Prison Bowl XIV (HS Regular Plus, Spring 2022)

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Prison Bowl XIV (HS Regular Plus, Spring 2022)

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Hunter College High School is thrilled to announce the fourteenth iteration of our annual housewritten set, Prison Bowl! The set will be available for mirrors beginning the weekend of March 19th, 2022, and throughout spring and summer of 2022. If you are interested in mirroring the set or have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].

Prison Bowl XIV will be a regular plus set, with 13 packets, each consisting of 20 power-marked tossups and 20 bonuses. Each packet will additionally feature an extra tiebreaker tossup and bonus. Each tossup will be 550-650 characters long and each full bonus will consist of at most 8 lines in 10 point Times New Roman font.

Significant progress in writing this set was already made last year, due to the presence of multiple highly-experienced question writers within the Hunter Quiz Bowl team. Thus, we expect to have a surplus of high-quality questions by the time of our first mirror. We expect that surplus to yield a high degree of selectivity that will allow this set to be well-written and fun-to-play.

While this set will include many answerlines within Quiz Bowl’s traditional “canon,” it will also include original common-link questions, descriptive answerlines, cross-categorical/interdisciplinary questions, and questions focusing on knowledge acquired from personal interaction and experience. We hope that these non-conventional questions will challenge both new and experienced players, and allow all to have fun and find new inspiration to learn more.

Each packet will have the following distribution:

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/Computer Science (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, and Design)
> 1/1 Classical Music
> 0.5/0.5 Other Auditory (including Opera, Jazz, Musicals, and 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"
> 0.5/0.5 Social Science
> 0.6/0.6 Geography
> 0.6/0.6 Current Events
> 0.6/0.6 Trash and Pop Culture
> 0.5/0.5 Miscellaneous
1/1 Tiebreaker (Literature, History, Science, Fine Arts, or Mythology)

Editorial Staff (all active Hunter players contribute to the set’s writing)

Head Editor: Andrew Zeng
Literature Editor: Aruna Das
History Editor: Andrew Zeng
Science Editor: Daniel Shneider
Arts Editor: Andrew Zeng
RMP Editors: Aruna Das and Andrew Zeng
Other Editor: Nicholas Wu

Fees

The mirror fee will be $10 for each team that attends. We ask only that hosts do not alter question content in any way, or release any information about question content to the public before the set is posted on quizbowlpackets.com.

Mirror Sites

NYC: Prison Bowl Mainsite @ Hunter HS, March 19th
Northern California: Cal Cup 4 @ Bellarmine HS, March 27th
Michigan: University of Michigan Spring Classic @ University of Michigan, April 16th
Northeast: Spring Academic Tournament @ MIT, April 30th
Southern California: CARLOS @ Caltech, May 21st
Mixed: SuMO VII @ Tusculum University, July 9th
National HS: POAST @ online (directed by JP Stevens Quiz Bowl and Edison Quiz Bowl), July 9th
Southeast: Hoover Invitational @ Hoover HS

Contact

Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions!
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Re: Prison Bowl XIV (HS Regular Plus, Spring 2022)

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This set is nearing completion. If you are in college or older, and would like to playtest this set, please fill out this form.
Andrew Zeng
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