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I guess the idea is more informal than you're describing - the different competitions within IAC share some staff & other resources, and some of the competitions are directly related (NHBB players can qualify for IHO but that's not the only way, etc.). Mostly, though - it's been sufficiently con...

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The 2017-18 NHBB competition season began in Honolulu this Saturday, and we're looking forward to a fantastic year! We have a few announcements as the year begins. First, NHBB events are part of the new International Academic Competitions network. This doesn't really change how anything operates - i...

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I've got a few essays posted here , mostly focusing on technical aspects of writing questions. The beginning essays are primarily good for people who have played just a tournament or two, as a means of explaining the structure of a question. The intermediate essays are primarily good for people who ...

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NHBB's running several regional events in Illinois this year. A school can compete once on each question set, and competitors finishing in the top half of the field at each event qualify for NHBB Nationals in DC on the last weekend of April. C Set: November 11th at Stevenson High School in Lincolnsh...

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On the practice material side of things - and this may something your previous advisor/current team members have mentioned - there are tons of questions from previous years' tournaments available for free download at http://quizbowlpackets.com/ and http://www.historybowl.com/resources/study-guides-r...

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monty wrote:hbowl tournaments (so far):

10/28 Northern New Jersey
12/09 Southern New Jersey
01/13 NJ State Championships

And Princeton University is requesting rooms for March 10th for the Mid-Atlantic Championships on A Set, so that date's worth saving as well.

Irreligion in Bangladesh

My question is "what can we do to make that not the response?" Go into areas that don't have pyramidal MS quizbowl right now. Work to change IESA's question source (I know, this could be a decades-long project, but see if you can get into local leagues and such at first). Go into Northern...

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Chris - I hear you (and you're very right that NAQT doesn't get enough public credit for their circuit building and other outreach work), but I don't think you've addressed my question. It explains why there's a question at all, yes, and you're listing things like "14/14 matches*" and &quo...

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Madden's initial pitching of USABB to me was a direct analogy of HSNCT:NSC::MSNCT:USABB - that both would coexist nicely and boost the overall MS circuit, rather than try to cannibalize each other for market share. The fact that the MS circuit essentially only had a few NAQT MS sets, the then-annou...

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More importantly, I have been a fly on the wall when Brad tried everything he could to get Madden/NHBB to use different dates for championships for the sole purpose of not conflicting with NAQT events . Those attempts were unsuccessful, mostly because the number of national quizbowl championships h...

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IHO Side Events have been handed out; thank you to everyone who applied, and to Sameer Rai, Jakob Myers, Bruce Arthur, Andrew Leung, Eric Mukherjee, Noah Prince, Rebecca Rosenthal, Kristin Strey, Tyler Vaughan, Chris White, and Joe Su for their help editing the side events! There was a flurry of las...

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A blacklist seems somewhat presumptuous unless there are other people who have been similarly turned down. After several years of moderating for NAQT national events, Kristin and I haven't received an invitation to staff an NAQT xCT since 2014 HSNCT. Summer/Fall 2014 was the approximate timing of t...

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I'm pleased to announce the winners of this year's National Quizbowl Awards! Please see the original post for results.

Winners can private message/e-mail me your mailing address so we can send you your award. Congratulations!

Irreligion in Bangladesh

E-mails appear to be good again, and (while it's obviously impossible to know for sure) it appears we got all e-mails sent during the downtime after a delay. (If you e-mailed anybody with an @historybowl.com e-mail address on Fri/Sat/Sun and haven't gotten a reply back, send it again.) I'll take app...

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E-mails appear to be good again, and (while it's obviously impossible to know for sure) it appears we got all e-mails sent during the downtime after a delay. (If you e-mailed anybody with an @historybowl.com e-mail address on Fri/Sat/Sun and haven't gotten a reply back, send it again.) Voting for th...

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Website's back up but e-mail servers are still not working properly, so it'll be at a little while longer before I can post an update on deadlines for these things (and the National Quizbowl Awards).

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idek wrote:Can we PM you our Provisional Writer applications?

Better to wait and get them in my email inbox; I won't have time to grade them for a few more days anyway.

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As a result of this, the National Quizbowl Awards deadline is pushed back indefinitely as well. Once our e-mail is working again, I'll post here to let you know if you may need to re-send ballots sent to Jason over the last day or so, as well as post an updated deadline.

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We've having issues with Hostmonster at the moment, which has the nasty side effect of having taken our e-mail servers down. If you've sent me an application for the Provisional Writers Program or an IHO side event over the last day or so, you may need to re-send it, or we may get a flurry of delaye...

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This Saturday, I'll be assigning IHO side events, so if you'd like to apply for one of those, there is still time to do so. PWP applications are being accepted until Sunday night, so there's still time to apply for that as well. It'll take me a little bit of time to work through the applications, so...

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NHBB is once again delighted to sponsor the 6th annual National Quiz Bowl Awards for the 2016-2017 season. $2500 in prize money and plaques this year will go to recognize the nation's top students and coaches at the middle and high school level. The awards being given out this year are: 1. Top 9th g...

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Everything David said is correct. Everything Bruce said is correct. There's almost no tournament written at a difficulty level where the giveaway shouldn't still be definitional - and for most countries, that's geographical clues. Even at Chicago Open, you shouldn't really be giving away Albania wit...

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Piggybacking on Fred - you'll have a much calmer time of it if, when those two tournaments on the same day at the corners of your circuit conflict, they work together to pick the same question set!

Irreligion in Bangladesh

I agree with Jacob - a tossup on Arthur Schopenhauer in a regular difficulty HS set is essentially a trumpet call to the world declaring that you can't come up with an interesting, accessible idea in philosophy and instead are subjecting new teams to a dead tossup. It's a failure on the writer's par...

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Madden re-upped the NHBB Nats contract with the Gateway Crystal Marriott through 2022 about 5 years ago, so those dates are here . The field "fills" once we reach a multiple of 6 that we don't think we can get past, but we keep registration open to deal with late drops, so don't worry abou...

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To be clear, I agree that a lot of high school social science and philosophy questions are too hard. However, I think that's a separate issue from the question of how many social science and philosophy questions should go into each packet. You can have the right distribution and still populate some...

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Alaska had an event in 2012-13: http://www.historybowl.com/regional-sites/past-bowl-results/2012-2013-state-bowl-results/alaska-2013/ Kansas has had events in previous years, but the host couldn't make it work this year. http://www.historybowl.com/regional-sites/past-bowl-results/2012-2013-state-bow...

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Ditto "you shouldn't do 1/1 Social Science and Philosophy at regular season HS difficulty." I think this is more of a personal preference on the ideal distribution than the rule you make it out to be - anthropology, sociology, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy combine to certainly e...

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Hosted an NHBB event in 2017:

AKKOLADE wrote: Arkansas
Delaware
Hawaii
Montana
New Hampshire
Oregon

If you want me to look up past years, lemme know! :)

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I hope you're not going to do 1/1 other art; I don't believe there's sufficient material at the regular season HS level to make this viable Ditto "you shouldn't do 1/1 Social Science and Philosophy at regular season HS difficulty." With that said, this sample packet doesn't look like &quo...

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This is all very unfortunate, as Richard Montgomery has been planning for a house write as well. What can all of us do when it comes to considering mergers? If you must do it alone (this is directed to the general "you" and not you specifically), write a novice set. I'll disagree here - n...

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You can a) do what DCC does and just write questions and read them to your teammates which is great practice or b) just write a ton of questions on your own and encourage and teach newer players to do the same. There's no reason to clog up the tournament schedule and/or make lesser quality tourname...

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I'm busy formatting IHBB Asia packets, so I'm going to get this note in quickly while it's at a good point in the thread: pseudo-common link tossups like ice from only One Hundred Years of Solitude or memories from only Proust would do well to have an answer line confirming that fact for the moderat...

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Provisional Writer Training I will be running the second iteration of the Provisional Writer Program, a novice writer training curriculum. Experienced quizbowl players without enough writing experience to be directly hired by NHBB are invited to apply for this program. I am accepting applications n...

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Hiring Writers NHBB hires experienced question writers year-round. To apply to be an NHBB writer, e-mail me at brad@historybowl.com with your name, school affiliation (past and present as necessary), and a list of previous writing experiences (tournaments you helped write for, years worked for othe...

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Thank you to everyone who made this past year of NHBB & USABB a success - in particular, for purposes of this announcement, our team of question writers. We are, as always, looking to hire question writers! I'm rolling out the call for writers in a few stages. Today, I'm starting with side event...

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US Academic Bee and Bowl weekend is off and running! This page has links to Google sheets with information, updated relatively live; for example, at the time of this post, the Battery Exam has been taken and is being graded, the Humanities Bee prelims have finished and scores are posted at its link,...

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Each event this weekend will have an opening meeting. All the opening meetings will take place in the International Ballroom, Salons D, E, and F. While attendance at each opening meeting is not required, it's a very good idea to be there, so you can hear the specific rules for each competition, ask ...

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The updated field list is at this page, and I'll look into Regional stats. Thanks, and see you next week!

Irreligion in Bangladesh

The US Academic Bee and Bowl National Championship weekend is quickly approaching. If you're already signed up, we're excited to see you in two weeks! If you're not signed up yet and are interested in playing in one or more of the events, there's still time! Registration is open until Monday. Full L...

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The writers for IHSA 2017-18 are: Brad Fischer: history, social sciences other than religion, auditory-based fine art, miscellaneous, some math Noah Prince: literature other than mythology, math, visual-based fine art, religion, miscellaneous Andrew Wang: science, mythology We'll be working together...

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Also, it was un-reported in the minutes because it doesn't require action by anybody above Kraig & the AdCo, but we recommended that stats, including individual tossup totals and part-by-part bonus conversion, be kept at Regionals/Sectionals/State and tabulated for online records. Rob Grierson i...

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Now that the AdCo minutes are posted, I am thrilled to report that the IHSA Scholastic Bowl Advisory Committee has recommended me as the next Head Editor for the IHSA State Series. (It technically isn't official until the next level of IHSA meetings approves it, but this is one of those things that ...

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Here are the final Bowl standings.

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The 2016-2017 US History Bee questions (and qualifying exams from regionals) are available here ! The US Geography Olympiad exams are available here as well; answer keys for the written and cartographic exams will be available soon. All other packets will be posted once they're cleared in September.

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For the Yalta Conference, didn't the Treaty of Portsmouth also negotiate for Dalian and Sakhalin? By my reading, the Treaty of Portsmouth notes that the Liaodong Peninsula is leased, but doesn't mention anything specific about Dalian being internationalized. Sakhalin & Kuril is closer - at Yalt...

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Yeah, the distro for USHB specifies certain numbers of questions per time period and per category (such as social history). It's a bit tricky to determine what very recent social history is going to be accessible. This leads me to another question: are the history portions of bee and bowl distribut...

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IGB Food: the Portland tossup started with Stumptown Coffee and Voodoo donuts, then got to non-food things like Powell's. I can't find a food-based California question, but if you provide me a clue I can look further. Assuming those are the 4, it's basically pretty geographically diverse as far as A...

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WARNING: crapload of extremely picayune complaints incoming. Don't let this deceive you; I thought this was a great set. The map section of the usgo qualifier was somewhat poorly designed and doesn't reflect actual igeo too well at all. In the igb set, Honduras should not, not, not be promotable fo...

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Now that I'm caught up on question text posting -- *We are planning on using at least some of these questions for Europe, Asia, and Australian/New Zealand championship use in the coming months. (The sets themselves are based on A-set and have questions from Nats added in after I kick out all the Ame...

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