I was a writer and editor for 2024 ESPN (Ethan Strombeck's Pre-Nationals), an open-level set. As a writer, I wrote 70 total questions, or slightly more than 10% of the set. As an editor, I was in charge of the American History, Current Events, and Other Academic questions.
This was my first experience writing and editing for a higher-difficulty set. Continuing with the vision I had for my previous work, I wanted to have both questions that stuck to a particular theme as well as questions that drew from multiple sources of knowledge. Examples of the former include the tossup on the Washington family's slaves and the tossup on George H. W. Bush centered around quotes, and the latter include tossups on Disneyland and data.
I also completed a personal goal of writing at least one question for each subcategory, which is an excellent exercise in putting together information from different categories and learning from the questions writing process!
Finally, I was lucky to be able to staff two in-person sites at Columbia and Brown, where I saw the questions befuddle, challenge, and delight players. The recordings from my room at the Columbia site can be found here. Many thanks to all of my co-writers and editors, as well as anyone who played and enjoyed the questions!