A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art

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A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art

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I am in the middle of completing a fairly hard packet on underrepresented art in the quizbowl canon. The packet will consist of somewhere between 20 and 30 tossups primarily focused on art produced by groups that are frequently underrepresented in the quizbowl canon. Some questions will focus on underasked subject areas. The target distribution is roughly as follows:

Pre-1800s Western: 15%
Post-1800s Western: 35%
Pre-1900s World: 15%
Post-1900s World: 35%

My goal is to have the packet ready by mid-April.
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Exciting!
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I am glad that this is happening in time for my temporary crawl out of retirement.
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I will read this packet next week. Please mark your availability down here so that I can pick a time that works best for everyone.

Final distribution is:

Pre-1800s Western: 3/0
Post-1800s Western: 9/0
Pre-1900s Non-Western: 2/0
Post-1900s Non-Western: 6/0

Total: 20/0

Difficulty is "adventurous," but I'm sure you all will kill it.
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I will read this packet Wednesday May 27th at 8PM ET / 5pm PT.
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As a reminder, this will be read in the Discord in about 3 hours.
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Packet was read in Discord. Here are the scores from people who buzzed in.

Aseem: 2/1/2 30
Doug: 1/1/2 15
Eric: 0/0/1 -5
Ethan Seal: 1/0/2 5
Halle: 1/1/0 25
Jake Boonin: 0/0/2 -10
Mike Bentley: 0/1/6 -20
Nick Jensen: 2/1/0 40
Peter S: 0/1/1 5
Rahul: 2/2/1 45
Vishwa: 0/1/1 5
Kevin: 0/1/1 5

I plan on proofreading the packet and maybe doing another reading before putting it up on the archive.
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I will do a second reading tonight at 7pm ET / 4pm PT. It will take place in the packet2 channel on the main Discord.
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Scores from the second reading:

Jordan B: 2/11/3 125pts
Will N: 1/2/0 35pts
Kenji S: 0/2/1 15pts

Packet will be upload soon.
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