Penn Bowl 2024 Announcement + Open For Mirrors

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Hey all! We're excited to announce Penn Bowl 2024, scheduled for its normal time in late October. This set will be head edited by Noah Sheidlower. Vishal Kanigicherla (assisted by Vincent Zhang) will act as set coordinator, handling logistics.

The set will consist of 14 packets plus a tiebreaker of 20/20 with power-marked tossups capped at 7.5 lines and bonus parts usually less than 2 lines each. The difficulty will resemble past Penn Bowls, around Regionals difficulty (3-dot).

Below is the distribution + editors:
4/4 Literature
1/1 American (Noah Sheidlower)
1/1 British (Jack Rado)
1/1 European (Darren Petrosino)
1/1 World (Noah Sheidlower)

4/4 History
1/1 American (Govind Prabhakar)
1/1 European (Govind Prabhakar)
1/1 Other History (Govind Prabhakar)
1/1 World (Govind Prabhakar)

4/4 Science
1/1 Biology (Alex Li)
1/1 Chemistry (Alex Li)
1/1 Physics (Ezra Santos)
1/1 Other Science (Ezra Santos)

3/3 Arts
1/1 Audio (Noah Sheidlower)
1/1 Visual (Felix Wang)
1/1 Other (Felix Wang)

1/1 Mythology (Ben McAvoy-Bickford)
1/1 Religion (Ben McAvoy-Bickford)
1/1 Philosophy (Aum Mundhe)
1/1 Social Science (Ben McAvoy-Bickford)

1/1 Other
0.5/.5 Pop Culture (Ben McAvoy-Bickford)
0.5/0.5 Geography, Current Events, and Other Academic (Ben McAvoy-Bickford)

Current list of writers:

Kane Nguyen
Michael Borecki
Aum Mundhe
Shiv Seshan
Owen Mimno
Kevin Wang
Krishna Rajagopal
Felix Wang
Noah Sheidlower
Alex Li
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford
Ezra Santos
Steven Yuan
Darren Petrosino
Khugan Chan
Gov Prabhakar
Khushi Umarwadia
Jay Kim
Jack Rado
Jonathan Tran
Giifti Benti

We are also looking for mirrors in all regions, likely to be held 10/26 or 11/2, the last Saturday of October and the first Saturday of November. The mirror fee will be $60/team, the same as Penn Bowl 2023. For any teams expressing interest in hosting a mirror, fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11IiM3m ... y7GxA/edit

We are also planning for a playtest over discord, more details to be announced.

If there are any questions/concerns, please contact pennquizbowl [at] gmail [dot] com!

Current mirror list:
Midwest: University of Chicago (11/2)
Great Lakes: Case Western Reserve University (11/2)
UK: Warwick
Northeast: Harvard University (10/26)
Lower Mid-Atlantic: University of North Carolina (10/26)
South Atlantic: University of Florida