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Hi! I edited the philosophy for the 2025 NSC. Although philosophy is a small category, I do feel compelled to post about my general approach, if only because I hope to make those who study philosophy feel seen and heard. I do not possess a philosophy degree and decided to “become a philosophy player” ...

As someone in their last year of undergrad and no plans of grad school, I had one broad quizbowl goal: do as much quizbowl as possible so as to burn myself out. With a job on the horizon, my studying needed to shift from philosophy questions to actuarial exams, and I foresaw going "cold turkey" as ...

May I see the aforementioned Loach bonus, the Wong Kar-Wai bonus (with part pineapples), and Heraclitus bonus (with part "the way up and the way down"). In addition, I'd love to see the "Euphoria" tossup. Of the categories that I pay attention to, I particularly enjoyed this year's classical music ...

The Rutgers Academic Team is pleased to announce Scarlet Houseknight, a 1.5-dot college set to be played during the 2025-2026 school year. As of right now, our staff of current and former Rutgers players have completed over 35% of the set. We intend for this set to be between ACF Fall and ACF Winter ...

Understood, and thank you for this thoughtful reply; while it's justifiable for me to view the events I listed out as targeted and while these things did affect me and my club, this reply gives me reassurance that everything I mentioned is due broadly to bad luck. To those reading this: please (1 ...

I was initially signed up to play this tournament -- I greatly enjoyed playing ESPN and NASAT at Columbia, and I was excited to play with some good friends of mine for the first time. However, I was greatly disappointed to withdraw because this tournament was on scheduled the same day as Rutgers ...

Rutgers Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the Upper-Mid Atlantic collegiate mirror of DART IV on March 8, 2025. I, Aum Mundhe, will be the tournament director. Logistics This tournament will be held in Scott Hall (43 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ). We will be holding our ...

We are pleased to announce that the Upper Mid-Atlantic site of 2024 ACF Fall will be held at Rutgers University on Saturday, October 19, 2024. The tournament will take place at Scott Hall (43 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ). The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9 ...

Though neither of them currently play on a closed team, I’d like to first shout-out my mentors Emmett Laurie and Jeremy Tsai for teaching me a truly stupid amount of clues in philosophy, music, and art. Though both of them (wrongly) claim to be “old,” “washed,” and “bad,” they consistently subject me ...

Thanks to everyone for producing this set! Had a lot of fun and thought this set was clearly written by players with a lot of joy and real engagement with their various categories -- I'm anticipating this set providing a lot of reading recommendations for me. What makes music questions most ...

They can play quiz bowl while watching beautiful mountains in the distance, or surrounded by birds and squirrels and other wildlife. Some years ago, being with a quizbowl party in the mountains, I returned from a solitary ramble to find everyone engaged in a ferocious metaphysical dispute. The ...

Just wanted to say that I really liked the visual/other art and thought it did a good job of rewarding lots of different ways of engagement -- one of my teammates had a great buzz on Dior from a random Instagram post and one of my opponents had a fantastic firstline on the visual art tossup on ...

I would like to extend a shout-out to all the members of what has been probably the deepest Rutgers club in years. Playing and getting to know everyone has been amazing, and I'm beyond proud to have played with everyone on a Rutgers team this year. Winning is great, but winning with your friends is ...

I thought that the Painting/Sculpture content was incredibly cool and did a great job of portraying ancient art as both interesting in its own right and influential on later art, something that the Antonio Canova bonus (with parts Venus/Borghese/Apollo Belvedere) and the Constantine tossup in ...

Now that NASAT is over, I'd like to make a case for many of the members of New Jersey to make your polls. Aiden Dartley led the team in scoring. He's an incredible history player who has performed time and again at tournaments at the Northeast--his most exemplary performance is at Darien Spring ...

May I see the Gauguin tossup?

Just wanted to leave a quick note about how well-run this tournament was; it was very easy for me as a staffer to do my job. In Andrew's unfortunate absence, all of the other Hunter members really stepped up to run a fun tournament. In particular, Amanda and Jacob did a good job running stats ...

In regards to point #3, I'm not sure that this is necessarily the case, or at least as black-and-white as I'm interpreting the question to be. The player base is pretty diverse and as such many people may have differing knowledge bases. Obviously I'm one person, but as an Indian person who hasn't ...

Just a reminder that the deadline for registration for this tournament is today (November 6), after which we will start letting C teams off the waitlist. Additionally, the field has expanded again to 36 teams due to a large number of staff, so registering by the end of today will get you a spot in ...

At the present moment, the field has reached its initial cap of 24 teams. We do still have four teams on the waitlist, and with multiple weeks before the tournament, I'd be shocked if the waitlist didn't grow. If you're available to staff on the day of the tournament, we'd love to have you! If we ...

1. By "2 powers per game," I do mean an AVERAGE of two powers per game over the course of an entire tournament, not a specific game. Thanks so much for pointing this out; the original post has been corrected to reflect this wording. 2. We'd love to have Ithaca (and any other Northeastern team who ...

Current Field (36/36): (teams/readers) Bergen County Academies (1/0) Bloomfield (1/0) Bronx Science (1/1) Conwell-Egan (1/0) Donovan Catholic High School (2/0) East Brunswick (3/1) Edison (1/1) Heritage MS (1/0) High Tech (1/0) Hopkins (1/0) Hunter (3/0) Ithaca (1/1) John P Stevens (3/0) King ...

The New Jersey Quiz Bowl Alliance is proud to announce that it is co-hosting the Northeast Fall Novice Tournament (NFNT) on the SCOP Novice 11 set with Yash Mandavia and Aalok Bhattacharya. The tournament will take place on Saturday, November 13th, 2021 on Discord . Tournament Directors: Aum Mundhe ...

The New Jersey Quizbowl Alliance would like to claim Saturday, November 13 for our online mirror of SCOP Novice. A tournament announcement is forthcoming.

I'd like to start by shilling my HS Team, Ridgewood . While I'm unsure as to what exact team composition will be, I would be shocked if the vast majority (around 90%) of the scoring was Aiden Dartley . His level of improvement over his junior year has been tremendous, culminating in an impressive ...

Poll Results!! Thank you to everyone who voted. I think having 15 teams instead of the usual 10 allowed for a lot of good discussion of teams ranked past 11, as well as those written about as "honorable mentions." Results: 1. Hunter A (150 points, unanimous #1) 2. High Tech A (137 points) 3. East ...

Hey y'all! With nationals season coming up, I thought it would be appropriate and fun to create a pre-nationals poll in the hope of creating engaging discussion as to how various teams in this region (defined as New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, as per this discussion ...

Results of the Northeast (NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE) Midseason Poll: 1. Hunter A (100 points, unanimous #1) 2. Hunter B (86 points) 3. High Tech A (80 points) 4. East Brunswick A (62 points) 5. Hotchkiss A (60 points) 6. Great Valley A (51 points) 7. Ridgewood A (40 points) 8. Livingston A (36 points) 9 ...

Okay, so I don't know much about Quiz Bowl in PA or DE, and my experiences with NY and CT are pretty limited. With that being said, I would like to highlight certain teams (and players) who I think will really make a name for themselves next year. I don't intend for this to be ordered as a rankings ...