DART IV (HSNCT-level)

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I am excited to announce the FOURTH and FINAL edition of DART - ready for mirrors starting on October 12th, 2024. DART IV is significantly different than the previous three editions. We aimed to create a set for collegiate players hoping to play a moderately difficult NAQT-esque set and for ambitious high school teams preparing for nationals. The difficulty is around that of recent HSNCTs, and the distribution emphasizes general knowledge more than other collegiate housewrites.

DART IV will have 13 packets, each with 21 tossups and 21 bonuses. All tossups will be powermarked, pyramidal and between 450 and 550 characters in length. All bonuses will have three parts, and will not exceed 7 lines (excluding answerlines). There will be no computational math questions.

The Subject distribution will be:
4/4 Science (13/13 Biology, 13/13 Physics, 13/13 Chemistry, 6/6 Math, 7/7 Other Science)
4/4 History (19/19 American, 13/13 British/European, 13/13 World, 4/4 Ancient, 3/3 Mixed/Other)
4/4 Literature (16/16 American, 13/13 British/Commonwealth, 10/10 European (including classical), 10/10 World, 3/3 Mixed/Other)
3/3 Fine Arts (13/13 Painting/Sculpture, 13/13 Classical Music/Jazz, 3/4 Architecture, 4/3 Opera, 6/6 Other)
3/3 Belief & Thought (10/10 Mythology, 6/6 Religion, 13/13 Social Science, 10/10 Philosophy)
3/3 The World (13/13 Geography, 7/7 Current Events, 6/6 General Knowledge, 13/13 Trash)

The Subject editors are:
Science (Geoffrey Wu and June Yin)
History (Andrew Zeng and Arthur Gayden)
Literature (Chandler West and Henry Goff)
Fine Arts (Daniel Ma and Chandler West)
Belief & Thought (Eric Mukherjee)
The World (Daniel Ma, Neal Joshi)

The mirror fee is $40 per attending college team and $30 per high school team, including the host team. We require that tournament hosts not change our questions' content or format. If you have questions, comments, or concerns, please reach out to me at [email protected]. For mirror requests, please email [email protected] with the subject line "DART IV Mirror Request."

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College Mirrors:
Northeast: Brown University (RI) - 11/9/24
Upstate New York: Binghamton University (NY) - 11/9/24
Upper Mid-Atlantic:
Lower Mid-Atlantic:
Southeast:
Florida:
Great Lakes:
Upper Midwest: UChicago (February)
Lower Midwest:
South Central: Murray State College (OK) - 2/15/25
Mountain West:
California:
Northwest:
Canada:
United Kingdom:

High School Mirrors:

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There was some online confusion regarding the difficulty of DART IV, so I want to clear it up. DART IV is around the level of the past few years of HSNCT. Since the unique style of NAQT-like questions doesn't fit cleanly on the traditional Ophir dot scale, we didn't give it a label. That said, the questions are easier than those in "2-dot" sets like mRNA, and harder than those in "1-dot sets". Our goal in producing this final iteration is to fill a specific niche. I can't wait for you all to play!