2019 NHBB Online

See also: Question recycling

The 2019 "NHBB" Discord Tournament, also known colloquially as "NHBB Online", was an online history bee-style tournament held during April 2019 on Discord servers. The brainchild of 8th grade Laurel Springs NHB player Ameya Singh, the tournament was won by Sam Brochin in a small field. Besides being called a logistical "mess" by some people involved, the event attracted controversy after it was revealed that a number of questions it used were more or less plagiarized from QuizDB and/or past NHBB events, resulting in a minor scandal.

Staffers known to be involved in this tournament

• Ameya Singh, director
• Wesley Zhang
• Dean Ah Now
• Lewis Fuller
• Rishi Raman

Aftermath and "scandal"

The tournament had consistently promoted itself as an original housewrite (at the very least, according to the info posted on HSQuizbowl.org). However, as documented on this thread, after the tournament's preliminary stages had concluded and packets uploaded online, suspicion was aroused when numerous members of the online QB community pointed out that many of the tossups used in the tournament were either directly copied from, or extremely similar to, questions used in past tournaments run by other organizations, even though it admitted to not being affiliated in any way with either NHBB or International Academic Competitions (IAC). Some also pointed out that this seeming attempt to essentially pass off questions written by other writers as their own work might potentially constitute copyright infringement.

The above issue was likely the result of a last-minute rush to 'fill out' incomplete packets that were missing a large number of questions. Some posters on the above thread also said they believed Singh to be too inexperienced to be TD'ing a tournament, but that he still "should have known better".

Fortunately, to his credit, Singh eventually later apologized for any errors on his part.

Packets used

Samples from the prelims include:

• Packet 1
• Packet 2
• Packet 3