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A final mirror has been scheduled for April 8. This will be the final date the set will be available this year. The set will be posted publicly on or around April 10.

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The last scheduled mirror of the set is 17 March, so the set will be posted and available for public discussion sometime around 20 March. If you're considering using the set in March, please contact me soon.

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The last scheduled mirror of the set is 17 March, so the set will be posted and available for public discussion sometime around 20 March. If you're considering using the set in March, please contact me soon.

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(I emailed Mostafa about this at the beginning of the school year, so I don't expect a separate response, but this seems germane to the conversation) The HTML scoresheets are also useful for calculating question-by-question conversion data, which I haven't been able to do with Neg5 stats this year. ...

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Part of wearing many hats is deciding which one you're going to put on top. I think those here who know me know that SCOP is my uppermost hat. USABB is the thing that I do to make sure I can keep producing SCOP, so that I can afford to pay my writers even in the years when a lot of tournaments need ...

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While we are asking Jeff questions, I would like to know whether anyone at NAQT other than Jonah does, in fact, think that SCOP really is a competitor in any meaningful sense. I ask because Noah was specifically interrogated about his affiliation with SCOP (the "gotcha" moment mentioned in...

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Like, of course every single person/entity in the same industry producing similar products would be considered a competitor. It's just that some competitors are actually capable of taking business away or hurting the market while others aren't or are small enough that they're not currently a concer...

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Dominator wrote:Jonah countered that not only was SCOP a quizbowl organization, but that he considered it a major competitor of NAQT.

Oh gosh, I had no idea. I'd like to thank the Academy, of course, but does this mean I should stop recommending NAQT sets to hosts who ask for SCOP but can't use it?

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The SCOP Novice 8 set will be available for mirroring from 14 October 2017 through 8 April 2018. This set will also have an associated middle school-level set, which will be available to mirror beginning in January 2018. Previous years' questions are available on our website and posted in the archiv...

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The SCOP MS 8 set will be available for mirroring from 6 January 2018 through 8 April 2018. This set is based on the SCOP Novice 8 set; some of the questions will be replaced, but many of them will be edited versions of our Novice questions. Previous years' questions are available on our website and...

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On behalf of the editing staff, I'd like to say a big thank you to all of the writers for their contributions to this weekend's events. The Geography Bee was written almost entirely by Sameer Rai, with contributions from Michael Borecki, Jakob Myers, and Brad Fischer. The Science Bee was written mos...

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Matthew Lehmann being omitted from anyone's ballot is, to be polite, an outrage. And I don't mean to disrespect the work that others did to land in the top 6. Congratulations to those players. Maybe some voters felt it was time to let others have a spot on the all-sectional team? :oops: Just to be ...

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Wait, have we met in person? Yes, indeed! We first met in person in the back row of a staff meeting at a national tournament in Rosemont. You were wearing a really cute tan cap, as I recall, and spoke effusively about NHBB. I remember being surprised at your enthusiasm because at that time I hadn't...

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I didn't sign a contract until after some time working for him, and when I did it was at his house and didn't really feel negotiable. Everyone needs to protect themselves. I realize that you feel really victimized right now, but contracts are always negotiable; Brad and Madden had something like si...

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In pretty stark contrast to Bunnie's apparent experience (which, according to the contract information she posted, she REALLY shouldn't be talking about), I've found Madden to be actually very understanding about contract terms. As someone who has had to write contracts for SCOP writers, I understan...

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crbirdx wrote:Chillicothe will be using the HS set on 10/15/16. This will be the 3rd Cavalier Classic.

Noted! Thank you for mirroring again!

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Joshua Rutsky wrote:As usual, Hoover would like to mirror this for our Hoover Invitational, tentatively October 15th. Thank you!

Thank you! Let me know when you're certain about the date.

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bmccauley wrote:Great Valley (PA) would like to use this set for a Spring Invitational in Southeastern PA. It is tentatively scheduled for March 25, 2017.

Sounds good. If the date changes, etc., email me at [email protected]. Thank you!

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Or Geo. Just noticed the 2/2 on that.

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I'd cut the other .5 per out of either trash or (this will be unpopular, but this category sucks for middle school content) lit.

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The comp takes up .5 math, so they'd still have 1/1 per round.

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Given that your distribution allows for 21-question rounds, I'd just kill that question per round and, instead of allowing the possibility that one of your listed lit, history, or science question might end up in the replacement slot, would leave the replacement undeclared and fill it with an additi...

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Hey neat. Hope your writing is going well, and I look forward to seeing the set once it's out. Also, to answer TylerV's question, computation questions (and the high Geography distribution) are designed towards new middle school players, who will be able to answer these questions more easily (it als...

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I have sincere doubts about the quality of USABB, given the base of writers that it draws from and the ever-increasing load that is being piled upon them. Head editor for USABB here. The USABB writing pool isn't the same as the NHBB writing pool. The personnel and the program that we use are entire...

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Noted! Thank you!

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The SCOP Novice 7 set will be available for mirroring from 15 October 2016 through 1 April 2017. This set will also have an associated middle school-level set, which will be available to mirror beginning in January 2016. Previous years' questions are available on our website and posted in the archiv...

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The SCOP MS 7 set is available for mirroring from 7 January 2017 through 8 April 2017. This set is based on the SCOP Novice 7 set; some of the questions will be replaced, but many of them will be edited versions of our Novice questions. Previous years' questions are available on our website and post...

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Well, that's reassuring on four counts: 1. The clue space being repeated is the barest description of what a triple point is, rather than a deeper or stranger clue, meaning that this is not a case of writers plagiarizing each other. 2. The bonus is at the very end of a round, meaning that this would...

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I'm saying--with the qualification that I haven't looked at the questions in discussion, so I'm not certain how many of the "same clues" are or could have been used--that I agree that this should be avoided, but there isn't much that can be done about it at this stage. We always try to avo...

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The version used at Barrington was an extremely early draft that I didn't realize I had sent until the questions had already been printed, so there were a lot of differences between that and the final set played everywhere else that no one had time to find and amend (which is why the errata sheets f...

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With apologies to NAQT, who I know work very hard as a group to produce as many sets as they already do, their sets the past couple of years have been so obviously quickly produced at such a loss to overall quality that I just can't see a justification for calling for them to produce more annual set...

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a) This author wrote about the accidental death of Curly's wife at the hands of the overpowered man-child Lenny in his novella Of Mice and Men. vs. a) This author wrote the novella Of Mice and Men As I understand it, the former format is generally preferred because it is more interesting to listen ...

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IFor what it's worth, I never got any negative feedback from anyone, even when I specifically asked for constructive criticism. While I don't want to be discouraging, especially since it sounds like you're putting in a lot of effort this year, this is at least in part because the people who read it...

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Our last two tournaments ran yesterday, so the set is now posted at the SCOP website and will be uploaded to quizbowlpackets.com shortly. Thank you to everyone who played and mirrored the set, and especially to everyone who sent scoresheets. A big thanks, of course, to the writers and editors!

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Our last two tournaments ran yesterday, so the set is now posted at the SCOP website and will be uploaded to quizbowlpackets.com shortly. Thank you to everyone who played and mirrored the set, and especially to everyone who sent scoresheets. A big thanks, of course, to the writers and editors!

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Despite that, I still got to eat lunch with the moderators instead of during round 6, when I usually end up eating, so I'm a massive fan! HERESY! I pay you TOP DOLLAR to eat the scraps of leftover pizza from the moderator hospitality room (which you've never seen), delivered cold to the library!! :...

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Currently using this at Keith's MS MLK Day tournament, and it's absolutely wonderful. Only problems we've had have been some games reporting 0.53/0.47 games played for substituted individuals instead of 0.5/0.5 (this could have been user error, as the problem disappeared after round 1), the above-me...

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The last mirror of the Novice set is this weekend. The set will be posted once the associated MS set finishes its final mirror on 9 April, so we're still accepting hosting bids for anyone looking to put together a late-season tournament for new or young players. Price cuts are available if you'd lik...

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Congratulations to our tournament champion, Keith Country Day School, to second place Carmel Catholic, to third place Boylan, and to fourth place Morrison. An enormous thank you to everyone who volunteered to staff today's tournament: Kristie Bodak, Brad Fischer, Alec Krueger, Victoria Likeum, Kyle ...

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[insert hypothetical funding source here] The problem with this. Even apart from the classic question of "where's the money come from?" (and I agree with Brad that this makes much more sense as a PACE-sponsored charity endeavor than as any kind of misguided attempt at "investment&quo...

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This entire post is amazing, and I do not mean that in a complimentary sense. The idea that 1) tournament directors don't already do (in many cases, aggressive) outreach for the purpose of attracting new teams, that 2) so many new teams can't get funding to attend their first tournament that they wo...

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I've been having some email problems, so for anyone who needs this information and somehow did not receive it, here is the text of the informational email sent out to coaches and moderators last week: Check-in will open at 8:15. The red brick building that fronts on Elida is the middle school; the h...

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Final stats are posted. Congratulations to UChicago B who went into the final advantaged over UChicago A and emerged victorious!

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Preliminary stats are here. Stats are being updated by round, so stay tuned!

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Thanks to everyone who came out to play and staff today! Statistics are posted here . Congratulations to Hinsdale Central, who beat Detroit Catholic Central A in a two-game advantaged final. Thank you so much to everyone who staffed today: moderators Brad Fischer, Mike Laudermith, Andrew Nadig, Noah...

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Habemus question set! The post has been updated to reflect that we will use SMART for this tournament.

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Due to a number of factors, we've decided to withdraw this set for this year. We've been in contact with the prospective hosts to ensure they can find alternate question providers. We're banking many of the questions that were written for this year, and will likely put the set out when we're more co...

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Post updated to reflect that the tournament is soft-capped at 16 teams for now.

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Winnebago will host another edition of our annual varsity tournament on January 16. We will be mirroring West Point's SMART set , so please be sure when registering that your team (or, at least, the players you will bring) is not also playing New Trier Varsity's standard division. The tournament is ...

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To fill in for the absence of Kaneland's frosh-soph tournament, Winnebago will host a frosh-soph tournament on December 12. We'll use NAQT's introductory-level IS-151A question set. Please be aware that this set was also used at Northwestern's novice tournament. We will use IHSSBCA rules , with the ...

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