Olympia Academic Competition Questions - Revision history

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Charles Hang at 23:39, 21 April 2013

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Charles Hang at 06:20, 3 August 2011

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 |president = [[Charles Hang]]
 |citystate = Saint Charles, MO
-|status = Inactive
+|status = CLOSED
 | }}
-'''Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC''' is a company which provides [["good"]], high quality Quiz Bowl questions, particularly at the middle school level. It is currently led by [[Charles Hang]], who founded the company in Fall 2010.
+'''Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC''' was a company that provided [["good"]], high quality Quiz Bowl questions, particularly at the middle school level. It was led by [[Charles Hang]], who founded the company in Fall 2010.
-They have not produced a set since the 2012-2013 season.
+The company closed in 2013.
 ==History==
 The idea of Olympia was first conceived in late 2009 in response to a perceived lack of providers of good questions serving the middle school level. The success of founder [[Charles Hang|Charles Hang's]] early forays into question writing, including the writing of the 2009 Varsity tournament at [[Richland (Missouri High School)|Richland]] and a Quadrangular set for Coach Jeffrey Price at [[Barrington Station Middle School|Barrington Station]] convinced him that a question writing company could be a viable business. Furthermore, the success of the [[Collaborative Middle School Tournament]] indicated that an [[ACF]] format set at the middle school level could be successfully mirrored all around the country. Thus, Olympia was officially incorporated in October of 2010 in order to provide high quality questions at the middle school level. [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=10734]
-==Products==
+==Former Products==
 ===ACF Format Sets===
-Olympia's flagship product is the ACF format set, which follows a format similar to that pioneered by the [[ACF|Academic Competition Federation]]. For the 2010-2011 season, Olympia plans on producing two ACF format sets. [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/tournament-questions.html]
+Olympia's flagship product was the ACF format set, which followed a format similar to that pioneered by the [[ACF|Academic Competition Federation]]. One or two sets were produced per season.
 ===Other Middle School Sets===
-Olympia also offers question sets in various formats (such as those of [[GATA]] and [[IESA]]) which share questions with its ACF format sets. [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/tournament-questions.html]
+Olympia also offered question sets in various formats (such as those of [[GATA]] and [[IESA]]) which shared questions with its ACF format sets.
 ===Additional Sets===
-Olympia also offers a number of additional sets for sale from its operations in 2009-2010, including its sets from the [[Barrington Station Middle School|Barrington Quads]] and [[Richland|Richland Varsity]] tournaments. [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/tournament-questions.html]
+Olympia also offered a number of additional sets for sale from its operations in 2009-2010, including its sets from the [[Barrington Station Middle School|Barrington Quads]] and [[Richland|Richland Varsity]] tournaments.
 ====Missouri Scholars Academy Scholar Bowl====
-Since 2009, [[Charles Hang]] has helped provide questions for the [[Missouri Scholars Academy Scholar Bowl]] tournament held at the [[Missouri|University of Missouri-Columbia]]. In 2010, Olympia wrote the entire tournament, a total of seven rounds of forty tossups each. The set was also mirrored at the Arkansas Governor's School Quiz Bowl tournament held at [[Harding University]]. [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/tournaments-using-our-questions.html]
+[[Charles Hang]] helped provide questions for the [[Missouri Scholars Academy Scholar Bowl]] tournament held at the [[Missouri|University of Missouri-Columbia]]. In 2010, Olympia wrote the entire tournament, a total of seven rounds of forty tossups each. The set was also mirrored at the Arkansas Governor's School Quiz Bowl tournament held at [[Harding University]].
-The 2010 Scholar Bowl set is available for sale on Olympia's website, and Olympia intends to continue offering free questions to both summer gifted programs, as well as any other programs seeking to host free summer Quiz Bowl tournaments, in upcoming years. [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/ordering.html]
+The 2010 Scholar Bowl set was available for sale on Olympia's website, and Olympia offered free questions to summer gifted programs and other programs seeking to host free summer Quiz Bowl tournaments.
 ==Writer Structure==
-Olympia's writer structure is unique in that all writers must complete a monthly assignment of a predetermined number of questions. In turn, writers are paid standard amounts per tossup and per bonus written which vary depending on the position a writer holds in Olympia's two tiered writer structure. Though this system is derived from the compensation structures of both [[HSAPQ]] and [[NAQT]], it differs from both. Unlike with [[HSAPQ]], which does supply writers with assignments, writer assignments do not vary with requirements and pay is constant rather than varying with the number of times that set is mirrored. Unlike with [[NAQT]], which does offer standardized compensation for tossups and bonuses, writers have regular obligations to write a fixed number of questions rather than writing as many as they choose. [http://www.naqt.com/jobs.html][http://www.olympiaquestions.com/joining-us.html]
+Olympia's writer structure was unique in that all writers were required to complete a monthly assignment of a predetermined number of questions. In turn, writers were paid standard amounts per tossup and per bonus written, which were dependent on a pay tier. Though this system was derived from the compensation structures of both [[HSAPQ]] and [[NAQT]], it differed from both. Unlike with [[HSAPQ]], which supplied writers with assignments, writer assignments do not vary with requirements and pay was constant rather than varying with the number of times a set was mirrored. Unlike with [[NAQT]], which offers standardized compensation for tossups and bonuses, writers had regular obligations to write a fixed number of questions rather than writing as many as they chose.
 ===Full Writers===
-Olympia's full writers receive $2.00 per tossup and $0.50 per bonus part (or $1.50 per three part ACF bonus). They are obligated to write twenty tossups and twenty bonuses per month. [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/joining-us.html]
+Olympia's full writers received $2.00 per tossup and $0.50 per bonus part. They were obligated to write twenty tossups and twenty bonuses per month. Those rates were considered high at the time.
 ===Associate Writers===
-Olympia's associate writers receive $1.00 per tossup and $0.25 per bonus part (or $0.75 per three part ACF bonus). They are obligated to write ten tossups and ten bonuses per month. [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/joining-us.html]
+Olympia's associate writers received $1.00 per tossup and $0.25 per bonus part (or $0.75 per three part ACF bonus). They were obligated to write ten tossups and ten bonuses per month. Those rates were low to average at the time.
 ===Additional Personnel===
-Olympia also has a dedicated copy editor to proofread all questions before they are distributed. The copy editor is compensated based on the number of tournament sets which he proofreads at a rate of $40.00 per ACF format set and $15.00 per set derived from one of Olympia's ACF sets. [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/joining-us.html]
+Olympia also retained a dedicated copy editor from time to time, who proofread all questions before distribution. The copy editor was compensated at a flat rate of $40 per ACF-format set and $15 per derivation.
 == External Links ==
-[http://www.olympiaquestions.com/ Company Website]
+[http://www.olympiaquestions.com/ Company Website; exists, but defunct]
 [[Category:Question writing companies]]
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 '''Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC''' is a company which provides [["good"]], high quality Quiz Bowl questions, particularly at the middle school level. It is currently led by [[Charles Hang]], who founded the company in Fall 2010.
 ==History==

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-'''Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC''' is a company which provides [[good quizbowl|high quality]] Quiz Bowl questions, particularly at the middle school level. It is currently led by [[Charles Hang]], who founded the company in Fall 2010.
+'''Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC''' is a company which provides [["good"]], high quality Quiz Bowl questions, particularly at the middle school level. It is currently led by [[Charles Hang]], who founded the company in Fall 2010.
 ==History==
 The idea of Olympia was first conceived in late 2009 in response to a perceived lack of providers of good questions serving the middle school level. The success of founder [[Charles Hang|Charles Hang's]] early forays into question writing, including the writing of the 2009 Varsity tournament at [[Richland (Missouri High School)|Richland]] and a Quadrangular set for Coach Jeffrey Price at [[Barrington Station Middle School|Barrington Station]] convinced him that a question writing company could be a viable business. Furthermore, the success of the [[Collaborative Middle School Tournament]] indicated that an [[ACF]] format set at the middle school level could be successfully mirrored all around the country. Thus, Olympia was officially incorporated in October of 2010 in order to provide high quality questions at the middle school level. [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=10734]
 ==Products==

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 Associate Writers
 * [[Douglas Graebner]] [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/writers.html]
-* [[Ikshu Neithaleth]] [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/writers.html]
+* [[Ikshu Neithalath]] [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/writers.html]
 * [[Bobby Dorigo Jones]] [http://www.olympiaquestions.com/writers.html]
 * [[Robert Lawson]]