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This tournament has been canceled in response to coronavirus. We are open to hosting our mirror sometime in the next academic season, but we don't have an official plan right now. Thank you to everyone who expressed interest!

This tournament has been canceled in response to COVID-19. Thank you to everyone who signed up. We hope we may be able to host this set at a later date.

This tournament is now fully open. We encourage all interested teams to register. Please note that, per the requests of the WORKSHOP team and in order to ensure a more balanced field, we will be monitoring registration to ensure that no "superteams" are formed, and splitting up teams in order to avo...

Due to concerns about low registration, this tournament is now open to high school teams. The main post will be updated to reflect this change.

I am pleased to announce that the University of Minnesota will be hosting Spring Undergraduate Novice (SUN) on Saturday, March 28, 2020. This tournament will take place in Nicholson Hall, with registration starting at 8:30 AM and play beginning at 9:00 AM. Registration Please email [email protected].edu wit...

I am pleased to announce that the University of Minnesota will be hosting WORKSHOP on Saturday, March 21, 2020. This tournament will take place in Nicholson Hall, with registration starting at 8:30 AM and play beginning at 9:00 AM. Registration Please email [email protected].edu with the number of teams you...

Thank you to everyone who came to Novice yesterday! We had a great time hosting Novice. Congratulations to the winners, Macalester C!

Field
Teams/Buzzers
St. Thomas 2/0
Drake 1/0
Carleton 1/2
Michigan Tech 3/3
Macalester 3/0
Minnesota 4/3

I am excited to announce the formation of an inter-organizational committee to identify organizational changes that can reduce the carbon footprint of quizbowl events, primarily national tournaments. This committee consists of myself, Jeff Hoppes of NAQT, David Madden of IAC/NHBB, Fred Morlan of IQB...

as others have observed, those flights are almost certainly taking off anyway, with or without NCT/ACF Nats/PACE staffers). I disagree with this line of argument, mostly because airlines do want to maximize profits. If I forgo the last spot on flight A, someone who would have otherwise chosen fligh...

I am pleased to announce that the University of Minnesota will be hosting NAQT Novice on Saturday, September 21, 2019. This tournament will take place in Blegen Hall, with registration starting at 8:30 AM and play beginning at 9:00 AM. It will run on the NAQT set CNS-186C. Registration Please email ...

Thanks Shan and Joe for doing those assessments. I agree that switching to electronic packets pales in comparison to other waste/emissions reduction options in QB, and anything this community does to reduce its footprint is still microscopic compared to total human and corporate activity. I'm also n...

Would the experience of relatively inexperienced editors working on Fall be worsened if the questions came from new or inexperienced writers of the general community as opposed to solely the college community? If packet submissions were optional for teams playing ACF Fall, why couldn't the remaining...

I don't want to give off the impression that I want organizations to cut corners in every possible way in an effort to reduce waste--Mike, Aaron, and Jeff's points about paper packets are all valid, and I understand that the answer to a lot of these issues isn't as simple as it is being laid out her...

I fully support the other qb recommendations made here. I'd particularly like to highlight We can encourage the use of trains, buses, and carpools over air travel. This encouragement could perhaps take the form of promo codes, differential reimbursements, active organizing of carpools, and other inc...

What I would tend to advocate, at the risk of becoming too political, is that quizbowlers who are concerned about climate change (as I think they should be), while working to be responsible global citizens in ways that they define, should be looking more towards political change--voting in and valu...

When I first started writing this post (version 6 of my haphazard attempt to convey in text the extent of my distress and to offer something of value to a discussion that should be discussed in every circle), I drove home through flooded streets and torrential rain only to get home and read more ups...

Hello, Wayzata alumna here, I think you should feel great about Eden Prairie's finish--you guys had a great weekend! It's important to contextualize any set of rankings through the methodology used to create them and the data used. For instance, hsqbrank ranks teams by adjusted points per bonus--you...

Would definitely be interested in an online mirror of this.

This was overall a great set! I especially appreciated the wide variety of ballet questions, particularly the Coppelia bonus. It's nice to see more ballets that are essentials among ballet enthusiasts but not necessarily considered part of the quiz bowl canon be included in a set of this difficulty.

I don't want to toot my own horn here, but I think I should be at least top 6. Not only am I a member of the winning team of the 2017 NAC (Washington D.C. phase), but I have also won at least 6 speedcheck games playing solo. I have a 100% power percentage on questions about the song "All Star" by t...

kammajos000 wrote:

Iamteehee wrote:woah I didn't know there was anyone in MN hs qb who used the forums

I'm in MN hs qb and I use the forums. Hi Geoffrey.

What a coincidence, me too! Small world.

I thought this was a great set to play overall, and I especially appreciated the amount of ballet in the set and that the questions on it were less repetitive/formulaic than the ones that usually come up at the high school level.
Could I see the common-link tossup on artwork from Italy? Thanks!