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• Berry
  ...e club that has been an active circuit member since at least the 1970s. In fact, much of the early development of a quizbowl "circuit" can be attributed to For many years, Berry history professor [[Gordon Carper|N. Gordon Carper]] led the Berry program and spea
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• Gallatin
  ==History== ...ad coach in school history. The 2018-2019 Gallatin team was notable in the fact that it featured three eventual TACA All-State players, out of the five the
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• Misuse of statistics
  ...ams, and statistical analysis tools in a futile attempt to make up for the fact that the premises or underlying data being fed into the model are incorrect ...player- or team-ranking formula ever produced, which seeks to sidestep the fact that the data collected about quizbowl games are insufficient by manipulati
  4 KB (614 words) - 10:32, 14 April 2023
• Louisiana-Lafayette
  == History == ...a record of 10-3, and advancing to [[NAQT ICT]] for the first time in its history.
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• 2009 Wilmington Charter
  ...te College powered the tossup, but subsequently earned zero on the English history bonus. Charter stole 20 of the bonus points to secure the win. ...[[2009 HSNCT]] in the second game of an advantaged final over Dorman. In fact, this was the fifth time the two teams had been forced to play during the t
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• Springfield High School
  == History == Not much is known about Springfield from this time, other then the fact that they often rivaled the prestigious [[Springfield Southeast]] that was
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• Writing
  ...y passed on for [[editing]]; the [[editor]] can be the same person, and in fact editors typically also write. Writing is a very technical process which req ...ly 500 questions need to be written for any given [[tournament]]. The long history of [[packet submission]] and [[housewrites]] means that, historically, many
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• National Academic League
  ==History== ...example, a science class is worth 4 points; mathematics is worth 3 points; History is worth 2 points; and English is worth 3 points. The values of the grade l
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• Mahoning County Quizbowl League
  == History of the Competition == ...ls from angry parents over the length of matches. This was in spite of the fact that the reading rate of the complaining coach was, to put it delicately, n
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• Strake Jesuit
  == History == ...ou City Invitational. However, they did not attend that season's HSNCT. In fact, after Bayou City, Strake played one more tournament (13th of 20 at the 201
  7 KB (1,134 words) - 16:48, 26 July 2022
• ACF Regionals
  ==History== ...Regionals]] was noticeably easier than [[2007 ACF Regionals]] (and was in fact statistically easier than [[SCT|NAQT Sectionals]] of the same year).
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• Importance
  ...tions ("[[knowledge]]") and those which are not suitable ("[[trivia]]"). A fact is "'''important'''" if it has qualities which justify its inclusion in que ! the political history of Paraguay
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• 2000 NSC
  ...ntion for the championship through round 10, this was the only year in the history of the NSC in which no separate consolation playoff was held. ...ure over a pattern of behavior at this tournament, including revealing the fact that a particular answer was coming up in a future packet when a player inc
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• Woburn CI
  ==History== ...wed by the undercurrents of acrimony felt within the team, driven from the fact that they were almost denied their spot in the Provincials championship not
  7 KB (1,076 words) - 22:49, 17 January 2023
• Tossup
  # an individual clue (which, in turn, can mean either an individual fact or a sentence) ...r (e.g. "this person", "this country"). At an earlier point in quiz bowl's history, questions would frequently use vague pronouns like "this" or omit them ent
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• Oxford
  ==History== ...awkins, the author of ''The God Delusion'', was once the patron of OUQS, a fact that delighted many American quizbowlers at the time.
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• Weiner's Laws
  ...ry attempting to generate advanced quizbowl statistics can make up for the fact that the underlying data on [[conventional stats|basic stat reports]] just ...att Weiner failed to heed his own axioms at the [[2012 Collegiate National History Bowl]], resulting in a slight, though predictable, pizza shortage.
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• Modern World
  ...g" event) or to have a "dinner break" before starting round 1, despite the fact that PACE NSC was scheduled to completely end by 4:00 and met this goal, we ...ice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety. Sorice eventually entered
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• Hunter
  ...MSNCT]], [[National History Bee and Bowl|2021 NHBB (Varsity)]], [[National History Bee and Bowl|2022 NHBB (Varsity)]] =History=
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• Olympian
  ==History== ...nto the core team that would take Olympian to its apex. Highlighted in the fact that in the 2017 HSNCT, Olympian B - which consisted of these players, Zach
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