ACRONYM 16: Global Announcement

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ACRONYM 16: Global Announcement

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Play Quiz Bowl LLC is thrilled to announce the inevitable existence ACRONYM 16. As ever, this is a low-difficulty pop culture set for a wide audience, with a focus on accessibility for high school circuits.

Who is responsible for this?

A16 is bringing back the same writing team as last year (myself, Danny Vopava, Ben Weiner, Lalit Maharjan, Bryanna Shao, Blake Andert, Rahul Rao-Potharaju), as well as ACRONYM newbie Ganon Evans.

Distribution

We made a couple of minor changes to this year's distribution - a bit less "old TV" because the canon there is especially limited at this level, and a bit less baseball to make room for a bit more "other" sports that should be represented a bit more. We've also redefined the cut off for "old" things to 2015 instead of 2010.

4/4 Movies (2/2 2015-present, 2/2 older)
4/4 "Small Screen" (2.5/2.5 TV 2015-present, 1/1 older TV, .5/.5 Web/Other)
4/4 Music (1/1 each of pop, rock, rap/r&b and other/multi)
4/4 Sports (1/1 football, 1/1 basketball, .75/.75 baseball, 1.25/1.25 other/multi)
1/1 Video Games
1/1 Trash Lit
2/2 Other/Miscellaneous

When?!

This will be available for mirrors in mid-February, and we plan to have "premiere" events for both open and high school fields in Minnesota around that time. If you'd like to host one of these in your area, please contact me at your convenience.
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I blame Ganon for these changes.
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Cheynem wrote: Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:06 pm I blame Ganon for these changes.
How dare this fiend make me more excited to play this set at some point.
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We've also redefined the cut off for "old" things to 2015 instead of 2010.
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Any chance that at least one Minnesota/Upper Midwest mirror of this could be on a Saturday this year, not a Sunday?
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We've also redefined the cut off for "old" things to 2015 instead of 2010.
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Will there be any online events prior to HSNCT?
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mjoy wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 3:06 pm Any chance that at least one Minnesota/Upper Midwest mirror of this could be on a Saturday this year, not a Sunday?
Yes.
Alkres wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 11:33 pm Will there be any online events prior to HSNCT?
There will definitely be an online mirror or two again, but the timing will depend on what other mirrors develop (including HSNCT, which is neither confirmed nor denied at this point).
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Still wondering about an online event prior to HSNCT?
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I saw that there is a mirror happening at CCCT, hopefully that means that there will also be one happening at HSNCT. I would like to staff at HSNCT but would like to play before that. What are my chances of this happening?
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There will not be a mirror at HSNCT. We plan to have a couple of online mirrors like we've done the last couple of years - very tentatively, I'm hoping to do one of these in late March and another sometime in June.

I'd also encourage any local circuit where there's a good amount of interest in an easy-level pop culture tournament to reach out to me about scheduling a mirror in your area. Ultimately, we want to make sure everyone who wants to play this gets a chance to do so.
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Could last year's Acronym (and maybe even the previous year's Super Acronym) be posted?
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There is still one upcoming mirror of A15, after which this will be posted. I will get SA3 taken care of as well (once A16 is done being edited).
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If would like to host ACRONYM 16, how would we do that?

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Mygs22 wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:50 pm If would like to host ACRONYM 16, how would we do that?

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A private forum has been set up for discussing this set. Feel free to request access once you've played it!
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Any idea when online mirrors of this will take place?
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I see that there are online mirrors scheduled and posted. Thank you, Thank you, thank you.
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I'd love to play if anyone's looking for a teammate. I've been studying for the ACRONYM my whole life lol
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Several people in the Texas area are interested in playing in person. Would we be able to mirror it in the summer?
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UBE3C wrote: Wed Apr 26, 2023 2:39 am Several people in the Texas area are interested in playing in person. Would we be able to mirror it in the summer?
Oklahoma is planning on hosting a mirror in June. I know it's a bit of a hike for you all (especially coming from Austin) but we'd love to have you!
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