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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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

This sounds like a lot of fun! Do you have an idea of what the format will be (e.g. doubles)?

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...