2019 NHBB Online
The 2019 "NHBB" Discord Tournament, also known colloquially as "NHBB Online", was an online history bee-style event held during April 2019 on Discord. It was principally run by eighth-grader Ameya Singh of Laurel Springs, who conceived the initial idea. It had a small field, won by Sam Brochin, and it is known for recycled questions, resulting in a major scandal.
The event was promoted on HSQB as a "housewrite based off of NHBB/IHB packets"; however, some of the tossups were plagarized with varying alterations. Discord chat logs demonstrated that the plagiarism was intentional, but potentially not malicious. He ultimately offered a partial apology that was not received well by many community members.
Another aspect of the controversy concerned the name: the tournament's name seemed to suggest affiliation with NHBB, but in fact the tournament was in no way connected to NHBB or International Academic Competitions—it merely sought to emulate some stylistic aspects thereof.
These events may have been partly or wholly responsible for HSQB adding a separate subforum for open practices, scrimmages, and playtesting, along with rules governing announcements for events using old questions.
Packets used
A sample from the prelims was published online: