Starting intramural Quiz Bowl at South Dakota Mines
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:05 pm
Hi everyone.
I've been trying to plan for Quiz Bowl competitions on campus here in Rapid City.
My current focus is on intramural QB because the local area doesn't have Quiz Bowl already, but I'm having difficulty figuring out how we'll get funding for buzzers (which are $200 on the *low* end) and question sets (which are also often in the $100 range).
I personally enjoyed Questions Unlimited over NAQT when I played in the NAC, but I've been hearing criticism toward their style of play (something about badly-written questions, plagiarism, and hooks?)
NAQT is another option, and I've heard better things about them at least. And of course, for both of those styles, we would need to buy buzzer sets.
Is there any cheap, unconventional substitute for a buzzer system? The tournament will be informal, and I'm not planning to stick to specific rules, so the options are endless for cheap, even imperfect substitutes for buzzers. I'm just not sure if that is possible to implement. Rules and regulations for NAQT and QU is beyond me. My high school ran Academic Hallmarks.. which is extremely simple. No buzzers, ping-ponging questions, short questions.
Anyway. I have a lot of questions. Never done this before. No idea how to plan for this.
Any and all help is appreciated!
I've been trying to plan for Quiz Bowl competitions on campus here in Rapid City.
My current focus is on intramural QB because the local area doesn't have Quiz Bowl already, but I'm having difficulty figuring out how we'll get funding for buzzers (which are $200 on the *low* end) and question sets (which are also often in the $100 range).
I personally enjoyed Questions Unlimited over NAQT when I played in the NAC, but I've been hearing criticism toward their style of play (something about badly-written questions, plagiarism, and hooks?)
NAQT is another option, and I've heard better things about them at least. And of course, for both of those styles, we would need to buy buzzer sets.
Is there any cheap, unconventional substitute for a buzzer system? The tournament will be informal, and I'm not planning to stick to specific rules, so the options are endless for cheap, even imperfect substitutes for buzzers. I'm just not sure if that is possible to implement. Rules and regulations for NAQT and QU is beyond me. My high school ran Academic Hallmarks.. which is extremely simple. No buzzers, ping-ponging questions, short questions.
Anyway. I have a lot of questions. Never done this before. No idea how to plan for this.
Any and all help is appreciated!