The Quizbowl Resource Center

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I saw this come across the quizbowl subreddit, figured I'd post it over here as well. It looks like this group is doing a science bowl competition with some cash prizes and aiming to make the competition pretty similar to the National Science Bowl with a few rules slightly tweaked - https://promethe...

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I'm moving to the Austin, TX area and will be available to staff stuff around there or the Houston area starting around late October.

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I just got done reading for this, and it was a very enjoyable set. Packets were really well balanced and of appropriate difficulty for the field and for the most part were very well constructed. Almost all questions had good pyramidality with just a few questions having misplaced early clues leading...

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These buzzer systems on Amazon are possibly the cheapest and smallest full-featured system available, with one of the sets available through Amazon Prime. However, they do make a pretty annoying sound while buzzing. I purchased this set and brought it with me to HSNCT. It fits in my backpack, and w...

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It would depend on where you're staying. LGB and LAX are both reasonable, and even SNA or BUR could potentially make sense, but LGB or LAX are definitely your best options.

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You've fallen into the pitfall of view only on the spreadsheet! Putting it out there, I have a reasonably sized apartment that has a sectional couch that can fit 2 and a pair of full size air mattresses, plus enough floor space for comfortably around 4 more people. I'm willing to drive people, pick ...

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I'd drive up to NorCal/down to San Diego to play in Super ACRONYM (and staff other events in the weekend), other obligations permitting.

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Somehow, despite never attending a single CBI tournament, I have in my possession a College Bowl hat and two 2nd place medals. I think they came from a box of old paper questions from the UCLA club. If anyone wants them, they're yours. I did try to play a College Bowl intramurals when I was dual enr...

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I made this crude R program to create a card system that maximizes the number of like vs like records and prevents immediate and 2 round apart re-matches (when possible). Improvements to it are certainly welcome. Notably, it does not enforce teams coming off a win playing against teams coming off a ...

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For me, if stats are available in one spot but not another, I'd want there to be some reason that you're asking beyond "I just want to see them in the other spot". If no stats are being posted at all, or this issue is affecting nationals qualifications, funding, writeups in the local paper...

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In what sense are you talking about? For within your tournament to ensure nobody reads the wrong packet, there are 2 commonly used options: Password protect the packets and send out the password for the next round to each of your moderators with their scoresheets or some other way. Adobe and Word bo...

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The most up to date field can be viewed at https://www.naqt.com/registration/field ... nt_id=9161 .

Field as of 1/20/2018:

Carmel Valley A
Carmel Valley B
City School
Rolling Hills Country Day
Bernardo Heights

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Just sent to teams: Hello to all! Thank you for registering for North Hollywood’s Middle School Quiz Bowl tournament to be held on Saturday, February 17th. We’re looking forward to seeing you in about a month! In this e-mail you will find some basic logistical information. Location: The tournament w...

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It is my pleasure to announce the North Hollywood’s Middle School Invitational Tournament to be held on Saturday, February 17th to be held at North Hollywood High School. This tournament is intended as an introduction to quiz bowl for Los Angeles area middle school and junior high school students. T...

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Perhaps using the line of logic that their questions being an outlier from national standards hinders the performance of teams from your area at national tournaments, and if they were more aligned, then you could more strongly represent your region on the National scene. The network could use your t...

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Not as a player but as a TD, my worst moment was the SoCal States I directed where pretty much everything went wrong. I had slightly put our field cap too high at 24, thinking I should have no problem getting enough staff. Week of the tournament I had 5 people drop out, and was barely able to scrape...

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Just got a new job in Los Angeles, so I'm moving out that way. I'd be happy to staff things in SoCal when UCLA doesn't have a home game in football or basketball.

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I'm interested as well before I leave the North East.

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I'm going to suggest something that might be against the grain here - no matter what strategy your team decides to adopt, make sure to keep the game fun for them. You don't need to win a national, state, or local tournament for the students' time on the team to be worthwhile, you just need to instil...

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You should be fine under fair use as long as you're not deriving any profit from the questions (advertising revenue in your app may get fuzzy, ask an actual lawyer about this). That said, from what I can tell people in the community are fine with their questions being used in study materials once th...

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One thing to note with Frontier is their long list of added fees (https://www.flyfrontier.com/optional-services/) including $30 or $35 for a carry-on bag with additional charges beyond that if you don't declare it when buying the ticket, so while this may work in some situations, it's not perfect fo...

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One thing I would aim to avoid, like others have said, is calling the game they play "bad" because it's not necessarily bad, it's just a different game. If the team already plays format X, suggest to them, you like playing X, you'll love Quiz Bowl - it's another way to test similar skills ...

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From my experience, it's going to be the lot off of Horsebarn Hill Road, https://goo.gl/maps/mt1dPjTihAn. Parking in "Area 2" lots is free on weekends. To get there, take I-84 to exit 68, then go south on 195 for around 8 miles. When you get to the campus, you'll pass the Dairy Bar on your...

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Welcome to the forums! One provider you may want to look at is NAQT ; while their questions are not typically posted on-line, they do have a sample packet . One benefit of running your league on NAQT questions is that your league becomes a qualifier for the Middle School National Championship Tourna...

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After averting a near travel disaster that would have had me missing work tomorrow, I've got the following pieces of advice that you may or may not be familiar with: When your flight is delayed such that you'll miss a connection (causing you like a 12+ hour delay), ask the airline to put you on anot...

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Are descriptive answers acceptable? I'll also try to put together a "description acceptable" packet where the answer lines aren't players but individual plays or games where something notable or interesting happened. Stuff like "the play" having the answer line "the footbal...

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I'll contribute a packet or 2 to this.

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For preventing team splitting at SCTs, would an eligibility rule as follows make sense: No player from a team that qualifies for and registers for ICT based upon play at SCT may play on the same team as another player who also qualified for ICT based upon their play at SCT provided they were not on ...

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Welcome to the forums! There are a number of active New England teams including quite a few in the Boston area. A tournament that may be of interest is the Novice tournament at UConn on 10/22, which should be a great friendly intro for your team. You can also look through the announcements on this b...

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I like Joe's proposal since it keeps the entire field intact competing within all the teams present. An alternative (I realize that it's too late for this year, but maybe to consider for next year) is to consider for these charter schools total number of students who have taken & received grades...

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Since you'll all be paying me by Venmo for the tournament I know I have no real horse in this since this is CO, but whatever happened to "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE"? Not a lawyer, but my guess is the same thing that happened that lets food on airplanes be...

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I worked as a contract writer for NAQT for around a year and a half and I really enjoyed my time working there. As numerous others have said, the writer experience for NAQT is, in my opinion, everything that a writer could want. There is extensive feedback available through the new writer mentorship...

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Quite honestly, I'm a bit surprised how low tournament fees have been for quite some time, even for regular mid-season events, in comparison to other comparable activities. To put things in perspective, I recently officiated a number of local youth lacrosse tournament where teams (capped at around 2...

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I would have had an absolute travel disaster, but my Mom came through big time for me, driving 5 hours to pick me up at the Boston airport (she was willing to pick me up anywhere from Philadelphia to Boston, so that opened up a lot of airport options so I could get home after American cancelled my f...

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A week from Saturday I'm going to be moderating at a regional science bowl tournament, and as a part of the training they told us not to give the correct answer if neither team buzzes in during the question, just move on to the next tossup without giving the answer to the question that just went dea...

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I'm available for an open team.

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If this actually happens on January 10, Amherst will send a team (me and Boyang Jiao). Seriously. Neither of us can attend the MIT mirror of DEES this month, but we're both going to be back in California until past mid-January for winter break. This sounds fun. On a similar note for me, if it's on ...

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The New England site has already hit its field cap and there are 9 teams on the wait list with another 2 expressing interest, almost 2 months out from the tournament. Is there any possibility of getting a second New England site to accommodate these 11 teams?

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Many thanks to Eric Xu, James Zhou, Ben Koppel, Nathan Weiser, Varun Wadhwa, Nirav Ilango, Amith Punyala, Hidehiro Anto, Mohan Malhotra, Sam Blizzard, and two anonymous voters for submitting ballots to this poll. Without further ado, I'll present the results here! Western Albemarle A (3 first place ...

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I've received 11 votes so far, and would love to have a few more. Please email me at [email protected] with your votes tonight!

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Cross-post from Misc. High School. I've only got 2 votes in so far, so please vote so you can have your voice heard! It is my pleasure to announce the preseason poll for the High School 2014-2015 season. I have set up a gmail account for votes - [email protected].com. Please submit your top 25 to [email protected]...

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It is my pleasure to announce the preseason poll for the High School 2014-2015 season. I have set up a gmail account for votes - [email protected].com. Please submit your top 25 to [email protected].com by Friday, September 5th , as I plan to compile the rankings that night and publish here by Saturday, Septe...

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I like statistical things - I'd be willing to run the poll.

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I really enjoyed listening to this set, it really was a great experience to sit in and try to answer all these science. I really liked how all the questions really seemed cohesive and (to me) really painted a story about what was going on - not just stated facts about the answer, which really kept m...

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I did enjoy giving out neg prizes when I directed tournaments. One of my favorites to give out was a book called Gut Feelings. In retrospect, a book like that probably would have been more appropriate as a power prize. What is the community's opinion on giving out a gag prize for most powers like a ...

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I too would like to play an online mirror.

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Perhaps a late January tournament and revive ACF Winter? There will be enough packets with enough accidental difficulty variation that the slightly more difficult packets can be put into ACF Winter, while the easiest packets can be kept in Fall.

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Something that I was thinking of would be to have an expanded editing team and create two sets from the packets, creating an ACF Fall I and ACF Fall II like a month apart that teams would only need to submit the one packet for the ACF Fall I deadlines in order to play both tournaments. You're gettin...

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Where on the campus is this taking place, where should we park, and at what time should we be there?

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