The initial post has been edited to reflect several updates:
- the question set used will be NAQT IS-200A
- ONQBA Winter's status as national qualifier(s)
- Code of Conduct requirements
- the current field
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- Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:40 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: 2021 ONQBA Winter Online (February 20, 2021)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 485
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:07 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: 2021 ONQBA Winter Online (February 20, 2021)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 485
2021 ONQBA Winter Online (February 20, 2021)
Hello! The Ontario Quizbowl Association is pleased to announce ONQBA Winter, a quizbowl tournament that aims to be accessible to teams that are new to quizbowl while still providing a meaningful experience to those already familiar with the game. This tournament will use the NAQT IS-200A question se...
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 8:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2950
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
We are looking for at least one host in the following regions: Northeast (NY, CT, VT, NH, RI, MA, ME) Mid-Atlantic (NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, VA) South (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TN, KY, LA, TX) Great Lakes (MI, OH, IN) Midwest (IL, WI) Great Plains and Rockies (MN, IA, MO, OK, TX, CO, UT, MT, ID, AZ) West...
- Sat May 09, 2020 9:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 Canadian Circuit Player Poll
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6640
Re: 2020 Canadian Circuit Player Poll
I spent way too long on this. I'm aware that as the years go by my write-up has become more and more self-indulgent but let me have my fun. Rankings generally with regular difficulty in mind, though this breaks down a bit in the latter half. Like all the other ballots, probably contains a healthy am...
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Toronto Fall Tournament (November 9, 2019)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3799
Toronto Fall Tournament (November 9, 2019)
The Ontario Quizbowl Association is pleased to announce the Toronto Fall Tournament, our first high school tournament of the school year. This tournament aims to be accessible to teams that are new to quizbowl while still providing a meaningful experience to those already familiar with the game. We ...
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NASAT Open Mirron @ Carleton (20-21 July 2019)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1932
Re: NASAT Open Mirron @ Carleton (20-21 July 2019)
A belated thanks to Carleton for running another fun quizbowl weekend! It was great to see a lot of old and new faces alike, the readers were good, things ran pretty smoothly and on time, and the buffet was a pleasure as always. However, as I believe there will be a lot of turnover in the leadership...
- Mon May 20, 2019 11:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
- Replies: 44
- Views: 17634
Re: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
Some life stuff got in the way so my list this year is much more qualitative than last year, but here it is. Guideline was performance at regular difficulty, with a bonus for being able to scale up. As always, please direct any complaints to my former president, Meghan Torchia. 1. Derek So . Literal...
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:20 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
- Replies: 44
- Views: 17634
Re: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
Chris has provided an excellent summary of the underlying spirit of the eligibility rules, but since there seems to be some confusion about their "nuances", I wanted to just quickly address why PNW players this year aren't in consideration under the letter of the eligibility rules as they ...
- Mon May 28, 2018 4:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5926
Re: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament
This sounds like a lot of fun! Do you have an idea of what the format will be (e.g. doubles)?
- Sat May 12, 2018 9:59 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Canadian Player Poll 2018
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12857
Re: Canadian Player Poll 2018
This ballot is probably very Insular and likely contains some (Toronto B)ias as well as a lot of advanced stats. I didn’t specifically set a difficulty level in mind but looking back it can probably be loosely described as “regular, with bonuses for those who do well at harder levels”. There’s also ...
- Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How to make college quizbowl less insular
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10670
Re: How to make college quizbowl less insular
Not to bring up a certain sore topic, but evoking private messages from "quizbowl luminaries" in order to malign people that disagree with you in collegiate discussion does not help quizbowl's case against insularity or being unprofessional. It is not a good look for quizbowl to give off t...
- Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:25 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 35624
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
It's really hard to compare two universities that tend to get massive bumper crops of high school players each year to other schools that don't. But it does highlight one issue in college quizbowl--there's a lot of funneling of talent into the top few programs every year that can compound the diffi...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:20 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 35624
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
I think the biggest reason is just that in high school it's a lot easier to do a lot more things -- for example in high school I played three sports and did debate, math team, chess, and science bowl. I'm doing exactly one of those things in college (if you count science bowl -> quiz bowl). So, if ...
- Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:53 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CMST: Errata
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4361
Re: CMST: Errata
Could I see the tossup on artemisinin? Is there a particular reason that it doesn't seem to accept or at least prompt on qinghaosu?
- Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 15153
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
The tossup on “KD’s alternate twitter accounts” was the best thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. If I were to rewrite the tossup, I would have just written on Kevin _Durant_ (accept snake) to allow for more clues. I read through both of the Reddit threads and so...
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke @ McMaster (Nov. 27, 2016)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4765
Delta Burke @ McMaster (Nov. 27, 2016)
McMaster University is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an open mirror of Delta Burke on November 27, 2016 (this is the day after our Terrapin mirror, the announcement for which can be found here ). The tournament will likely be held in the McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC). We ar...
- Mon Aug 22, 2016 12:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MacIntro II @ McMaster (Oct. 22nd, 2016)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2477
MacIntro II @ McMaster (Oct. 22nd, 2016)
McMaster is pleased to announce the return of our high school tournament MacIntro on Oct. 22, 2016. Continuing the tradition of last year, this tournament is intended to be an introduction for new players and teams in the region to the format of Quizbowl. We will be using the SCOP Novice 7 set. We a...
- Tue Aug 16, 2016 12:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Terrapin XXIX @ McMaster (Nov. 26, 2016)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5629
Terrapin XXIX @ McMaster (Nov. 26, 2016)
McMaster University is pleased to announce that we are hosting a mirror of Terrapin XXIX on Saturday, November 26th, 2016. The tournament will likely be held in the McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC). We are planning to start at 9:00am so try to arrive for 8:30am so we can start in a timely f...