Rahul Keyal. DATE/TIME: SoCal State Champs shall take place on Saturday, March 25th, 2017. Check-in shall begin at 8:00 A.M., and matche...

The stats weren't transposed. As I mentioned in my post, we were missing two of our A-team members at ACE (Shivank Nayak and myself). Regardless, our team still went undefeated in the playoffs, so we got first at the tournament.

Arcadia was definitely one of the teams not in the previous poll that stood out when I was looking at that region. The toughest thing that I found was trying to limit such an incredibly broad geographic area (U.S. and Canada) to 25, when so many of the p/b statistics are so incredibly similar acros...

I would like to say that my only issue with the poll results is that Canyon Crest got straight up shafted by good ole East Coast bias. And as no high schooler from further west than Texas has commented on the thread, it is unlikely to change with the player poll. I guess I can offer my opinion on t...

While I imagine the majority of people likely didn't care about me joining Berkeley A for the UCLA Terrapin mirror, I apologize that this knowledge wasn't passed on to Hidehiro and the like earlier to the start of the tournament. As a member of the SoCal community who attends a fair amount of colleg...

Could I see the TUs on "lightness" and "graves" in Dickinson's poetry? Having recently read The Unbearable Lightness of Being , it was exciting to hear clues from the novel come up, especially something as memorable/important as the bit with Stalin's son (which introduces the who...

Yeah, I didn't include Nathan in the list for that reason. While he was clearly a major contribution to the team and got points in a lot of areas, the members of CCA's team who are returning seem to have a strong foundation in most of the areas he covered (save maybe religion and myth, which account...

I think one important thing to consider in this is the members of teams that graduated. To me, the teams that have been most severely hit by graduations are, in no particular order: Rancho Bernardo (loses Kion You and Howon Choo) Torrey Pines (loses Casimir Kothari, Vasu Vikram, Brandon Zhang, and W...

Hey everyone! I thought it would fun to make a thread to discuss the state of Southern California quizbowl this season. Better late than never, right :wink: . I also included a poll in the post, as it seemed like a good way to summarize discussion, however this thread is not meant to merely serve as...

Personally, I didn't enjoy the Slaughterhouse-Five tossup as much. Maybe it's been that long since I read the novel, but I thought that the actual building wasn't significant enough to the novel as a whole to have a tossup on it. In addition, my teammate, despite having read the novel earlier this y...

It looks like you are missing Triton Spring VI (stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... und_robin/).

I enjoyed the difficulty of this set as a whole. In comparison to last year, I thought the bonuses were far more controlled (as sometimes last year's seemed excessively hard), although occasionally easy for the advertised above-HS difficulty. In addition, while some clues were uncharacteristically e...

Hello, would I be able to see the memory tossup? I buzzed on the first line, when it described making people not perceive pain when putting their hands in cold water, and said hypnosis. In our AP Psychology class, we leaned this experiment specifically in the context of that, with no mention to memo...

Could I see the TU on the stock market crash? I buzzed in at around P/E ratio and answered "Black Tuesday", which was accepted. While talking to others at my site, I heard that one mod didn't accept the answer because it was not in the answer line. Should it be deemed correct?

This post is reserved for field updates: Novice Division (10): (2) Black Mountain (2) Arcadia (1) Grauer School (1) CCA (1) NoHo (2) MVMS (1) Del Norte Regular Division (14): (2) La Jolla (1) Rancho Bernardo (2) Arcadia (2) Torrey Pines (1) Irvine (2) CCA (1) NoHo (1) Del Norte (1) Bishops (1) Franc...

Westview High School is pleased to announce the Westview Academic Tournament IV, or WAT IV. WAT IV will be a dual level tournament with two divisions, one Novice division and one Regular division, directed by Rahul Keyal. DATE/TIME : WAT IV shall take place on Saturday, 24 October 2015. Check-in sha...

Westview High School is pleased to announce the Southern California State Championship. SoCal State Champs will be a dual level tournament with two divisions, one Regular division and one Nationals division, co-directed by Rahul Keyal and Lucia Yang. DATE/TIME: SoCal State Champs shall take place on...

So as of now, there is not enough data to create an accurate adjustment for the HERMES set, right?