Prison Bowl XIII: HS Regs+, Available for 2020-21 Season

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Prison Bowl XIII: HS Regs+, Available for 2020-21 Season

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Hunter College High School is excited to announce the thirteenth iteration of Prison Bowl, our annual housewrite. The set will be available for mirrors from March 21st, 2020 onward and will also be available during the fall of the 2020-21 season. If you are interested in mirroring the set or have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].

Prison Bowl is a regs+/nats- set that will consist of 13 packets of 20 power-marked pyramidal tossups, 20 three-part bonuses, and an extra tiebreaker tossup and bonus. Each tossup will be 550-650 characters long and each full bonus totaling at most 8 lines in 10 point Times New Roman font. The set will be written and edited by the Hunter College High School quiz bowl team.

Aside from standard quiz bowl answer lines, the set will also feature some original common-link questions, descriptive answer-lines, and cross-categorical/interdisciplinary questions. We hope that these non-conventional questions will keep veteran players interested. However, less experienced players will get and learn stuff as well.

Distribution

The set will not feature computational math.

4/4 Literature
> 1/1 American
> 1/1 British
> 1/1 European and Russian
> 1/1 World and Ancient/Classical
4/4 History
> 1.3/1.3 American
> 1.2/1.2 European
> 1.5/1.5 World
4/4 Science
> 1/1 Biology
> 1/1 Chemistry
> 1/1 Physics
> 0.5/0.5 Mathematics (entirely non-computational)
> 0.5/0.5 Astronomy/Cosmology and Earth Sciences
3/3 Fine Arts
> 1/1 Painting and Sculpture
> 0.5/0.5 Other Visual (including Architecture, Photography, Film, Dance, Performance, Decorative, Design)
> 1/1 Classical Music
> 0.5/0.5 Other Auditory (including Opera, Jazz, Musicals, World Music)
2.2/2.2 RMP
> 0.8/0.8 Religion
> 0.9/0.9 Mythology
> 0.5/0.5 Philosophy
2.8/2.8 "Other"
> 0.7/0.7 Social Science
> 0.7/0.7 Geography
> 0.7/0.7 Current Events
> 0.7/0.7 Trash and Pop Culture
1/1 Tiebreaker (Literature, History, Science, Fine Arts, or Mythology)

Editorial Staff (all Hunter players contribute to writing)

Head Editor: Rachel Yang
Vice Head Editor: Asher Jaffe
Literature Editor: Rachel Yang
History Editors: Pedro Juan Orduz, Cerulean Ozarow
Science Editors: Asher Jaffe, Benjamin Chapman
Arts Editors: Asher Jaffe, Benjamin Chapman, Ella Leeds
RMP Editors: Asher Jaffe, Rachel Yang
Social Science Editors: Asher Jaffe, Cerulean Ozarow
Geography Editor: Pedro Juan Orduz, Cerulean Ozarow
Current Events Editor: Pedro Juan Orduz, Benjamin Chapman
Trash Editor: Asher Jaffe, Rachel Yang

Fees
The mirror fee is $10 per attending team. All we ask is that hosts not alter question content in any way, nor release any information about questions to the public before the set is released on the quizbowlpackets.com archive.

Sites Using this Set:
NYC: Prison Bowl Mainsite @ Hunter, March 28th
MA/New England: BAIT III @ Belmont HS, March 28th

Again, email us at [email protected] if you want to mirror our set or have any questions!
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Re: Prison Bowl XIII: HS Regs+, Available for 2019-20 Season

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rachelyang wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:13 am Hunter College High School is excited to announce the thirteenth iteration of Prison Bowl, our annual housewrite. The set will be available for mirrors from May 21st, 2019 onward and will also be available during the fall of the 2020-21 season. If you are interested in mirroring the set or have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Is this supposed to say May 2020?
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tksaleija wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 4:01 pm
rachelyang wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:13 am Hunter College High School is excited to announce the thirteenth iteration of Prison Bowl, our annual housewrite. The set will be available for mirrors from May 21st, 2019 onward and will also be available during the fall of the 2020-21 season. If you are interested in mirroring the set or have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Is this supposed to say May 2020?
It's actually March 2020, sorry about that! Thanks.
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Hunter College High School Quiz Bowl, New York, NY; Class of 2021
Business Manager, 2018-19; Co-President, 2019-21
Prison Bowl XII Vice Head Editor, PB XIII Head Editor
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Re: Prison Bowl XIII: HS Regs+, Available for 2019-20 Season

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And of course, don't forget: If you are looking to mirror a regs+/nats- set before March, Prison Bowl XII is still available!
Daniel, Hunter College High School '19, Yale '23
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Belmont would like to mirror Prison Bowl XIII for our tentative March 28th tournament BAIT III.
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Re: Prison Bowl XIII: HS Regs+, Available for 2020-21 Season

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We are happy to announce that, since all mirrors at the end of last year were cancelled due to the pandemic, Prison Bowl XIII will be available to use for mirrors throughout the entirety of the 2020-21 season. Hosts are welcome to use the set for traditional full-day tournaments or league-style events. Please email us at [email protected] with mirror requests or any questions!
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List of mirrors (updated 4/5/21):
Northeast: Prison Bowl League (Oct. - Dec. 2020)
Missouri/Arkansas: North Kansas City Invitational (2/6/21)
Midwest: Midwest Prison Bowl (2/13/21)
South: Southern Prison Bowl Mirror (3/20/21)
Mid-Atlantic: DMV Regional Championship (3/27/21)
Southern California: CHASE at Caltech (4/17/21)
Texas: TQBA Fiesta (5/22/21)

If you are interested in playing the set, but are unable to play a mirror in your region or there has not been one announced, please email us at [email protected] to ask for permission to play in another region.
Cerulean Ozarow
Hunter '21
Brown '25
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