Announcing QB League: a weekly quizbowl tournament

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Announcing QB League: a weekly quizbowl tournament

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We are pleased to announce a new, weekly quizbowl tournament, QB League! Registration opens today (the 15th of May) and will run until the 27th of June; the first season of the competition will begin on the 5th of July.

Format and Peculiarities

Registered teams will be sorted by skill and experience into divisions of 10. Teams will play everyone else in their division once, playing one game a week. League standings will be determined by win-loss record and statistical tiebreakers. Between seasons, teams may be promoted and relegated both according to league placement and to accommodate new signups.

“Home” teams will be responsible for providing or finding a reader. We therefore recommend that your roster consists of five or more players, though only four may play in a given game.

Free agents are welcome to register their interest independently, and we will work to put scratch teams together.

Set and Editors

Each seasonal tournament will consist of 9 packets of 20 powermarked tossups and 20 bonuses. Tossups will be six lines long, and have almost exclusively ACF Fall level answerlines. The aim is also to have some difficult early clues, so that the set can be fun for experienced players who miss regular quizbowl, while remaining accessible for new teams.

The questions will be written and edited by Kevin Wang, Ryan Rosenberg, Joey Goldman, and Daoud Jackson. A substantial proportion of the first season has already been written.

Distribution

The sets will combine 80% standard academic content (including geography and current events) with 20% pop culture/lowbrow content. The space for the latter will primarily be taken from science and RMPSS, though both of those areas will still be well represented. An exact distribution is forthcoming.

Eligibility
We are currently not accepting players under the age of 18 without parental supervision. If this applies to you and you are still interested in playing, do let us know so we can gauge interest - if there is enough, we can work something out for a separate section.

Otherwise, there are no restrictions on who can play; do keep in mind the intended difficulty of the set, though.

Price

It will cost $90 per season, per team to play in QB League.

For register or find further information, please visit our website: https://qbleague.org/

To contact us, please send an email to: quizbowlleague AT gmail.com
Kevin Wang
Arcadia High School 2015
Amherst College 2019

2018 PACE NSC Champion
2019 PACE NSC Champion
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