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Qblitz is thrilled to announce its newest feature, player ratings . Our rating system gives players a rating in each category based on their performance in Qblitz events. It also gives an overall rating taking all categories into account. https://www.qblitz.online/qblitz-images/samples/PlayerRating....

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It's almost February, which means it's almost time for the Qblitz History 1 tournament! This event helps students prepare for competitions like National History Bee and Bowl, and they don't even have to leave home to do it! Qblitz History 1 will take place on Sunday, February 16 . To register, sign ...

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Packetizor currently does not allow users to do the kind of bulk downloading that happened in this case. But I wouldn’t exactly call that a feature, and it’s not really clear if it’s desirable. As Cody correctly points out, it is very difficult for writers if they don’t know what clues and answer li...

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Middle schoolers have been playing Qblitz events all year and crushing it! Just last week, these three MSers competed in the Varsity-level Qblitz Winter 2 and took home top MS honors: https://www.qblitz.online/qblitz-images/medal-blue.png C Y (Barrington, IL) https://www.qblitz.online/qblitz-images/...

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Qblitz Winter 2 happened this last week. After 5 rounds of competition, our winner was Y T of Barrington, IL. https://www.qblitz.online/qblitz-images/medal-gold.png Y T (Barrington, IL) https://www.qblitz.online/qblitz-images/medal-silver.png N S (somewhere in MA) https://www.qblitz.online/qblitz-im...

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Episode #2 is out. It's got an interview with Matt Weiner about quizbowl forums and feats, and a rematch against Brad Fischer in Lodden Thinks.

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Qblitz is excited to announce that the recipient of the 2019-2020 David Reinstein Improver Scholarship is Eric Yin of Ladue Horton Watkins High School! Congratulations, Eric!

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This tournament happened, and the champion was C Y of Barrington, IL . The full podium is: (1) C Y (Barrington, IL) (2) S Gollamudi (Hoffman Estates, IL) (3) Michael K (Barrington, IL) You can also watch the final match by visiting this page . Thanks to everyone who made it out! We hope to see you a...

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I should have mentioned the due date for applications. Since this scholarship is for events this year, the application deadline is November 10.

The application is short - just 2000 characters or less in response to this question:

the David Reinstein Improver Scholarship wrote:What do you plan to do to improve quizbowl over the next year?

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Qblitz is kicking off its second season of competition with a FREE novice event, to be held on Sunday, November 17! How Does It Work?: All players will log in to their computers on November 17 and play a double-round (40 tossups) of novice-level questions. Gameplay will be in the Qblitz system, whi...

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Maybe I'm reading Bruce's post wrong, but it seems like the advice that was most valuable to him (warnings about particular players and team strengths) are both: not the sort of thing the TD's email was proposed to contain (or should contain, given that the TD should maintain some neutrality and bia...

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Thanks for pointing that out, Dylan. That page is up and working again.

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Qblitz is launching its second season offering online quizbowl competition against players across the country. This year, we are proud to offer the David Reinstein Improver Scholarship , named in honor of one of quizbowl's most indefatigable advocates. David Reinstein is a quizbowl pioneer and inno...

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Qblitz is excited to announce its second season of online quizbowl competition! Qblitzers can compete against players across the country from their home computers. This year, we are thrilled to offer a FREE one-day middle school event on February 2, 2020. Additionally, middle schoolers can play any...

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Qblitz is excited to announce its second season of online quizbowl competition! Qblitzers can compete against players across the country from their home computers. This year, we are offering more events and more variety. Novice , a FREE one-day tournament for anyone new to high school quizbowl. (No...

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I've launched a new quizbowl podcast called Tossup 21 . It's about quizbowl stories and the people who lived them. https://www.qblitz.org/images/tossup21_logo_small.png The first episode features an interview with David Reinstein. Please give it a listen and let me know what you think. Tossup 21 is ...

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Four years ago, I called for writers for a set of before-and-afters, like those end-of-year ones written by John Lawrence or those found here , to be read at moderator scrimmages or nationals or whatever. That effort produced the attached set. I think it's time for some fresh material. I am looking ...

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Last year, Qblitz opened its virtual doors as a quizbowl hosting platform. In its first year, Qblitz ran two house-written tournaments and two events written by the QANTA project. Looking ahead to this upcoming year, we're looking to expand our offerings by hosting mirrors of sets written by the lar...

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We've extended the registration window until this Saturday, May 18. If you haven't signed up yet, please take the chance now. If you have signed up, invite a friend to join you!

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It seems that this event butting up against HSNCT travel was a bigger problem than anticipated, so we've decided to make the following changes: This event is now only one round on Monday, May 20 . Everyone will play in one big bracket. The registration fee for this event has been waived. Anyone in h...

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Due to a small field, this event has been canceled.

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Due to small field size, we've decided to cancel this event.

Qblitz is looking forward to running collegiate events in the upcoming year. If you're working on a set that you'd like to offer on our platform, please email me at [email protected].

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Hey Justin - Thanks for taking on this initiative. Starting a new team takes a lot of effort, especially when there aren't many tournaments around to play. Perhaps you'd have an easier time if you could hook some players from other teams with some actual gameplay. I've got a company called Qblitz th...

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I'd be interested in attending, assuming the date and time works out. NASAT and Acronym sound cool.

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Congratulations to the champion of QANTA League 1, Aayush Rajakesaran! Congratulations also to the top high school finishers of William Yaeger and Nathan Hazlett, who tied for 5th place. Keep your eyes out for announcements about the next installment of the QANTA League series. We hope to see you th...

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Congratulations to the QANTA League 1 champion, Aayush Rajakesaran! You can watch the match between Aayush and the runner-up, Eric Wolfsberg, here.

The top finishers will be contacted by the QANTA Project about representing mankind against the machines at PACE NSC. Good luck!

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As I'm using this for the QANTA League, I find it as a useful resource and a fun game. A couple observations/questions, though: * Is it intentional that the answer is not provided after each question? * Is there a possibility to insert a "pause" feature between questions? If something came up while...

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Qblitz is excited to announce its second high school tournament, Qblitz Season Finale 1, to take place between Monday May 20 and Friday May 24 . The tournament will take place online on the Qblitz website. WHAT IS QBLITZ? The Qblitz website uses an automated moderator to read questions to players, a...

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If anyone was looking forward to playing in this tournament, there's still a chance to play Terrapin online at Qblitz. See this thread for details.

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Just a reminder that registration for this tournament is only open for about two more weeks. If you haven't played Terrapin yet, make sure to sign up soon at Qblitz.

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The tournament field current includes almost 100 players from 24 states and 6 countries. There's still plenty of room for more players, though! If you'd like to join this international event, please go to qblitz.online to sign up.

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With 5 days left to register, we're closing in on 100 registrants from 24 states, 5 foreign countries, and 1 district of Columbia. If you haven't joined in yet, please go to qblitz.online to sign up.

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(cross-posted from the Collegiate Announcements & Results section ) Qblitz and QANTA are excited to announce the next installment in their tournament partnership, QANTA League 1 , which will take place April 22-26 , 2019. THE TOURNAMENT QANTA League 1 is an open tournament (players in college, post-...

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Qblitz and QANTA are excited to announce the next installment in their tournament partnership, QANTA League 1 , which will take place April 22-26, 2019. THE TOURNAMENT QANTA League 1 is an open tournament (players in college, post-college, and pre-college are welcome) written at high school national...

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This tournament happened. We were thrilled to have representatives from Alabama, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia playing. You can watch the final match at the Qblitz watch page . Stay tuned for upd...

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Wow, y'all are fast! The spots are filled.

If you're looking to play some Qblitz, please sign up for next month's free, open HS-nats difficulty QANTA League 1 event.

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Hey! This tournament is coming up and the field size is not the most convenient number. The first three high schoolers to
(1) have a Qblitz account and
(2) email me at [email protected]
will be added to the field free of charge.

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( cross-post from Collegiate Announcements section ) Qblitz is pleased to announce a mirror of Terrapin on our website from May 13 to 17. The mirror will be open to individual players in college or high school (or earlier, I guess) and will feature tossups only. The Terrapin set is a medium-difficul...

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Qblitz is pleased to announce a mirror of Terrapin on our website from May 13 to 17. The mirror will be open to individual players in college or high school (or earlier, I guess) and will feature tossups only . Each day of the tournament, participants will log in at their convenience during the 15-h...

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Thanks to everyone who voted. We've decided to move forward with this event. You should see an announcement up later today.

As a reminder, if there are any other events you'd like to play from home against quizbowlers across the country, please email us at [email protected] to let us know.

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I'm in this thread for two reasons. The first is that I feel what you're saying. I never competed in collegiate quizbowl, but I did pour a lot of myself into quizbowl in high school and then as a coach. When those phases ended, I wasn't ready for quizbowl to not be a part of my life anymore. I've fo...

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Thanks to everyone who voted! Based on this data, we've decided not to run a Scobol Solo event on Qblitz this year. Hopefully we can make that happen in the future. If you're someone who wanted to play Solo, remember that there is a free event coming up next month on Qblitz called QANTA League 1. Yo...

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Congratulations to all the teams who competed at state today. It looks like there were a lot of great games. Of course, extra congratulations to the champions, Chicago Christian and Uni High, who had to survive an incredibly talented pool to claim their titles. I was in charge of producing the math ...

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The writing team of Scobol Solo and Qblitz are considering running an online Solo mirror on the Qblitz platform in mid-April. Since there have been several mirrors across the country this year, we want to make sure there's still a viable field before we proceed. If the event did run, the format woul...

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The writing team at Terrapin and Qblitz are considering running an online Terrapin mirror on the Qblitz platform. We would run this event in the leadup to HSNCT to let any college players who weren't able to make a live mirror an opportunity to play and also to give high schoolers an extra pre-nats ...

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Karansebes Schnapps Vendor wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:31 pm
Will this event also use questions used at the in-person QANTA League mirror, or will these questions be fresh for participants of that event as well?

Great question, thanks for asking! The questions will once again be provided by the QANTA organization, but they will be new.

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Qblitz is excited to announce its first high school tournament, Qblitz Spring 1, to take place between Monday March 25 and Friday March 29. The tournament will take place online on the Qblitz website . The Qblitz website uses an automated moderator to read questions to players, and then tracks where...

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This event happened. I'll avoid announcing the winner, because you can watch the de facto championship game here . In addition to providing some fun competition, we were able to generate 13,772 buzz points' worth of data for the QANTA project. If you like to play quizbowl or move the scientific need...

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Registration for this event closes tonight, and we've certainly got more space if people want to give it a try. The event is free. All you need to do is login to QBlitz, go to the Register section, and pick your event(s).

Hope to see you there!

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Reminder: registration for this event closes tonight. It's free, so all you need to do is login to Qblitz, go to the Register section, select the event(s) you want, and click the submit buttons.

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