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WHAQ set available for mirrors (2016-2017)

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Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce that the Washington-Hickman Academic Questionfest (WHAQ) set will be available for mirrors nationwide (and internationally too, if there’s interest)! WHAQ will be a regular difficulty set that is written by current and former members of the quizbowl teams at Washington and Hickman High Schools in Missouri. The set will be head-edited by myself (Jacob O’Rourke); the rest of the editing team is David Dennis, the head coach at Washington (the classical music, current events); Andrew Wang, formerly of the University of Illinois (Biology, Chemistry); Seth Ebner of Washington University in St. Louis (Physics, Other Sciences, Visual Arts, some Religion); and Chris Chiego of the University of Pennsylvania (Geography and Social Science). Sean Phillips and Eric Mukherjee are also helping supervise the set to make sure no answers of inappropriate difficulty slip through.

We’ll be providing 14 packets for the cost of $10 per team that attends your tournament. If you mirror our tournament, I expect you to have statistics posted within a week of your tournament happening (and the statistics should be posted in a post on the thread for your tournament). We will also be offering a discount of $1 off per team (that attends your tournament) for you to scan and email your scoresheets to me at my email.

The set is currently at 70% written and 33% edited. I’ll be posting periodic updates about our progress until the set has been written and edited fully. This set will be available from September 17, 2016 until a few days before the 2017 HSNCT. I'll be posting the set shortly after that.

I plan on playtesting the tournament and submitting it to PACE’s Question Set Certification Program.

Set Details:

The tossups in the set will be powermarked and will run from 5 to 6 lines before the powermark is applied. The bonus parts will be no longer than two lines long.

Each packet will consist of 21 tossups and 21 three-part bonuses, distributed as follows (thanks go to Jason Loy for some of the distributional ideas):

1.5 American Lit (1 tossup and 1 bonus, plus an additional tossup or bonus in each packet)
1.5 British Lit (1 tossup and 1 bonus, plus an additional tossup or bonus in each packet)
1 European/World Literature
1 U.S. History
1 European History
1 World History
1 Miscellaneous History (this is ancient history and questions that don’t fit neatly into one of the other history categories, or just more of U.S., European or World History)
1 Biology
1 Chemistry
1 Physics
1 Other Science
1 Classical Music
1 Visual Fine Arts
0.5 Miscellaneous Arts
1 Geography
1 Trash
1 Myth
1 Religion
0.5 Philosophy
0.5 Social Science
0.5 Current Events
1 Extra Question (This will come from any category other than Trash)

Mirroring:

I’d love for as many circuits as possible to have a mirror of this set. If you’d like to mirror this set, please email me at [email protected] with the subject line “WHAQ Mirroring” to help me make sure I don’t lose it in my email.

Current Mirrors:

Chattahoochee Academic Team Tournament XII (Johns Creek, GA)-September 24, 2016. Contact Ashwin Ramaswami (hoochqb at gmail.com) for more information.
Golden Eagle Bowl (Raleigh, NC)-September 24, 2016. Contact Celia Rowland (crowland at wcpss.net) for more information.
California Cup 1-October 22, 2016. Contact the Berkeley team at californiacupquizbowl at gmail.com for more information.
Beavercreek Fall Invitational (Beavercreek, OH)-October 29, 2016. Contact Joe Czupryn (gbdriver80 at woh.rr.com) for more information.
University of Kentucky Fall Championship (Lexington, KY)-October 29, 2016. Contact Tyler Reid (ukquizbowl at gmail.com) for more information.
CSI XI (Roanoke, VA)-November 19, 2016. Contact Bob Powers (csquizbowl at gmail.com) for more information.
Three Trails Tournament (Independence, MO)-November 19, 2016. Contact Josh Malecki (jmalecki at fortosage.net) for more information.
Washington Invitational (Washington, MO)-December 3, 2016. Contact David Dennis (david.dennis at washington.k12.mo.us) for more information.
Penn's Quaker Fall Open (Philadelphia, PA)-December 3, 2016. Contact Chris Chiego (pennquizbowl at gmail.com) for more information.
Columbia Winter-December 3rd, 2016.
Rancho Bernardo's Bronco Bowl II (San Diego, CA)-December 17, 2016. Contact Bryan Ugaz (bryantugaz at gmail.com) for more information.
LIMIT (Lexington, MA)-December 17, 2016. Contact Colin Cantwell (ccantwell746 at gmail.com) for more information.
Georgetown University-January 14, 2017. Contact Michael Wong (quizbowl at georgetown.edu) for more information.
NIU's Huskie Bowl (DeKalb, IL)-January 28, 2017. Contact Anna Phillips (aphillips4 at niu.edu) for more information.
Hickman’s Kewpie Academic Tournament IV (Columbia, MO)-February 25, 2017. Contact Kathleen Wells-Morgan (kwellsmo at cpsk12.org) for more information.
Michigan State's March Madness-March 18, 2017. Contact Harris Bunker (msucbowl at gmail.com) for more information.
Texas Mirror-Date TBD. Contact Chris Romero (romeroc at gmail.com) for more information.
Florida State-TBD in the next semester. Contact Saiem Gilani (fsuquizbowl at gmail.com) for more information.
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We have mirrors at NIU and Olentangy Liberty High School in Ohio. Please email me if you'd like to mirror this in your region!
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We have a mirror for the Varsity division of Penn's Quaker Fall Open on December 3rd. We're still looking for plenty of mirrors, so if you don't see a mirror in your area, please email me about using the set!
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The set is currently at 75% written and 37% edited.
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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi wrote:The set is currently at 75% written and 37% edited.
We're now at 76% written and 40% edited.

EDIT: As of July 3rd, we're at 80% written and 41% edited.
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Because we're almost done with writing and editing one of the big three categories, I'd like to ask for anyone interested in playtesting the literature for this set to email/PM/facebook message me with your availability for the week of July 11th-17th. It's much more helpful to me with my schedule to be told things like "I'm available on Thursdays starting at 8:30 in the evening" than non-specific things. We'll likely be doing the playtesting in an IRC channel whose name I am not revealing. Thanks to everyone who helps to playtest the set!
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Since I was looking through our answer doc and was reading a previous set announcement from last year, I thought it would be good to mention this: answerlines will appear more than once in this tournament. There won't be things like two myth questions on Hercules, but there could certainly be a social science and a history question on "Japan," to use an example.

I know most tournaments use this approach, but I wanted to get this information posted so that no teams are surprised by this.
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Because we are at 92% written and 47% edited (as of my posting this), I'm pleased to announce that the set will be available for mirrors starting on September 24, 2016. It will be available until a few days before the 2017 HSNCT, and it will be posted shortly before nationals.

If anyone is interested in playtesting this set, I'm starting the literature playtesting on Wednesday. Let me know via email/forum PM/facebook message and I will give you the channel name I am using.
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Due to a decision made with the blessings of both coaches, the mirror at Olentangy Liberty is being replaced with a mirror at Beavercreek High School on October 29th.
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We're currently at 99% writing and 48% edited. Since we only have 3 tossups and 1 bonus left to write, my next update will be when we are done with the set.

We're also still looking for plenty of mirror sites, so please send me an email if you don't see your region listed in the list of mirrors!
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We've finished writing the set other than the extra questions. If your circuit doesn't have a mirror, please feel free to send me an email about mirroring!
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We're currently at 56% edited.
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We're at 62% edited and have a new mirror at Cave Spring's CSI XI tournament on November 19th.
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We have mirrors of the set at Enloe in North Carolina and Lexington HS in Massachusetts.
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I updated the list of who's helping to supervise and the list of editors because I've forgotten to say that Chris Chiego has joined the editing team as the editor of the Geography and the Social Science (along with passing along comments about other categories) and that Eric Mukherjee and Sean Phillips are overlooking the set to make sure nothing slips through.
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We're at 74% edited now as well.
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The set is 80% edited now.
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A few updates: First, the set is currently at 86% edited. Lastly, we have added a mirror in the Kansas City-area. Fort Osage High School will be serving as the Kansas City-area host for WHAQ, using the set for their Three Trails Tournament on November 19th.
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We will be having a mirror of the set in Texas on October 1st.

The set has been completely edited and packetized, so Enloe and Chattahoochee should have the set in their inboxes now. If you don't have it, please let me know.
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Georgetown University will be hosting a DC-area mirror of WHAQ on January 14th.
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Michigan State will be using WHAQ for their March Madness tournament on March 18, 2017. Expect an announcement to go up in the next week-Harris is making sure he has his room reservations ready to go.
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The set won't be posted until a few days before HSNCT. If you have a tournament that wants to use the set, please get in touch with me!
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I've uploaded each individual packet and the zip file to the database. Once it's approved, it will appear here.

Thanks to all of the teams who hosted a mirror of this, and to every team who played the set this year. I hope you all enjoy WHAQ II, coming this fall!
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