Prison Bowl XV (HS Regs+)

[krbm17]

Hunter College High School is thrilled to announce the fifteenth iteration of our annual housewritten set, Prison Bowl! The set will be available for mirrors beginning the weekend of March 25th, 2023, and throughout the rest of 2023 and early 2024. If you are interested in mirroring the set or have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].

Prison Bowl XV will be a regs+/nats- 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.

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 (not including Commonwealth)
> 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)

A note: We will not be using any computational math tossups or bonuses, but there will be a few computational bonus parts on bonuses in other science subcategories.

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

Head Editors: Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt, assisted by Matthew Kohn
Literature Editor: Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt
History Editors: Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt and Ian Lu
Science Editors: Matthew Kohn and Vincent Chen
Arts Editors: Matthew Kohn, Evan Schleck, and Moxie Strom
RMP Editors: Fahian Joy, Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt, Dune Joerg, and Vincent Chen
Other Editors: Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt, Ian Lu, Evan Schleck, Fahian Joy, and Matthew Kohn

Fees

The mirror fee will be $15 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, 3/25/23
Southern Illinois: Cougar Spring @ SIUE, 4/8/23
Kentucky: RAmPNT @ Russell HS, 5/6/23

Contact

Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions!

[Large Hadron Collider Jacob de la Gardie]

This set is nearing completion. If you are in college or older, and would like to playtest this set, please email at [email protected] or DM myself or Matthew @purpleindecision#3274 and @mtcl17#1348.