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I've sent Arianne some info specific to hosting in Southern California, but the gist of NHBB hosting is NHBB hosts get 6 teams for free in the Bowl, 24 students for free in the Bee, and $50 off the first team at Nationals. We'd send a director, and possibly other people to help them. Host schools st...

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Nov. 21 is confirmed for NHBB C Set at Princeton (this will be called the Central NJ History Bee and Bowl). The same set will be played the following day on Nov. 22 at Torah Academy in Teaneck for the Bergen County History Bee and Bowl.

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Is PACE a registered non-profit at this point (i.e. can it accept tax-deductible contributions)?

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Hi Dylan, Welcome to quizbowl! The National History Bee and Bowl are quizbowl-style tournaments with a focus on history. This link: http://www.historybowl.com/resources/study-guides-resources/ has everything you need to get started. We'll have several tournaments in North Carolina this year, and one...

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Posted on http://www.historybowl.com as well: The National History Bee and Bowl is pleased to announce the start of its sixth year of history quiz tournaments for students and teams throughout the USA! For the 2015-2016 school year, we expect to hold approximately 100 tournaments across America at t...

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Sorry, I missed the post about High Tech wanting March 5- we'll go with March 12 for NHBB Mid-Atlantic then.

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NHBB Updates: Mid-Atlantic Championships (A Set) will be at Seton Hall University this year - most likely on (edit) March 12, just awaiting final confirmation Three Sunday dates are now set: Nov. 22 - Bergen County - Torah Academy in Teaneck, NJ - C Set Feb. 28 - New York City - Yeshiva University H...

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Could someone fix the order in which tournaments are listed on the website? Right now, they're sorted strictly by month, rather than by the actual date, so that events in January are listed first. Our webmaster is looking into this. Also, the icon for the Western Pennsylvania bowl is in Long Island...

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Agreed with everything Jon says, plus, be sure to count on some people for backup. Plan on having 20% of your staff not show up, and that way, if everyone does, great - the slowest readers can get a scorekeeper, but you don't want to be in a position where you don't have enough people to read when 3...

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Just be advised that the bulk of the area calendar hasn't been scheduled yet, since most area schools are either still on break or are just back this week. While there's no set rule on the matter, hosts that have hosted in past years usually do so again, and usually around the same time of year (and...

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So NHBB Northern NJ is confirmed for Nov. 21 though I'm still waiting on the site. Hopefully Seton Hall, but if not, we'll look elsewhere to stay on that date. Bergen County HBB returns to Torah Academy in Teaneck on Sunday, Nov. 22. As this is pre-Thanksgiving weekend, I can be in the area and I wi...

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Has anyone booked Dec. 5 for area tournaments this year? Looking into whether that might be an option for Northern NJ on NHBB C Set. Let me know if that date is free or booked (getting a complete calendar for the year up would be most helpful at this point).

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Lots more information on NHBB to follow soon, but for now, a quick note that the following high school level regional and state tournament dates and sites have been confirmed: October Oct. 24 - North Texas Fall - Selwyn College Prep in Denton, TX on C Set Oct. 31 - Eastern Georgia - Cedar Shoals HS ...

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We're definitely aiming for the 21st. In the meantime, I can confirm that the NJ State Championships will be at Ridgewood High School on Saturday, January 16 (B Set).

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Northern NJ (C Set) - Saturday, Nov. 14 or 21 (the 21st is the most likely, but not certain) Both of those dates have already been claimed (by Kellenberg and Bloomfield, respectively). Yes, I know that. We've also run this tournament on a Saturday in mid-November for some years now, and I do not ha...

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Some early NHBB dates: Northern NJ (C Set) - Saturday, Nov. 14 or 21 (the 21st is the most likely, but not certain) Bergen County (C Set) - Sunday (the day after whichever of the two dates above we go with) Lower Hudson (C Set) - Saturday, Dec. 19 at White Plains High School. NJ States - open as alw...

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Regarding Ben's original post, I think that some sort of quizbowl alliance for the NYC Metro area is long overdue. The circuit here is close to 50/50 NY/NJ teams, so I'm not sure if putting effort into a state specific organization or set of tournaments is really the way to go about this though. Kee...

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Matt Weiner and a few other people (though I don't recall who exactly) were very critical about this in a way that went beyond disagreeing with the concept. Calling it a vituperative personal attack would be too far, but they didn't exactly point it out in a polite way either. Their comments aren't...

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In the interest of clarifying things, I've made a few comments on most of the points made above. Beyond what people have already mentioned, I can guarantee you that the number of people who have connections to a community who actively are on Facebook in any given day (and are thus in a position bet...

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Public Facebook pages for quizbowl organizations are a good thing. They provide visibility and quick publicity--also, when one's team does well at some competition, there's something about sharing [congratulatory post from impressive-sounding organization] that appeals to that grandmother who final...

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"living in DC" != "having even the most tenuous connection to DC quizbowl" So let's see: 1. I've directed five years running in DC / Arlington one of the largest quizbowl events of the year (and yes, for this purpose, NHBB is totally quizbowl - the use of buzzers & pyramidal...

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Aside from the above comments, I wanted to add a few final words about the Olympiad. First, I'd like to thank all the participants and their families for their trust in us to put together an inaugural event that you spent a very significant amount of time and money to compete in. That really does me...

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And what percent of IHO attendees are "top players"? (as in people who actually go - not who gets inferred discounts) Ah, yes. I'm not sure why you think this is a perspicacious point of criticism. The % of "top players" by any reasonable definition was higher at the Olympiad, t...

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As mentioned earlier, there were a number of misconceptions in this post. I am correcting them / explaining further as needed. I happened to be free last weekend, so I ended up going down to Williamsburg to help out IHO for a bit. Here are a few observations from what I saw of the event, plus from t...

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Are there any specific examples of this? I've helped* set up multiple regional organizations (and there's yet another in the works right now) and never had any intimation from people in quizbowl or on this forum that doing so was "in opposition to them." There was some justified concern a...

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Are there any specific examples of this? I've helped* set up multiple regional organizations (and there's yet another in the works right now) and never had any intimation from people in quizbowl or on this forum that doing so was "in opposition to them." There was some justified concern a...

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I agree with Matt that the community needs to be more open to the use of social media, particularly Facebook group pages. Northern California and Southern California have active pages that are very helpful for organizing, scheduling, outreach and more. I think that part of the reason that quizbowl h...

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Very briefly, I'm in the middle of the post-Olympiad tour, and will post some thoughts next week once I have time to decompress. I do not believe though that Harry's post begins to really tell the full story of what the week was like (and I don't see the sense in speculating about price or the prog...

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Very briefly, I'm in the middle of the post-Olympiad tour, and will post some thoughts next week once I have time to decompress. I do not believe though that Harry's post begins to really tell the full story of what the week was like (and I don't see the sense in speculating about price or the progr...

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This is for Middle and Elementary School Students - if they qualify for JV Nationals in April in Arlington, they are welcome to attend both, as the questions used are different.

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No, as mentioned in an email, they'll be coordinated so that they go on during the same afternoon time slot. There's 4.5 hours in that block, and the hextathlon won't take more than 2.5 hours more to do. That should leave sufficient time for Table Combined. We're still tallying up the sign ups, but ...

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Registration for the Olympiad has now closed and barring unforeseen drops, this list should be considered finalized. We expect to have 12 Varsity, 16 JV, and 16 Middle School teams that will be formed after the Battery exam on July 9, though those numbers are subject to change.

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David R. is right about the origins of most of the other Olympiads, to the best of my knowledge, though I know that iGeo began in the 1990’s after communism had collapsed (it nevertheless is proportionally attended better in Central and Eastern Europe than by any other part of the world). I think so...

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Okay, one last post from me on this thread, since I had some time today to address some things here: On Ben’s post For the US Geography Olympiad, unless Nationals is going to be a free for all with numerous unqualified students, we need to have a qualification process for it. The exams do that very ...

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First off, I greatly appreciate the time and thought that everyone has put into this thread, especially Matt Jackson. As Matt mentioned, aside from taking the time to write the NHBB post, he also spent four hours discussing NHBB with me over dinner last month. Combined with his leadership (along wit...

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You've used this exact line of argument in the past, and it's not as valid as you might think. In each case, the idea of "Well this batch of students over here is getting a product, so they're satisfied" isn't telling the whole story, when there's the opportunity cost of making another pr...

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RexSueciae wrote:
Santa Claus wrote:
RexSueciae wrote:Andrew Huang from Arcadia
That's Andrew Leung, not Andrew Huang; Andrew Huang is from High Tech.
Whoops. The wrong Andrew is currently listed in the IHO field thread.

This has been fixed, and the divisions of each player have been added too.

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The list has been updated with today's 3 registrants, as well as divisions for each student. The splits are quite even across all divisions, in fact.

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As with many new projects / new regions we take on, it's very difficult for us to predict where things will catch on. I had no way of knowing, for example, that we'd get proportionally more elite JV players than Varsity players or that the Olympiad would take off in Hong Kong. In terms of why the Ol...

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NHBB Lower Hudson returns to White Plains High School for the 6th year on Dec. 19. Further NHBB dates to follow soon. Also, can we get a calendar post up as usual for the area with dates?

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In going through my emails, I discovered an email I had sent to various people last month asking for help with the Olympiad sets and promising a rate of $4.50 a question. I'll hold to that rate for all Olympiad tossups - the other question rates will also be increased by $.50 accordingly. This shoul...

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To address the more legitimate questions and points here briefly: 1. We are using googledocs, checklists, and the like. We are also going to keep daily tabs on everyone's progress and adjust as needed. In terms of Fred's point, Weiner was making a rate commensurate with his status as a top question ...

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http://www.historybowl.com/resources/study-guides-resources/2015-high-school-nationals-question-sets/ for High School Bee and Bowl http://www.ushistorybee.org/about/sample-questions-study-guide/ for US History Bee http://www.geographyolympiad.com/nationals/sample-questions-geography-challenge-nation...

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A few things in response to Dave: -It's one thing to write questions in the summer, which makes sense, but a two week deadline is a bit perplexing. Why wasn't this call sent out earlier? Was this (groan) yet more questions supposed to have been written by Matt Weiner? -It's interesting that you say...

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22 days, ~1800 questions? Remind me again, which genius was it that thought up an event requiring ANOTHER 2000+ tossups....after the massive NHBBB Nationals set? Me. And you know what? We'll do it, and we'll compensate those who help out with a rate that is highly competitive. There are quite a few...

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Where would someone who didn't receive their award at the NASAT banquet get their award. Or who should I talk to? I have contacted all the recipients and we're working this out. Recipients will receive their awards and checks by the end of the month (or at the Intl. History Olympiad if they prefer).

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The 2016 Middle School and Elementary Division National Championships of the National History Bee & Bowl and US Geography Olympiad will be held on June 10-12 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, IL near Chicago. The schedule of the weekend will look very similar to that of this year with th...

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2016 Weekend of April 22th-24th It probably bears mention that in 2016, Passover begins in the evening of April 22nd and continues until April 30th. This may be a problem. There's no way to get a perfect set of dates for everyone. If we did it a week later, we'd be right up against AP exams (which ...

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NHBB has learned after 5 years of running Nationals that the optimal way to distribute awards is to just ensure that whoever is reading the last games in which players who are going to receive awards are playing in should just be given the awards and told to give them to the players. Trying to do aw...

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For a concrete example of what happens when there's too much quizbowl for a circuit to handle, SoCal 2014 - 2015 is a textbook example. We had sixteen (16) regular season tournaments, one (1) nationals-prep tournament, one (1) novice tournament, and two (2) middle school tournaments. As a consequen...

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