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Justine French and I made this document with answerlines and alternate answerlines for countries. This should still be considered a work in progress, so let us know if there are mistakes. We used the CIA World Factbook for country names.

This thread has been quiet for a few months, but I'd like to add a few thoughts and respond to a some of the points raised earlier. First of all, iriun, the webcam app that Albert talked about in his original post, is super easy to use. Between installing the app on my phone and installing the deskt...

What packets are similar to LONE STAR? Just wanted to know how to study for my next upcoming tournament on 12/19. Of the sets from the 2019-2020 season that can be found on quizbowlpackets.com, LONE STAR is most similar to CALISTO, LOGIC, WAIT, and RAFT. It is also similar to NAQT's Invitational Se...

Could you please specify which categories the subject editors are responsible for? Thank you.

go crazy

[Mod note: Warned for being essentially content-free, and starting a thread with this, no less.]

This looks like a great idea for a tournament, and I'm excited to play. I have a few questions. When will the tournament take place? How many rounds can we expect to play? And how many players can play on each team at a time? Thanks.

I recently turned a Google Sheet that I have been using to track my mACF stats across my quizbowl career into a template that anyone can make a copy of and use for themselves. Unlike the stats from your NAQT tournaments, the stats from your mACF tournaments aren't displayed anywhere on a single page...

Relative to other sets that have been used at online middle school tournaments (RAFT, WAIT, MVS RAMS, James Blair IV), how difficult are these questions. (I am most certainly aware that these are all regular season high school level, but they can vary and it would be helpful to know which one of th...

I found some formula errors that occur when downloading the template and opening it in Excel. I am pretty sure I have found a solution to this problem, and I will implement the solution as soon as possible. EDIT: Update: This has been addressed. The only remaining Sheets-to-Excel conversion problem ...

I am happy to announce the public release of the first version of a powerful Google Sheets program for tracking individual and team performance. With help from Pedro Juan Orduz of Hunter College High School, I have created a Google Sheets template that can be copied as a new Google Sheet or download...

This year, I made frequency lists based on the tossups available on QuizDB. I hope that these can be a good, free option for anyone looking to quickly gain familiarity with a given canon of a given category or subcategory at the high school level. Here is a link to a Google Drive folder containing t...

Would it be useful to append the following to the first sentence? ...nor tolerate those who do. Basic idea: even if a person did not him/herself cheat, if someone involved with an event learns that some other person did cheat, that someone would have a duty to report it through appropriate channels...

The idea of an honor pledge that all players must sign before playing in an online tournament was recently raised on discord. The consensus seemed to be that this idea would be at least somewhat effective at deterring dishonesty and that implementing an honor pledge would have few downsides in terms...

I will be going to the University of Chicago

Some of the quizbowl-related Wikipedia pages need some work. The NASAT and ACF pages in particular could use better sourcing and detail.

Texas Quiz Bowl Alliance and Strake Jesuit College Preparatory are pleased to announce Texas Invitational XI, which will be held on Saturday, March 28th and Sunday, March 29th. Texas Invitational is the premiere pre-nationals high school tournament, and we hope to attract talented competitors from a...

Here is a spreadsheet with the tournaments on QuizBug 2 sorted by difficulty and by whether the questions are powermarked. This should make it easier to select questions that you'd like to see. Feel free to message me if you find any errors. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aq-bcW4588mM8FMWKR...

Will a North Texas forum post go up soon? Thanks.

VGTheOne wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2019 10:01 am First off, I’d like to say thanks for making a Texas quizbowl discord server!

Can you share a link? Thanks.