The Quizbowl Resource Center

Victor Prieto

Separately, Matt Bollinger has posted about this elsewhere and I can confirm it: it's very difficult to rise that far that fast without absolutely wrecking your mental health and a host of other things about your life. I don't think it's right that quiz bowl should fetishize the Stakhanovite underg...

Victor Prieto

As you can see, "prologue" was not explicitly mentioned in the answerline precisely because I did not want to make it longer than it already was (and, quite frankly, it's not that long as it stands), and I instead elected to include the phrase "descriptions such as" and allow the moderator to exerc...

Victor Prieto

Packets have been uploaded to the archive here.

Victor Prieto

Hey Drew and Chandler, just as an example of this from this year's packet, we had 3-4 different submissions from different teams all on Fire Emblem, which was synthesized into one question. Similarly, there were like 3-4 submissions all about Frankenstein, which turned into just one final question....

Victor Prieto

Two questions: will there be steps taken to ensure the 9 round prelim situation that happened last year does not happen again? How is the set production progressing, since no progress reports have been released yet?

Victor Prieto

This was played. Final scores: Eric Mukherjee: 1079 (had a 19-point power for dissing one of my favorite shows) Aakash Patel: 580 Charles Hang: 280 Steven Silverman: 230 Ian Dewan: 210 Brick Barrientos: 190 Chinmay Kansara: 80 If you'd still like to hear the set, send me a message sometime in the ne...

Victor Prieto

avp wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:43 pm
Victor Prieto wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 11:44 am Saturday, September 14th, at 7 pm.
To clarify - is this Eastern?

Yes, sorry about that, 7 pm EST.

Victor Prieto

This will take place on Saturday, September 14th, at 7 pm. The current count is seven people, so we'll stick with one room for the time being. The people who have signed up can expect an email shortly. If you're one of the maybe people and 7:00 pm does not work for you, we'll discuss over email abou...

Victor Prieto

Hello, It was pointed out to me I neglected to post an announcement here about a couple online things happening in relation to STAR BOWL: 1. For people who played the NSC mirror, I am reading 15 questions tonight which were not written in time for the NSC mirror. If you would like to hear them, shoo...

Victor Prieto

Hello, I'm setting up an online mirror of STAR BOWL, which should last 2.5 hours on one day during the weekend of September 13-15. If you're interested, here is the link to the sign-up spreadsheet . Right now, it's a shootout, but if we get 12 or more people, we're either going to break it up into a...

Victor Prieto

Hi, just confirming that the set was indeed completed prior to the Michigan shootout. If anybody would like to hold a mirror, please send me an email. Thanks!

Victor Prieto

Fixed!

Victor Prieto

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Players Choice Awards! 4th Scorer of the Year : Matthew Lehmann - Chicago Awarded to the best player who scored the lowest number of points on any team that competed at ICT or ACF Nationals. "Best" is defined as most valuable at securing wins for their t...

Victor Prieto

Voting closes tomorrow evening. We have 59 responses, would love to see some more!

Victor Prieto

Voting is now open. The form will close on Wednesday, July 10th.

Victor Prieto

I neglected to post a reminder that nominations were closing yesterday, so I'll extend the nominations period to end tomorrow evening. Polls will be up Tuesday morning. Awards with very low number of nominations that would be nice to see a couple more: Question of the Year, Newcomer of the Year, 4th...

Victor Prieto

Thanks for the praise, everyone! I'm very happy you enjoyed it. I had a blast writing this set, too. Since I've gotten one request to mirror the set: I technically haven't finished it. My month of May got very hectic with NSC stuff, and I ended up cannibalizing packet 8 to cover some of the gaps in ...

Victor Prieto

Nominations are now open for the 2018-19 Players Choice Awards. The nominations form will close Saturday, June 29th. If you would like to suggest new awards, send me a private message or an email with your idea by Saturday, June 22nd, and I'll consider it. Voting is now open. The form will close on...

Victor Prieto

This year's edition of the Players Choice awards will take place after the last mirror of FST on May 11th, at which point all collegiate sets from the year should be clear (unless the online ILLIAC tournament takes place the following weekend, in which case it'll be pushed back another week).

Victor Prieto

Yes. I was considering waiting until Chicago Open, but it's all the way in August. Sometime after ACF Nationals, for sure.

Victor Prieto

Based on what I've heard so far, I think there will be too few for full fledged teams, but too many for a shootout. I'm going to temporarily set this as triples (because it's cool). Field cap will be increased when staff sign up.

I've created a matchmaking spreadsheet here.

Victor Prieto

Can someone from Penn please post a list of reliable lunch places that they would recommend for a speedy, close by lunch? We’ve been several times, but this is partly for the benefit of other teams, and partly to see if there’s any hidden gems that Penn would recommend that we haven’t gone to before.

Victor Prieto

Yes, this is still happening. I knew that I was not going to be attending ICT some time ago, so I've been taking my time with it. I still would like to run this on NSC Saturday, after rounds are over. Few other things: 1) In an attempt to appease the masses, I've increased Star Wars content to 4 tos...

Victor Prieto

The PACE tournament concluded with a thrilling final that came down to the last tossup. Congratulations to Ithaca for winning both halves of the tournament! The combined stats are posted here . Final order of finish: 1. Ithaca 2. Rope Meadows 3. Allderdice A 4. State College B 5. Great Valley 6. All...

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Full stats for the NAQT tournament have been posted. Congratulations to Ithaca for winning the championship! The stats file linked above list all teams in order of finish - the playoff tracker linked above may also be helpful in determining how the playoffs worked. We apologize that we ran an hour ...

Victor Prieto

Prelim stats have been posted here.

A tracker for playoff W-L record will be updated here.

Victor Prieto

This is the second time this semester that Johns Hopkins has cancelled/rescheduled within two weeks of the tournament. That's a huge inconvenience for high school teams seeking to make travel arrangements with their administration. In addition, it precludes any sort of make up event being scheduled ...

Victor Prieto

The field cap has raised to 18 teams.

Victor Prieto

NAQT tournament field is now full. Any further teams that register will be placed on a waitlist.

Victor Prieto

The field for the NAQT tournament is nearly full. Any teams that register past the 16th will be placed on a waitlist until we can expand the field (I can't guarantee that we will be able to do so). Also, if there is anybody nearby interested in staffing, please let me know.

Victor Prieto

The field is full at 18 teams, with 3 teams on the waitlist. Any other teams interested in registering should go ahead, as we are doing our best to expand the field. The only barrier for us to expand is staff - if there's anybody nearby that is open to helping out that I haven't already contacted, p...

Victor Prieto

Thanks to Carnegie Mellon, who did a great job of hosting. All the readers were good, things moved along very smoothly, and we were able to get home at a very reasonable hour. We look forward to the next time CMU hosts a tournament. I would like to know one thing, though - the prelim seeding was ver...

Victor Prieto

We will continue to offer an additional $50 dollar discount to any team that writes at least 20/20 that doesn’t need any major editing (packets requiring relatively few changes to clues, answer lines, or grammar will qualify). I have a few questions about this discount. It's been offered at least s...

Victor Prieto

I was also hoping to run STAR BOWL at ICT (as well as play Lederberg and GOLBEZ), but I can't be sure if I'll be there until after qualifications from SCT have been released, nor do I know if it will be possible to squeeze everything in. I also recognize I announced last, so I guess I get last dibs ...

Victor Prieto

Registration is now open for out-of-state teams.

Victor Prieto

Is the Star Wars TV distribution just 8 questions on the Star Wars Holiday Special? There was also one or two Star Wars cartoon series in the late 2000s, I hear. But, I haven't watched those, which explains ? Star Wars (TV) 2 Star Wars (films) :sad: ...because 16 questions on the 10 released Star W...

Victor Prieto

Update, July 16th: 100% complete. ________ I’m pleased to formally announce STAR BOWL, a side event available from May (?) 2019 until October 2019. This will be an all-tossup event on things related to "space," mostly science fiction in film, TV and video games. Each tossup will consist of 6-7 line...

Victor Prieto

PACE has designated Penn State Spring Academic Bowl 2019 as a gold qualifier: Congratulations! PACE (the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence) has designated your tournament, Penn State Spring Academic Tournament 2019, as a gold NSC qualifier. This means that the top 20% of teams in your ...

Victor Prieto

PACE has designated both halves of KSI as platinum qualifiers: Congratulations! PACE (the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence) has designated your tournament, Keystone State Invitational, as a platinum NSC qualifier. This means that the top 25% of teams in your tournament (rounded up to ...

Victor Prieto

Last five SCT announcements, with site announcement timelines reconstructed as best as I can determine: 2014 : sites announced starting mid October to early December 2015 : sites announced starting early November through... January, kind of (weird stuff happened this year) 2016 : sites announced sta...

Victor Prieto

Penn State Quiz Bowl will be hosting Penn State Spring Academic Bowl 2019 on March 16th, 2019. We will be using NAQT's IS-184A question set. Unlike our previous tournament, Nittany Lion Novice IV, there will not be eligibility restrictions on who may play. We will be seeking PACE qualifier status fo...

Victor Prieto

The second event for this tournament will use the Florida Spring Tournament question set.

Victor Prieto

Penn State Spring Academic Bowl (March 16th) will be a separate tournament from KSI, both hosted by Penn State. I just hadn't posted an announcement for Penn State Spring yet on the forums, but did set up the registration system with NAQT. The GPQB regional calendar is up to date and has the relevan...

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We have decided to move Penn State Spring back a week to March 16th, and just announced Keystone State Invitational for March 30-31.

Victor Prieto

This post reserved for field updates. Both fields are capped at 18 teams. NAQT Tournament Field (Teams/Buzzers/Moderators) Allderdice (2/1/1) Delaware Valley (1/0/0) Downingtown East (1/1/0) Great Valley (1/1/0) Henderson (1/1/1) Huntingdon (1/1/0) Ithaca (NY) (1/2/0) Kanadesaga Academy (NY) (1/2/0)...

Victor Prieto

Penn State Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce the inaugural Keystone State Invitational (KSI), taking place on March 30th and 31st, 2019. We hope that this event will provide an opportunity for teams in the two halves of the state to play one another, in a way that has been long discussed but never pu...

Victor Prieto

...just because people who are not enrolled in school are ineligible to play regular season tournaments does not mean that the TD has to verify that all contestants are actually enrolled in school. The burden of verifying eligibility is on the team. If the tournament director has reason to suspect ...

Victor Prieto

One thing that worked out pretty well for us this year is to hold a tiny intramural tournament that lasted only three rounds between four teams. It wasn't at all an official event, we were just trying to simulate the upcoming novice tournament at Carnegie Mellon in a very compressed timeframe. We pu...

Victor Prieto

There are 30 days left to apply for the program. If you're interested in participating, you should apply soon - we cannot accommodate many more mentees in the program, and your chances of being accepted do depend on the number of applicants previously accepted. Thank you!

Victor Prieto

I would only recommend for close matches, when there's less than a 200 point margin. I personally find it rude/insulting if your trying to stall against a comeback when you up 300 points and their are 3 toss-ups left. This is absolutely true. This isn't pro football, this is quizbowl, where players...

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