LONE STAR ready for mirrors, 2020-21, HS Regular Difficulty
Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 11:30 pm
LONE STAR (Look Out, a New and Exciting Set of Texan Academic Rigor) will be ready for mirrors from the start of the entire 2020-21 season!
I, Daniel Ma, am head editing this set; besides Dr. Mukherjee and Michael Yue, all other set members, as of now, are Texans, hence the name. The set team is currently composed of Aayush Goodapaty, Akshay Shyam, Daniel Ma, Eric Mukherjee, Jisoo Yoo, Johnny Vasilyev, Josh Rubel, Ketan Pamurthy, Michael Artlip, Michael Patison, Michael Yue, Ned Tagtmeier, Nikita Nair, Robert Condron, Roman Madoerin, and Thomas Gioia.
The set will consist of thirteen 20/20 packets (20 pyramidal, powermarked tossups, 20 three-part bonuses). Each tossup will be 450-550 characters long and each full bonus totaling at most 8 lines in 10 point Times New Roman font.
This set will be High School Regular Difficulty, approximately equal in difficulty to NAQT's Invitational Series sets, and we aim for questions that will both be accessible to newer teams and still be interesting and engaging for more experienced veterans.
Distribution
There will be no computational math.
4/4 Literature
> 1.5/1.5 Long Fiction
> 1/1 Poetry (non-epic)
> 0.75/0.75 Drama
> 0.75/0.75 Other
4/4 History
> 1.25/1.25 American
> 1.25/1.25 European
> 1.5/1.5 World (roughly 1/3 each of Asian, Ancient, and other, including cross-region within history)
4/4 Science
> 1/1 Biology
> 1/1 Chemistry
> 1/1 Physics
> 0.5/0.5 Mathematics (non-computational) and Computer Science
> 0.5/0.5 Astronomy/Cosmology and Earth Science
3/3 Fine Arts
> 1/1 Painting and Sculpture
> 0.5/0.5 Other Visual (including Architecture, Photography, Film, Dance, Performance, Decorative, Design)
> 1/1 Classical Music
> 0.5/0.5 Other Auditory (including Opera, Jazz, Musicals, World Music)
2.5/2.5 RMPSS
> 0.75/0.75 Religion
> 0.75/0.75 Mythology
> 0.5/0.5 Philosophy
> 0.5/0.5 Social Science
1/1 Geography
0.75/0.75 Current Events
0.75/0.75 Pop Culture and Sports
Editorial Staff
Head Editor: Daniel Ma
Literature Editors: Thomas Gioia and Michael Yue
History Editor: Daniel Ma
Science Editor: Roman Madoerin and Dr. Eric Mukherjee
Arts Editor: Daniel Ma
RMPSS Editor: Robert Condron
Geography Editor: Daniel Ma
Current Events Editor: Michael Patison
Pop Culture/Sports Editor: Michael Patison
Fees
The mirror fee is $10 per attending team. All we ask is that hosts not alter question content in any way, nor release any information about questions to the public before it is EXPLICITLY ALLOWED ON THIS FORUM.
Please email me to request a mirror, or If you have any questions, at [email protected].
I, Daniel Ma, am head editing this set; besides Dr. Mukherjee and Michael Yue, all other set members, as of now, are Texans, hence the name. The set team is currently composed of Aayush Goodapaty, Akshay Shyam, Daniel Ma, Eric Mukherjee, Jisoo Yoo, Johnny Vasilyev, Josh Rubel, Ketan Pamurthy, Michael Artlip, Michael Patison, Michael Yue, Ned Tagtmeier, Nikita Nair, Robert Condron, Roman Madoerin, and Thomas Gioia.
The set will consist of thirteen 20/20 packets (20 pyramidal, powermarked tossups, 20 three-part bonuses). Each tossup will be 450-550 characters long and each full bonus totaling at most 8 lines in 10 point Times New Roman font.
This set will be High School Regular Difficulty, approximately equal in difficulty to NAQT's Invitational Series sets, and we aim for questions that will both be accessible to newer teams and still be interesting and engaging for more experienced veterans.
Distribution
There will be no computational math.
4/4 Literature
> 1.5/1.5 Long Fiction
> 1/1 Poetry (non-epic)
> 0.75/0.75 Drama
> 0.75/0.75 Other
4/4 History
> 1.25/1.25 American
> 1.25/1.25 European
> 1.5/1.5 World (roughly 1/3 each of Asian, Ancient, and other, including cross-region within history)
4/4 Science
> 1/1 Biology
> 1/1 Chemistry
> 1/1 Physics
> 0.5/0.5 Mathematics (non-computational) and Computer Science
> 0.5/0.5 Astronomy/Cosmology and Earth Science
3/3 Fine Arts
> 1/1 Painting and Sculpture
> 0.5/0.5 Other Visual (including Architecture, Photography, Film, Dance, Performance, Decorative, Design)
> 1/1 Classical Music
> 0.5/0.5 Other Auditory (including Opera, Jazz, Musicals, World Music)
2.5/2.5 RMPSS
> 0.75/0.75 Religion
> 0.75/0.75 Mythology
> 0.5/0.5 Philosophy
> 0.5/0.5 Social Science
1/1 Geography
0.75/0.75 Current Events
0.75/0.75 Pop Culture and Sports
Editorial Staff
Head Editor: Daniel Ma
Literature Editors: Thomas Gioia and Michael Yue
History Editor: Daniel Ma
Science Editor: Roman Madoerin and Dr. Eric Mukherjee
Arts Editor: Daniel Ma
RMPSS Editor: Robert Condron
Geography Editor: Daniel Ma
Current Events Editor: Michael Patison
Pop Culture/Sports Editor: Michael Patison
Fees
The mirror fee is $10 per attending team. All we ask is that hosts not alter question content in any way, nor release any information about questions to the public before it is EXPLICITLY ALLOWED ON THIS FORUM.
Please email me to request a mirror, or If you have any questions, at [email protected].