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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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Dominator wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 4:36 pm Tossup 21 has come to the end of its run. I'm not sure how long the episodes will remain available on Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts, but if they disappear, all the episodes can be found on www.noahbprince.dev.

That's a shame; I really enjoyed them. Any chance you'll reconsider?

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I'll second David - I think question before a certain date would probably be best served by not being promoted.

At the risk of scope creep - would a (prominent) checkbox that, by default, hides packets prior to (insert year here) be desirable?

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After discussing this subject with a few people, I've decided that the difficulty of the Qualifier will be two dots this year. I'd like to see if it will result in wider differentiation between teams at the cutoff point for the Undergrad, and it will also work a little better for the purposes of out...

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Here are the results of the poll. 27 of the 28 voters said they were somewhat or extremely likely to compete in the Championship if they qualify. Which of the following options most accurately reflects your team's view on the Undergraduate Championship's site? "Our team(s) would only play ONLIN...

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IQBT is holding an online introductory tournament for schools in Hawaii on December 9, 2023 . We need staff for this event. The current plan is to start the tournament at 3 p.m. Eastern and end it no later than 10 p.m. Eastern. To keep entry fees lower and since it is a shorter tournament, the pay ...

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Field (0 teams as of 9/26/23)

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International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC (IQBT) is pleased to announce the IQBT Hawaii Introductory Tournament. This tournament will take place on Saturday, December 9, 2023. This tournament is only open to teams from schools based in Hawaii. This tournament will be played on IQBT’s Regular Season S...

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I'll close this survey on Tuesday, September 26; if your team is potentially interested in playing in this year's undergraduate championship and have an opinion on being in-person or online, please fill out the survey by then! If you do not have a link to it and your team needs to respond to it, pl...

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I've gone ahead & opened registration; it's available via this form . Feel free to wait on registration if the determination of the Championship's online/in-person status will determine if you want to participate. A few key things: * The registration fee this year is $55 per team. * We're expand...

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International Quiz Bowl Tournaments is looking for a host for the 2024 Undergraduate Championship's main site. This is not a guarantee that the Undergrad will be held in person; we are merely exploring what options are available. IQBT can offer up to $1000 in compensation to the host. This compensat...

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I'll close this survey on Tuesday, September 26; if your team is potentially interested in playing in this year's undergraduate championship and have an opinion on being in-person or online, please fill out the survey by then! If you do not have a link to it and your team needs to respond to it, ple...

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International Quiz Bowl Tournaments is looking for a host for the 2024 National All-Star Academic Tournament's main site. IQBT can offer up to $1000 in compensation to the host. This compensation includes payment for requirements of using the facilities, such as room reservation fees or janitorial f...

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Discord names should be updated on this.

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Adventure Temple Trail wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:40 pm Are these raw conversion numbers rather than percents? If so, I made a "percent-ified" version in this sheet.

Correct.

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Bumping this to keep the date in everyone's mind.

Registration will open shortly after the conclusion of the survey regarding the site of the Championship proper.

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Conversion data from last fall's qualifier for the IQBT Undergraduate Championship are available here.

For reference, the questions are available at https://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ ... 022-23.pdf.

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Could we just unsticky this thread & replace it with a rolling annual sticky of Jeff's posts?

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I should make this clear: if your team did not compete in last year's Undergrad but are at all interested in doing it this year, even if you're only interested in playing if it's in-person or online, please feel free to contact me to request a survey! I'd love to have your opinion as well.

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As best as I could tell, these are the top five teams that were not active at all in 2022-23. RPI - 22 freshmen Monroe CC - 21 freshmen SUNY-Brockport - 21 freshmen Clarkson - 20 freshmen UAlbany - 19 freshmen These schools competed in three or fewer tournaments as best as I could tell. Obviously, s...

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I took the last three NAQT Entering Freshmen (so the classes of 2020-2023) and determined which schools have the most listed players who provided their information. This is a total of 3550 entries. Class of 2023: 837 entries Class of 2022: 870 entries Class of 2021: 812 entries Class of 2020: 1031 e...

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From what I can tell, of the top 27 schools (thanks, ties), 5 don't have teams or only minimally active teams as of 2021-22: Buffalo SUNY-Binghamton (although I know they're getting a team together) Oklahoma State (played 2021 ACF Fall) SUNY-Geneseo (played 2020 ACF Winter) Monroe CC Looking back o...

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According to the data on the sheet , three teams out of the 134 listed have updated their contact info in the past 12 months. Your club should make sure your contact info is updated. (I'd also suggest that ACF create a third tab to list teams that were recently active but no longer are for reference...

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I just sent out a survey pertaining to the 2024 Undergraduate Championship, if it should be held online, and the number of days the event should last. These went to the email addresses for teams' contacts from last year. I am asking schools to only submit one response each. However, if the person wh...

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Ohio and Virginia, please pay me.

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I am curious about your inclusion of sales tax in the price as public schools (and I imagine private schools too, but I don't have first hand knowledge) are tax exempt organizations and should be exempt from sales tax. I know if we were to choose to mirror IQBT, our school bookkeeper would take iss...

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IQBT Regular Season Set #1 is available for free at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/2833/.

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IQBT Regular Season Set #1 is available for free at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/2833/.

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IQBT Regular Season Set #1 is available for free at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/2833/.

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Future mirrors: January 27 - Parkway South High School, Manchester, Missouri March 2 - California Cup #3 (Competitive & Standard Divisions), Oakland High School, Oakland, California March 16 - Detroit Catholic Central High School, Novi, Michigan March 23 - March Academic Invitational in Nevada (...

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International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC will be producing a regular difficulty high school set for the 2023-24 season. The set will consist of 12 rounds of 21/21 questions. The first mirror date will be January 27. The mirror fee will be $20 per team, including house teams. This set will be head ed...

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This post reserved for a list future mirrors. December 2, 2023 - Washington High School - Washington, Missouri December 2, 2023 - Academon Invitational - Castlewood High School, Castlewood, Virginia January 20, 2024 - Ridgewood High School Tournament - Ridgewood, New Jersey January 27, 2024 - Heartl...

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International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC will be producing a regular difficulty high school set for the 2023-24 season. The set will consist of 12 rounds of 21/21 questions. The first mirror date will be October 21. The mirror fee will be $20 per team, including house teams. This set will be head ed...

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This set is still available to use through the end of this calendar year.

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More information will be posted after Lexington gets electricity again.

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Congratulations to Illinois Blue on winning the 2023 NASAT outright! California has clinched second place. Illinois White earned third place by defeating Illinois Orange in a tiebreaker game. Illinois Orange finished fourth. New Jersey A defeated Asia in a final of a tiebreaker tournament on half-pa...

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Playoff stats will be kept here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8 ... ff_rounds/

An updated schedule with playoff matchups is attached to this post.

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The following teams are in the top playoff bracket:

A1 California
A2 New Jersey A
A3 Illinois White
A4 Ohio
A5 Missouri A
B1 Illinois Blue
B2 Illinois Orange
B3 Asia A
B4 Kentucky A
B5 Maryland Red

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This year's NASAT All-Stars are: Jack Rado, Ohio, 55.56 PPG Eshan Pant, New Jersey A, 42.78 PPG Rohan Ganeshan, Illinois Blue, 42.14 PPG Robert Wang, New Jersey A, 41.11 PPG Braden Booth, Missouri A, 40.00 PPG Elle Lee, Virginia, 38.33 PPG Owen Arneson, Missouri B, 37.50 PPG Rohan Kher, Illinois Blu...

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Both brackets have a tie after the preliminary rounds that affects who makes which playoff bracket. In Shrimp, Virginia and Missouri A are tied for one spot in the top playoff bracket and are playing a full game tiebreaker to determine who gets it. In Grits, Maryland Red, Kentucky A, and Missouri B ...

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The top five from each bracket advance to the playoff bracket. Here are the playoff pictures. I'll put a caveat here that if I messed up my math - and it's nearly midnight on a tournament weekend, there's a definite chance I did - then all of this is wrong, and all of this is non-binding in that cas...

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AKKOLADE wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:37 pm Prelim stats are available at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8 ... ry_rounds/

These stats are currently through lunch. We resume play at 3:30 p.m. Eastern.

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