Prison Bowl

Prison Bowl is a series of annual winter/spring high school question sets produced largely by Hunter since 2008. They have generally been praised for their quality. Historically, many teams have traveled long distances to compete in the main tournament hosted at Hunter.

Its name derives from Hunter's nickname, "Brick Prison," since the fortress-like school building resembles a prison with sparse narrow windows.

Question sets

Prison Bowl I

2008 Prison Bowl was written by Hunter and North Kansas City, and head-edited by Guy Tabachnick and Charlie Dees.

Prison Bowl II

In 2009, Prison Bowl II was a collaboration between Hunter and Walter Johnson, head-edited by Guy Tabachnick and Daichi Ueda.

Prison Bowl III

Prison Bowl III was written entirely by Hunter, with some last-minute contributors. Its head-editor was then-sophomore Lily Chen.

Average tossup length came down to 5 lines for this iteration, a change which stayed in 2011.

Prison Bowl IV

Prison Bowl IV was a 15-packet set, this time written entirely by Hunter and again edited by Lily Chen.

Starting in 2017, the tossups are power-marked.

Main site results

Year	# of teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth
2008	17	Stuyvesant A	Gonzaga	Bergen A	Half Hollow Hills West A
2009	24	State College A	Dorman	Wilmington Charter A	Stuyvesant A
2010	14	LASA	St. Anselm's	Dorman	St. Joseph A
2011	19	Dorman	Detroit Catholic Central	St. Anselm's	Georgetown Day School
2012	24	Georgetown Day School A	Thomas Jefferson A	Ardsley A	St. Joseph B
2013	30	St. Joseph's A	High Technology A	High Technology B	High Technology C
2014	36	Wilmington Charter A	High Technology	St. Joseph A	Wilmington Charter B
2015	30	High Technology B	Bethlehem	Livingston A	Bergen A
2016	29	Detroit Catholic Central	Bergen	East Brunswick	West Egg A
2017	28	Jet Fuel	Quiz Bowl But Every Time We Neg It Gets Faster	West Egg A	Darien A
2018	36	High Tech A	Downingtown STEM	Bard A	Livingston A
2019	36	High Tech A	Team An Won A	Miami Valley	Ithaca A
2020	22	Ridgewood A	East Brunswick B	Livingston	Democritus A
2022	24	Great Valley A	Detroit Catholic Central	J.P. Stevens	Manheim Township A
2023	36	Detroit Country Day	Detroit Catholic Central	Choate A	Strake Jesuit
2024	24	Strake Jesuit	Belmont	Hastings	Thomas Jefferson A
2025	23	Billions Must Neg A	Detroit Catholic Central	Strake Jesuit A	Hastings