I'm going to be brief here because I have an engagement party to go to, but I wanted to set up a thread for players/coaches/readers/whomever to provide feedback on the questions that were utilized for Regionals (and are to be utilized at States in 3 weeks). For those of you that do not know, the questions were written by former Ohio standout quizbowler Ike Jose and myself. I would like to publicly thank Ike for again writing high quality questions that required little work to get into final form. I, as "head editor" if that's what you want to call it, was responsible for the final form of the questions, so if there is an issue with anything in the set, that would ultimately fall on me. With that said, the writing duties were divided up as follows:
Steven:
All History
Fine Arts - painting
American Government (Category Round)
Geography
Christian religion
Greco-Roman mythology
Current Events
Other Fine Arts - film
Ike:
All Literature
All Science
Mathematics (Category Round)
Economics (Category Round)
Non-Christian religion
Non-Greco-Roman mythology
Social Science
Fine Arts - music
Other Fine Arts - all non-film
Philosophy
The questions seemed to play well as the SE Regional site and there were no major issues that I heard about, so hopefully that is true for the other sites as well. I (and I am sure Ike as well) am very interested in receiving any and all feedback on the questions, so please feel free to speak up and be frank in your criticism, whether good or bad. Also feel free to PM me if you would rather keep your criticism private. If any sites are compiling conversion data, I would also be interested in seeing that information.
I hope everyone enjoyed the set, and I look forward to it being played States!