https://www.qbwiki.com/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Gregory+Gauthier&feedformat=atomQBWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T17:31:07ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.1https://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:It%27s_Academic&diff=48565Talk:It's Academic2021-05-02T21:06:52Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Expanding this page */ re</p>
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<div>== Expanding this page ==<br />
<br />
I don't have any immediate-term plans to work on this article myself, but I'm guessing some people might. I'd like to avoid the Wikipedia page's confusion of all the different franchises of the show. The DC-Baltimore-"Central Virginia" show is run by one group of people but the other cities are just independent productions that license the name, as far as I know, and should get their own tables.<br />
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At least a list of each year's winners would be nice, and this could also be the start of a project to index available HSQB gameshow videos since the bulk of them on Youtube are from IA and IA clones. Also, any thoughts on whether Hometown High-Q should be combined with this page? From everything I've seen it's an exact clone of the IA game format and just uses a different name in some places for whatever reason.<br />
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If there is some way to reconstruct brackets and scores from prior years, that's good info, but I'm not sure if any source exists on this - anyone from DC know more? [[User:Matt Weiner|Matt Weiner]] ([[User talk:Matt Weiner|talk]]) 14:07, 30 April 2021 (CDT)<br />
:[[User:Matt Weiner]], the licensed versions share questions (even if the titles and formats differ). Going from memory, there was a stock of "Grab Bag" questions shared between Baltimore's IA and Pittsburgh's Hometown Hi-Q in the late 2000s. The distinctive [[curved yellow fruit]]-style of question-writing is also common to all versions. Also, in the 1980s, Cleveland's Academic Challenge was credited as an Altman Production, as was Buffalo's IA. <br />
:I can do some more research looking into old episodes if that would help. [[User:Gregory Gauthier|Gregory Gauthier]] ([[User talk:Gregory Gauthier|talk]]) 16:06, 2 May 2021 (CDT)</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbowl_software&diff=42238Quizbowl software2020-03-29T20:45:45Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Stats data formats */ add link to API for tournament schema, rename accordingly</p>
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<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 />
;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 />
<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>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbowl_software&diff=42237Quizbowl software2020-03-29T20:44:40Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Stats data formats */ add link to the quizbowl schema (still apparently active?)</p>
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<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 />
;Quizbowl schema<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 />
<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>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Matt_Laird&diff=39771Matt Laird2019-05-27T16:52:31Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: +guilty plea and sentence</p>
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| width="160px"| <font style="font-size:9pt">'''Mathew J. Laird'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! align=center colspan=2 | [[Image:Laird_Presents_All_State.jpg]]<br />
|-<br />
! align=center colspan=2 |''Laird at the 2008 IHSSBCA Awards Banquet''<br />
|}<br />
|-<br />
|- style="text-align:center;"<br />
|'''Current team: None'''<br />
|- style="text-align:center;"<br />
|'''Career record: 372-104''' <br />
|- style="background:#D3D3D3; text-align:center;"<br />
|'''Former school(s): [[Loyola Academy]], [[Stevenson]]''' <br />
|- style="background:#D3D3D3; text-align:center;"<br />
|'''Other leadership:''' IHSSBCA Publicity Chair (2006-2010)<br />
IHSSBCA All-State Program Coordinator (2007-2013)<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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'''Mathew J. Laird''' was a question writer and coach. He was a principal co-founder of [[Aegis Questions]], Inc. Despite his relatively young age, his enthusiasm, knowledge of the rules, and excellent moderating earned him the respect normally only afforded to much older and seasoned coaches. In October 2018, Laird was charged with several sexual offenses involving minors. In April 2019, Laird was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glenview/ct-gla-guilty-sex-assault-child-pornography-tl-0425-story.html]<br />
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==High School Career==<br />
Laird played his entire career at [[Loyola Academy]] in Wilmette, Illinois, and as a senior started on one of Loyola's best teams. The 2004 squad was considered one of the best in the state, and was favored to win its Regional and Sectional to advance to the State Finals for the first time since 1996. Unfortunately, the Regional Championship did not go according to plan, and the Ramblers were upset by an up-and-coming [[Maine South]] team.<br />
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==Coaching==<br />
Laird graduated and began attending Loyola University in Chicago, but rather than attempting to start a program there, he returned to Loyola Academy, and began acting in the capacity of an assistant coach to longtime head coach [[David Riley]]. While he continued his studies in preparation for teaching, Laird continued to commute to help coach the frosh-soph team, while helping with the varsity on occasion. He added an infusion of energy that greatly helped the team. As Coach Riley began to experience health problems, Laird became an even bigger asset to the program. Upon Riley's retirement in 2011, Laird became the head coach at Loyola. He began teaching English at the school the same year.<br />
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In 2006, Laird inaugurated an annual match between Loyola Academy and Maine South. The match had been born of some close matches that dated back to the loss dealt to Laird's 2004 team. The "Bloodstone Cup" match lacked only an appropriate trophy, which Laird himself provided. He secured a crystal goblet, to which he affixed red stones (suggestive of the maroon colors for Loyola, and the red for Maine South). He then obtained bloodstones, hand tumbled them, and added them to the goblet. He obtained an appropriate display case which he stained by hand.<br />
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In Laird's second year coaching, he coached his Varsity team to third place finishes at both HSNCT and NSC.<br />
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After leaving Loyola and coaching for two years, Laird became the assistant coach at [[Stevenson]] for the 2016-17 season.<br />
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==[[Aegis Questions]]==<br />
In 2005, Laird was present at the [[New Trier Varsity]] Tournament, and was a part of the conversation to start a new question company based on writing quality pyramidal questions. From that conversation, [[Aegis Questions]] was formed, the first Illinois-based question company that specialized in pyramidal questions.<br />
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==Officiating==<br />
Always considered an excellent moderator, Laird volunteered for several years at the NAQT [[HSNCT]] in Rosemont, Illinois. In 2007, he was invited to join the moderating corps at the IHSA State Championship Tournament, making him the youngest moderator to ever read at the State Finals.<br />
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==[[IHSSBCA]]==<br />
For the 2007-08 season, Laird took over as coordinator of the [[IHSSBCA All State Program]], an audacious task that is perhaps the most complex program run by the [[IHSSBCA]].<br />
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In March and April 2009, Laird and [[Jonah Greenthal]] conducted a survey of current and former Illinois high school players, which featured questions about changing the unusual Illinois bonus format to an ACF-style one and about changing the distribution of certain minor categories such as driver's ed and agriculture. The survey was sent to the [[IHSSBCA]] and [[IHSA]] Scholastic Bowl advisory committee with the intention of accompanying a similar survey the IHSSBCA took of coaches. Its results are available [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7681 here].<br />
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==End of quizbowl career==<br />
In October 2018 Laird was charged with several sexual crimes involving minors. His involvement in quizbowl ended as soon as the quizbowl community became aware of the situation.<br />
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In April 2019, Laird was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/glenview/ct-gla-guilty-sex-assault-child-pornography-tl-0425-story.html]<br />
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[[Category:Stevenson]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=37056Tournament structure2018-07-21T17:07:28Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Elimination tournaments */ add reasons for choosing single-elimination for a TV tournament</p>
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<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings. (The same phrase is also sometimes used to refer the set of [[rules]] used at a tournament.)<br />
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==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
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Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
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==Divisions==<br />
Tournaments are sometimes split into '''divisions''', each of which is essentially a separate tournament; teams only play against teams in the same division. Divisions can be set up to offer teams or tournament directors choice in which teams are in which division, or so that there is no choice. Popular combinations of divisions include the following:<br />
* Varsity and Junior Varsity/Novice (middle and high school tournaments)<br />
* Varsity and Frosh-Soph (high school tournaments)<br />
* Competitive and Less Competitive (middle and high school tournaments; known by a variety of names)<br />
* [[Division I and Division II]] (college tournaments)<br />
* [[Open]] and [[Undergraduate]] (college tournaments)<br />
* Public Schools and Private Schools (middle and high school tournaments)<br />
* High School and Middle School (for most purposes, two separate tournaments that happen to be at the same site on the same day)<br />
* Groupings according to school size (middle and high school tournaments)<br />
* A Teams and B(/subsequent) Teams<br />
These can be combined (e.g. a tournament might have a High School Varsity division, a High School Junior Varsity division, and a Middle School division).<br />
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Sometimes divisions of the same tournament use the same [[packet set]] and sometimes they don't.<br />
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Reasons for creating divisions include the following:<br />
* Allowing more teams to play but keeping each group smaller to make it easier to have a fair tournament format<br />
* Giving weak or new teams and/or players an opportunity to "get their feet wet" without facing many very experienced teams<br />
* Allowing separate question sets to be used in each division (a competitive team might use a harder set than the standard division at the same tournament).<br />
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Since divisions run more or less independently, the rest of this article could really be considered to be about the format for each division of a tournament, but the term "tournament" will be used anyway. There are still some cross-division considerations when planning a multi-division tournament; for instance, the divisions should be expected to end at similar times, especially if schools have teams in multiple divisions.<br />
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==Building blocks of formats==<br />
The following setups are called "building blocks" because they can be combined to form tournaments. For instance, it's common to have pooled round robin preliminary rounds followed by single-elimination playoffs. The "building blocks" can generally also be used on their own, and not all combinations make sense.<br />
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===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
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===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
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When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. Here's an example for a 24-team tournament (four pools of 6):<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Pool A !! Pool B !! Pool C !! Pool D<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 10 || 11 || 12<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || 15 || 14 || 13<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || 18 || 19 || 20<br />
|-<br />
| 24 || 23 || 22 || 21<br />
|}<br />
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If there are not enough available results to seed the teams, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
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When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed (the preliminary game is said to '''carry over'''). Opinions differ as whether the teams should be ranked by pool followed by overall record (including both preliminary and playoff games) or pool followed by playoff record only. (In either case, ties could be left as ties, broken by [[tiebreaker games]], or broken by another [[statistics|statistical measure]] such as [[points per tossup heard]]. Ties for first place are essentially always broken by a tiebreaker game.)<br />
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Sometimes, '''wild cards''' are used to fill out the playoff pools when the playoff pool size is not evenly divisible by the number of preliminary pools. In our example tournament, an alternative format would be to rebracket into four pools of six for the playoffs. The pools would be determined as follows:<br />
* Championship: the four 1st-place teams, plus the two 2nd-place teams with the highest values of some (pre-announced) statistic.<br />
* Consolation 1: the two remaining 2nd-place teams, plus the four 3rd-place teams.<br />
* Consolation 2: the four 4th-place teams, plus the two 5th-place teams with the highest values of some statistic.<br />
* Consolation 3: the two remaining 5th-place teams, plus the four 6th-place teams.<br />
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Sometimes, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous schemes, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not. In another variant, the top two teams from each championship pool play in semifinals (each first place team against the second place team from the other pool), with the winners proceeding to a one-game final.<br />
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Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
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===Fractional round robin===<br />
For some field sizes, a single round robin would be considered too few rounds but a double round robin would be too many rounds. In this case, a single round robin may occur followed by breaking into tiered playoff pools. For instance, an eight-team tournament might play a round robin (rounds 1–7), then place the top four teams (by record, and if necessary [[tiebreaker games]] or [[statistical tiebreakers]]) in a top playoff pool and the bottom four teams in a bottom playoff pool; each playoff pool would then play a (pooled) round robin (rounds 8–10).<br />
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===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
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===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
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===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]] (because it guarantees a specific number of games and allows as many teams to participate as possible given that the games are not played concurrently). It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
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'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winners' bracket", while losers drop down into a "losers' bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winners' bracket and one is left in the losers' bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winners' bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the losers' bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the losers' bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
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(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
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The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, all teams that went 6-4 or better in the preliminary rounds participate in a double-elimination tournament. However, teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the losers' bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss.<br />
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===Final===<br />
Tournaments generally need some sort of finals format.<br />
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Elimination playoffs have the final built in.<br />
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One can simply declare that the top team after playoffs is the winner of the tournament, but that entails defining "top team", including defining a scheme for breaking ties.<br />
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Sometimes finals procedures are applied recursively to identify lower-down places, e.g. for awarding trophies.<br />
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===ACF-style final and advantaged finals===<br />
Many tournaments typically use the following scheme for finals:<br />
* If the top team by record (in the singular top pool) is at least two games ahead of the second-place team(s) (in the same pool), the top team is the winner of the tournament; they are said to have '''cleared the field''' by obviating the need for a final<br />
* If there is an exact tie in record for first place, a single-game final occurs (the winner of which is the winner of the tournament)<br />
* If the top team by record is exactly one game ahead of the second-place team(s), an '''advantaged final''' occurs: Up to two matches will be played; if the team that was originally in first place wins the first, it wins the tournament, while if the team that was originally in second place wins the first game, a second game is played and the winner is the winner of the tournament. This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-first-place team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-second-place team is said to be "disadvantaged).<br />
** If there is a tie for second place, one game behind first place, [[tiebreaker|tiebreaking procedures]] will be necessary to determine which of the second-place teams faces the first-place team; this requires additional rounds and questions. If time is short and/or questions are not available, the top team may be declared the winner because there is no fair way to determine which second-place team should have the opportunity to play for first, or [[statistical tiebreakers]] may be used to determine which second-place team has that opportunity, though the latter is not a best practice.<br />
** The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
This scheme is sometimes called an '''ACF final''' or '''ACF-style final''', even though it is used by many non-ACF tournaments (including, more or less, the [[ICT]]). Sometimes the term '''advantaged final''' is incorrectly used for the entire scheme.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
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[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Bonfire_of_the_Manatees&diff=37047Bonfire of the Manatees2018-07-17T03:34:02Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: add 2017 results</p>
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<div>'''Bonfire of the Manatees''' is a tournament hosted by [[Raleigh Charter|Raleigh Charter High School]]. It was first held in 2008.<br />
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The tournament uses a Swiss pairs format followed by playoffs. A scoring program created by a former player's parent is used to keep stats (with output similar to that generated by SQBS) and pair the teams. [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=107961#p107961]<br />
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== Results ==<br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Year<br />
! # of Teams<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Fourth<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5724 11/15/2008]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[Cave Spring]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford]]<br />
| [[Greensboro Day]]<br />
| [[Robinson (NC)|Robinson A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8538 11/14/2009]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
| [[Russell]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford B]]<br />
| [[Providence Day|Providence Day A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10407 11/13/2010]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
| [[Carrboro|Carrboro A]]<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12181 10/29/2011]<br />
| 16<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill A]]<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12181 10/27/2012]<br />
| 21<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill A]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Minitrue]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|CKS]]<br />
| [[Green Hope|Green Hope]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/studentlife/clubs/qb/reports/tournaments/2014/Bonfire/finals/qbreports_teams.html 11/9/2013]<br />
| 27<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford B]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/studentlife/clubs/qb/reports/tournaments/2015/Bonfire/prelims/qbreports_teams.html 11/1/2014]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford B]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
| [[Carrboro|Carrboro A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=6673 11/14/2015]<br />
| 32<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=7609 10/29/2016]<br />
| 26<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill A]]<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill B]]<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8455 10/21/2017]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill A]]<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill B]]<br />
| [[Carrboro|Carrboro A]]<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:High school quizbowl in North Carolina]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Bonfire_of_the_Manatees&diff=37046Bonfire of the Manatees2018-07-17T03:30:19Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: add info on format and pairing program</p>
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<div>'''Bonfire of the Manatees''' is a tournament hosted by [[Raleigh Charter|Raleigh Charter High School]]. It was first held in 2008.<br />
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The tournament uses a Swiss pairs format followed by playoffs. A scoring program created by a former player's parent is used to keep stats (with output similar to that generated by SQBS) and pair the teams. [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=107961#p107961]<br />
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== Results ==<br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Year<br />
! # of Teams<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Fourth<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5724 11/15/2008]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[Cave Spring]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford]]<br />
| [[Greensboro Day]]<br />
| [[Robinson (NC)|Robinson A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8538 11/14/2009]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
| [[Russell]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford B]]<br />
| [[Providence Day|Providence Day A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10407 11/13/2010]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
| [[Carrboro|Carrboro A]]<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12181 10/29/2011]<br />
| 16<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill A]]<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12181 10/27/2012]<br />
| 21<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill A]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Minitrue]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|CKS]]<br />
| [[Green Hope|Green Hope]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/studentlife/clubs/qb/reports/tournaments/2014/Bonfire/finals/qbreports_teams.html 11/9/2013]<br />
| 27<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford B]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/studentlife/clubs/qb/reports/tournaments/2015/Bonfire/prelims/qbreports_teams.html 11/1/2014]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford B]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
| [[Carrboro|Carrboro A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=6673 11/14/2015]<br />
| 32<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
| [[Enloe|Enloe A]]<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill A]]<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=7609 10/29/2016]<br />
| 26<br />
| [[Early College at Guilford|Early College at Guilford A]]<br />
| [[NCSSM|NCSSM A]]<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill A]]<br />
| [[East Chapel Hill|East Chapel Hill B]]<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:Stubs]]<br />
[[Category:High school tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in North Carolina]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=NASAT&diff=36869NASAT2018-06-15T07:21:25Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Results by team */ use simpler terminology instead of idiosyncratic words we need to explain anyways</p>
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<div>The '''National All-Star Academic Tournament (NASAT)''' is run by [[HSAPQ|High School Academic Pyramid Questions]]. It is a national tournament for state all-star teams, meaning that only one team from each state or Canadian province is allowed to enter in the tournament. The first occurrence of this tournament was held June 12-13, 2010 at [[Vanderbilt]] and was well-received.<br />
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NASAT is not the first tournament to use state all-star teams, since that is done by [[PAC|PAC/NTAE]]. However, it is the first tournament using all-star teams to feature pyramidal questions and one-on-one matches.<br />
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In 2016, the field was opened to B teams. <br />
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==Results by year==<br />
{| border="1" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Year<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Fourth<br />
! Location<br />
! Field Size<br />
! Stats<br />
! Set<br />
|- <br />
| 2010<br />
| [[Pennsylvania]] ([[State College]])<br />
| South Carolina ([[Dorman]] and [[Southside]])<br />
| [[Team Illinois|Illinois]] ([[Auburn]], [[Ignatius]], [[OPRF]], [[Stevenson]])<br />
| Virginia ([[Maggie Walker]] and [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|TJ]])<br />
| [[Vanderbilt]] <br />
| 16<br />
| [http://hsapq.com/nasat/NASATprelims_standings.html prelims] [http://hsapq.com/nasat/NASATcomplete_standings.html overall]<br />
| [http://hsapq.com/nasat/nasat.zip] [http://www.qbwiki.com/post/2010NASAT_secondplace.mp3 Audio from the 2010 second-place match]<br />
|-<br />
| 2011<br />
| Texas ([[LASA]] and [[Seven Lakes]])<br />
| [[Team Illinois|Illinois]] ([[Auburn]], [[Ignatius]], [[OPRF]], [[Stevenson]])<br />
| Ohio ([[Copley]], [[Warren G. Harding]], [[Northmont]], [[Olmsted Falls]], [[Solon]], [[Walnut Hills]])<br />
| California ([[Bellarmine]], [[Rancho Bernardo]], [[University_(Irvine,_California_high_school)|University]])<br />
| [[Maryland]]<br />
| 10<br />
| [http://www.hsapq.com/nasat11/nasat2011_standings.html]<br />
| [http://www.hsapq.com/questions/21]<br />
|-<br />
| 2012<br />
| California ([[Bellarmine]] and [[Escobar]])<br />
| [[Team Illinois|Illinois]] ([[Auburn]], [[Carbondale]], [[Loyola]], [[Latin School]])<br />
| New York ([[Hunter]] and [[Ardsley]])<br />
| Georgia ([[Centennial (GA)|Centennial]], [[Norcross]], [[Alpharetta]], [[Bainbridge]], and [[Brookwood]])<br />
| [[Ohio State]]<br />
| 13<br />
| [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1004/stats/prelims_and_playoffs/]<br />
| [http://www.hsapq.com/qzip/NASAT2012.zip]<br />
|-<br />
| 2013<br />
| Missouri ([[Ladue]])<br />
| Texas ([[Cistercian]], [[Harmony]], [[LASA]], [[St. John's (TX)|St. John's]])<br />
| California ([[Arcadia]], [[Bellarmine]], [[Foothill]], [[Torrey Pines]])<br />
| Ohio ([[Dublin Scioto]], [[Northmont]], [[Olmsted Falls]], [[Solon]])<br />
| [[Ohio State]]<br />
| 13<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1432]<br />
| [http://www.hsapq.com/downloads/tournament41/]<br />
|-<br />
| 2014<br />
| Texas ([[LASA]], [[St. John's]], [[Harmony]], [[St. Mark's]])<br />
| [[Team Illinois|Illinois]] ([[Auburn]], [[IMSA]], [[Stevenson]])<br />
| [[California]] ([[Menlo]], [[Westview (CA)|Westview]], [[Saratoga]], [[Arcadia]])<br />
| [[New Jersey]] ([[High Tech]], [[East Brunswick]], [[St. Joseph (NJ)|St. Joseph]])<br />
| [[Ohio State]] + Blackwell Columbus<br />
| 17<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1680/stats/2014_nasat/]<br />
| [http://www.hsapq.com/downloads/tournament52/]<br />
|-<br />
| 2015<br />
| California ([[Arcadia]], [[Rancho Bernardo]], [[Saratoga]])<br />
| Virginia ([[Loudoun County]], [[Maggie Walker]], [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]], [[Western Albemarle]])<br />
| [[Team Illinois|Illinois]] ([[Auburn]], [[IMSA]], [[University of Chicago Lab]])<br />
| Michigan ([[Detroit Catholic Central]])<br />
| [[Ohio State]]<br />
| 12<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3081]<br />
| [http://www.hsapq.com/downloads/tournament55/]<br />
|-<br />
| 2016<br />
| [[Team Illinois|Illinois]] ([[Rockford Auburn]], [[Barrington]], [[Hinsdale Central]]. [[Naperville North]])<br />
| California ([[Rancho Bernardo]], [[La Jolla]], [[Westview (CA)|Westview]])<br />
| Ohio A ([[Fisher Catholic]], [[Dublin Scioto]], [[Solon]], [[Dublin Jerome]]<br />
| Georgia A ([[Marist]], [[Lakeside (GA)|Lakeside]], [[Johns Creek]], [[River Ridge]], [[Chattahoochee]])<br />
| [[Kentucky]]<br />
| 15<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3772/]<br />
| [http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/1834/]<br />
|-<br />
| 2017<br />
| [[Team Illinois|Illinois]] ([[Rockford Auburn]], [[Barrington]], [[Naperville North]], [[IMSA]])<br />
| New York ([[Hunter]], [[Ithaca]])<br />
| Texas A ([[James E. Taylor]], [[LASA]], [[St. John's]], [[St. Mark's]])<br />
| California ([[La Jolla]], [[Los Alamitos]], [[Crystal Springs Upland]], [[Homestead]], [[Cathedral Catholic]], [[Mission San Jose]])<br />
| [[Kentucky]]<br />
| 25<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4414/]<br />
| [http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/1975/]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==Results by team==<br />
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{|class="wikitable sortable" style=text-align:center<br />
!width=200|State<br />
!data-sort-type="number" width=50|2010<br />
!data-sort-type="number" width=50|2011<br />
!data-sort-type="number" width=50|2012<br />
!data-sort-type="number" width=50|2013<br />
!data-sort-type="number" width=50|2014<br />
!data-sort-type="number" width=50|2015<br />
!data-sort-type="numer" width=50|2016<br />
!data-sort-type="numer" width=50|2017<br />
!width=100 bgcolor=lightgreen|Played<br />
!width=75 bgcolor=gold|Wins<br />
!width=75 bgcolor=silver|Top 2s<br />
!width=75 bgcolor=#cd7f32|Top 3s<br />
!width=75 bgcolor=cyan|Top 4s<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Alabama||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||12||14||2 || || || || <br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Arizona||13||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||1|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|California||7||bgcolor=cyan|4||bgcolor=gold|1||bgcolor=#cd7f32|3||bgcolor=#cd7f32|3||bgcolor=gold|1||bgcolor=silver|2||bgcolor=cyan|4||bgcolor=lightgreen|'''8'''||bgcolor=gold|'''2'''||3||5||bgcolor=cyan|'''7'''<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Delaware||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||15||data-sort-value="100"| |||6||data-sort-value="100"| ||2|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|District of Columbia||6||7||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||2|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Florida||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||9||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||22||2|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Georgia||data-sort-value="100"| ||5||bgcolor=cyan|4||11||13||11||bgcolor=cyan|4||5||7|| || || ||2<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|[[Team Illinois|Illinois]]||bgcolor=#cd7f32|3||bgcolor=silver|2||bgcolor=silver|2||6||bgcolor=silver|2||bgcolor=#cd7f32|3||bgcolor=gold|1||bgcolor=gold|1||bgcolor=lightgreen|'''8'''||bgcolor=gold|'''2'''||bgcolor=silver|'''5'''||bgcolor=#cd7f32|'''7'''||bgcolor=cyan|'''7'''<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Indiana||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||13||12||12||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||3|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Kentucky||10||8||11||7||11||8||9||21||bgcolor=lightgreen|'''8'''|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Maryland||data-sort-value="100"| ||6||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||5||data-sort-value="100"| ||6||11||4|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Massachusetts||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||16||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||1|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Michigan||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||5||17||bgcolor=cyan|4||data-sort-value="100"| ||13 ||4|| || || ||1<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Minnesota||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||12||13||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||2|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|[[Team Missouri|Missouri]]||12||9||6||bgcolor=gold|1||8||10||9||6||bgcolor=lightgreen|'''8'''||1||1||1||1<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|New Hampshire||15||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||1|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|align=left|New Jersey||data-sort-value="100"| ||10||8||10||bgcolor=cyan|4||5||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||5|| || || ||1<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|New York||9||data-sort-value="100"| ||bgcolor=#cd7f32|3||9||14||data-sort-value="100"| ||6||bgcolor=silver|2||6|| ||1||2||2<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|North Carolina||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||7||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||1|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Ohio||8||bgcolor=#cd7f32|3||9||bgcolor=cyan|4||7||7||bgcolor=#cd7f32|3||7||bgcolor=lightgreen|'''8'''|| || ||2||3<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Oklahoma||14||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||12||data-sort-value="100"| ||2|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Pennsylvania||bgcolor=gold|1||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||9||5||9||4||1||1||1||1<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|South Carolina||bgcolor=silver|2||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||12||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||2|| ||1||1||1<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Tennessee||11||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||10||6||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||3|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Texas||5||bgcolor=gold|1||5||bgcolor=silver|2||bgcolor=gold|1||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||bgcolor=#cd7f32|3||6||bgcolor=gold|'''2'''||3||4||4<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Vermont||16||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||data-sort-value="100"| ||1|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|align=left|Virginia||bgcolor=cyan|4||data-sort-value="100"| ||10||8||6||bgcolor=silver|2||data-sort-value="100"| ||8||6|| ||1||1||2<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:High school national championships]]<br />
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[[Category:HSAPQ]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Matt_Bruce&diff=36849Matt Bruce2018-06-12T03:46:07Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: add info from the NAQT announcement</p>
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<div>'''Matt Bruce''' is a former member of [[NAQT]] who used to play for [[Boston University]], [[Harvard]], and [[Booker T. Washington]].<br />
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In June 2018, NAQT terminated Bruce's membership through its grievance process. NAQT's announcement cited "inappropriate writings" on Bruce's blogs from the early 2000s that were inconsistent with NAQT members' "duty to represent with honor and dignity the company, all other members, and the schools which participate in NAQT events.". [https://www.naqt.com/articles/matt-bruce-grievance-panel-decision.jsp]<br />
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[[Category: Booker T. Washington]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Twenty_Questions&diff=36678Twenty Questions2018-05-30T04:13:34Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: monthy -> monthly</p>
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<div>'''Twenty Questions''' is a monthly competition by [[Questions Unlimited]] where teams can qualify for the [[National Academic Championship]]. As the name suggests, each month teams attempt to answer 20 visual questions posted on the Questions Unlimited website. Teams that achieve or tie the highest score qualify for the NAC.<br />
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==Question Format==<br />
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The questions are very much in the [[Chip Beall]] vein, asking about breeds of dogs and the metal used in the Vince Lombardi trophy. Perhaps by design, the images on the website do not have their names changed from where Chip took from. Thus, most answers can be quickly found by just Google Image Searching for the name of the image.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
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[http://qunlimited.com/quiz.html Twenty Questions Web Site]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Princeton&diff=36668Princeton2018-05-28T21:36:36Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* History */ ACIU -> ACUI</p>
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<div>{{Collegebox|College Name = <center>Princeton University</center><br />
|Image = Princeton.gif<br />
|citystate = Princeton, NJ<br />
|president = <center>Jack Edmondson, Nathaniel Hull</center><br />
|nats = NAQT Undergraduate: [[2000 ICT|2000]], [[2001 ICT|2001]], [[2002 ICT|2002]]. NAQT Division II: [[1999 ICT|1999]]<br />
| }}<br />
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'''Princeton University''' is an Ivy League institution in Princeton, New Jersey, with one of the oldest quiz bowl clubs in existence.<br />
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==History==<br />
Princeton has a lengthy though obscure history of participation in [[College Bowl]]. It is known that the club lost to Agnes Scott College in a 1966 episode of the TV program, and that it placed at 4th at CBI nationals in 1984, earning a plate that, though once having been thought to be stowed away in the club's trophy hoard, has unfortunately gone missing.<br />
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With the arrival of [[Jeff Stewart]] from [[BYU]] around 1994, Princeton's previously CBI-only program began attending and hosting ACF events. Princeton deaffiliated from CBI after the 1996-1997 school year.<br />
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Princeton has, in the past, been relatively competitive on the national circuit. Led by [[Jeff Hoppes]], Princeton won the Undergraduate title at [[ICT]] from 2000-2, and won an unofficial ACF Undergraduate title in 2000 and 2002. Since then, it has not won any national titles.<br />
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According to [//www.naqt.com/hsnct/20for20/matthews.jsp an NAQT interview] with [[Patrick Matthews]], Princeton and [[Penn]] had a "mostly friendly" rivalry in the [[College Bowl]] era, where Penn eliminated Princeton from qualifying for CBI [[NCT]] at the ACUI Regionals four years in a row.<br />
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===Tournament Hosting===<br />
Years ago, Princeton hosted [[PARFAIT]], which was originally a packet submission tournament and later became a house written tournament. Previous Princeton college tournaments included [[Princeton Buzzerfest|Buzzerfest]] (1997-2004) and the [[Orville Redenbacher Invitational]] (c. 1996-1997).<br />
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Today, Princeton hosts an annual [[Princeton High School Tournament|high school tournament]], traditionally using [[NAQT]] packets. The tournament has done so well in some years that it attracted teams from as far away as [[Detroit Central Catholic]], and had as many as 69 teams in attendance. Other years, though, the tournament has had numerous issues, most notably in the form of major delays. Later tournaments had buzzer sets break mid-tournament and some schools leave halfway through without notifying the Tournament Director.<br />
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Princeton has also hosted other college events like [[WAO II]]<br />
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Recently, Princeton's club has collaborated with [[Rutgers]] to host the New Jersey NAQT State Championship.<br />
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===Controversy===<br />
Princeton and Rutgers' decision to cancel going to [[ACF Regionals 2007]] at [[Maryland]] controversially turned that tournament into a farce, consisting only of [[VCU]], two house teams, and a high school team. As a result, a long argument between [[Matt Weiner]], members of the Princeton team, and others flared up on the message boards in [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3644 this thread].<br />
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==Former Members==<br />
Members with bolded names served as club president.<br />
*[[Dan Benediktson]]<br />
*[[Michael Chiswick-Patterson]]<br />
*[[Peter Coles]]<br />
*[[Jeff Crean]]<br />
*[[Ben Davenport]]<br />
*[[Ross Fisher]]<br />
*[[Chris Frankel]]<br />
*[[Faith Hillis]]<br />
*'''[[Jason Golfinos]]''' (2015-16)<br />
*'''[[Jeff Hoppes]]''' (2000-2002)<br />
*'''[[Ben Horwich]]''' (1998-1999)<br />
*[[David Isaacson]]<br />
*[[Larissa Kelly]]<br />
*[[Brad Klein]]<br />
*'''[[Lenny Kostovetsky]]''' (2002-2003)<br />
*'''[[Steve Lawrie]]''' (1999-2000)<br />
*[[Bruce Lin]]<br />
*[[David Madden]]<br />
*[[Ben Malkevitch]]<br />
*[[Jacob Mikanowski]]<br />
*[[Matt Morris]]<br />
*[[David Sachs]]<br />
*[[Barbara Slote]]<br />
*[[Charles Steinhardt]]<br />
*[[Jeff Stewart]]<br />
*[[Jen Wadsack]]<br />
*[[Ray Yang]]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[//quizbowl.princeton.edu/ Princeton Quiz Bowl Club Page]<br />
*[http://www.princeton.edu/~cbowl/ Old Site]<br />
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==Title Succession==<br />
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division I Undergraduate<br />
|year = [[2000 ICT|2000]], [[2001 ICT|2001]], [[2002 ICT|2002]]<br />
|previous = [[Carleton College|Carleton]]<br />
|next = [[2003 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| }}<br />
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division II<br />
|year = [[1999 ICT|1999]]<br />
|previous = [[1998 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
|next = [[2000 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| }}<br />
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===Unofficial title succession===<br />
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[ACF Nationals]] Undergraduate<br />
|year = [[2000 ACF Nationals|2000]]<br />
|previous = [[1999 Texas|Texas]]<br />
|next = [[2001 Berry|Berry]]<br />
| }}<br />
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[ACF Nationals]] Undergraduate<br />
|year = [[2002 ACF Nationals|2002]]<br />
|previous = [[2001 Berry|Berry]]<br />
|next = [[2003 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| }}<br />
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[ACF Nationals]] Division II<br />
|year = [[2000 ACF Nationals|2000]]<br />
|previous = [[1999 Arkansas|Arkansas]]<br />
|next = [[2001 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| }}<br />
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[ACF Nationals]] Division II<br />
|year = [[2003 ACF Nationals|2003]]<br />
|previous = [[2002 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
|next = [[2004 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| }}<br />
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[[Category: College clubs]]<br />
[[Category: Princeton]]<br />
[[Category: Programs that have won NAQT ICT Undergraduate]]<br />
[[Category: Programs that have won NAQT ICT Division II]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=2017_St._Mark%27s_School_of_Texas_Invitational&diff=366672017 St. Mark's School of Texas Invitational2018-05-28T21:34:14Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: wl for a future article</p>
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<div>The '''2017 St. Mark's School of Texas Invitational''' was held on [[February]] 25, 2017 at [[St. Mark's School of Texas]] in Dallas, using [[NAQT]]'s [[IS]]-164 set.<br />
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The [https://www.naqt.com/articles/st-marks-sqbs/st-marks_standings.html initial submitted results] showed Windhaven Park E as the winner of the tournament, with a 9-0 record. NAQT determined that there was "a statistically anomalous performance by the [[Windhaven Park]] E team given its members’ previous tournament experience." NAQT offered the team the opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in quiz bowl in a Skype match, but the team declined. Consequently, [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=7618 NAQT vacated the wins of all Windhaven Park teams], rescinded the school's HSNCT invitations from previous tournaments, and banned two players from the Windhaven Park E team.<br />
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[[Category:Quizbowl scandals]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=2017_St._Mark%27s_School_of_Texas_Invitational&diff=366662017 St. Mark's School of Texas Invitational2018-05-28T21:33:35Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: add links to NAQT stats pages</p>
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<div>The '''2017 St. Mark's School of Texas Invitational''' was held on [[February]] 25, 2017 at [[St. Mark's School of Texas]] in Dallas, using [[NAQT]]'s [[IS]]-164 set.<br />
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The [https://www.naqt.com/articles/st-marks-sqbs/st-marks_standings.html initial submitted results] showed Windhaven Park E as the winner of the tournament, with a 9-0 record. NAQT determined that there was "a statistically anomalous performance by the Windhaven Park E team given its members’ previous tournament experience." NAQT offered the team the opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in quiz bowl in a Skype match, but the team declined. Consequently, [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=7618 NAQT vacated the wins of all Windhaven Park teams], rescinded the school's HSNCT invitations from previous tournaments, and banned two players from the Windhaven Park E team.<br />
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[[Category:Quizbowl scandals]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=2017_St._Mark%27s_School_of_Texas_Invitational&diff=366652017 St. Mark's School of Texas Invitational2018-05-28T21:32:56Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: fix category name</p>
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<div>The '''2017 St. Mark's School of Texas Invitational''' was held on [[February]] 25, 2017 at [[St. Mark's School of Texas]] in Dallas, using [[NAQT]]'s [[IS]]-164 set.<br />
<br />
The initial submitted results showed Windhaven Park E as the winner of the tournament, with a 9-0 record. NAQT determined that there was "a statistically anomalous performance by the Windhaven Park E team given its members’ previous tournament experience." NAQT offered the team the opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in quiz bowl in a Skype match, but the team declined. Consequently, NAQT vacated the wins of all Windhaven Park teams, rescinded the school's HSNCT invitations from previous tournaments, and banned two players from the Windhaven Park E team.<br />
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[[Category:Quizbowl scandals]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=2017_St._Mark%27s_School_of_Texas_Invitational&diff=366642017 St. Mark's School of Texas Invitational2018-05-28T21:32:13Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: start the article very conservatively</p>
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<div>The '''2017 St. Mark's School of Texas Invitational''' was held on [[February]] 25, 2017 at [[St. Mark's School of Texas]] in Dallas, using [[NAQT]]'s [[IS]]-164 set.<br />
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The initial submitted results showed Windhaven Park E as the winner of the tournament, with a 9-0 record. NAQT determined that there was "a statistically anomalous performance by the Windhaven Park E team given its members’ previous tournament experience." NAQT offered the team the opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in quiz bowl in a Skype match, but the team declined. Consequently, NAQT vacated the wins of all Windhaven Park teams, rescinded the school's HSNCT invitations from previous tournaments, and banned two players from the Windhaven Park E team.<br />
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[[Category:Quiz bowl scandals]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=User:Gregory_Gauthier&diff=36620User:Gregory Gauthier2018-05-20T02:14:07Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: update</p>
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<div>I received my Ph.D. from [[Princeton]] in mathematics in 2017, but I did not play quiz bowl for Princeton. Previously, I played for [[Vanderbilt]] and [[Wheaton North]]<br />
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==Tournaments staffed==<br />
*National<br />
**[[NHBB]]: 2018, 2014, 2013<br />
**[[HSNCT]]: 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012<br />
*Other<br />
**Princeton High School tournament: 2018<br />
**[[Eisenhower Memorial Tournament]]: 2017<br />
**IHBB of Rome: 2016<br />
**NHBB Mid-Atlantic Championships: 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014<br />
**NHBB New Jersey State Championships: 2013<br />
**PHSAT: 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012<br />
**New Jersey NAQT Championship: 2015, 2013<br />
**[[New Trier Varsity]]: years unknown, but definitely including 2017, 2016 (both in stats room), 2014, 2009, and 2008<br />
**[[Chicago Open]]: 2013, 2010<br />
**IHSSBCA Kickoff: years unknown<br />
**Vanderbilt ABC: XLI (fall 2011), XL (fall 2010), XXXIX (spring 2010), XXXVIII (fall 2009), XXXVII (spring 2009), XXXVI (fall 2008)<br />
**IHSSBCA Turnabout: years unknown<br />
**Kaneland: 2015, 2009?<br />
**Niles West: 2014<br />
**Homewood-Flossmoor: 2009<br />
**[[Scobol Solo]]: years unknown<br />
**IHSA sectionals: 2011, 2010, 2009<br />
**IHSA regionals: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009<br />
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==Tournaments played==<br />
*College<br />
**NAQT<br />
***2009 ICT<br />
***2012 SCT at Virginia Tech<br />
***2009 SCT at Georgia<br />
**ACF<br />
***2010 ACF Winter<br />
**Other<br />
***Moon Pie<br />
***2008 EFT<br />
*High School national and state championship tournaments<br />
**PAC: 2008, 2007, 2006 as part of Team Illinois (won 2007 and 2008, and I was named to the All-American Team in 2007 and 2008)<br />
**PACE: 2008<br />
**HSNCT: 2007, 2005<br />
**IHSA: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005<br />
**NAQT Illinois state tournament: 2007?<br />
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I also am interested in programming, and have two quiz bowl-related programming projects: [[JAGUARS]] (a quiz bowl reading/scoring/lockout program, with a public alpha version) and [[OLMEC]] (an online tournament data-entry, statkeeping, and management program: design notes have been sketched but no code has been written). To facilitate those projects, I am also working on computer- and human-readable markup languages for packets, scoresheets, and quiz bowl formats. Other interests of mine include trivia game shows and televised quiz bowl shows.<br />
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==Subpages==<br />
*[[User:Gregory Gauthier/JML]]<br />
*[[User:Gregory Gauthier/JAGUARS++ design]]<br />
*[[User:Gregory Gauthier/OLMEC design notes]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Multiple_choice&diff=34714Multiple choice2018-01-05T18:11:15Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Formats that use multiple choice questions */ +Questions Unlimited</p>
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<div>'''Multiple choice''' questions provide players with a list of possible answers, one of which is correct.<br />
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It should be noted that good questions may limit the answer space to a finite number of answers. For example, a question with the phrase "this U.S. President" narrows down the number of possible correct answers to 44. Nevertheless, because the player is not given a list of possible answers to choose from, such scope-narrowing phrases do not make a question multiple choice.<br />
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Because they allow for a team with zero knowledge to earn points simply by guessing, multiple choice questions are generally considered a part of [[bad quizbowl]].<br />
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==Formats that use multiple choice questions==<br />
===Televised===<br />
*[[CBI]]<br />
*[[Bay Area Quiz Kids]] during the spring 2013 season (Season 14), for all tossups in the "Three-for-all" rounds<br />
*[[WRAL Brain Game]]<br />
*[[It's Academic]] (often during the team rounds, and generally the science questions in both the fourth round and the grab bag are multiple choice)<br />
*[[High School Quiz Show]] (WGBH Boston)<br />
*[[Challenge]] (New York metropolitan area)<br />
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===Other===<br />
*[[Questions Unlimited]]<br />
*[[Commissioner's Academic Challenge]] (and formerly NTAE/Panasonic Academic Challenge)<br />
*[[Science Bowl]]<br />
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==Formats that no longer use multiple choice questions regularly==<br />
*[[IHSA]] (multiple choice is allowed for analogy vocabulary questions only, which have not appeared for at least a decade)<br />
*[[NAQT]] ("X, Y, both, or neither", deprecated)<br />
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[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Blender&diff=34707Blender2018-01-04T22:04:59Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: redirect</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[2000 NAC#Questions]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Round_robin&diff=34691Round robin2017-12-27T01:24:07Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* How to set up a round robin */ not accurate, see https://www.devenezia.com/round-robin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1138355997</p>
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<div>A '''round robin''' is a [[tournament format]] where each team plays against each other team once. In a round robin, 2n - 1 rounds are needed for 2n teams or 2n - 1 teams.<br />
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Round robins are the building blocks for many invitational tournament formats. An experienced [[tournament director]] will be familiar with the round robin structure, and can set up a round robin on the fly to handle a last-minute change in the number of teams.<br />
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An advantage of round robin play is that teams in the same round robin pool play against the same opponents, so there is less concern with strength of schedule.<br />
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==How to set up a round robin==<br />
In its simplest form, a round robin can be constructed for any even number of teams as follows. In this example, we will show a 10-team round robin.<br />
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First, place the teams as follows:<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || 9 || 8 || 7 || 6<br />
|}<br />
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Each column represents a first round pairing. To determine the second round's pairings, leave team 1 fixed and rotate the other teams clockwise. (That is, move the other teams on the top row one column to the right, move the top right team to the bottom right, and move the teams on the bottom row one column to the left. The team that played 1 goes in the top row, next to 1.) So we end up with the following pairing for round 2:<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
| 1 || 10 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|}<br />
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This continues until the final round, where team 1 plays against team 2.<br />
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For an odd number of teams, use the same procedure for one more than the number of teams, and choose one team (typically team 1) to treat as a bye. (That is, whoever would play the chosen team gets a bye.)<br />
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The simplest way to assign matches to rooms is to have the first column represent one room, the second column a second room, and so on. However, for a round robin with an even number of teams, this can be undesirable because team 1 is kept in the same room all day. There are pre-made round-robin schedules available to spread the teams evenly across rooms as much as possible (but it can't be done at all for four teams).<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BPF6jFvhkh5qe7eesGFGU9KH6FVps2tS3YeseFocpIE/edit?hl=en_US&hl=en_US#gid=0 Balanced round robin schedule templates]<br />
*[https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/schedules.html Scheduling Guide by Berkeley quiz bowl]<br />
*[http://www.pace-nsc.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/PACE-FQBU-Easy-Round-Robin-Scheduling.doc PACE FQBU Easy Round Robin Scheduling]<br />
*[https://www.devenezia.com/downloads/round-robin/rounds.php Round robin schedule generator]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Round_robin&diff=34669Round robin2017-12-22T18:35:44Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: +strength of schedule not being a major factor within a round robin pool</p>
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<div>A '''round robin''' is a [[tournament format]] where each team plays against each other team once. In a round robin, 2n - 1 rounds are needed for 2n teams or 2n - 1 teams.<br />
<br />
Round robins are the building blocks for many invitational tournament formats. An experienced [[tournament director]] will be familiar with the round robin structure, and can set up a round robin on the fly to handle a last-minute change in the number of teams.<br />
<br />
An advantage of round robin play is that teams in the same round robin pool play against the same opponents, so there is less concern with strength of schedule.<br />
<br />
==How to set up a round robin==<br />
In its simplest form, a round robin can be constructed for any even number of teams as follows. In this example, we will show a 10-team round robin.<br />
<br />
First, place the teams as follows:<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || 9 || 8 || 7 || 6<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Each column represents a first round pairing. To determine the second round's pairings, leave team 1 fixed, move the other teams on the top row one column to the right, move the top right team to the bottom right, and move the teams on the bottom row one column to the left. The team that played 1 goes in the top row, next to 1. So we end up with the following pairing for round 2:<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
| 1 || 10 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|}<br />
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This continues until the final round, where team 1 plays against team 2.<br />
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For an odd number of teams, first add 1 as a bye team, and number the remaining teams starting from 2. Then, use the same method as above, except that the team paired with team 1 (the bye team) gets a bye.<br />
<br />
The simplest way to assign matches to rooms is to have the first column represent one room, the second column a second room, and so on. However, for a round robin with an even number of teams, this can be undesirable because team 1 is kept in the same room all day. There are premade round robin schedules available to spread the teams evenly across rooms as much as possible.<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BPF6jFvhkh5qe7eesGFGU9KH6FVps2tS3YeseFocpIE/edit?hl=en_US&hl=en_US#gid=0 Balanced round robin schedule templates]<br />
*[https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/schedules.html Scheduling Guide by Berkeley quiz bowl]<br />
*[http://www.pace-nsc.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/PACE-FQBU-Easy-Round-Robin-Scheduling.doc PACE FQBU Easy Round Robin Scheduling]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Round_robin&diff=34668Round robin2017-12-22T18:32:30Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: start</p>
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<div>A '''round robin''' is a [[tournament format]] where each team plays against each other team once. In a round robin, 2n - 1 rounds are needed for 2n teams or 2n - 1 teams.<br />
<br />
Round robins are the building blocks for many invitational tournament formats. An experienced [[tournament director]] will be familiar with the round robin structure, and can set up a round robin on the fly to handle a last-minute change in the number of teams.<br />
<br />
==How to set up a round robin==<br />
In its simplest form, a round robin can be constructed for any even number of teams as follows. In this example, we will show a 10-team round robin.<br />
<br />
First, place the teams as follows:<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || 9 || 8 || 7 || 6<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Each column represents a first round pairing. To determine the second round's pairings, leave team 1 fixed, move the other teams on the top row one column to the right, move the top right team to the bottom right, and move the teams on the bottom row one column to the left. The team that played 1 goes in the top row, next to 1. So we end up with the following pairing for round 2:<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
| 1 || 10 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|}<br />
<br />
This continues until the final round, where team 1 plays against team 2.<br />
<br />
For an odd number of teams, first add 1 as a bye team, and number the remaining teams starting from 2. Then, use the same method as above, except that the team paired with team 1 (the bye team) gets a bye.<br />
<br />
The simplest way to assign matches to rooms is to have the first column represent one room, the second column a second room, and so on. However, for a round robin with an even number of teams, this can be undesirable because team 1 is kept in the same room all day. There are premade round robin schedules available to spread the teams evenly across rooms as much as possible.<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BPF6jFvhkh5qe7eesGFGU9KH6FVps2tS3YeseFocpIE/edit?hl=en_US&hl=en_US#gid=0 Balanced round robin schedule templates]<br />
*[https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/schedules.html Scheduling Guide by Berkeley quiz bowl]<br />
*[http://www.pace-nsc.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/PACE-FQBU-Easy-Round-Robin-Scheduling.doc PACE FQBU Easy Round Robin Scheduling]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Power-matching&diff=34667Power-matching2017-12-22T18:14:25Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: remove a redlink: I'm not sure how we could have a meaningful article on strength of schedule, change round robin target</p>
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<div>'''Power-matching''' is a [[tournament format]] building block in which teams' schedules depend on their performance in previous matches. Teams generally play matches against other teams of the same or similar records, resulting in many more meaningful (i.e, close) matches than [[round robin]]s provide, but at the expense of it becoming impossible to meaningfully compare teams' strengths of schedule.<br />
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Power matching is used at many [[NAQT]] national championships, [[Scobol Solo]], and some other local events. Although he was not the first to use it, power matching is most prominently associated with [[David Reinstein]], whose innovations in pairing algorithms led NAQT to ask him to write the power-matched schedules for several years, though he has since been voluntarily replaced by a computer program (that he helped create).<br />
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Reinstein and NAQT independently started using power-matching during the 2001-2002 season. Neither had any idea the other was doing it until [[New Trier]] attended the [[2005 HSNCT]].<br />
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Teams are generally [[seeding|seeded]] going into power-matching, although this is not strictly required. It is possible to obfuscate the seeds such that teams cannot tell who actually has what seed.<br />
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Power-matching is essentially equivalent to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing] based only on wins rather than other statistics, and done in advance rather than adapting during the tournament to avoid repeats.<br />
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==Card System==<br />
A '''card system''' is by far the most common way to implement power-matching. (It can also be implemented using individual instructions given out after each match.) Teams are given cards with a prominent number and a schedule of when the team holding the card at the time will play the team holding a specified other card in each round (as well as other auxiliary information). Game officials have a "room card" indicating what cards should appear in what rounds. (You can see a [[:File:sample-team-card-2017-hsnct.pdf|sample team card]] and a [[:File:sample-room-card-2017-hsnct.pdf|sample room card]] from the [[2017 HSNCT]].)<br />
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After each round, the winning team takes the card whose number is closer to 1 and the losing team takes the card whose large is closer to ''n'', where ''n'' is the number of teams playing on the card system. It is important to explain this carefully; in particular, do not say or write "the winning team takes the lower-numbered card", since although this is mathematically correct, lower-numbered cards correspond to higher rankings within the tournament, which may result in confusion.</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Variable-value_bonus&diff=34666Variable-value bonus2017-12-22T16:43:44Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: clarify bonus conversion as applied to VVB</p>
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<div>A popular format in the 1990s, the variable value bonus (VVB) assigned each bonus question an arbitrary point value of 20, 25, 30, or 35 points. In a format with VVBs, it was mathematically possible for a team to lose despite answering more tossups and converting a higher percentage of the bonus points available, if a disproportionate number of the higher or lower valued bonuses went to one or the other side. Such a game was known as the "Colvin Unfair Result," after [[Matt Colvin]], who was noted for his criticism of the VVB's fairness as a format. In response to Colvin and other critics, the variable value bonus has been abandoned in legitimate [[circuit]] quizbowl; its last appearance was at [[Penn Bowl VIII]] in 1999. The last refuge of the variable value bonus was [[College Bowl]], which retained this unfair format for unknown reasons.<br />
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[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=NAQT_rules&diff=34654NAQT rules2017-12-20T21:22:04Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: revert my changes now that the blue-link has been created</p>
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<div>'''NAQT rules''' are the [[rules]] that [[NAQT]] uses for its team-based [[national championships]] and recommends for most local tournaments.<br />
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==Summary==<br />
* Matches consist of two [[timed play|nine-minute]] (middle school and high school) or ten-minute (college, including community college) halves (but may end sooner if all the questions available have been exhausted, which is typically a limit of 24 [[tossup-bonus cycles]])<br />
* Four players play at a time<br />
* Matches consist of [[tossups]] with [[powers]] and [[interrupt penalties]] available. These are worth 15 and –5 points, respectively, while non-power correct tossups answers are worth 10 points.<br />
* Correct tossup answers in regulation lead to [[bonuses]] comprising three parts with 10 points each<br />
* Players have 2 seconds to begin answering after they are recognized for buzzing in on a tossup<br />
* There are 3 seconds from the end of reading a tossup until the tossup [[going dead|goes dead]]. (For [[computation]] tossups, it is 10 seconds.)<br />
* Teams have 5 seconds to answer each bonus part; the moderator prompts after 4 seconds. (Occasionally bonuses, especially computation bonuses, may specify a longer time limit.) Bonus parts do not [[bounce back]].<br />
* Each team is allocated one 30-second [[timeout]]<br />
* Teams may substitute players at a timeout, at halftime, or before [[overtime]]<br />
* If necessary, [[overtime]] consists of three tossups that do ''not'' lead to bonuses. If the game is still tied after that, it goes into [[sudden death]].<br />
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==Full rules==<br />
[https://www.naqt.com/rules.html Here.] There is also an [https://www.naqt.com/downloads/brief-rules.pdf abbreviated version].<br />
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==Modifications==<br />
Many tournaments abrogate the provisions for [[timed play]], instead confining the game to a fixed number (often 20) of [[tossup-bonus cycles]].<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
NAQT has made many revisions to the rules since they were first created in 1996. Here is an incomplete list of major changes:<br />
* Eliminating bonuses with configurations other than three parts worth 10 points each (such as [[30-20-10 bonuses]], "5 points for one correct answer, 10 for two, 20 for three, or 30 for all four," and other schemes). [[Variable-value bonuses]] were eliminated c. 1997, while all remaining bonus formats (besides three parts worth 10 points each) were eliminated c. 2014.<br />
* Expanding college play from 9-minute to 10-minute halves<br />
* Eliminating the [[clock-killing neg]] and, in general, specifying that the timer shall never interrupt a [[tossup-bonus cycle]]<br />
There have also been many small tweaks about protest procedures, answer acceptability, unusual situations, etc.</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=NAQT_rules&diff=34653NAQT rules2017-12-20T21:21:25Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* History */ fix redlink, again</p>
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<div>'''NAQT rules''' are the [[rules]] that [[NAQT]] uses for its team-based [[national championships]] and recommends for most local tournaments.<br />
<br />
==Summary==<br />
* Matches consist of two [[timed play|nine-minute]] (middle school and high school) or ten-minute (college, including community college) halves (but may end sooner if all the questions available have been exhausted, which is typically a limit of 24 [[tossup-bonus cycles]])<br />
* Four players play at a time<br />
* Matches consist of [[tossups]] with [[powers]] and [[interrupt penalties]] available. These are worth 15 and –5 points, respectively, while non-power correct tossups answers are worth 10 points.<br />
* Correct tossup answers in regulation lead to [[bonuses]] comprising three parts with 10 points each<br />
* Players have 2 seconds to begin answering after they are recognized for buzzing in on a tossup<br />
* There are 3 seconds from the end of reading a tossup until the tossup [[going dead|goes dead]]. (For [[computation]] tossups, it is 10 seconds.)<br />
* Teams have 5 seconds to answer each bonus part; the moderator prompts after 4 seconds. (Occasionally bonuses, especially computation bonuses, may specify a longer time limit.) Bonus parts do not [[bounce back]].<br />
* Each team is allocated one 30-second [[timeout]]<br />
* Teams may substitute players at a timeout, at halftime, or before [[overtime]]<br />
* If necessary, [[overtime]] consists of three tossups that do ''not'' lead to bonuses. If the game is still tied after that, it goes into [[sudden death]].<br />
<br />
==Full rules==<br />
[https://www.naqt.com/rules.html Here.] There is also an [https://www.naqt.com/downloads/brief-rules.pdf abbreviated version].<br />
<br />
==Modifications==<br />
Many tournaments abrogate the provisions for [[timed play]], instead confining the game to a fixed number (often 20) of [[tossup-bonus cycles]].<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
NAQT has made many revisions to the rules since they were first created in 1996. Here is an incomplete list of major changes:<br />
* Eliminating bonuses with configurations other than three parts worth 10 points each (such as [[30-20-10 bonuses]], "5 points for one correct answer, 10 for two, 20 for three, or 30 for all four," and other schemes). [[Variable value bonus]]es were eliminated c. 1997, while all remaining bonus formats (besides three parts worth 10 points each) were eliminated c. 2014.<br />
* Expanding college play from 9-minute to 10-minute halves<br />
* Eliminating the [[clock-killing neg]] and, in general, specifying that the timer shall never interrupt a [[tossup-bonus cycle]]<br />
There have also been many small tweaks about protest procedures, answer acceptability, unusual situations, etc.</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=NAQT_rules&diff=34652NAQT rules2017-12-20T21:21:10Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* History */ fix redlink</p>
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<div>'''NAQT rules''' are the [[rules]] that [[NAQT]] uses for its team-based [[national championships]] and recommends for most local tournaments.<br />
<br />
==Summary==<br />
* Matches consist of two [[timed play|nine-minute]] (middle school and high school) or ten-minute (college, including community college) halves (but may end sooner if all the questions available have been exhausted, which is typically a limit of 24 [[tossup-bonus cycles]])<br />
* Four players play at a time<br />
* Matches consist of [[tossups]] with [[powers]] and [[interrupt penalties]] available. These are worth 15 and –5 points, respectively, while non-power correct tossups answers are worth 10 points.<br />
* Correct tossup answers in regulation lead to [[bonuses]] comprising three parts with 10 points each<br />
* Players have 2 seconds to begin answering after they are recognized for buzzing in on a tossup<br />
* There are 3 seconds from the end of reading a tossup until the tossup [[going dead|goes dead]]. (For [[computation]] tossups, it is 10 seconds.)<br />
* Teams have 5 seconds to answer each bonus part; the moderator prompts after 4 seconds. (Occasionally bonuses, especially computation bonuses, may specify a longer time limit.) Bonus parts do not [[bounce back]].<br />
* Each team is allocated one 30-second [[timeout]]<br />
* Teams may substitute players at a timeout, at halftime, or before [[overtime]]<br />
* If necessary, [[overtime]] consists of three tossups that do ''not'' lead to bonuses. If the game is still tied after that, it goes into [[sudden death]].<br />
<br />
==Full rules==<br />
[https://www.naqt.com/rules.html Here.] There is also an [https://www.naqt.com/downloads/brief-rules.pdf abbreviated version].<br />
<br />
==Modifications==<br />
Many tournaments abrogate the provisions for [[timed play]], instead confining the game to a fixed number (often 20) of [[tossup-bonus cycles]].<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
NAQT has made many revisions to the rules since they were first created in 1996. Here is an incomplete list of major changes:<br />
* Eliminating bonuses with configurations other than three parts worth 10 points each (such as [[30-20-10 bonuses]], "5 points for one correct answer, 10 for two, 20 for three, or 30 for all four," and other schemes). [[Variable value bonuses]] were eliminated c. 1997, while all remaining bonus formats (besides three parts worth 10 points each) were eliminated c. 2014.<br />
* Expanding college play from 9-minute to 10-minute halves<br />
* Eliminating the [[clock-killing neg]] and, in general, specifying that the timer shall never interrupt a [[tossup-bonus cycle]]<br />
There have also been many small tweaks about protest procedures, answer acceptability, unusual situations, etc.</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=NAQT_rules&diff=34647NAQT rules2017-12-20T21:17:22Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* History */ mention variable value bonuses from NAQT's first year</p>
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<div>'''NAQT rules''' are the [[rules]] that [[NAQT]] uses for its team-based [[national championships]] and recommends for most local tournaments.<br />
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==Summary==<br />
* Matches consist of two [[timed play|nine-minute]] (middle school and high school) or ten-minute (college, including community college) halves (but may end sooner if all the questions available have been exhausted, which is typically a limit of 24 [[tossup-bonus cycles]])<br />
* Four players play at a time<br />
* Matches consist of [[tossups]] with [[powers]] and [[interrupt penalties]] available. These are worth 15 and –5 points, respectively, while non-power correct tossups answers are worth 10 points.<br />
* Correct tossup answers in regulation lead to [[bonuses]] comprising three parts with 10 points each<br />
* Players have 2 seconds to begin answering after they are recognized for buzzing in on a tossup<br />
* There are 3 seconds from the end of reading a tossup until the tossup [[going dead|goes dead]]. (For [[computation]] tossups, it is 10 seconds.)<br />
* Teams have 5 seconds to answer each bonus part; the moderator prompts after 4 seconds. (Occasionally bonuses, especially computation bonuses, may specify a longer time limit.) Bonus parts do not [[bounce back]].<br />
* Each team is allocated one 30-second [[timeout]]<br />
* Teams may substitute players at a timeout, at halftime, or before [[overtime]]<br />
* If necessary, [[overtime]] consists of three tossups that do ''not'' lead to bonuses. If the game is still tied after that, it goes into [[sudden death]].<br />
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==Full rules==<br />
[https://www.naqt.com/rules.html Here.] There is also an [https://www.naqt.com/downloads/brief-rules.pdf abbreviated version].<br />
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==Modifications==<br />
Many tournaments abrogate the provisions for [[timed play]], instead confining the game to a fixed number (often 20) of [[tossup-bonus cycles]].<br />
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==History==<br />
NAQT has made many revisions to the rules since they were first created in 1996. Here is an incomplete list of major changes:<br />
* Eliminating bonuses with configurations other than three parts worth 10 points each (such as [[variable value bonus]]es, [[30-20-10 bonuses]], "5 points for one correct answer, 10 for two, 20 for three, or 30 for all four," and other schemes)<br />
* Expanding college play from 9-minute to 10-minute halves<br />
* Eliminating the [[clock-killing neg]] and, in general, specifying that the timer shall never interrupt a [[tossup-bonus cycle]]<br />
There have also been many small tweaks about protest procedures, answer acceptability, unusual situations, etc.</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=30-20-10_bonuses&diff=3464630-20-10 bonuses2017-12-20T21:16:07Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: simple and more concise</p>
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<div>A '''30-20-10 bonus''' is a [[bonus]] in which the moderator reads one clue or set of clues and the controlling team has a chance to answer. If the team is correct, they receive 30 points. Otherwise, the moderator reads another clue or set of clues and the controlling team has a chance to answer for 20 points. If the team is incorrect, the moderator reads a final clue or set of clues and the controlling team has a chance to answer for 10 points. If the team is incorrect, they receive no points and the bonus ends. They were used in [[NAQT]] questions until about 2009.<br />
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This structure is intended to match [[pyramidality]] in the sense that the hardest clue(s) should go first and thus be worth 30 points, the intermediate clue(s) should go in the middle and thus be worth 20 points, and the easiest clue(s) should go last and only be worth 10 points, but question writers generally now prefer to use the same clues in the same order but as a pyramidal [[tossup]].</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Statistical_tiebreakers&diff=34616Statistical tiebreakers2017-12-19T16:26:08Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: +untimed</p>
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<div>'''Statistical tiebreakers''' (or '''paper tiebreakers''') is the use of [[statistics]] to break a tie in [[record]], usually for final placement or advancement into playoff pools. This practice is generally frowned upon because it would be better to [[tiebreaker game|break the tie by additional gameplay]], but sometimes limitations on time, available questions, team interest, or other resources require it. (When tiebreaker games are used for a tie involving more than two teams, statistics are used to seed the teams for the tiebreaker games.)<br />
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When statistical tiebreakers are used, the specific statistic used is usually [[points per tossup heard]]. (Some untimed tournaments, however, use the mostly equivalent [[points per game]], or, for ease of computation, total points.) When breaking ties between teams who have played different opponents, some people prefer to use [[points per bonus]].</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Statistical_tiebreakers&diff=34615Statistical tiebreakers2017-12-19T16:25:47Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: +PPG/total points</p>
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<div>'''Statistical tiebreakers''' (or '''paper tiebreakers''') is the use of [[statistics]] to break a tie in [[record]], usually for final placement or advancement into playoff pools. This practice is generally frowned upon because it would be better to [[tiebreaker game|break the tie by additional gameplay]], but sometimes limitations on time, available questions, team interest, or other resources require it. (When tiebreaker games are used for a tie involving more than two teams, statistics are used to seed the teams for the tiebreaker games.)<br />
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When statistical tiebreakers are used, the specific statistic used is usually [[points per tossup heard]]. (Some tournaments, however, use the mostly equivalent [[points per game]], or, for ease of computation, total points.) When breaking ties between teams who have played different opponents, some people prefer to use [[points per bonus]].</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Timed_play&diff=34613Timed play2017-12-19T16:22:36Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: update to reflect new title</p>
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<div>In '''timed play''', a timer determines the length of each half of a game. The timer is conventionally called a '''clock'''.<br />
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[[NAQT]] rules are the only rules currently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school and high school games use nine-minute halves. Collegiate games officially use 10-minute halves, but in NAQT is experimenting with this: the 2018 [[Sectional Championship Tournaments]] will use untimed 11-[[cycle]] halves and the [[2018 ICT]] will use 11-minute halves.<br />
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==History==<br />
[[College Bowl]] used timed games. Evolution away from this began in the early 1990s, with only the most purist [[ACF]] events—such as the [[Georgia Tech MLK]] and [[ACF Nationals]]—being untimed. By the turn of the millenium, the only timed tournaments remaining were NAQT Sectionals and ICT, Stanford's [[Cardinal Classic]], [[Michigan MLK]], and [[Penn Bowl]], plus of course all [[College Bowl]]-run events. Cardinal Classic dropped the clock starting in 2001, Penn Bowl in 2003, and MLK in 2006. In order to better simulate the ICT environment, the 2008 and 2009 [[FICHTE]] tournaments used the clock and NAQT's 2-second recognition rule.<br />
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==Strategies==<br />
In general, teams playing a timed match will want to hurry if they want more tossups to be heard, or use as much time as possible if they want fewer tossups to be heard. Accordingly, a team will often hurry the game in two cases:<br />
*The team is behind near the end of the game and needs to hear more tossups to improve its chance to come back.<br />
*The team believes itself to be better than the other team, so hearing more tossups will reduce the likelihood of an upset.<br />
Conversely, the other team will want to slow the game.<br />
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Under the CBI and pre-2008 NAQT rules, the half ended immediately when time expired in the middle of reading a tossup, unless a team buzzed before time expired and answered correctly (earning the team a bonus as usual in NAQT). This rule allowed a team with a small lead in the closing seconds of the game to preserve a victory with the [[clock-killing neg]], preventing the other team from answering the tossup and getting a bonus. Since CBI is defunct and NAQT has changed its timing rules, the clock-killing neg is no longer a useful strategy.<br />
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[[Category: Quizbowl basics]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tossup-bonus_cycle&diff=34612Tossup-bonus cycle2017-12-19T16:20:02Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: +another example</p>
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<div>'''Tossup-bonus cycle''' (or, in context, just '''cycle''') refers to a [[tossup]] and, if it is answered correctly, its accompanying [[bonus]].<br />
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The term is usually used in rules, for example:<br />
*[[Timeouts]] may only be called between cycles. This means that if a tossup goes dead, a timeout may be called before the next tossup is read; if a tossup is answered correctly, a timeout may not be called until the completion of the bonus.<br />
*In NAQT [[timed match]]es, a cycle that is begun before time expires in a half is completed. This means that even if the moderator is still reading the tossup when time expires, the moderator will continue, and a team correctly answering the tossup will get read its bonus, as usual.</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Statistical_tiebreakers&diff=34595Statistical tiebreakers2017-12-18T02:29:59Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: +statistical tiebreakers used for teams</p>
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<div>'''Statistical tiebreakers''' (or '''paper tiebreakers''') is the use of [[statistics]] to break a tie in [[record]], usually for final placement or advancement into playoff pools. This practice is generally frowned upon because it would be better to [[tiebreaker game|break the tie by additional gameplay]], but sometimes limitations on time, available questions, team interest, or other resources require it. However, even when tiebreaker games are used, statistical tiebreakers are necessary to seed the teams for the tiebreaker games (when there are three or more tied teams).<br />
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When statistical tiebreakers are used, the specific statistic used is usually [[points per tossup heard]]. When breaking ties between teams who have played different opponents, some people prefer to use [[points per bonus]].</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Tournament_structure&diff=34590Talk:Tournament structure2017-12-16T16:20:08Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Fractional round robin */ re</p>
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<div>== Fractional round robin ==<br />
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This seems like a special case of the bit about rebracketing. Perhaps the latter needs to be fleshed out, but the new section seems redundant with at least the basic ideas of the rebracketing section. [[User:Jonah Greenthal|Jonah]] ([[User talk:Jonah Greenthal|talk]]) 10:03, 16 December 2017 (CST)<br />
:The fractional round robin is similar, but there are important distinctions. For example, in a fractional round robin, all games should be used in computing the final record (because teams to be compared will have played the same opponents), including games against opponents from a different playoff pool. In contrast, teams in a pooled round robin are ranked based only on the games against teams in the same pool (either playoff games or carryover preliminary games). Also, the formats are used for different purposes: a fractional round robin is used when the field is too small for a single round robin, but a pooled round robin is used when the field is too large for a single round robin. Thanks, [[User:Gregory Gauthier|Gregory Gauthier]] ([[User talk:Gregory Gauthier|talk]]) 10:12, 16 December 2017 (CST)<br />
::Not everyone has the same opinion about how to rank teams as you do; in particular, NAQT does not follow the ranking procedure you described. Your claim that "A fractional round robin format has a first phase where each team plays a single (or higher-order) round robin" belies the claim that fractional round robins are too small for single round robins — they do a single round robin as part of the fractional round robin, so it's obviously big enough to do that. (There's no such thing as too small to do a single round robin, other than, I guess, a field size of one team.) [[User:Jonah Greenthal|Jonah]] ([[User talk:Jonah Greenthal|talk]]) 10:14, 16 December 2017 (CST)<br />
:::Please correct the information about rankings to reflect differences of opinion (I've seen it done the way I describe with all games carrying over, and I think there should be a consensus described on QBWiki for tournament directors to refer to). Perhaps I could have more clearly stated it, but the fractional round robin is an additional building block on top of a single (or rarely, higher-order) round robin. What I mean by a field too small to do a single round robin is that a single round robin has too few rounds to be satisfactory. [[User:Gregory Gauthier|Gregory Gauthier]] ([[User talk:Gregory Gauthier|talk]]) 10:20, 16 December 2017 (CST)</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Tournament_structure&diff=34588Talk:Tournament structure2017-12-16T16:12:28Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: re</p>
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<div>== Fractional round robin ==<br />
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This seems like a special case of the bit about rebracketing. Perhaps the latter needs to be fleshed out, but the new section seems redundant with at least the basic ideas of the rebracketing section. [[User:Jonah Greenthal|Jonah]] ([[User talk:Jonah Greenthal|talk]]) 10:03, 16 December 2017 (CST)<br />
:The fractional round robin is similar, but there are important distinctions. For example, in a fractional round robin, all games should be used in computing the final record (because teams to be compared will have played the same opponents), including games against opponents from a different playoff pool. In contrast, teams in a pooled round robin are ranked based only on the games against teams in the same pool (either playoff games or carryover preliminary games). Also, the formats are used for different purposes: a fractional round robin is used when the field is too small for a single round robin, but a pooled round robin is used when the field is too large for a single round robin. Thanks, [[User:Gregory Gauthier|Gregory Gauthier]] ([[User talk:Gregory Gauthier|talk]]) 10:12, 16 December 2017 (CST)</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=34586Tournament structure2017-12-16T16:01:31Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Building blocks of formats */ expand</p>
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<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings.<br />
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==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
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Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
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==Divisions==<br />
Tournaments are sometimes split into '''divisions''', each of which is essentially a separate tournament; teams only play against teams in the same division. Divisions can be set up to offer teams or tournament directors choice in which teams are in which division, or so that there is no choice. Popular combinations of divisions include the following:<br />
* Varsity and Junior Varsity/Novice (middle and high school tournaments)<br />
* Varsity and Frosh-Soph (high school tournaments)<br />
* Competitive and Less Competitive (middle and high school tournaments; known by a variety of names)<br />
* [[Division I]] and [[Division II]] (college tournaments)<br />
* [[Open]] and [[Undergraduate]] (college tournaments)<br />
* Public Schools and Private Schools (middle and high school tournaments)<br />
* High School and Middle School (for most purposes, two separate tournaments that happen to be at the same site on the same day)<br />
* Groupings according to school size (middle and high school tournaments)<br />
* A Teams and B(/subsequent) Teams<br />
These can be combined (e.g. a tournament might have a High School Varsity division, a High School Junior Varsity division, and a Middle School division).<br />
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Sometimes divisions of the same tournament use the same [[packet set]] and sometimes they don't.<br />
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Reasons for creating divisions include the following:<br />
* Allowing more teams to play but keeping each group smaller to make it easier to have a fair tournament format<br />
* Giving weak or new teams and/or players an opportunity to "get their feet wet" without facing many very experienced teams<br />
* Allowing separate question sets to be used in each division (a competitive team might use a harder set than the standard division at the same tournament).<br />
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Since divisions run more or less independently, the rest of this article could really be considered to be about the format for each division of a tournament, but the term "tournament" will be used anyway. There are still some cross-division considerations when planning a multi-division tournament; for instance, the divisions should be expected to end at similar times, especially if schools have teams in multiple divisions.<br />
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==Building blocks of formats==<br />
===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
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===Fractional round robin===<br />
For some small field sizes, there is no satisfactory whole number of round robins to produce an appropriate number of rounds. (This most commonly occurs for tournaments where a single round robin is too short, but a double round robin is too long.) A fractional round robin format has a first phase where each team plays a single (or higher-order) round robin. After that, the field is divided into halves (or thirds) based on the preliminary results, and each pool plays a smaller round robin. The teams in the top pool are ranked first (based on overall record, compare with the pooled round robin), then the teams in the next highest pool, and so on.<br />
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===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
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When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. Here's an example for a 24-team tournament (four pools of 6):<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Pool A !! Pool B !! Pool C !! Pool D<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 10 || 11 || 12<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || 15 || 14 || 13<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || 18 || 19 || 20<br />
|-<br />
| 24 || 23 || 22 || 21<br />
|}<br />
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If there are not enough available results to seed the teams, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
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When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed (the preliminary game is said to '''carry over'''). The final results of the tournament rank all the teams in the championship pool first, using only the games played between teams in the playoff pool (the playoff games plus any carryover preliminary games). Next, the teams in Consolation 1 are ranked the same way, then Consolation 2, and so on.<br />
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Sometimes, '''wild cards''' are used to fill out the playoff pools when the playoff pool size is not evenly divisible by the number of preliminary pools. In our example tournament, an alternative format would be to rebracket into four pools of six for the playoffs. The pools would be determined as follows:<br />
* Championship: the four 1st-place teams, plus the two 2nd-place teams with the highest values of some (pre-announced) statistic.<br />
* Consolation 1: the two remaining 2nd-place teams, plus the four 3rd-place teams.<br />
* Consolation 2: the four 4th-place teams, plus the two 5th-place teams with the highest values of some statistic.<br />
* Consolation 3: the two remaining 5th-place teams, plus the four 6th-place teams.<br />
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Sometimes, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous schemes, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not. In another variant, the top two teams from each championship pool play in semifinals (each first place team against the second place team from the other pool), with the winners proceeding to a one-game final.<br />
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Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
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===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
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===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
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===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]]. It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
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'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winners' bracket", while losers drop down into a "losers' bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winners' bracket and one is left in the losers' bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winners' bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the losers' bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the losers' bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
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(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
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The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, all teams that went 6-4 or better in the preliminary rounds participate in a double-elimination tournament. However, teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the losers' bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss.<br />
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===Advantaged final===<br />
In many tournaments, when one team is exactly one game ahead of a second-place team, an '''advantaged final''' occurs. This means that up to two matches will be played. If the team that started ahead wins the first game, it is the champion. If the team that started behind wins the first game, the second game is "winner-take-all". This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-leading team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-trailing team is said to be "disadvantaged").<br />
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When there are multiple second-place teams one game behind the leader, typically [[tiebreaker matches]] occur to determine which of them will face the leader in an advantaged final.<br />
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The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
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[[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=34563Tournament structure2017-12-10T18:16:16Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: ce</p>
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<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings.<br />
<br />
==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
<br />
Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
<br />
==Divisions==<br />
Tournaments are sometimes split into '''divisions''', each of which is essentially a separate tournament; teams only play against teams in the same division. Divisions can be set up to offer teams or tournament directors choice in which teams are in which division, or so that there is no choice. Popular combinations of divisions include the following:<br />
* Varsity and Junior Varsity/Novice (middle and high school tournaments)<br />
* Varsity and Frosh-Soph (high school tournaments)<br />
* Competitive and Less Competitive (middle and high school tournaments; known by a variety of names)<br />
* [[Division I]] and [[Division II]] (college tournaments)<br />
* [[Open]] and [[Undergraduate]] (college tournaments)<br />
* Public Schools and Private Schools (middle and high school tournaments)<br />
* High School and Middle School (for most purposes, two separate tournaments that happen to be at the same site on the same day)<br />
* Groupings according to school size (middle and high school tournaments)<br />
* A Teams and B(/subsequent) Teams<br />
These can be combined (e.g. a tournament might have a High School Varsity division, a High School Junior Varsity division, and a Middle School division).<br />
<br />
Sometimes divisions of the same tournament use the same [[packet set]] and sometimes they don't.<br />
<br />
Reasons for creating divisions include the following:<br />
* Allowing more teams to play but keeping each group smaller to make it easier to have a fair tournament format<br />
* Giving weak or new teams and/or players an opportunity to "get their feet wet" without facing many very experienced teams<br />
* Allowing separate question sets to be used in each division (a competitive team might use a harder set than the standard division at the same tournament).<br />
<br />
Since divisions run more or less independently, the rest of this article could really be considered to be about the format for each division of a tournament, but the term "tournament" will be used anyway. There are still some cross-division considerations when planning a multi-division tournament; for instance, the divisions should be expected to end at similar times, especially if schools have teams in multiple divisions.<br />
<br />
==Building blocks of formats==<br />
===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
<br />
===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. Here's an example for a 24-team tournament (four pools of 6):<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Pool A !! Pool B !! Pool C !! Pool D<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 10 || 11 || 12<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || 15 || 14 || 13<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || 18 || 19 || 20<br />
|-<br />
| 24 || 23 || 22 || 21<br />
|}<br />
<br />
If there are not enough available results to seed the teams, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed (the preliminary game is said to '''carry over''').<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''wild cards''' are used to fill out the playoff pools when the playoff pool size is not evenly divisible by the number of preliminary pools. In our example tournament, an alternative format would be to rebracket into four pools of six for the playoffs. The pools would be determined as follows:<br />
* Championship: the four 1st-place teams, plus the two 2nd-place teams with the highest values of some (pre-announced) statistic.<br />
* Consolation 1: the two remaining 2nd-place teams, plus the four 3rd-place teams.<br />
* Consolation 2: the four 4th-place teams, plus the two 5th-place teams with the highest values of some statistic.<br />
* Consolation 3: the two remaining 5th-place teams, plus the four 6th-place teams.<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous schemes, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not. In another variant, the top two teams from each championship pool play in semifinals (each first place team against the second place team from the other pool), with the winners proceeding to a one-game final.<br />
<br />
Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
<br />
===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
<br />
===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
<br />
===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]]. It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
<br />
'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winners' bracket", while losers drop down into a "losers' bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winners' bracket and one is left in the losers' bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winners' bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the losers' bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the losers' bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
<br />
(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
<br />
The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, all teams that went 6-4 or better in the preliminary rounds participate in a double-elimination tournament. However, teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the losers' bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss.<br />
<br />
===Advantaged final===<br />
In many tournaments, when one team is exactly one game ahead of a second-place team, an '''advantaged final''' occurs. This means that up to two matches will be played. If the team that started ahead wins the first game, it is the champion. If the team that started behind wins the first game, the second game is "winner-take-all". This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-leading team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-trailing team is said to be "disadvantaged").<br />
<br />
When there are multiple second-place teams one game behind the leader, typically [[tiebreaker matches]] occur to determine which of them will face the leader in an advantaged final.<br />
<br />
The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=34559Tournament structure2017-12-10T17:46:28Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Elimination tournaments */ ce</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings.<br />
<br />
==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
<br />
Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
<br />
Tournaments sometimes have the field separated into '''divisions''', each of which runs as a separate tournament with separate rankings (teams only play against other teams in their division). Tournaments can be set up so that teams can self-select a division by ability (competitive vs. standard) or experience (JV or novice). Reasons for creating divisions include:<br />
* Allowing the field size to be larger while still fairly ranking the teams (generally, having more than 24 teams in a division at a one-day invitational tournament creates problems).<br />
* Allowing weak or new teams to avoid discouragement that would arise from playing very strong or experienced teams.<br />
* Allowing separate question sets to be used in each division (a competitive team might use a harder set than the standard division at the same tournament).<br />
<br />
==Building blocks of formats==<br />
===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
<br />
===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. Here's an example for a 24-team tournament (four pools of 6):<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Pool A !! Pool B !! Pool C !! Pool D<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 10 || 11 || 12<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || 15 || 14 || 13<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || 18 || 19 || 20<br />
|-<br />
| 24 || 23 || 22 || 21<br />
|}<br />
<br />
If there are not enough available results to seed the teams, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed (the preliminary game is said to '''carry over''').<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''wild cards''' are used to fill out the playoff pools when the playoff pool size is not evenly divisible by the number of preliminary pools. In our example tournament, an alternative format would be to rebracket into four pools of six for the playoffs. The pools would be determined as follows:<br />
* Championship: the four 1st place teams, plus the two 2nd place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 1: the two 2nd place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 3rd place teams.<br />
* Consolation 2: the four 4th place teams, plus the two 5th place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 3: the two 5th place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 6th place teams.<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous schemes, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not. In another variant, the top two teams from each championship pool play in semifinals (each first place team against the second place team from the other pool), with the winners proceeding to a one-game final.<br />
<br />
Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
<br />
===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
<br />
===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
<br />
===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]]. It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
<br />
'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winner's bracket", while losers drop down into a "loser's bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winner's bracket and one is left in the loser's bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winner's bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the loser's bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the loser's bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
<br />
(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
<br />
The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, all teams that went 6-4 or better in the preliminary rounds participate in a double-elimination tournament. However, teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the loser's bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss.<br />
<br />
===Advantaged final===<br />
In many tournaments, when one team is exactly one game ahead of a second-place team, an '''advantaged final''' occurs. This means that up to two matches will be played. If the team that started ahead wins the first game, it is the champion. If the team that started behind wins the first game, the second game is "winner-take-all". This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-leading team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-trailing team is said to be "disadvantaged").<br />
<br />
When there are multiple second-place teams one game behind the leader, typically [[tiebreaker matches]] occur to determine which of them will face the leader in an advantaged final.<br />
<br />
The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=34558Tournament structure2017-12-10T17:41:17Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Considerations */ rewrite divisions paragraph</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings.<br />
<br />
==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
<br />
Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
<br />
Tournaments sometimes have the field separated into '''divisions''', each of which runs as a separate tournament with separate rankings (teams only play against other teams in their division). Tournaments can be set up so that teams can self-select a division by ability (competitive vs. standard) or experience (JV or novice). Reasons for creating divisions include:<br />
* Allowing the field size to be larger while still fairly ranking the teams (generally, having more than 24 teams in a division at a one-day invitational tournament creates problems).<br />
* Allowing weak or new teams to avoid discouragement that would arise from playing very strong or experienced teams.<br />
* Allowing separate question sets to be used in each division (a competitive team might use a harder set than the standard division at the same tournament).<br />
<br />
==Building blocks of formats==<br />
===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
<br />
===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. Here's an example for a 24-team tournament (four pools of 6):<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Pool A !! Pool B !! Pool C !! Pool D<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 10 || 11 || 12<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || 15 || 14 || 13<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || 18 || 19 || 20<br />
|-<br />
| 24 || 23 || 22 || 21<br />
|}<br />
<br />
If there are not enough available results to seed the teams, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed (the preliminary game is said to '''carry over''').<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''wild cards''' are used to fill out the playoff pools when the playoff pool size is not evenly divisible by the number of preliminary pools. In our example tournament, an alternative format would be to rebracket into four pools of six for the playoffs. The pools would be determined as follows:<br />
* Championship: the four 1st place teams, plus the two 2nd place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 1: the two 2nd place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 3rd place teams.<br />
* Consolation 2: the four 4th place teams, plus the two 5th place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 3: the two 5th place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 6th place teams.<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous schemes, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not. In another variant, the top two teams from each championship pool play in semifinals (each first place team against the second place team from the other pool), with the winners proceeding to a one-game final.<br />
<br />
Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
<br />
===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
<br />
===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
<br />
===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]]. It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
<br />
'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winner's bracket", while losers drop down into a "loser's bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winner's bracket and one is left in the loser's bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winner's bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the loser's bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the loser's bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
<br />
(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
<br />
The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, there is a double-elimination tournament but teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the loser's bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss. (Teams who went 5-5 or worse are not in the playoffs.)<br />
<br />
===Advantaged final===<br />
In many tournaments, when one team is exactly one game ahead of a second-place team, an '''advantaged final''' occurs. This means that up to two matches will be played. If the team that started ahead wins the first game, it is the champion. If the team that started behind wins the first game, the second game is "winner-take-all". This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-leading team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-trailing team is said to be "disadvantaged").<br />
<br />
When there are multiple second-place teams one game behind the leader, typically [[tiebreaker matches]] occur to determine which of them will face the leader in an advantaged final.<br />
<br />
The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=34557Tournament structure2017-12-10T17:37:47Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Considerations */ +divisions</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings.<br />
<br />
==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
<br />
Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
<br />
Fairness issues, together with the number of packets and the amount of time available, limit the number of teams that can meaningfully compete against each other (generally, having more than 24 teams play against each other at an invitational tournament creates problems). One way to avoid this issue is to divide the field into '''divisions''', each of which runs as a separate tournament with separate rankings (teams only play against other teams in their division). Tournaments can be set up so that teams can self-select a division by ability (competitive vs. standard) or experience (JV or novice).<br />
<br />
==Building blocks of formats==<br />
===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
<br />
===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. Here's an example for a 24-team tournament (four pools of 6):<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Pool A !! Pool B !! Pool C !! Pool D<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 10 || 11 || 12<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || 15 || 14 || 13<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || 18 || 19 || 20<br />
|-<br />
| 24 || 23 || 22 || 21<br />
|}<br />
<br />
If there are not enough available results to seed the teams, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed (the preliminary game is said to '''carry over''').<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''wild cards''' are used to fill out the playoff pools when the playoff pool size is not evenly divisible by the number of preliminary pools. In our example tournament, an alternative format would be to rebracket into four pools of six for the playoffs. The pools would be determined as follows:<br />
* Championship: the four 1st place teams, plus the two 2nd place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 1: the two 2nd place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 3rd place teams.<br />
* Consolation 2: the four 4th place teams, plus the two 5th place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 3: the two 5th place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 6th place teams.<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous schemes, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not. In another variant, the top two teams from each championship pool play in semifinals (each first place team against the second place team from the other pool), with the winners proceeding to a one-game final.<br />
<br />
Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
<br />
===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
<br />
===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
<br />
===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]]. It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
<br />
'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winner's bracket", while losers drop down into a "loser's bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winner's bracket and one is left in the loser's bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winner's bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the loser's bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the loser's bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
<br />
(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
<br />
The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, there is a double-elimination tournament but teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the loser's bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss. (Teams who went 5-5 or worse are not in the playoffs.)<br />
<br />
===Advantaged final===<br />
In many tournaments, when one team is exactly one game ahead of a second-place team, an '''advantaged final''' occurs. This means that up to two matches will be played. If the team that started ahead wins the first game, it is the champion. If the team that started behind wins the first game, the second game is "winner-take-all". This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-leading team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-trailing team is said to be "disadvantaged").<br />
<br />
When there are multiple second-place teams one game behind the leader, typically [[tiebreaker matches]] occur to determine which of them will face the leader in an advantaged final.<br />
<br />
The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=34556Tournament structure2017-12-10T17:28:57Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Pooled round robin */ ce, +another variant (used at previous PHSATs)</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings.<br />
<br />
==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
<br />
Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
<br />
==Building blocks of formats==<br />
===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
<br />
===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. Here's an example for a 24-team tournament (four pools of 6):<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Pool A !! Pool B !! Pool C !! Pool D<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 10 || 11 || 12<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || 15 || 14 || 13<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || 18 || 19 || 20<br />
|-<br />
| 24 || 23 || 22 || 21<br />
|}<br />
<br />
If there are not enough available results to seed the teams, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed (the preliminary game is said to '''carry over''').<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''wild cards''' are used to fill out the playoff pools when the playoff pool size is not evenly divisible by the number of preliminary pools. In our example tournament, an alternative format would be to rebracket into four pools of six for the playoffs. The pools would be determined as follows:<br />
* Championship: the four 1st place teams, plus the two 2nd place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 1: the two 2nd place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 3rd place teams.<br />
* Consolation 2: the four 4th place teams, plus the two 5th place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 3: the two 5th place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 6th place teams.<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous schemes, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not. In another variant, the top two teams from each championship pool play in semifinals (each first place team against the second place team from the other pool), with the winners proceeding to a one-game final.<br />
<br />
Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
<br />
===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
<br />
===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
<br />
===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]]. It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
<br />
'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winner's bracket", while losers drop down into a "loser's bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winner's bracket and one is left in the loser's bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winner's bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the loser's bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the loser's bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
<br />
(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
<br />
The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, there is a double-elimination tournament but teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the loser's bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss. (Teams who went 5-5 or worse are not in the playoffs.)<br />
<br />
===Advantaged final===<br />
In many tournaments, when one team is exactly one game ahead of a second-place team, an '''advantaged final''' occurs. This means that up to two matches will be played. If the team that started ahead wins the first game, it is the champion. If the team that started behind wins the first game, the second game is "winner-take-all". This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-leading team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-trailing team is said to be "disadvantaged").<br />
<br />
When there are multiple second-place teams one game behind the leader, typically [[tiebreaker matches]] occur to determine which of them will face the leader in an advantaged final.<br />
<br />
The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=34555Tournament structure2017-12-10T17:24:45Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Pooled round robin */ add wild cards</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings.<br />
<br />
==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
<br />
Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
<br />
==Building blocks of formats==<br />
===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
<br />
===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. Here's an example for a 24-team tournament (four pools of 6):<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Pool A !! Pool B !! Pool C !! Pool D<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 10 || 11 || 12<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || 15 || 14 || 13<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || 18 || 19 || 20<br />
|-<br />
| 24 || 23 || 22 || 21<br />
|}<br />
<br />
If there are not enough available results to seed the teams, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed (the preliminary game is said to '''carry over''').<br />
<br />
Sometimes, '''wild cards''' are used to fill out the playoff pools when the playoff pool size is not evenly divisible by the number of preliminary pools. In our example tournament, an alternative format would be to rebracket into four pools of six for the playoffs. The pools would be determined as follows:<br />
* Championship: the four 1st place teams, plus the two 2nd place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 1: the two 2nd place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 3rd place teams.<br />
* Consolation 2: the four 4th place teams, plus the two 5th place teams with the highest points per bonus.<br />
* Consolation 3: the two 5th place teams with the lowest points per bonus, plus the four 6th place teams.<br />
<br />
In some cases, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous scheme, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not.<br />
<br />
Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
<br />
===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
<br />
===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
<br />
===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]]. It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
<br />
'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winner's bracket", while losers drop down into a "loser's bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winner's bracket and one is left in the loser's bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winner's bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the loser's bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the loser's bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
<br />
(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
<br />
The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, there is a double-elimination tournament but teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the loser's bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss. (Teams who went 5-5 or worse are not in the playoffs.)<br />
<br />
===Advantaged final===<br />
In many tournaments, when one team is exactly one game ahead of a second-place team, an '''advantaged final''' occurs. This means that up to two matches will be played. If the team that started ahead wins the first game, it is the champion. If the team that started behind wins the first game, the second game is "winner-take-all". This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-leading team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-trailing team is said to be "disadvantaged").<br />
<br />
When there are multiple second-place teams one game behind the leader, typically [[tiebreaker matches]] occur to determine which of them will face the leader in an advantaged final.<br />
<br />
The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=34554Tournament structure2017-12-10T17:12:05Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Pooled round robin */ make this a table to make the pattern more obvious, copy-edit</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings.<br />
<br />
==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
<br />
Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
<br />
==Building blocks of formats==<br />
===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
<br />
===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. Here's an example for a 24-team tournament (four pools of 6):<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Pool A !! Pool B !! Pool C !! Pool D<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || 7 || 6 || 5<br />
|-<br />
| 9 || 10 || 11 || 12<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || 15 || 14 || 13<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || 18 || 19 || 20<br />
|-<br />
| 24 || 23 || 22 || 21<br />
|}<br />
<br />
If there are not enough available results to seed the teams, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed.<br />
<br />
In some cases, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous scheme, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not.<br />
<br />
Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
<br />
===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
<br />
===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
<br />
===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]]. It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
<br />
'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winner's bracket", while losers drop down into a "loser's bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winner's bracket and one is left in the loser's bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winner's bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the loser's bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the loser's bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
<br />
(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
<br />
The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, there is a double-elimination tournament but teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the loser's bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss. (Teams who went 5-5 or worse are not in the playoffs.)<br />
<br />
===Advantaged final===<br />
In many tournaments, when one team is exactly one game ahead of a second-place team, an '''advantaged final''' occurs. This means that up to two matches will be played. If the team that started ahead wins the first game, it is the champion. If the team that started behind wins the first game, the second game is "winner-take-all". This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-leading team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-trailing team is said to be "disadvantaged").<br />
<br />
When there are multiple second-place teams one game behind the leader, typically [[tiebreaker matches]] occur to determine which of them will face the leader in an advantaged final.<br />
<br />
The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
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[[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tournament_structure&diff=34553Tournament structure2017-12-10T17:07:51Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Round robin */ rephrase</p>
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<div>'''Tournament format''' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings.<br />
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==Considerations==<br />
When determining the tournament format, [[tournament directors]] must consider these factors and possibly others:<br />
* The need/desire to determine the winner, and preferably more places, as fairly as possible<br />
* Teams' preferences<br />
* The number of available question packets<br />
* The number of available rooms<br />
* The number of available staff members<br />
* An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last<br />
* The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they play (in the sense that giving teams one game before they go home is likely to be considered a ripoff)<br />
There are, of course, tradeoffs among many of these factors.<br />
<br />
Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from championship contention. This is in large part because quizbowl is, by its nature, highly variable from packet to packet, and teams' skills can be sensitive to the luck inherent in what questions they happen to hear at particular times; the no-single-elimination principle therefore seeks to minimize the damage that one spot of bad luck can cause. (Here "no-single-elimination" does not only refer to avoiding single-elimination playoffs; other schemes, such as parallel playoff pools and power-matching, can amount to single-elimination in this sense.)<br />
<br />
==Building blocks of formats==<br />
===Round robin===<br />
A '''round robin''' is a format in which every team plays every other team. This extends to formats where each team plays every other team the same number of times: '''double round robin''', '''triple round robin''', etc.<br />
<br />
===Pooled round robin===<br />
A '''pooled round robin''' is a format in which the teams are divided into separate groups ("pools") and a round robin occurs within each group. For instance, a 24-team tournament might be split into four pools of six teams each. When this occurs, it is necessary to have some sort of [[playoff]] scheme to determine an overall winner.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for preliminary rounds, it is considered a best practice to balance the overall strength of the pools as much as possible. This is done by seeding the teams (generally based on results from past tournaments and expected rosters for the current tournament) and then "snaking" the seeds into pools. For instance, in a 24-team tournament with four pools of six, one pool would contain the teams seeded 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, and 24; another pool would contain the teams seeded 2, 7, 10, 15, 18, and 23; another pool would contain the teams seeded 3, 6, 11, 14, 19, and 22; and the last pool would contain the remaining teams, viz., those seeded 4, 5, 12, 13, 20, and 21. If seeding is not possible due to a paucity of results, random draw is appropriate. Sometimes very small adjustments are made to keep apart teams from the same school or same area, or for other reasons.<br />
<br />
When pools are used for playoff rounds, they are generally stratified. Our example tournament with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six might be "rebracketed" for playoffs into three pools of eight. The top playoff pool ("championship pool") would contain the top two teams from each preliminary pool (based on record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]), the second playoff pool ("first consolation pool") would contain the middle two teams from each preliminary pool, and the third ("second consolation pool") would contain the bottom two teams from each preliminary pool. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, though the games between teams who had been in the same preliminary pool would often not be replayed.<br />
<br />
In some cases, '''parallel playoff pools''' are used. In our example with 24 teams in four preliminary pools of six, as an alternative to the previous scheme, there could be six playoff pools of four, where the top two pools each contain the first-place teams from two preliminary pools (by record and, if necessary, [[tiebreaker games]] or [[points per tossup heard]]) and the second-place teams from the other two), that is, there are two "parallel" championship pools. Each of these new pools would then play a round robin, and then the teams therein would be ranked (by record and, if necessary, tiebreaker games or points per tossup heard). The first-place teams in each parallel playoff pool would play each other in a final game for the overall tournament championship. Optionally, the second-place teams in each pool would play for overall third place, etc. Meanwhile, the 16 teams that did not make one of the two parallel playoff pools would be divided into consolation pools, possibly in parallel pairs or possibly not.<br />
<br />
Pools are often referred to as "brackets" (hence the term "rebracket"), but that term can cause confusion with elimination brackets. ("Repooling" is pretty much unattested.)<br />
<br />
===Random pairings===<br />
Some tournaments have teams play games against essentially (or absolutely) random opponents, without any pooling scheme.<br />
<br />
===[[Power-matching]]===<br />
'''[[Power-matching]]''' is a scheme similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament Swiss pairing], but without using results throughout the day to inform re-seeding. Typically, teams always face opponents who have the same record as them, or as similar a record is possible. Power-matching is often implemented by means of a [[card system]], though there are other ways. Power-matching on its own is logically equivalent to an elimination tournament with built-in consolation games.<br />
<br />
===Elimination tournaments===<br />
'''Single-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it loses a match. Meanwhile, winners go on and face other winners. This format is moderately popular for playoffs (generally after preliminary games, often by means of pools) and very popular for [[television tournaments]]. It is often criticized for giving teams relatively few games (which can be considered a waste of money, lead B teams to have nothing to do but wait while the A team is still competing, etc.), but it is very efficient in terms of getting to a winner in a minimum number of games and rounds.<br />
<br />
'''Double-elimination''' is a system in which a team is eliminated from contention as soon as it has lost ''two'' matches. After each round, winners face winners in the next round in a "winner's bracket", while losers drop down into a "loser's bracket". Play proceeds until either one team is left in the winner's bracket and one is left in the loser's bracket, in which case they play an advantaged final (the winner's bracket team can win the championship by winning one game; the loser's bracket team would have to win twice consecutively to claim the championship), or there are two remaining teams both in the loser's bracket, in which case they play a single championship match. Double-elimination is rare in quizbowl because unless there are very many teams, it takes more rounds than round robin-based playoffs, but it is used at several [[NAQT]] national championships.<br />
<br />
(Triple-elimination and higher-order elimination formats are theoretically possible, but unheard of in quizbowl.)<br />
<br />
The [[HSNCT]] uses a hybrid single/double-elimination playoff format: after each team plays 10 preliminary games, there is a double-elimination tournament but teams who went 6-4 in the preliminary rounds start in the loser's bracket. That is, teams who went 6-4 will be eliminated on their first loss, while teams who went 7-3 or better will be eliminated on their second loss. (Teams who went 5-5 or worse are not in the playoffs.)<br />
<br />
===Advantaged final===<br />
In many tournaments, when one team is exactly one game ahead of a second-place team, an '''advantaged final''' occurs. This means that up to two matches will be played. If the team that started ahead wins the first game, it is the champion. If the team that started behind wins the first game, the second game is "winner-take-all". This is equivalent to a best-of-three series in which the initially-leading team is considered to have already won the first game, and is therefore said to be "advantaged" (and the initially-trailing team is said to be "disadvantaged").<br />
<br />
When there are multiple second-place teams one game behind the leader, typically [[tiebreaker matches]] occur to determine which of them will face the leader in an advantaged final.<br />
<br />
The term "advantaged final" was coined by [[Robert Hentzel]].<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tx84Hv85smes1gx16pHW6iWr_LirpQ52JOvEKJyAFEY/edit#gid=0 Grid of suggested formats based on teams, games, and rounds]<br />
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[[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Tiebreaker_matches&diff=34489Tiebreaker matches2017-11-22T17:28:31Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: redirect to fix a redlink</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Tiebreaker games]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbusters_(WKAR)&diff=34439Quizbusters (WKAR)2017-11-18T05:21:46Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: /* Question sources */ Questions Unlimited provided questions in Season 13 at least, as indicated in the credits of a fall 2001 episode</p>
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<div>'''''Quizbusters''''' is a television quiz bowl show that has aired on WKAR-TV in East Lansing, Michigan, since 1989. It has been hosted since 1989 by Matt Ottinger. The show is a revival of ''High School Quiz Bowl'', a WKAR show from the 1970s hosted by Terry Braverman that lasted three or four years.<ref>Quizbusters Special Edition, Episode 2, Season 24</ref><br />
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On June 28, 2017, WKAR announced that ''Quizbusters'' would end in 2018 at the end of its 29th season. [http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2017/06/28/wkars-quizbusters-signs-off-after-season/435923001/]<br />
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==Format==<br />
===Game format===<br />
The main game consists of toss-up/bonus cycles, except that a bonus question ends if a team fails to answer a part correctly, and a team sweeping a bonus gets 10 additional points. Thus, it is possible for a team to pick up 50 points in one toss-up/bonus cycle (10 for the tossup, 30 for the bonus, and 10 for the sweep).<br />
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The game also features rounds consisting only of toss-ups. The Quick Ten at the start of the show consists of 10 toss-ups with no bonuses. There is one Pop Quiz in each half. The Pop Quiz consists of 12 toss-up questions, the answers to each of which begin with a specified letter combination. Players in matching positions from each team compete, one-on-one, for 3 questions in each pop quiz. Finally, the Lightning Round consists of as many toss-ups as can be read in 60 seconds; unlike in the rest of the game, a wrong answer loses 10 points, and the question is not offered to the other team.<br />
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Another special feature of the show is the QuizBunch (formerly the Video Bonus), played as the first bonus in the second half. The QuizBunch question's first part is recorded by a special guest on-location. The show also featured an Audio Bonus until season 19, played as the first bonus after the first Pop Quiz, where an audio clue was played before the first part was read.<br />
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===Tournament format===<br />
Sixty-four teams compete each season in two divisions: the Green Division (for larger schools) and the White Division (for smaller schools). The 32 teams in each division are randomly paired to play first-round matches, with the winning teams advancing to a 16-team single-elimination tournament, seeded by the teams' first-round scores. Each division champion team member receives a scholarship to MSU, and the Green Division and White Division champions compete in a Grand Championship to determine the overall season winner. The Grand Champion team members receive book scholarships from a local MSU bookstore.<br />
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Before the field filled to 64 teams, the 32-team tournament field was completed with high scoring losing teams from the first round as wild cards.<br />
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==Question sources==<br />
[[NAQT]] supplied the questions for the toss-up/bonus portion of the game from Season 14 (2002-03) through Season 24 (2012-13); while the remaining questions were house-written. In season 13 (2001-02), [[Questions Unlimited]] supplied questions. [https://youtu.be/kf0g38F51VQ?t=27m42s] Prior to Season 13, and starting with Season 25 (2013-14), all questions are house-written. Quick 10 and Lightning Round questions are drawn from a large database (see [http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,24974.msg311923.html#msg311923] and [https://www.msu.edu/~murphyjp/work/QB.html]), so [[question recycling]] is frequent.<br />
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Matt Ottinger is particularly proud of writing one toss-up where all the clues could pertain either to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jennifer Granholm, describing the resulting question as "better than some old physics question." [https://www.facebook.com/QuizBusters/posts/10151117640361876]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Quizbowl TV shows]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Saieesh_Rao&diff=33668Saieesh Rao2017-08-05T16:55:13Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: update as per the tentative name change policy</p>
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<div>{{Infobox|Name = Saieesh Rao<br />
|Subjects = Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Greek/Norse/Hindu Myth, Pokemon<br />
|schoolcur = [[University of Chicago]] (2013-present)<br />
|schoolpast = <br />
|highschool = [[Illinois Math and Science Academy]] (2010-2013), [[Stevenson]] (2009-2010)<br />
|middleschool = [[Twin Groves]] (2007-2009)}}<br />
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'''Saieesh Rao''' is a rising fourth-year at the [[University of Chicago]], and was a former player at the [[Illinois Math and Science Academy]]. Notable for being the only person in Illinois history to have played for the [[IHSA]] State Championship-winning school all four years of High School, he was by far the most inspirational player on the IMSA team during his tenure. His Quizbowl study habits are matched by none other (except for [[Daniel Collins]]). Rather than [[fraud]]ing knowledge, he actually knows it. <br />
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==Middle School==<br />
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===Twin Groves===<br />
Saieesh's quizbowl career started inauspiciously in the fold of Twin Groves Middle School's scholastic bowl program. He would've made the school's A team in 6th grade, though he missed two tryouts during a family trip to India and was subsequently penalized, which resulted in him not making the team. In 7th grade he made the cut, though the coaches, in the spirit of offering all players a chance to participate, only played him for half of each game during infrequent conference matches. It wasn't until a home-game against rival [[Woodlawn Middle School]] when he nabbed a whopping 3 tossups in the first 15 question half, thereby leading his team in tossups-earned. After being pulled out at the half as usual, the Twin Groves team fell behind, so he was subbed back in with eight questions to go, six of which were then converted by Saieesh. From that day on, Saieesh's inner fire was awakened, leading to his recognition as a peerless force in the northwest suburbs' middle school scholastic bowl circuit. Saieesh captained his team to win the [[Patriot Conference]] both of his two years on the team, the only force in the region capable of upsetting Coach [[Jeffrey Price]]'s [[Barrington Station]] team.<br />
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When Saieesh was in eighth grade, the Twin Grove's middle school scholastic bowl tryouts program introduced make-up sessions for students in the event that they missed tryout days. This was directly a result of having missed Saieesh as a sixth grader due to the rigid attendance policy.<br />
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====Egan's Bet====<br />
At the sixth annual [[Barrington Invitational]] Tournament held on March 14th, 2009, Saieesh earned the right to request $10 from [[Tom Egan]] for answering a bonus part Egan believed would not be converted by Middle Schoolers. The full account on the forums can be found [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6833&p=124133&hilit=cirque#p123845 here] and is quoted below.<br />
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''In other notes; Mr. Egan owes someone on Twin Groves A a $10 bill. Egan felt pretty certain this bonus part would go dead and offered a $10 bill to the middle schooler who could answer it:''<br />
''Landform where valley glaciers may form in a hollowed-out portion of a mountain." Answer: Cirque''<br />
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However, Saieesh's dad intervened using the account username "naren" and relinquished Saieesh's right to claim the $10; the post can be found [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6833&p=124133&hilit=cirque#p124133 here]. [[Mike Wong]], hearing of these events for the first time early in the fall of the 2010-2011 quizbowl season, is said to have exclaimed, "[Saieesh's] dad is so cool!" for having used the forums before any member of IMSA's soon to be A-team.<br />
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==High School==<br />
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===Adlai E. Stevenson High School===<br />
At [[Stevenson]], Saieesh was confined to the Frosh-Soph circuit due to the insistence of then-coach [[Bruce Fitzgerald]] to segregate members based on grade-level rather than ability. Thus, along with his sophomore teammates (whom he played with and against in middle school), Saieesh helped Stevenson dominate the Frosh-Soph Circuit of Northeastern Illinois, winning high profile tournaments such as the [[Carmel High School Invitational Frosh-Soph Tournament]].<br />
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====Encounter with IMSA====<br />
Saieesh played his future homeschool (IMSA) only at one tournament that year at the [[Wheaton Frosh-Soph Tournament]], where he played the IMSA B-team (led by pre-scobol-dropout Yang-Yang Feng) once and the IMSA A team (then comprised of [[Adam Kalinich]], Moreni[[bayo Bankole]] II, Madhav Mohandas, and Rose Sloan) twice. Stevenson's first match against IMSA went badly, as signified by history expert Bayo's buzz on "gravity" which heralded the beginning of the end for that match. Stevenson then returned to meet IMSA in the finals, where Saieesh immortalized himself in IMSA memory by [[power]]ing the first tossup of a devastating match in which Stevenson dealt IMSA its first loss of the season. The tossup, mentioning DNA analysis, the jungles of Guyana, and a comet like figure flying through the sky, hearkened Saieesh back to his childhood days of playing Pokemon and immediately reminded him of the opening scene to "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon:_The_First_Movie Pokemon: The First Movie]," leading Saieesh to buzz with "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mew_(Pok%C3%A9mon) Mew]." From that point on, Saieesh was then regarded as the "Pokemon Carry" at Stevenson. Although Saieesh had stopped playing Pokemon for a while, his Pokemon knowledge was still fresh due to his side-hobby of programming a fully functional Pokemon Game on his calculator. As the last tossup was inevitably a mythology question (as it always is in the Frosh-Soph circuit), teammate [[Michael Hu]] clinched the match, buzzing on the stock clue "barge" and answering with Ra.<br />
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Upon hearing of Saieesh's decision to transfer to IMSA in the fall, teammate [[Johnathan Kersky]] told Saieesh on the bus coming home that day that he shouldn't leave because "Stevenson is going to win three state championships next year (see [[Illinois Triple Crown]])." Those words, however, proved themselves to be oddly ironic in the coming months, as IMSA's rise was just fermenting.<br />
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===IMSA===<br />
Saieesh first proved himself at IMSA's first practice of the year in late August when he singlehandedly answered an easy literature bonus on "Truman Capote/Breakfast at Tiffany's/In Cold Blood." He then led the IMSA A team in points at the 2010 [[Wheaton Kickoffs]] Tournament, which used geography-rich NAQT questions, due to his extensive geography knowledge. Although replaced as an A-team member by [[Adam Kalinich]] later in the year, Saieesh played an important role at the IHSA state series, in which he beat [[Kevin Malis]] (from his homeschool Stevenson) in a buzzer race to "Jasper Johns." IMSA later placed 3rd in the state Masonic Academic Bowl Tournament that year, but did not participate in the NAQT State Tournament due to the suspension of teammates [[Eric Ordonez]] and [[Webster Guan]] in the scandal known as "Trainagate," in which IMSA teacher Joseph Traina found a number of students operating a fake Facebook account in his name. Nevertheless, IMSA was able to topple the favored Stevenson team during the first round of the IHSA State Finals and claimed the championship, as well as third place at the Illinois [[Masonic Tournament]] and 13th at the [[2011 NAQT HSNCT]].<br />
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The coming year led to a decline in Saieesh's quizbowl activity due to his participation in a rigorous and time-consuming calculus elective at IMSA known as "BC-Fast," which precluded some of his time to go to quizbowl tournaments. Along with the meteoric rise of IMSA's [[Nolan Maloney]],[[Eric Ordonez]],[[Webster Guan]], and [[Adam Kalinich]], the A-team that year was set. Saieesh went 4-3 at the New Trier [[Scobol Solo]] that year, his first appearance, and helped the team repeat its IHSA championship victory.<br />
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In his senior year, Saieesh played various roles on both of IMSA's A and B teams. He got five tossups against [[Ladue]] at the Missouri Invitational Tournament in Columbia, Missouri, helping IMSA earn its only win against the #1 nationally ranked team that year. He was a Top 7 finalist at the [[Scobol Solo]], making the wildcard slot as the player with a 5-2 record with the highest [[PPG]]. However, in team play, Saieesh's significant science and geogrpahy overlap with teammates [[Maia Karpovich]] and [[Siva Gangavarapu]] contributed to his mediocre stats throughout the season. When captaining B-team, however, Saieesh would score more impressively, such as at 2013 NAQT State Tournament when he was a top-10 individual scorer.<br />
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==College==<br />
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===University of Chicago===<br />
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Saieesh has kept up his quiz bowl involvement at the college level, playing at the Great Lakes Mirror of ACF Fall and at NAQT SCT alongside former rival [[Morgan Venkus]]; coincidentally, he was the 11th highest scorer overall at both tournaments, and he still received a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin at ACF Fall for being 10th individually in the morning rounds. At the [[2014 ICT]], he and Morgan crusaded to 5th in Division II, a feat which almost didn't happen due to Morgan's unfortunate tardiness.<br />
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In his later years, Saieesh regularly attends tournaments that take place on the University of Chicago campus.<br />
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[[Category:Stevenson]]<br />
[[Category:IMSA]]<br />
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[[Category:High school players active in 2011]]<br />
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[[Category:High school players active in 2013]]<br />
[[Category:Players active in 2014]]<br />
[[Category:Players active in 2015]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Geography_Monstrosity&diff=33667Geography Monstrosity2017-08-05T16:54:49Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: update as per the tentative name change policy</p>
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<div>'''Geography Monstrosity''' is a [[vanity tournament]] composed entirely of geography questions. It is run as a side event to one of the high school national championships. GM features 20-point superpowers, 15-point powers, and no minus-fives.<br />
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The first Geography Monstrosity was edited by [[George Stevens]], and directed by [[Bryce Durgin]] and [[Katy Peters]], who won praise for organizing and running the tournament on short notice. Subsequent editions have been edited and directed by [[Jeff Hoppes]]. <br />
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==Results==<br />
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{|-<br />
|<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Date<br />
! Location<br />
! Leading Scorer<br />
! Stats<br />
|-<br />
| May 29, 2009<br />
| Chicago, Illinois<br />
| [[Jeff Hoppes]]<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/585/stats/all_stats/ stats]<br />
|-<br />
| May 28, 2010<br />
| Chicago, Illinois<br />
| [[Ian Eppler]]<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/466/stats/all_stats/ stats]<br />
|-<br />
| May 27, 2011<br />
| Atlanta, Georgia<br />
| [[Raynell Cooper]]<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/459/stats/all_stats/ stats]<br />
|-<br />
| May 25, 2012<br />
| Atlanta, Georgia<br />
| [[Maia Karpovich]] (as Anton Karpovich)<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/997/stats/all_games/ stats]<br />
|-<br />
| June 9, 2013<br />
| College Park, Maryland<br />
| [[David Madden]]<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1496/stats/geography_monstrosity_5/ stats]<br />
|-<br />
| May 30, 2014<br />
| Rosemont, Illinois<br />
| [[Charles Tian]]<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2251/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| May 29, 2015<br />
| Rosemont, Illinois<br />
| [[Raynell Cooper]]<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3048/stats/all_games/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| May 27, 2016<br />
| Dallas, Texas<br />
| [[Jeff Hoppes]]<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3765/stats/~all_games~/ Stats]<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Gregory Gauthierhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Scobol_Solo&diff=33666Scobol Solo2017-08-05T16:54:14Z<p>Gregory Gauthier: update as per the tentative name change policy</p>
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<div>The '''Scobol Solo''' is an individual tournament held each November since 2001 at [[New Trier]] High School in Winnetka, Illinois. It is open to any high school student. It typically attracts many of the top players in Illinois and occasionally attracts players from out of state.<br />
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==History==<br />
The ''Solo'', as it is often simply called, was the second major individual tournament to be held in Illinois, following the demise of the ''Ultimate Scholar'' Tournament which originated at downstate [[Sullivan]] before being moved to the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. That tournament, run by [[Ken Johnson]], ended when IWU could no longer provide the space for free.<br />
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This tournament has been directed by and written by [[David Reinstein]] since its inception. With the exception of the 2006 tournament, it has been held at New Trier's Winnetka campus. In 2006, New Trier was forced to close the weekend of the tournament due to a pertussis outbreak, causing the tournament to be moved to nearby [[Adlai E. Stevenson|Stevenson]] at the last moment.<br />
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In addition to the Scobol Solo, [[Donald Taylor]] has run annual individual competitions since 2006, first at the [[Illinois|University of Illinois]], then as a side event after the NAQT State Qualifier, and starting in Spring 2011 as a side event to [[ATROPHY]] at Northern Illinois University.<br />
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In 2010, Scobol Solo was mirrored at [[PORTA]].<br />
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In 2010, Scobol Solo used a program [[Jonah Greenthal]] developed called Scobol Solo Statistics System, or SSSS. Moderators entered in results at the end of each match, and the results were immediately compiled into the tournament stats and posted on the internet. The program kept track of category stats, so ribbons for category winners could be handed out as soon as the rounds were completed.<br />
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==Tournament format==<br />
The tournament has 14 regular rounds, with each player participating in seven (either round 1 or 2, either round 3 or 4, and so on). Power-matching is used, so that every match has two players with identical records face off. When there were significantly fewer than the cap of 128 players during the first few years of the tournament, "safety matches" were played in which both players were credited with a win. In some recent years in which there were slightly fewer than 128 students present, "phantom matches" have been played which feature a player who should be in the match (who receives a win) against a player on their bye round (whose record is not affected).<br />
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After each player plays seven rounds, there will be one 7-0 player, seven 6-1 players, and twenty-one 5-2 players. The 7-0 player and 6-1 players advance to the finals (with the 7-0 player having an advantage), and the 5-2 player with the highest points per 20 toss-ups heard is the ninth player in the finals. Prior to 2012, a written test called the "Desperation Shot" was used to determine which one of the 5-2 players would advance to the finals.<br />
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==Match format==<br />
Each match consists of 20 toss-up questions. There are no bonus questions. Each question is worth one point, with no power or neg points, and ties are decided by sudden death (using up to three tossups, the third of which is a very short, very easy question on a tournament-themed category of answer lines, such as modes of transportation or colors). There were three computational questions in each match through 2009, but computation was eliminated starting in 2010.<br />
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Originally, for each tournament, the 20 categories would be set in a specific order, and questions would be asked from each category in order (so question #1 in each round would be from the same category). This was primarily for ease of tabulating the scores for category winners; SSSS was created so that this wouldn't be necessary. Categories are now randomized within each packet and are not announced.<br />
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==Finals format==<br />
The finals consist of 60 questions and nine players (including the 7-0 morning champion). Unlike in the preliminary matches, a wrong answer counts as -1, even if the question is finished, and the question rebounds as usual. Players (except the morning champion) start with 3 points and are eliminated on reaching 0 points.<br />
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The finals are divided into three phases, each with 20 questions. In phase one, the morning champion sits out while the other eight players play. At the end of phase one (question 20), the morning champion enters the game with a score equal to that of the leader. At the end of the second phase (question 40), the five players with the lowest score are eliminated, leaving four. Halfway through the third phase (question 50), the two remaining players with the lowest score are eliminated. The remaining player with the higher score at the end of the third phase (question 60) is the champion. Ties for elimination or the championship are broken by tiebreaker tossups, with a correct answer advancing the player and an incorrect answer eliminating the player.<br />
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Previously, a tossup that was incorrectly answered was not rebounded for the other players.<br />
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Prior to 2004, the finals used only 40 questions.<br />
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From 2002 through 2008, some tossups were replaced with handout questions (exclusively in the interdisciplinary category in 2008) that all players could attempt. These were very difficult, multi-part written questions that players could choose to have counted or not. A player who opted to have a handout counted scored 1 point for a handout that is completely correct, otherwise -1. In 2001, very lengthy questions that were repeated twice and required synthesizing multiple facts were used.<br />
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==Categories==<br />
===Current Categories===<br />
Since 2001, the following 8 categories have always been in use:<br />
* U.S. Literature<br />
* Chemistry<br />
* Physics<br />
* Biology<br />
* U.S. History<br />
* World History (which included European History for the first few years)<br />
* Religion/Mythology<br />
* World Literature (adjusted to World & European Literature in 2012, which was a change in name only)<br />
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In the first year, American Literature and American Dramas, Poems, and Short Stories were two separate categories, and all the other literature questions were in World Literature. British Literature was added in 2002, and American Literature was condensed into one category.<br />
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The other current categories:<br />
* Current Events/Geography (added 2010)<br />
* Curricular Math (added 2010)<br />
* European History (added as "Western European History" in 2009, renamed in 2010)<br />
* Instrumental Classical Music (added 2010)<br />
* Military History (added 2010)<br />
* Other Fine Arts (added 2010, "other" being defined as not painting or instrumental classical music)<br />
* Other Math (added 2010)<br />
* Other Science (added in 2010, "other" being defined as not biology, chemistry, physics, or math)<br />
* Painting (added 2010)<br />
* Poetry (added 2010)<br />
* Social Science/Philosophy (added 2010 as "Other Social Studies", renamed in 2011)<br />
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===Discontinued Categories===<br />
* Algebra (2001-09)<br />
* Art/Architecture (introduced as "Art" in 2001, renamed 2002, last played in 2009)<br />
* Astronomy/Earth Science/Geography (introduced as "Astronomy/Earth Science" in 2002, renamed 2003, last played in 2009)<br />
* Calculus/Combinatorics (introduced as "Calculus/Precalculus" in 2001, renamed as "Calculus" in 2002, "Calculus/Math History" in 2003, renamed in 2004, last played in 2007)<br />
* Current Events (2002-09)<br />
* Geometry/Trigonometry (2001-09)<br />
* Language Arts (2001-07)<br />
* Pop Culture (2001-08)<br />
* Technology (2001-07)<br />
* U.S. Drama and Poetry (2001)<br />
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==Results==<br />
{|border ="1"<br />
|'''Year'''<br />
|'''Champion'''<br />
|'''2nd Place'''<br />
|'''3rd Place'''<br />
|'''4th Place'''<br />
|'''5th Place'''<br />
|'''6th Place'''<br />
|'''7th Place'''<br />
|'''8th Place'''<br />
|'''9th Place'''<br />
|-<br />
|2001<br />
|[[Jim Davis]]<br>([[Latin]])<br />
|[[Parag Bhayani]]<br>([[Homewood-Flossmoor]])<br />
|[[Matt Keenan]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|[[Tony Wu]]<br>([[Fremd]])<br />
|[[Sameer Gopal]]<br>([[Sterling]])<br />
|[[Chris Marks]]<br>([[Downers Grove North]])<br>[[Lori Sommars]]<br>([[Wheaton North]])<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|2002<br />
|Matt Keenan<br>(New Trier)<br />
|[[Ben Taylor]]<br>([[Guilford]])<br />
|[[Paul Gauthier]]<br>(Wheaton North)<br />
|[[Mark Hedden]]<br>(Downers Grove North)<br />
|[[Kelly Tourdot]]<br>([[Stillman Valley]])<br />
|[[Blair Nathan]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|[[Josh Laufenberg]]<br>(Wheaton North)<br>[[David Vock]]<br>(Wheaton North)<br />
|<br />
|[[Donald Taylor]]<br>([[MacArthur]])<br />
|-<br />
|2003<br />
|Paul Gauthier<br>(Wheaton North)<br />
|[[Michael Evans]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|[[Andrew Uzzell]]<br>([[Evanston]])<br />
|[[Eric Grebing]]<br>([[Bunker Hill]])<br />
|[[Nik Brendler]]<br>([[Lincoln-Way East]])<br>[[Yian Chen]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|<br />
|[[Jaya Kalra]]<br>(Sterling)<br />
|[[Amy Minas]]<br>([[Bradley-Bourbonnais]])<br />
|15 way tie<br />
|-<br />
|2004<br />
|[[Sara Garnett]]<br>([[Okemos (MI)]])<br />
|[[Cliff Chang]][[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|[[Alex Beata]]<br>(Fremd)<br />
|[[Billy Ouska]]<br>([[Buffalo Grove]])<br />
|[[Alex Inman]]<br>(Fremd)<br>[[Jonathan Mayer]]<br>(Latin)<br />
|<br />
|[[Alex Schallmo]][[#Notes|<sup>2</sup>]]<br>([[Maine South]])<br />
|[[Michael Bilow]]<br>([[Deerfield]])<br />
|Donald Taylor<br>(MacArthur)<br />
|-<br />
|2005<br />
|[[Robert Sale]][[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>([[Brookwood (GA)]])<br />
|[[Greg Gauthier]]<br>(Wheaton North)<br />
|[[Brad Fischer]]<br>(Winnebago)<br>[[Katie Kragh]]<br>([[Loyola]])<br />
|<br />
|[[Colleen Powers]]<br>([[Auburn]])<br />
|[[Carlo Angiuli]]<br>(New Trier)<br>[[John Bracke]][[#Notes|<sup>2</sup>]]<br>([[Moline]])<br>[[Nick Matchen]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|[[Ben Weiss]]<br>(Latin)<br />
|-<br />
|2006<br />
|Carlo Angiuli<br>(New Trier)<br />
|Greg Gauthier[[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Wheaton North)<br />
|[[Greg Peterson]]<br>(Maine South)<br>[[Kristina Warren]]<br>([[Bloomington]])<br />
|<br />
|[[Jeff Wear]]<br>(Maine South)<br />
|[[John Brown]]<br>(Auburn)<br>[[Katie Hibbeln]][[#Notes|<sup>2</sup>]]<br>(Downers Grove North)<br>[[Justin Stoncius]]<br>([[Carbondale]])<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|[[Siva Sundaram]]<br>(Auburn)<br />
|-<br />
|2007<br />
|Greg Gauthier<br>(Wheaton North)<br />
|Siva Sundaram[[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Auburn)<br />
|John Brown<br>(Auburn)<br>[[Tony Cao]]<br>(Carbondale)<br />
|<br />
|[[Catie Flynn]][[#Notes|<sup>2</sup>]]<br>([[Springfield]])<br />
|[[Jonathan Irving]]<br>(Wheaton North)<br>[[Robert Sido]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|<br />
|[[Mike Verity]]<br>(Loyola)<br />
|[[Michael Jiang]]<br>(Auburn)<br />
|-<br />
|2008<br />
|Siva Sundaram[[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Auburn)<br />
|[[Joe Ahmad]]<br>(Loyola)<br />
|Tony Cao<br>(Carbondale)<br />
|[[Ben Cohen]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|[[Krystle Leung]]<br>([[Naperville Central]])<br />
|[[Alex Cash]]<br>([[Wheaton Warrenville South]])<br>[[Isa Domin]]<br>([[Niles North]])<br>Michael Jiang<br>(Auburn)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|[[Calvin Quilty]][[#Notes|<sup>2</sup>]]<br>([[Bloomington]])<br />
|-<br />
|2009<br />
|[[Lloyd Sy]]<br>(Auburn)<br />
|[[Andrew Deveau]]<br>([[St. Ignatius]])<br />
|[[Kevin Malis]][[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>([[Stevenson]])<br />
|[[Steve Server]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|[[Jeremiah Monk]][[#Notes|<sup>2</sup>]]<br>(Carbondale)<br />
|[[Ben Carbery]]<br>([[Oak Park-River Forest]])<br>Isa Domin<br>(Niles North)<br />
|<br />
|[[Greg Dzuriscko]]<br>([[Lisle]])<br />
|[[Christian Kreb]]<br>(Loyola)<br />
|-<br />
|2010<br />
|Kevin Malis<br>(Stevenson)<br />
|Ben Carbery[[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Oak Park-River Forest)<br />
|Andrew Deveau<br>(St. Ignatius)<br />
|[[Ben Chametzsky]]<br>(Carbondale)<br />
|[[Andrew Van Duyn]]<br>([[Culver]] (IN))<br />
|Lloyd Sy<br>(Auburn)<br />
|[[Zach Blumenfeld]]<br>(Stevenson)<br>[[Andrew Wang]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|<br />
|[[Jake Rebnord]][[#Notes|<sup>2</sup>]]<br>(Stevenson)<br />
|-<br />
|2011<br />
|Lloyd Sy<br>(Auburn)<br />
|[[Dylan Minarik]]<br>([[Belvidere North]])<br />
|[[Nolan Winkler]][[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Loyola)<br />
|[[Andrew Wang]]<br>(New Trier)<br />
|[[Ben Chametzky]]<br>(Carbondale)<br />
|[[Srinivas Panchamukhi]]<br>(Carbondale)<br />
|[[Webster Guan]]<br>(IMSA)<br>[[Alex Kling]]<br>(Latin)<br />
|<br />
|Andrew Van Duyn<br>(Culver (IN))<br />
|-<br />
|2012<br />
|Nicholas Wawrykow<br>(St. Joseph’s (IN))<br />
|[[Thomas Birt]]<br>(Wheaton North)<br />
|[[Maia Karpovich]]<sup>3</sup><br>(IMSA)<br>[[Anand Poozhikunnel]]<br>(Wheaton Warrenville South)<br />
|<br />
|[[Ian Torres]]<br>(Loyola)<br />
|[[Saieesh Rao]]<br>(IMSA)<br />
|Dylan Minarik[[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Belvidere North)<br />
|[[Morgan Venkus]]<br>(Loyola)<br />
|[[Greg Krzywicki]]<br>([[Fenton]])<br />
|-<br />
|2013<br />
|Maia Karpovich<sup>3</sup><br>(IMSA)<br />
|[[Evan Pandya]]<br>(Auburn)<br />
|[[Jason Asher]][[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Stevenson)<br>[[Pranav Sivakumar]]<br>([[Barrington]])<br />
|<br />
|[[Alston Boyd]]<br>(Bloomington)<br>[[Greg Krzywicki]]<br>([[Fenton]])<br>[[Jeeho Lee]]<br>([[Stevenson]])<br>[[Prerak Trivedi]]<br>(Carbondale)<br>[[James Zetterman]]<br>(Carbondale)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|2014<br />
|[[Cole Timmerwilke]][[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Auburn)<br />
|[[Evan Pandya]]<br>(Auburn)<br />
|[[Sunny Chen]]<br>([[Hinsdale Central]])<br />
|[[Mahir Morshed]]<br>(Carbondale)<br />
|[[Alston Boyd]]<br>(Bloomington)<br>[[Nolan Liu]]<br>([[St. Joseph (IN)]])<br>[[Dan Pechi]]<br>(IMSA)<br>[[Andrew Salij]]<br>(IMSA)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|[[James Zhou]]<br>(Hinsdale Central)<br />
|-<br />
|2015<br />
|[[Ali Saeed]][[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Stevenson)<br />
|Cole Timmerwilke<br>(Auburn)<br />
|[[Matthew Lehmann]]<br>(Barrington)<br />
|[[Jakob Myers]]<br>(Naperville North)<br />
|[[Ankush Bajaj]]<br>(Hinsdale Central)<br>Michael Gislason<br>(Homewood-Flossmoor)<br>Ethan Strombeck<br>(Auburn)<br>Jonathan Suh<br>(Wheaton Warrenville South)<br>John Waldron<br>(Barrington)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|2016<br />
|[[John Waldron]]<br>(Barrington)<br />
|[[Matthew Lehmann]][[#Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br>(Barrington)<br />
|[[Ali Saeed]]<br>(Stevenson)<br />
|[[Jakob Myers]]<br>(Naperville North)<br />
|[[Jack Mayer]]<br>(Loyola Academy)<br>[[Ethan Strombeck]]<br>(Auburn)<br>[[Aristotle Vainikos]]<br>([[Sandburg]])<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|[[John Banta]]<br>(Lake Forest)<br />
|[[Lily Hamer]]<br>(Homewood-Flossmoor)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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Notes<br />
# Morning Champion<br />
# Desperation Shot Champion (2001-2010)<br />
# Played as Anton Karpovich<br />
<br />
==FINALISTS RECORDS==<br />
===Schools with three finalists, all-time===<br />
{|border ="1"<br />
|'''FINALISTS'''<br />
|'''SCHOOL (YEARS)'''<br />
|-<br />
|16<br />
|[[Auburn]] (2005, 06, 06, 07, 07, 07, 08, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14, 14, 15, 16)<br />
|-<br />
|14<br />
|[[New Trier]] (2001, 02, 02, 03, 03, 04, 05, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11)<br />
|-<br />
|10<br />
|[[Carbondale]] (2006, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 11, 13, 13, 14)<br />
|-<br />
|10<br />
|[[Wheaton North]] (2001, 02, 02, 02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 07, 12)<br />
|-<br />
|8<br />
|[[Loyola Academy]] (2005, 07, 08, 09, 11, 12, 12, 16)<br />
|-<br />
|8<br />
|[[Stevenson]] (09, 10, 10, 10, 13, 13, 15, 16)<br />
|-<br />
|6<br />
|[[IMSA]] (2011, 12, 12, 13, 14, 14)<br />
|-<br />
|5<br />
|[[Barrington]] (2013, 15, 15, 16, 16)<br />
|-<br />
|4<br />
|[[Bloomington]] (2006, 08, 13, 14)<br />
|-<br />
|4<br />
|[[Latin School]] (2001, 04, 05, 11)<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|[[Downers Grove North]] (2001, 02, 06)<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|[[Fremd]] (2001, 04, 04)<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|[[Maine South]] (2004, 06, 06)<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|[[Wheaton Warrenville South]] (2008, 12, 15)<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|[[Hinsdale Central]] (2014, 14, 15)<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|[[Homewood-Flossmoor]] (2001, 15, 16)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Schools with two finalists, one tournament===<br />
{|border ="1"<br />
|'''FINALISTS'''<br />
|'''SCHOOL (YEAR)'''<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|[[Wheaton North]] (2002)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Auburn]] (2007)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Stevenson]] (2010)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Barrington]] (2015, 2016)<br />
|-<br />
|2<br />
|[[Fremd]] (2004)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[New Trier]] (2002)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|New Trier (2003)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|New Trier (2005)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Auburn (2006)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Maine South]] (2006)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Wheaton North (2007)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Auburn (2008)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Carbondale]] (2011)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[IMSA]] (2012)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Loyola Academy]] (2012)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Carbondale (2013)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Stevenson (2013)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Auburn (2014)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hinsdale Central]] (2014)<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|IMSA (2014)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Players who appeared in multiple finals===<br />
{|border ="1"<br />
|'''# FINALS'''<br />
|'''PLAYER (SCHOOL)'''<br />
|'''YEARS'''<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|[[Greg Gauthier]] ([[Wheaton North]])<br />
|2005-07<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Siva Sundaram]] ([[Auburn]])<br />
|2006-08<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Lloyd Sy]] (Auburn)<br />
|2009-11<br />
|-<br />
|2<br />
|[[Matt Keenan]] ([[New Trier]])<br />
|2001-02<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Paul Gauthier]] (Wheaton North)<br />
|2002-03<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Donald Taylor]] ([[MacArthur]])[[#Finalists Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br />
|2002, 2004<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Carlo Angiuli]] (New Trier)<br />
|2005-06<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[John Brown]] (Auburn)<br />
|2006-07<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Tony Cao]] ([[Carbondale]])<br />
|2007-08<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Isa Domin]] ([[Niles North]])<br />
|2008-09<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ben Carbery]] ([[Oak Park-River Forest|OPRF]])<br />
|2009-10<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Andrew Deveau]] ([[St. Ignatius]])<br />
|2009-10<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Kevin Malis]] ([[Stevenson]])<br />
|2009-10<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Dylan Minarik]] ([[Belvidere North]])<br />
|2011-12<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Maia Karpovich]] ([[IMSA]])<br />
|2012-13<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Alston Boyd]] ([[Bloomington]])<br />
|2013-14<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Evan Pandya]] (Auburn)<br />
|2013-14<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Cole Timmerwilke]] (Auburn)<br />
|2014-15<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[John Waldron]] (Barrington)<br />
|2015-16<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Matthew Lehmann]] (Barrington)<br />
|2015-16<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ali Saeed]] (Stevenson)<br />
|2015-16<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Jakob Myers]] (Naperville North)<br />
|2015-16<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ethan Strombeck]] (Auburn)<br />
|2015-16<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Finalists from Class A schools===<br />
*[[Jim Davis]] ([[The Latin School]]) - 2001<br />
*[[Eric Grebing]] ([[Bunker Hill]]) - 2003<br />
*[[Jonathan Mayer]] ([[The Latin School]]) - 2004<br />
*[[Brad Fischer]] ([[Winnebago]]) - 2005<br />
*[[Ben Weiss]] ([[The Latin School]]) - 2005<br />
<br />
===Finalists Notes===<br />
#Donald Taylor is the only player to make multiple, non-consecutive appearances in the finals.<br />
<br />
==CATEGORY RECORDS==<br />
In addition to the finalists being recognized as among the best players, ribbons are given to any player who scores the most questions in each of the 20 categories.<br />
<br />
===Won a category three times===<br />
:4 - Greg Gauthier (Geometry/Trigonometry, '04, '05, '06' 07)<br />
:3 - Greg Gauthier (Calculus/Combinatorics, '04, '06, '07)<br />
:3 - Paul Gauthier (World Literature, '01, '02, '03)<br />
:3 - Nick Matchen (Pop Culture, '04, '05, '06)<br />
:(Scary, isn't it?)<br />
<br />
===Won a category in two tournaments===<br />
{|border ="1"<br />
|'''CATEGORY'''<br />
|'''PLAYER, SCHOOL (YEARS)'''<br />
|-<br />
|Chemistry<br />
|[[Carlo Angiuli]], [[New Trier]] (05, 06)<br />
|-<br />
|Physics<br />
|[[Greg Gauthier]], Wheaton North (06, 07)<br />
|-<br />
|Astronomy/Earth Science/Geography<br />
|[[Zach Blumenfeld]], [[Stevenson]] (08, 09)<br />
|-<br />
|Calculus/Combinatorics<br />
|Greg Gauthier, Wheaton North (06, 07)<br />
|-<br />
|Geometry/Trigonometry<br />
|Greg Gauthier, Wheaton North (04, 05, 06, 07); [[Karen Li]], [[Libertyville]] (05, 06)<br />
|-<br />
|U.S. History<br />
|[[Garrett Ryan]], Lincoln-Way East (03, 04); [[Andrew Van Duyn]], [[Culver]] (10, 11)<br />
|-<br />
|European History<br />
|[[Matthew Lehmann]], Barrington (15, 16)<br />
|-<br />
|World History<br />
|[[Kelly Tourdot]], [[Stillman Valley]] (01, 02); [[Joe Ahmad]], [[Loyola]] (07, 08); [[Jack Miller]], Wheaton North (12, 13)<br />
|-<br />
|Social Studies/Philosophy<br />
|[[Cole Timmerwilke]], [[Auburn]] (13, 15)<br />
|-<br />
|British Literature<br />
|[[Paul Gauthier]], [[Wheaton North]] (02, 03); [[Andrew Deveau]], [[St. Ignatius]] (09, 10); [[Lloyd Sy]], [[Auburn]] (10, 11); [[Lily Hamer]], Homewood-Flossmoor (15, 16)<br />
|-<br />
|European/World Literature<br />
|[[Evan Pandya]], Auburn (12, 13); [[Dan Pechi]], [[IMSA]] (13, 14)<br />
|-<br />
|World Literature<br />
|Paul Gauthier, Wheaton North (01, 02, 03); [[Kristina Warren]], [[Bloomington]] (05, 06); [[Ankush Bajaj]], [[Hinsdale Central]] (14, 15)<br />
|-<br />
|U.S. Literature<br />
|[[Jack Glerum]], Loyola (07, 08); [[Siva Sundaram]], Auburn (07, 08); [[Matthew Lehmann]], [[Barrington]] (14, 15)<br />
|-<br />
|Nonfiction<br />
|[[Nik Brendler]], [[Lincoln-Way East]] (02, 03)<br />
|-<br />
|Instrumental Classical Music<br />
|[[Dylan Minarik]], [[Belvidere North]] (11, 12); [[Mahir Morshed]], [[Carbondale]] (13, 14)<br />
|-<br />
|Other Fine Art<br />
|Cole Timmerwilke, Auburn (14, 15)<br />
|-<br />
|Religion/Mythology<br />
|[[Issa Domin]], [[Niles North]] (08, 09)<br />
|-<br />
|Current Events<br />
|[[Ian Secviar]], [[Mt. Carmel]] (04, 05); [[Ben Cohen]] (07, 08); [[Mike Penicnak]], [[Fenton]] (08, 09); [[Jakob Myers]], Naperville North (15, 16)<br />
|-<br />
|Current Events/Geography<br />
|[[Maia Karpovich]], [[IMSA]] (12, 13)[[#Category Notes|<sup>1</sup>]]<br />
|-<br />
|Geography<br />
|[[B.J. Ryan]], [[Hinsdale Central]] (14, 15)<br />
|-<br />
|Pop Culture<br />
|[[Nick Matchen]], New Trier (04, 05, 06)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Won three categories in one tournament===<br />
{|border ="1"<br />
|'''# CATS'''<br />
|'''PLAYER (SCHOOL)'''<br />
|'''YEAR'''<br />
|'''CATEGORIES'''<br />
|-<br />
|8<br />
|[[Lloyd Sy]] ([[Auburn]])<br />
|2011<br />
|Biology, Physics, Other Science, British Lit, Poetry, European History, Other Fine Arts, Social Studies/Philosophy[[#Category Notes|<sup>4</sup>]]<br />
|-<br />
|7<br />
|[[Dylan Minarik]] ([[Belvidere North]])<br />
|2012<br />
|Physics, Other Science, U.S. History, Poetry, Instrumental Classical Music, Religion/Mythology, Social Studies/Philosophy[[#Category Notes|<sup>4</sup>]]<br />
|-<br />
|5<br />
|[[Paul Gauthier]] ([[Wheaton North]])<br />
|2002<br />
|Geometry/Trig, British Lit, World Lit, Language Arts, Current Events<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Greg Gauthier]] (Wheaton North)<br />
|2007<br />
|Chemistry, Physics, Algebra, Calculus/Combinatorics, Geometry/Trig<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Siva Sundaram]] (Auburn)<br />
|2007<br />
|U.S. Lit, World Lit, Music, Art/Architecture, Religion/Myth<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ben Cohen]] ([[New Trier]])<br />
|2008<br />
|U.S. Lit, Nonfiction, U.S. History, World History, Current Events<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ben Carbery]] ([[Oak Park-River Forest|OPRF]])<br />
|2010<br />
|Other Science, British Lit, World History, European History, Military History[[#Category Notes|<sup>3</sup>]]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Cole Timmerwilke]] (Auburn)<br />
|2014<br />
|Other Science, US History, World History, Other Fine Arts, Current Events<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Cole Timmerwilke (Auburn)<br />
|2015<br />
|Painting, Other Fine Art, European History, Geography, SS/Philosophy<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ankush Bajaj]] (Hinsdale Central)<br />
|2015<br />
|U.S. Lit, World Lit, British Lit, Biology, Chemistry<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ethan Strombeck]] (Auburn)<br />
|2015<br />
|Chemistry, Other Science, Instrumental Cl. Music, U.S. History, European History, <br />
|-<br />
|4<br />
|[[Matt Keenan]] ([[New Trier]])<br />
|2002<br />
|Biology, Astronomy/Earth Sci, World History, Music, <br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Andrew Uzzell]] ([[Evanston]])<br />
|2003<br />
|Physics, Calculus/Math History, Language Arts, World History<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Greg Gauthier (Wheaton North)<br />
|2006<br />
|Physics, Calculus/Combinatorics, Geometry/Trig, U.S Lit<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Dan Auerbach]] ([[Glenbrook North]])<br />
|2007<br />
|Astronomy/Earth Sci/Geography, Nonfiction, World History, Current Events<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Andrew Deveau]] ([[St. Ignatius]])<br />
|2009<br />
|Physics, Nonfiction, British Lit, Art/Architecture<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Lloyd Sy]] (Auburn)<br />
|2010<br />
|World Lit, British Lit, Painting, Instrumental Classical Music<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ben Chametzsky]] ([[Carbondale]])<br />
|2011<br />
|Other Science, U.S. History, Social Studies/Philosophy, Current Events/Geography<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Nolan Maloney]] ([[Loyola]])<br />
|2011<br />
|Biology, Chemistry, Physics, World History[[#Category Notes|<sup>2</sup>]]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Jonathan Huh]] (Carbondale)<br />
|2013<br />
|Military History, British Lit, European/World Lit, Instrumental Classical Music<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Prerak Trivedi]] (Carbondale)<br />
|2013<br />
|Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Poetry[[#Category Notes|<sup>2</sup>]]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Clare Keenan]] ([[Chicago Lab]])<br />
|2014<br />
|Chemistry, Mathematics, US Lit, British Lit<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|John Banta (Lake Forest)<br />
|2016<br />
|Mathematics, Poetry, Instrumental Classical Music, Other Fine Arts<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Jakob Myers (Naperville North)<br />
|2016<br />
|Military History, Instrumental Classical Music, Social Science/Philosophy, Current Events<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|[[Parag Bhayani]] ([[Homewood-Flossmoor]])<br />
|2001<br />
|Geometry/Trig, U.S. History, World Lit<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Kelly Tourdot]] ([[Stillman Valley]])<br />
|2001 <br />
|U.S. History, World History, Religion/Myth<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Garrett Ryan]] ([[Lincoln-Way East]])<br />
|2003 <br />
|Astronomy/Earth Sci/Geography, U.S. History, World History<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ian Secviar]] ([[Mt. Carmel]])<br />
|2004<br />
|Language Arts, Religion/Myth, Current Events<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Kristina Warren]] ([[Bloomington]])<br />
|2006<br />
|Geometry/Trig, U.S. Lit, World Lit<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Siva Sundaram]] (Auburn)<br />
|2006<br />
|Geometry/Trig, Pop Culture, Language Arts<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[John Brown]] (Auburn)<br />
|2007<br />
|Biology, U.S. Lit, Brit Lit<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Joe Ahamad]] (Loyola)<br />
|2008<br />
|Vocabulary, World History, Music<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Bonny Jain]] ([[IMSA]])<br />
|2008<br />
|Physics, Geometry/Trig, Pyramidal Math<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Michael Jiang]] (Auburn)<br />
|2008<br />
|World Lit, Nonfiction, Art/Architecture<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Webster Guan]] (New Trier)<br />
|2011<br />
|Physics, U.S. Lit, Poetry<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|Dylan Minarik (Belvidere North)<br />
|2011<br />
|U.S. Lit, Painting, Instrumental Classical Music<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Nolan Winkler]] (Loyola)<br />
|2011<br />
|Biology, U.S. History, Religion/Mythology<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Thomas Birt]] (Wheaton North)<br />
|2012<br />
|U.S. History, European History, Military History[[#Category Notes|<sup>3</sup>]]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Maia Karpovich]] (IMSA)<br />
|2012<br />
|Physics, Other Science, Current Events/Geography<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ian Torres]] (Loyola)<br />
|2012<br />
|Curricular Math, Other Fine Arts, Social Studies/Philosophy<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Stae Schipper-Reyes]] (Bloomington)<br />
|2013<br />
|Biology, Other Science, Math<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Alston Boyd]] (Bloomington)<br />
|2014<br />
|Chemistry, Religion/Mythology, Social Science/Philosophy<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Nolan Liu]] ([[St Joseph (South Bend)]])<br />
|2014<br />
|British Lit, Poetry, Religion/Mythology<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Andrew Salij]] (IMSA)<br />
|2014<br />
|European History, Religion/Mythology, Social Science/Philosophy<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Jonathan Suh]] (Wheaton Warrenville South)<br />
|2015<br />
|U.S. Literature, Poetry, SS/Philosophy<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Matthew Lehmann]] ([[Barrington]])<br />
|2015<br />
|U.S. Lit, Poetry, European History<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Jack Mayer]] ([[Loyola]])<br />
|2015<br />
|Religion/Mythology, World History, European History<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Ethan Strombeck]] ([[Auburn]])<br />
|2016<br />
|Other Fine Arts, Current Events, Geography<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===7 categories won, career===<br />
{|border ="1"<br />
|'''# CATS'''<br />
|'''PLAYER'''<br />
|'''CATEGORIES (YEAR)'''<br />
|-<br />
|14<br />
|[[Lloyd Sy]]<br />
|U.S. Lit (09), World Lit (10), British Lit (10, 11), Poetry (11), Physics (11), Biology (11), Other Science (11), Painting (10), Instrumental Classical Music (10), Other Fine Art (11), European History (11), SS/Philosophy (11), Interdisciplinary (09)<br />
|-<br />
|13<br />
|[[Greg Gauthier]]<br />
|U.S. Lit (06), Physics (06, 07), Chemistry (07), Geometry/Trig (04, 05, 06, 07), Algebra (05, 07), Calculus/Combinatorics (04, 06, 07)<br />
|-<br />
|11<br />
|[[Paul Gauthier]]<br />
|World Lit (01, 02, 03), Lang Arts (02), British Lit (02, 03), Biology (03), Art (01), Geometry/Trig (02), Current Events (02), World History (03)<br />
|-<br />
|11<br />
|[[Cole Timmerwilke]]<br />
|SS/Philosophy (13, 15), Other Science (14), Other Fine Art (14, 15), Current Events (14), U.S. History (14), World History (14), Painting (15), European History (15), Geography (15)<br />
|-<br />
|10<br />
|[[Siva Sundaram]]<br />
|U.S. Lit (07, 08), World Lit (07), Lang Arts (06), Vocabulary (08), Music (07), Art/Architecture (07), Religion/Mythology (07), Pop Culture (06), Geometry/Trig (06)<br />
|-<br />
|10<br />
|[[Dylan Minarik]]<br />
|U.S. Lit (11), Poetry (12), Physics (12), Other Science (12), Painting (11), Instrumental Classic Music (11, 12), Religion/Mythology (12), U.S. History (12), SS/Philosophy (12)<br />
|-<br />
|7<br />
|[[Ben Carbery]]<br />
|British Lit (10), Other Science (10), Religion/Mythology (09), World History (10), European History (10), Military History (10), Interdisciplinary (09)<br />
|-<br />
|7<br />
|[[Andrew Deveau]]<br />
|Nonfiction (09), British Lit (09, 10), Physics (09), Curricular Math (10), Pop Culture (07), Art/Architecture (09)<br />
|-<br />
|7<br />
|[[Ankush Bajaj]]<br />
|SS/Philosophy (14), World Lit (14, 15), U.S. Lit (15), British Lit (15), Biology (15), Chemistry (15)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Category Notes==<br />
#In 2012, Current Events and Geography were a combined category. Karpovich won that category in 2012, and then won "Geography" and "Current Events" as separate categories in 2013.<br />
#Nolan Maloney and Prerak Trivedi are the only two players to win the three major science categories (Biology, Chemistry, Physics) in the same year.<br />
#Ben Carbery and Thomas Birt are the only two players to win three history categories in the same year.<br />
#Lloyd Sy and Dylan Minarik are the only two players to have won at least one category in each of the broad areas (science/math, history, literature, fine arts, miscellaneous social studies). They each did this in one tournament, but no other player has accomplished this over multiple tournaments.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.newtrier.k12.il.us/page.aspx?id=16482 Scobol Solo]<br />
*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/search/?name=scobol+solo&season=&archived=y Questions]<br />
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[[Category: High school tournaments]]<br />
[[Category: High school quizbowl in Illinois]]<br />
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<div>{{Highschoolteam|Name = IMSA Titans<br />
|image = IMSALogo.png<br />
|citystate = Aurora, Illinois<br />
|currentcoach = Michael Kolton<br />
|state = [[1989 IHSA State Championship Tournament|1989 IHSA]], [[1990 IHSA State Championship Tournament|1990 IHSA]], [[1994 IHSA State Championship Tournament|1994 IHSA]], [[1996 IHSA State Championship Tournament|1996 IHSA]], [[1997 IHSA State Championship Tournament|1997 IHSA]], [[1998 IHSA State Championship Tournament|1998 IHSA]], [[1999 IHSA State Championship Tournament|1999 IHSA]], [[2001 IHSA State Championship Tournament|2001 IHSA]], [[2011 IHSA State Championship Tournament|2011 IHSA]], 2012 [[Masonic]], [[2012 IHSA State Championship Tournament|2012 IHSA]], [[2013 IHSA State Championship Tournament|2013 IHSA]], [[NAQT Illinois State Tournament|2013 NAQT]], 2015 [[Masonic]]<br />
|nats = <br />
|status = Active<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Illinois Math and Science Academy''' ('''IMSA''') is a 3-year public residential high school located in Aurora, Illinois. It is open exclusively to residents of the state of Illinois, based on a competitive application process.<br />
<br />
As of 2012, IMSA has won more [[IHSA]] State Championships (11 of the 26 since 1987) in Scholastic Bowl than any school. It ended its longest drought (10 years without a title) by winning the 2011 IHSA State Championship Tournament, which turned out to be the first of four consecutive titles won under Coach [[Noah Prince]]. After finishing 4th and 3rd, respectively, in the 2015 and 2016 IHSA State tournaments, IMSA won the tournament in 2017, knocking out the likes of Stevenson in the process.<br />
<br />
The school has no conference affiliation. It competes in Class AA, the "large school" division, of the Illinois High School Association's State Championship Series. Its nickname is the Titans.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
IMSA has had at least 13 coaches since 1989. The current coach is [[Michael Kolton]].<br />
<br />
After its first state title in 1989, IMSA did not play again until the start of the 1990 IHSA State Series. At the time, winning the state title required winning a five round Sectional, and then winning a four round State Championship Tournament. IMSA went 9-0, and remains the only undefeated State Champion in Illinois history.<br />
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Over the course of its 12 State Championship Tournament appearances, IMSA racked up an impressive 34-5 record. Quincy Senior is the only team to have defeated them in an actual championship match. [[Adlai E. Stevenson|Stevenson]] is the only team to defeat them twice (opening round elimination in 2000, and in pool play in 2001). [[Bloomington]] is the only other team to eliminate IMSA in an opening round match (1991), with a loss to Hinsdale Central in the 1992 semifinals being the only other loss the school has suffered in the tournament.<br />
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IMSA's lack of success in the 2000s occurred at the conjunction of several notable events. First, their last State Title before then was the last year non-pyramidal questions were in predominant use in the State Series. At the same time, [[Wheaton North]] began to rise as a power, and as the schools were now in the same Sectional Tournament, IMSA found itself unable to defeat the improved Falcons from Wheaton.<br />
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Under coach Czerny, IMSA developed a reputation for no-showing and being late, in addition to rarely playing good quizbowl. Although IMSA has been known in the past to support and play bad quizbowl, after Dr. [[Noah Prince]] took over the program at the start of the 2009-2010 season, the quizbowl program has received a revival, embracing good quizbowl and winning good tournaments.<br />
<br />
In the 2010-2011 season, despite losing noted IMSA quizbowler [[Bonny Jain]], the team emerged from the shambles to becoming a top 20 team (according to the [[Fred Morlan]] rankings) in the nation. This was due to a coordinated mass study binge during the summer by the "Original" IMSA A consisting of juniors Webster Guan, Adam Kalinich, Nolan Maloney, and Eric Ordonez. Due to this meteoric rise, the team also ended their 10-year IHSA state title drought with a 1st place finish at the State tournament by defeating both Auburn and Stevenson. They set the records for most points scored at the state finals and most season losses by a state champion. After a season of finishing mostly 4th place in Illinois quizbowl tournaments, they went on to place T-13th at HSNCT. At the 2012 NSC, the team of Webster, Eric, and sophomores Sabrina Lato and Saieesh Rao settled for a disappointing 25th place, mainly due to the absence of Adam and Nolan. <br />
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The 2011-2012 season was the senior season of the "Original" IMSA A. During the season, they would share tournament wins with Lloyd Sy and Abid Haseeb's Rockford Auburn team as well as Loyola. IMSA would win the majority of tournaments in Illinois that year, capturing 1st place finishes in Earlybird, Wheaton North IHSSBCA Kickoffs, NTV ELEGANT, Ultima, Midwest Championship, and Wildcat in addition to placing T-3rd at ACF Fall at NIU, 3rd at Loyburn, 2nd at Auburn's Harvard Fall Mirror, T-2nd at Huskie Bowl, and 2nd at NAQT State. Auburn and IMSA would develop some sort of a rivalry, as the two teams would literally trade wins throughout the season, with Auburn ending with a slight regular season edge of 6-5. However, IMSA would defeat Auburn in an HSNCT Prelims match and a PACE top bracket playoffs match to gain the overall edge of 7-6. In terms of the Illinois State championships, IMSA would take two of the three state titles, defending their IHSA title and capturing the Masonic championship for the first time in school history. After a disappointing T-13th finish at the 2012 HSNCT (in which an Atlantic Charter/14 points hose eliminated them), they would redeem themselves by going 13-4 and capturing 4th place at the 2012 PACE NSC, tying them with 2011 Stevenson for the highest NSC finish at the time by an Illinois team. <br />
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The 2011-12 season would also mark the rise of IMSA B as an emerging Illinois powerhouse, led by [[Maia Karpovich]] (who played as Anton Karpovich), [[Saieesh Rao]], [[Sabrina Lato]], and [[Siva Gangavarapu]]. They would capture T-21st at both the [[2012 HSNCT]] and 2012 PACE NSC. In 2012-2013, after the graduation of the Original IMSA A, they would become the new IMSA A. During the season, they would consistently finish behind [[Belvidere North]] and [[Loyola]] (although sometimes capturing victories over the other two) in Illinois regular season. However, they would capture IMSA's first ever NAQT State Championship and three-peat in IHSA, winning the 2013 IHSA State Championship. They also won tournaments such as [[Niles West Varsity]], [[Huskie Bowl]], and [[ATROPHY]] in this year.At the 2013 HSNCT, they would also top their predecessors by finishing T-5th.<br />
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The IMSA B of 2012-2013 also played decently, although it did not continue the stellar legacy of the previous IMSA B. It had a great start winning the Wake Up Call III at Northwestern with its original lineup of [[Waleed Ali]],[[Daniel Pechi]],[[Rajiv Patel O'Connor]], and [[Daniel Collins]]. However, after that tournament it mostly placed in the middle of the pack or outside of the top bracket. This may have been due to the loss of history powerhouse Waleed Ali and Daniel Collins, who were replaced by [[Andrew Salij]] and former A team member [[Saieesh Rao]]. At the [[2013 HSNCT]], IMSA B placed T-73rd after losing its first playoff match to [[Sycamore]].<br />
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In the fall of 2014, [[Noah Prince]] resigned as head coach. [[Michael Kolton]] was appointed head coach, with Dr. Prince staying on as an assistant coach. Having finished second or third in most major tournaments (including a fourth place finish at IHSA State after a loss to Fremd), the team was ranked 17th in Morlan rankings going into nationals. However, the team, consisting of [[Andrew Salij]], [[Waleed Ali]], [[Dan Pechi]], [[Pranav Sivakumar]], and [[Nathaniel Smith]], finished 4th at HSNCT, losing in the semifinals to eventual champions Arcadia.<br />
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In 2016, IMSA, led by [[Mike Etzkorn]], finished 3rd in most tournaments, similarly to the previous year. However, mostly due to the absence of [[Nathaniel Smith]], the team finished in T-17th place at PACE NSC. The team also took T-53rd at HSNCT, mainly due to the absence of [[Pranav Sivakumar]].<br />
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==[[IMSANITY]]==<br />
IMSANITY is a question set written by IMSA, beginning in the school year 2010-2011. Since then, it has gone through four iterations, with the third one being known as LIMSANITY due to the addition of question writers [[Morgan Venkus]] and [[Ian Torres]] from [[Loyola]] Academy. IMSANITY is notable for having math questions that take up a substantial portion of the question distribution (3/3 in first iteration,1.5/1.5 thereafter). IMSANITY has often been hosted at [[TRIUMVIR]] at Metea Valley High School and at [[BMI]] in Bloomington, Illinois. IMSANITY was discontinued after Dr. Prince's resignation as coach in the 2014-15 season.<br />
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==2016-17 season==<br />
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Having graduated its leading scorer, IMSA was not expected to perform well in the 2016-17 season. However, thanks to extensive studying by [[Pranav Sivakumar]] and contributions from [[Nathaniel Smith]], [[Hanson Hao]], [[Shivani Sharma]], and [[Becky Mathew]], the team has had several creditable finishes this season, usually taking 3rd place. In addition to winning the IHSA State Tournament, IMSA has defeated [[Naperville North]] three times, knocking them out of all three state tournaments (with half of A team at NAQT State). IMSA is currently ranked 20th in Morlan rankings and is hoping to perform well at both nationals this year.<br />
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=[[IHSSBCA]] Individual Awards=<br />
==Playing for [[Team Illinois]]==<br />
* [[Peter McFerrin]] (1999)<br />
* [[Yogesh Raut]] (2000,2001)<br />
* [[Maia Karpovich]] (2014)<br />
* [[Andrew Salij]] (2015)<br />
* [[Mike Etzkorn]] (2016)<br />
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== All State Selections ==<br />
* 2010-11: [[Webster Guan]] (1st team), Nolan Maloney (2nd team), Eric Ordonez (2nd team)<br />
* 2011-12: Webster Guan (1st team), Adam Kalinich (1st team), Eric Ordonez (2nd team)<br />
* 2012-13: [[Maia Karpovich]] (1st team), [[Sabrina Lato]] (1st team)<br />
* 2013-14: [[Maia Karpovich]] (1st team), [[Andrew Salij]] (1st team)<br />
* 2014-15: [[Andrew Salij]] (1st team)<br />
* 2015-16: [[Mike Etzkorn]] (1st team)<br />
* 2016-17: [[Pranav Sivakumar]] (1st team)<br />
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==All Sectional Selections==<br />
* 2010-11: [[Webster Guan]], Nolan Maloney, Eric Ordonez<br />
* 2011-12: [[Webster Guan]], Adam Kalinich, Eric Ordonez<br />
* 2012-13: [[Maia Karpovich]], [[Sabrina Lato]], [[Saieesh Rao]]<br />
* 2013-14: [[Waleed Ali]], [[Maia Karpovich]], [[Andrew Salij]]<br />
* 2014-15: [[Andrew Salij]]<br />
* 2015-16: [[Mike Etzkorn]]<br />
* 2016-17: [[Pranav Sivakumar]]<br />
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=Noted Team Achievements=<br />
== Nationals ==<br />
* [[2016 HSNCT]]: T-53rd Place<br />
* [[2016 NSC]]: T-17th Place<br />
* [[2015 HSNCT]]: 4th Place<br />
* [[2014 HSNCT]]: T-13th Place<br />
* [[2013 HSNCT]]: T-5th Place<br />
* [[2013 NSC]]: 12th Place<br />
* [[2012 HSNCT]]: T-13th Place<br />
* [[2012 NSC]]: 4th Place<br />
* [[2011 HSNCT]]: T-13th Place<br />
* [[2011 NSC]]: 25th Place (missing half of "A" team)<br />
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== NAQT State ==<br />
* Champions: 2013, 2014<br />
* 2nd Place: 2012<br />
* 3rd Place: 2015<br />
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== Masonic State ==<br />
* Champions: 2012 (AA), 2014 (AA), 2015 (3A)<br />
* 3rd Place: 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017<br />
* 4th Place: 2010<br />
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== IHSA State Series ==<br />
* Champions: 1989-90, 1994, 1996-1999, 2001, 2011-2014, 2017<br />
* Runner-Up: 1993 <br />
* 3rd Place: 1992, 2010, 2016<br />
* 4th Place: 2015<br />
* Sectional Championships: 1989-95, 1996-2001, 2010-2017<br />
* Regional Championships: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010-2017<br />
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==Notable Alumni==<br />
* The "Original" IMSA A: [[Adam Kalinich]], [[Eric Ordonez]], [[Webster Guan]], [[Nolan Maloney]]<br />
* [[The Lyons]]<br />
* [[Yogesh Raut]]<br />
* [[Kevin Costello]]<br />
* [[Bonny Jain]]<br />
* [[Saieesh Rao]]<br />
* [[Sabrina Lato]]<br />
* [[Mike Wong]], Rob Grierson Friend of Scholastic Bowl Laureate<br />
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