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Note the following: 1. The nominating committee did all its work before NSC 2. Procedures used this year were not different than the past two years 3. Particularly after NSC, one can make all sorts of arguments about who else should have been nominated, but we can't change things ex post facto, nor ...

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Bids received and accepted (6/9): California Georgia Illinois Kentucky Maryland Michigan Missouri New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Expressed interest: Florida New York Is New Jersey going to this? Jon Pinyan didn't think so - I'm trying to figure out if so, so that som...

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Voting is now open - please send your ballots to Bunnie Hadsall as specified above. Good luck to the nominees!

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Just curious as to how this went / was it well-attended / is this going to be an annual event at NSC? I think this is a great idea and hope that it can continue in the future.

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Since I'm going to be traveling for much of next week, and prepping our Asian Championships, please send your ballots to Bunnie Hadsall at [email protected] and NOT to me once voting opens on Sunday evening. Thanks.

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Congratulations to the 2015 National Quizbowl Award Nominees! Voting will begin once NSC ends. The nominating committee this year consisted of Jeff Hoppes (NAQT), Matt Jackson (PACE), and me (NHBB). Voting totals from the nominating committee are not announced. All nominees are listed alphabetically...

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The International History Olympiad is pleased to announce that the following coaches and players will be joining us at our inaugural Olympiad in Williamsburg, VA this summer, together with all of NHBB/IHBB's full time staffers: Irene Ducharme - Wauconda High School, Wauconda, IL - Quiz Bowl Coach La...

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The National History Bee and Bowl is delighted to announce that Brad Fischer, of Rockford, IL has been named its Director of Question Production and Upper Midwest Regional Coordinator, effective immediately. Brad brings years of distinguished experience to NHBB and will be assisting us primarily wit...

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just because a question was in the finals packets, doesn't mean it was written to be. It was stated above that both power rates and conversion stats were much better this year than last and both were above what NAQT was hoping for, something that would not have happened without people considering t...

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--Pretty sure you didn't have power over this, but I think the tossups you wrote that made it into the finals packets weren't harder within their subject than others. I don't believe NAQT has a policy of making finals packets any harder than the rest of the set, so I'm not sure what the issue is he...

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A few updates here - Andrew Leung of the HSNCT Champion Arcadia team and Bruce Lou of the NHBB Champion Saratoga team are both planning on coming - hopefully this may encourage some other top 11th and 12th grade players to sign up. Also, it's likely that students who have finished 10th grade by the ...

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Thanks, Jeff, for organizing this. Always one of the highlights of my year. Karan Menon (National Geo Bee champion and USGO JV National Champion) will be at this next year; we can all begin dreading being schooled by a 14 year old.

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I'm curious how the protest on the Music Man in the final would have been ruled. Is there a general NAQT rule for accepting nicknames of characters if that nickname is in the title? Can anyone from NAQT comment on how this would have hypothetically gone?

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alexdz wrote:... Madden Outdoor Education Center...

Well, now everyone knows what my next project is...

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As an addendum, an email is going out tomorrow to everyone who has signed up or expressed interest with further details.

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All types of rooms are still available and will not sell out. Having gone down to William and Mary today, I can confirm this. 80% of people are choosing double occupancy w/air conditioning for what that's worth. We have plenty of rooms of all types.

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Hi Tiger, Thanks for playing IHBB earlier this school year in Shanghai! Back in the USA, you can play the National History Bee and Bowl. We have a number of tournaments within an easy drive of Kent each year, including CT states (Newtown), Upper Hudson (Bethlehem, NY), Lower Hudson (White Plains, NY...

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Yeah, I had just moved up the dates by one day over last year, not remembering the date switch for NSC. I'll adjust accordingly.

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Updated on May 27

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Additionally the set had a serious issues in regards to alternate answerlines/prompts/do not accepts. From my understanding it was up to the student to protest if they though their answer was correct. This doesn't seem very fair to the student and only serves to clog up the protest hotline. This is...

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The National History Bee and Bowl is happy to sponsor the fourth annual National Quizbowl Awards for the 2014-2015 season. This year, we will increase the budget for this from $1500 to $2000 in prize money, plaques, and food at NASAT to recognize the nation's top students and coaches at the middle ...

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Fred, can you explain a bit of your methodology here? There are a number of ways a list like this could be compiled, and I think this whole exercise is much more interesting if we know where you're coming from. For example, this could be done on the basis of: a) if you wanted to form the actual best...

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Congratulations to our 2015 Elementary and Middle School US Geography Olympiad National Champions! Middle School National Champion: John Phipps, Middlesex Middle School, Darien, CT Elementary National Champion: Rohil Bhinge, Nysmith School, Herndon, VA Middle School US Geography Exam Champion: John ...

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Bowl link for anyone interested: http://www.historybowl.com/bowl_ms/

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I might have missed the memo, but will the question set(s) be made publicly available? I can't remember what NHBB policy is for middle school questions. Also, out of curiosity, how were the questions for the Middle School National History Bowl produced this year? Every question that we used this we...

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The History Bowl did not run nearly as well as any other event. It seems as if your biggest issue here was with the difficulty of the set (more on my responses below), but I just wanted to clarify here regarding logistics, since "running well" usually implies logistics more than question ...

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I'll begin by echoing Bunnie's thanks to everyone who made this tournament possible. Over the past four years, our middle school History Bowl Nationals has gone from 12 to 28 to 51 to 72 teams, and next year, we should be at or near 100 or more. For those interested in stats, these were maintained a...

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http://www.geographyolympiad.com/region ... ournament/
Accessible at geographyolympiad.com under the Regionals tab, Varsity & JV National Qualifying Quiz Tournament link

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The following sets have now been posted: 1. NHBB 2014-15 B Set 2. USGO National Qualifying Quiz Tournament Set - see geographyolympiad.com 3. USHB National Qualifying Quiz Tournament Set - see ushistorybee.org 4. IHBB Europe and Asia Alpha Set - see ihbbeurope.com or ihbbasia.com 5. USGO National Qu...

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I will certainly play this of course (Raynell will too, not sure if he's checking this thread) and will write an unspecified number of questions for it (somewhere between 2/0 and a full packet, time permitting).

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I liked the essay qualification for USHB last year because it would allow for the people who didn't have a regional QB site in their area a chance to qualify to Nationals. Why wasn't this in place this year? I understand the part about giving qualifying tests at regional sites for NHBB, but what if...

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So, on the matter of tiebreaks after pool play. At our middle school nationals on 5/24 in Louisville, it's going to work exactly how I've outlined it for the high school division next year with 6 pools of 4 (except in the middle school, effectively, the afternoon stage is cut out, since we have 72 t...

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Maybe this group can help you with funding to attend History Bowl: http://smithtownhistorical.org/ It looks like they already support elementary students here http://smithtownhistorical.org/school-field-trip-programs/ so maybe you could propose going to NHBB as a way for them to support high schoole...

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About 8 people have responded to the call, so we should be in good shape for now. I'm no longer taking writers at the $5 rate (for the time being, at least), though if you want to write geography (or history) for us at either high school or middle school, that's fine. We pay a minimum of $3.50 per q...

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Okay, so would we be ok if we had everything wrapped up by 5:30 on Saturday, May 14? What time does the gala dinner start? May 7 didn't work for the host school; April 30 is honestly too close to US High School Nationals. Frankly, that week was exhausting for me to run a second National tournament o...

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Hi All, We need some additional geography tossups written for our Middle School USGO Nationals next week in Louisville. Currently, the rate is $5 per question. This may go up or down depending on our needs over the next week, but for now, if people want to write 5 line geo tossups and get paid nicel...

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I remember staff being told to read the entirety of the tossups in the JV playoffs. Did that not actually happen? I certainly read the entirety of the tossups, including the first line, in the JV Bowl final (I believe other readers followed this rule for the playoffs as far as I know). On the matte...

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I'll also repeat my suggestion from last year that--for the purpose of better recognition of winners in front of an audience--the champions for the USGO and USHB could be announced during the playoff bracket announcement on Saturday I'm all for this, except (especially for USGO) many of the top pla...

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Highlights of Nationals, including the Playoff Matches, Interviews with Raynell Cooper, and the Opening Ceremonies here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN-fub ... cXUkHYl72Q

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Playoff Fixes: Bowl A significant amount of the upthread chatter was along the lines of how to revamp the playoff system for the Bowl. Until this year, both the Varsity and Junior Varsity had been single elimination; this year, the Varsity departed from that with the 8 groups of 4 teams for the Sat...

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Sorry for the delay in continuing my thoughts on Nationals here; I've been busy coordinating our Canadian National Championships, planning for our Elementary and Middle School Nationals, Olympiad planning, and the general wind down from High School Nationals. It's a busy month. Anyway, I'll try and ...

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Is May 21 a workable alternative?

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Hi Arthur, The National History Bee and Bowl was founded in New Jersey 5 years ago, and it's still our best state in the country (36 NJ teams competed at our National Championships two weeks ago). Our big 3 area tournaments in Seton Hall, Ridgewood, and Princeton will each probably draw about 50-80 ...

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IHBB is pleased to announce that its second annual 2016 Canadian National History Bee and Bowl Championships will be held at the University of Toronto Schools on Saturday, May 14. We are also exploring the possibility of mirrors of our US Geography Olympiad Quiz Bowl Set and our Sports and Entertai...

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Monstruos de Bolsillo wrote:According to this thread, it will be released on June 15th.
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... 04&t=17245

That's correct.

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1st Quarter, Round 11 (First Sat. Evening Playoff Round) 6. Arthur Krock helped lead the lobbying efforts for this book to win the Pulitzer Prize. It was written while the author was recovering from back surgery, and columnist Drew Pearson claimed that Ted Sorenson actually wrote this book. This boo...

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2015 National History Bee National Championships Round 3 - Prelims 1. In this campaign’s first battle, Admiral Crutchley was defeated at Savo Island. Edson’s rangers successfully defended the Lunga ridge during this campaign, which was codenamed Operation Watchtower. Supplies were transported down “...

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This man hypothesized the existence of an “aperiodic crystal” that contains genetic information in his book What is Life? In the paper “Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem”, this man presented a result often stated as the Hamiltonian of psi equals energy times psi. Eugene Wigner extended an idea n...

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I think this tournament cost waaaaaay too much - A team of 4 is paying $430 for 9 rounds of quizbowl. A lot of this money is coming out of student's pockets. This needs to be seen in its proper context. Yes, Varsity and JV teams were only guaranteed 5 rounds in the Bowl, but almost all teams played...

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Roman Numerals correspond to difficulty classes. Note that some II questions made it into the final rounds, though most of the playoffs were coded III. Bee Prelims were meant to be coded II.

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