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Prelim stats are available at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8 ... ry_rounds/

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With registration closed, here's a preliminary schedule of this weekend's events. I reserve the right to reassign teams' preliminary brackets if needed.

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Tomorrow is the absolute last day that we'll accept new registrations for this tournament.

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I've resigned from PACE. I hope the organization is able to maximize its potential as a national nonprofit devoted to high school quiz bowl. It has a lot of work in front of it.

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Does anyone know of a former quiz bowler who is living in either Hawai'i or Alaska? I'd like to speak with them about some outreach possibilities.

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We're coming down to the last few days for it, but if any from Texas wants to play NASAT this year, please check out this thread for info. We'd love to have you represented.

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We're coming down to the last few days for it, but if any from Alabama wants to play NASAT this year, please check out this thread for info. We'd love to have you represented.

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I was asked about the distribution for this tournament. Here it is: History 4/4, divided evenly between American, European, World, and Other Literature 4/4, divided evenly between American, British, European, and World/Misc. Science 4/4, divided as: Physics 1/1, Biology 1/1, Chemistry 1/1, Other 1/1...

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We're coming down to the last few days for it, but if any from North Carolina wants to play NASAT this year, please check out this thread for info. We'd love to have you represented.

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We're now up to 18 teams. Please register ASAP if you're planning to!

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We've moved this forward a week to November 1 through November 6. This post is being used to track the field. Field as of 10/31/2023 (99 teams): University of Alabama (1 team) University of Arkansas (1 team) Bates College (1 team) Benedict College (1 team) Bishop State Community College (1 team) Bos...

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This will be happening, details to come.

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This will be the weekend of July 29 due to my schedule & the poll results.

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The questions from this are now available here.

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This is a very preliminary announcement for the 2024 The One Championship, hosted by International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC. This is an individual national championship for high school players. It will be held online on the weekend of March 23 and 24, 2024. It will use the set for The Undergraduat...

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This is a preliminary date claim that International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC will be hosting its second Undergraduate Championship on March 2, 2024. This event will be held in person at Columbia University in New York, New York. The difficulty of this set will be three dots per the College Quiz Bo...

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International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC will be hosting a qualifying event for the IQBT Undergraduate Championship Thursday, November 2 through Sunday, November 5. The Undergraduate Championship will be held on March 2 & 3, 2024 . This event will consist of 70 bonuses played by each team, much ...

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MDDake wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 9:04 pm
Corry wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:34 pm Quinterest.org would probably be the most important new development. (QuizbowlDB is pretty lackluster in comparison.)
Attempting to load this URL in May 2023 results in a malware warning.

That site's dead. https://www.qbreader.org/db seems to be the primary replacement of it.

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AKKOLADE wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 12:20 pm Updated to allow three votes.

Now six votes, since I definitely understood what someone mentioned to me earlier, yup yup.

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Updated to allow three votes.

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I'm looking to do an online open mirror of the IQBT Undergraduate Championship set. This is a poll to evaluate dates on which to hold it. It would be a two-day event, though I'm open to running them as separate events.

Poll is non-binding, I reserve the right to drop a listed weekend(s) as necessary.

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IQBT is looking for staffers for this year's National All-Star Academic Tournament who are able to staff on either or both June 17 & June 18. We are looking for both moderators and fairness observers. Staffers are paid $75 per day. If you are interested in staffing, please fill out this form . I...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 8:15 pm How would you create a fake question?

I grab my bass and amp.

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Thanks Young!

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With the addition of two teams from Asia today, we are now at 14 teams registered! I will be contacting registered teams to confirm payment plans, which will allow me to formalize the status of this tournament.

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I've made a version of the script that the PAveMEnT team used to generate audio tossups publicly available in this repository . Instructions for cloning, setting up, and using the script are in the readme. Much of the credit for this is owed to Young Fenimore Lee and others who contributed their ef...

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This is really interesting. I wonder what the awareness is of this in the UK specifically - I've asked British people in the Discord if there was any high school quiz bowl there and the answer I got is that UK pre-university schools just aren't generally set up to do interschool competition.

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I'm assuming that we can play this first round tomorrow, since it was opened up so late today and we haven't heard otherwise.

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If your NASAT team is looking for practice material, our Undergraduate Championship set is available to purchase for that purpose. NASAT will be about as difficult as the Undergraduate Championship set. For information on using the set and the cost of it, please email me at [email protected].

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IQBT's Undergraduate Championship set is available for summer open mirrors. The difficulty of this set is three dots per the College Quiz Bowl Calendar Difficulty Scale . This set will be about as difficult as ACF Regionals. Question distribution The question distribution of subjects is as follows: ...

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IQBT Regular Season Set #1 is available for free at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/2833/. International Quiz Bowl Tournaments (IQBT) is happy to announce that our IQBT Regular Season Set #1 (RSS #1) is now available for purchase as a practice set. RSS #1 consists of 12 packets of 21 tossups ...

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"Mayim Bialik chose not to host the game show’s final week of the season to stand in solidarity with its WGA writers. Jennings reportedly made a different decision."

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This event is canceled. I'll be looking to do something with this set & high school students over the summer.

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Seven invoices from this event remain outstanding. I have emailed the contacts for these teams again today. Please submit your payments as soon as you can. Thank you.

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According to my records, four teams have yet to pay for this event:

Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Mississippi
UBC

I've sent multiple emails to your team's registration contact with these invoices. Please submit payment as soon as you are able. Thank you.

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Both NASAT & the Undergraduate Championship are available for mirroring.

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If I do not have 6 teams by May 1, I'll have to cancel this tournament.

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I've notified the teams that have already registered of this via email, but: starting with this year's NASAT, IQBT must charge a 6% sales tax on entry fees for tournaments that we organize.

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This event has been canceled.

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If I don't get eight registrations by Sunday, I'm canceling this event.

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Field:

Belmont (MA)

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This post is reserved for the field.

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NASAT has had its first five registrants, from Illinois, Missouri, & Pennsylvania! Register your team today!

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International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC (IQBT) is pleased to invite your high school team to compete in the Ray Tomlinson Invitational. This tournament will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2023. This tournament will be played on IQBT’s Undergraduate Championship set. This set is approximately the sa...

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NOTE: This event has been canceled due to a lack of interest. International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC (IQBT) is pleased to invite your high school team to compete in the Claude Shannon Invitational. This tournament will take place on Saturday, April 15, 2023. This tournament will be played on IQBT...

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I have corrected a couple of stat reports to the Overall version and uploaded that.

Thanks again to everyone that played!

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Overall stats are available here.

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Illinois A defeated Cornell A, 325-300, to clinch second place.

Harvard defeated Texas, 390-190, to finish in fifth place.

Congratulations to all teams!

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Congratulations to Chicago A - Henry Cafaro, Amogh Kulkarni, Vivek Sasse, and Ned Tagtmeier on clearing the field by two games and winning the inaugural IQBT Undergraduate Championship! We will be having a second place game between Cornell A & Illinois A, and a fifth place game between Harvard a...

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Playoff stats will be available here.

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