2012 Penn Bowl

2012 Penn Bowl
Competition season	2011-12
Series	Penn Bowl
Head editor(s)	Eric Mukherjee
Difficulty	College regular difficulty
First mirror	January 28th, 2012
Announcement	link
Packets	link

2012 Penn Bowl was the last and by far the worst in a string of sketchily-written and -run Penn Bowls of the late aughts / early 2010s, and is widely considered the most disastrous regular-difficulty, regular-season set produced during its era. In recompense to the community, the core of the same editing team produced Penn-ance in the autumn of 2012, which was well-received and the first in a long series of Penn-edited sets that conformed to and upheld the standards of the college circuit. 2012 Penn Bowl was also the last Penn Bowl to be held in late January. To date, all Penn Bowls since have been held in October.

The original version of the set was head-edited by Eric Mukherjee and edited by Saajid Moyen, Patrick Liao, James Lasker, and possibly uncredited others. In the revised version played at future sites, Samuel Passaglia, Jerry Vinokurov, Jonathan Magin, and Brendan McKendy are also credited as editors.

At the main site, only two packets were ready when the tournament began (despite the fact that three of the packets used were submissions). Eric, Saajid, and Patrick continued to write/edit the set throughout the entire nine-round prelims, which ended after 6 PM. However, they had written/edited only four more packets, which meant there was only one packet left for what should have been an advantaged final between UVA and Yale. Fortunately, UVA (who had the advantage) won the first finals match.

After all mirrors had concluded, Penn made the unprecedented move of releasing an "original" version and a "final cut," so as not to hide the extent of the first version's problems but also to show the work they had performed to fix the set for the subsequent mirrors. However, the original version is no longer on hsquizbowl.org, nor is the original discussion thread.