Freelance Quiz Bowl University returns for the fall with another series of articles about how to get better at the behind-the-scenes aspects of quiz bowl – writing better questions, running better tournaments, and practicing to make you and your team more competitive. This fall’s series begins with a four-step method for writing tossups that avoid the Biography Bowl trap. That article can be found here.

Freelance Quiz Bowl University articles will debut every other Thursday, excepting Thanksgiving, for a total of seven fall articles. In some future articles we plan on using additional media, such as PowerPoint slide shows and videos, to provide even better instruction.

If you have a suggestion for a Freelance Quiz Bowl University article topic, please contact Dwight Wynne at dpwynne@gmail.com.

After the resignation of Matt Weiner for personal reasons, Gautam Kandlikar has been elected vice president of tournament direction. Gautam and Andrew Hart will serve as co-tournament directors for this year’s NSC. PACE congratulates Gautam and Andrew, and we look forward to their excellent work with the NSC.

The Partnership for for Academic Competition Excellence would like to announce the results of its elections for the 2010 to 2011 quizbowl season. At the conclusion of PACE’s internal elections, the following members have been elected to officerships and positions on PACE’s Board of Directors:

President Trygve Meade
Secretary Carsten Gehring
Treasurer Donald Taylor
Vice President of Communications Hannah Kirsch
Vice President of Editing Andy Watkins
Vice President of Outreach Charlie Dees
Vice President of Technology Dan Goff
Vice President of Tournament Direction Matt Weiner

The position of at-large member remains vacant pending a special election.

Congratulations to all new officers; we look forward to your fine work throughout this upcoming year.

We have combined all of the statistics for this tournament into one link and put each team’s final rank into the file. It can be found at this link.

Congratulations to all of these teams, and thanks to everyone for attending (and their patience for these stats)!

We have updated the prelim stats and have uploaded our playoff and superplayoff stats. We hope to have tiebreakers and crossover games added very soon.