Prison Bowl XVI (HS Regs+)

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Hunter College High School is thrilled to announce the sixteenth iteration of our annual housewritten set, Prison Bowl! The set will be available for mirrors beginning the weekend of March 9th, 2024, and throughout the rest of 2024 and early 2025. If you are interested in mirroring the set or have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].

Prison Bowl XVI will be a high school regs+ set with 13 packets each consisting of 20 power-marked tossups and 20 bonuses. 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 quizbowl’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, and Musicals)
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

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

Head Editors: Matthew Kohn, assisted by Fahian Joy
Literature Editors: Evan Schleck, Matthew Kohn
History Editors: Fahian Joy, Evan Schleck
Science Editor: Matthew Kohn
Arts Editors: Matthew Kohn, Evan Schleck
RMP Editor: Fahian Joy
Other Editors: Fahian Joy, 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, 3/9/24

Contact

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

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This set is nearing completion. If you are college-aged or older and are interested in playtesting the set over Discord during evenings in late February/early March, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/D1jRizr83LUjcbuW8.