The subject editors will be:
Literature: Wenying Wu (American), Raymond Chen (Commonwealth), Max Gedajlovic (European and World)
History: Dennis Beeby, Adrian Wong
Science: Raymond Chen (Biology), Benjamin Chapman (Chemistry, Physics, Other Science), Sky Li (Computer Science)
Fine Arts: Cormac Beirne (Visual), Sky Li (Auditory), Benjamin Chapman (Jazz)
Belief: Cormac Beirne (Religion), Sky Li (Mythology)
Thought: Ian Dewan (Philosophy), Dennis Beeby (Economics, Law, Political Science), Raymond Chen (Psychology), Cormac Beirne (Other Social Science)
Popular Culture and Film: Aaron Dos Remedios
Other: Ian Chow
Eligibility
As this is an introductory-level tournament targeted at less-experienced players, players who meet any of the following criteria are ineligible to play:
- You have ever scored more than 60 points per game at a quizbowl tournament (excluding middle school tournaments).
- You have made the playoffs at HSNCT or top 32 at NSC.
- You have played ICT (DI or DII) or ACF Nationals.
Hosting
The set will be available for mirrors beginning on March 4, 2023 (note that this is the same day as the IQBT Undergraduate Championship). The mirror fee will be $35 USD per team (including house teams) for non-"new to quizbowl" teams. New to quizbowl teams (defined as not having played any tournaments in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons) will have a mirror fee of $10 USD. Please email [email protected] if you are interested in hosting a mirror.
We are also allowing high-school-only mirrors of Canadian Novice; please just note this in your email. The eligibility restrictions do not apply to high-school-only mirrors.
Current Mirrors
Eastern Canada: Ottawa (March 4), Toronto (March 4)
Northeast:
Upstate NY: Cornell (April 16)
Upper Mid-Atlantic: Rutgers (April 15)
Lower Mid-Atlantic: VCU (March 25)
Southeast: UGA (March 25) [CANCELLED]
Florida: Florida (April 8)
Great Lakes:
Midwest: Northwestern (April 29)
North: Iowa State (April 15)
South Central:
Northern California:
Southern California: Claremont (April 8)
Northwest (Online): Washington et al. (April 15)
United Kingdom: York (March 11)
HS: National (July 15)
Question Set
We will be producing 12 paсks (plus tiebreakers) of 24 powermarked tossups and 24 bonuses. Tossups will be between 5-6 lines in 10pt Times New Roman font before powermarking. Each bonus will be a maximum of 8 lines long.
We will be writing slightly more than 12 paсks plus tiebreakers worth of questions to both allow us to include a higher-than-typical percentage of questions on Canadian topics for the Canadian mirror and have a more typical geographic distribution of content for non-Canadian mirrors (i.e. we will Americanize the set for mirrors). The Americanized version will have minor changes to the distribution below to reflect the reduced Canadian content.
Our non-Americanized distribution will be as follows, distributed over 24/24:
- 4/4 Literature
- 1.1/1.1 American Literature
- 1.25/1.25 Commonwealth Literature
- .9/.9 European Literature
- .75/.75 World Literature
- 4/4 History
- 1/1 American History
- 1/1 European History
- 1/1 World History
- 1/1 Ancient and Other History
- 4/4 Science
- 1/1 Biology
- 1/1 Chemistry
- 1/1 Physics
- 1/1 Other Science (math, computer science, astronomy, earth science, engineering, etc.)
- 3/3 Fine Arts
- 1/1 Painting and Sculpture
- 1/1 Classical Music
- 1/1 Other Arts (architecture, jazz, opera, dance, fashion, etc.) [Note: film is not included; it is instead grouped with Popular Culture]
- 2/2 Belief
- 1/1 Religion
- 1/1 Mythology
- 2/2 Thought
- 1/1 Philosophy
- 1/1 Social Science
- 2.5/2.5 Popular Culture and Film
- .5/.5 Film
- .5/.5 Music
- .41/.41 TV
- .41/.41 Sports
- .25/.25 Video Games
- .41/.41 Mixed/Other
- 2.5/2.5 Other
- 1/1 Geography
- .75/.75 Current Events
- .75/.75 Other Academic