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• Justin Duffy
  |highschool= [[Mounds View]] (2014-2018) ...stin Duffy''' is a player for [[Harvard]] and formerly [[Mounds View]]. He is a member of [[ACF]], having been an editor for [[2020 ACF Fall]].
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• Shardul Rao
  |highschool = [[Mounds View]] (2017-2021) ...of Minnesota]]. He previously attended high school at [[Mounds View|Mounds View High School]] in Minnesota. He was the [[NAQT High School Player of the Wee
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• QBTV
  ...(central) and [[Buena Vista|Buena Vista University]] (northwest). The show is the final project for students at the colleges the shows are filmed at. For
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• Mounds View
  ...Rao]] after the graduation of longtime leading scorer Justin Duffy, Mounds View capped a stellar league season by winning their first title. Further recent
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• NAQT Minnesota State Championship
  ...am in the state of Minnesota. Every iteration has been held on an [[NAQT]] IS set. It sometimes has an inferior field to the [[MNHSQB League]] tournament | IS-43
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• GINVIT
  ...set. In addition to qualifying teams for NAQT's national championships, it is usually a [[PACE]] gold certified [[NSC]] qualifier. | IS-38A
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• NASAT results by state by year
  ...o be directly viewed by anyone, which is why the formatting is so poor. To view the year-by-year results of states in NASAT, visit [[NASAT results by state
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• St. Francis (Mountain View, CA)
  Saint Francis High School is a 9-12 private Catholic high school in Mountain View, California. St. Francis finished 1st place at the 2017 Cal Classic, 2nd at
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• Alta-Aurelia Invitational
  | IS-114A | [[Ridge View]]
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• Hannah Kirsch
  |highschool = Pine View School (FL) Kirsch is married to [[Andy Watkins]].
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• East Central Ohio League
  ...s teams from the Tuscarawas, Coshocton, and Guernsey counties. The league is very loosely based off of the athletic league of the same name. * [[River View]]
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• SOCIAL
  ...] and the [[Minnesota Quiz Bowl Alliance]] (MQBA). Started in 2004, SOCIAL is usually run on an [[NAQT]] A set on the last Saturday in October. Beginning ...lack of interest caused by a scheduling conflict with [[Mounds View|Mounds View's]] RAFT mirror, and in 2020 SOCIAL was replaced by the MQBA's [[TRIVIA]] t
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• Clemson Tigertown Throwdown
  ...is an annual high school tournament hosted by [[Clemson]]. The tournament is usually held in the fall, but a second spring edition was held in the 2014- | IS-130
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• Dorman Season Ender
  The '''Dorman Season Ender''' is a tournament hosted by [[Dorman]]. It is typically held late in each season. The tournament runs on an NAQT set and |NAQT IS-71A
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• SnowCAT
  ...rst two iterations used [[NAQT]] A sets, but the tournament switched to an IS set in 2006 and has continued to use them since. The 2023 iteration of the | IS-40A
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• Haircut thread
  ...lies were made criticizing the post for being aggressively conservative in view and pushing conformity (e.g. "not everyone has the same opinions about what The haircut thread is infamous for its combination of Dees's confrontational posting style and th
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• Honda Campus All-Star Challenge
  ...(HSASC) is a program for historically black colleges and universities that is operated by the [[College Bowl|College Bowl Company]] and sponsored by Hond |[[1990 Prairie View A&M|Prairie View A&M]]
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• Cult of PPG
  ...in this case, perception of someone as "good at quiz bowl" leads others to view them as "good" at various other things.</onlyinclude> ...tendency to distill people's essence into the numbers central to the game is natural, but should be avoided through deliberate, conscious effort. In rec
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• Minnesota High School Quiz Bowl League
  ...prestigious than the official [[NAQT Minnesota State Championship]], as it is generally has a more challenging field. | '''[[Mounds View]]'''
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• How to join a private forum
  ...hich shows information about your posting activity. The second-to-last tab is called "Usergroups" - click it. ...your name and affiliation) will help them verify that you are permitted to view unclear set information.
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• Fairness
  <onlyinclude>The concept of '''fairness''' is the idea that the two [[teams]] competing in a [[game]] of quizbowl should Fairness is a key tenet of "[[good quizbowl]]"; conversely, it is often absent in "[[bad quizbowl]]".</onlyinclude>
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• Real knowledge
  ...used to indicate [[knowledge]] which was gained outside of quizbowl. This is contrasted to [[word association]] and meta-knowledge of [[stock clue]]s an ...much more likely to use inappropriate terminology and constructions. This is part of the larger trend of "[[Quizbowlese]]".</onlyinclude>
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• NAQT Middle School Team of the Week
  The '''NAQT Middle School Team of the Week''' is a program that began on 7 January 2017. This program recognizes a middle s |Mounds View, Minnesota
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• IHSA plagiarism scandal/Email from Ron McGraw to David Reinstein
  ...disagree with it. Generally, I cannot control your decisions as to when it is most appropriate to discuss your opinions related to IHSA Scholastic Bowl. First, I disagree with your point of view and your opinion regarding the topic you detail in your email. As I stated
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• How to expand the canon
  == There is no canon == ...rs of this forum are often the ones whose decisions make the canon what it is, hopefully this guide will help set some rough norms of canon expansion wit
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• Academic Olympics
  ...wl]], [[College Bowl]]-esque competition. All the information on this page is from online newspaper articles. ...ge?instance=news_schools| this article], "The purpose of Academic Olympics is to showcase students’ skills and knowledge, as well as to review their cu
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• Washington Knowledge Bowl
  '''Washington State Knowledge Bowl''' is an academic competition for high school students in Washington State. Impor ...take place in February or early March. The number of teams each ESD region is allotted for the state tournament varies each year with the number of schoo
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• 2013 NAQT Cheating Scandal
  ...Watkins had used his access to NAQT's internal writing/editing software to view the first forty characters in several questions in those tournaments. The c ...rk on 2011 PACE and this cheating scandal) largely sums up the community's view of Andy, who probably tops most lists for "Worst Person in Quizbowl" at thi
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• National Invitation Tournament
  ...lina]], who lost only to [[1984 Minnesota|Minnesota]]. The 1984 tournament is believed to be the first use of a [[swiss pair]] system in a quizbowl tourn ...editing and running this tournament, suggesting that College Bowl did not view independent quizbowl as a rival until later in the 1980s. Other figures who
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• Cheating
  ...ho are known to have cheated are typically banned permanently, though this is not always the case.</onlyinclude> ...eing played. This section is not a guide on how to cheat - if anything, it is a guide on how to prevent cheating. Do not ever attempt to do any of these
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• Langston
  ...iversity with its main campus located 40 miles north of Oklahoma City. It is the only HBCU (historically black college/university) in Oklahoma and one o ...and the Golden Hurricane (Illinois Open Mirror) Open. Langston University is participated in the Know Your Heritage Black College Quiz Show, in Decembe
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• Beta Club Quizbowl
  ...state chapters range as far north as Illinois and as far west as Texas. It is roughly analogous to the more universal '''National Honor Society'''. ...se it), as well as a set for the national convention in each age division, is written by [[SAGES]]. Previously, the questions were produced by [[Bryce Av
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• 2003 NAC
  After the game, Scripps Ranch protested that Lake Maracaibo is not a lake, because it flows into the Caribbean Sea, and thus that Titicaca ...irectly connected to the ocean. ... So Lago de Maracaibo is not a lake. It is, in fact, an embayment of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Venezuela."
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• OSSAA State Championship
  ...ystem; each division runs independently, and a separate championship title is awarded for each. In 2009, the classifications were shifted, with Class B b OSSAA is viewed by many teams in Oklahoma as an example of [[bad quizbowl]]. OSSAA u
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• 2007 NAC
  ...ational pull of the planet. One commonly used equation for escape velocity is written with three letters representing three quantities. Name the three qu ...ame these two African American authors, destined by politics and points of view to be enemies forever."
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• Outreach
  '''Outreach''' is a broad term in quizbowl that refers to actions taken to grow the game as a ...rules for their tournaments to match the standards of "[[good quizbowl]]" is a major outreach challenge.
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• Wayzata
  '''Wayzata High School''' [wy-ZET-uh] is a public 9-12 high school located in Plymouth, Minnesota. Its quiz bowl tea This is a detailed season-by-season tournament history for [[Wayzata]].
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• Difficulty
  ...be, by analogy to a previously-played tournament or general standard. This is often denoted '''target difficulty'''. ...der populace. This is, of course, impossible - determination of difficulty is thus a combination of various imperfect measures.
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• Prompt
  ...ion]] is partially [[correct]] but ambiguous. In this scenario, the player is said to have been '''prompted''' by the moderator because the answer they g ...l]] or to attempt to gain additional information about an answer, but this is [[sportsmanship|unsportsman-like]].
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• Quizbowlese
  ...makes it more difficult for new players to understand what their moderator is asking them.</onlyinclude> ...ion structure. If the only reason you are using a particular word or style is because you saw it in a prior question, and you cannot figure out what exte
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• Quizbowl in Canada
  A [[NAQT Ontario|provincial-level tournament]] is held in Ontario annually. ...the Top nationals is usually the same weekend as an American National, it is a financial and time burden on the team to attend an American National. Can
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• Jeopardy!
  ...rule that players must give their answer in the form of a question ("What is quiz bowl?"). For more information about the game, please view its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy! Wikipedia page].
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• How to Write Questions
  ...ee what we're looking for yet? That's right, the subject of today's lesson is sources. ...et your hands on it, the electronic version of the Encyclopedia Britannica is superb for many topics, particularly history. Masterplots are a good resour
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• IHSA plagiarism scandal/Email from David Reinstein to Ron McGraw
  As an Assistant Editor, I do not know who wrote each question, so this is not a personal matter for me. ...entify the source, author, era, or other information for which the excerpt is a clue.
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• Buzzer
  ...d from buzzing ("locked out") after one player has buzzed until the system is [[cleared|reset]]. ...ng is indicated by slapping the desk or saying something like "buzz." This is no longer common in the vast majority of modern quizbowl tournaments.
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• Anti-NAQT sentiment
  ...uality of NAQT questions would affect literally thousands of people, so it is in everyone's benefit that they are kept accountable. ...nd addresses community concerns that have yet to be resolved. This article is a summary of some of the causes and reasons for this mainstay of quizbowl d
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• How to study
  ...steps for a player who is looking for advice on how to start studying. It is certainly not intended to be definitive. *Acknowledging that quiz bowl is a competition written and played by fallible humans whose actions can be pr
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• Battle of the Brains
  '''Battle of the Brains''' is a a high school televised quizbowl competition in Virginia, currently airin ...cast market from Richmond with a different over-the-air CBS affiliate, and is not carried at all in Roanoke.
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• How to flashcard
  This guide is meant to summarize some specific steps that one can take to effectively [[f Flashcarding is only one facet of [[studying]] and certainly not a requirement for playing,
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• The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranking
  ...as you're watching some FOX Sports countdown or whatever. Obviously, this is just my opinion, but maybe this will start a series of arguments. Those are ...ually the same sort of player that I remember him from in 2008-2009, which is both good and bad.
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