<p>No idea yet. I’m definitely set on Scobol Solo personally, and I think my school is going to the Wheaton kickoff since it’s the closest.</p>
<p>Sterling kickoff for us. Our history player is ineligible because he’s an idiot so I guess I know what I get to study next. boooooring</p>
<p>History is fuuuuuuun, man. Get psyched.</p>
<p>Oh my gosh, quiz bowl sounds so cool! I wish my school had it!
You guys have officially made me SOOOO jealous…</p>
<p>It’s a lot of fun. It’s hard to get people at my school to join, but once they start they always love it.</p>
<p>@HobbitTon
My school competes in the Atlanta area, if you don’t mind me asking, what school?</p>
<p>Kickoffs made me want to revive this thread, maybe it will give me something to do while I make stock-clue flashcards. Also just found out that small schools can place in their own division at HSNCT so I officially reeeeally want to go.</p>
<p>Raise some funds, brah. Selling candy should help. Our team did surprisingly well at Kickoff for it being our first NAQT comp, which was nice. Got me really excited for the season. </p>
<p>I’m hoping for HSNCT next year. Damn your small school advantage!</p>
<p>Ha to place as a small school last year you had to be like top 180 or something overall. We can’t do a fundraiser apparently because of an “oversaturation of fundraising in our district” but hopefully the booster club will be feeling generous. </p>
<p>Kickoff was a learning experience for me. Didn’t power nearly as many as I would’ve liked, so now I have a better feel for what gaps I need to fill at least. Won’t have a full team together at a tournament until january or INTENSE/Loyburn (if we go to either) so I guess I’ll have to wait to see how we function as a unit.</p>
<p>On a side note, today at practice our history player swore to our coach that he would never learn stock clues because he wants to answer questions based strictly on his real knowledge. He’s got a lot to learn about quiz bowl.</p>
<p>My team has made a lot of great strides this year already. We won a local tournament 5-0, convinced our principal to fund an NAQT New High School Package and an upcoming NAQT tournament, and finally acquired a lit specialist. We’ve also been regularly practicing on ProtoBowl, which is really awesome. I’m so psyched for this year!</p>
<p>Can anyone link me to any decent online question sets/info places or give me some good advice? My school’s team is local, and we practice for 30 minutes once a week, so I’d like to get some more practice if possible.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>^ I use HSAPQ sample sets to practice: [Sample</a> Questions – High School Academic Pyramid Questions](<a href=“http://www.hsapq.com/samples]Sample”>Sample Questions -- High School Academic Pyramid Questions)
It’s not exactly the same, as it’s a different company, but the questions are very similar and use the same pyramidal format.</p>
<p>I use [lobby</a> - ProtoBowl](<a href=“http://protobowl.com%5Dlobby”>http://protobowl.com) for extra practice. It draws from previously used pyramidal question sets from famous tourneys all across the country. Ridiculously helpful tool.</p>
<p>I like [url=<a href=“http://www.wikipedia.org%5DWikipedia%5B/url”>http://www.wikipedia.org]Wikipedia[/url</a>]</p>
<p>OP approves.</p>
<p>So how do you guys study literature and art? I am absolutely horrible in both, but that’s our team’s weakest point. When it comes to lit and art questions, it’s pretty pathetic because we say ‘John Steinbeck’ for every answer that we don’t know, which is a lot.</p>
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<p>If you are having problems with breadth as it would seem from your post, you might want to start compiling lists of authors that come up a lot (tolstoy, austen, dickens) and also their one or two best known works. You can do the same thing with artists, and after you have gained some decent breadth you can read plot summaries and study lesser known works to get some depth.</p>