IQBT Regular Season Set #4 (HS) Available 1/27/24

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International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC will be producing a regular difficulty high school set for the 2023-24 season. The set will consist of 12 rounds of 21/21 questions. The first mirror date will be January 27. The mirror fee will be $20 per team, including house teams.

This set will be head edited by Matt Weiner.

The per-round top level distribution of the set is as follows:

History 4/4
Literature 4/4 (includes 0.5/0.5 mythology and 0.25/0.25 religion)
Science 4/4
Art 3/3
Current Events 1/1
Geography 1/1
Pop culture 1/1
Miscellaneous 0.5/0.5
Religion 0.5/0.5
Social science 0.5/0.5
Thought 0.5/0.5

IQBT is offering outreach assistance with using our set. If you commit to hosting with our set, we will send, at no additional cost, 25 recruitment letters to local schools of your choice on professional IQBT letterhead and in envelopes with our logo. Additional letter sending is available at the cost of $1 per letter. Additional recruitment assistance is available as determined by our availability.

This set will be available for the 2024 calendar year.

If you are interested in using this set at your local tournament, please let me know by emailing me at [email protected].

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Future mirrors:

January 27 - Parkway South High School, Manchester, Missouri
March 2 - California Cup #3 (Competitive & Standard Divisions), Oakland High School, Oakland, California
March 16 - Detroit Catholic Central High School, Novi, Michigan
March 23 - March Academic Invitational in Nevada (MAIN), Nevada High School, Nevada, Missouri
March 30 - Eagles Academic Spring Tournament IV, Edison High School, Edison, New Jersey
April 13 - Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
September 21 - Glasgow High School, Glasgow, Kentucky

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IQBT Regular Season Set #1 is available for free at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/2833/.

[mithokie]

I am curious about your inclusion of sales tax in the price as public schools (and I imagine private schools too, but I don't have first hand knowledge) are tax exempt organizations and should be exempt from sales tax. I know if we were to choose to mirror IQBT, our school bookkeeper would take issue with our school being charged sales tax. If you had a tax exempt certificate from the school, would the fee be $20/team instead? Thanks!

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I am curious about your inclusion of sales tax in the price as public schools (and I imagine private schools too, but I don't have first hand knowledge) are tax exempt organizations and should be exempt from sales tax. I know if we were to choose to mirror IQBT, our school bookkeeper would take issue with our school being charged sales tax. If you had a tax exempt certificate from the school, would the fee be $20/team instead? Thanks!

I was under the impression it'd be waived for in-state schools but walked away with the impression that it wasn't for out-of-state schools. I'll have to call the state tax office for clarification.

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I just confirmed that moving forward, there is no sales tax necessary on the majority of instances of using this or other IQBT RSSes.

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This set will be making its debut at the end of the month, and is still available for mirroring!

I just posted some feedback we received from one of our hosts who used our Regular Season Set #3 in its thread here.