ACRONYM 15: Global Announcement

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ACRONYM 15: Global Announcement

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Play Quiz Bowl LLC is excited to announce ACRONYM 15, the latest in ACRONYM's unending march of fun. This is a low-difficulty pop culture set, primarily for high schools, but with content accessible to college/open types. It will be very fun and you should play it.

The A-15 Team

ACRONYM 15 is being written by Danny Vopava, Ben Weiner, Lalit Maharjan, Bryanna Shao, Blake Andert, Rahul Rao-Potharaju, and Erik Nelson (who is also set editing).

Distribution

We'll be sticking with the same distro as last year, which is:

4/4 Movies (2/2 2010-present, 2/2 older)
4/4 "Small Screen" (2/2 TV 2010-present, 1.5/1.5 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 each of baseball, football, basketball, and other/multi)
1/1 Video Games
1/1 Trash Lit
2/2 Other/Miscellaneous

When?!

This will be available for mirrors beginning the weekend of February 19, 2022. There will be a "local open" mirror on February 13th, similar to what we've done in previous years. Hopefully in person, but obviously things are a bit up in the air at the moment. More details on that as soon as it's nailed down. If you want to schedule a mirror of your own, please contact me here or via email.
Erik Nelson
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President, Play Quiz Bowl LLC
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Again?
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Are there any online mirrors scheduled yet?
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Seconding the call for an online mirror since there doesn't appear to be a HSNCT mirror this year. (Or maybe we can get a regional Midwest mirror?)
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So any announcements for an online mirror prior to HSNCT?
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Hey everyone! Thanks for your patience as we sorted out a plan for our official mirrors.

First, the bad news - there is not going to be an ACRONYM at HSNCT this year. We're bummed about this, but fully understand that the need for extra time to ensure staff readiness and attendee safety takes precedence.

That said, we'll instead be running two online mirrors, which I hope will allow everyone an opportunity to play the set. The dates are:

Saturday, April 30
Sunday, June 26

I'll have signups for these in a dedicated thread shortly.

We're very interested in arranging in-person mirrors as well - if there is enough demand in a particular area, please reach out and we'll make that happen.
Erik Nelson
Director, Minnesota High School Quiz Bowl
President, Play Quiz Bowl LLC
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Like Dr. Cheyne, I'd also really enjoy some sort of in-person mirror for this, either in the Midwest this summer or somewhere in the Northeast this fall!
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