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==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
*[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
*[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2] (see also [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder])<br />
*[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
*[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]<br />
*[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
*[[Qblitz]]<br />
;[https://www.quizbowlreader.com/demo.html Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)]<br />
*[https://github.com/alopezlago/MODAQ Source code]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
;[[SQBS]]<br />
*[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]<br />
*[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
*[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
;QBSQL<br />
*[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
*Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
*Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
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===Historical Statistics===<br />
*[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
*See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
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===Scoresheets===<br />
:''Main page: [[scoresheets]]''<br />
;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
*[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
*https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
*https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
*[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
*[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
*Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
;Excel score sheets<br />
*[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
*Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
*Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
;Google Spreadsheets<br />
*Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
*Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
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===Stats data formats===<br />
;SQBS<br />
*[[SQBS data file]]<br />
;Tournament schema<br />
*[https://schema.quizbowl.technology/ Website with technical specification]<br />
*[https://github.com/quizbowl/schema GitHub repository]<br />
;Tournakit<br />
*Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
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====Old or Abandoned====<br />
;Livestat<br />
*[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
;QBTPS<br />
*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
;JAGUARS<br />
*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
;Tournament Central<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
;Taft<br />
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
*Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
*Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
*Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
*Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
*Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
;[[BEeS]]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
*Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
*Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
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==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
:''Main page: [[question databases]]''<br />
;[[Hsquizbowl.org|Quizbowl Resource Database]]<br />
*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
;[[packet archive|HS QB Packet Archive]]<br />
*[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;[[packet archive|Collegiate Packet Archive]]<br />
*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;[[QuizDB]]<br />
*[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
;[[Wastebin]]<br />
*[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
*deprecated in favor of the [[packet archive]]'s [https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/ Trash section]<br />
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===Practice tools===<br />
;[[Protobowl]]<br />
*[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
*[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
*use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it<br />
;QuizBug 2<br />
*[http://quizbug2.karangurazada.com/ Web page]<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
;Geoffrey's QB Reader<br />
*[https://qbreader.herokuapp.com/ Home page]<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25289 discussion]<br />
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===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
;QB Toolbox<br />
*http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
;[[QBML]]<br />
*Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
*Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
*May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
*Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
*Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
;Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)<br />
*[https://github.com/alopezlago/YetAnotherPacketParser/releases/ Download]<br />
*Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly<br />
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*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
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==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
*Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
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===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
*[[QANTA]]<br />
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===No Longer Existing or Maintained===<br />
*For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 ItALX]<br />
*For tournament direction: Taft<br />
*Packet readers: Abacus<br />
*Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
*Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
*Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
*Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, [[Quinterest]], Gyaankosh<br />
*Practice tools: [http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ QB reader] (and [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 forum post]), TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
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===Never Existed===<br />
*For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
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[[Category:Internet]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Thompson_Middle&diff=42231Thompson Middle2020-03-29T20:34:50Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: Fix dead link</p>
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<div>{{Highschoolteam|Name = Thompson<br />
|image = Thompson MS AL.png<br />
|citystate = Alabaster, AL<br />
|currentcoach = Suzanne Lee<br />
|state = None<br />
|nats = None<br />
|nats appearances = MSNCT: 2014, 2015<br />
|status = Active<br />
|size = 1005<br />
| }}<br />
'''Thompson''' Middle School is a 7-9 middle school in Alabaster, Alabama. Thompson is coached by Suzanne Lee. Thompson was at the [[MSNCT]] in 2014 and 2015. <br />
==External Links==<br />
* [https://www.naqt.com/stats/school-results.jsp?org_id=67853 NAQT Stats page]<br />
* [https://www.acsboe.org/Domain/12 School website]<br />
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[[Category:Middle school teams]]<br />
[[Category:Alabama middle school teams]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=2018_VHSL_State_Championship&diff=422292018 VHSL State Championship2020-03-29T20:33:25Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: Fix badly formatted link</p>
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<div>{{Pic|Image = VHSL 2018 States Logo.jpg<br />
| Caption = Logo of the 2018 VHSL State Championship<br />
| }}<br />
The '''2018 [[VHSL]] State Championship''' was held on 24 February 2018 at [[William and Mary]] in Williamsburg, Virginia, and was the 21st iteration of the VHSL Scholastic Bowl state tournament. 24 teams competed in six size classifications of four teams each. <br />
Questions were provided by [[NAQT]] for the first time.<br />
==Advancement==<br />
The [[2018 VHSL Realignment]] reincorporated district play as well as a four-region plan, closer to the 1998-2013 playoff format. This change did away with the larger conferences and two-region plan that were used from 2014-2017. However, districts were allowed the ability to forego a district season and/or tournament in favor of an all-in Regional tournament, provided that all districts within a region agreed to forego district play. The new playoff format also introduced "Super Regions"-- AB and CD, which functioned as a sort of State Semi-final, but again, certain classes opted to forego Super Region tournaments altogether.<br />
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In Classes 1, 3, and 4, Super Regions were employed. Classes 2 and 5 opted instead to send their Regional Champions directly to state-- the first time in VHSL Scholastic Bowl history that Region runners-up did not advance to the next level of play. In Class 6, Regions 6C and 6D held a combined Super Region 6CD tournament, but 6A and 6B did not.<br />
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==Tournament Format==<br />
Each match consisted of a round of fifteen tossups, ten bounceback "directed questions" for each team, and a concluding phase of fifteen more tossups. Tossups were scored in the normal quizbowl way. Directed questions were worth 10 points each and functioned similarly to a single-part bonus, but their reading was not correlated to answering tossups. <br />
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The four teams in each of the six classes competed against each other in a three-round round-robin; this was the fifth time the format was used, after its introduction in the [[2014 VHSL Realignment]].<br />
==Class 1==<br />
{{Tourneybox|Tournament Name = [[VHSL]] State Championship<BR>(Class 1)<br />
|champion = [[Galileo Magnet]]<br />
|second = [[Honaker]]<br />
|third = [[Riverheads]]<br />
|fourth = [[George Wythe]]<br />
|scorer = Aidan Cook (Honaker)<br />
|editors = [[NAQT]]<br />
|site = College of William and Mary<br />
|field = <br />
|stats = <br />
| }}<br />
[[Galileo Magnet]] went undefeated to win the [[VHSL Class 1A|Class 1]] state championship, their first state championship victory. [[Honaker]] finished runner-up after winning the Class 1 championship for the previous two years. Honaker Sophomore Aidan Cook was named to the All-State Team with 260 points.<br />
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'''Round 1'''<br><br />
Galileo 210, George Wythe 165<br><br />
Riverheads 200, Honaker 190<br><br />
'''Round 2'''<br><br />
Galileo 220, Riverheads 165<br><br />
Honaker 260, George Wythe 145<br><br />
'''Round 3'''<br><br />
Galileo 275, Honaker 160<br><br />
George Wythe 205, Riverheads 195 <br><br />
<br />
'''Final standings'''<br><br />
Galileo Magnet-- 3-0, 705 points<br><br />
Honaker-- 1-2, 610 points <br><br />
Riverheads-- 1-2, 560 points <br><br />
George Wythe-- 1-2, 515 points <br><br />
<br />
==Class 2==<br />
{{Tourneybox|Tournament Name = [[VHSL]] State Championship<BR>(Class 2)<br />
|champion = [[Maggie Walker]]<br />
|second = [[Central (VA)|Central-Wise]]<br />
|third = [[Robert E. Lee]]<br />
|fourth = [[Radford]]<br />
|scorer = [[Catherine Qian]] (Maggie Walker)<br />
|editors = [[NAQT]]<br />
|site = College of William and Mary<br />
|field = <br />
|stats = <br />
| }}<br />
[[Maggie Walker]] went undefeated to win the [[VHSL Class 2A|Class 2]] state championship, their second consecutive state championship victory and fourth since the [[2014 VHSL Realignment]]. [[Central (VA)|Central-Wise]] finished runner-up for the second consecutive year. Maggie Walker Senior [[Catherine Qian]] was named to the All-State Team with 245 points.<br />
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'''Round 1'''<br><br />
Maggie Walker 215, Radford 150 <br><br />
Central 210, R.E. Lee 190 <br><br />
'''Round 2'''<br><br />
Maggie Walker 360, R.E. Lee 100 <br><br />
Central 300, Radford 130 <br><br />
'''Round 3'''<br><br />
Maggie Walker 315, Central 130 <br><br />
R.E. Lee 215, Radford 135 <br><br />
<br />
'''Final standings'''<br><br />
Maggie Walker-- 3-0, 890 points<br><br />
Central Wise-- 2-1, 640 points<br><br />
Robert E. Lee-- 1-2, 505 points<br><br />
Radford-- 0-3, 415 points<br><br />
<br />
==Class 3==<br />
{{Tourneybox|Tournament Name = [[VHSL]] State Championship<BR>(Class 3)<br />
|champion = [[Cave Spring]]<br />
|second = [[Western Albemarle]]<br />
|third = [[New Kent]]<br />
|fourth = [[Tabb]]<br />
|scorer = Billy Luqiu (Cave Spring)<br />
|editors = [[NAQT]]<br />
|site = College of William and Mary<br />
|field = <br />
|stats = <br />
| }}<br />
[[Cave Spring]] went undefeated to win the [[VHSL Class 3A|Class 3]] state championship, their third consecutive state championship victory. [[Western Albemarle]] finished runner-up. Cave Spring Junior Billy Luqiu was named to the All-State Team with 360 points, second-most in the tournament. Western Albemarle Senior Caroline Koester was also named to the All-State Team with 245 points.<br />
<br />
'''Round 1'''<br><br />
Cave Spring 325, Tabb 130 <br><br />
Western Albemarle 245, New Kent 150 <br><br />
'''Round 2'''<br><br />
Cave Spring 245, Western Albemarle 215 <br><br />
New Kent 240, Tabb 195 <br><br />
'''Round 3'''<br><br />
Cave Spring 265, New Kent 155 <br><br />
Western Albemarle 215, Tabb 210 <br><br />
<br />
'''Final standings'''<br><br />
Cave Spring-- 3-0, 835 points <br><br />
Western Albemarle-- 2-1, 675 points <br><br />
New Kent-- 1-2, 545 points <br><br />
Tabb-- 0-3, 535 points <br><br />
<br />
==Class 4==<br />
{{Tourneybox|Tournament Name = [[VHSL]] State Championship<BR>(Class 4)<br />
|champion = [[Jamestown]]<br />
|second = [[Jefferson Forest]]<br />
|third = [[Loudoun Valley]]<br />
|fourth = [[Monacan]]<br />
|scorer = unknown<br />
|editors = [[NAQT]]<br />
|site = College of William and Mary<br />
|field = <br />
|stats = <br />
| }}<br />
[[Jamestown]] went undefeated to win the [[VHSL Class 4A|Class 4]] state championship, their first state championship victory. [[Jefferson Forest]] finished as runner-up.<br />
<br />
'''Round 1'''<br><br />
Jamestown 265, Loudoun Valley 165 <br><br />
Monacan 190, Jefferson Forest 180 <br><br />
'''Round 2'''<br><br />
Jamestown 305, Monacan 115 <br><br />
Jefferson Forest 295, Loudoun Valley 150 <br><br />
'''Round 3'''<br><br />
Jamestown 225, Jefferson Forest 215 <br><br />
Loudoun Valley 225, Monacan 175 <br><br />
<br />
'''Final standings'''<br><br />
Jamestown-- 3-0, 795 points <br><br />
Jefferson Forest-- 1-2, 690 points <br><br />
Loudoun Valley-- 1-2, 540 points <br><br />
Monacan-- 1-2, 480 points <br><br />
<br />
==Class 5==<br />
{{Tourneybox|Tournament Name = [[VHSL]] State Championship<BR>(Class 5)<br />
|champion = [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]]<br />
|second = [[Princess Anne]]<br />
|third = [[Douglas Freeman]]<br />
|fourth = [[Albemarle]]<br />
|scorer = Unknown<br />
|editors = [[NAQT]]<br />
|site = College of William and Mary<br />
|field = <br />
|stats = <br />
| }}<br />
[[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]] went undefeated and won the [[VHSL Class 5A|Class 5]] state championship, their third consecutive state championship victory. [[Princess Anne]] also finished runner-up for the third consecutive year, narrowly defeating [[Douglas Freeman]] in round two.<br />
<br />
'''Round 1'''<br><br />
Thomas Jefferson 275, DS Freeman 155 <br><br />
Princess Anne 265, Albemarle 175 <br><br />
'''Round 2'''<br><br />
Thomas Jefferson 310, Princess Anne 145 <br><br />
Princess Anne 240, DS Freeman 235 <br><br />
'''Round 3'''<br><br />
Thomas Jefferson 310, Princess Anne 145 <br><br />
DS Freeman 265, Albemarle 155 <br><br />
<br />
'''Final standings'''<br><br />
Thomas Jefferson-- 3-0, 900 points<br><br />
Princess Anne-- 2-1, 650 points<br><br />
Douglas Freeman-- 1-2, 655 points<br><br />
Albemarle-- 0-3, 485 points<br><br />
<br />
==Class 6==<br />
{{Tourneybox|Tournament Name = [[VHSL]] State Championship<BR>(Class 6)<br />
|champion = [[Robinson (VA)|Robinson]]<br />
|second = [[McLean]]<br />
|third = [[Riverbend]]<br />
|fourth = [[First Colonial]]<br />
|scorer = Jacob Augelli (Robinson)<br />
|editors = [[NAQT]]<br />
|site = College of William and Mary<br />
|field = <br />
|stats = <br />
| }}<br />
[[Robinson (VA)|Robinson]] went undefeated to win the [[VHSL Class 6A|Class 6]] state championship, their second consecutive state championship victory. Robinson also led the tournament in total points with 970. [[McLean]] finished as runner-up for the second consecutive year. Robinson Senior [[Jacob Augelli]] was the top scorer in the tournament with 390 tossup points. McLean Sophomore [[Justin Young]] was also named to the all-state team, finishing third place with 285 tossup points.<br />
<br />
'''Round 1'''<br><br />
Robinson 335, First Colonial 140 <br><br />
McLean 245, Riverbend 165 <br><br />
'''Round 2'''<br><br />
Robinson 295, McLean 175 <br><br />
Riverbend 220, First Colonial 210 <br><br />
'''Round 3'''<br><br />
Robinson 340, Riverbend 115 <br><br />
McLean 325, First Colonial 125 <br><br />
<br />
'''Final standings'''<br><br />
Robinson-- 3-0, 970 points <br><br />
McLean-- 2-1, 745 points <br><br />
Riverbend-- 1-2, 500 points <br><br />
First Colonial-- 0-3, 475 points <br><br />
<br />
==All-State Team==<br />
The top five highest scoring players in the entire tournament were recognized as the All-State Team. However, as with 2016, there was a tie for fifth place, resulting in six players being named to the All-State Team.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Rank<br />
! Player<br />
! Team<br />
! Points<br />
! Class<br />
! Grade<br />
|- <br />
| 1st<br />
| [[Jacob Augelli]]<br />
| [[Robinson]]<br />
| 390 points<br />
| Class 6<br />
| Senior<br />
|-<br />
| 2nd<br />
| [[Billy Luqiu]] <br />
| [[Cave Spring]]<br />
| 360 points<br />
| Class 3<br />
| Junior<br />
|-<br />
| 3rd<br />
| [[Justin Young]]<br />
| [[McLean]]<br />
| 285 points<br />
| Class 6<br />
| Sophomore<br />
|-<br />
| 4th<br />
| [[Aidan Cook]]<br />
| [[Honaker]]<br />
| 260 points<br />
| Class 1<br />
| Sophomore<br />
|-<br />
| T-5th<br />
| [[Catherine Qian]] <br />
| [[Maggie Walker]]<br />
| 245 points<br />
| Class 2<br />
| Senior<br />
|-<br />
| T-5th<br />
| [[Caroline Koester]]<br />
| [[Western Albemarle]]<br />
| 245 points<br />
| Class 3<br />
| Senior<br />
|-<br />
|} <br />
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==External Links==<br />
* [https://www.vhsl.org/scholastic-bowl/ VHSL Scholastic Bowl]<br />
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{{Browse box|Tournament = 2018 [[VHSL State Championship]]<br />
|previous = [[2017 VHSL State Championship]]<br />
|next = [[2019 VHSL State Championship]]<br />
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[[Category:VHSL State championships]]<br />
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<div>'''MSHSAA''' (The Missouri State High School Activities Association) is the organization responsible for running Missouri's district and state quizbowl championships, taking over the role from the [[MACA|Missouri Academic Association]] in the 1995-96 season. Currently called "Scholar Bowl", before the 2010-2011 season, the activity was known as "Academic Competition."<br />
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==State Championship==<br />
:''Main article: [[MSHSAA State Championship]]''<br />
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The [[MSHSAA State Championship]] is held in early May. Teams are divided into four classes, each with sixteen districts. District tournaments are hosted in early April, with the winners of adjacent districts meeting in an after school sectional meet in a best two-of-three format to determine the eight teams that go to state.<br />
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From 1996-2018, games during the MSHSAA series were run in a [[four-quarter format]], with 15 tossups in the first and third quarters, and 10 tossups with 20 point multi-part bonuses in the second and fourth quarters. MSHSAA approved a three year trial of a 26 [[tossup-bonus format|tossup with three part bonus format]] for the 2019-2021 seasons, using 22 tossup-bonus NAQT packets with additional math questions. In both formats, all tossups are worth 10 points with no negs.<br />
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Rounds are scheduled to run an hour each. The district and state tournaments consist of three preliminary rounds followed by four team single elimination playoffs.<br />
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==MSHSAA and Quizbowl==<br />
While more Missouri schools have formed quizbowl teams since MSHSAA became involved, some people feel that MSHSAA is out of touch with the desires of quizbowl players. Notably, MSHSAA's liaison to scholar bowl, Stacy Schroeder, had no previous experience with quizbowl. Many players have complained that MSHSAA's insistence on applying the same regulations to quizbowl as they do to sports hold back the state's best teams. Examples of these rules include: limiting teams to 14 competitions per season, banning teams from traveling further than 250 miles out of state for regular-season tournaments (with limited exceptions), and restricting how teams can attend national competitions.<br />
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==Benefits of MSHSAA's involvement with Quizbowl==<br />
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The only real benefit of MSHSAA's involvement in quizbowl has been to put in on the same footing as other more traditional activities such as athletics. Quizbowl's status as "a MSHSAA activity" helps grant it status lacking to other academic activities such as Science Olympiad, Chemistry Bowl, and Destination Imagination. As a result, a significant percentage of Missouri high schools participate in quizbowl to some extent, and it is common for several tournaments to be hosted throughout the state on the same day.<br />
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==Criticism of MSHSAA's involvement with Quizbowl==<br />
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===Format===<br />
A MSHSAA four-quarter format game takes approximately 45 minutes to an hour to complete, which essentially prevents tournaments from using the bracketed round robin scheduling and offering of consolation rounds that is common with the 20 [[tossup-bonus format]]. This has been improved somewhat with the change to a 26 tossup-bonus format in 2019.<br />
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The standard schedule for MSHSAA districts and state is to have three preliminary rounds scheduled by random draw (or in the case of the state tournament, sectional number) followed by a four team single elimination bracket seeded by preliminary record then average points per game. While MSHSAA's official format for a two team district tournament is a fair best two of three format, the three team format is to play a round robin (the three preliminary rounds) followed by one final match between the top 2 teams, and the full five round format is required for district tournaments of four or more teams, even for a 4-6 team tournament for which a full round robin would be simpler, fairer, and take the same number of rounds or fewer.<br />
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As a result of the game length and the standard schedule for MSHSAA districts and state, nearly every tournament run in the MSHSAA four-quarter format or a similar format consists of approximately 3 preliminary rounds (either [[Power matching|power-matched]] or randomly pre-determined) followed by a single elimination bracket of 4 to 16 teams. While tossup-bonus tournaments are becoming more common with the lack of well-written questions in MSHSAA four-quarter format, including MSHSAA's own change to tossup-bonus in 2019, many hosts still use scheduling principles influenced by standard MSHSAA scheduling.<br />
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===Question Provider Selection===<br />
The questions used at MSHSAA's events were originally extremely short and provided by companies that continue to promote bad quizbowl.<br />
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Questions were provided by [[Bryce Avery]] from 2005-2007. Previous providers include Champions and Straight A.<br />
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The 2008 questions, written by [[Shawn Pickrell]], were more pyramidal and largely heralded as an improvement over Avery's questions. In April 2008, Pickrell, citing overextension, announced he would no longer provide questions in Missouri.<br />
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MSHSAA's decision to allow the national tournament question to come to a vote and to procure higher-quality questions for its tournaments were widely praised by the Missouri community. Unfortunately, these improvements did not continue. In yet another characteristic move to stifle the growth of good quizbowl, MSHSAA has awarded [[Questions Galore]] the bid to write the 2008-2009 state championship series. This led to many independent tournaments being run on sets by Questions Galore, which was a company plagued by awful writing, a severe lack of literature, use of math computation that is simply impossible to answer in the given time limits, a general disregard for any reasonable distribution, and overall ignorance of standard writing procedures in quizbowl. <br />
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NAQT has been the question provider since the 2011 districts and state series [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2152]. While the use of NAQT questions drastically improved the overall question quality of the MSHSAA series and many conference tournaments, the first and third quarters initially consisted of speedcheck tossups due to the length of a game in the MSHSAA four-quarter format, and the districts and state tournament formats still involve predetermined matchups and single-elimination playoffs. It remains to be seen if the change to a tossup-bonus format will eventually lead to improvements in scheduling.<br />
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NAQT's status as the question provider for the MSHSAA series has led more hosts to use NAQT questions and the tossup-bonus format for their Saturday tournaments, but the use of NAQT questions in the MSHSAA championship series and NAQT's Missouri conference set reduces the number of IS sets available for use by regular season tournaments in Missouri. Three A Sets and one IS set were previously used to produce the four-quarter sets for conferences and the MSHSAA state series, with numerous regular season tournaments quickly exhausting the remaining sets in many areas of the state. With the change to a tossup-bonus format in 2019, one fewer A-set is needed to produce the Missouri-specific sets, becoming available for late season tournaments to use.<br />
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===Stacked districts===<br />
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One problem with the MSHSAA championship series is the existence of districts or sectionals with multiple top teams due to their geographical proximity. Because only the winner of each sectional advances to the state finals, on multiple occasions this has resulted in the second best team in a class not advancing to state because the best team was in their district or sectional.<br />
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====Examples====<br />
* In the 2008-2009 season, [[Savannah (Missouri High School)|Savannah]] moved up to Class 4 and was placed in District 16. Liberty and North Kansas City were placed in District 15, placing three of the top teams in the state that year in a pair of districts feeding into the same sectional, meaning it was only possible for one of the three to advance to the state tournament.<br />
* In the 2010-2011 season, [[Ladue]], [[Clayton (Missouri High School)|Clayton]], and [[Villa Duchesne]] were ranked first, second, and fifth, respectively, in the [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=44626#p44626 moquizbowl.com midseason poll] yet were all in Class 4 District 4. Rock Bridge and Jefferson City were ranked third and fourth in that poll and were both in the same district. This meant that only two of the top five ranked teams in the poll could advance to sectionals.<br />
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===Sectionals===<br />
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Until 2008, each class had been divided into 8 geographically-determined districts, with the winner of each district advancing to the state championship. For the 2009 championship series, districts were divided in two, with the winners of two adjacent districts meeting the following Thursday at a sectional meet, hosted by the odd-numbered district winner, playing a best 2-of-3 matchup to determine which team advances to state.<br />
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The proposal was received negatively on the [[Missouri Academic Competition Message Board]]. While adding an additional level of competition with a best 2-of-3 format may marginally improve the fairness of competition, it adds additional transportation costs, room reservations, personnel overhead, and participant time that make the extra competition unreasonable. In one extreme case, if [[Kirksville]] had won its district at [[Marshall High School]] 120 miles away in 2009, the team would have had to travel another 200 miles each way to St. Charles County to play the District 7 champion the following Thursday. The longest travel distance to sectionals that actually occurred was [[Bradleyville]]'s 230 mile drive each way to [[Bell City]].<br />
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At least one coach has stated this change was made because many schools (especially smaller ones) have trouble staffing a tournament for the larger district size. This was not indicated during the discussion on the Missouri message board, but that doesn't change the fact that it does not improve the fairness of the MSHSAA championship series. In practice, it resulted in several districts with only two or three participating teams, and in the case of Class 2 District 9, perennial state champion Richland won by default as the other five teams decided not to participate.[http://moquizbowl.com/topic/7597759/1/]<br />
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===Restrictions on Participation===<br />
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MSHSAA's definition of the Scholar Bowl season, as stated in the 2018-2019 MSHSAA Handbook, by-law 4.4.3, is:<br />
<blockquote>'''4.4.3 Season Limits for Scholar Bowl:''' No '''senior''' high school or '''junior''' high school shall participate in an interscholastic scholar bowl event before the Friday of Standardized Calendar Week Number 14 or later than the date of the MSHSAA District Competition, exclusive of the MSHSAA state competition, other than the following allowances:<br />
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a. A school may participate in an interstate, interscholastic scholar bowl event which may begin no earlier than the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, only if the school has advanced from a qualifying event that takes place during the aforementioned season.</blockquote><br />
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b. A school may participate in one interscholastic event following districts and prior to the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. Such an event shall count as one of the school’s allowable regular season events as per By-Law 4.4.2 (Limits on Participation) and must meet the travel regulations per By-Law 4.4.4.d.</blockquote></blockquote><br />
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The "Friday of Standardized Calendar Week Number 14" is the Friday that occurs between October 5-11.<br />
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====Event Limits====<br />
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MSHSAA previously limited high school students to no more than fourteen events in a season, not counting the MSHSAA championship series, while middle school students were limited to eleven. By-law 4.4.2 for the 2017-2018 season was:<br />
<blockquote>'''4.4.2 Individual Limits on Participation in Scholar Bowl:'''<br />
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a. Students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 shall participate in no more than fourteen interscholastic scholar bowl competitions during the school year, exclusive of MSHSAA district and state competition.<br />
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b. Students in the 7th and/or 8th grade shall participate in no more than eleven interscholastic scholar bowl competitions during the school year.<br />
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c. 9th grade students if participating at the junior high level are eligible to participate on a higher level team (high school) and have a total of fourteen competitions in which they may participate.</blockquote></blockquote><br />
While the wording of this by-law imposed limits on "students", which literally interpreted would mean a school team should be able to attend more than fourteen events as long as no student participated in more than fourteen, MSHSAA has interpreted this to restrict school teams from attending more than fourteen events.<br />
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This event limit most severely impacted schools in conferences that are required to play duals against all of the other members of the conference, because a dual match counted as a single event. For example, in the 2017-2018 season, each school in the [[Clarence Cannon Conference]] played dual matches against the other eight schools in the conference, followed by a Saturday conference tournament, using nine of their fourteen allowable events.<br />
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The Scholar Bowl Advisory Committee has repeatedly recommended increasing the tournament limit only to be denied by the MSHSAA Board of Directors. A change was finally adopted for the 2018-2019 season that does not increase the number of tournaments schools can attend, but does provide some relief for schools with dual-heavy schedules by making a distinction between duals and tournaments. The new by-law gives schools options that are analogous to the scheduling options provided in some sports. As of that season, by-law 4.4.2 reads:<br />
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<blockquote>'''4.4.2 Limits on Participation in Scholar Bowl:''' The options for contests permitted for each school team and each individual participant are shown below.<br />
<blockquote>a. '''High School Contest Limitations:''' Scheduling options / contests allowed. The options below are exclusive of any MSHSAA sponsored tournament series.<br />
<blockquote>1. 20 duals and 2 Tournaments<br />
2. 10 duals and 8 Tournaments<br />
3. 0 duals and 14 Tournaments</blockquote><br />
b. Junior High School Contest Limitations: 12 duals and 1 Tournament OR 7 duals and 5 Tournaments.<br />
c. 9th grade students if participating at the junior high level are eligible to participate on a high school team but may not exceed, individually, the scheduling option played by the high school team on which he/she plays.</blockquote></blockquote><br />
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With this change, the eight high schools in the Clarence Cannon Conference each may now attend seven tournaments in addition to their conference commitments. This is only a one tournament increase from the six tournaments they would have been able to attend under the previous version of the by-law, as [[Louisiana (MO)|Louisiana]] left the conference at the same time the change took effect. On the other hand, this change imposes a ''reduction'' in the number of allowed tournaments for schools that participate in 1-5 or 11 duals, as the 2018-2019 Scholar Bowl manual defines a tournament as an event with three or more teams. The wording change also imposes the limits on both individual students and school teams, matching MSHSAA's interpretation of the previous by-law.<br />
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This change also severely reduced the number of tournaments middle school teams may attend from eleven to five, which was completely unexpected and not at all recommended by the Advisory Committee.<br />
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====Restrictions on Competitions Outside of the Regular Season====<br />
Through the 2008-2009 season, following the date of the District tournament, teams were prohibited from participating in any interscholastic competition except for the MSHSAA state series and national tournaments.<br />
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Shortly after the June 2009 Advisory Committee meeting, the [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] learned that schools qualifying for a national tournament would be allowed to participate in one tournament between Districts and Nationals. As a result, MOQBA announced a pre-nationals tournament in which Missouri teams' participation would be subject to such a restriction. The wording of rule 4b, which implies that ''any'' team may participate in such a tournament, was not widely noticed until early May 2010. [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=42422#p42422]. Even with this minor relaxation, Missouri teams are still almost entirely prohibited from playing in regular tournaments for half of the year.<br />
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The by-law permitting schools to attend one of their allowable events after Districts and before Memorial Day weekend has made it possible for schools to attend [[SSNCT]], which is usually in late April. In 2019, NAQT hosted SSNCT on the first weekend of May, creating a conflict with the [[MSHSAA State Championship]]. Because the Class 3 and 4 championships are on Saturday, MSHSAA refused to sanction the 2019 SSNCT unless teams in those classes were prohibited from participating. Several registered teams were informed that they were being forced to drop only a couple of weeks before the tournament, including [[Hallsville]] (who had earned Missouri's best placement at all five previous SSNCTs) and several teams that had not even qualified for the state tournament. As a result, only three Missouri teams - all in Classes 1 and 2, which had their state championships on Friday - attended the 2019 SSNCT, a sharp drop from the nineteen Missouri teams that attended in 2018.<br />
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====Restrictions on Competitions on or after Memorial Day Weekend====<br />
MSHSAA regulations regarding summertime competition were previously ambiguous, leaving many teams unsure of whether or not they could attend national tournaments. In 2007, member schools voted between three options to make the definition more precise. These options were:<br />
* The academic competition season should end with the state tournament and participation beyond this date should not be interscholastic (participants could not represent their school). (91 votes)<br />
* Interscholastic academic competition should be allowed to continue into and throughout the summer. (55 votes)<br />
* '''A school academic competition team should be allowed to participate in a summertime national interscholastic competition only if the school has advanced from a qualifying event that takes place during the academic year. (130 votes)'''<br />
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The winning option, which allows attendance at national tournaments but only by qualifying, was later approved in another vote by MSHSAA member schools and adopted as of the 2007-2008 competition season. This rule exists as by-law 4.4.3.a (quoted above) as of the 2018-2019 season.<br />
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The restriction that schools must qualify for summertime tournaments during the regular season means that Missouri schools cannot attend those tournaments as a wildcard or on a standby basis unless their school has qualified at least one team for that tournament. Since MSHSAA's qualification rule applies to "schools" and not "teams", MSHSAA member schools ''are'' allowed to bring additional teams on a wildcard or standby basis once they have qualified at least one team. Qualifying events have become more common as more higher-quality tournaments are run on reputable sets and affiliated with PACE. Also, because MSHSAA districts and a large number of conference tournaments now use NAQT questions, a significant number of Missouri teams qualify for at least one national tournament every year. As a result, the prohibition on wildcard qualification is effectively a minor annoyance, but another example of how MSHSAA imposes restrictions that do not exist for schools from most other states.<br />
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It was previously thought that schools had to be out of school before attending a national tournament due to the use of the word "summertime" in the applicable by-laws. After concerns were raised about the speech and academic competition regulations that basing the term "summertime" on a school's calendar would give students from schools that dismiss for the year earlier more opportunities to compete in activities than those who attend schools that dismiss later, member schools approved a change effective in the 2009-2010 season clarifying that qualifying teams are permitted to attend national tournaments that occur on or after the Friday of Memorial Day weekend.<br />
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Since both [[HSNCT]] and [[NSC]] are held on or after Memorial Day weekend, Missouri teams have not had issues attending one of these national tournaments since the new rule and summertime clarifications were adopted, with a few schools sometimes attending both. However, in 2016, one school was notified by MSHSAA that they could attend only one of these national tournaments, under the interpretation that the rule only allows attendance at ''one'' summertime tournament. This restrictive interpretation of the ambiguous article "an" was a surprise to supporters of good quizbowl when considering the explicit limit of "one" tournament between districts and Memorial Day weekend, the allowance of summertime "events" by the analogous by-law for speech and debate activities, and the fact that other schools have previously attended both in the same season without incident.<br />
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====250-mile rule====<br />
Matching the rules for MSHSAA's sport activities, teams generally may not attend any tournament further than 250 air miles from the borders of Missouri. Up until about 2010, teams were entirely prohibited from attending tournaments outside this radius. The rule was barely relaxed after the Academic Competition Advisory Committee recommended an amendment in 2008 allowing teams to travel to one tournament outside of the 250-mile radius. [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=90043#p90043] This rule change took effect in either the 2009-2010 or 2010-2011 season.<br />
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The applicable MSHSAA by-law as of the 2018-2019 season is:<br />
<blockquote>4.4.4.d. A school may participate in any approved interscholastic scholar bowl event within the state during the interscholastic season. During the season, a school may travel to the site of one out of state tournament or invitational meet per year beyond 250 air-miles from the perimeter (border) of the state of Missouri, with the date and location to be determined by the local school administration. All remaining tournaments and invitationals must fall within 250 air-miles from the state border.</blockquote><br />
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===Enforcement of MSHSAA Rules at Regular Season Tournaments===<br />
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Beginning in the 2012-2013 season, MSHSAA now requires all regular season tournaments to follow certain rules in the MSHSAA Scholar Bowl rule book. Rules now required for all in-state tournaments include:<br />
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* MSHSAA tossup timing: 5 seconds to buzz in at the end of a question, 3 seconds to begin a significant answer after being recognized, with an additional 7 seconds to complete the answer (for a total of 10 seconds). [C.1.b]<br />
* Bonus answers must come from the captain, unless the captain explicitly defers to another teammate ''by name''. [C.2.a]<br />
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With this policy in place, regular season tournaments were previously required by rule C.1.c to recognize players who buzzed in ''by name'' before they could answer and to rule a player's answer incorrect if they did not wait to be recognized. This archaic rule was finally amended for the 2018-2019 season to eliminate the penalty for answering before being recognized.<br />
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===The Charlie Dees Rule===<br />
In May 2008 the Academic Competition Advisory Committee approved a resolution that the 2009 Area Meetings discuss adopting [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1651 By-Law 292.0], informally known as the "[[Charlie Dees]] Rule", which states:<br />
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<blockquote>New By-Law 292.0 NON-SCHOOL COMPETITION<BR><BR><br />
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During the season a student represents his or her school by competing in an interscholastic contest:<BR><BR><br />
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a. He or she shall neither practice nor compete as a member of a non-school team or as an individual participant in organized non-school competition that meets the MSHSAA academic competition definition. A competition shall be considered "organized" if any of the following conditions exist: competition is scheduled and publicized in advance, official score is kept, individual or team standings are maintained, official timer or game officials are used, admission is charged, teams are regularly formed or team rosters are predetermined, squad members are dressed in team uniforms or a team is privately or commercially sponsored. Further, competition which is either directly or indirectly sponsored, promoted or administered by an individual, organization, or any other agency shall be considered organized.<BR><BR><br />
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b. A student shall not have competed at any time as a member of a junior college or a senior college team if he or she desires to compete in academic competition in high school.<BR><BR><br />
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c. A student who joins a school team for the first time must have abided by these restrictions beginning with the first day of the current season."</blockquote><br />
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Specifically, this rule is intended to prevent students from competing "with and against collegiate students", and it is thought that the motivation behind this rule is that several coaches viewed Charlie Dees' desire to get better at quizbowl, especially through playing with and against better players, was somehow inherently unfair.<br />
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This rule, as with all rules unreasonably banning quizbowl-playing students from ''participating in quizbowl'', was met with severe backlash on the [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5908&p=90043#p90043 hsquizbowl forums].<br />
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Fortunately, at the 2008-2009 MSHSAA Area Meetings, the proposal was overwhelmingly defeated by the assembled superintendents, principals, athletic directors, and other administrative personnel from 510 MSHSAA member schools who attended. Seven of the eight sites were 100% opposed, while no percentage of opposition was listed for the eighth, while that site's comment ("Athletics is safety") didn't make much sense. Reasons cited were the ambiguity of the rule and its possible encroachment on Trivia Night-like activities and the fact that such a restriction limits students' opportunities to learn. [http://s4.zetaboards.com/Academic_Competition/topic/7573017/1/]<br />
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===Treated like a sport===<br />
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Most responses MSHSAA gives to criticism of its handling of quizbowl are likely based on the premise that since the same rules apply to sports, they should apply to Scholar Bowl as well. Notably, in the discussion of the Sectionals proposal, [[Jeremy Gibbs]], former president of MACA and the [[Missouri Academic Competition Message Board|Missouri forum]]'s primary source of MSHSAA information at the time, repeatedly implied that the justification for a sectionals system as opposed to one with the top two teams in a district advancing to the next stage of competition is that the latter "is not how any other sport works." However, the system used for Cross Country, in which multiple teams from Districts advance to sectionals, is similar to improved systems proposed on the Missouri board.<br />
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The long standing NFHS policy against sanctioning national championships is believed to influence MSHSAA's reluctance to loosen or eliminate restrictions on summertime competition, despite the fact that the NFHS position statement specifically indicates disapproval of national championships for "athletic events" and nearly all other NFHS member organizations that sponsor quizbowl do not impose similar restrictions.<br />
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==Links==<br />
*[http://www.mshsaa.org Missouri State High School Activities Association]<br />
*[https://www.mshsaa.org/resources/pdf/1819ScholarBowlManual.pdf 2018-2019 Scholar Bowl Manual (PDF)]<br />
*[https://www.mshsaa.org/resources/pdf/1819Rules.pdf 2018-2019 Scholar Bowl Rules Book (PDF)]<br />
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<div>'''MSHSAA''' (The Missouri State High School Activities Association) is the organization responsible for running Missouri's district and state quizbowl championships, taking over the role from the [[MACA|Missouri Academic Association]] in the 1995-96 season. Currently called "Scholar Bowl", before the 2010-2011 season, the activity was known as "Academic Competition."<br />
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==State Championship==<br />
:''Main article: [[MSHSAA State Championship]]''<br />
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The [[MSHSAA State Championship]] is held in early May. Teams are divided into four classes, each with sixteen districts. District tournaments are hosted in early April, with the winners of adjacent districts meeting in an after school sectional meet in a best two-of-three format to determine the eight teams that go to state.<br />
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From 1996-2018, games during the MSHSAA series were run in a [[four-quarter format]], with 15 tossups in the first and third quarters, and 10 tossups with 20 point multi-part bonuses in the second and fourth quarters. MSHSAA approved a three year trial of a 26 [[tossup-bonus format|tossup with three part bonus format]] for the 2019-2021 seasons, using 22 tossup-bonus NAQT packets with additional math questions. In both formats, all tossups are worth 10 points with no negs.<br />
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Rounds are scheduled to run an hour each. The district and state tournaments consist of three preliminary rounds followed by four team single elimination playoffs.<br />
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==MSHSAA and Quizbowl==<br />
While more Missouri schools have formed quizbowl teams since MSHSAA became involved, some people feel that MSHSAA is out of touch with the desires of quizbowl players. Notably, MSHSAA's liaison to scholar bowl, Stacy Schroeder, had no previous experience with quizbowl. Many players have complained that MSHSAA's insistence on applying the same regulations to quizbowl as they do to sports hold back the state's best teams. Examples of these rules include: limiting teams to 14 competitions per season, banning teams from traveling further than 250 miles out of state for regular-season tournaments (with limited exceptions), and restricting how teams can attend national competitions.<br />
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==Benefits of MSHSAA's involvement with Quizbowl==<br />
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The only real benefit of MSHSAA's involvement in quizbowl has been to put in on the same footing as other more traditional activities such as athletics. Quizbowl's status as "a MSHSAA activity" helps grant it status lacking to other academic activities such as Science Olympiad, Chemistry Bowl, and Destination Imagination. As a result, a significant percentage of Missouri high schools participate in quizbowl to some extent, and it is common for several tournaments to be hosted throughout the state on the same day.<br />
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==Criticism of MSHSAA's involvement with Quizbowl==<br />
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===Format===<br />
A MSHSAA four-quarter format game takes approximately 45 minutes to an hour to complete, which essentially prevents tournaments from using the bracketed round robin scheduling and offering of consolation rounds that is common with the 20 [[tossup-bonus format]]. This has been improved somewhat with the change to a 26 tossup-bonus format in 2019.<br />
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The standard schedule for MSHSAA districts and state is to have three preliminary rounds scheduled by random draw (or in the case of the state tournament, sectional number) followed by a four team single elimination bracket seeded by preliminary record then average points per game. While MSHSAA's official format for a two team district tournament is a fair best two of three format, the three team format is to play a round robin (the three preliminary rounds) followed by one final match between the top 2 teams, and the full five round format is required for district tournaments of four or more teams, even for a 4-6 team tournament for which a full round robin would be simpler, fairer, and take the same number of rounds or fewer.<br />
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As a result of the game length and the standard schedule for MSHSAA districts and state, nearly every tournament run in the MSHSAA four-quarter format or a similar format consists of approximately 3 preliminary rounds (either [[Power matching|power-matched]] or randomly pre-determined) followed by a single elimination bracket of 4 to 16 teams. While tossup-bonus tournaments are becoming more common with the lack of well-written questions in MSHSAA four-quarter format, including MSHSAA's own change to tossup-bonus in 2019, many hosts still use scheduling principles influenced by standard MSHSAA scheduling.<br />
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===Question Provider Selection===<br />
The questions used at MSHSAA's events were originally extremely short and provided by companies that continue to promote bad quizbowl.<br />
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Questions were provided by [[Bryce Avery]] from 2005-2007. Previous providers include Champions and Straight A.<br />
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The 2008 questions, written by [[Shawn Pickrell]], were more pyramidal and largely heralded as an improvement over Avery's questions. In April 2008, Pickrell, citing overextension, announced he would no longer provide questions in Missouri.<br />
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MSHSAA's decision to allow the national tournament question to come to a vote and to procure higher-quality questions for its tournaments were widely praised by the Missouri community. Unfortunately, these improvements did not continue. In yet another characteristic move to stifle the growth of good quizbowl, MSHSAA has awarded [[Questions Galore]] the bid to write the 2008-2009 state championship series. This led to many independent tournaments being run on sets by Questions Galore, which was a company plagued by awful writing, a severe lack of literature, use of math computation that is simply impossible to answer in the given time limits, a general disregard for any reasonable distribution, and overall ignorance of standard writing procedures in quizbowl. <br />
<br />
NAQT has been the question provider since the 2011 districts and state series [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2152]. While the use of NAQT questions drastically improved the overall question quality of the MSHSAA series and many conference tournaments, the first and third quarters initially consisted of speedcheck tossups due to the length of a game in the MSHSAA four-quarter format, and the districts and state tournament formats still involve predetermined matchups and single-elimination playoffs. It remains to be seen if the change to a tossup-bonus format will eventually lead to improvements in scheduling.<br />
<br />
NAQT's status as the question provider for the MSHSAA series has led more hosts to use NAQT questions and the tossup-bonus format for their Saturday tournaments, but the use of NAQT questions in the MSHSAA championship series and NAQT's Missouri conference set reduces the number of IS sets available for use by regular season tournaments in Missouri. Three A Sets and one IS set were previously used to produce the four-quarter sets for conferences and the MSHSAA state series, with numerous regular season tournaments quickly exhausting the remaining sets in many areas of the state. With the change to a tossup-bonus format in 2019, one fewer A-set is needed to produce the Missouri-specific sets, becoming available for late season tournaments to use.<br />
<br />
===Stacked districts===<br />
<br />
One problem with the MSHSAA championship series is the existence of districts or sectionals with multiple top teams due to their geographical proximity. Because only the winner of each sectional advances to the state finals, on multiple occasions this has resulted in the second best team in a class not advancing to state because the best team was in their district or sectional.<br />
<br />
====Examples====<br />
* In the 2008-2009 season, [[Savannah (Missouri High School)|Savannah]] moved up to Class 4 and was placed in District 16. Liberty and North Kansas City were placed in District 15, placing three of the top teams in the state that year in a pair of districts feeding into the same sectional, meaning it was only possible for one of the three to advance to the state tournament.<br />
* In the 2010-2011 season, [[Ladue]], [[Clayton (Missouri High School)|Clayton]], and [[Villa Duchesne]] were ranked first, second, and fifth, respectively, in the [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=44626#p44626 moquizbowl.com midseason poll] yet were all in Class 4 District 4. Rock Bridge and Jefferson City were ranked third and fourth in that poll and were both in the same district. This meant that only two of the top five ranked teams in the poll could advance to sectionals.<br />
<br />
===Sectionals===<br />
<br />
Until 2008, each class had been divided into 8 geographically-determined districts, with the winner of each district advancing to the state championship. For the 2009 championship series, districts were divided in two, with the winners of two adjacent districts meeting the following Thursday at a sectional meet, hosted by the odd-numbered district winner, playing a best 2-of-3 matchup to determine which team advances to state.<br />
<br />
The proposal was received negatively on the [[Missouri Academic Competition Message Board]]. While adding an additional level of competition with a best 2-of-3 format may marginally improve the fairness of competition, it adds additional transportation costs, room reservations, personnel overhead, and participant time that make the extra competition unreasonable. In one extreme case, if [[Kirksville]] had won its district at [[Marshall High School]] 120 miles away in 2009, the team would have had to travel another 200 miles each way to St. Charles County to play the District 7 champion the following Thursday. The longest travel distance to sectionals that actually occurred was [[Bradleyville]]'s 230 mile drive each way to [[Bell City]].<br />
<br />
At least one coach has stated this change was made because many schools (especially smaller ones) have trouble staffing a tournament for the larger district size. This was not indicated during the discussion on the Missouri message board, but that doesn't change the fact that it does not improve the fairness of the MSHSAA championship series. In practice, it resulted in several districts with only two or three participating teams, and in the case of Class 2 District 9, perennial state champion Richland won by default as the other five teams decided not to participate.[http://moquizbowl.com/topic/7597759/1/]<br />
<br />
===Restrictions on Participation===<br />
<br />
MSHSAA's definition of the Scholar Bowl season, as stated in the 2018-2019 MSHSAA Handbook, by-law 4.4.3, is:<br />
<blockquote>'''4.4.3 Season Limits for Scholar Bowl:''' No '''senior''' high school or '''junior''' high school shall participate in an interscholastic scholar bowl event before the Friday of Standardized Calendar Week Number 14 or later than the date of the MSHSAA District Competition, exclusive of the MSHSAA state competition, other than the following allowances:<br />
<blockquote><br />
a. A school may participate in an interstate, interscholastic scholar bowl event which may begin no earlier than the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, only if the school has advanced from a qualifying event that takes place during the aforementioned season.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote><br />
b. A school may participate in one interscholastic event following districts and prior to the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. Such an event shall count as one of the school’s allowable regular season events as per By-Law 4.4.2 (Limits on Participation) and must meet the travel regulations per By-Law 4.4.4.d.</blockquote></blockquote><br />
<br />
The "Friday of Standardized Calendar Week Number 14" is the Friday that occurs between October 5-11.<br />
<br />
====Event Limits====<br />
<br />
MSHSAA previously limited high school students to no more than fourteen events in a season, not counting the MSHSAA championship series, while middle school students were limited to eleven. By-law 4.4.2 for the 2017-2018 season was:<br />
<blockquote>'''4.4.2 Individual Limits on Participation in Scholar Bowl:'''<br />
<blockquote><br />
a. Students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 shall participate in no more than fourteen interscholastic scholar bowl competitions during the school year, exclusive of MSHSAA district and state competition.<br />
<br />
b. Students in the 7th and/or 8th grade shall participate in no more than eleven interscholastic scholar bowl competitions during the school year.<br />
<br />
c. 9th grade students if participating at the junior high level are eligible to participate on a higher level team (high school) and have a total of fourteen competitions in which they may participate.</blockquote></blockquote><br />
While the wording of this by-law imposed limits on "students", which literally interpreted would mean a school team should be able to attend more than fourteen events as long as no student participated in more than fourteen, MSHSAA has interpreted this to restrict school teams from attending more than fourteen events.<br />
<br />
This event limit most severely impacted schools in conferences that are required to play duals against all of the other members of the conference, because a dual match counted as a single event. For example, in the 2017-2018 season, each school in the [[Clarence Cannon Conference]] played dual matches against the other eight schools in the conference, followed by a Saturday conference tournament, using nine of their fourteen allowable events.<br />
<br />
The Scholar Bowl Advisory Committee has repeatedly recommended increasing the tournament limit only to be denied by the MSHSAA Board of Directors. A change was finally adopted for the 2018-2019 season that does not increase the number of tournaments schools can attend, but does provide some relief for schools with dual-heavy schedules by making a distinction between duals and tournaments. The new by-law gives schools options that are analogous to the scheduling options provided in some sports. As of that season, by-law 4.4.2 reads:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>'''4.4.2 Limits on Participation in Scholar Bowl:''' The options for contests permitted for each school team and each individual participant are shown below.<br />
<blockquote>a. '''High School Contest Limitations:''' Scheduling options / contests allowed. The options below are exclusive of any MSHSAA sponsored tournament series.<br />
<blockquote>1. 20 duals and 2 Tournaments<br />
2. 10 duals and 8 Tournaments<br />
3. 0 duals and 14 Tournaments</blockquote><br />
b. Junior High School Contest Limitations: 12 duals and 1 Tournament OR 7 duals and 5 Tournaments.<br />
c. 9th grade students if participating at the junior high level are eligible to participate on a high school team but may not exceed, individually, the scheduling option played by the high school team on which he/she plays.</blockquote></blockquote><br />
<br />
With this change, the eight high schools in the Clarence Cannon Conference each may now attend seven tournaments in addition to their conference commitments. This is only a one tournament increase from the six tournaments they would have been able to attend under the previous version of the by-law, as [[Louisiana (MO)|Louisiana]] left the conference at the same time the change took effect. On the other hand, this change imposes a ''reduction'' in the number of allowed tournaments for schools that participate in 1-5 or 11 duals, as the 2018-2019 Scholar Bowl manual defines a tournament as an event with three or more teams. The wording change also imposes the limits on both individual students and school teams, matching MSHSAA's interpretation of the previous by-law.<br />
<br />
This change also severely reduced the number of tournaments middle school teams may attend from eleven to five, which was completely unexpected and not at all recommended by the Advisory Committee.<br />
<br />
====Restrictions on Competitions Outside of the Regular Season====<br />
Through the 2008-2009 season, following the date of the District tournament, teams were prohibited from participating in any interscholastic competition except for the MSHSAA state series and national tournaments.<br />
<br />
Shortly after the June 2009 Advisory Committee meeting, the [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] learned that schools qualifying for a national tournament would be allowed to participate in one tournament between Districts and Nationals. As a result, MOQBA announced a pre-nationals tournament in which Missouri teams' participation would be subject to such a restriction. The wording of rule 4b, which implies that ''any'' team may participate in such a tournament, was not widely noticed until early May 2010. [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=42422#p42422]. Even with this minor relaxation, Missouri teams are still almost entirely prohibited from playing in regular tournaments for half of the year.<br />
<br />
The by-law permitting schools to attend one of their allowable events after Districts and before Memorial Day weekend has made it possible for schools to attend [[SSNCT]], which is usually in late April. In 2019, NAQT hosted SSNCT on the first weekend of May, creating a conflict with the [[MSHSAA State Championship]]. Because the Class 3 and 4 championships are on Saturday, MSHSAA refused to sanction the 2019 SSNCT unless teams in those classes were prohibited from participating. Several registered teams were informed that they were being forced to drop only a couple of weeks before the tournament, including [[Hallsville]] (who had earned Missouri's best placement at all five previous SSNCTs) and several teams that had not even qualified for the state tournament. As a result, only three Missouri teams - all in Classes 1 and 2, which had their state championships on Friday - attended the 2019 SSNCT, a sharp drop from the nineteen Missouri teams that attended in 2018.<br />
<br />
====Restrictions on Competitions on or after Memorial Day Weekend====<br />
MSHSAA regulations regarding summertime competition were previously ambiguous, leaving many teams unsure of whether or not they could attend national tournaments. In 2007, member schools voted between three options to make the definition more precise. These options were:<br />
* The academic competition season should end with the state tournament and participation beyond this date should not be interscholastic (participants could not represent their school). (91 votes)<br />
* Interscholastic academic competition should be allowed to continue into and throughout the summer. (55 votes)<br />
* '''A school academic competition team should be allowed to participate in a summertime national interscholastic competition only if the school has advanced from a qualifying event that takes place during the academic year. (130 votes)'''<br />
<br />
The winning option, which allows attendance at national tournaments but only by qualifying, was later approved in another vote by MSHSAA member schools and adopted as of the 2007-2008 competition season. This rule exists as by-law 4.4.3.a (quoted above) as of the 2018-2019 season.<br />
<br />
The restriction that schools must qualify for summertime tournaments during the regular season means that Missouri schools cannot attend those tournaments as a wildcard or on a standby basis unless their school has qualified at least one team for that tournament. Since MSHSAA's qualification rule applies to "schools" and not "teams", MSHSAA member schools ''are'' allowed to bring additional teams on a wildcard or standby basis once they have qualified at least one team. Qualifying events have become more common as more higher-quality tournaments are run on reputable sets and affiliated with PACE. Also, because MSHSAA districts and a large number of conference tournaments now use NAQT questions, a significant number of Missouri teams qualify for at least one national tournament every year. As a result, the prohibition on wildcard qualification is effectively a minor annoyance, but another example of how MSHSAA imposes restrictions that do not exist for schools from most other states.<br />
<br />
It was previously thought that schools had to be out of school before attending a national tournament due to the use of the word "summertime" in the applicable by-laws. After concerns were raised about the speech and academic competition regulations that basing the term "summertime" on a school's calendar would give students from schools that dismiss for the year earlier more opportunities to compete in activities than those who attend schools that dismiss later, member schools approved a change effective in the 2009-2010 season clarifying that qualifying teams are permitted to attend national tournaments that occur on or after the Friday of Memorial Day weekend.<br />
<br />
Since both [[HSNCT]] and [[NSC]] are held on or after Memorial Day weekend, Missouri teams have not had issues attending one of these national tournaments since the new rule and summertime clarifications were adopted, with a few schools sometimes attending both. However, in 2016, one school was notified by MSHSAA that they could attend only one of these national tournaments, under the interpretation that the rule only allows attendance at ''one'' summertime tournament. This restrictive interpretation of the ambiguous article "an" was a surprise to supporters of good quizbowl when considering the explicit limit of "one" tournament between districts and Memorial Day weekend, the allowance of summertime "events" by the analogous by-law for speech and debate activities, and the fact that other schools have previously attended both in the same season without incident.<br />
<br />
====250-mile rule====<br />
Matching the rules for MSHSAA's sport activities, teams generally may not attend any tournament further than 250 air miles from the borders of Missouri. Up until about 2010, teams were entirely prohibited from attending tournaments outside this radius. The rule was barely relaxed after the Academic Competition Advisory Committee recommended an amendment in 2008 allowing teams to travel to one tournament outside of the 250-mile radius. [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=90043#p90043] This rule change took effect in either the 2009-2010 or 2010-2011 season.<br />
<br />
The applicable MSHSAA by-law as of the 2018-2019 season is:<br />
<blockquote>4.4.4.d. A school may participate in any approved interscholastic scholar bowl event within the state during the interscholastic season. During the season, a school may travel to the site of one out of state tournament or invitational meet per year beyond 250 air-miles from the perimeter (border) of the state of Missouri, with the date and location to be determined by the local school administration. All remaining tournaments and invitationals must fall within 250 air-miles from the state border.</blockquote><br />
<br />
===Enforcement of MSHSAA Rules at Regular Season Tournaments===<br />
<br />
Beginning in the 2012-2013 season, MSHSAA now requires all regular season tournaments to follow certain rules in the MSHSAA Scholar Bowl rule book. Rules now required for all in-state tournaments include:<br />
<br />
* MSHSAA tossup timing: 5 seconds to buzz in at the end of a question, 3 seconds to begin a significant answer after being recognized, with an additional 7 seconds to complete the answer (for a total of 10 seconds). [C.1.b]<br />
* Bonus answers must come from the captain, unless the captain explicitly defers to another teammate ''by name''. [C.2.a]<br />
<br />
With this policy in place, regular season tournaments were previously required by rule C.1.c to recognize players who buzzed in ''by name'' before they could answer and to rule a player's answer incorrect if they did not wait to be recognized. This archaic rule was finally amended for the 2018-2019 season to eliminate the penalty for answering before being recognized.<br />
<br />
===The Charlie Dees Rule===<br />
In May 2008 the Academic Competition Advisory Committee approved a resolution that the 2009 Area Meetings discuss adopting [http://champs.mshsaa.org/advisory/index.asp?Committee_News_ID=506 By-Law 292.0], informally known as the "[[Charlie Dees]] Rule", which states:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>New By-Law 292.0 NON-SCHOOL COMPETITION<BR><BR><br />
<br />
During the season a student represents his or her school by competing in an interscholastic contest:<BR><BR><br />
<br />
a. He or she shall neither practice nor compete as a member of a non-school team or as an individual participant in organized non-school competition that meets the MSHSAA academic competition definition. A competition shall be considered "organized" if any of the following conditions exist: competition is scheduled and publicized in advance, official score is kept, individual or team standings are maintained, official timer or game officials are used, admission is charged, teams are regularly formed or team rosters are predetermined, squad members are dressed in team uniforms or a team is privately or commercially sponsored. Further, competition which is either directly or indirectly sponsored, promoted or administered by an individual, organization, or any other agency shall be considered organized.<BR><BR><br />
<br />
b. A student shall not have competed at any time as a member of a junior college or a senior college team if he or she desires to compete in academic competition in high school.<BR><BR><br />
<br />
c. A student who joins a school team for the first time must have abided by these restrictions beginning with the first day of the current season."</blockquote><br />
<br />
Specifically, this rule is intended to prevent students from competing "with and against collegiate students", and it is thought that the motivation behind this rule is that several coaches viewed Charlie Dees' desire to get better at quizbowl, especially through playing with and against better players, was somehow inherently unfair.<br />
<br />
This rule, as with all rules unreasonably banning quizbowl-playing students from ''participating in quizbowl'', was met with severe backlash on the [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5908&p=90043#p90043 hsquizbowl forums].<br />
<br />
Fortunately, at the 2008-2009 MSHSAA Area Meetings, the proposal was overwhelmingly defeated by the assembled superintendents, principals, athletic directors, and other administrative personnel from 510 MSHSAA member schools who attended. Seven of the eight sites were 100% opposed, while no percentage of opposition was listed for the eighth, while that site's comment ("Athletics is safety") didn't make much sense. Reasons cited were the ambiguity of the rule and its possible encroachment on Trivia Night-like activities and the fact that such a restriction limits students' opportunities to learn. [http://s4.zetaboards.com/Academic_Competition/topic/7573017/1/]<br />
<br />
===Treated like a sport===<br />
<br />
Most responses MSHSAA gives to criticism of its handling of quizbowl are likely based on the premise that since the same rules apply to sports, they should apply to Scholar Bowl as well. Notably, in the discussion of the Sectionals proposal, [[Jeremy Gibbs]], former president of MACA and the [[Missouri Academic Competition Message Board|Missouri forum]]'s primary source of MSHSAA information at the time, repeatedly implied that the justification for a sectionals system as opposed to one with the top two teams in a district advancing to the next stage of competition is that the latter "is not how any other sport works." However, the system used for Cross Country, in which multiple teams from Districts advance to sectionals, is similar to improved systems proposed on the Missouri board.<br />
<br />
The long standing NFHS policy against sanctioning national championships is believed to influence MSHSAA's reluctance to loosen or eliminate restrictions on summertime competition, despite the fact that the NFHS position statement specifically indicates disapproval of national championships for "athletic events" and nearly all other NFHS member organizations that sponsor quizbowl do not impose similar restrictions.<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
*[http://www.mshsaa.org Missouri State High School Activities Association]<br />
*[https://www.mshsaa.org/resources/pdf/1819ScholarBowlManual.pdf 2018-2019 Scholar Bowl Manual (PDF)]<br />
*[https://www.mshsaa.org/resources/pdf/1819Rules.pdf 2018-2019 Scholar Bowl Rules Book (PDF)]<br />
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[[Category:High school formats]] [[Category:High school quizbowl in Missouri]] [[Category: Bad quizbowl]][[Category:Missouri (State)]]<br />
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<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
:[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2] (see also [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder])<br />
:[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
:[https://www.intlacadcomp.com/packetizor/nhbb/ Packetizor]<br />
:[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
:[[Qblitz]]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
;[[SQBS]]<br />
:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]<br />
:[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
;QBSQL<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
:[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
:See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
;Excel score sheets<br />
:[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
;SQBS<br />
:[[SQBS data file]]<br />
;Tournakit<br />
:Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
;Livestat<br />
:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
;QBTPS<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
;JAGUARS<br />
:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
;Tournament Central<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
;Taft<br />
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
;[[BEeS]]<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
;Quizbowl Resource Database<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
;HS QB Packet Archive<br />
:[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;Collegiate Packet Archive<br />
:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
;QuizBug<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
;QB Reader<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]<br />
:May 31, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)]<br />
;Quizbowl DB (see [[#quizbowl_db|above]])<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
;QB Toolbox<br />
:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
;[[QBML]]<br />
:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
:[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing===<br />
:For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [ItALX http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170]<br />
:For tournament direction: Taft<br />
:Packet readers: Abacus<br />
:Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
:Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
:Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
:Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh<br />
:Practice tools: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
:For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
<br />
[[Category:Internet]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbowl_software&diff=42217Quizbowl software2020-03-29T20:15:26Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: Fix Yellowfruit formatting and add link to GitHub</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
:[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2] (see also [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder])<br />
:[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
:[https://www.intlacadcomp.com/packetizor/nhbb/ Packetizor]<br />
:[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
:[[Qblitz]]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
;[[SQBS]]<br />
:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]<br />
:[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
;[[QBSQL]]<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
:[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
:See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
;Excel score sheets<br />
:[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
;SQBS<br />
:[[SQBS data file]]<br />
;Tournakit<br />
:Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
;Livestat<br />
:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
;QBTPS<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
;JAGUARS<br />
:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
;Tournament Central<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
;Taft<br />
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
;[[BEeS]]<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
;Quizbowl Resource Database<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
;HS QB Packet Archive<br />
:[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;Collegiate Packet Archive<br />
:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
;QuizBug<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
;QB Reader<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]<br />
:May 31, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)]<br />
;Quizbowl DB (see [[#quizbowl_db|above]])<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
;QB Toolbox<br />
:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
;[[QBML]]<br />
:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
:[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing===<br />
:For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [ItALX http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170]<br />
:For tournament direction: Taft<br />
:Packet readers: Abacus<br />
:Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
:Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
:Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
:Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh<br />
:Practice tools: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
:For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
<br />
[[Category:Internet]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbowl_software&diff=42215Quizbowl software2020-03-29T20:07:50Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: Move ItALX to no longer existing software, as it no longer has an archive link</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
:[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2] (see also [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder])<br />
:[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
:[https://www.intlacadcomp.com/packetizor/nhbb/ Packetizor]<br />
:[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
:[[Qblitz]]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
;[[SQBS]]<br />
:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
;Yellowfruit<br />
:[[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Download from here]<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
;[[QBSQL]]<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
:[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
:See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
;Excel score sheets<br />
:[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
;SQBS<br />
:[[SQBS data file]]<br />
;Tournakit<br />
:Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
;Livestat<br />
:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
;QBTPS<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
;JAGUARS<br />
:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
;Tournament Central<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
;Taft<br />
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
;[[BEeS]]<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
;Quizbowl Resource Database<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
;HS QB Packet Archive<br />
:[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;Collegiate Packet Archive<br />
:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
;QuizBug<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
;QB Reader<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]<br />
:May 31, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)]<br />
;Quizbowl DB (see [[#quizbowl_db|above]])<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
;QB Toolbox<br />
:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
;[[QBML]]<br />
:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
:[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing===<br />
:For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [ItALX http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170]<br />
:For tournament direction: Taft<br />
:Packet readers: Abacus<br />
:Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
:Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
:Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
:Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh<br />
:Practice tools: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
:For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
<br />
[[Category:Internet]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbowl_software&diff=42214Quizbowl software2020-03-29T20:04:58Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: Move QBStatGen to no longer existing tools</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
:[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2] (see also [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder])<br />
:[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
:[https://www.intlacadcomp.com/packetizor/nhbb/ Packetizor]<br />
:[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
:[[Qblitz]]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
;[[SQBS]]<br />
:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
;Yellowfruit<br />
:[[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Download from here]<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
;[[QBSQL]]<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
:[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
:See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
;Excel score sheets<br />
:[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
;SQBS<br />
:[[SQBS data file]]<br />
;Tournakit<br />
:Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
;Livestat<br />
:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
;QBTPS<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
;JAGUARS<br />
:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
;Tournament Central<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
;Taft<br />
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
;[[BEeS]]<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
;Quizbowl Resource Database<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
;HS QB Packet Archive<br />
:[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;Collegiate Packet Archive<br />
:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
;QuizBug<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
;QB Reader<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]<br />
:May 31, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)]<br />
;Quizbowl DB (see [[#quizbowl_db|above]])<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
;ItALX<br />
:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/ItALX/ Home page] – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"<br />
:Oct 10, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV]<br />
;QB Toolbox<br />
:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
;[[QBML]]<br />
:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
:[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing===<br />
:For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database<br />
:For tournament direction: Taft<br />
:Packet readers: Abacus<br />
:Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
:Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
:Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
:Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh<br />
:Practice tools: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
:For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
<br />
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<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
:[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2] (see also [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder])<br />
:[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
:[https://www.intlacadcomp.com/packetizor/nhbb/ Packetizor]<br />
:[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
:[[Qblitz]]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
;[[SQBS]]<br />
:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
;Yellowfruit<br />
:[[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Download from here]<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
;[[QBSQL]]<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
:[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
:See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
;Excel score sheets<br />
:[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
;SQBS<br />
:[[SQBS data file]]<br />
;Tournakit<br />
:Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
;Livestat<br />
:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
;QBTPS<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
;JAGUARS<br />
:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
;Tournament Central<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
;Taft<br />
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
;[[BEeS]]<br />
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
;Quizbowl Resource Database<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
;HS QB Packet Archive<br />
:[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;Collegiate Packet Archive<br />
:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
;QuizBug<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
;QB Reader<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]<br />
:May 31, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)]<br />
;Quizbowl DB (see [[#quizbowl_db|above]])<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
;ItALX<br />
:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/ItALX/ Home page] – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"<br />
:Oct 10, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV]<br />
;QB Toolbox<br />
:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
;[[QBML]]<br />
:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
:[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing===<br />
:For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database<br />
:For tournament direction: Taft<br />
:Packet readers: Abacus<br />
:Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
:Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
:Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh<br />
:Practice tools: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
:For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
<br />
[[Category:Internet]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbowl_software&diff=42209Quizbowl software2020-03-29T19:44:54Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: /* Old */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
:[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2] (see also [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder])<br />
:[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
:[https://www.intlacadcomp.com/packetizor/nhbb/ Packetizor]<br />
:[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
:[[Qblitz]]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
;[[SQBS]]<br />
:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
;Yellowfruit<br />
:[[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Download from here]<br />
;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
;[[QBSQL]]<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
:[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
:See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
;Excel score sheets<br />
:[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
;SQBS<br />
:[[SQBS data file]]<br />
:ca. 2009 [https://code.google.com/p/qbsql/source/browse/trunk/functions.php#504 PHP functions for importing from and exporting to SQBS files]<br />
;Tournakit<br />
:Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
;Livestat<br />
:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
;QBStatGen<br />
:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/QBStatGen/ Home page] – "designed to create a more versatile statistics report from SQBS files"<br />
;QBTPS<br />
:<del>[http://qbtournaments.org/ Home page]</del><br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
;JAGUARS<br />
:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
;Tournament Central<br />
:[http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page]<br />
;[[Taft]]<br />
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
;[[BEeS]]<br />
:[http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page] – "integrate an entire quizbowl tournament into one seamless electronic experience"<br />
:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
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==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
;Quizbowl Resource Database<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
;HS QB Packet Archive<br />
:[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;Collegiate Packet Archive<br />
:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
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===Practice tools===<br />
;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
;QuizBug<br />
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
;QB Reader<br />
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]<br />
:May 31, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)]<br />
;Quizbowl DB (see [[#quizbowl_db|above]])<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
;ItALX<br />
:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/ItALX/ Home page] – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"<br />
:Oct 10, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV]<br />
;QB Toolbox<br />
:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
;[[QBML]]<br />
:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
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*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
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==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
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===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
:[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing===<br />
:For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database<br />
:For tournament direction: Taft<br />
:Packet readers: Abacus<br />
:Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
:Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
:Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh<br />
:Practice tools: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
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===Never Existed===<br />
:For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
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[[Category:Internet]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=How_to_Get_Good_at_This_Game&diff=42199How to Get Good at This Game2020-03-29T19:33:43Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: Fix dead link</p>
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<div>{{Intro}}<br />
'''How to Get Good At This Game''' is an essay by [[Raj Bhan]] about how to improve your quiz bowl skills.<br />
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For specific suggestions on improving as a science player, see [[How to become a good science player]], which is not written by Raj Bhan. For more information on this topic, see the pages listed in [[:Category:Quizbowl improvement methods|the improvement methods category]]. Whether or not it is done strictly for quizbowl, it is always good to [[Read a book]].<br />
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== Text of the Essay ==<br />
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How to Get Good at This Game<br />
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by Roger S. Bhan<br />
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Okay, people. Here it is. I've heard the question time and again, so I figured I'd spell it out for everyone's benefit.<br />
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A lot of you are probably looking for a simple and fast way to answer more questions. Sorry to disappoint you, but there isn't one. If you find that discouraging, then stop reading. Go jump into a punching bag and let the real players keep beating up on you.<br />
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Getting good at this game is a pretty intense process. It involves a good amount of dedication and motivation. However, the process itself is very simple. It's just a matter of sticking to it.<br />
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'''Step 1''': Enjoy what you're doing. If you really like sitting at a buzzer and answering (or attempting to answer) questions about stuff other people don't know, then you're already on the right track. This is a game, and games are meant to be fun. If this is frustrating or boring, or too serious for you, stop reading. And stop playing, for that matter. You're ruining it for the rest of us.<br />
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'''Step 2''': Figure out what you're good at. This game, regardless of [[:Category:Formats|format]] ([[ACF]], [[CBI|College Bowl]], or [[NAQT]]), contains tons of [[:Category:Subjects|categories]] and subcategories for everyone. [[Literature]], [[science]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [[Trash|sports]], [[Music|classical music]], etc. all appear in varying degrees. No one person is expected to know all this crap. That's why there are four people on a team instead of one. Socrates' axiom, "Know thyself," works pretty well in this case. There will be some categories you rock, some you're so-so in, and some that just fly right over your head. Determine which ones are the best for you.<br />
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'''Step 3''': Here's where the waters get a little murky. This is the crucial step that involves all the work necessary at getting better. There are actually three sub-steps involved. I'll list them for you in no particular order.<br />
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'''Step 3 (a)''': GO TO [[Practice|PRACTICE]], you delinquent! You need to have a buzzer in your hand at least once (if not twice) a week. You need to keep the wheels inside your head turning. If they sit still for too long, rust will develop on them. You should be in a competitive environment as often as possible. And don't just sit there with the buzzer in your hand. Practice actively. When a question goes by that you feel you should've known, write it down so you can remember and learn it for next time (I promise it will come up again). Practicing passively will still help some, but will not help as much. Be active. Take an interest in the questions that you are being asked.<br />
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'''Step 3 (b'''): GO TO [[:Category:Tournaments|TOURNAMENTS!]] This is the best way to acquire new information. Tournaments are also where you demonstrate your skills gained from all the practicing you've done. Tournaments are a lot of fun, and the more you attend, the better you'll get. And just like practice, compete actively. Write down stuff you don't know for later assimilation. Tournaments are also great for gauging your skill against other people besides your own [[WUSTL|WUAT]] members. Depending on what categories you handle, you can see how you rate against the other lit or science or whatever people around the country.<br />
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'''Step 3 (c)''': [[How to Write Questions|WRITE QUESTIONS]]! This is probably the most important aspect of getting better at this game, so I'll say it one more time. WRITE QUESTIONS! Okay, one more time. WRITE QUESTIONS! It's a time-consuming process, but the more you write, the better you'll get. What do you write about? Write questions in the categories that you do best. Write questions on stuff you learned in class, or read in a novel. Remember all that stuff you wrote down in practice and at the last tournament? Write questions about that stuff! Writing questions helps in several ways. It etches that bit of knowledge into your brain because you took the time to do a little research about your subject matter. It teaches you about the anatomy of a question, how a question is structured (most difficult to least difficult clues, in case you hadn't figured it out). Write two questions a day. Write a toss-up and a bonus. I guarantee you will notice the difference in your play between tournaments if you maintain writing two questions a day. You have no reason not to do this. It takes 20 minutes a day, it makes you smarter, you'll score more points, and it'll make you look attractive to people (okay, maybe not the last part, but you get the idea). If you're having trouble writing questions, ask someone with experience for help. Any older member of WUAT will be glad to help you (or direct you to someone who can). <br />
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'''Step 4''': Get your stuff together. Now that you know the three ways to get better at this game, integrate that stuff. Write some questions. When the stuff you wrote about comes up in practice, impress your friends by nailing the toss-up five words into the question. Take that knowledge to the next tournament and lead your team to sweet victory. It's a process that reinforces itself every time you write a question about something you think you should've known.<br />
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'''Step 5''': Get motivated and motivate others! Remember, you're on a team and no one person can win by himself or herself. You're going to notice the difference very soon if you keep writing questions and your teammates don't. And it'll just become more frustrating as you answer more questions and your team still isn't winning. Form some friendly rivalries with your teammates. See who can outscore each other at tournaments, or see who can learn art history best, or something like that. Get motivated to win!<br />
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Some people might look at this little regimen as taking the fun out of the game. I have two responses to that. First, this is a learning process, and learning the information described above can be lots of fun. It's tons of fun when you hear a toss-up on a question you wrote the day before and nail it five words into the question. It's a lot of fun when you smash other teams into oblivion because you know ten times more than them. Second, the other teams are going to follow this regimen, whether you do or not. If that's the case, you will lose every time. And I don't care how little self-esteem you have. Losing is never fun.<br />
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The bottom line: Put in a little effort, get big results. And that, my friends, is how you get good at this game.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20080308162627/http://sugroups.wustl.edu/~collbowl/howtogetgood.html Washington University of St. Louis' team page's hosting (Archived)]<br />
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[[Category: Quizbowl documents]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]<br />
[[Category: How-to]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl improvement methods]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=College_Bowl&diff=42195College Bowl2020-03-29T19:30:15Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: Update dead links</p>
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<div><blockquote>I think in December 2006 that people were still convinced that the war on CBI was going to be a long, hard-fought slog with CBI fighting to stay on as long as it could. CBI's sudden "suspension" of the program was the quizbowl equivalent of the collapse of the Soviet Union. --[[Dwight Wynne]], looking back on the end of College Bowl in 2011</blockquote><br />
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{{Important_Notready}}<br />
<br />
'''College Bowl''' was an event run by the [[College Bowl Company]]. It was on radio and television as a regular show from the late 1940s through circa 1970, and briefly returned on a limited basis to radio from 1977-1980 and to television in 1984 (on NBC) and 1987 (on the Disney Channel). Since 1978, it has provided questions for non-televised intramural and regional championship tournaments for colleges, as the sole supplier of questions and game rules to [[ACUI]]. Also since 1979, except in 1983 and 1985, the College Bowl Company has run a [[NCT|National Championship Tournament]] directly (ie, with only peripheral ACUI involvement). The two most salient points about College Bowl are that it is the ancestor of much of what is done in quizbowl today, and that it eventualy became what was considered to be of deplorable quality by the vast majority of quizbowl teams. As of 2007, there is less than a 10% crossover between teams competing on the NAQT/ACF quizbowl circuit and teams participating in College Bowl or its affiliated products.<br />
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In June 2008 the College Bowl Company announced that it was "suspending the College Bowl campus program, effective immediately".<br />
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==Structure of College Bowl==<br />
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===Game format/rules===<br />
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The official College Bowl rules are at [http://www.collegebowl.com/pub/gamerules.asp http://www.collegebowl.com/pub/gamerules.asp].<br />
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College Bowl uses a [[tossup/bonus format]] and a [[clock]].<br />
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Each game is comprised of two 8-minute halves. Through the early 1980s, the match ended if 28 tossups were read; now, moderators are given more questions and the match cannot end until the clock goes off. <br />
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College Bowl rules allow the clock to play an even bigger influence in the game than in [[NAQT]]. On a tossup, if one buzzes in before the clock goes off, the answer may be given and evaluated; however, if the clock interrupts a bonus (or goes off between a correct tossup answer and the start of a bonus) then the bonus ends and the team loses the opportunity to gain any more points. However, teams may attempt to guess what further bonus parts will be and give all answers before time expires; as long as they are in the correct order, such answers will be accepted.<br />
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Tossups are scored with 10s and -5, as in ACF. There are no [[powers]].<br />
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One of the most obviously unfair parts of the College Bowl format is the "[[variable value bonus]]." Bonuses are worth either 20, 25, or 30 points in College Bowl. Moderators start each tossup with "tossup for a __ point bonus", indicating the value of the upcoming bonus. In College Bowl, it is mathematically possible to answer more tossups than your opponent, never [[neg]], and have better [[bonus conversion]], but still lose the game due to getting predominantly low-valued bonus questions. This result actually happened in a Stanford-Princeton game at the 1995 NCT ([http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/newsletters/ACF_Newsletter_1-8.txt source]). <br />
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Bonuses may be one-part, one-answer; one-part, multi-answer; or multi-part, multi-answer.<br />
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College Bowl has several eligibility rules not found in collegiate quizbowl: Players are limited to six years of total intercollegiate participation. Teams may have a maximum of one graduate student. Teams with fewer than three players may not participate (this rule is not always enforced).<br />
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===Annual competitive structure===<br />
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Each school that participates in College Bowl is required to purchase at least 10 packets of intramural questions (at a minimum total cost of $600) and to run an intramural tournament, in which all players who participate at the intercollegiate level must play. As long as the money is paid, College Bowl has been notoriously lax about what constitutes an "intramural tournament," with a single game read to a single team without buzzers in a car on the way to College Bowl Regionals having been accepted as a valid intramural tournament on at least one occasion. However, at most customer schools, the intramural tournament is an actual campus activity. In former times, quizbowl teams who participated in College Bowl would take charge of running the intramural tournament at their campus in order to see that it was done as well as possible and use it as a recruiting vehicle, but this is now almost never the case at the remaining 22 (as of 2007) schools who participate in both quizbowl and College Bowl.<br />
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The purchase of packets for the intramural tournament is by far the largest moneymaker for the College Bowl program itself, and in turn appears to bring in far less revenue for the College Bowl Company than either Honda Campus All-Star Challenge or University Challenge.<br />
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For about half of the schools who purchase College Bowl intramural packets, their involvement ends at this point, and College Bowl is simply an on-campus activity provided by the student union or activities office with no orientation towards intercollegiate competition.<br />
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For the rest, a team is sent to [[College Bowl Regionals]]. This is sometimes an all-star team, and sometimes just the intramural champions. Regionals is where [[ACUI]]'s involvement is the most pronounced. Teams are divided into the sixteen ACUI regions. Region 16, comprising all areas outside of the U.S. and Canada, has never held a tournament. Sometimes, two regions are combined into a single tournament due to low interest (regions 3 & 4, representing the upper Mid-Atlantic, in recent years, for example). The Regional tournaments are directed by student union personnel who are members of ACUI at the host schools, and staffed by student union volunteers who almost never have any previous experience with quizbowl-like activities. This leads to the expected amount of incompetence. Since 2002, the College Bowl Company has issued more firm suggestions on tournament formats and so forth to the Regional tournament directors, who previously had full latitude to experiment with strange ideas. College Bowl Regionals is often scheduled at the same time and place as other ACUI regional championship activities for intercollegiate activities, including bowling, billiards, and a poetry slam. The entry fee, usually around $150, is paid to the member schools and thus to ACUI, who contracts with College Bowl for the questions behind the scenes.<br />
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Each region produces a designated champion and second-place team. In most years since the early 1990s, the 15 regional champions and a "[[College Bowl Nationals wild card|wild-card]]" second-place team, selected "at random," have been invited to a 16-team College Bowl Nationals field at this point. However, other formats have been used on occasion, including a 15-team Nationals with no wild card invited, "super-regionals" which winnowed teams down to 4 remaining champions, and "dual nationals" in which two separate nationals were held and the winners placed together in an overall championship match.<br />
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College Bowl Nationals usually does not charge an entry fee and also provides several perks such as on-site meals for free. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was sponsored by Ford, who sometimes also provided free travel, lodging, and per-diem money.<br />
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==History of College Bowl==<br />
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===History of College Bowl to 1970===<br />
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====Radio====<br />
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College Bowl is said to have begun "as a USO activity during World War II." Specifics on how the game worked at that time are unknown.<br />
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Its better-documented history begins in 1953, when [[Don Reid]] and [[John Moses]] created a radio show on the NBC radio network, which may have originally been known as "College Quiz Bowl." The radio show paired together two teams participating from their local NBC affiliate stations or from campus studios. They competed on questions read by moderator [[Allen Ludden]], in a third location at NBC's flagship radio station WRCA. Players raised their hands to answer tossups, and "referees" stationed with each team judged who had the right to answer first and activated buzzers themselves. A system of telephone and radio connections allowed for multi-site participation.<br />
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The first match was on October 10, 1953, and saw [[Northwestern]] defeat [[Columbia]] 135-60. The first tossup, on an unknown answer, went [[dead]], and the next tossup, on John Hay, was successfully answered by Columbia.<br />
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The magazine Good Housekeeping and the watch manufacturer Longine Wittnauer sponsored the radio show until it ended in December of 1955 due to the end of Good Housekeeping sponsorship.<br />
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====Television====<br />
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Just over three years later, the responsored "GE College Bowl" debuted on CBS television, and ran about 30 new episodes each year from 1959 to 1970. The show was normally part of the Sunday night lineup, but was sometimes broadcast on Saturdays. It switched to NBC before the 1962 fall season.<br />
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The first episode was broadcast on January 4, 1959, and saw [[Northwestern]] defeat [[Brown]] (with Pembroke) 145-135. Allen Ludden hosted the show on CBS. When it moved to NBC and Ludden left to host ''Password'', a news anchor from Utica, NY, [[Robert Earle]], created an unsolicited audition tape and won the job of replacement host, which he held for the remainder of the show's run.<br />
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In 1963 and 1964, there was a spinoff show entitled Alumni Fun which had three-person teams, large cash prizes for the represented institutions, and famous alumni from the schools competing instead of current students.<br />
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GE College Bowl ended in 1970. [[Richard Reid]] claims that it was too closely identified with General Electric and the sponsor expressed concern over the potential for College Bowl becoming involved in campus riots against GE's military manufacturing business.<br />
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=====Timeslot=====<br />
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According to an [http://imdb.com/title/tt0177442/board/thread/37680953 unverified IMDB post], these are the times at which the show aired:<br />
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*January 4-April 26, 1959 CBS-TV Sunday at 5:00<br />
*May 3, 1959-June 16, 1963 CBS-TV Sunday at 5:30<br />
*September 22, 1963-June 4, 1967 NBC-TV Sunday at 5:30<br />
*September 23-December 23, 1967 NBC-TV Saturday at 5:30<br />
*January 7-June 9, 1968 NBC-TV Sunday at 6:00<br />
*September 28-December 21, 1968 NBC-TV Saturday at 5:30<br />
*January 5-June 8, 1969 NBC-TV Sunday at 6:00<br />
*October 11-December 20, 1969 NBC-TV Saturday at 5:30<br />
*January 4-June 14, 1970 NBC-TV Sunday at 6:30<br />
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All shows lasted half an hour. Note that the moves to Saturday coincided with the football season, which requires lengthy and unpredictable time commitments from broadcasters on Sunday afternoons and evenings.<br />
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===Revival of College Bowl, 1977-1991===<br />
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In 1977, the [[ACUI]]-affiliated College Bowl program began, which quickly emerged into the intramural-regional-national system. The tournament was revived after College Bowl officials noted the burgeoning success of the independent tournaments, such as the [[Southeastern Invitational]], which had grown up in the Atlanta area since 1970. One of the people involved in that independent circuit, [[Mike Decker]] of [[Emory]], was hired by College Bowl as their chief question writer, and maintained that position until the demise of College Bowl in 2008. For this reason, members of the 1970s Southern circuit often claimed that independent quizbowl had just as legitimate a claim to creating College Bowl in its modern form as College Bowl of the 1960s had to creating independent quizbowl.<br />
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Starting in the fall of 1979, the competition was packaged as a show for broadcast on the CBS radio network. A series of shows were recorded at a collegiate location to which several teams would be invited. The team winning a game continued to face another challenger. After a team won three straight games, they would retire undefeated and automatically qualify for the [[1980 NCT|1980 National Championship Tournament]]. The next game would feature two new teams. Eight spots in the NCT were reserved for radio winners. Because the season was short, there were not enough undefeated three-game winners. So two-game winners and sometimes one-game winners qualifed for the NCT by this method. Former [[Jeopardy!]] host [[Art Fleming]] was the moderator for the broadcasts.<br />
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The first part of the 1980 NCT consisted of a 16-team single elimination tournament held at [[Marshall]], February 29-March 3. The field was composed of 8 radio qualifiers and 8 regional champions. If a radio qualifier won its regional tournament, then the second place team from that region would earn a bid to the NCT. All 15 games were broadcast. [[WUSTL]] won this segment, defeating MIT in the final. Whether a region was late in holding its tournament or a venue could not be found quickly enough, the second portion of the NCT was not held until June at WUSTL. The remaining 7 regional qualifiers and the wildcard team met in an 8-team single-elimination tournament with the winner to play WUSTL. [[Fresno State]] won the second segment and defeated WUSTL for the championship. It was followed by an All-Star Game where three players from the teams already there in St. Louis were joined by [[Townsend Reese]] of the [[University of Maryland]] to play Fresno State. Reese was flown in specifically for the game. The All-Star team defeated Fresno State. At least the final and the All-Star Game were recorded for radio broadcast. <br />
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The [[1981 NCT|1981 National Championship Tournament]] was run in a similar fashion with a radio regular season and playoffs. However, all 8 radio and 16 regional qualifiers were brought together to Marshall in March for a single 24-team single-elimination tournament. The radio winners were given first-round byes. The University of Maryland defeated [[Davidson]] in the final. The championship was followed by an East-West All-Star Game and a College vs. High School All-Star Game with the high school players coming from the Huntington, WV version of [[High School Bowl]]. Games from the quarter-finals on, including the two All-Star Games, were broadcast on radio.<br />
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For the [[1982 NCT|1982 National Championship Tournament]] teams could again qualify by winning on radio or by the regional tournament. The 24 teams were split into four separate tournaments called either Super-Regionals or Sub-Nationals. These were 6-team double-elimination tournaments and the top two teams from each qualified for the finals, held in New York City in April. The finals were an 8-team single elimination tournament won by the [[University of North Carolina]] who defeated [[Rice]]. It was followed by an All-Star Game. All seven matches and the All-Star Game were broadcast on radio.<br />
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In 1984, NBC broadcast the last two rounds of the single-elimination [[1984 NCT|NCT]] as a one-hour special, live from the [[Ohio State University]]. Former "GE College Bowl" host Robert Earle was originally announced as the moderator, but [[Pat Sajak]] ended up hosting.<br />
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In 1986, a series of "Super-Regionals" was played to winnow down the Regional champions to a four-team field for "Nationals".<br />
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In 1987, 500 schools participated at the intramural level in an attempt to win a spot in a sixteen-team elimination tournament broadcast on the Disney Channel and organized by [[Don Reid]] and [[Richard Reid]]. Richard Reid said he located the original sound boxes from the GE show to use in 1987. [[Dick Cavett]] was the moderator of the televised matches.<br />
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From 1988 to 1990, Nationals was played as a double-elimination tournament with initial brackets determined by random draw. In 1991, a full round robin was played. Teams might have been more enthusiastic about the new format had the sixteen-team tournament not been played in only four game rooms.<br />
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===College Bowl in the 1990s===<br />
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===College Bowl in the post-deaffiliation era===<br />
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==The problem with College Bowl==<br />
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===Segregation of HBCUs===<br />
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===General issues with question style and quality===<br />
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"The subject matter is reflective of society," said Reid. "You'll see the same subjects (as before), but now there's more entertainment, sports, film. I feel the show has to be entertaining. The formula is to create questions where (the audience) could know the answers, should know the answers, and will recognize the answers when they hear them. We don't want the questions to be too esoteric. It's an entertainment program, it's not the kids showing off."<br />
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College Bowl believes that it is a good idea for its national championship to be decided on such tossups as the following:<br />
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"Richard Nixon came back from disgrace after Watergate to become a best-selling author. An even unlikelier comeback from even worse disgrace began in 2006 with the first English translation of -- for 10 points -- a newly discovered Gospel attributed to which Apostle?" (2006 NCT round 20, tossup 10)<br />
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"A 300-pound wood-seated toilet is, at 20,000 feet above sea level, the world's highest public toilet. It sits a little more than 9,000 feet beneath the summit -- for 10 points -- of what mountain?" (2006 NCT round 19, tossup 19)<br />
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"These sometimes rogue proteins have evolutionarily survived because, in their irregular form, they maintain the body's supply of stem cells. It's when their shape gets altered that -- for 10 points -- what infectious agent causes mad cow disease?" (2006 NCT round 20, tossup 19)<br />
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===Lawsuit threat and licensure===<br />
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===1980 College Bowl Nationals Playoff===<br />
The 1980 College Bowl Nationals situation was brought to light after members of the [[hsquizbowl forums]] posted about a bizarre story told by Richard Reid at the 2004 National Tournament (see [[College Bowl#2004_College_Bowl_Nationals_Diatribe|below]] for details of the speech). According to [[Charlie Steinhice]] and Craig Leff, the [[MIT]] team that was ahead at the end of the round robin was led by a very good player named Brian Clouse, while the [[Washington University in St. Louis|Washington University]] team just behind them contained Kurt Wallenberg, Craig Leff, Mitch Goldman, Vik Chandhok, and Sally Fleming. According to the story, Brian and Sally fell in love over the tournament and went inner tube sledding together. Brian then broke his arm, allowing Washington University to win the next day playoff against MIT. According to Steinhice, the university paper ran a story celebrating the team's national championship.<br />
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But wait, there's more! According to various sources (Steinhice and Leff give conflicting accounts), either there was a concurrent Western National Tournament won by Fresno State, or Region 15 could not get its act together and run a tournament in time to send the winner to nationals, so College Bowl gave the winner of Region 15 a bye past the national tournament. Either way, Fresno State and Washington University faced off in a one-game playoff, which Fresno State won by about 70. Steinhice claims that this was due to Fresno State being "warm" and Washington University being "cold".<br />
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===Cancellation of 1983 and 1985 College Bowl Nationals===<br />
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===Question recycling in 1988 College Bowl Regionals===<br />
The 1988 Regionals tournament featured a number of questions that were identical to those used in the 1982 Regionals. College Bowl apologized for the gaffe while expressing incredulity that any teams would still have questions on hand in violation of the 5-year rule (see below). Apparently it had not occurred to them that (a) in those pre-Circuit days the availability of questions for practice purposes was extremely limited (and that, therefore, some teams would practice for CBI Regionals by using CBI Regionals questions), and (b) several players who participated at Regionals in 1988 had also played in 1982.<br />
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The number of such duplicate questions was not quantified; probably between 5 and 10 percent of tossups were repeats. This led to situations such as:<br />
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Moderator: "Russians called them.." *buzz* Player: "Vikings" Moderator: "Correct" and<br />
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Moderator: "Sitting atop the.." *buzz* Player: "Reykjavik" Moderator: "Correct"<br />
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====Further allegations of question recycling====<br />
Rule 8 of the College Bowl Rules Governing Participation for Campus Tournaments states that "...game packets may not be retained by participating schools for more than five years. Outdated game packets must be destroyed." This is in opposition to the policies of ACF, which is in the process of making their old tournaments freely accessible, and NAQT, which happily sells their old questions at a discounted rate. Reasons for this are unclear; however, almost nobody in mainstream quizbowl believes the given reason of "ensur[ing] that College Bowl questions are current", and the most widely held belief is that this rule is designed to allow College Bowl to recycle questions.<br />
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College Bowl is open about its recycling of questions within the same year's College Bowl and [[HCASC]] packets. This is part of the reason why teams cannot compete in both events. However, there is little effort made to prevent people from participating in one event and acting as officials or spectators at the other; it would be trivially easy for an ill-intentioned person to cheat in this way, and it is also unlikely that a more casual player is even aware that he should avoid doing this.<br />
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===Allegations of favoritism or match-fixing===<br />
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===1997 College Bowl Nationals finals scandal and prize withdrawal===<br />
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===Sponsor rule and disqualification of Williams from 1999 College Bowl Nationals===<br />
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===2004 College Bowl Nationals Diatribe===<br />
At a series of banquets at the 2004 National Tournament, Richard Reid rambled about the "Babe Ruth of College Bowl" and his apparent downfall at the hands of the "Mata Hari of College Bowl" due to an unfortunate inner tube sledding accident at the 1980 National Tournament at [[Marshall]]. Some details of the incident were easily disproven by a glance at the tournament literature, which said that [[Fresno State]] had won the tournament that year and that it had not been held at Marshall. See [[College Bowl#1980_College_Bowl_Nationals_Playoff|above]] for a description of what is believed to have ''actually'' happened.<br />
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At the same banquet, Reid denounced two members of the 1997 champion [[Virginia]] team, claiming one was "just a substitute teacher" (believed to refer to [[Brian Rostron]]) and the other was "by all accounts, deranged" (believed to refer to [[Andrew Yaphe]]).<br />
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Note that, despite allegations that Reid's words were being misreported in a game of "playing telephone" and should be excused "unplanned slips of the tongue" from [[Hayden Hurst|people]] who were [[Dave Thorsley|not there]], Matt Weiner performed due diligence and confirmed that Reid had made the above comments with three primary witnesses, [[Scott Francis]], [[Steve Kaplan]], and [[Leo Wolpert]], as well as with a third party who was (literally) telephoned by Reid a week before the tournament to confirm details, showing that Reid's comments were in fact calculated in advance.<br />
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===Bathroom rule===<br />
At the National Tournament (since at least 2004) and possibly some regional tournaments as well, players are not allowed to leave a room after their game is finished until all such games have been finished, even to go to the bathroom. This can cause excruciatingly long delays when there is a protest (actually, College Bowl does not condone the word "protest"; instead, their official policy is that teams should request a review of a game discrepancy). While this does give players an opportunity to meet with their opponents outside of a game situation, this rule also has been alleged to [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=929 treat players like five-year-olds].<br />
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===Objectionable in-game rules===<br />
====Codified in the Official Rules of Play====<br />
The following rules are directly from [http://www.collegebowl.com/pub/gamerules.asp College Bowl Game Rules]:<br />
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10. If the Moderator has read all 28 Toss-Up questions in a packet, s/he should go to a back-up packet. (NOTE: Unused questions can be gleaned from a number of packets for this purpose.)<br />
*At least at NCT, College Bowl discourages moderators from getting through 28 tossups, so that this rule is rarely in play. See [http://www-tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_098/TECH_V098_S0618_P001.pdf here] for an example of Richard Reid breaking the rule (it's also possible that the rule was not in place in 1979).<br />
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13. Every time a player answers a Toss-Up question correctly, their team, and their team only, gets the chance to answer a Bonus question (there is no Bonus question if the Toss-Up ends the half or the game). <br><br />
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26. If the half or game ends while the Moderator is reading a Bonus, the game stops there, without giving the team a chance to respond.<br>However, if the team has begun its answer, they may continue. If the question was read in one part, the team may complete the answer. If it is a Bonus with numbered, multiple parts, the team may complete only the part the Moderator has begun asking.<br />
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*NAQT and most other timed tournaments allow for off the clock completion of tossup-bonus cycles if the tossup is begun before the end of the half. ACF has done away with the clock altogether to resolve this apparent unfairness of teams not being allowed to hear the rest of the question.<br />
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17. On a Toss-Up, an answer given before a player is recognized is considered incorrect. If it is the first team to signal, the question is turned over to the other team.<br />
*Mainstream quizbowl formats allow for answers to be given before recognition, so long as the player recognizes that the buzzer light indicating the signaling player is his. According to [[Sean Phillips]], this practice comes from the days when College Bowl was on radio and the games were done via remote hookup. The recognition rule allowed both players and listeners to keep track of what was going on during the match, since neither group could see anyone else participating. [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=45507#p45507]<br />
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19. If a player confers with a teammate on a Toss-Up question, the answer is disqualified, even if it was correct. Obvious non-verbal cues are considered conferring. Where applicable, the question is turned over to the other team. <br><br />
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40. A player whose conduct is unsportsmanlike or who disrupts game play will be warned once. This warning is in effect for the duration of the tournament.<br>A second violation will result in the player's ejection from the match in progress. The team may not substitute for this player during the match, but the player may rejoin the team for subsequent matches.<br>A third violation will result in a player's expulsion from the tournament. The team may substitute for this player in subsequent matches.<br>This pertains to conduct of the entire team (including the Coach) during the entire tournament (including at the hotel, etc.). Warnings may be issued by any Game Official. <br />
*The rules by themselves are not objectionable; however, the application of the rules can be somewhat perplexing (c.f. [http://quizbowl.bol.ucla.edu/lexicon/oldlexicon2.html conduct violations issued against UCLA at 2004 Regionals]).<br />
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37. The College Bowl team consists of up to five players (four players and an alternate). No more than four and no fewer than three may play in any game. If for any reason a team is left with only two players, they automatically forfeit the match in progress.<br />
*Kirk Nagy memorably claimed to have been [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=596 shafted by this rule] at an intramural tournament at Wayne State. Other schools have flouted this rule with varying degrees of ease at intramural tournaments.<br />
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====Not Codified in the Official Rules====<br />
Despite the use of an official whose sole job for the vast majority of the game is to recognize the player who buzzed in on a tossup and then reset the buzzer system, it will rarely happen that the system will not be reset before the next tossup. At the 2007 Region 15 Regional, it was revealed that College Bowl's official stance on this situation is to throw out the tossup, even if only one person was attempting to buzz. In theory, a game official who had a grudge against the team that brought this problem to the officials' attention could furthermore give the team a -5 for conferring.<br />
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Although the Tournament Director's decision is final, in most cases at RCT and NCT, any procedural protests are met with a call to headquarters.<br />
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===Wikipedia editing scandal===<br />
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In the winter of 2005-2006, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Moberemb this account] appeared on Wikipedia, editing articles related to College Bowl to present the group in a more favorable light. It was either the account of [[Mary Oberembt]], a longtime College Bowl Company executive whose titles include "general manager," or a very carefully calculated parody, who made changes only College Bowl would care about, such as changing all the references to "prizes" won by Honda teams to "grants." After much fighting with the Wikipedia process, including being told that identifying the inherent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest WP:COI] violation in having Mary Oberembt and David Tuttle whitewash articles about College Bowl was the unacceptable act of "identifying a user in meatspace," the quizbowl representatives abandoned the article to College Bowl and its falsehoods. This example of Wikipedia's inherent bias against actual facts and policies of reporting said facts objectively, and towards people obsessed enough to game the byzantine, Calvinball-like Wikipedia process, is currently cited by some tournament directors as one reason why [[Wikipedia]] is incapable of producing a reliable reference source and thus should not be used to write quizbowl questions. The reader is left to determine his own conclusions about College Bowl from the fact that College Bowl is so paranoid about its image that it feels the need to vandalize a fake Internet encyclopedia that is widely considered a joke. Fortunately, the original passages have since been restored.<br />
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====Excised Passage #1====<br />
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The first item excised by the putative Mary Oberembt account was the following:<br />
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{{cquotetxt|In the 1987 and 1988 regional tournaments, College Bowl was accused of recycling questions from previous tournaments, thereby corrupting the results (questions for tournaments need to be fresh, or certain teams will have an inherent advantage). The 1987 National Tournament, on the Disney Channel, saw additional controversy, as a number of protested matches proved to strain the television format. In addition, the company claimed a copyright on the idea of quizbowl competitions, and attempted to extract a licensing fee from invitational tournaments; threatening to blacklist schools which hosted invitationals and did not pay the licensing fee. If the intent was chilling the invitational circuit, it failed, as these developments and the growing Internet community of quiz bowl players led to an explosion of teams, tournaments, and formats.}}<br />
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The second item excised by the putative Mary Oberembt account was the following:<br />
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{{cquotetxt|In 1970 modern invitational tournaments began with the Southeastern Invitational Tournament, and the circuit expanded through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These tournaments increasingly made various modifications to the College Bowl format, and came to be known as quiz bowl. Earlier invitational tournaments, such as the "Syraquiz" at Syracuse University, had occurred in the 1950s and 1960s.}}<br />
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The other passage involved in the putative Mary Oberembt account was the following:<br />
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{{cquotetxt|In 1976, the program became affiliated with the Association of College Unions International (ACUI), which continues to promote it as a non-broadcast event after the demise of the radio and television experiments.}}<br />
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"Oberembt" changed it to read:<br />
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{{cquotetxt|In 1976, the program became affiliated with the Association of College Unions International (ACUI), which continues to promote it as a non-broadcast event.}}<br />
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===Deceit and underhanded tactics used to keep teams away from quizbowl===<br />
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===Cost===<br />
The College Bowl Company's business model may look strange, when one realizes that it provides questions for free to the Regional Championship Tournament (the company claims not to see a penny of the tournament entry fees) and does not charge teams to attend the National Championship Tournament. However, the company makes up for this by requiring that teams and players that participate in the Regional Championship Tournament play an On-Campus Tournament with questions provided by the company. For several years up to and including 2007, the College Bowl Company charged a minimum of $570 for a set of 10 packets, with small per-packet discounts for buying additional packets; "late" orders started at $600. In 2008 the company increased their prices to $600 for a set of 10 packets, or $700 for a "late" order. Bundles of 15 packets were available for the discounted price of $55/packet (or $63.33 /packet with late order), and 20 packets for the discounted price of $52.50/packet (or $60/packet with late order).<br />
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The staggering cost of College Bowl questions may be best put in perspective when one realizes that a team looking to compete at a national tournament can now purchase [[NAQT]]'s most current set of 15 Intramural packets, send a team to [[SCT]], and if it qualifies send that team to [[ICT]] for less than the cost of the College Bowl Company's set of 10 On-Campus Tournament packets. Alternatively, a team brand new to [[mainstream quizbowl]] could attend [[ACF Fall]], [[ACF Regionals|Regionals]], and [[ACF Nationals|Nationals]], and purchase those NAQT Intramural packets, for less than the cost of the On-Campus Tournament. (As an added "bonus", 64 teams in two divisions qualify for NAQT ICT, while teams who wish to play ACF Nationals need only indicate interest and pay the tournament fee; thus, it is objectively easier for a decently competitive team to compete at one of these national tournaments than to qualify for College Bowl Nationals)<br />
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===Novelty questions===<br />
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A 1990 regional qualifying tournament was held at the University of Windsor in Canada. Despite having no Canadian teams in attendance, the directors (of the region, not of Windsor) thought it would be appropriate to add in multiple Canadian content questions each round "just for fun". No other sites had these Canadian questions, which covered useless topics like Brian Mulroney's middle name (believe it or not, it's actually Brian). (from "Mind matchup no trivial pursuit for U.S. collegians" by Ellen van Wageningen in the ''Windsor Star'', March 5, 1990)<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Honda Campus All-Star Challenge]]<br />
*[[University Challenge]]<br />
*[[Celtel Africa Challenge]]<br />
*[[High School Bowl]]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_6WzOnwDk College Bowl powerhouse Agnes Scott College beats Princeton]<br />
*[http://www.collegebowl.com College Bowl official website]<br />
**[http://www.collegebowl.com/arch/history.asp History page from that site]<br />
**[http://www.collegebowl.com/gecollegebowlresultrptdlg.asp List of TV competitors and results]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130506201133/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cbowl/History.htm A history of College Bowl from Columbia] Warning- uses Wikipedia as a source and thus may be made-up<br />
*[https://www.facebook.com/CollegeBowlValhalla College Bowl Valhalla]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/19980201135749/http://collegebowl.com/archives/archrct.html Regional winners archive]<br />
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'''ACF''' is one of the major formats of collegiate quizbowl. The name refers to two related things:<br />
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*The actual organization, founded as the [[Academic Competition Foundation]] in 1991, which changed its name to the '''Academic Competition Federation''' in 1997 and presently continues to run a national championship for collegiate quizbowl as well as other tournaments.<br />
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*The format, designed by [[Robert Meredith]] and adopted by the ACF organization for its official tournaments, which has become used at almost all collegiate tournaments and many high school tournaments, which are otherwise not connected to the ACF organization.<br />
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==History==<br />
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===Discontent with College Bowl===<br />
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In the mid-1980s, several schools began to take their participation in [[College Bowl]] seriously and prepare for College Bowl's regional and national tournaments by holding independent invitationals. Players quickly noticed that College Bowl's questions were not tailored to reward even minimal levels of effort at acquiring knowledge, but instead were aimed at entertaining a television audience, tricking good players into giving wrong answers in order to create "excitement," and generally making the spectator feel smarter than the players in order to keep people watching. After College Bowl went off the air for the final time in 1987, the rationale for undermining game fairness in order to reward home viewers evaporated.<br />
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Just as the first stirrings of discontent with the questions were being noted, several scandals erupted which understandably upset serious players:<br />
*the 1988 College Bowl Regionals were found to have recycled many of their questions from the 1982 College Bowl Regionals. As unforgivable as this would be in a vacuum, the problem was compounded by one regional director handing out the 1982 Regionals as practice material to attending teams, rendering that region's tournament completely unplayable.<br />
*College Bowl began threatening the independent tournament circuit with lawsuits, claiming that College Bowl held a [[College Bowl copyright claim|copyright]] over the tossup/bonus format with buzzers. The [[Maryland]] team was threatened with disqualification from the 1989 College Bowl Regionals if they went ahead with hosting [[Terrapin]] that year, so they deaffiliated themselves from College Bowl in protest.<br />
*The 1983 and 1985 College Bowl Nationals were canceled, leaving teams with no opportunity at all to compete for a championship.<br />
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In response to all of these concerns, [[Maryland]] and [[Tennessee]] stopped participating in College Bowl at all, an unheard-of decision when College Bowl was synonymous with the activity. A few years later, [[Georgia Tech]] followed. Further "de-affiliations," as the practice was called, continued every year. The difference in rules, participants, and question content became so great that, by 2000 or so, it was inappropriate to consider quizbowl and College Bowl to be the same activity, and they are now usually looked at as two separate games with some common features, played by an increasingly non-overlapping set of players.<br />
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===The All American Invitational===<br />
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According to the Georgia Tech website, that team won three "unofficial" quizbowl national championships in the pre-ACF era. It is unknown exactly what that refers to, but there was a "National Invitation Tournament" held at least in the two years when College Bowl Nationals were cancelled, and possibly in other years as well. A summer 1988 [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/newsletters/Buzzer4.html newsletter] denotes Emory's All American Invitational, which took place on April 15-16, 1988, as "the national championship of academic buzzer competitions." The tournament was written entirely by [[Carol Guthrie]] and [[Don Windham]], who went on to play key roles in the original version of ACF. Georgia Tech defeated Emory to win it. This may have been the first-ever national championship outside of College Bowl. It is worth noting that, in a remarkable example of institutional continuity, the third-place scorer from the All American Invitational, [[Robert Trent]], also participated in the [[2007 ACF Nationals]] and many other important tournaments in-between. The AAI was run again in 1989 and 1990, and replaced by [[1991 ACF Nationals|ACF Nationals]] in 1991.<br />
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Other proto-ACF events may include the [[Southeastern Invitational]] run by Berry College and its coach, [[Gordon Carper]]. As students at Berry, both [[Carol Guthrie]] and [[Don Windham]] were quizbowl players coached by Carper. Guthrie went on to become the most important figure in the first version of ACF, while her husband Windham was also involved in academic competition in the early 1990s as a player.<br />
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===Academic Competition Foundation (1991-1997)===<br />
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In the fall of 1990, Guthrie, then the coach of the Tennessee team, joined with Maryland team members [[John Nam]] and [[Ramesh Kannappan]] to found the Academic Competition Foundation. Presumably, this organization ran regional packet-submission tournaments in the 1991 and 1992 competition seasons, but that's unconfirmed (the tournament labeled 1992 ACF Regionals on the Stanford Archive is actually the 1993 Regionals). The one tournament that was certainly run in those first two years was the [[1991 ACF Nationals]], the first non-College Bowl event to unambiguously bill itself as a national championship. The tournament was won by the host Tennessee team over Georgia Tech. Departing from College Bowl's structure, the tournament featured untimed 20/20 games, a focus on academic content, an attempt to avoid "hoses" and riddle questions, a field open to multiple teams from each geographic region, and reasonable prices. However, at this early date, ACF still included variable-value bonuses, spelling questions, and other bad College Bowl mainstays.<br />
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There were no ACF nationals in 1992, for reasons currently unknown. Beginning in 1993, Regionals and Nationals were run every year, and attracted an increasing amount of legitimacy in the quizbowl world. Starting in 1995, all ACF tournaments used 30-point bonuses exclusively, dumping the last vestige of College Bowl's gimmicky rules.<br />
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"ACF versus College Bowl" became the defining argument on the quizbowl [[Usenet group]], as partisans of each format debated the merits of such College Bowl policies as timed matches, variable-value bonuses, single-team-per-region national tournaments, generally bad questions, and so forth. An undercurrent of debate about College Bowl's emphasis on trivia, current events, and popular culture versus the relative unimportance of those topics to ACF packets was also brewing at this time, as were concerns about question length and difficulty in ACF (belied then, as usual, by the high scoring which normally took place at ACF tournaments). Guthrie and Georgia Tech coach [[Jim Dendy]] edited most ACF events in the Foundation era, with Nam also editing the 1993 Nationals.<br />
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Despite the antipathy between some supporters of the two "formats," the same team won both College Bowl and ACF Nationals two times at the height of the original ACF's popularity--[[1994 Chicago|Chicago]] in 1994 and [[1995 Harvard|Harvard]] in 1995. By 1996, ACF Nationals was attracting 40 teams, and appeared to be healthier than ever. However, after the 1997 Nationals, Guthrie posted [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.college.college-bowl/tree/browse_frm/thread/ef7cc2a0651e029d/eede5d5b7595aae5?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.college.college-bowl%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fef7cc2a0651e029d%2F4bd2138eca37dba1%3F#doc_eede5d5b7595aae5 this announcement] to the Usenet group, announcing that she and Dendy were each resigning to spend more time on personal life, and that ACF would go defunct.<br />
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===Academic Competition Federation (1997-2001)===<br />
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In addition to personal concerns, it may be the case that Guthrie saw ACF as superfluous following the first year of [[NAQT]]'s competition program in the 1997 season. NAQT was more organized than ACF in several respects: it had a formal membership structure, an actually incorporated business rather than ACF's ad-hoc financing, paid writers, and a product to sell other than its regional and national tournaments--specifically, the "invitational sets" which were originally marketed to colleges but became extremely popular (and much more competitively appropriate) with high schools soon afterwards. Most importantly, it was a well-attended, popular event run by former participants in the collegiate quizbowl circuit--in other words, it was what College Bowl never has been, and what ACF wanted to be.<br />
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However, NAQT represented a regression to certain College Bowl-like features in its use of a timed game, pop culture- and current events-heavy question content, short tossups, and gimmicks such as the [[power]] tossup. In its first year, NAQT also used variable-value bonuses, though this practice was thankfully ended for the 1998 season. Perhaps sensing that NAQT would be a good replacement for College Bowl but a wanting substitute for ACF, [[Andrew Yaphe]] organized a "new" group, the Academic Competition Federation (a name often used interchangeably with the Academic Competition Foundation in the previous years), to continue running the Regional and National tournaments. [[John Sheahan]] and [[David Hamilton]] were also named as leaders of the new ACF.<br />
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[[Matt Colvin]] edited the 1998 Regionals, the first tournament of the new ACF, while Sheahan edited the [[1998 ACF Nationals]]. In 1999, Regionals was edited by Hamilton, and Nationals by a collective including [[Brian Rostron]], [[Rick Grimes]], [[Marc Swisdak]], [[Albert Whited]], Sheahan, and [[Alice Chou]]. In 2000, Yaphe edited Regionals, and Hamilton Nationals. Regionals took place in mid-February of each year, and Nationals at the end of April.<br />
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The 1999 Nationals saw the first presentation of the [[Carper Award]].<br />
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===Into the Modern Era (2001-2007)===<br />
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Following the meteoric rise to popularity of [[NAQT]], the decline into irrelevance of [[College Bowl]], and longstanding complaints, justified or not, about the difficulty of ACF, a decision was made in 2001 to focus great effort on the accessibility of Academic Competition Federation tournaments. [[Subash Maddipoti]] created perhaps the finest tournament to that time, the 2001 Regionals, which unusually ran in January. Nationals that year were also bumped up to March, and were again edited by David Hamilton. Despite the high quality and lower difficulty of the questions, only sixteen teams attended ACF Nationals in 2001, and the future of the format seemed tenuous.<br />
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A brilliant way to bring in new teams and permanently dispel the notion that good questions had to be hard questions was conceived by [[Kelly McKenzie]], star player of the [[Kentucky]] team, who created and edited the first [[ACF Fall]] tournament, held in November 2001. Fall now serves as the kickoff of the serious competition season and is usually the first ACF event that a new quizbowl player encounters. It features difficulty noticeably lower than normal collegiate tournaments, without sacrificing the core aspects that make ACF what it is--academic content, high question-quality standards, packet-submission requirements, and the "[[gentlemen's agreement]]" style of eligibility rules. This three-tournament lineup continued through 2008, when the additional [[ACF Winter]] tournament was introduced. From 2001 to 2007, ACF's "organization" involved only a [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com website] (maintained by David Hamilton from 1997-2001, Jason Paik from 2001-2006, and Jerry Vinokurov 2006-present), and the individual tournament editors coordinating their events after being named by Yaphe at the beginning of the season.<br />
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As College Bowl had virtually no supporters left in the quizbowl community by this time, such "[[format wars]]" as did occur now focused on the relative merits of NAQT and ACF. As most teams played in both formats, as opposed to choosing between College Bowl or ACF as in the past, there was less at stake in these discussions, and they were rarer and less vitriolic than the Usenet arguments.<br />
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ACF continued to exist harmoniously with NAQT as the two organizations, formats, and national championships of collegiate academic quizbowl. Though its Nationals never approached the size of NAQT's, the continued viability of ACF was no longer regularly in doubt, largely thanks to the inherent appeal of ACF's academic content and to the outreach to new teams that ACF Fall represented.<br />
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===The post-Yaphe Era and circuit standards (2007-2018)===<br />
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Following the 2007 competition season, Andrew Yaphe announced that he would not be editing any ACF tournaments for the foreseeable future due to law school commitments. His last act before departing as ACF head was to confirm that [[Mike Sorice]], [[Matt Weiner]], and [[Chris Romero]] would be in charge of selecting the editing teams for Fall, Regionals, and Nationals respectively in the 2008 season. (Yaphe continued to serve as a prolific editor for [[NAQT]] and later played Nationals in 2009 and 2010.)<br />
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In the 2007-2008 year, Fall continued to grow in popularity, Regionals dropped to below NAQT SCT in difficulty, and Nationals awarded the first-ever Undergraduate and Division II titles, awards which have continued in the years since. Shortly thereafter, [[CBI]] died permanently, leaving Fall and Division II SCT as the main introductory tournaments to the college game. Almost all active teams now play both of those events.<br />
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The 2008-2009 season saw the appearance of a fourth tournament, [[ACF Winter]]. Though the tournament was meant to be a stepping stone between the difficulties of ACF Fall and ACF Regionals, Winter and Regionals targeted roughly the same "regular difficulty" level in both years that Winter was held [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8792#p164588][http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8792#p164862] In the 2010-11 season, Winter was discontinued and the three-tournament structure of Fall, Regionals, and Nationals was re-instated.<br />
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As time passes, the absence of alternatives led most college circuits to perceive the ACF style and distribution as the norm (NAQT's SCT and ICT being a prominent exception), and complaints about aberrant difficulty dwindled away. <br />
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The new ACF rules included language which allows them to be used for any tournament which needs rules for a 20/20 untimed game, including high school tournaments, trash tournaments, or collegiate academic tournaments not affiliated with ACF. As such, a large number of invitationals across the country were and are understood at least implicitly to be using the ACF rules, and untimed 20/20 rounds with substantially academic content have won the day as the main form of quizbowl competition on the standard collegiate circuit.<br />
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===Structural changes (2018-present)===<br />
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In 2018, ACF began to move towards regularizing its officers and official structures so as to serve the community better and make best use of resources. For example, from 2012-2018 it instituted a policy of central payment (i.e. all teams attending an ACF tournament, wherever they may go, paid ACF's Treasurer directly, and hosts got their cut paid out to them ''after'' running the tournament); however, as ACF Fall grew too large, the policy reverted [https://acf-quizbowl.com/hosting-guidelines/#payment-from-hosts-to-acf] in 2018-2019.<br />
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ACF instituted a number of structural changes to its constitution[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22784] after [[2019 ACF Nationals]]. It eliminated the Outreach officer position and created a Mirror Coordinator position to help hosts manage their sites and select correct packet-submission formats, taking those responsibilities away from the Communications officer. The editor-in-chief of ACF had also previously been the presiding head of ACF, in charge of calling ACF meetings; these duties were given to the new President position, which combined the old Meeting Chair position and the logistics duties of the editor-in-chief, both of which were eliminated. <br />
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==ACF tournament editors, 1998-present==<br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" style="background:#f9f9f9"<br />
! Year<br />
! [[ACF Fall|Fall]]<br />
! [[ACF Regionals|Regionals]]<br />
! [[ACF Nationals|Nationals]]<br />
|- <br />
| 1998-1999<br />
| Not held<br />
| [[David Hamilton]]<br />
| [[Rick Grimes]], [[Alice Chou]], & others<br />
|- <br />
| 1999-2000<br />
| Not held<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
| [[David Hamilton]] & others<br />
|- <br />
| 2000-2001<br />
| Not held<br />
| [[Subash Maddipoti]]<br />
| [[David Hamilton]], [[Andrew Yaphe]], & [[Subash Maddipoti]]<br />
|- <br />
| 2001-2002<br />
| [[Kelly McKenzie]]<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2002-2003<br />
| [[Kelly McKenzie]]<br />
| [[Subash Maddipoti]]<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2003-2004<br />
| [[Kelly McKenzie]]<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2004-2005<br />
| [[Subash Maddipoti]] & [[Matt Cvijanovich]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]], [[Mike Sorice]] & [[Jeff Hoppes]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2005-2006<br />
| [[Eric Kwartler]], [[Matt Weiner]], [[Sudheer Potru]], [[Seth Teitler]], [[Andrew Yaphe]], & [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
| [[Matt Lafer]], [[Chris Romero]], & [[Mike Sorice]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2006-2007<br />
| [[Eric Kwartler]], [[Matt Weiner]], [[Matt Keller]], & [[Billy Beyer]]<br />
| [[Seth Teitler]], [[Jerry Vinokurov]], & [[Ryan Westbrook]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]] & [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2007-2008<br />
| [[Mike Sorice]], [[Eric Kwartler]], [[Dennis Jang]], [[Jay Sridhar]], [[Jonathan Magin]], [[Andrew Hart]], [[Patrick Hope]], & [[Jason Loy]]<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]] & [[Matt Keller]]<br />
| [[Eric Kwartler]], [[Ryan Westbrook]], [[Matt Weiner]], [[Jason Paik]], [[Raj Bhan]], [[Matt Lafer]], [[Wesley Matthews]], [[Paul Litvak]], [[Matt Nance]], & [[Fred Morlan]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-2009<br />
| [[Andrew Hart]], [[Rob Carson]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]], [[Trevor Davis]], & [[Ted Gioia]]<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]] & [[Eric Mukherjee]]<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]], [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]], [[Dwight Wynne]], [[Matt Lafer]], [[Ryan Westbrook]], [[Evan Nagler]], & [[Jonathan Magin]]<br />
|- <br />
| 2009-2010<br />
| [[Gautam Kandlikar]], [[Seth Teitler]], [[Evan Adams]], [[Auroni Gupta]], [[Will Nediger]], [[Mehdi Razvi]], [[George Stevens]]<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]], [[Ted Gioia]], [[Trygve Meade]], [[Chris Ray]], [[Dwight Wynne]]<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]], [[Matt Lafer]], [[Susan Ferrari]], [[Ryan Westbrook]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2010-2011<br />
| [[Evan Adams]], with [[Dallas Simons]], [[Guy Tabachnick]], [[Will Butler]], [[Carsten Gehring]], [[John Lawrence]]<br />
| [[Rob Carson]], with [[Ted Gioia]], [[Matt Weiner]], [[Andy Watkins]], and [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]], [[Susan Ferrari]], [[Jonathan Magin]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2011-2012<br />
| [[Carsten Gehring]], with [[Sarah Angelo]], [[Bryan Berend]], [[Matt Bollinger]], [[Matt Hart]], [[Gaurav Kandlikar]], and [[Matt Menard]]<br />
| [[Trevor Davis]], with [[Will Butler]], [[Auroni Gupta]], [[John Lawrence]], and [[Guy Tabachnick]]<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]], with [[Susan Ferrari]], [[Bruce Arthur]], and [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2012-2013<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]], with [[Jasper Lee]], [[Jarret Greene]], [[Diana Gerr]], [[Daniel Hothem]], and [[Stephen Liu]]<br />
| [[Chris Ray]], with [[John Lawrence]], [[Cody Voight]], and [[Rob Carson]]<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]], with [[Bruce Arthur]], [[Mike Sorice]], [[Andrew Ullsperger]], and [[Mike Bentley]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2013-2014<br />
| [[Stephen Liu]], with [[Tanay Kothari]], [[Ankit Aggarwal]], [[Alex Gerten]], [[Adam Silverman]], [[Lloyd Sy]], [[Stephen Eltinge]], [[John Lawrence]], and [[Andrew Hart]]<br />
| [[Evan Adams]], with [[Carsten Gehring]], [[Matt Jackson]], [[Will Nediger]], [[Ashvin Srivatsa]], and [[Adam Silverman]]<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]], with [[Ryan Westbrook]], [[Ted Gioia]], and [[Auroni Gupta]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2014-2015<br />
| [[Gautam Kandlikar]] and [[Gaurav Kandlikar]], with [[Max Schindler]], [[Ben Zhang]], [[Jacob Reed]], [[Richard Yu]], and [[Jordan Brownstein]]<br />
| [[Matt Jackson]], with [[Sarah Angelo]], [[Tommy Casalaspi]], [[Trevor Davis]], [[Stephen Liu]], and [[Sriram Pendyala]]<br />
| [[Ryan Westbrook]], [[Rob Carson]], [[Ike Jose]], and [[Billy Busse]]<br />
|}<br />
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The two [[ACF Winter]] tournaments were edited by [[Jerry Vinokurov]], [[Trygve Meade]] & [[Dennis Jang]] (2009) and [[Andrew Hart]], [[Rob Carson]], [[Trevor Davis]], [[Dennis Jang]], & [[Eric Mukherjee]] (2010).<br />
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==ACF Format==<br />
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The ACF game consists, simply, of twenty ten-point tossups with thirty-point bonuses. There is no clock and there are no powers. See the [https://acf-quizbowl.com/gameplay-rules/ ACF rules] for the full description of the format.<br />
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Almost all collegiate academic tournaments, as well as all trash tournaments, now use this format (though some add in the [[powers]] from NAQT). It has also become a popular high school format in many areas, and is used for such notable high school tournaments as the [[GATA State Championship]], the Vanderbilt [[ABC]], the [[GSAC]], the [[Maryland Spring Tournament]], the Yale [[BHSAT]], and the [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]] winter tournament.<br />
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==ACF Finals Format==<br />
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One of many ACF innovations designed to promote fairness in the game is the "ACF finals format." Used at all official ACF events and many other events, this finals format involves awarding a tournament title outright to a team which is two or more games ahead in the standings of the second-place team at the end of the tournament proper; playing a one-game, winner-take-all final if two teams are tied; and playing an advantaged final of up to two games, in which the team that is ahead needs to win only one game but the trailing team needs to win two games, if the first-place team is exactly one game ahead of the second-place team.<br />
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==ACF Distribution==<br />
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The distribution for the 20/20 of the regulation packet at ACF tournaments is:<br />
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* 4/4 literature<br />
* 4/4 history<br />
* 4/4 science<br />
* 3/3 arts<br />
* 2/2 religion, mythology, and philosophy<br />
* 1/1 social science<br />
* 1/1 geography<br />
* 1/1 [[trash]], current events, or miscellaneous<br />
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See also [[Comparison of distributions in collegiate formats]].<br />
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==Perception of ACF==<br />
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Many common points of discussion occur regarding both official ACF tournaments and the ACF format:<br />
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===ACF difficulty===<br />
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Some teams have found ACF tournaments to be difficult in comparison to NAQT or independent collegiate tournaments. This is due to many reasons. [[Litvak Perception Hypothesis|Paul Litvak]] once explained that ACF ''seems'' harder without ''being'' harder because tossups and time limits are longer and the game is untimed, so that every unanswered question hangs in the air for people to react to with either silence or negative commentary. At NAQT, with its clock, dead tossups sail by and we're on to the next question before you can think about it. Complaints that [[ACF IS IMPOSSIBLE]], once common in the days of CBI, have since become a relic of another era, as most tournaments from the late 2000s on have standardized their difficulty to a common range, ACF's included.<br />
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====2004 and 2007 comparison====<br />
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An analysis performed on the 2003-2004 Fall, Regionals, and Sectionals and the 2007 Nationals and ICT showed that ACF Fall is about 125% as easy as NAQT Sectionals; ACF Regionals is about 95% as easy as NAQT Sectionals, and ACF Nationals is about 87% as easy as NAQT ICT. So, ACF is slightly more difficult in two directly comparable tournaments, but not by a large margin. NAQT has no direct equivalent to ACF Fall, but NAQT Sectionals is in fact noticeably harder.<br />
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====2008 comparison of Sectionals and Regionals====<br />
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An [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=70567#p70567 analysis] performed on the 2008 Regionals and Sectionals showed that ACF Regionals is now 103% as easy as NAQT Sectionals for their respective fields, and Regionals is in fact 123% as easy when correcting for field strength by analyzing same-team performance at the two tournaments.<br />
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===ACF and grad students=== <br />
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In the early 1990s, when College Bowl was still relevant, some people questioned the fact that ACF allows unlimited grad student participation, while College Bowl restricts teams to one grad student each. As both NAQT and the independent circuit have followed the ACF lead on this matter, the grad presence is no longer as much of an issue.<br />
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Some people do occasionally claim that ACF is "for grad students" difficulty-wise; however, this is essentially a weird way of phrasing the above general attitude about difficulty. As there is no school currently offering a PhD in quizbowl, and grad students have less free time to prepare for extracurriculars, what they are really addressing is a longtime players' advantage in experience, and a confirmation bias--there are many people who play quizbowl as an undergrad and then go to grad school, but it's a huge hassle to continue playing as a grad, so only the better players tend to bother doing it.<br />
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===ACF and fun===<br />
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Some people find ACF less fun because it takes slightly longer to play than NAQT and has less pop culture. Their opinions and emotional reactions are valid, but there are also people who find ACF more fun for the same reasons. In any case, everyone should make sure to actually play ACF and find out if they think it's fun or not, rather than relying on stereotypes or outdated information. ACF does strive to avoid being [[funn]], which cannot always be said of non-ACF tournaments.<br />
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==See Also==<br />
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* [[ACF Fall]]<br />
* [[ACF Winter]]<br />
* [[ACF Regionals]]<br />
* [[ACF Nationals]]<br />
* [[mACF]]<br />
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==External References==<br />
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* [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com ACF Website]<br />
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'''How Collegiate Quizbowl Works''': A Guide for New Players and Teams<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
This article is designed as an introduction to [[quizbowl]] as it is played on the collegiate level. If you are completely new to the game, you should look at the article on [[quizbowl]] to familiarize yourself with the game before returning to this guide. Note that people currently involved in quizbowl are usually more than happy to discuss the process of starting a quizbowl team and connect you to other quizbowl players in your region, so feel free to ask questions in the [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=45 quizbowl forum for new collegiate teams]. <br />
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''This guide may not define all of the terms it uses''; please either click the hyperlink to the article on that term, or use the '''[[:Category:Quizbowl basics|Quizbowl basics]]''' and [[:Category:Quizbowl lingo|Quizbowl lingo]] categories as a glossary if need arises. <br />
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==A Few Basics==<br />
This section is devoted to the basics, or what you should know before you start playing quizbowl at the collegiate level.<br />
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===[[Quizbowl]]===<br />
Collegiate quizbowl involves two teams of up to four players competing on questions in '''[[tossup/bonus format]]'''. All college tournaments use [[tossup]]s with multiple clues in descending order of difficulty, so teams that know more about the answer can buzz in first (i.e. the tossups are [[pyramidal]]). Links to several videos of [[2013 ACF Nationals]] are available [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14419 here], which may give you an idea of what quizbowl (at a ''very'' high level--these are extremely hard questions) looks like before you read the rest of this article.<br />
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===[[The circuit|The Circuit]]===<br />
The circuit, broadly speaking, consists of all collegiate clubs who regularly attend weekend quizbowl tournaments. Your team will largely attend tournaments within a few hours' radius of your campus, since local circuits usually organize by geographic region.<br />
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===[[Team|The Clubs]]===<br />
If you want to play quizbowl, you're most likely going to have to join a '''club''' (or '''team''') at your college or university. A quizbowl club is responsible for organizing practices, running tournaments, and coordinating attendance at tournaments, as well as managing the funds, at the school in question. <br />
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See NAQT's [https://www.naqt.com/HowTo/start-a-college-team.html guide to starting a college quizbowl club] or the (soon-to-be-created) article on [[How to start a collegiate quizbowl club]].<br />
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===Communication===<br />
Almost all quizbowl communication is currently done via the Internet. The primary place for national discussion of quizbowl is on the '''[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/ forums]''', which is also the site for almost all tournament announcements. Registering for tournaments usually is as simple as sending an email. In addition, players from around the country frequent the [[quizbowl IRC channel]]. Most clubs and some areas of the circuit also create their own e-mail mailing lists for sending messages about upcoming tournaments and the like.<br />
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Your best source of information on the [[hsquizbowl.org forums]] will be the Collegiate Announcements and Results and Collegiate Discussion sub-forums. (There is also a section for New Collegiate Teams specifically to get advice about their areas.) You should try to make sure that someone in your club is checking the forums on at least a weekly basis, so that your club is up-to-date on the latest happenings on the circuit. <br />
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'''If you have a question about any aspect of collegiate quizbowl after reading this guide, you are encouraged to register for the forums and post your question in the Collegiate Discussion section''', but please read the forum rules before posting.<br />
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==Question Sets==<br />
The questions used in collegiate quizbowl may come from [[ACF]], from [[NAQT]], or be written independently. All of them are [[pyramidal]]-style questions, but they do vary in terms of their difficulty and distribution. <br />
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===[[ACF]]===<br />
'''ACF''', or the Academic Competition Federation, is a loosely centralized organization that provides three high-quality academic tournaments each year. Games of ACF quizbowl are played on packets of 20 tosssups and 20 bonuses, un[[timed]]. The three sets provided by ACF are: <br />
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*[[ACF Fall]], a novice-difficulty tournament, which typically runs on the first or second weekend in November. This tournament is strongly recommended for newer teams. <br />
*[[ACF Regionals]], a [[regular-difficulty]] tournament, which typically takes place in February. <br />
*[[ACF Nationals]], is a difficult tournament, which typically takes place in April at only one site for the entire country. With NAQT's ICT (see below), it is one of the two national championships for college quizbowl teams.<br />
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ACF is known for its commitment to quality, which includes limited [[trash]] (pop culture), and a focus on more [[academic]] topics. All ACF tournaments are [[packet-submission]], which means that each team competing at an upcoming ACF event must submit a full packet of questions to the central editing team before they play (with some exceptions allowing newer players to opt out). Those packets are then centrally edited for factual accuracy, quality, and difficulty consistency by a team of central [[editor]]s, who may also merge, pare down, or cut some packets to get a good set. When a team attends an ACF tournament, therefore, they play on packets written by other teams just like theirs. The schedule gives out "bye" rounds or skips over packets written by attending teams as needed, so no team gets an unfair advantage by playing on its own packet. <br />
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====[[Collegiate Novice]]====<br />
There are sometimes special novice-only tournaments designed for new teams. Consult the forums to see if those are happening this year as well as [https://www.naqt.com/schedule.jsp?coll=yes NAQT's collegiate schedule]. <br />
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===[[NAQT]]===<br />
'''NAQT''', or National Academic Quiz Tournaments, is an incorporated organization that provides questions for high school and collegiate play as well as various quizbowl television shows. NAQT tournaments are played [[timed]], in two ten-minute halves which can feature up to 24 tossups and 24 bonuses altogether. NAQT produces two collegiate sets each year:<br />
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*[[Sectionals|Sectional Championship Tournament]] (SCT) is a regular-difficulty tournament, and typically runs on the second weekend in February.<br />
*[[ICT|Intercollegiate Championship Tournament]] (ICT) is a national-difficulty tournament, and typically takes place in late March or early April. Teams must qualify for the ICT by performing well at their region's Sectional; SCT performances are converted into a number called the [[D-value]] which determines the invited teams. ICT and ACF Nationals (see above) are the two national championships.<br />
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Each of NAQT's college tournaments features Division I, in which any university students from the same school may play on the team, and a restricted Division II, which uses easier questions and restricts eligibility to newer or less-experienced players. Division II SCT is also highly recommended for newer teams. <br />
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Notable quirks of the NAQT format include a higher emphasis on [[current events]], [[geography]], and popular culture. NAQT's questions are typically shorter than ACF's and include [[power]]s.<br />
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=== Other/independent question sets ===<br />
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Many invitational tournaments exist during the year which are not run by either NAQT or ACF. Most of these tournaments are written/edited by one or two college teams that work together to produce questions or solicit questions from playing teams in the [[packet-submission]] model (described above in the ACF section). Almost all independent tournaments imitate ACF's style of question writing and distribution of [[Category:Subjects|subjects]] within packets, though some may make modifications such as the addition of [[powers]] to tossup questions. (This used to be called "modified ACF," or "[[mACF]].") Independent tournaments may set their own eligibility restrictions, either on a national basis or a host-by-host basis.<br />
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Because talented/interested question writers and [[editor]]s cycle in and out of the college quizbowl game with time, the exact schedule of independent events changes somewhat from year to year. Many long-surviving independent tournaments include [[Penn Bowl]], organized by [[Penn]], the [[Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament]] organized by students and alumni of the University of [[Minnesota]], and the [[Terrapin Invitational Tournament]], "organized" by the University of [[Maryland]]. <br />
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==Tournaments==<br />
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Quizbowl questions are written for use at [[:Category:Tournaments|tournaments]] throughout the year, at which an individual host (usually a school quizbowl club using university building space) invites all the other teams in the area to come play a large number of games of quizbowl across the morning, afternoon, and early evening. Tournaments will charge an entry fee for each attending team (usually between $80 and $120 for events in the US), and usually offer discounts to teams that bring along necessaries such as a [[buzzer]] or a [[scorekeeper]]. Each school may bring multiple separate teams to a single tournament, which are usually labeled as the "A-Team," "B-Team," "C-Team," etc. in descending order of predicted skill. Most good tournaments attempt to offer attending teams nine to twelve games against a variety of area schools, using a set consisting of fourteen to eighteen separate packets of questions.<br />
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===During the School Year===<br />
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With the exception of Thanksgiving weekend, winter break, and the summer, there is some tournament happening somewhere on almost every Saturday of the academic year. The quizbowl year is roughly divided between a fall semester from late September to early December, in which [[Collegiate Novice]], [[ACF Fall]], and several other invitationals happen, and a spring semester from late January through April, in which the NAQT [[SCT]], [[ACF Regionals]], and both national tournaments ([[ICT]] and [[ACF Nationals]]) all happen, with further invitationals filling out the calendar in the spring as well. Check the [[hsquizbowl.org forums]] or your area of the circuit's mailing list to become informed of all tournaments happening in your area.<br />
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===Summer===<br />
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Many people love quizbowl so much that they even want to play during the summer! From the time schools let out in mid-May through August, each summer usually features a few informally-organized quizbowl events that players can attend. Because school teams are usually disbanded for the year and might not be able to reunite for geographical reasons, summer tournaments are basically always [[open]] (any player from any school, and people from no school at all, may unite with any other player on a team with no eligibility restrictions). Recurring summer events of recent vintage have included [[VCU Open]].<br />
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====[[Chicago Open]]====<br />
The "crown jewel" of independent quizbowl events, and almost always the most difficult event of the year, Chicago Open attracts players from all over the nation to a "nationals-plus"-difficulty event, and many [[side tournaments]] are organized to keep everyone awake playing lots of quizbowl for two to three days.<br />
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==Practicing==<br />
Most clubs spend between three and six hours a week at [[practice]], dividing club members into arbitrary teams and playing packets from old tournament sets. Regularly-scheduled practices, using academic questions like the ones at upcoming tournaments, are a vital ingredient for the continued survival of any college quizbowl team. Currently, there are thousands and thousands of packets from old question sets available online for free (though NAQT sets are still only legally available by direct purchase). See below for packet repositories.<br />
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==Attending Tournaments==<br />
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===Eligibility===<br />
It is important to determine whether teams and players are eligible for a given tournament before they attend. Most tournaments require all teams to be representing only one school (i.e. you can't mix players from different schools to play on one team); this includes all [[ACF]] and [[NAQT]] events as well as any event that specifically advertises itself as "[[closed]]". The overwhelming majority of teams playing at any given college tournament are teams from a single school. <br />
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Occasionally some tournaments, including most non-Nationals tournaments that are above [[regular difficulty]] and events in regions such as the Pacific Northwest with few active teams, are "[[open]] tournaments", allowing non-students and mixed-school teams to participate in any configuration. <br />
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Though most easier-than-[[regular difficulty|regular]] tournaments, such as ACF Fall, do not specifically restrict experienced or good players, an informal [[gentleman's agreement]] precludes especially strong players or teams from bringing their full strength.<br />
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Some particularly-enterprising high school teams play in some local college tournaments in their area on top of high school tournaments, either for extra challenge or because there is a lack of opportunity for high school competition in their area. Most college hosts permit this, though some areas and state associations (such as Illinois) may have more specific rules.<br />
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===Funding===<br />
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Because tournaments cost money, paying for them is an important aspect of college quizbowl life.<br />
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*Many teams can get club funding through their school's student organizations office or similar funding opportunities. Check with your own student activities organization and ask around for various potential funds.<br />
*Host your own tournament - either a college tournament like the ones your team attends - or a high school tournament, reserving rooms in which to host the event and charging entrants a fee which you can then use to pay for other tournaments and travel costs throughout the year. This is a great way to fund a team, but does require some preparation to work well.<br />
*If necessary, pay some or all of the costs out of pocket. <br />
*Many college teams get a team bank account which they can keep their funds in and hand down as team [[Captain|captains]], treasurers, etc. graduate.<br />
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===Physical Travel - Getting To (and From) Tournaments===<br />
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The most important thing any collegiate quizbowl player can learn for the game is ''how to drive''. Quizbowl tournaments are held at many campuses throughout the year, and the most efficient way to get to them is by car. Bringing a car to campus, or getting familiar with a rental service such as Avis [www.avis.com] or Zipcar [www.zipcar.com], is critical. Occasionally, campuses will have their own vehicles for rent; [[Dartmouth]] can notably obtain a large van for off-campus travel. Road trips may be long; for drives over four or five hours, it may be advisable to stay over in a hotel near the tournament rather than make a single-day trip. This is, however, a great opportunity for team bonding and exciting [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=17279 travel stories].<br />
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Many clubs with a campus reasonably close to others with also take note of public transportation options such as bus, ferry, or train, and sometimes use public transportation options that might help you get to where you need to go. When using public transportation, it's always important to watch the time tables carefully to find a cost-effective travel plan which leaves lots of wiggle room in the event of delays or tournaments that run past their intended end time. [www.megabus.com Megabus], [www.boltbus.com Bolt Bus], and other low-cost bus services are an increasingly-popular, if somewhat scrappy, service for traveling quizbowl teams if they're going to and from major urban centers. A car is still often necessary to get to more remote campuses or campuses outside a major city.<br />
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Many teams are far enough from the location of national championships that it makes sense to buy airplane tickets and fly to those tournaments. <br />
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===Writing Packets===<br />
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Some tournaments throughout the year will be [[packet-submission]], requiring attendees to write a packet of questions to attend. Discounts to the entry fee are typically given for questions submitted eight weeks and six weeks before the tournament, and additional penalty fees added for questions submitted less than four weeks before the tournament. New teams may operate on different schedules and are always encouraged to submit a packet regardless of whether one is necessary.<br />
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For more information on writing questions, please see [[Jerry Vinokurov]]'s excellent treatise on [[How to Write Questions]]. It's also essential to consult the official ACF on distributing, writing, and style-formatting your packet; other tournament hosts are likely to have the same standards [https://acf-quizbowl.com/packet-submission-guidelines/].<br />
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If one school is sending multiple teams of different people to the same tournament (e.g. the University of Chicago sends a "Chicago A" team of Seth and Selene, and a "Chicago B" team of Michael and David), it is '''essential''' that those separate teams share ''no information'' with each other about the contents of their submitted packets (neither Seth nor Selene may say anything to Michael or David - or any other competing team - about their packet, or vice versa). Obtaining information about another team's packet and failing to report the mistake constitutes [[cheating]].<br />
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===Schedule at a Tournament===<br />
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The typical college tournament takes place on a Saturday; very occasionally, if the existence of a conflicting high school tournament or other major obstacle prevents hosting on a Saturday, there may be a tournament held on Sunday. Registration usually goes until some time between 8:45 and 9:30 AM, when the [[tournament director]] hosts an opening meeting and sends teams off to their Round 1 rooms. The tournament usually goes for four to six rounds, pauses for a lunch break, and continues until its conclusion in the early evening.<br />
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Teams are arranged into a predetermined schedule of rounds, in which [[bracket]]s of teams play a [[round-robin]] within their bracket. Each bracket contains teams of many skill levels. The strongest teams in the field may then be split off into a top bracket for more playoff rounds as the rest of the field plays consolation games against teams of a similar skill level to themselves. Many tournaments end in a finals match, whose entrants either have a tied record or a record separated by one loss (i.e. one team had 11 wins and 0 losses over the day, and the other went 10-1). See [[finals]] for more information on the usual quizbowl procedure for finals matches.<br />
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The ideal round of quizbowl takes about 25 minutes on the [[clock]] (factoring in pauses, halftime, etc. to a 20-minute game) and 25 to 30 minutes for an untimed game, depending on the skill level of teams involved. Given this ideal length and a lunch break of about an hour, it is entirely possible for a well-run tournament to finish ten rounds by 4 PM; however, travel delays, time spent walking to new rooms between games, possible slow moderators, and other miscellaneous issues such as [[protest]]s should lead teams planning travel to assume that tournaments will end much later - usually between 6 and 7 PM for the average regional event.<br />
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See [https://acf-quizbowl.com/formats/ this page on the ACF website] for short descriptions of suggested schedules for use at tournaments of varying sizes.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
For more information about the college game, you are encouraged to visit the following websites:<br />
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===Organizations===<br />
*[http://www.acf-quizbowl.com ACF]<br><br />
*[http://www.naqt.com NAQT]<br />
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===Packet Archives===<br />
*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com Collegiate Packet Archive]<br />
*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive Stanford Packet Archive] (highly out of date)<br />
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===Communication===<br />
[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums hsquizbowl.org forums]<br><br />
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Enjoy quizbowl!<br />
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<div>{{Intro}}<br />
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'''ACF''' is one of the major formats of collegiate quizbowl. The name refers to two related things:<br />
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*The actual organization, founded as the [[Academic Competition Foundation]] in 1991, which changed its name to the '''Academic Competition Federation''' in 1997 and presently continues to run a national championship for collegiate quizbowl as well as other tournaments.<br />
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*The format, designed by [[Robert Meredith]] and adopted by the ACF organization for its official tournaments, which has become used at almost all collegiate tournaments and many high school tournaments, which are otherwise not connected to the ACF organization.<br />
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==History==<br />
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===Discontent with College Bowl===<br />
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In the mid-1980s, several schools began to take their participation in [[College Bowl]] seriously and prepare for College Bowl's regional and national tournaments by holding independent invitationals. Players quickly noticed that College Bowl's questions were not tailored to reward even minimal levels of effort at acquiring knowledge, but instead were aimed at entertaining a television audience, tricking good players into giving wrong answers in order to create "excitement," and generally making the spectator feel smarter than the players in order to keep people watching. After College Bowl went off the air for the final time in 1987, the rationale for undermining game fairness in order to reward home viewers evaporated.<br />
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Just as the first stirrings of discontent with the questions were being noted, several scandals erupted which understandably upset serious players:<br />
*the 1988 College Bowl Regionals were found to have recycled many of their questions from the 1982 College Bowl Regionals. As unforgivable as this would be in a vacuum, the problem was compounded by one regional director handing out the 1982 Regionals as practice material to attending teams, rendering that region's tournament completely unplayable.<br />
*College Bowl began threatening the independent tournament circuit with lawsuits, claiming that College Bowl held a [[College Bowl copyright claim|copyright]] over the tossup/bonus format with buzzers. The [[Maryland]] team was threatened with disqualification from the 1989 College Bowl Regionals if they went ahead with hosting [[Terrapin]] that year, so they deaffiliated themselves from College Bowl in protest.<br />
*The 1983 and 1985 College Bowl Nationals were canceled, leaving teams with no opportunity at all to compete for a championship.<br />
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In response to all of these concerns, [[Maryland]] and [[Tennessee]] stopped participating in College Bowl at all, an unheard-of decision when College Bowl was synonymous with the activity. A few years later, [[Georgia Tech]] followed. Further "de-affiliations," as the practice was called, continued every year. The difference in rules, participants, and question content became so great that, by 2000 or so, it was inappropriate to consider quizbowl and College Bowl to be the same activity, and they are now usually looked at as two separate games with some common features, played by an increasingly non-overlapping set of players.<br />
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===The All American Invitational===<br />
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According to the Georgia Tech website, that team won three "unofficial" quizbowl national championships in the pre-ACF era. It is unknown exactly what that refers to, but there was a "National Invitation Tournament" held at least in the two years when College Bowl Nationals were cancelled, and possibly in other years as well. A summer 1988 [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/newsletters/Buzzer4.html newsletter] denotes Emory's All American Invitational, which took place on April 15-16, 1988, as "the national championship of academic buzzer competitions." The tournament was written entirely by [[Carol Guthrie]] and [[Don Windham]], who went on to play key roles in the original version of ACF. Georgia Tech defeated Emory to win it. This may have been the first-ever national championship outside of College Bowl. It is worth noting that, in a remarkable example of institutional continuity, the third-place scorer from the All American Invitational, [[Robert Trent]], also participated in the [[2007 ACF Nationals]] and many other important tournaments in-between. The AAI was run again in 1989 and 1990, and replaced by [[1991 ACF Nationals|ACF Nationals]] in 1991.<br />
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Other proto-ACF events may include the [[Southeastern Invitational]] run by Berry College and its coach, [[Gordon Carper]]. As students at Berry, both [[Carol Guthrie]] and [[Don Windham]] were quizbowl players coached by Carper. Guthrie went on to become the most important figure in the first version of ACF, while her husband Windham was also involved in academic competition in the early 1990s as a player.<br />
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===Academic Competition Foundation (1991-1997)===<br />
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In the fall of 1990, Guthrie, then the coach of the Tennessee team, joined with Maryland team members [[John Nam]] and [[Ramesh Kannappan]] to found the Academic Competition Foundation. Presumably, this organization ran regional packet-submission tournaments in the 1991 and 1992 competition seasons, but that's unconfirmed (the tournament labeled 1992 ACF Regionals on the Stanford Archive is actually the 1993 Regionals). The one tournament that was certainly run in those first two years was the [[1991 ACF Nationals]], the first non-College Bowl event to unambiguously bill itself as a national championship. The tournament was won by the host Tennessee team over Georgia Tech. Departing from College Bowl's structure, the tournament featured untimed 20/20 games, a focus on academic content, an attempt to avoid "hoses" and riddle questions, a field open to multiple teams from each geographic region, and reasonable prices. However, at this early date, ACF still included variable-value bonuses, spelling questions, and other bad College Bowl mainstays.<br />
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There were no ACF nationals in 1992, for reasons currently unknown. Beginning in 1993, Regionals and Nationals were run every year, and attracted an increasing amount of legitimacy in the quizbowl world. Starting in 1995, all ACF tournaments used 30-point bonuses exclusively, dumping the last vestige of College Bowl's gimmicky rules.<br />
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"ACF versus College Bowl" became the defining argument on the quizbowl [[Usenet group]], as partisans of each format debated the merits of such College Bowl policies as timed matches, variable-value bonuses, single-team-per-region national tournaments, generally bad questions, and so forth. An undercurrent of debate about College Bowl's emphasis on trivia, current events, and popular culture versus the relative unimportance of those topics to ACF packets was also brewing at this time, as were concerns about question length and difficulty in ACF (belied then, as usual, by the high scoring which normally took place at ACF tournaments). Guthrie and Georgia Tech coach [[Jim Dendy]] edited most ACF events in the Foundation era, with Nam also editing the 1993 Nationals.<br />
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Despite the antipathy between some supporters of the two "formats," the same team won both College Bowl and ACF Nationals two times at the height of the original ACF's popularity--[[1994 Chicago|Chicago]] in 1994 and [[1995 Harvard|Harvard]] in 1995. By 1996, ACF Nationals was attracting 40 teams, and appeared to be healthier than ever. However, after the 1997 Nationals, Guthrie posted [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.college.college-bowl/tree/browse_frm/thread/ef7cc2a0651e029d/eede5d5b7595aae5?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.college.college-bowl%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fef7cc2a0651e029d%2F4bd2138eca37dba1%3F#doc_eede5d5b7595aae5 this announcement] to the Usenet group, announcing that she and Dendy were each resigning to spend more time on personal life, and that ACF would go defunct.<br />
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===Academic Competition Federation (1997-2001)===<br />
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In addition to personal concerns, it may be the case that Guthrie saw ACF as superfluous following the first year of [[NAQT]]'s competition program in the 1997 season. NAQT was more organized than ACF in several respects: it had a formal membership structure, an actually incorporated business rather than ACF's ad-hoc financing, paid writers, and a product to sell other than its regional and national tournaments--specifically, the "invitational sets" which were originally marketed to colleges but became extremely popular (and much more competitively appropriate) with high schools soon afterwards. Most importantly, it was a well-attended, popular event run by former participants in the collegiate quizbowl circuit--in other words, it was what College Bowl never has been, and what ACF wanted to be.<br />
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However, NAQT represented a regression to certain College Bowl-like features in its use of a timed game, pop culture- and current events-heavy question content, short tossups, and gimmicks such as the [[power]] tossup. In its first year, NAQT also used variable-value bonuses, though this practice was thankfully ended for the 1998 season. Perhaps sensing that NAQT would be a good replacement for College Bowl but a wanting substitute for ACF, [[Andrew Yaphe]] organized a "new" group, the Academic Competition Federation (a name often used interchangeably with the Academic Competition Foundation in the previous years), to continue running the Regional and National tournaments. [[John Sheahan]] and [[David Hamilton]] were also named as leaders of the new ACF.<br />
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[[Matt Colvin]] edited the 1998 Regionals, the first tournament of the new ACF, while Sheahan edited the [[1998 ACF Nationals]]. In 1999, Regionals was edited by Hamilton, and Nationals by a collective including [[Brian Rostron]], [[Rick Grimes]], [[Marc Swisdak]], [[Albert Whited]], Sheahan, and [[Alice Chou]]. In 2000, Yaphe edited Regionals, and Hamilton Nationals. Regionals took place in mid-February of each year, and Nationals at the end of April.<br />
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The 1999 Nationals saw the first presentation of the [[Carper Award]].<br />
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===Into the Modern Era (2001-2007)===<br />
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Following the meteoric rise to popularity of [[NAQT]], the decline into irrelevance of [[College Bowl]], and longstanding complaints, justified or not, about the difficulty of ACF, a decision was made in 2001 to focus great effort on the accessibility of Academic Competition Federation tournaments. [[Subash Maddipoti]] created perhaps the finest tournament to that time, the 2001 Regionals, which unusually ran in January. Nationals that year were also bumped up to March, and were again edited by David Hamilton. Despite the high quality and lower difficulty of the questions, only sixteen teams attended ACF Nationals in 2001, and the future of the format seemed tenuous.<br />
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A brilliant way to bring in new teams and permanently dispel the notion that good questions had to be hard questions was conceived by [[Kelly McKenzie]], star player of the [[Kentucky]] team, who created and edited the first [[ACF Fall]] tournament, held in November 2001. Fall now serves as the kickoff of the serious competition season and is usually the first ACF event that a new quizbowl player encounters. It features difficulty noticeably lower than normal collegiate tournaments, without sacrificing the core aspects that make ACF what it is--academic content, high question-quality standards, packet-submission requirements, and the "[[gentlemen's agreement]]" style of eligibility rules. This three-tournament lineup continued through 2008, when the additional [[ACF Winter]] tournament was introduced. From 2001 to 2007, ACF's "organization" involved only a [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com website] (maintained by David Hamilton from 1997-2001, Jason Paik from 2001-2006, and Jerry Vinokurov 2006-present), and the individual tournament editors coordinating their events after being named by Yaphe at the beginning of the season.<br />
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As College Bowl had virtually no supporters left in the quizbowl community by this time, such "[[format wars]]" as did occur now focused on the relative merits of NAQT and ACF. As most teams played in both formats, as opposed to choosing between College Bowl or ACF as in the past, there was less at stake in these discussions, and they were rarer and less vitriolic than the Usenet arguments.<br />
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ACF continued to exist harmoniously with NAQT as the two organizations, formats, and national championships of collegiate academic quizbowl. Though its Nationals never approached the size of NAQT's, the continued viability of ACF was no longer regularly in doubt, largely thanks to the inherent appeal of ACF's academic content and to the outreach to new teams that ACF Fall represented.<br />
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===The post-Yaphe Era and circuit standards (2007-2018)===<br />
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Following the 2007 competition season, Andrew Yaphe announced that he would not be editing any ACF tournaments for the foreseeable future due to law school commitments. His last act before departing as ACF head was to confirm that [[Mike Sorice]], [[Matt Weiner]], and [[Chris Romero]] would be in charge of selecting the editing teams for Fall, Regionals, and Nationals respectively in the 2008 season. (Yaphe continued to serve as a prolific editor for [[NAQT]] and later played Nationals in 2009 and 2010.)<br />
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In the 2007-2008 year, Fall continued to grow in popularity, Regionals dropped to below NAQT SCT in difficulty, and Nationals awarded the first-ever Undergraduate and Division II titles, awards which have continued in the years since. Shortly thereafter, [[CBI]] died permanently, leaving Fall and Division II SCT as the main introductory tournaments to the college game. Almost all active teams now play both of those events.<br />
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The 2008-2009 season saw the appearance of a fourth tournament, [[ACF Winter]]. Though the tournament was meant to be a stepping stone between the difficulties of ACF Fall and ACF Regionals, Winter and Regionals targeted roughly the same "regular difficulty" level in both years that Winter was held [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8792#p164588][http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8792#p164862] In the 2010-11 season, Winter was discontinued and the three-tournament structure of Fall, Regionals, and Nationals was re-instated.<br />
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As time passes, the absence of alternatives led most college circuits to perceive the ACF style and distribution as the norm (NAQT's SCT and ICT being a prominent exception), and complaints about aberrant difficulty dwindled away. <br />
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The new ACF rules included language which allows them to be used for any tournament which needs rules for a 20/20 untimed game, including high school tournaments, trash tournaments, or collegiate academic tournaments not affiliated with ACF. As such, a large number of invitationals across the country were and are understood at least implicitly to be using the ACF rules, and untimed 20/20 rounds with substantially academic content have won the day as the main form of quizbowl competition on the standard collegiate circuit.<br />
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===Structural changes (2018-present)===<br />
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In 2018, ACF began to move towards regularizing its officers and official structures so as to serve the community better and make best use of resources. For example, from 2012-2018 it instituted a policy of central payment (i.e. all teams attending an ACF tournament, wherever they may go, paid ACF's Treasurer directly, and hosts got their cut paid out to them ''after'' running the tournament); however, as ACF Fall grew too large, the policy reverted [https://acf-quizbowl.com/hosting-guidelines/#payment-from-hosts-to-acf] in 2018-2019.<br />
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ACF instituted a number of structural changes to its constitution[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22784] after [[2019 ACF Nationals]]. It eliminated the Outreach officer position and created a Mirror Coordinator position to help hosts manage their sites and select correct packet-submission formats, taking those responsibilities away from the Communications officer. The editor-in-chief of ACF had also previously been the presiding head of ACF, in charge of calling ACF meetings; these duties were given to the new President position, which combined the old Meeting Chair position and the logistics duties of the editor-in-chief, both of which were eliminated. <br />
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==ACF tournament editors, 1998-present==<br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" style="background:#f9f9f9"<br />
! Year<br />
! [[ACF Fall|Fall]]<br />
! [[ACF Regionals|Regionals]]<br />
! [[ACF Nationals|Nationals]]<br />
|- <br />
| 1998-1999<br />
| Not held<br />
| [[David Hamilton]]<br />
| [[Rick Grimes]], [[Alice Chou]], & others<br />
|- <br />
| 1999-2000<br />
| Not held<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
| [[David Hamilton]] & others<br />
|- <br />
| 2000-2001<br />
| Not held<br />
| [[Subash Maddipoti]]<br />
| [[David Hamilton]], [[Andrew Yaphe]], & [[Subash Maddipoti]]<br />
|- <br />
| 2001-2002<br />
| [[Kelly McKenzie]]<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2002-2003<br />
| [[Kelly McKenzie]]<br />
| [[Subash Maddipoti]]<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2003-2004<br />
| [[Kelly McKenzie]]<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2004-2005<br />
| [[Subash Maddipoti]] & [[Matt Cvijanovich]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]], [[Mike Sorice]] & [[Jeff Hoppes]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2005-2006<br />
| [[Eric Kwartler]], [[Matt Weiner]], [[Sudheer Potru]], [[Seth Teitler]], [[Andrew Yaphe]], & [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
| [[Matt Lafer]], [[Chris Romero]], & [[Mike Sorice]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2006-2007<br />
| [[Eric Kwartler]], [[Matt Weiner]], [[Matt Keller]], & [[Billy Beyer]]<br />
| [[Seth Teitler]], [[Jerry Vinokurov]], & [[Ryan Westbrook]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]] & [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2007-2008<br />
| [[Mike Sorice]], [[Eric Kwartler]], [[Dennis Jang]], [[Jay Sridhar]], [[Jonathan Magin]], [[Andrew Hart]], [[Patrick Hope]], & [[Jason Loy]]<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]] & [[Matt Keller]]<br />
| [[Eric Kwartler]], [[Ryan Westbrook]], [[Matt Weiner]], [[Jason Paik]], [[Raj Bhan]], [[Matt Lafer]], [[Wesley Matthews]], [[Paul Litvak]], [[Matt Nance]], & [[Fred Morlan]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2008-2009<br />
| [[Andrew Hart]], [[Rob Carson]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]], [[Trevor Davis]], & [[Ted Gioia]]<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]] & [[Eric Mukherjee]]<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]], [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]], [[Dwight Wynne]], [[Matt Lafer]], [[Ryan Westbrook]], [[Evan Nagler]], & [[Jonathan Magin]]<br />
|- <br />
| 2009-2010<br />
| [[Gautam Kandlikar]], [[Seth Teitler]], [[Evan Adams]], [[Auroni Gupta]], [[Will Nediger]], [[Mehdi Razvi]], [[George Stevens]]<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]], [[Ted Gioia]], [[Trygve Meade]], [[Chris Ray]], [[Dwight Wynne]]<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]], [[Matt Lafer]], [[Susan Ferrari]], [[Ryan Westbrook]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2010-2011<br />
| [[Evan Adams]], with [[Dallas Simons]], [[Guy Tabachnick]], [[Will Butler]], [[Carsten Gehring]], [[John Lawrence]]<br />
| [[Rob Carson]], with [[Ted Gioia]], [[Matt Weiner]], [[Andy Watkins]], and [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]], [[Susan Ferrari]], [[Jonathan Magin]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2011-2012<br />
| [[Carsten Gehring]], with [[Sarah Angelo]], [[Bryan Berend]], [[Matt Bollinger]], [[Matt Hart]], [[Gaurav Kandlikar]], and [[Matt Menard]]<br />
| [[Trevor Davis]], with [[Will Butler]], [[Auroni Gupta]], [[John Lawrence]], and [[Guy Tabachnick]]<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]], with [[Susan Ferrari]], [[Bruce Arthur]], and [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2012-2013<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]], with [[Jasper Lee]], [[Jarret Greene]], [[Diana Gerr]], [[Daniel Hothem]], and [[Stephen Liu]]<br />
| [[Chris Ray]], with [[John Lawrence]], [[Cody Voight]], and [[Rob Carson]]<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]], with [[Bruce Arthur]], [[Mike Sorice]], [[Andrew Ullsperger]], and [[Mike Bentley]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2013-2014<br />
| [[Stephen Liu]], with [[Tanay Kothari]], [[Ankit Aggarwal]], [[Alex Gerten]], [[Adam Silverman]], [[Lloyd Sy]], [[Stephen Eltinge]], [[John Lawrence]], and [[Andrew Hart]]<br />
| [[Evan Adams]], with [[Carsten Gehring]], [[Matt Jackson]], [[Will Nediger]], [[Ashvin Srivatsa]], and [[Adam Silverman]]<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]], with [[Ryan Westbrook]], [[Ted Gioia]], and [[Auroni Gupta]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2014-2015<br />
| [[Gautam Kandlikar]] and [[Gaurav Kandlikar]], with [[Max Schindler]], [[Ben Zhang]], [[Jacob Reed]], [[Richard Yu]], and [[Jordan Brownstein]]<br />
| [[Matt Jackson]], with [[Sarah Angelo]], [[Tommy Casalaspi]], [[Trevor Davis]], [[Stephen Liu]], and [[Sriram Pendyala]]<br />
| [[Ryan Westbrook]], [[Rob Carson]], [[Ike Jose]], and [[Billy Busse]]<br />
|}<br />
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The two [[ACF Winter]] tournaments were edited by [[Jerry Vinokurov]], [[Trygve Meade]] & [[Dennis Jang]] (2009) and [[Andrew Hart]], [[Rob Carson]], [[Trevor Davis]], [[Dennis Jang]], & [[Eric Mukherjee]] (2010).<br />
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==ACF Format==<br />
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The ACF game consists, simply, of twenty ten-point tossups with thirty-point bonuses. There is no clock and there are no powers. See the [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/acfrules_final.pdf ACF rules] for the full description of the format.<br />
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Almost all collegiate academic tournaments, as well as all trash tournaments, now use this format (though some add in the [[powers]] from NAQT). It has also become a popular high school format in many areas, and is used for such notable high school tournaments as the [[GATA State Championship]], the Vanderbilt [[ABC]], the [[GSAC]], the [[Maryland Spring Tournament]], the Yale [[BHSAT]], and the [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]] winter tournament.<br />
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==ACF Finals Format==<br />
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One of many ACF innovations designed to promote fairness in the game is the "ACF finals format." Used at all official ACF events and many other events, this finals format involves awarding a tournament title outright to a team which is two or more games ahead in the standings of the second-place team at the end of the tournament proper; playing a one-game, winner-take-all final if two teams are tied; and playing an advantaged final of up to two games, in which the team that is ahead needs to win only one game but the trailing team needs to win two games, if the first-place team is exactly one game ahead of the second-place team.<br />
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==ACF Distribution==<br />
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The distribution for the 20/20 of the regulation packet at ACF tournaments is:<br />
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* 4/4 literature<br />
* 4/4 history<br />
* 4/4 science<br />
* 3/3 arts<br />
* 2/2 religion, mythology, and philosophy<br />
* 1/1 social science<br />
* 1/1 geography<br />
* 1/1 [[trash]], current events, or miscellaneous<br />
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See also [[Comparison of distributions in collegiate formats]].<br />
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==Perception of ACF==<br />
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Many common points of discussion occur regarding both official ACF tournaments and the ACF format:<br />
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===ACF difficulty===<br />
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Some teams have found ACF tournaments to be difficult in comparison to NAQT or independent collegiate tournaments. This is due to many reasons. [[Litvak Perception Hypothesis|Paul Litvak]] once explained that ACF ''seems'' harder without ''being'' harder because tossups and time limits are longer and the game is untimed, so that every unanswered question hangs in the air for people to react to with either silence or negative commentary. At NAQT, with its clock, dead tossups sail by and we're on to the next question before you can think about it. Complaints that [[ACF IS IMPOSSIBLE]], once common in the days of CBI, have since become a relic of another era, as most tournaments from the late 2000s on have standardized their difficulty to a common range, ACF's included.<br />
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====2004 and 2007 comparison====<br />
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An analysis performed on the 2003-2004 Fall, Regionals, and Sectionals and the 2007 Nationals and ICT showed that ACF Fall is about 125% as easy as NAQT Sectionals; ACF Regionals is about 95% as easy as NAQT Sectionals, and ACF Nationals is about 87% as easy as NAQT ICT. So, ACF is slightly more difficult in two directly comparable tournaments, but not by a large margin. NAQT has no direct equivalent to ACF Fall, but NAQT Sectionals is in fact noticeably harder.<br />
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====2008 comparison of Sectionals and Regionals====<br />
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An [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=70567#p70567 analysis] performed on the 2008 Regionals and Sectionals showed that ACF Regionals is now 103% as easy as NAQT Sectionals for their respective fields, and Regionals is in fact 123% as easy when correcting for field strength by analyzing same-team performance at the two tournaments.<br />
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===ACF and grad students=== <br />
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In the early 1990s, when College Bowl was still relevant, some people questioned the fact that ACF allows unlimited grad student participation, while College Bowl restricts teams to one grad student each. As both NAQT and the independent circuit have followed the ACF lead on this matter, the grad presence is no longer as much of an issue.<br />
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Some people do occasionally claim that ACF is "for grad students" difficulty-wise; however, this is essentially a weird way of phrasing the above general attitude about difficulty. As there is no school currently offering a PhD in quizbowl, and grad students have less free time to prepare for extracurriculars, what they are really addressing is a longtime players' advantage in experience, and a confirmation bias--there are many people who play quizbowl as an undergrad and then go to grad school, but it's a huge hassle to continue playing as a grad, so only the better players tend to bother doing it.<br />
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===ACF and fun===<br />
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Some people find ACF less fun because it takes slightly longer to play than NAQT and has less pop culture. Their opinions and emotional reactions are valid, but there are also people who find ACF more fun for the same reasons. In any case, everyone should make sure to actually play ACF and find out if they think it's fun or not, rather than relying on stereotypes or outdated information. ACF does strive to avoid being [[funn]], which cannot always be said of non-ACF tournaments.<br />
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==See Also==<br />
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* [[ACF Fall]]<br />
* [[ACF Winter]]<br />
* [[ACF Regionals]]<br />
* [[ACF Nationals]]<br />
* [[mACF]]<br />
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==External References==<br />
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* [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com ACF Website]<br />
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{{ACF tournaments}}<br />
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'''How Collegiate Quizbowl Works''': A Guide for New Players and Teams<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
This article is designed as an introduction to [[quizbowl]] as it is played on the collegiate level. If you are completely new to the game, you should look at the article on [[quizbowl]] to familiarize yourself with the game before returning to this guide. Note that people currently involved in quizbowl are usually more than happy to discuss the process of starting a quizbowl team and connect you to other quizbowl players in your region, so feel free to ask questions in the [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=45 quizbowl forum for new collegiate teams]. <br />
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''This guide may not define all of the terms it uses''; please either click the hyperlink to the article on that term, or use the '''[[:Category:Quizbowl basics|Quizbowl basics]]''' and [[:Category:Quizbowl lingo|Quizbowl lingo]] categories as a glossary if need arises. <br />
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==A Few Basics==<br />
This section is devoted to the basics, or what you should know before you start playing quizbowl at the collegiate level.<br />
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===[[Quizbowl]]===<br />
Collegiate quizbowl involves two teams of up to four players competing on questions in '''[[tossup/bonus format]]'''. All college tournaments use [[tossup]]s with multiple clues in descending order of difficulty, so teams that know more about the answer can buzz in first (i.e. the tossups are [[pyramidal]]). Links to several videos of [[2013 ACF Nationals]] are available [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14419 here], which may give you an idea of what quizbowl (at a ''very'' high level--these are extremely hard questions) looks like before you read the rest of this article.<br />
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===[[The circuit|The Circuit]]===<br />
The circuit, broadly speaking, consists of all collegiate clubs who regularly attend weekend quizbowl tournaments. Your team will largely attend tournaments within a few hours' radius of your campus, since local circuits usually organize by geographic region.<br />
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===[[Team|The Clubs]]===<br />
If you want to play quizbowl, you're most likely going to have to join a '''club''' (or '''team''') at your college or university. A quizbowl club is responsible for organizing practices, running tournaments, and coordinating attendance at tournaments, as well as managing the funds, at the school in question. <br />
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See NAQT's [https://www.naqt.com/HowTo/start-a-college-team.html guide to starting a college quizbowl club] or the (soon-to-be-created) article on [[How to start a collegiate quizbowl club]].<br />
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===Communication===<br />
Almost all quizbowl communication is currently done via the Internet. The primary place for national discussion of quizbowl is on the '''[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/ forums]''', which is also the site for almost all tournament announcements. Registering for tournaments usually is as simple as sending an email. In addition, players from around the country frequent the [[quizbowl IRC channel]]. Most clubs and some areas of the circuit also create their own e-mail mailing lists for sending messages about upcoming tournaments and the like.<br />
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Your best source of information on the [[hsquizbowl.org forums]] will be the Collegiate Announcements and Results and Collegiate Discussion sub-forums. (There is also a section for New Collegiate Teams specifically to get advice about their areas.) You should try to make sure that someone in your club is checking the forums on at least a weekly basis, so that your club is up-to-date on the latest happenings on the circuit. <br />
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'''If you have a question about any aspect of collegiate quizbowl after reading this guide, you are encouraged to register for the forums and post your question in the Collegiate Discussion section''', but please read the forum rules before posting.<br />
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==Question Sets==<br />
The questions used in collegiate quizbowl may come from [[ACF]], from [[NAQT]], or be written independently. All of them are [[pyramidal]]-style questions, but they do vary in terms of their difficulty and distribution. <br />
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===[[ACF]]===<br />
'''ACF''', or the Academic Competition Federation, is a loosely centralized organization that provides three high-quality academic tournaments each year. Games of ACF quizbowl are played on packets of 20 tosssups and 20 bonuses, un[[timed]]. The three sets provided by ACF are: <br />
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*[[ACF Fall]], a novice-difficulty tournament, which typically runs on the first or second weekend in November. This tournament is strongly recommended for newer teams. <br />
*[[ACF Regionals]], a [[regular-difficulty]] tournament, which typically takes place in February. <br />
*[[ACF Nationals]], is a difficult tournament, which typically takes place in April at only one site for the entire country. With NAQT's ICT (see below), it is one of the two national championships for college quizbowl teams.<br />
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ACF is known for its commitment to quality, which includes limited [[trash]] (pop culture), and a focus on more [[academic]] topics. All ACF tournaments are [[packet-submission]], which means that each team competing at an upcoming ACF event must submit a full packet of questions to the central editing team before they play (with some exceptions allowing newer players to opt out). Those packets are then centrally edited for factual accuracy, quality, and difficulty consistency by a team of central [[editor]]s, who may also merge, pare down, or cut some packets to get a good set. When a team attends an ACF tournament, therefore, they play on packets written by other teams just like theirs. The schedule gives out "bye" rounds or skips over packets written by attending teams as needed, so no team gets an unfair advantage by playing on its own packet. <br />
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====[[Collegiate Novice]]====<br />
There are sometimes special novice-only tournaments designed for new teams. Consult the forums to see if those are happening this year as well as [https://www.naqt.com/schedule.jsp?coll=yes NAQT's collegiate schedule]. <br />
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===[[NAQT]]===<br />
'''NAQT''', or National Academic Quiz Tournaments, is an incorporated organization that provides questions for high school and collegiate play as well as various quizbowl television shows. NAQT tournaments are played [[timed]], in two ten-minute halves which can feature up to 24 tossups and 24 bonuses altogether. NAQT produces two collegiate sets each year:<br />
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*[[Sectionals|Sectional Championship Tournament]] (SCT) is a regular-difficulty tournament, and typically runs on the second weekend in February.<br />
*[[ICT|Intercollegiate Championship Tournament]] (ICT) is a national-difficulty tournament, and typically takes place in late March or early April. Teams must qualify for the ICT by performing well at their region's Sectional; SCT performances are converted into a number called the [[D-value]] which determines the invited teams. ICT and ACF Nationals (see above) are the two national championships.<br />
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Each of NAQT's college tournaments features Division I, in which any university students from the same school may play on the team, and a restricted Division II, which uses easier questions and restricts eligibility to newer or less-experienced players. Division II SCT is also highly recommended for newer teams. <br />
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Notable quirks of the NAQT format include a higher emphasis on [[current events]], [[geography]], and popular culture. NAQT's questions are typically shorter than ACF's and include [[power]]s.<br />
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=== Other/independent question sets ===<br />
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Many invitational tournaments exist during the year which are not run by either NAQT or ACF. Most of these tournaments are written/edited by one or two college teams that work together to produce questions or solicit questions from playing teams in the [[packet-submission]] model (described above in the ACF section). Almost all independent tournaments imitate ACF's style of question writing and distribution of [[Category:Subjects|subjects]] within packets, though some may make modifications such as the addition of [[powers]] to tossup questions. (This used to be called "modified ACF," or "[[mACF]].") Independent tournaments may set their own eligibility restrictions, either on a national basis or a host-by-host basis.<br />
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Because talented/interested question writers and [[editor]]s cycle in and out of the college quizbowl game with time, the exact schedule of independent events changes somewhat from year to year. Many long-surviving independent tournaments include [[Penn Bowl]], organized by [[Penn]], the [[Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament]] organized by students and alumni of the University of [[Minnesota]], and the [[Terrapin Invitational Tournament]], "organized" by the University of [[Maryland]]. <br />
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==Tournaments==<br />
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Quizbowl questions are written for use at [[:Category:Tournaments|tournaments]] throughout the year, at which an individual host (usually a school quizbowl club using university building space) invites all the other teams in the area to come play a large number of games of quizbowl across the morning, afternoon, and early evening. Tournaments will charge an entry fee for each attending team (usually between $80 and $120 for events in the US), and usually offer discounts to teams that bring along necessaries such as a [[buzzer]] or a [[scorekeeper]]. Each school may bring multiple separate teams to a single tournament, which are usually labeled as the "A-Team," "B-Team," "C-Team," etc. in descending order of predicted skill. Most good tournaments attempt to offer attending teams nine to twelve games against a variety of area schools, using a set consisting of fourteen to eighteen separate packets of questions.<br />
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===During the School Year===<br />
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With the exception of Thanksgiving weekend, winter break, and the summer, there is some tournament happening somewhere on almost every Saturday of the academic year. The quizbowl year is roughly divided between a fall semester from late September to early December, in which [[Collegiate Novice]], [[ACF Fall]], and several other invitationals happen, and a spring semester from late January through April, in which the NAQT [[SCT]], [[ACF Regionals]], and both national tournaments ([[ICT]] and [[ACF Nationals]]) all happen, with further invitationals filling out the calendar in the spring as well. Check the [[hsquizbowl.org forums]] or your area of the circuit's mailing list to become informed of all tournaments happening in your area.<br />
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===Summer===<br />
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Many people love quizbowl so much that they even want to play during the summer! From the time schools let out in mid-May through August, each summer usually features a few informally-organized quizbowl events that players can attend. Because school teams are usually disbanded for the year and might not be able to reunite for geographical reasons, summer tournaments are basically always [[open]] (any player from any school, and people from no school at all, may unite with any other player on a team with no eligibility restrictions). Recurring summer events of recent vintage have included [[VCU Open]].<br />
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====[[Chicago Open]]====<br />
The "crown jewel" of independent quizbowl events, and almost always the most difficult event of the year, Chicago Open attracts players from all over the nation to a "nationals-plus"-difficulty event, and many [[side tournaments]] are organized to keep everyone awake playing lots of quizbowl for two to three days.<br />
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==Practicing==<br />
Most clubs spend between three and six hours a week at [[practice]], dividing club members into arbitrary teams and playing packets from old tournament sets. Regularly-scheduled practices, using academic questions like the ones at upcoming tournaments, are a vital ingredient for the continued survival of any college quizbowl team. Currently, there are thousands and thousands of packets from old question sets available online for free (though NAQT sets are still only legally available by direct purchase). See below for packet repositories.<br />
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==Attending Tournaments==<br />
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===Eligibility===<br />
It is important to determine whether teams and players are eligible for a given tournament before they attend. Most tournaments require all teams to be representing only one school (i.e. you can't mix players from different schools to play on one team); this includes all [[ACF]] and [[NAQT]] events as well as any event that specifically advertises itself as "[[closed]]". The overwhelming majority of teams playing at any given college tournament are teams from a single school. <br />
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Occasionally some tournaments, including most non-Nationals tournaments that are above [[regular difficulty]] and events in regions such as the Pacific Northwest with few active teams, are "[[open]] tournaments", allowing non-students and mixed-school teams to participate in any configuration. <br />
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Though most easier-than-[[regular difficulty|regular]] tournaments, such as ACF Fall, do not specifically restrict experienced or good players, an informal [[gentleman's agreement]] precludes especially strong players or teams from bringing their full strength.<br />
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Some particularly-enterprising high school teams play in some local college tournaments in their area on top of high school tournaments, either for extra challenge or because there is a lack of opportunity for high school competition in their area. Most college hosts permit this, though some areas and state associations (such as Illinois) may have more specific rules.<br />
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===Funding===<br />
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Because tournaments cost money, paying for them is an important aspect of college quizbowl life.<br />
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*Many teams can get club funding through their school's student organizations office or similar funding opportunities. Check with your own student activities organization and ask around for various potential funds.<br />
*Host your own tournament - either a college tournament like the ones your team attends - or a high school tournament, reserving rooms in which to host the event and charging entrants a fee which you can then use to pay for other tournaments and travel costs throughout the year. This is a great way to fund a team, but does require some preparation to work well.<br />
*If necessary, pay some or all of the costs out of pocket. <br />
*Many college teams get a team bank account which they can keep their funds in and hand down as team [[Captain|captains]], treasurers, etc. graduate.<br />
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===Physical Travel - Getting To (and From) Tournaments===<br />
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The most important thing any collegiate quizbowl player can learn for the game is ''how to drive''. Quizbowl tournaments are held at many campuses throughout the year, and the most efficient way to get to them is by car. Bringing a car to campus, or getting familiar with a rental service such as Avis [www.avis.com] or Zipcar [www.zipcar.com], is critical. Occasionally, campuses will have their own vehicles for rent; [[Dartmouth]] can notably obtain a large van for off-campus travel. Road trips may be long; for drives over four or five hours, it may be advisable to stay over in a hotel near the tournament rather than make a single-day trip. This is, however, a great opportunity for team bonding and exciting [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=17279 travel stories].<br />
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Many clubs with a campus reasonably close to others with also take note of public transportation options such as bus, ferry, or train, and sometimes use public transportation options that might help you get to where you need to go. When using public transportation, it's always important to watch the time tables carefully to find a cost-effective travel plan which leaves lots of wiggle room in the event of delays or tournaments that run past their intended end time. [www.megabus.com Megabus], [www.boltbus.com Bolt Bus], and other low-cost bus services are an increasingly-popular, if somewhat scrappy, service for traveling quizbowl teams if they're going to and from major urban centers. A car is still often necessary to get to more remote campuses or campuses outside a major city.<br />
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Many teams are far enough from the location of national championships that it makes sense to buy airplane tickets and fly to those tournaments. <br />
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===Writing Packets===<br />
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Some tournaments throughout the year will be [[packet-submission]], requiring attendees to write a packet of questions to attend. Discounts to the entry fee are typically given for questions submitted eight weeks and six weeks before the tournament, and additional penalty fees added for questions submitted less than four weeks before the tournament. New teams may operate on different schedules and are always encouraged to submit a packet regardless of whether one is necessary.<br />
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For more information on writing questions, please see [[Jerry Vinokurov]]'s excellent treatise on [[How to Write Questions]]. It's also essential to consult the official ACF on distributing, writing, and style-formatting your packet; other tournament hosts are likely to have the same standards [http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/2012-13-packet-submission-guidelines/] [http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/2013-14-packet-submission-guidelines/].<br />
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If one school is sending multiple teams of different people to the same tournament (e.g. the University of Chicago sends a "Chicago A" team of Seth and Selene, and a "Chicago B" team of Michael and David), it is '''essential''' that those separate teams share ''no information'' with each other about the contents of their submitted packets (neither Seth nor Selene may say anything to Michael or David - or any other competing team - about their packet, or vice versa). Obtaining information about another team's packet and failing to report the mistake constitutes [[cheating]].<br />
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===Schedule at a Tournament===<br />
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The typical college tournament takes place on a Saturday; very occasionally, if the existence of a conflicting high school tournament or other major obstacle prevents hosting on a Saturday, there may be a tournament held on Sunday. Registration usually goes until some time between 8:45 and 9:30 AM, when the [[tournament director]] hosts an opening meeting and sends teams off to their Round 1 rooms. The tournament usually goes for four to six rounds, pauses for a lunch break, and continues until its conclusion in the early evening.<br />
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Teams are arranged into a predetermined schedule of rounds, in which [[bracket]]s of teams play a [[round-robin]] within their bracket. Each bracket contains teams of many skill levels. The strongest teams in the field may then be split off into a top bracket for more playoff rounds as the rest of the field plays consolation games against teams of a similar skill level to themselves. Many tournaments end in a finals match, whose entrants either have a tied record or a record separated by one loss (i.e. one team had 11 wins and 0 losses over the day, and the other went 10-1). See [[finals]] for more information on the usual quizbowl procedure for finals matches.<br />
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The ideal round of quizbowl takes about 25 minutes on the [[clock]] (factoring in pauses, halftime, etc. to a 20-minute game) and 25 to 30 minutes for an untimed game, depending on the skill level of teams involved. Given this ideal length and a lunch break of about an hour, it is entirely possible for a well-run tournament to finish ten rounds by 4 PM; however, travel delays, time spent walking to new rooms between games, possible slow moderators, and other miscellaneous issues such as [[protest]]s should lead teams planning travel to assume that tournaments will end much later - usually between 6 and 7 PM for the average regional event.<br />
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See [http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/474-2/ this page on the ACF website] for short descriptions of suggested schedules for use at tournaments of varying sizes.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
For more information about the college game, you are encouraged to visit the following websites:<br />
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===Organizations===<br />
*[http://www.acf-quizbowl.com ACF]<br><br />
*[http://www.naqt.com NAQT]<br />
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===Packet Archives===<br />
*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com Collegiate Packet Archive]<br />
*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive Stanford Packet Archive] (highly out of date)<br />
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===Communication===<br />
[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums hsquizbowl.org forums]<br><br />
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Enjoy quizbowl!<br />
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[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Norfolk_Academic_Guild&diff=41895Norfolk Academic Guild2020-03-23T06:57:27Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: </p>
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|citystate = Norfolk, VA<br />
|currentcoach = Lydia Netzer, Maryann Casey, Kristen Abney<br />
|state = None<br />
|nats = None<br />
|nats appearances = MSNCT: [[2016 MSNCT|2016]] [[2017 MSNCT|2017]] [[2018 MSNCT|2018]]<br />
USABB: [[USABB|2016]] [[USABB|2017]]<br />
|status = Active<br />
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'''Norfolk Academic Guild''' is a homeschool collective in Norfolk, VA. It competes at both middle school and high school levels. Its quizbowl organization is relatively new and participated in its first tournaments in the 2015-2016 season. Norfolk Academic Guild competed at the [[2016 MSNCT]], finishing 74th out of 160 with a 4-4 record, at the [[2017 MSNCT]], finishing 21st with an 8-4 record, and at the [[2018 MSNCT]], where they finished tied for 13th after losing to [[Noe]] and [[Midtown Classical]] in the playoffs. Norfolk Academic Guild player [[Ean Casey]] was the 22nd All-Star in 2016, the 8th All-Star in 2018, and ranked 37th in 2017.<br />
==External Links==<br />
* [https://www.naqt.com/stats/school-results.jsp?org_id=82060 NAQT Stats page]<br />
* [http://www.norfolkacademicguild.com Norfolk Academic Guild] <br />
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[[Category:Virginia middle school teams]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Lawson_State_Community_College&diff=41894Lawson State Community College2020-03-23T06:55:46Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: </p>
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Lawson State is a community college in Birmingham, Alabama. Lawson is a member of the [[ACBL]]. Matthew West created the team upon his arrival in 2015.</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Central_Alabama_Community_College&diff=41893Central Alabama Community College2020-03-23T06:55:11Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: </p>
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<div>{{Collegebox|College Name = Central Alabama<br />
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|citystate = Childersburg, AL<br />
|president = Adam Pinson<br />
Grant Merrill<br />
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Central Alabama is a community college located in Childersburg, AL. Central Alabama is a member of the [[ACBL]]. Adam Pinson has coached the team since 2009 and Grant Merrill has assisted since 2014.</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=McGill&diff=41892McGill2020-03-23T06:53:58Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: </p>
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<div>{{Collegebox|College Name = McGill University<br />
|Image = McGill_University_Logo.png|300px|thumb<br />
|citystate = Montreal, QC<br />
|president = Sebastian Drake<br />
|nats = none<br />
|nats appearances = 2005 ICT II, 2006 ICT II, 2014 ICT II (3rd place) <br />
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'''McGill University''' is an anglophone university in Montreal, Quebec. A trivia club was established in the 2002-03 season.<br />
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==History==<br />
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McGill's club was founded in 2003 by Andrew Segal and Jon Klein, two alumni of the [[CHAT|Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto]] team that finished third in the 2002 [[Reach for the Top]] nationals. They have attended an [[NAQT]] SCT each year since, claiming the Division II title at the 2005 Canadian SCT at [[Ottawa]]. McGill has qualified for the [[2005 ICT]], [[2006 ICT]], [[2007 ICT]], and but attended only in 2005, 2006. <br />
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For several years, the team had no meeting room. Forced to play in the student bar, the public display has drawn several members, making it by far the largest team in Canada in terms of local membership. Through various factors, only a small portion of the group actually travels to tournaments.<br />
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In 2008-2012, McGill sent several teams each year to the [[Ottawa Hybrid Tournament]] and SCT, but never went to ICT or many other tournaments. The team was led by [[Hunter Book]] of [[Kellenberg]] during this era. <br />
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==2012-present==<br />
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In 2013, [[Joe Su]] started convincing the team to go to more tournaments, especially local tournaments where McGill would do better than playing against a much stronger New England field. In Joe's first two years, McGill went to Ottawa Hybrid and mirrors of THUNDER, Delta Burke, Minnesota Open, MUT, MFT, Penn Bowl, SUBMIT, VCU Open, DISCO, and others. After being unable to attend 2013 SCT due to snow, in 2014, McGill won the Canadian Division II SCT, with [[Derek So]] as the tournament's highest scorer. At the [[2014 ICT]], a Division II team of Joe Su, Derek So, Sebastian Drake and Sam Baker finished third after losing to [[Northwestern]] in a winner-makes-finals game. McGill will continue to play in both Ontario and New England tournaments. During this era of McGill Quizbowl, Joe gets the team to go to tournaments, Sebastian does all the administrative and driving duties, and Derek does most of the scoring. <br />
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==Current Players==<br />
*Derek So, Grad student<br />
*Sam Baker, W 2015 <br />
*Aidan Drake, W 2015<br />
*Joe Su, F 2015, but hopes to become an indefinite grad student<br />
*Sebastian Drake, F 2015, but will become an indefinite grad student<br />
*William Dou, 2017<br />
*Andreas Loken, 2018<br />
*Jeffery Liang, 2018<br />
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==Hosted Tournaments==<br />
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McGill hosted "Quebec Bowl" in October, 2005, consisting only of Ottawa and McGill teams. They hosted the 2006 NAQT Canadian SCT, which drew a larger field but was criticized for their ignorance of good quizbowl rules. <br />
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==Attend Tournaments, 2012 onwards==<br />
*2012 New England SCT<br />
*2012 New England ACF Regionals<br />
*2012 Ottawa THUNDER Mirror<br />
*2013 Ottawa Delta Burke Mirror<br />
*2013 Ottawa Minnesota Open Mirror<br />
*2013 Carleton MUT Mirror<br />
*2013 Ottawa Hybrid<br />
*2013 Waterloo Missouri Open Mirror, First Place<br />
*2013 Carleton MFT Mirror<br />
*2013 Ottawa Penn Bowl Mirror<br />
*2014 Canadian SCT II, First place<br />
*2014 Ottawa Hybrid<br />
*2014 Carleton SUBMIT Mirror<br />
*2014 ICT II, Third place<br />
*2014 Waterloo VCU Open Mirror<br />
*2014 Waterloo DUST Mirror, First Place<br />
*2014 Waterloo DISCO Mirror<br />
*2014 McMaster Penn Bowl Mirror, Second Place<br />
*2014 Toronto PADAWAN Mirror<br />
*2014 Waterloo DEES Mirror<br />
*2015 ACF Regionals at McMaster, Second Place<br />
*2015 Waterloo Oxford Open Mirror<br />
*2015 Canadian SCT I and II, first place in both<br />
*2015 ICT I and II<br />
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[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Wallace_State&diff=41891Wallace State2020-03-23T06:53:36Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: </p>
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<div>{{Collegebox|College Name = Wallace State Community College<br />
|Image = Wallace state.png<br />
|citystate = Hanceville, AL<br />
|president = Christine O'Leary<br />
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Wallace State Community College is a relatively large two-year community and technical college located in Hanceville, Alabama. It is coached by Christine O'Leary.<br />
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Wallace State attended the 2017 and 2018 [[CCCT]], placing 9th and 7th respectively.<br />
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Wallace State won every [[ACBL]] tournament in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 competition years, the [[ACBL]] State Championship in both 2017 and 2018, and had a combined record of 65-5 and 74-9 for those two years.</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Isaac_Hirsch&diff=41890Isaac Hirsch2020-03-23T06:53:02Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox|Name = Isaac Hirsch<br />
|Image = Hirsch.jpg<br />
|Subjects = Jazz<br />
|schoolcur = [[University of Maryland]]<br />
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|highschool = [[Blake]]<br />
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'''Isaac Hirsch''' was the captain of [[Blake]] for 3 years. He often went around with pseudonymous teams and frequently played alone. At the 2010 NSC, he finished #10 in individual scoring in the prelims, and #11 in the playoffs.<br />
Hirsch is less well-known as a player [he frequently describes himself as "aggressively mediocre"] and more for weird meta antics, like creating the [[Quizbowl Tribune]].<br />
Hirsch played on Maryland B teams that earned 15th and 13th place at 2014 ICT and Nationals, respectively. He is retired from quizbowl, although he plans to write a weird gimmick tournament that will be very enjoyable to cement his legacy.<br />
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[[Category: Maryland]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Declan_Cawley&diff=41889Declan Cawley2020-03-23T06:51:28Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox|Name = Declan Cawley<br />
|Image = declan.jpg<br />
|Subjects = Mythology, Psychology<br />
|schoolcur = [[Homewood-Flossmoor]]<br />
|schoolpast = none<br />
|highschool = [[Homewood-Flossmoor]]}}<br />
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'''Declan Cawley''' is a player at [[Homewood-Flossmoor]]. He was the second H-F player to be named All-Sectional for the 2016-2017 season and has competed with the A team in their state appearances.<br />
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[[Category: High school players active in 2017]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Kiss&diff=41888Andrew Kiss2020-03-23T06:44:33Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox|Name= Andrew Kiss<br />
|Image = Kiss2.jpeg<br />
|Subjects = General, Lit, Pop Culture<br />
|schoolcur = [[University of Notre Dame]] (2012-current)<br />
|schoolpast = N/A<br />
|highschool = [[West Babylon Senior High School]] (2009-2012)<br />
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'''Andrew Kiss''' is a sophomore at the [[University of Notre Dame]]. Although tragically not knowing what quizbowl was until late second semester freshman year, after an impressive summer study session Andrew Kiss survived an SAO cancellation and inclement weather to participate in the SUBMIT tournament at MSU, scoring 43PPG to rank as the 8th highest scoring player in the field. At [[ACF Nationals|2014 ACF Nationals]], Andrew played solo and finished in the second bracket 24th out of 36 teams, ultimately losing to a tough North Carolina team in the DII final. An up and coming generalist, Andrew Kiss is primarily known as the guy whose name is forgotten by all the moderators all the time. <br />
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== Notable Tournaments ==<br />
*[[MUT|MUT 2014]]<br />
*[[ACF Regionals|2014 ACF Regionals]]<br />
*[[Cane Ridge Revival 2014]]<br />
*[[ACF Nationals|2014 ACF Nationals]]<br />
*[[ACF Regionals|2013 ACF Regionals]]<br />
*[[MUT 2013]]<br />
*[[VCU Closed 2013 at Northwestern]]<br />
*[[DRAGOON 2013 at Illinois]] <br />
*[[SUBMIT Mirror at MSU]] <br />
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[[Category: Stubs]]</div>Alejandro Lopez-Lagohttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Educational_Service_Unit&diff=41887Educational Service Unit2020-03-23T06:09:49Z<p>Alejandro Lopez-Lago: Fix link</p>
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<div>The Educational Service Unit "provide[s] educational services to thirteen school districts in south-central and southwestern Nebraska." Their mission "is to provide visionary leadership and quality educational services in partnership with member schools to achieve excellence in education." The list of the ESUs can be found [http://www.esucc.org/nebraska-esus/ here].<br />
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The various ESUs organize [[bad quizbowl]] tournaments in their respective districts as well as [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151883263357126.1073741860.197367412125&type=3 host workshops] (non-quizbowl related), [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151881710189330.1073741861.284509374329&type=3 host problem solving seminars], [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151648825199330.1073741845.284509374329&type=3 promote honors programs], [https://www.facebook.com/events/271081626322379/ host golf tournaments], [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152401994662652.1073741839.234034657651&type=3 run chess tournaments], and [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151904144477126 have superman teach in classrooms].<br />
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According to this [https://www.facebook.com/esu11/posts/10152179259649330 photo] a competition in February 2014 in ESU #11 featured teams of six standing up (and sometimes sitting down) to buzz in (it appears that the buzzer lights are on some sort of pole as this [https://www.facebook.com/ESU10/photos/a.10152753745334968.1073741863.126783964967/10152753745684968/?type=3&theater photo] demonstrates and the competition took place in the Phelps County Museum. It appears that at least 3-4 judges are necessary to run the match. According to this [https://www.facebook.com/ESU10/photos/a.10151851448884968.1073741826.126783964967/10151851451259968/?type=3&theater photo] there are 12 toss-ups/bonuses per match. According to this [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152753751659968.1073741864.126783964967&type=1 photo] each team member receives a medal as a prize.<br />
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There is no evidence on the ESU #6 [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Educational-Service-Unit-6/290406225968 facebook page], the ESU #4 [https://www.facebook.com/pages/ESU-4/212733450058 facebook page], or the ESU #13 [http://student-events.www.esu13.org/modules/locker/files/get_group_file.phtml?fid=22069320&gid=1519574&sessionid=58676e95e6a7f47c558458be2fed07b2 website] that they are involved in any quiz bowl activities.<br />
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2014 ESU #8 HS results can be found [http://www.esu8.org/events/QuizBowl_Senior.html here].<br />
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More information about ESU #11 QB can be found [http://esu11.org/departments/gifted-education/quiz-bowl/ here].<br />
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Results from the ESU #17 "Valentine Quiz Bowl" on April 23, 2013 can be found [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VYmi20u6L5MX9xuva17eU_2mWK8twwRDtE6u4gy6ppo/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.p here].<br />
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According to [http://greatauk.com/AcademicEvents.html this], many of the ESU tournaments use [[Academic Hallmarks]] questions.<br />
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According to this 2012 [http://www.esu2.org/vnews/display.v/ART/4f9859099f1b0 article] regarding quiz bowl in ESU #2, "Points are scored by correct answers to questions; each question has a pre-stated value, and teams have only 15 seconds to respond. The questions range from trivial (easier), with 5 points for a correct answer, to profound (more difficult), with 10 points for a correct answer, and cover all academic disciplines: language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. "...."Academic Quiz Bowl promotes quick recall of general knowledge facts through a quiz bowl format similar to that used by the College Bowl Company, which sponsored a popular radio program begun in 1953, which became an equally popular television series from 1959 - 1970. Following its cancellation on television, the game reappeared on college campuses through an affiliation with the Association of College Unions International in 1977 until 2008"<br />
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According to [http://home.site.esu9.org/files/2014/01/QuizBowlPacket2014.pdf this] regarding the 2014 ESU #9, the entry fee is $65 per team, "The questions will range from the trivial to the profound and cover all areas of academic knowledge", "After the toss-up is given, 15 seconds will be allowed for any team member to respond", the player must wait until his/her school name and position is completely called before giving the answer", "The team members have 15 seconds to confer on bonus questions", "Any team member from the team receiving a bonus question may ask for a repeat of the bonus question as long as it takes place during the 15 second conferring time", the bonuses are [[Bounceback|bounced back]], "Pencil and paper are never allowed during toss-up questions", and "The round will be stopped if [a specified] difference in team score occurs [during the game]".<br />
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Sample elementary school questions for ESU can be found [http://esu11.org/files/2010/05/Elementary_QB_Practice_Questions_1.pdf here]<br />
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Sample middle school questions for ESU can be found [http://esu11.org/files/2010/05/Junior_High_QB_Practice_Questions_1.pdf here]<br />
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Sample high school questions for ESU can be found [http://esu11.org/files/2010/05/Senior_High_QB_Practice_Questions_1.pdf here]<br />
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Results for tournaments that used NAQT speedchecks can be found here:<br />
[http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=2073 2006]<br />
[http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=2314 2007]<br />
[http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=2601 2008]<br />
[http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=2934 2009]<br />
[http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=3315 2010]<br />
[http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=3745 2011]<br />
[http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=4233 2012]<br />
[http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=4819 2013]<br />
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