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A reminder that there is a little over one month left to submit nominations for both Benjamin Cooper Awards.

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A reminder to all teams interested in playing the 2021 PACE NSC that wild card bids are now being accepted. Teams that have not qualified for the NSC through the above system can submit a wild card bid. Additionally, a school that has qualified its A Team for the NSC can submit a wild card bids for...

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PACE is proud to announce the Morgan Costa-Rhodes Memorial Scholarship, a one-time $2000 college scholarship for current high school seniors. About Morgan Costa-Rhodes During her short time at Parkersburg High School, Morgan Costa-Rhodes achieved success in every area in which she was involved. In 2...

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PACE membership status changes for the year of 2021 will be posted in the thread. Please welcome our Winter 2021 class of new members: Antonio Jimenez, Katherine Lei, Lauren Onel, and Will Grossman! Additionally, Nick Clusserath has resigned from PACE. Matt Mitchell has resigned from PACE. Eric Xu h...

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I am pleased to announce that The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is now accepting nominations for the 2021 Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Awards. The Cooper Awards, which recognize those who contribute to the “spirit and honor of quizbowl competition,” will be presented at the ...

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Registration for the 2021 NSC is now open. Further information on registration can be found on the tournament page on our website (http://www.pace-nsc.org/2021-pace-nsc/). A few major changes for this year: In order to facilitate online competition on Zoom, we are changing our question format to exc...

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Happy and safe holidays! The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is now seeking applications and/or nominations for new members! Applications are due by Monday, January 4th at 11:59 P.M. EST. The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer...

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Erik Nelson and Nick Clusserath have resigned from PACE.

Niki Peters, Mason Guillot, and Jason Cheng have been removed from PACE following inactivity.

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is pleased to announce that the 2021 National Scholastic Championship will take place online on the weekend of June 5, 2021. PACE is looking forward to continuing the NSC after last year’s unfortunate cancellation. We are committed to ensuring the ...

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Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) has created a free set of questions that is appropriate for middle school or high school students who have never played before in order to introduce new people and schools to quizbowl. The first round of questions is available freely through hsq...

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PACE is pleased to announce the officers elected to serve for the 2020-2021 year: President: Victor Prieto Secretary: Catherine Qian Treasurer: Joe Nutter Director of Communications: Rebecca Rosenthal Vice President of Technology: Harry White Vice President of Tournament Direction: Casey Bindas Vice...

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Emily "Bing" Bingham, Tora Husar, Moses Kitakule, Catherine Qian, Sohum Shenoy, and Jay Winter have joined PACE.

Jacob Reed has resigned from PACE.

Jordan Brownstein has retired from PACE.

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The 2020 David Riley Quizbowl Conference recording, program, and transcript are all now available online.

Complete information on panelists and conference is also available on the PACE website.

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A quick reminder that there is one day left in the summer application and nomination cycle.

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We hope everyone is having a safe summer! The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is seeking applications and/or nominations for new members! Applications are due by Sunday, July 5, 2020 . The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer al...

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We have decided to postpone the conference to a later date, and will announce that date as soon as possible.

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence condemns racism and police brutality. We grieve the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and the countless others who have suffered at the hands of an unjust system. We also denounce the violent response to the recent nationwide ...

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PACE is pleased to present the 2020 Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Award to Chris Johnson, the coach of Itawamba High School in Fulton, Mississippi, for his admirable work expanding high school quizbowl in the area, both through outreach to local schools to create and develop new teams, and thr...

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Alex Damisch and Eric Mukherjee have resigned from PACE.

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Swarthmore has instituted a ban on public events and requested students do not return to campus, so the physical tournament will have to be cancelled for the time being. We have sent an email to all qualified teams gauging interest in an online mirror on the 21st, including lowered mirror fees. If y...

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PACE is soliciting applications to staff the 2020 NSC on June 6th and 7th in Chicago, IL. We appreciate volunteers for game rooms as well as control rooms or other support roles.

If interested, you can fill out the form here for our logistics team to consider.

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With 3 weeks remaining until the tournament, we are hoping for a few more registrations. We intend to run the tournament with 6 teams (filling in with a house team if necessary), but the more the merrier!

The field opens to waitlist teams tomorrow.

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Field (Teams/Buzzers/Staffers):

Georgetown (2/1/0)
Rutgers (3/1/0)
University of Maryland (1/0/0)
University of Pennsylvania (2/0/1?)
TOTAL: 8 teams
Waitlist:

(last updated 3/4/2020)

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I am pleased to announce that the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is now accepting nominations for the 2020 Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Awards. The Cooper Awards, which recognize those who contribute to the “spirit and honor of quizbowl competition,” will be presented at the ...

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PACE is proud to announce the Morgan Costa-Rhodes Memorial Scholarship, a one-time $2000 college scholarship for current high school seniors. About Morgan Costa-Rhodes During her short time at Parkersburg High School, Morgan Costa-Rhodes achieved success in every area in which she was involved. In 2...

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Wildcard bids are now open for teams who have not yet qualified for the NSC through qualifier tournaments. To submit a wildcard bid, email PACE’s Wild Card Coordinator, Chandler West, at [email protected].org. Applications should contain the team's name, contact information, and a summary of the tea...

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Sadie Britton, Alejandro Lopez-Lago and Chandler West have joined PACE as members following our winter nomination period.

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Happy holidays and almost-new-year to everyone! The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is again seeking nominations for new members! Nominations are due to Victor Prieto at [email protected].org by December 31, 2019 . The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) is a 501(...

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Following special election, Harry White has taken the Vice President of Technology position.

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Olivia Lamberti has resigned from PACE.

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PACE is looking to hire a new sysadmin for hsquizbowl.org, as Dan Goff has notified PACE that he would like to retire and pass this responsibility to someone else. The most important priority for the sysadmin is to keep the existing forums and database up and running, but someone willing to make imp...

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I really enjoyed this set and wanted to point out what seemed to me to be a more conscious than usual effort to include important (not just hard!) people of color and women (and their work etc) as answer lines. I think this set did a fine job of representation that reflected important academic conce...

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Agreed, Swarthmore will not be able to play if this is moved before Regionals and would love to attend.

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Registration is now open. Further information on registration can be found on our website (http://www.pace-nsc.org/2020-nsc-registration/).

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Registration for teams that have already qualified will open on this Friday, November 1st. Invitations will be sent via e-mail to those teams eligible to register. Updated qualification guidelines are available here.

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I am sorry to announce that due to logistical issues in planning and lack of interest, this tournament will be cancelled.

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Eddie Kim has resigned from PACE.

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Swarthmore College Quizbowl is pleased to announce that we will host a tournament using NAQT's Collegiate Novice Set (CNS-186C) on October 26, 2019. We hope to see teams in attendance from throughout the mid-Atlantic region, and especially encourage students who may not have played quizbowl before t...

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Ben Zhang has resigned from PACE.

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In addition, Tracy Mirkin, Akshata Pisharody, Ramapriya Rangaraju, Margaret Tebbe, Julia Tong, and Harry White have joined PACE as members. We look forward to their contributions!

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Roxanne Ilagan has resigned from PACE.

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PACE has concluded voting and is pleased to announce the officers elected to serve for the 2019-2020 year: President: Sarah Angelo Luongo Secretary: Victor Prieto Treasurer: Joe Nutter Director of Communications: Rebecca Rosenthal Vice President of Technology: Andrew Feist Vice President of Tourname...

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The Abydos Helicopter wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:36 am Yes.

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Since this may be relevant for A values, I believe the current stat sheet doesn't reflect the actual final standings. Rutgers A and Columbia B both went 3-2 in the playoff bracket (including games carried over from prelims as specified by the schedule). Because we lost to Columbia C in the morning ...

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Congratulations to University of Virginia for winning an advantaged final over Columbia A (350-245). Penn A came in third after losing to a play-in match for the final to Columbia. Congratulations also DII (and undergraduate) champions Maryland B and 2nd place Princeton. Stats are up. Edits can be a...

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To clarify, the field is up to date as I understand it. All staffers and teams should have received logistics e-mails this week– contact me immediately if you have any questions!

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I enjoy browsing the essays on the Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History ; the hyperlinks within the articles and suggested articles are great for getting context beyond memorizing painting clues. Also have to plug the fact the Met has uploaded PDFs of a ton of out of print exhibition catalogs or ...

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I am happy to announce that we will be able to admit all waitlist teams for an updated field of 24 teams which is now a cap pending staff. We would always still welcome any extra local staffers to help the tournament run even more efficiently (affiliated or not)– we can pay for your transportation a...

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My apologies for not updating the field list recently. Due to the overwhelming interest, I think unfortunately it would be best to implement a retroactive waitlist for schools intending to bring more than two teams until I can definitely secure more staff so that every school has the opportunity to ...

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Full statistics from the tournament are now online – please report any errors to me so I can update the report as necessary. Congratulations to Manheim Township A, Manheim Township B and Carver A for their top finishes. Thank you so much to Alex Dzurick, Alex Sankaran, Ben Cushing, Patrick Matthews...

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