https://www.qbwiki.com/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Jack+Edmondson&feedformat=atomQBWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T09:32:51ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.1https://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Grail&diff=45548Talk:Grail2021-01-19T01:46:35Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>"Haha, look at all these bad teams that couldn't answer a single tossup, most likely because their opponent was playing a tournament they should have known better than to enter in the first place!" If we're deleting pages that make quizbowl look bad and add no value this should be #1 on the list. [[User:Matt Weiner|Matt Weiner]] ([[User talk:Matt Weiner|talk]]) 21:35, 9 December 2020 (CST)<br />
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That's totally fair, I think it makes sense to remove the opponents at least and to add something along the lines of "if you are getting multiple grails at events, you might be playing on questions that are too easy for your team's level." Noted and I'll come back to look at this. --[[User:Chris Chiego|Chris Chiego]]<br />
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I've taken the liberty of adding more context to what a grail actually is to address these concerns. I also cut down on the bloat and overuse of linking. Some may find this controversial (if so, feel free to re-include), but I removed "near grails" from the page, as that seems to be mostly irrelevant, and could probably just go on a user's own page anyway. I kept the R. Hentzel thing because it's kinda funny, but otherwise just noting that you got 19 questions out of 20 seems to be exactly "add[ing] no value" and personal-record-keeping-esque (not that the team listing isn't too, but this is more egregious of that, IMO). I'd also add that if this page should go, so should "andrew hart grail" (not that most people call it that anymore, much less know that it is a thing). If this page is kept, it should use the tabular format that that page does, as it is easier to read. --[[User:Jack Edmondson|Jack]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Grail&diff=45547Talk:Grail2021-01-19T01:39:48Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>"Haha, look at all these bad teams that couldn't answer a single tossup, most likely because their opponent was playing a tournament they should have known better than to enter in the first place!" If we're deleting pages that make quizbowl look bad and add no value this should be #1 on the list. [[User:Matt Weiner|Matt Weiner]] ([[User talk:Matt Weiner|talk]]) 21:35, 9 December 2020 (CST)<br />
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That's totally fair, I think it makes sense to remove the opponents at least and to add something along the lines of "if you are getting multiple grails at events, you might be playing on questions that are too easy for your team's level." Noted and I'll come back to look at this. --[[User:Chris Chiego|Chris Chiego]]<br />
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I've taken the liberty of adding more context to what a grail actually is to address these concerns. I also cut down on the bloat and overuse of linking. Some may find this controversial (if so, feel free to re-include), but I removed "near grails" from the page, as that seems to be mostly irrelevant, and could probably just go on a user's own page anyway. I kept the R. Hentzel thing because it's kinda funny, but otherwise just noting that you got 19 questions out of 20 seems to be exactly "add[ing] no value" and personal-record-keeping-esque (not that the team listing isn't too, but this is more egregious of that, IMO). --[[User:Jack Edmondson|Jack]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Grail&diff=45546Grail2021-01-19T01:36:41Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Improvements</p>
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<div>In ''[[quizbowl|quiz bowl]]'', a '''grail''' is a term used to refer to the rare feat where one team correctly answers all tossups heard in a game. Generally, this implies a team answering 20 correct tossups, though in a [[timed games|timed match]] this can vary. The team does not need to answer all of the bonus parts correctly to achieve a grail. Grails almost always occur in situations where the teams playing are heavily mismatched. This may be due to one team missing its best players/being shorthanded, being a novice team, or playing a tournament where the questions being read are too difficult for them, even if they are not novices (e.g. [[ACF Nationals]]-level questions). As such, getting a grail is both dependent on chance -- that is, getting a match scheduled against a far weaker opponent -- and skill.<br />
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==Incomplete List of Teams That Have Achieved a Grail==<br />
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===Open===<br />
*[[Jonathan Magin]] and [[Rom Masrour]] at the 2008 Illinois Open Literature <br />
*A [[Jerry Vinokurov]]-led open team (consisting of [[Eric Mukherjee]], [[Andrew Hart]], and [[Dennis Jang]]) at [[Cardinal Classic]] 2008, against [[Berkeley]].<br />
*"Cherchez La Femme Nikita Khrushchev" (featuring [[Jake Sundberg]], Mark Morris, Dargan Ware, and Megan Patterson) at the 2011 [[HSNCT]] Mirror in Chattanooga (defeating [[Chuck Pearson]] and Eli Miles of Shorter, playing as Chuck Pearson Farewell Tour) (655-(-15))<br />
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===College===<br />
*[[Virginia|Virginia A]] at the [[2011 SCT]] East Carolina site, defeating [[Virginia Tech]] 680--5 (23 toss-ups heard)<br />
*[[Penn]] ([[Dallas Simons]], [[Patrick Liao]], [[Saajid Moyen]], and Eric Mukherjee) at the mid-Atlantic mirror of [[QUARK]] (defeating [[Johns Hopkins]] B)<br />
*Virginia A at [[Michigan Fall Tournament]] against [[Liberty University|Liberty A]] (820-0)<br />
*[[Stanford|Stanford A]] at [[2013 ACF Fall]] against Berkeley D (690 to -10)<br />
*[[Chicago|Chicago A]] at [[DRAGOON]] against Notre Dame B (730-0)<br />
*[[Illinois|Illinois B]] at 2014 [[SCT]], defeating [[Northern Illinois]] 860-0 (24 toss-ups heard).<br />
*Virginia A at [[2014 ACF Nationals]] against Stanford (660 to -5)<br />
*Stanford B at [[2015 SCT|2015 DII Berkeley SCT]] against UC Davis (720-(-5))<br />
*[[Oklahoma]] at [[2015 ACF Regionals]] against [[Kansas State]] (580 to -25)<br />
*Stanford A at [[2016 SCT|2016 DI Berkeley SCT]] against Berkeley C (705-0)<br />
*Chicago A at the [[EFT|2017 EFT]] Michigan site against [[Michigan|Michigan C]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5168/stats/prelims/teamdetail/#t8 (640-(-10))]<br />
*[[Princeton]] at [[Penn Bowl|2017 Penn Bowl]] against [[NYU|NYU B]] [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4683/stats/combined/teamdetail/#t14 (560-0)]<br />
*[[Penn State|Penn State A]] at [[2017 ACF Fall]] against Rochester B (630-0)<br />
*[[Minnesota|Minnesota B]] at [[2017 ACF Fall]] against Drake B (740-(-5)).[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4536/stats/combined/teamdetail/#t12]<br />
*Minnesota A at 2018 [[SCT]] (combined field) against [[Grinnell]] (845-(-30)) (22 toss-ups heard)<br />
*Chicago B at 2019 [[Terrapin Invitational Tournament|Terrapin]] against [[Missouri|Mizzou B]] [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5655/stats/all_games/teamdetail/#t4 (585-(-10))]<br />
*Chicago A at [[2020 ACF Regionals]] against [[DePaul]] (710-(-10))<br />
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===High School===<br />
*[[Eden Prairie]] A at [[SOCIAL]] III in 2006 against [[North Saint Paul]] B (730–0)<br />
*[[St. Anselm's]] at the [[2010 NSC]] against [[Seven Lakes]] B (810–0)<br />
*[[Auburn (Rockford, Illinois high school)|Auburn]] at the 2009 [[Loyburn]] against[[St. Viator]] (725–0)<br />
*[[St. Joseph (NJ)]] at the 2010 [[Caesar Rodney]] [[Rider Bowl]] against [[Delcastle]] B (715–0)<br />
*[[Maggie Walker]] twice at the 2009 [[Weekend of Quizbowl]] in consecutive rounds against [[St. Catherine's]] (780–0) and [[St. Anselm's]] (565–(–5))<br />
*[[Torrey Pines]] at the 2009 [[UCSD]] mirror of [[HFT]] against [[Canyon Crest]] (630–(–5))<br />
*[[Hunter]] in the finals of the 2010 [[Princeton High School Tournament]] against [[Bergen County Academies]] (765-0)<br />
*[[Copley]] at the 2010 FKT at Olmstead Falls against Southeast B (640-0)<br />
*[[Liberty (MO)|Liberty]] at the 2012 [[North Kansas City]] Varsity Invitational Tournament against [[Lafayette (St. Joseph, MO)|Lafayette]] (565-0)<br />
*[[Ladue]] twice at the 2012 [[Mort Walker Invitational]] against [[Smith-Cotton]] and [[Rock Bridge]] B 750-0, both times, once at the 2012 [[Tiger Bowl]] against [[Oakville]] B (930-10), and once at the 2013 Mort Walker Invitational against [[Tuscumbia]] (730-(-5))<br />
*[[Warren G. Harding]] at [[Ohio State|Ohio State's]] 2012 Buckeye Spring Tournament against [[Coshocton]] (740-0)<br />
*[[Rock Bridge]] at LIST II against Parkway South in 2012, (700-0)<br />
*[[Christiansburg]] at the 2012 Virginia Tech Spring Invitational against Honaker (710-(-10))<br />
*[[Early College at Guilford]] at the 2012 [[Tar Heel Cup]] against an exhibition team.<br />
*[[Raleigh Charter]] at the 2012 [[GSAC]] XX against Dinwiddie B and at the 2014 Millbrook Fall Tournament against Cleveland B<br />
*[[High Tech]] at the 2012 [[FAcT]] (IS-121A) against Suffield B (775-0) and at the 2013 [[Princeton High School Tournament]] against Phoenixville B (755-0)<br />
*[[Kellenberg|Kellenberg A]] at the 2013 [[Princeton High School Tournament]] against Mountain Lakes C (630-(-5))<br />
*[[Macomb|Macomb A]] at the 2013 Springfield Invitational against Bloomington B (655-0)<br />
*[[Cistercian|Cistercian A]] at the 2013 [[St. Mark's]] Invitational against [[Parish Episcopal]] (710-(-5))<br />
*[[Hickman]] at the 2013 [[Hallsville]] Invitational against Helias C (705-0)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central A]] twice at the 2013 [[University of Kentucky Spring Championship]], against Shelby Valley C (805-(-10)) and Mercy Academy (735-(-5)) and again at WUHSAC against Oakville B (700-10).<br />
*[[Wayzata|Wayzata A]] at the 2013 [[SOCIAL]] against [[Mounds Park|Mounds Park B]] (865-0).<br />
*[[Colonel By|Colonel By A]] at [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1719/stats/all_games/teamdetail/ Lisgar's JAMES Mirror] against [[Lisgar]] D (710 to 0)<br />
*[[Colonel By|Colonel By A]] at the 2013 Ottawa Quiz Bowl tournament IX against Colonel By D (790-0) <br />
*[[South Range]] at 2014 Mahoning County League against [[Poland Seminary]] (805-0)<br />
*[[Saratoga]] at the 2014 BELLOCO tournament against [[Mills]] (640-(-30))<br />
*[[Glasgow]] at 2014 [[NAQT Kentucky Championship]] against [[Ballard|Ballard B]] (560 (-20))<br />
*[[Enloe]] at 2014 [[Bacon Bowl]] at [[Millbrook]] against [[Smithfield-Selma]] B (770-0)<br />
*[[Hallsville]] at 2014 [[SSNCT]] against Miami Community Charter (695-0) (22 toss-ups heard)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central B]] at 2014 Ohio Fall Kickoff Tournament at [[Sidney]] against Urbana B (730-0)<br />
*[[Richard Montgomery]] at 2014 [[VCU]] Winter VII against "Homeschool Out of the Box" B (795-0)<br />
*[[Maggie Walker|Maggie Walker A]] at 2014 [[VCU]] Winter VII against Mount Vernon B (745-0)<br />
*[[Northmont|Northmont A]] at 2014 Rowdy Raider Invitational against Culver B (740-(-5))<br />
*[[Bellarmine|Bellarmine A]] at 2015 Wildcat Classic against [[Dougherty Valley|Dougherty Valley C]] (725-(-5))<br />
*[[Arcadia|Arcadia C]] at 2015 SAT against [[Bishop's School|Bishops B]] (795-0)<br />
*[[La Jolla|La Jolla A]] at 2015 ATLAS II against [[Santa Monica|Santa Monica C]] (730-(-5))<br />
*[[La Jolla|La Jolla A]] at [[Triton Winter|Triton Winter V]] against Scripps Ranch (750-0)<br />
*[[Arcadia|Arcadia A]] at 2015 PI against Irvine (745-(-5))<br />
*[[Souderton]], in their first pyramidal tournament ever, against Renaissance Academy at [[Great Valley]]'s 2015 winter tournament (690-(-5))<br />
*[[Northmont|Northmont A]] at 2015 Quizbowl Invitational for Northwest Ohio Academics against Mohawk A (815-0) and Lincolnview B (720-0)<br />
*[[Glasgow]] at 2015 [[SSNCT]] against Woodland (765-(-10)) (23 toss-ups heard)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central A]] at [[2015 PACE NSC]] against Del Norte (660-30)<br />
*[[Dorman|Dorman A]] at 2015 Glasgow Scottie Invitational against Merrol Hyde B (705-0)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central B]] at 2015 TEAMS against Hinsdale Central B (610-0)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central A]] at 2015 TEAMS against Pine Garden Stream Woods (730-0)<br />
*[[West Point|West Point A]] at the 2016 [[West Point Rainwater Invitational]] against Sylacauga B (475-0)<br />
*[[Miami Valley School|Miami Valley A]] at 2017 [[SSNCT]] against [[Doral Red Rock|Doral Red Rock B]] (870-(-5)) (24 toss-ups heard)<br />
*[[High Tech|High Tech A]] at 2018 [[Scarlet Knight Winter]] against Middlesex County Academy B (725-0)<br />
*[[Copley|Copley A]] at 2018 [[Battle Buzz]] against Keystone B (635-0)<br />
*[[Jesuit|Jesuit A]] at the 2018 [[LQBA]] Louisiana State Championship against Woodlawn (690-(-10))<br />
*[[Ottawa Hills]] at the 2018 [[Beavercreek Fall Invitational]] against Clermont Northeastern B (730-(-5))<br />
*[[Copley|Copley A]] at the 2018 [[Hicksville Invitational]] against Hillsdale B (705-0)<br />
*[[Allderdice|Allderdice A]] at the 2018 [[SAGACITY]] against John Marshall B (690-0)<br />
*Troy (NY) at the 2018 Tri-State Tussle IV against Ithaca B (750-0).<br />
*[[Manheim Township|Manheim Township A]] at the 2018 [[Henderson Invitational]] against Smithtown East A (670-(-5)) This occured on the same day as the Allderdice grail, so there were two grails in the same state at different tournaments on November 17th, 2018.<br />
*[[Oak Park-River Forest]] against [[Morton West]] (860-20) in the IHSA West Suburban Conference on November 28th, 2018<br />
*[[Copley|Copley A]] against Barberton (770-5) during the 2019 [[Summit County Academic Challenge League]] regular season. <br />
*[[High Tech|High Tech A]] at 2019's [[PHSAT]] XXVII against Moravian Academy B ([https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=942069 765-(-10)])<br />
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===Middle School===<br />
*[[Middlesex Middle|Middlesex Middle A]] at 2015 [[Manheim Township]] Middle School Academic Challenge against Landisville Middle A (785-(-5))<br />
*[[Miami Valley School (middle school)|Miami Valley School A]] four times: once against Willis at Olentangy Liberty's AQUILA I (645-(-10)), once at the 2015 Ohio Middle School State Championship against St. Mary B (700-0), once at the 2016 Harvest Prep Fall Challenge against Delaware Dempsey (760-0), and once at the 3rd Annual Copley Middle School Invitational against St. Hilary A (765 -(-10)).<br />
*[[Barrington Station]] twice: at 2017 SMV Fall Gladiator Open against [[St. Mary's Visitation|St. Mary's Visitation B]] [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=776358 715–0] on November 4, 2017; and at 2018 Northwestern University Jr. Wildcat against [[St. Giles|St. Giles A]] [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=821933 710–(-10)] on March 10, 2018<br />
*[[Hunter|Hunter A]] at 2018 Bergen Winter Classic against [[Middlesex Middle|Middlesex Middle G]] 745-(-10)<br />
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==Incomplete List of Solo Teams That Have Achieved an Individual Grail or Near-Grail==<br />
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Even rarer, an individual grail occurs when a single individual, playing solo or with teammates, answers every tossup in a regulation match. <br />
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===College/Open===<br />
*[[Chipola College|Chipola's]] [[Dallin Kelson]] at the Valencia site of the 2010 Delta Burke (defeating Mercer B in the first round of the playoffs 620-0)<br />
*[[Tristan Willey]] (then of [[Macomb]], but playing independently at the collegiate level) grailed against [[Central Michigan|Central Michigan A]] at [[2011 ACF Fall]] at [[NIU]]. [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/143/stats/combined/playerdetail/#p1_27]. <br />
*[[Seth Kendall]] of [[Kentucky]] grailed against UTK B at the [[2005 ACF Fall]].[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2181&p=27529]<br />
*[[R. Hentzel]] legendarily had an attempt at an individual grail foiled when he failed to identify an "Easy-Bake Oven." <br />
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===High School===<br />
*[[Eric Xu]] of [[Western Albemarle]] grailed against [[Mount Vernon]] B at [[RAYNOR]] (run by [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]]).<br />
*[[Alex Schmidt]] of [[Lehigh Valley]] grailed against [[Smithtown West]] A at [[Harvard Fall Tournament]] XII.<br />
*[[Kuo-Kai Chin]] of [[Walter Johnson]] grailed against [[Centennial]] C at [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/605/stats/playoffs/playerdetail/#p1_21 PSAT/NMSQT]<br />
*[[John John Groger]] of [[Miami Valley School]] grailed against [[Auburn]] at the high-school only UChicago mirror of [[ACF Fall|2019 ACF Fall]]<br />
*[[Steven Botos]] of [[Dublin Scioto]] grailed against [[Interlochen]] at [[DART Mainsite]]<br />
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===Middle School===<br />
*[[William Groger]] of [[Miami Valley School (middle school)| Miami Valley]] A grailed against St. Hilary A at the 3rd Annual Copley Middle School Invitational.<br />
*[[Robert Muñiz]] of [[Midtown Classical|Midtown Classical A]] grailed against Montford A at the Fourth Annual Fairview Egghead Invitational Tournament.<br />
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==See Also==<br />
*[[Andrew Hart Grail]]<br />
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[[Category: Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Princeton&diff=45480Princeton2021-01-13T20:05:07Z<p>Jack Edmondson: /* History */</p>
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<div>{{Collegebox|College Name = <center>Princeton University</center><br />
|Image = Princeton.gif<br />
|citystate = Princeton, NJ<br />
|president = <center>Eve Fleisig, Montagu James</center><br />
|nats = NAQT Undergraduate: [[2000 ICT|2000]], [[2001 ICT|2001]], [[2002 ICT|2002]]. NAQT Division II: [[1999 ICT|1999]]<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. The legacy of the longtime CBI exclusivity has, as recently as 2021, still left an impact on the club, as its official email listserv and school email address officially utilize the phrases collegebowl and cbowl, respectively.<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, though its full-strength A team won the undergraduate title at the 2020 Mid-Atlantic SCT and, alongside that year's [[Harvard]] B team, [[Carleton College|Carleton]], and [[Delaware]] — the latter of whom they beat for the SCT UG Title in spite of a slightly lower D value — would have likely been in close contention for undergraduate titles at ICT and ACF Nationals, had they not been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.<ref>[https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp?rating_group_id=1049 2020 D Values]</ref><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, 2010) 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. Given the lack of large buildings on campus with many individual classrooms in a compact area, tournaments often by necessity are held across multiple buildings, occasionally to disastrous effect: [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=268241#p268241 PHSAT XXI] infamously used five different buildings for a 48 team tournament. 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 [[EMT]] and [[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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==Nationals Results==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! !! ACF Nationals (2005–) !! Division I ICT !! Division II ICT<br />
|-<br />
| 1997 || ||colspan="2"|15th<br />
|-<br />
| 1998 || || 18th || 8th<br />
|-<br />
| 1999 || || || '''1st'''<br />
|-<br />
| 2000 || || 7th '''(1st UG)''' || 3rd<br />
|-<br />
| 2001 || || 6th '''(1st UG)''' || 4th<br />
|-<br />
| 2002 || || 4th '''(1st UG)''' || 5th<br />
|-<br />
| 2003 || || 18th || 16th<br />
|-<br />
| 2005 || || 9th || <br />
|-<br />
| 2006 || 5th || 9th || A: 6thB:5th<br />
|-<br />
| 2007 || || 25th || <br />
|-<br />
| 2008 || || 21st || 5th<br />
|-<br />
| 2009 || || 28th || 7th<br />
|-<br />
| 2010 || || || 9th<br />
|-<br />
| 2011 || || || 8th<br />
|-<br />
| 2016 || 26th || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2017 || 16th || || 17th<br />
|-<br />
| 2018 || || || 11th<br />
|}<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>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=PARFAIT&diff=45479PARFAIT2021-01-13T19:31:39Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>PARFAIT was an annual [[Princeton]] tournament, begun in 2005 as a packet-submission event by [[Jordan Boyd-Graber]], and written by Princeton and its mirror sites in 2006 and 2007. Most versions were marked by a somewhat disproportionate amount of hardcore theoretical mathematics and computer science.<br />
<br />
Apart from minor concerns about the the wisdom of having a 30-20-10 bonus on Pierre Boulle, the 2006 version was praised as being decently written, and a good time was had by all. <br />
<br />
The 2007 version, however, inspired [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4685 this thread]. To summarize, the editing left something to be desired. Highlights of the tournament included a tossup on "The Wardrobe" from the C.S. Lewis series. Post-tournament highlights include [[Jordan Boyd-Graber]]'s notable defense that "we could have just decided to throw an IS set tournament" (in reference to the University of South Florida going back on its promise to mirror and write packets for the tournament at the last minute only to announce an IS tournament).<br />
<br />
2007 would be the final iteration of the tournament.<br />
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[[Category: MACF events]]<br />
[[Category: Tournaments]]<br />
[[Category: Princeton]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]<br />
[[Category:Ridiculous Acronyms]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York-Adams_Quiz_Bowl_League&diff=43805York-Adams Quiz Bowl League2020-12-09T17:08:58Z<p>Jack Edmondson: /* Format */</p>
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<div>The York-Adams Quiz Bowl League is a pyramidal quiz bowl league based out of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by Chris Manning, former coach of [[Manheim Township]] and commissioner of the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]].<br />
<br />
==History and Formation==<br />
In 2016, York Suburban High School, then a member of the LL League, contacted schools in the region to see if there was interest to form a quiz bowl league in York and Adams Counties. At first, response was low, with only Bermudian Springs High School expressing strong interest.<br />
<br />
However, the next year, an email was again sent by York Suburban to coaches of the local quiz bowl teams to find support for a league. This time, response was much higher, with nine teams ultimately expressing interest, perhaps in part to the misfortunes at the Chester County Intermediate Unit's [[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions|qualifier tournament]] at the end of the 2016-17 school year (which was, at the time, the only quiz bowl event many of the nine schools played) for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], where a last-second drop caused an hour delay and logistical problems throughout the event.<br />
<br />
The league began its inaugural season in the 2017-18 school year with seven members after Logos Academy and Delone Catholic decided not to participate.<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
The York-Adams League uses A set question sets from [[NAQT]], using three packets to completion in the course of the regular season and playoffs. Each game is essentially identical to an untimed [[NAQT rules|NAQT match]]: each four-member team plays 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Each match is comprised of three games played on three separate packets. Unlike the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], statistics are kept for both the regular season and playoffs.<br />
<br />
In its first season, the league only used two packets, which forced teams to have a bye round and have uneven scheduling; namely, some of the earlier-season matches were only two games instead of the standard three. In the 2018-19 season, the league began to use three packets and standardized the scheduling. As of 2019, the league reverted to using only two packets in order to conserve some for other tournament play. As a consequence, the regular season's length is capped and the league tournament uses either double or single-elimination playoffs. [[HSNCT]] and [[SSNCT]] qualification is based on both final placement at the tournament and during the regular season.<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="75"|Season||width="100"|Champion||width="50"|Score||width="140"|Second||width="40"|Teams||width="100"|Host||width=145|Best Seasonal PPG<br />
|-<br />
|[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8514 2017-18]||[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]]||365-145||[[Southwestern Senior High School|Southwestern]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 314.75<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
||[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=9608 2018-19]||[[Red Lion Area Senior High School|Red Lion]]||315-190||[[Central York High School|Central York]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 346.67<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
||[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=10754 2019-20]||[[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]]||280-245||[[Bermudian Springs High School|Bermudian Springs]]||8||||Red Lion, 296.67<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Adams County===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]] (2017-<br />
*Fairfield Area High School (2019-<br />
<br />
===York County===<br />
*[[Central York High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Hanover Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Red Lion Area Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Spring Grove Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Southwestern Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[York Suburban High School]] (2017-<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Regional_Academic_Competitions&diff=43804Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions2020-12-09T16:52:49Z<p>Jack Edmondson: /* General Format */</p>
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<div>{{Pic|Image = [[File:PA_School_Districts.gif|frameless|485px]]<br />
| Caption = Each Intermediate Unit and its subsidiary districts in Pennsylvania. All schools within those districts are a part of their respective IU<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases by virtue of winning one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each Intermediate Unit to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition. Because the bill enacting PSAC does not stipulate how each Intermediate Unit may select their team, a wide variety of styles of tournaments and selection methods are used across Pennsylvania.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running (with the exception of [[Delco Hi-Q|Delaware County's Hi-Q]]) and most prominent qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC. Three teams compete at once to answer 12 tossups, followed by team-specific fanfare rounds of 60 seconds each. This is then repeated two more times. Overall score across four regular season matches determines seeding for the playoffs. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often poorly worded, trivial, or contained [[hose|hoses]]. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers, but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Capital Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time. Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU may use NAQT questions to a lesser degree than PSAC or the Chester County league itself. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have created or changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia IU's Regional Qualifier, for instance, is its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. The [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]] plays on untimed NAQT rules and sends its champion to PSAC.<br />
<br />
Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three team format that PSAC uses. These events also usually occur on one day, like the CCIU-style qualifiers. Schuykill IU follows this format, where their regular-season league culminates in an "Academic Bowl" that uses NAQT questions but pits only two teams at once using the CCIU-style scoring rules. Other IUs have entirely different formats, like NEIU 19 or DelCo IU 25, which have more unique tournaments. The NEIU tournament does not use buzzers, uses only 8 CCIU-produced tossups per round, and only one team may answer a tossup at a time (whereupon an incorrect response will allow the other team to "steal."). Delaware County's Hi-Q follows its own set of rules.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. The Allegheny IU simply grants a PSAC berth to the team that first expresses interest. Others, like Central IU 10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]].<br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, most of the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and, on occasion, have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points. More recently, Regional Competitions hosted by the CCIU have begun to utilize more standard NAQT-style tossups, but still mix them with their own questions, or mix the contents of multiple NAQT packets in a game, still allowing for repeated content.<br />
<br />
Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually involves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most. As a consequence of the extreme costs of setup posed on other IUs by the CCIU, registration fees for teams playing these events are comparable to that of [[HSNCT]], with some having been as high as $600 dollars for merely two or three rounds of play.<br />
<br />
Because matches at CCIU-hosted qualifiers are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match against two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Colonial, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that Central IU 10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
IUs that use less conventional formats, such as NEIU, are poor in their own right, and due to their nature inherently rely more on luck.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Regional_Academic_Competitions&diff=43803Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions2020-12-09T16:52:00Z<p>Jack Edmondson: /* Criticism */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Pic|Image = [[File:PA_School_Districts.gif|frameless|485px]]<br />
| Caption = Each Intermediate Unit and its subsidiary districts in Pennsylvania. All schools within those districts are a part of their respective IU<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases by virtue of winning one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each Intermediate Unit to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition. Because the bill enacting PSAC does not stipulate how each Intermediate Unit may select their team, a wide variety of styles of tournaments and selection methods are used across Pennsylvania.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running (with the exception of [[Delco Hi-Q|Delaware County's Hi-Q]]) and most prominent qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC. Three teams compete at once to answer 12 tossups, followed by team-specific fanfare rounds of 60 seconds each. This is then repeated two more times. Overall score across four regular season matches determines seeding for the playoffs. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often poorly worded, trivial, or contained [[hose|hoses]]. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers, but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Capital Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time. Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU may use NAQT questions to a lesser degree than PSAC or the Chester County league itself. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have created or changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia IU's Regional Qualifier, for instance, is its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. The [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]] plays on untimed NAQT rules and sends its champion to PSAC.<br />
<br />
Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three team format that PSAC uses. These events also usually occur on one day, like the CCIU-style qualifiers. Schuykill IU follows this format, where their regular-season league culminates in an "Academic Bowl" that uses NAQT questions but pits only two teams at once using the CCIU-style scoring rules. Other IUs have entirely different formats, like NEIU 19 or DelCo IU 25, which have more unique tournaments. The NEIU tournament does not use buzzers, uses only 8 CCIU-produced tossups per round, and only one team may answer a tossup at a time (whereupon an incorrect response will allow the other team to "steal."). Delaware County's Hi-Q follows its own set of rules.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. The Allegheny IU simply grants a PSAC berth to the team that first expresses interest. Others, like Central IU 10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, most of the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and, on occasion, have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points. More recently, Regional Competitions hosted by the CCIU have begun to utilize more standard NAQT-style tossups, but still mix them with their own questions, or mix the contents of multiple NAQT packets in a game, still allowing for repeated content.<br />
<br />
Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually involves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most. As a consequence of the extreme costs of setup posed on other IUs by the CCIU, registration fees for teams playing these events are comparable to that of [[HSNCT]], with some having been as high as $600 dollars for merely two or three rounds of play.<br />
<br />
Because matches at CCIU-hosted qualifiers are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match against two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Colonial, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that Central IU 10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
IUs that use less conventional formats, such as NEIU, are poor in their own right, and due to their nature inherently rely more on luck.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York-Adams_Quiz_Bowl_League&diff=43802York-Adams Quiz Bowl League2020-12-09T16:31:13Z<p>Jack Edmondson: /* Adams County */</p>
<hr />
<div>The York-Adams Quiz Bowl League is a pyramidal quiz bowl league based out of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by Chris Manning, former coach of [[Manheim Township]] and commissioner of the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]].<br />
<br />
==History and Formation==<br />
In 2016, York Suburban High School, then a member of the LL League, contacted schools in the region to see if there was interest to form a quiz bowl league in York and Adams Counties. At first, response was low, with only Bermudian Springs High School expressing strong interest.<br />
<br />
However, the next year, an email was again sent by York Suburban to coaches of the local quiz bowl teams to find support for a league. This time, response was much higher, with nine teams ultimately expressing interest, perhaps in part to the misfortunes at the Chester County Intermediate Unit's [[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions|qualifier tournament]] at the end of the 2016-17 school year (which was, at the time, the only quiz bowl event many of the nine schools played) for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], where a last-second drop caused an hour delay and logistical problems throughout the event.<br />
<br />
The league began its inaugural season in the 2017-18 school year with seven members after Logos Academy and Delone Catholic decided not to participate.<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
The York-Adams League uses A set question sets from [[NAQT]], using three packets to completion in the course of the regular season and playoffs. Each game is essentially identical to an untimed [[NAQT rules|NAQT match]]: each four-member team plays 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Each match is comprised of three games played on three separate packets. Unlike the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], statistics are kept for both the regular season and playoffs.<br />
<br />
In its first season, the league only used two packets, which forced teams to have a bye round and have uneven scheduling; namely, some of the earlier-season matches were only two games instead of the standard three. In the 2018-19 season, the league began to use three packets and standardized the scheduling.<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="75"|Season||width="100"|Champion||width="50"|Score||width="140"|Second||width="40"|Teams||width="100"|Host||width=145|Best Seasonal PPG<br />
|-<br />
|[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8514 2017-18]||[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]]||365-145||[[Southwestern Senior High School|Southwestern]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 314.75<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
||[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=9608 2018-19]||[[Red Lion Area Senior High School|Red Lion]]||315-190||[[Central York High School|Central York]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 346.67<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
||[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=10754 2019-20]||[[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]]||280-245||[[Bermudian Springs High School|Bermudian Springs]]||8||||Red Lion, 296.67<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Adams County===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]] (2017-<br />
*Fairfield Area High School (2019-<br />
<br />
===York County===<br />
*[[Central York High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Hanover Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Red Lion Area Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Spring Grove Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Southwestern Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[York Suburban High School]] (2017-<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York-Adams_Quiz_Bowl_League&diff=43801York-Adams Quiz Bowl League2020-12-09T16:29:56Z<p>Jack Edmondson: /* Results */</p>
<hr />
<div>The York-Adams Quiz Bowl League is a pyramidal quiz bowl league based out of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by Chris Manning, former coach of [[Manheim Township]] and commissioner of the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]].<br />
<br />
==History and Formation==<br />
In 2016, York Suburban High School, then a member of the LL League, contacted schools in the region to see if there was interest to form a quiz bowl league in York and Adams Counties. At first, response was low, with only Bermudian Springs High School expressing strong interest.<br />
<br />
However, the next year, an email was again sent by York Suburban to coaches of the local quiz bowl teams to find support for a league. This time, response was much higher, with nine teams ultimately expressing interest, perhaps in part to the misfortunes at the Chester County Intermediate Unit's [[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions|qualifier tournament]] at the end of the 2016-17 school year (which was, at the time, the only quiz bowl event many of the nine schools played) for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], where a last-second drop caused an hour delay and logistical problems throughout the event.<br />
<br />
The league began its inaugural season in the 2017-18 school year with seven members after Logos Academy and Delone Catholic decided not to participate.<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
The York-Adams League uses A set question sets from [[NAQT]], using three packets to completion in the course of the regular season and playoffs. Each game is essentially identical to an untimed [[NAQT rules|NAQT match]]: each four-member team plays 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Each match is comprised of three games played on three separate packets. Unlike the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], statistics are kept for both the regular season and playoffs.<br />
<br />
In its first season, the league only used two packets, which forced teams to have a bye round and have uneven scheduling; namely, some of the earlier-season matches were only two games instead of the standard three. In the 2018-19 season, the league began to use three packets and standardized the scheduling.<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="75"|Season||width="100"|Champion||width="50"|Score||width="140"|Second||width="40"|Teams||width="100"|Host||width=145|Best Seasonal PPG<br />
|-<br />
|[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8514 2017-18]||[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]]||365-145||[[Southwestern Senior High School|Southwestern]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 314.75<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
||[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=9608 2018-19]||[[Red Lion Area Senior High School|Red Lion]]||315-190||[[Central York High School|Central York]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 346.67<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
||[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=10754 2019-20]||[[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]]||280-245||[[Bermudian Springs High School|Bermudian Springs]]||8||||Red Lion, 296.67<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Adams County===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]] (2017-<br />
===York County===<br />
*[[Central York High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Hanover Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Red Lion Area Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Spring Grove Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Southwestern Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[York Suburban High School]] (2017-<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Princeton&diff=42870Princeton2020-06-17T03:31:53Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Collegebox|College Name = <center>Princeton University</center><br />
|Image = Princeton.gif<br />
|citystate = Princeton, NJ<br />
|president = <center>Eve Fleisig, Montagu James</center><br />
|nats = NAQT Undergraduate: [[2000 ICT|2000]], [[2001 ICT|2001]], [[2002 ICT|2002]]. NAQT Division II: [[1999 ICT|1999]]<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
'''Princeton University''' is an Ivy League institution in Princeton, New Jersey with one of the oldest quiz bowl clubs in existence.<br />
<br />
==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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
===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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
Princeton has also hosted other college events like [[EMT]] and [[WAO II]].<br />
<br />
Recently, Princeton's club has collaborated with [[Rutgers]] to host the New Jersey NAQT State Championship.<br />
<br />
===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 />
<br />
==Nationals Results==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! !! ACF Nationals (2005–) !! Division I ICT !! Division II ICT<br />
|-<br />
| 1997 || ||colspan="2"|15th<br />
|-<br />
| 1998 || || 18th || 8th<br />
|-<br />
| 1999 || || || '''1st'''<br />
|-<br />
| 2000 || || 7th '''(1st UG)''' || 3rd<br />
|-<br />
| 2001 || || 6th '''(1st UG)''' || 4th<br />
|-<br />
| 2002 || || 4th '''(1st UG)''' || 5th<br />
|-<br />
| 2003 || || 18th || 16th<br />
|-<br />
| 2005 || || 9th || <br />
|-<br />
| 2006 || 5th || 9th || A: 6thB:5th<br />
|-<br />
| 2007 || || 25th || <br />
|-<br />
| 2008 || || 21st || 5th<br />
|-<br />
| 2009 || || 28th || 7th<br />
|-<br />
| 2010 || || || 9th<br />
|-<br />
| 2011 || || || 8th<br />
|-<br />
| 2016 || 26th || || <br />
|-<br />
| 2017 || 16th || || 17th<br />
|-<br />
| 2018 || || || 11th<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==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 />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[//quizbowl.princeton.edu/ Princeton Quiz Bowl Club Page]<br />
*[http://www.princeton.edu/~cbowl/ Old Site]<br />
<br />
==Title Succession==<br />
<br />
{{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 />
<br />
{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[NAQT ICT]] Division II<br />
|year = [[1999 ICT|1999]]<br />
|previous = [[1998 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
|next = [[2000 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
===Unofficial title succession===<br />
<br />
{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[ACF Nationals]] Undergraduate<br />
|year = [[2000 ACF Nationals|2000]]<br />
|previous = [[1999 Texas|Texas]]<br />
|next = [[2001 Berry|Berry]]<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[ACF Nationals]] Undergraduate<br />
|year = [[2002 ACF Nationals|2002]]<br />
|previous = [[2001 Berry|Berry]]<br />
|next = [[2003 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
{{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 />
<br />
{{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 />
<br />
[[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>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York-Adams_Quiz_Bowl_League&diff=39186York-Adams Quiz Bowl League2019-05-09T16:31:36Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>The York-Adams Quiz Bowl League is a pyramidal quiz bowl league based out of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by Chris Manning, former coach of [[Manheim Township]] and commissioner of the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]].<br />
<br />
==History and Formation==<br />
In 2016, York Suburban High School, then a member of the LL League, contacted schools in the region to see if there was interest to form a quiz bowl league in York and Adams Counties. At first, response was low, with only Bermudian Springs High School expressing strong interest.<br />
<br />
However, the next year, an email was again sent by York Suburban to coaches of the local quiz bowl teams to find support for a league. This time, response was much higher, with nine teams ultimately expressing interest, perhaps in part to the misfortunes at the Chester County Intermediate Unit's [[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions|qualifier tournament]] at the end of the 2016-17 school year (which was, at the time, the only quiz bowl event many of the nine schools played) for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], where a last-second drop caused an hour delay and logistical problems throughout the event.<br />
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The league began its inaugural season in the 2017-18 school year with seven members after Logos Academy and Delone Catholic decided not to participate.<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
The York-Adams League uses A set question sets from [[NAQT]], using three packets to completion in the course of the regular season and playoffs. Each game is essentially identical to an untimed [[NAQT rules|NAQT match]]: each four-member team plays 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Each match is comprised of three games played on three separate packets. Unlike the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], statistics are kept for both the regular season and playoffs.<br />
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In its first season, the league only used two packets, which forced teams to have a bye round and have uneven scheduling; namely, some of the earlier-season matches were only two games instead of the standard three. In the 2018-19 season, the league began to use three packets and standardized the scheduling.<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="75"|Season||width="100"|Champion||width="50"|Score||width="100"|Second||width="45"|Teams||width="100"|Host||width=145|Best Seasonal PPG<br />
|-<br />
|[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8514 2017-18]||[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]]||365-145||[[Southwestern Senior High School|Southwestern]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 314.75<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
||[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=9608 2018-19]||[[Red Lion Area Senior High School|Red Lion]]||||[[Central York High School|Central York]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 346.67<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|}<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Adams County===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]] (2017-<br />
===York County===<br />
*[[Central York High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Hanover Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Red Lion Area Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Spring Grove Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Southwestern Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[York Suburban High School]] (2017-<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Regional_Academic_Competitions&diff=38390Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions2019-02-26T01:19:28Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Pic|Image = [[File:PA_School_Districts.gif|frameless|485px]]<br />
| Caption = Each Intermediate Unit and its subsidiary districts in Pennsylvania. All schools within those districts are a part of their respective IU<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases by virtue of winning one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each Intermediate Unit to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition. Because the bill enacting PSAC does not stipulate how each Intermediate Unit may select their team, a wide variety of styles of tournaments and selection methods are used across Pennsylvania.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running (with the exception of [[Delco Hi-Q|Delaware County's Hi-Q]]) and most prominent qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC. Three teams compete at once to answer 12 tossups, followed by team-specific fanfare rounds of 60 seconds each. This is then repeated two more times. Overall score across four regular season matches determines seeding for the playoffs. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often poorly worded, trivial, or contained [[hose|hoses]]. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers, but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Capital Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time. Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU may use NAQT questions to a lesser degree than PSAC or the Chester County league itself. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have created or changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia IU's Regional Qualifier, for instance, is its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. The [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]] plays on untimed NAQT rules and sends its champion to PSAC.<br />
<br />
Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three team format that PSAC uses. These events also usually occur on one day, like the CCIU-style qualifiers. Schuykill IU follows this format, where their regular-season league culminates in an "Academic Bowl" that uses NAQT questions but pits only two teams at once using the CCIU-style scoring rules. Other IUs have entirely different formats, like NEIU 19 or DelCo IU 25, which have more unique tournaments. The NEIU tournament does not use buzzers, uses only 8 CCIU-produced tossups per round, and only one team may answer a tossup at a time (whereupon an incorrect response will allow the other team to "steal."). Delaware County's Hi-Q follows its own set of rules.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. The Allegheny IU simply grants a PSAC berth to the team that first expresses interest. Others, like Central IU 10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, most of the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and, on occasion, have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points.<br />
<br />
Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually involves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most.<br />
<br />
Because matches at CCIU-hosted qualifiers are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match against two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Colonial, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that Central IU 10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Regional_Academic_Competitions&diff=38389Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions2019-02-26T01:13:38Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Pic|Image = [[File:PA_School_Districts.gif|frameless|485px]]<br />
| Caption = Each Intermediate Unit and its subsidiary districts in Pennsylvania. All schools within those districts are a part of their respective IU<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases by virtue of winning one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each Intermediate Unit to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition. Because the bill enacting PSAC does not stipulate how each Intermediate Unit may select their team, a wide variety of styles of tournaments and selection methods are used across Pennsylvania.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running (with the exception of [[Delco Hi-Q|Delaware County's Hi-Q]]) and most prominent qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC. Three teams compete at once to answer 12 tossups, followed by team-specific fanfare rounds of 60 seconds each. This is then repeated two more times. Overall score across four regular season matches determines seeding for the playoffs. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often poorly worded, trivial, or contained [[hose|hoses]]. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers, but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Capital Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time. Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU may use NAQT questions to a lesser degree than PSAC or the Chester County league itself. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have created or changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia IU's Regional Qualifier, for instance, is its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. The [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]] plays on untimed NAQT rules, sends its champion to PSAC.<br />
<br />
Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three team format that PSAC uses. These events also usually occur on one day, like the CCIU-style qualifiers. Schuykill IU follows this format, where their regular-season league culminates in an "Academic Bowl" that uses NAQT questions but pits only two teams at once using the CCIU-style scoring rules. Other IUs have entirely different formats, like NEIU 19 or DelCo IU 25, which have more unique tournaments. The NEIU tournament does not use buzzers, uses only 8 CCIU-produced tossups per round, and only one team may answer a tossup at a time (whereupon an incorrect response will allow the other team to "steal."). Delaware County's Hi-Q follows its own set of rules.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. The Allegheny IU simply grants a PSAC berth to the team that first expresses interest. Others, like Central IU 10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, most of the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and, on occasion, have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points.<br />
<br />
Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually involves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most.<br />
<br />
Because matches at CCIU-hosted qualifiers are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match against two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Colonial, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that Central IU 10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York-Adams_Quiz_Bowl_League&diff=38388York-Adams Quiz Bowl League2019-02-26T01:03:10Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
<hr />
<div>The York-Adams Quiz Bowl League is a pyramidal quiz bowl league based out of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by Chris Manning, former coach of [[Manheim Township]] and commissioner of the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]].<br />
<br />
==History and Formation==<br />
In 2016, York Suburban High School, then a member of the LL League, contacted schools in the region to see if there was interest to form a quiz bowl league in York and Adams Counties. At first, response was low, with only Bermudian Springs High School expressing strong interest.<br />
<br />
However, the next year, an email was again sent by York Suburban to coaches of the local quiz bowl teams to find support for a league. This time, response was much higher, with nine teams ultimately expressing interest, perhaps in part to the misfortunes at the Chester County Intermediate Unit's [[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions|qualifier tournament]] at the end of the 2016-17 school year (which was, at the time, the only quiz bowl event many of the nine schools played) for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], where a last-second drop caused an hour delay and logistical problems throughout the event.<br />
<br />
The league began its inaugural season in the 2017-18 school year with seven members after Logos Academy and Delone Catholic decided not to participate.<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
The York-Adams League uses A set question sets from [[NAQT]], using three packets to completion in the course of the regular season and playoffs. Each game is essentially identical to an untimed [[NAQT rules|NAQT match]]: each four-member team plays 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Each match is comprised of three games played on three separate packets. Unlike the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], statistics are kept for both the regular season and playoffs.<br />
<br />
In its first season, the league only used two packets, which forced teams to have a bye round and have uneven scheduling; namely, some of the earlier-season matches were only two games instead of the standard three. In the 2018-19 season, the league began to use three packets and standardized the scheduling.<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="75"|Season||width="100"|Champion||width="50"|Score||width="100"|Second||width="45"|Teams||width="100"|Host||width=145|Best PPG<br />
|-<br />
|[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8514 2017-18]||[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]]||365-145||[[Southwestern Senior High School|Southwestern]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 314.75<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
||2018-19||[[Red Lion Area Senior High School|Red Lion]]||||[[Central York High School|Central York]]||7||Central York||<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|}<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Adams County===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]] (2017-<br />
===York County===<br />
*[[Central York High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Hanover Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Red Lion Area Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Spring Grove Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Southwestern Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[York Suburban High School]] (2017-<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Lancaster-Lebanon_League&diff=38387Lancaster-Lebanon League2019-02-26T01:02:17Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>The Lancaster-Lebanon League is a quiz bowl league formed in 1994 based on the existing athletic conference for high schools from Lancaster and Lebanon counties, Pennsylvania. The league briefly included York County — only ever including York Suburban HS — but, since the 2017-18 season, has reverted back to exclusively Lancaster and Lebanon counties. The winner represents the league at the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. The league's championship is named in honor of longtime [[Manheim Township]] coach [[Anne Clouser]]. <br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
Each team plays six biweekly matches of three games each, for a total schedule of 18 games. The regular season results are used to seed teams for the league's single-elimination championship tournament. Game format is [[Tossup/Bonus Format|tossup/bonus]] in rounds of 25 tossups and 15 bonuses. In recent years, the LL League has used [[NAQT]] questions exclusively.<br />
<br />
*[http://nie.lancasteronline.com/node/95 League homepage]<br />
<br />
*[http://nie.lancasteronline.com/node/91 Rules]<br />
<br />
*[http://ll-quizbowl.wikispaces.com/League+Schedule Schedule]<br />
<br />
*[http://ll-quizbowl.wikispaces.com/League+Standings+2012 Current standings]<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Active Members===<br />
*Annville-Cleona (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[Cedar Crest]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*Cocalico (2011?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Columbia (PA)|Columbia]] (1995-2016)<br />
<br />
*[[Conestoga Valley]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[Donegal]] (1994-1997, 2006, 2011?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Elizabethtown]] (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Ephrata (2000?-)<br />
<br />
*Garden Spot (2000?-, 2008-)<br />
<br />
*[[Hempfield]] (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Lampeter-Strasburg (1996-)<br />
<br />
*[[Lancaster Catholic]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*Lancaster Country Day (2011?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Lancaster Mennonite]] (1996-)<br />
<br />
*[[Lebanon]] (2006?-)<br />
<br />
*Lebanon Catholic (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Manheim Central (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Manheim Township]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[McCaskey]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*Northeastern (2011?-)<br />
<br />
*Northern Lebanon (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Palmyra (2013?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Penn Manor]] (2006?-)<br />
<br />
*Pequea Valley (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Warwick (2000?-)<br />
<br />
===Former Members===<br />
*[[Elco]] (2000?-2012?)<br />
<br />
*Linden Hall (2001-2006)<br />
<br />
*[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]] (2011? - 2016)<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="50"|Year||width="175"|Champion||width="175"|Second||width="60"|Teams||width="175"|Host<br />
|-<br />
|[[1995 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1995]]||[[1995 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[McCaskey]]||8||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[1996 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1996]]||[[1996 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lampeter-Strasburg]]||10+||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[1997 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1997]]||[[1997 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||12||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[1998 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1998]]||[[1998 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]|| || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[1999 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1999]]||[[Lancaster Catholic]]|| || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2000 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2000]]||[[2000 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||16||[[Warwick (PA)|Warwick]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2001 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2001]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| ||20|| <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2002 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2002]]||[[Cedar Crest]]|| || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[2003 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2003]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2004 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2004]]||[[2004 Elizabethtown|Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| || <br />
|-<br />
|[[2005 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2005]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]||20||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2006 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2006]]||[[Hempfield]]||[[Manheim Township]]||22||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2007 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2007]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||22||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2008 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2008]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]||21||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2009 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2009]]||[[Penn Manor]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2010 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2010]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Penn Manor]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2011 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2011]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Lebanon]]||26||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2012 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2012]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Cedar Crest]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2013 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2013]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Penn Manor]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2014 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2014]] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] || 24 || [[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2015 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2015]] || [[Elizabethtown]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] ||24 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2016 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2016]] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] || 25 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8513 2017] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Hempfield]] || 24 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
| 2018 || [[Hempfield]] || [[Manheim Township]] || || <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Middle School League==<br />
A Lancaster-Lebanon middle school tournament has been run annually since 2003. <br />
<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="50"|Year||width="175"|Champion||width="175"|Second||width="60"|Teams||width="175"|Host<br />
|-<br />
|2006||Manheim Township A|||||| <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2007||Manheim Township B||Warwick||25|| <br />
|-"<br />
|2008|| || || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2009|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|2010|| || || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2011||Manheim Township||Lancaster Mennonite|| || <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school tournaments]] <br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]] <br />
[[Category:Lancaster-Lebanon League]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York-Adams_Quiz_Bowl_League&diff=38386York-Adams Quiz Bowl League2019-02-26T00:59:45Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>The York-Adams Quiz Bowl League is a pyramidal quiz bowl league based out of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by Chris Manning, former coach of [[Manheim Township]] and commissioner of the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]].<br />
<br />
==History and Formation==<br />
In 2016, York Suburban High School, then a member of the LL League, contacted schools in the region to see if there was interest to form a quiz bowl league in York and Adams Counties. At first, response was low, with only Bermudian Springs High School expressing strong interest.<br />
<br />
However, the next year, an email was again sent by York Suburban to coaches of the local quiz bowl teams to find support for a league. This time, response was much higher, with nine teams ultimately expressing interest, perhaps in part to the misfortunes at the Chester County Intermediate Unit's [[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions|qualifier tournament]] at the end of the 2016-17 school year (which was, at the time, the only quiz bowl event many of the nine schools played) for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], where a last-second drop caused an hour delay and logistical problems throughout the event.<br />
<br />
The league began its inaugural season in the 2017-18 school year with seven members after Logos Academy and Delone Catholic decided not to participate.<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
The York-Adams League uses A set question sets from [[NAQT]], using three packets to completion in the course of the regular season and playoffs. Each game is essentially identical to an untimed [[NAQT rules|NAQT match]]: each four-member team plays 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Each match is comprised of three games played on three separate packets. Unlike the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], statistics are kept for both the regular season and playoffs.<br />
<br />
In its first season, the league only used two packets, which forced teams to have a bye round and have uneven scheduling; namely, some of the earlier-season matches were only two games instead of the standard three. In the 2018-19 season, the league began to use three packets and standardized the scheduling.<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="75"|Season||width="100"|Champion||width="50"|Score||width="100"|Second||width="45"|Teams||width="100"|Host||width=145|Best PPG<br />
|-<br />
|[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8514 2017-18]||[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]]||365-145||[[Southwestern Senior High School|Southwestern]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 314.75<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|-<br />
||2018-19||[[Red Lion Area Senior High School|Red Lion]]||||[[Central York High School|Central York]]||7||Central York||<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|}<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Adams County===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]] (2017-<br />
===York County===<br />
*[[Central York High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Hanover Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Red Lion Area Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Spring Grove Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Southwestern Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[York Suburban High School]] (2017-<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York-Adams_Quiz_Bowl_League&diff=37850York-Adams Quiz Bowl League2018-10-29T15:32:54Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
<hr />
<div>The York-Adams Quiz Bowl League is a pyramidal quiz bowl league based out of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by Chris Manning, former coach of [[Manheim Township]] and commissioner of the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]].<br />
<br />
==History and Formation==<br />
In 2016, York Suburban High School, then a member of the LL League, contacted schools in the region to see if there was interest to form a quiz bowl league in York and Adams Counties. At first, response was low, with only Bermudian Springs High School expressing strong interest.<br />
<br />
However, the next year, an email was again sent by York Suburban to coaches of the local quiz bowl teams to find support for a league. This time, response was much higher, with nine teams ultimately expressing interest, perhaps in part to the misfortunes at the Chester County Intermediate Unit's [[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions|qualifier tournament]] at the end of the 2016-17 school year (which was, at the time, the only quiz bowl event many of the nine schools played) for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], where a last-second drop caused an hour delay and logistical problems throughout the event.<br />
<br />
The league began its inaugural season in the 2017-18 school year with seven members after Logos Academy and Delone Catholic decided not to participate.<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
The York-Adams League uses A set question sets from [[NAQT]], using three packets to completion in the course of the regular season and playoffs. Each game is essentially identical to an untimed [[NAQT rules|NAQT match]]: each four-member team plays 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Each match is comprised of three games played on three separate packets. Unlike the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], statistics are kept for both the regular season and playoffs.<br />
<br />
In its first season, the league only used two packets, which forced teams to have a bye round and have uneven scheduling; namely, some of the earlier-season matches were only two games instead of the standard three. In the 2018-19 season, the league began to use three packets and standardized the scheduling.<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="75"|Season||width="100"|Champion||width="50"|Score||width="100"|Second||width="45"|Teams||width="100"|Host||width=145|Best PPG<br />
|-<br />
|[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8514 2017-18]||[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]]||365-145||[[Southwestern Senior High School|Southwestern]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 314.75<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|}<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Adams County===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]] (2017-<br />
===York County===<br />
*[[Central York High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Hanover Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Red Lion Area Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Spring Grove Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Southwestern Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[York Suburban High School]] (2017-<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Brain_Busters&diff=36654Brain Busters2018-05-26T05:25:46Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>Brain Busters, stylized as '''BrainBusters''', is a high school quiz bowl tournament sponsored by WellSpan Health (formerly by Westfield Insurance and Capital Blue Cross) and televised by WGAL 8 of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. <br />
<br />
==History==<br />
Brain Busters was first held in 2002. It is hosted by [//http://www.wgal.com/article/meet-the-host/6220304 Rich Rosen], a gifted education teacher and television show host. From 1998 to 2001 it was preceded by a similar program known as High Q, televised by WHTM of Harrisburg and also hosted by Rosen. Rich Rosen is well-regarded for his extremely charismatic, friendly, and welcoming qualities. The show's format is considered [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]], and has many similar problems that other events like the [[Criticisms of the NAC|NAC]] have. Unlike the NAC, though, Rich Rosen is more professional in his hosting.<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
The tournament is structured as a single-elimination bracket; recent fields have been capped at 38 teams. Teams are chosen by random drawing; teams from Lancaster, though, are generally given preference, with the remaining slots filled from schools in the Susquehanna Valley. In the past, schools as far away as Mifflin County have attended. A "wild card" slot has been included, depending on the field structure, to let the team with the highest losing score return. In more recent renditions of the program, a third place game has been aired prior to the championship. <br />
<br />
The format is an idiosyncratic variation of [[Four-quarter format|four-quarter format]] involving five rounds as follows: <br />
* first round: 10-point [[tossup]]s <br />
* second round: one-on-one face-off between individual players on three 10-point [[tossup]]s <br />
* third round: [[lightning round]] with three choices (rather than the four given at the [[NAC]])<br />
* fourth round: wager round<br />
* fifth round: 20-point [[tossup]]s. <br />
<br />
==Prizes==<br />
Prizes have included various values of college scholarships and free entry to a local amusement park for the student body of the winning high school. Each show often includes a "bonus question" at the end of the first quarter that grants the correct team free Turkey Hill ice cream, or a similar prize.<br />
<br />
In more recent years, the program generally hands out grants to the schools on behalf of their sponsor. With the change to WellSpan Health, the prize pool decreased. Teams that make it to a certain point in the tournament are guaranteed a certain level of grant, with better finishes resulting in more money. The highest-known prize given was $5,000 dollars to the winning team. Today, the winning team also receives free iPads. The grant money is written to the school district, where 20% of the funds are allowed to be used in any capacity as decided by the school, but the other 80% must be used for an educational purpose.<br />
<br />
All teams that compete are guaranteed to receive a participation award, which previously has included low-quality portable phone chargers and a travel mug, both with the logo of the sponsor on the side.<br />
<br />
==Explanation of Quality==<br />
The [[tossups]] used in Brain Busters are not pyramidal, and often vary in quality. Questions are rarely longer than two sentences, and mostly require an answerline to be given; others, though, are multiple choice. Multiple choice tossups generally ask for players to name a year an event occurred.<br />
<br />
Some questions, though, do start with more obscure information, then ask for something specific in the second sentence. However, these again are not always truly [[pyramidal]], as many of the first sentences include a giveaway clue, leading to buzzer races. Usually, a handful of the tossups each game are [[hose|hoses]].<br />
<br />
In terms of content, Brain Busters actually covers some of the basic high school canon in its tossups, especially in history and literature, as well as current events, sports, and other various [[trash]].<br />
<br />
In the [[lightning round]], though, the question quality changes significantly. Three categories are given for teams to answer as many questions as possible in 60 seconds, with the team losing getting to pick the category first. The categories, though, are often misleading, except for the almost-always-included category where all answers start with the same letter. Generally speaking, this category is much simpler than others, and is almost always chosen first. The answerlines in this category vary wildly.<br />
<br />
The wager round allows players to gamble between 0 and 25 points. The question is read twice by a recording of a WGAL news anchor and, surprisingly, is often formatted like a pyramidal bonus.<br />
<br />
The questions have had numerous repeats, even within the same season, leading to players recording the airings of the show and writing down the questions used. The repeats include both the [[tossups]], as well as unused categories in the lightning round. When asked if the questions are written in-house, Rich Rosen replied that "the questions are from another company the studio hires." <br />
<br />
'''Results'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Year<br />
! Champion<br />
! Runner-Up<br />
! Link<br />
|-<br />
| 2017<br />
| [[Hempfield]] 365<br />
| [[Ephrata]] 285<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 2016<br />
| [[Cedar Crest]] 440<br />
| [[Spring Grove]] 110<br />
| [//twitter.com/mrsmalprincipal/status/733094563116687361 Link]<br />
|-<br />
| 2015<br />
| <br />
|<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 2014<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 2013<br />
| [[Manheim Township]] 480<br />
| [[Hershey]] 305<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 2012<br />
| [[Manheim Township]] 545<br />
| [[Lower Dauphin]] 345<br />
| [http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/635583_Manheim-Township-wins-Brain-Busters-title.html Link]<br />
|-<br />
| 2011<br />
| [[Lancaster Catholic]] 420<br />
| [[Manheim Township]] 380<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 2010<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 2009<br />
| [[Cumberland Valley]] 415<br />
| [[Lancaster Country Day]] 385<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 2008<br />
| <br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 2007<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 2006<br />
| [[Penn Manor]]<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/22971_PM-quiz-bowlers-prove--Brainiest-.htm Link]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
[http://www.wgal.com/article/brain-busters-wgal/6892618 WGAL.com: Brain Busters]<br />
<br />
[http://www.westfieldinsurance.com/community/pg.jsp?page=brainbusters Brain Busters on Westfield's site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.capbluecross.com/PressRoom/NewsReleases/2002NewsReleases/011402BrainBusters.htm Capital Blue Cross press release for the 2002 Brain Busters season]<br />
<br />
[http://www.lindenhall.org/Ledger/0405-4.htm Linden Hall student newspaper with full format description]<br />
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[[Category:High school tournaments]] [[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Quizbowl TV shows]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Princeton&diff=36632Princeton2018-05-22T06:36:52Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Added Oxford Comma, among other things.</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 />
<br />
'''Princeton University''' is an Ivy League institution in Princeton, New Jersey, with one of the oldest quiz bowl clubs in existence.<br />
<br />
==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 />
<br />
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 ACIU 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>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Grail&diff=36586Grail2018-05-12T22:50:29Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>A '''grail''' is a feat wherein one team correctly answers all tossups heard in a match. The team does not need to answer all of the bonus parts correctly to achieve a grail.<br />
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==Incomplete List of Teams That Have Achieved a Grail==<br />
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===Middle School===<br />
*[[Middlesex Middle|Middlesex Middle A]] at 2015 [[Manheim Township]] Middle School Academic Challenge against Landisville Middle A (785-(-5))<br />
*[[Miami Valley School (middle school)|Miami Valley School A]] four times: once against Willis at Olentangy Liberty's AQUILA I (645-(-10)), once at the 2015 Ohio Middle School State Championship against St. Mary B (700-0), once at the 2016 Harvest Prep Fall Challenge against Delaware Dempsey (760-0), and once at the 3rd Annual Copley Middle School Invitational against St. Hilary A (765 -(-10)).<br />
*[[Barrington Station]] twice: at 2017 SMV Fall Gladiator Open against [[St. Mary's Visitation|St. Mary's Visitation B]] [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=776358 715–0] on November 4, 2017; and at 2018 Northwestern University Jr. Wildcat against [[St. Giles|St. Giles A]] [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=821933 710–(-10)] on March 10, 2018<br />
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===High School===<br />
*[[Eden Prairie]] A at [[SOCIAL]] III in 2006 against [[North Saint Paul]] B (730–0)<br />
*[[St. Anselm's]] at the [[2010 NSC]] against [[Seven Lakes]] B (810–0)<br />
*[[Auburn (Rockford, Illinois high school)|Auburn]] at the 2009 [[Loyburn]] against[[St. Viator]] (725–0)<br />
*[[St. Joseph (NJ)]] at the 2010 [[Caesar Rodney]] [[Rider Bowl]] against [[Delcastle]] B (715–0)<br />
*[[Maggie Walker]] twice at the 2009 [[Weekend of Quizbowl]] in consecutive rounds against [[St. Catherine's]] (780–0) and [[St. Anselm's]] (565–(–5))<br />
*[[Torrey Pines]] at the 2009 [[UCSD]] mirror of [[HFT]] against [[Canyon Crest]] (630–(–5))<br />
*[[Hunter]] in the ''finals'' of the 2010 [[Princeton High School Tournament]] against [[Bergen County Academies]] (765-0)<br />
*[[Copley]] at the 2010 FKT at Olmstead Falls against Southeast B (640-0)<br />
*[[Liberty (MO)|Liberty]] at the 2012 [[North Kansas City]] Varsity Invitational Tournament against [[Lafayette (St. Joseph, MO)|Lafayette]] (565-0)<br />
*[[Ladue]] twice at the 2012 [[Mort Walker Invitational]] against [[Smith-Cotton]] and [[Rock Bridge]] B 750-0, both times, once at the 2012 [[Tiger Bowl]] against [[Oakville]] B (930-10), and once at the 2013 Mort Walker Invitational against [[Tuscumbia]] (730-(-5))<br />
*[[Warren G. Harding]] at [[Ohio State|Ohio State's]] 2012 Buckeye Spring Tournament against [[Coshocton]] (740-0)<br />
*[[Rock Bridge]] at LIST II against Parkway South in 2012, (700-0)<br />
*[[Christiansburg]] at the 2012 Virginia Tech Spring Invitational against Honaker (710-(-10))<br />
*[[Early College at Guilford]] at the 2012 [[Tar Heel Cup]] against an exhibition team.<br />
*[[Raleigh Charter]] at the 2012 [[GSAC]] XX against Dinwiddie B and at the 2014 Millbrook Fall Tournament against Cleveland B<br />
*[[High Tech]] at the 2012 [[FAcT]] (IS-121A) against Suffield B (775-0) and at the 2013 [[Princeton High School Tournament]] against Phoenixville B (755-0)<br />
*[[Macomb|Macomb A]] at the 2013 Springfield Invitational against Bloomington B (655-0)<br />
*[[Cistercian|Cistercian A]] at the 2013 [[St. Mark's]] Invitational against [[Parish Episcopal]] (710-(-5))<br />
*[[Hickman]] at the 2013 [[Hallsville]] Invitational against Helias C (705-0)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central A]] twice at the 2013 [[University of Kentucky Spring Championship]], against Shelby Valley C (805-(-10)) and Mercy Academy (735-(-5)) and again at WUHSAC against Oakville B (700-10).<br />
*[[Wayzata|Wayzata A]] at the 2013 [[SOCIAL]] against [[Mounds Park|Mounds Park B]] (865-0).<br />
*[[Colonel By|Colonel By A]] at [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1719/stats/all_games/teamdetail/ Lisgar's JAMES Mirror] against [[Lisgar]] D (710 to 0)<br />
*[[Colonel By|Colonel By A]] at the 2013 Ottawa Quiz Bowl tournament IX against Colonel By D (790-0) <br />
*[[South Range]] at 2014 Mahoning County League against [[Poland Seminary]] (805-0)<br />
*[[Saratoga]] at the 2014 BELLOCO tournament against [[Mills]] (640-(-30))<br />
*[[Glasgow]] at 2014 [[NAQT Kentucky Championship]] against [[Ballard|Ballard B]] (560 (-20))<br />
*[[Enloe]] at 2014 [[Bacon Bowl]] at [[Millbrook]] against [[Smithfield-Selma]] B (770-0)<br />
*[[Hallsville]] at 2014 [[SSNCT]] against Miami Community Charter (695-0) (22 toss-ups heard)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central B]] at 2014 Ohio Fall Kickoff Tournament at [[Sidney]] against Urbana B (730-0)<br />
*[[Richard Montgomery]] at 2014 [[VCU]] Winter VII against "Homeschool Out of the Box" B (795-0)<br />
*[[Maggie Walker|Maggie Walker A]] at 2014 [[VCU]] Winter VII against Mount Vernon B (745-0)<br />
*[[Northmont|Northmont A]] at 2014 Rowdy Raider Invitational against Culver B (740-(-5))<br />
*[[Bellarmine|Bellarmine A]] at 2015 Wildcat Classic against [[Dougherty Valley|Dougherty Valley C]] (725-(-5))<br />
*[[Arcadia|Arcadia C]] at 2015 SAT against [[Bishop's School|Bishops B]] (795-0)<br />
*[[La Jolla|La Jolla A]] at 2015 ATLAS II against [[Santa Monica|Santa Monica C]] (730-(-5))<br />
*[[La Jolla|La Jolla A]] at [[Triton Winter|Triton Winter V]] against Scripps Ranch (750-0)<br />
*[[Arcadia|Arcadia A]] at 2015 PI against Irvine (745-(-5))<br />
*[[Souderton]], in their first pyramidal tournament ever, against Renaissance Academy at [[Great Valley]]'s 2015 winter tournament (690-(-5))<br />
*[[Northmont|Northmont A]] at 2015 Quizbowl Invitational for Northwest Ohio Academics against Mohawk A (815-0) and Lincolnview B (720-0)<br />
*[[Glasgow]] at 2015 [[SSNCT]] against Woodland (765-(-10)) (23 toss-ups heard)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central A]] at [[2015 PACE NSC]] against Del Norte (660-30)<br />
*[[Dorman|Dorman A]] at 2015 Glasgow Scottie Invitational against Merrol Hyde B (705-0)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central B]] at 2015 TEAMS against Hinsdale Central B (610-0)<br />
*[[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central A]] at 2015 TEAMS against Pine Garden Stream Woods (730-0)<br />
*[[West Point|West Point A]] at the 2016 [[West Point Rainwater Invitational]] against Sylacauga B (475-0)<br />
*[[Miami Valley School|Miami Valley A]] at 2017 [[SSNCT]] against [[Doral Red Rock|Doral Red Rock B]] (870-(-5)) (24 toss-ups heard)<br />
*[[High Tech|High Tech A]] at 2018 [[Scarlet Knight Winter]] against Middlesex County Academy B (725-0)<br />
*[[Copley|Copley A]] at 2018 [[Battle Buzz]] against Keystone B (635-0)<br />
*[[Jesuit|Jesuit A]] at the 2018 [[LQBA]] Louisiana State Championship against Woodlawn (690-(-10))<br />
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===College/Open===<br />
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*[[Jonathan Magin]] and [[Rom Masrour]] at the 2008 Illinois Open Literature <br />
*A [[Jerry Vinokurov]]-led open team (consisting of [[Eric Mukherjee]], [[Andrew Hart]], and [[Dennis Jang]]) at [[Cardinal Classic]] 2008, against [[Berkeley]].<br />
*[[Chipola College]] ([[Dallin Kelson]] playing solo) at the Valencia site of the 2010 Delta Burke (defeating Mercer B in the first round of the playoffs 620-0)<br />
*[[Virginia|Virginia A]] at the [[2011 SCT]] East Carolina site, defeating [[Virginia Tech]] 680--5 (23 toss-ups heard)<br />
*[[Cherchez La Femme Nikita Khrushchev]] (featuring [[Jake Sundberg]], [[Mark Morris]], [[Dargan Ware]], and [[Megan Patterson]]) at the 2011 [[HSNCT]] Mirror in Chattanooga (defeating Chuck Pearson and Eli Miles of Shorter 655-(-15))<br />
*[[Penn]] ([[Dallas Simons]], [[Patrick Liao]], [[Saajid Moyen]], and [[Eric Mukherjee]]) at the mid-Atlantic mirror of [[QUARK]] (defeating [[Johns Hopkins]] B)<br />
*[[Virginia|Virginia A]] at [[Michigan Fall Tournament]] against Liberty A (820-0)<br />
*[[Stanford|Stanford A]] at [[2013 ACF Fall]] against Berkeley D (690 to -10)<br />
*[[Illinois|Illinois B]] at 2014 [[SCT]], defeating [[Northern Illinois]] 860-0 (24 toss-ups heard).<br />
*[[Virginia|Virginia A]] at [[2014 ACF Nationals]] against Stanford (660 to -5)<br />
*[[Stanford|Stanford B]] at [[2015 SCT|2015 DII Berkeley SCT]] against UC Davis (720-(-5))<br />
*[[Oklahoma]] at [[2015 ACF Regionals]] against [[Kansas State]] (580 to -25)<br />
*[[Stanford|Stanford A]] at [[2016 SCT|2016 DI Berkeley SCT]] against Berkeley C (705-0)<br />
*[[Princeton]] at [[Penn Bowl|2017 Penn Bowl]] against [[NYU|NYU B]] [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4683/stats/combined/teamdetail/#t14 (560-0)]<br />
*[[Penn State|Penn State A]] at [[2017 ACF Fall]] against Rochester B (630-0)<br />
*[[Minnesota|Minnesota B]] at [[2017 ACF Fall]] against Drake B (740-(-5)).[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4536/stats/combined/teamdetail/#t12]<br />
*[[Minnesota|Minnesota A]] at 2018 [[SCT]] (combined field) against [[Grinnell]] (845-(-30)) (22 toss-ups heard)<br />
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==Individual Grail==<br />
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An individual grail occurs when a single individual, playing solo or with teammates, answers every tossup in a regulation match. <br />
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===Grails===<br />
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*[[Tristan Willey]] (then of [[Macomb]], but playing independently at the collegiate level) grailed against [[Central Michigan|Central Michigan A]] at [[2011 ACF Fall]] at [[NIU]]. [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/143/stats/combined/playerdetail/#p1_27]. <br />
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*[[Seth Kendall]] of [[Kentucky]] grailed against UTK B at the [[2005 ACF Fall]].[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2181&p=27529]<br />
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===Near-Grails===<br />
*[[Jerry Vinokurov]] was one tossup short of this mark playing solo against [[Athens State]] B at [[2006 ACF Nationals]]. <br />
*[[Tom Waters]], playing as an individual against GW B at a Maryland tournament in 1995, similarly managed 19 out of 20 tossups<br />
*[[R. Hentzel]] legendarily had an attempt at an individual grail foiled when he failed to identify an "Easy-Bake Oven." <br />
*[[Dylan Minarik]] playing solo at [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3576/stats/prelims/teamdetail/#t3 MUT 2016] almost grailed against [[NIU]] C, after NIU C answered the first tossup correctly and Dylan got the next 19.<br />
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==High School Individual Grails==<br />
[[Eric Xu]] of [[Western Albemarle]] grailed against [[Mount Vernon]] B at [[RAYNOR]] (run by [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]]).<br />
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==Middle School Individual Grails==<br />
[[William Groger]] of [[Miami Valley School (middle school)| Miami Valley]] A grailed against St. Hilary A at the 3rd Annual Copley Middle School Invitational.<br />
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==See Also==<br />
*[[Andrew Hart Grail]]<br />
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[[Category: Quizbowl lingo]]<br />
[[Category: Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Lancaster-Lebanon_League&diff=36504Lancaster-Lebanon League2018-05-02T21:36:58Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>The Lancaster-Lebanon League is a quiz bowl league formed in 1994 based on the existing athletic conference for high schools from Lancaster and Lebanon counties, Pennsylvania. The league briefly included York County — only ever including York Suburban HS — but, since the 2017-18 season, has reverted back to exclusively Lancaster and Lebanon counties. The winner represents the league at the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. The league's championship is named in honor of longtime [[Manheim Township]] coach [[Anne Clouser]]. <br />
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==Format==<br />
Each team plays six biweekly matches of three games each, for a total schedule of 18 games. The regular season results are used to seed teams for the league's single-elimination championship tournament. Game format is [[Tossup/Bonus Format|tossup/bonus]] in rounds of 25 tossups and 15 bonuses. In recent years, the LL League has used [[NAQT]] questions exclusively.<br />
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*[http://nie.lancasteronline.com/node/95 League homepage]<br />
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*[http://nie.lancasteronline.com/node/91 Rules]<br />
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*[http://ll-quizbowl.wikispaces.com/League+Schedule Schedule]<br />
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*[http://ll-quizbowl.wikispaces.com/League+Standings+2012 Current standings]<br />
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==Membership==<br />
===Active Members===<br />
*Annville-Cleona (1995-)<br />
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*[[Cedar Crest]] (1995-)<br />
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*Cocalico (2011?-)<br />
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*[[Columbia (PA)|Columbia]] (1995-2016)<br />
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*[[Conestoga Valley]] (1995-)<br />
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*[[Donegal]] (1994-1997, 2006, 2011?-)<br />
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*[[Elizabethtown]] (2001?-)<br />
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*Ephrata (2000?-)<br />
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*Garden Spot (2000?-, 2008-)<br />
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*[[Hempfield]] (2001?-)<br />
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*Lampeter-Strasburg (1996-)<br />
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*[[Lancaster Catholic]] (1995-)<br />
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*Lancaster Country Day (2011?-)<br />
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*[[Lancaster Mennonite]] (1996-)<br />
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*[[Lebanon]] (2006?-)<br />
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*Lebanon Catholic (2001?-)<br />
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*Manheim Central (2001?-)<br />
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*[[Manheim Township]] (1995-)<br />
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*[[McCaskey]] (1995-)<br />
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*Northeastern (2011?-)<br />
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*Northern Lebanon (2001?-)<br />
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*Palmyra (2013?-)<br />
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*[[Penn Manor]] (2006?-)<br />
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*Pequea Valley (2001?-)<br />
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*Warwick (2000?-)<br />
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===Former Members===<br />
*[[Elco]] (2000?-2012?)<br />
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*Linden Hall (2001-2006)<br />
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*[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]] (2011? - 2016)<br />
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==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="50"|Year||width="175"|Champion||width="175"|Second||width="60"|Teams||width="175"|Host<br />
|-<br />
|[[1995 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1995]]||[[1995 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[McCaskey]]||8||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[1996 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1996]]||[[1996 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lampeter-Strasburg]]||10+||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[1997 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1997]]||[[1997 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||12||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[1998 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1998]]||[[1998 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]|| || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[1999 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1999]]||[[Lancaster Catholic]]|| || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2000 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2000]]||[[2000 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||16||[[Warwick (PA)|Warwick]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2001 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2001]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| ||20|| <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2002 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2002]]||[[Cedar Crest]]|| || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[2003 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2003]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2004 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2004]]||[[2004 Elizabethtown|Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| || <br />
|-<br />
|[[2005 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2005]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]||20||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2006 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2006]]||[[Hempfield]]||[[Manheim Township]]||22||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2007 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2007]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||22||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2008 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2008]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]||21||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2009 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2009]]||[[Penn Manor]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2010 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2010]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Penn Manor]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2011 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2011]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Lebanon]]||26||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2012 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2012]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Cedar Crest]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2013 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2013]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Penn Manor]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2014 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2014]] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] || 24 || [[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2015 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2015]] || [[Elizabethtown]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] ||24 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2016 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2016]] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] || 25 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8513 2017] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Hempfield]] || 24 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|}<br />
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==Middle School League==<br />
A Lancaster-Lebanon middle school tournament has been run annually since 2003. <br />
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{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="50"|Year||width="175"|Champion||width="175"|Second||width="60"|Teams||width="175"|Host<br />
|-<br />
|2006||Manheim Township A|||||| <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2007||Manheim Township B||Warwick||25|| <br />
|-"<br />
|2008|| || || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2009|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|2010|| || || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2011||Manheim Township||Lancaster Mennonite|| || <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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[[Category:High school tournaments]] <br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]] <br />
[[Category:Lancaster-Lebanon League]]<br />
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<div>The Lancaster-Lebanon League is a quiz bowl league formed in 1994 based on the existing athletic conference for high schools from Lancaster and Lebanon counties, Pennsylvania. The league briefly included York County — only ever including York Suburban HS — but, since the 2017-18 season, has reverted back to exclusively Lancaster and Lebanon counties. The winner represents the league at the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. The league's championship is named in honor of longtime [[Manheim Township]] coach [[Anne Clouser]]. <br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
Each team plays six biweekly matches of three games each, for a total schedule of 18 games. The regular season results are used to seed teams for the league's single-elimination championship tournament. Game format is [[Tossup/Bonus Format|tossup/bonus]] in rounds of 25 tossups and 15 bonuses. In recent years, the LL League has used [[NAQT]] questions exclusively.<br />
<br />
*[http://nie.lancasteronline.com/node/95 League homepage]<br />
<br />
*[http://nie.lancasteronline.com/node/91 Rules]<br />
<br />
*[http://ll-quizbowl.wikispaces.com/League+Schedule Schedule]<br />
<br />
*[http://ll-quizbowl.wikispaces.com/League+Standings+2012 Current standings]<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Active Members===<br />
*Annville-Cleona (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[Cedar Crest]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*Cocalico (2011?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Columbia (PA)|Columbia]] (1995-2016)<br />
<br />
*[[Conestoga Valley]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[Donegal]] (1994-1997, 2006, 2011?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Elizabethtown]] (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Ephrata (2000?-)<br />
<br />
*Garden Spot (2000?-, 2008-)<br />
<br />
*[[Hempfield]] (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Lampeter-Strasburg (1996-)<br />
<br />
*[[Lancaster Catholic]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*Lancaster Country Day (2011?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Lancaster Mennonite]] (1996-)<br />
<br />
*[[Lebanon]] (2006?-)<br />
<br />
*Lebanon Catholic (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Manheim Central (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Manheim Township]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[McCaskey]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*Northeastern (2011?-)<br />
<br />
*Northern Lebanon (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Palmyra (2013?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Penn Manor]] (2006?-)<br />
<br />
*Pequea Valley (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Warwick (2000?-)<br />
<br />
===Former Members===<br />
*[[Elco]] (2000?-2012?)<br />
<br />
*Linden Hall (2001-2006)<br />
<br />
*[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]] (2011? - 2017)<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="50"|Year||width="175"|Champion||width="175"|Second||width="60"|Teams||width="175"|Host<br />
|-<br />
|[[1995 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1995]]||[[1995 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[McCaskey]]||8||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[1996 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1996]]||[[1996 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lampeter-Strasburg]]||10+||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[1997 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1997]]||[[1997 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||12||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[1998 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1998]]||[[1998 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]|| || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[1999 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1999]]||[[Lancaster Catholic]]|| || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2000 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2000]]||[[2000 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||16||[[Warwick (PA)|Warwick]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2001 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2001]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| ||20|| <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2002 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2002]]||[[Cedar Crest]]|| || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[2003 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2003]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2004 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2004]]||[[2004 Elizabethtown|Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| || <br />
|-<br />
|[[2005 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2005]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]||20||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2006 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2006]]||[[Hempfield]]||[[Manheim Township]]||22||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2007 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2007]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||22||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2008 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2008]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]||21||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2009 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2009]]||[[Penn Manor]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2010 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2010]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Penn Manor]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2011 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2011]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Lebanon]]||26||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2012 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2012]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Cedar Crest]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2013 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2013]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Penn Manor]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2014 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2014]] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] || 24 || [[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2015 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2015]] || [[Elizabethtown]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] ||24 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2016 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2016]] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] || 25 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8513 2017] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Hempfield]] || 24 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Middle School League==<br />
A Lancaster-Lebanon middle school tournament has been run annually since 2003. <br />
<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="50"|Year||width="175"|Champion||width="175"|Second||width="60"|Teams||width="175"|Host<br />
|-<br />
|2006||Manheim Township A|||||| <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2007||Manheim Township B||Warwick||25|| <br />
|-"<br />
|2008|| || || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2009|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|2010|| || || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2011||Manheim Township||Lancaster Mennonite|| || <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school tournaments]] <br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]] <br />
[[Category:Lancaster-Lebanon League]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Lancaster-Lebanon_League&diff=36502Lancaster-Lebanon League2018-05-02T21:29:59Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>The Lancaster-Lebanon League is a quiz bowl league formed in 1994 based on the existing athletic conference for high schools from Lancaster and Lebanon counties, Pennsylvania. The league briefly included York County — only ever including York Suburban HS — but, since the 2017-18 season, has reverted back to exclusively Lancaster and Lebanon counties. The winner represents the league at the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. The league's championship is named in honor of longtime [[Manheim Township]] coach [[Anne Clouser]]. <br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
Each team plays six biweekly matches of three games each, for a total schedule of 18 games. The regular season results are used to seed teams for the league's single-elimination championship tournament. Game format is [[Tossup/Bonus Format|tossup/bonus]] in rounds of 25 tossups and 15 bonuses. In recent years, the LL League has used [[NAQT]] questions exclusively.<br />
<br />
*[http://nie.lancasteronline.com/node/95 League homepage]<br />
<br />
*[http://nie.lancasteronline.com/node/91 Rules]<br />
<br />
*[http://ll-quizbowl.wikispaces.com/League+Schedule Schedule]<br />
<br />
*[http://ll-quizbowl.wikispaces.com/League+Standings+2012 Current standings]<br />
<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Active Members===<br />
*Annville-Cleona (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[Cedar Crest]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*Cocalico (2011?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Columbia (PA)|Columbia]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[Conestoga Valley]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[Donegal]] (1994-1997, 2006, 2011?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Elco]] (2000?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Elizabethtown]] (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Ephrata (2000?-)<br />
<br />
*Garden Spot (2000?-, 2008-)<br />
<br />
*[[Hempfield]] (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Lampeter-Strasburg (1996-)<br />
<br />
*[[Lancaster Catholic]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*Lancaster Country Day (2011?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Lancaster Mennonite]] (1996-)<br />
<br />
*[[Lebanon]] (2006?-)<br />
<br />
*Lebanon Catholic (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Manheim Central (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Manheim Township]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*[[McCaskey]] (1995-)<br />
<br />
*Northeastern (2011?-)<br />
<br />
*Northern Lebanon (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*[[Penn Manor]] (2006?-)<br />
<br />
*Pequea Valley (2001?-)<br />
<br />
*Warwick (2000?-)<br />
<br />
===Former Members===<br />
<br />
*Linden Hall (2001-2006)<br />
<br />
*[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]] (2011? - 2017)<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="50"|Year||width="175"|Champion||width="175"|Second||width="60"|Teams||width="175"|Host<br />
|-<br />
|[[1995 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1995]]||[[1995 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[McCaskey]]||8||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[1996 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1996]]||[[1996 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lampeter-Strasburg]]||10+||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[1997 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1997]]||[[1997 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||12||[[Donegal]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[1998 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1998]]||[[1998 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]|| || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[1999 Lancaster-Lebanon League|1999]]||[[Lancaster Catholic]]|| || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2000 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2000]]||[[2000 Manheim Township|Manheim Township]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||16||[[Warwick (PA)|Warwick]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2001 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2001]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| ||20|| <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2002 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2002]]||[[Cedar Crest]]|| || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[2003 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2003]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2004 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2004]]||[[2004 Elizabethtown|Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]|| || <br />
|-<br />
|[[2005 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2005]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]||20||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2006 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2006]]||[[Hempfield]]||[[Manheim Township]]||22||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2007 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2007]]||[[Lancaster Mennonite]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||22||[[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2008 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2008]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||[[Manheim Township]]||21||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2009 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2009]]||[[Penn Manor]]||[[Elizabethtown]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2010 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2010]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Penn Manor]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2011 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2011]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Lebanon]]||26||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2012 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2012]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Cedar Crest]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2013 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2013]]||[[Manheim Township]]||[[Penn Manor]]||23||[[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2014 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2014]] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] || 24 || [[Manheim Township]] <br />
|-<br />
|[[2015 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2015]] || [[Elizabethtown]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] ||24 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|[[2016 Lancaster-Lebanon League|2016]] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Lancaster Mennonite]] || 25 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8513 2017] || [[Manheim Township]] || [[Hempfield]] || 24 || [[Manheim Township]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Middle School League==<br />
A Lancaster-Lebanon middle school tournament has been run annually since 2003. <br />
<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="50"|Year||width="175"|Champion||width="175"|Second||width="60"|Teams||width="175"|Host<br />
|-<br />
|2006||Manheim Township A|||||| <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2007||Manheim Township B||Warwick||25|| <br />
|-"<br />
|2008|| || || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2009|| || || || <br />
|-<br />
|2010|| || || || <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;<br />
|2011||Manheim Township||Lancaster Mennonite|| || <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school tournaments]] <br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]] <br />
[[Category:Lancaster-Lebanon League]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=CCCT&diff=36501CCCT2018-05-02T20:40:43Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>The '''Community College Championship Tournament''' (CCCT) is a premier national community college tournament run by [[NAQT]].<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
<br />
{|-<br />
|<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|-<br />
! Year<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Location<br />
! Field Size<br />
|- <br />
| [[2009 CCCT|2009]]<br />
| [[J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College]]<br />
| [[Chipola College| Chipola College A]]<br />
| [[Valencia| Valencia A]]<br />
| [[Valencia]]<br />
| 24<br />
|-<br />
| [[2010 CCCT|2010]]<br />
| [[St. Charles Community College]]<br />
| [[Northeast Alabama| Northeast Alabama A]]<br />
| [[Snead State]]<br />
| [[Chipola College]]<br />
| 24<br />
|-<br />
| [[2011 CCCT|2011]]<br />
| [[Chipola College| Chipola College A]]<br />
| [[Chipola College| Chipola College B]]<br />
| [[Northwest Florida]]<br />
| [[Gulf Coast State College]]<br />
| 24<br />
|-<br />
| [[2012 CCCT|2012]]<br />
| [[Chipola College| Chipola College A]]<br />
| [[Valencia| Valencia A]]<br />
| [[Valencia| Valencia B]]<br />
| [[Gulf Coast State College]]<br />
| 24<br />
|-<br />
| [[2013 CCCT|2013]]<br />
| [[Chipola College| Chipola College A]]<br />
| [[Valencia| Valencia A]]<br />
| [[Lamar-Orange]]<br />
| [[Hyatt Regency St. Louis]]<br />
| 24<br />
|-<br />
| [[2014 CCCT|2014]]<br />
| [[Valencia| Valencia A]]<br />
| [[Chipola College| Chipola College A]]<br />
| [[Broward]]<br />
| [[Hilton Atlanta]]<br />
| 24<br />
|-<br />
| [[2015 CCCT|2015]]<br />
| [[State College-Manatee]]<br />
| [[Valencia| Valencia A]]<br />
| [[Broward]]<br />
| [[Hilton Atlanta]]<br />
| 24<br />
|-<br />
| [[2016 CCCT|2016]]<br />
| [[Jefferson]]<br />
| [[State College-Manatee]]<br />
| [[Chipola College|Chipola College A]]<br />
| [[Hilton Atlanta]]<br />
| 24<br />
|-<br />
| [[2017 CCCT|2017]]<br />
| [[Valencia| Valencia A]]<br />
| [[Chipola College|Chipola College A]]<br />
| [[State College-Manatee]]<br />
| [[Hilton Minneapolis]]<br />
| 24<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8403 2018]<br />
|[[Valencia|Valencia A]]<br />
|[[State College-Manatee]]<br />
|[[De Anza College]]<br />
|[[Chipola College|Chipola College A]]<br />
|24<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
[http://www.naqt.com/cc/ccct/ NAQT CCCT website]<br />
<br />
{{Navbox NAQT}}<br />
<br />
[[Category: CCCT]]<br />
[[Category: NAQT]]<br />
[[Category: Tournaments]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Greater_Pennsylvania_Quizbowl_Resource&diff=36442Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource2018-04-26T19:05:45Z<p>Jack Edmondson: 2017-18 Award Winners</p>
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<div>{{Pic|Image = GPQB_Logo.png<br />
|Caption = Official Logo for the [//gpqb.wordpress.com/ Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource]<br />
}}<br />
The '''Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource''' (or GPQB) is a quizbowl blog that covers the quizbowl circuit in Pennsylvania. Founded in July 2014, it was previously known as '''Greater Philadelphia Quizbowl Resource''' until its expansion to all of Pennsylvania in June 2015.<br />
<br />
==Purpose==<br />
The current focus of the GPQB blog is coverage and analysis of the high school circuit of Pennsylvania quizbowl. This includes tournament wrap-ups, interviews, advice, and the occasional podcast from the contributors. Complementing its Pennsylvania focus is its content for general high school quizbowl audiences. GPQB has covered the basics of quizbowl, outreach advice, studying strategies, and tournament hosting. The site features a schedule for all Pennsylvania pyramidal events and [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition|PSAC]], as well as tournaments in the surrounding states.<br />
<br />
==Question Writing==<br />
The members of the site organized and edited the [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/1871/ 2016 Pennsylvania Novice Initiative], a novice-level tournament designed to correct the lack of material for novice teams to practice on.<br />
<br />
==Awards==<br />
The staff at GPQB announce three awards each year to outstanding members of the quizbowl community in Pennsylvania. Players are not considered for the same award multiple times, and coaches are not eligible to win again until eight years have passed -- the equivalent of two student cycles.<br />
<br />
===Past Winners===<br />
{| border="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Player of the Year<br />
! JV Player of the Year<br />
! Coach of the Year<br />
|-<br />
| 2014-15<br />
| [[Ryan Bilger]], [[Emmaus|Emmaus High School]]<br />
| [[Alex Schmidt]], [[Lehigh Valley|Lehigh Valley Academy]]<br />
| Missy Doll, [[Manheim Township|Manheim Township High School]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2015-16<br />
| Alex Schmidt, Lehigh Valley Academy<br />
| [[Sam Scarfone]], [[Great Valley|Great Valley High School]]<br />
| Bern McCauley, Great Valley High School<br />
|-<br />
| 2016-17<br />
| Sam Scarfone, Great Valley High School<br />
| [[Vijay Anne]], [[Henderson|Henderson High School]]<br />
| Andrew Gianelli, [[Camp Hill|Camp Hill High School]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2017-18<br />
| [[Vishwa Shanmugam]], [[Downingtown STEM|Downingtown STEM Academy]] <br />
| [[Connor Mayers]], [[Penn Manor|Penn Manor High School]]<br />
| Abbi Smith, [[Friends Select|Friends Select School]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Poll==<br />
<br />
The site has, since the 2015-2016 season, ranked the teams in Pennsylvania at the season's beginning, midpoint, and end. The poll is conducted by current and former members of the Pennsylvania quizbowl community. The pollsters rank the top ten teams by their own metrics; a statistical formula is not used. All the ranking committee members are affiliated with Pennsylvania's circuit.<br />
<br />
Because there is no [[NAQT]] or pyramidal state championship (the only official tournament held is the non-pyramidal [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]), the poll has served as a ''de facto'' state title for performance on pyramidal questions.<br />
<br />
===Past Results===<br />
{| border="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Fourth<br />
! Fifth<br />
|-<br />
| 2015-16<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Delaware Valley]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
| [[Great Valley]]<br />
| [[West Chester Henderson|Henderson]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2016-17<br />
| [[Winchester Thurston]]<br />
| [[Lehigh Valley]]<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Alagar Homeschool]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
* [https://gpqb.wordpress.com/ Link to the GPQB Website]<br />
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/656320281165140/?fref=nf GPQB on Facebook]<br />
* [https://twitter.com/paquizbowl GPQB on Twitter]<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:State Quizbowl Organizations]][[category: Quizbowl on the internets]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Bermudian_Springs_High_School&diff=36441Bermudian Springs High School2018-04-26T18:52:22Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Revised info</p>
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<div>{{Highschoolteam|Name = Bermudian Springs High School<br />
|image =Bermudian_Logo.png<br />
|citystate = York Springs, Pennsylvania<br />
|currentcoach = Shane Miller<br />
|nats appearances = None<br />
|status = Active<br />
|size = ~550 (qualifies for [[SSNCT]])<br />
|}}<br />
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'''Bermudian Springs High School''', or '''Bermudian Springs''', is a small, public high school in York Springs, Pennsylvania that participates in regional and statewide pyramidal quiz bowl tournaments.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
Bermudian Springs has attended quiz bowl tournaments since 2006, with its first recorded attendance at a tournament hosted by Elizabethtown College, where on [[NAQT]] set IS-58, the A team [//https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=2034 finished 5-6.]<br />
<br />
Bermudian competed in the [[Capital Area League|Capitol Area Quiz Bowl League]], normally played by schools in the surrounding Harrisburg area. They started competing in 2008, finishing 7-8 and garnering a 9th place finish. This result would be their best: after three more disappointing seasons, including a 2010-11 season finish at 0-16, Bermudian stopped competing in the league.<br />
<br />
With a new coach, Bermudian rejoined the circuit in 2015, competing at the [[Manheim Township Academic Challenge]], which they have done annually since. They also have attended other tournaments, beginning with [[GVQBT]] in 2017 and other housewrite mirrors since. Though they have qualified for both [[HSNCT]] and [[SSNCT]], Bermudian Springs has attended neither.<br />
<br />
Bermudian Springs was one of the founding members of the [[York-Adams Quiz Bowl League]], where it competes today.<br />
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Their best-finish at a tournament was [//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8704 winning the Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12's] [[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions|PSAC Qualifier]], upsetting [[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]] 175-170 in a match that featured eight total negs by teams. York Suburban had beaten Bermudian three times that year in the York-Adams League. The team has also competed on the show [[Brainbusters]], with their best result a 400-420 loss to [[Spring Grove]] in the quarterfinal.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
[//www.naqt.com/stats/school/index.jsp?org_id=62023 NAQT School Results Page]<br />
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[[Category: High school teams]]<br />
[[Category: Pennsylvania high school teams]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York-Adams_Quiz_Bowl_League&diff=36271York-Adams Quiz Bowl League2018-04-05T23:22:59Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Fixed broken link</p>
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<div>The York-Adams Quiz Bowl League is a pyramidal quiz bowl league based out of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by Chris Manning, former coach of [[Manheim Township]] and commissioner of the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]].<br />
<br />
==History and Formation==<br />
In 2016, York Suburban High School, then a member of the LL League, contacted schools in the region to see if there was interest to form a quiz bowl league in York and Adams Counties. At first, response was low, with only Bermudian Springs High School expressing strong interest.<br />
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However, the next year, an email was again sent by York Suburban to coaches of the local quiz bowl teams to find support for a league. This time, response was much higher, with nine teams ultimately expressing interest, perhaps in part to the misfortunes at the Chester County Intermediate Unit's qualifier tournament at the end of the 2016-17 school year (which was, at the time, the only quiz bowl event many of the nine schools played) for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], where a last-second drop caused an hour delay and logistical problems throughout the event.<br />
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The league began its inaugural season in the 2017-18 school year with seven members after Logos Academy and Delone Catholic decided not to participate.<br />
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==Format==<br />
The York-Adams League uses A set question sets from [[NAQT]], using two packets to completion in the course of the regular season and playoffs. Each game is essentially identical to an untimed [[NAQT rules|NAQT match]]: each four-member team plays 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Because the league does not use three sets like the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], it has uneven scheduling. Namely, some matches at the beginning of the season are only played with two rounds rather than three, and each team has a bye week while the other teams compete. Unlike the LL League, statistics are kept for both the regular season and playoffs.<br />
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==Results==<br />
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!width="75"|Season||width="100"|Champion||width="50"|Score||width="100"|Second||width="45"|Teams||width="100"|Host||width=145|Best PPG<br />
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|[//www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8514 2017-18]||[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]]||365-145||[[Southwestern Senior High School|Southwestern]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 314.75<br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
|}<br />
==Membership==<br />
===Adams County===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]] (2017-<br />
===York County===<br />
*[[Central York High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Hanover Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Red Lion Area Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Spring Grove Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Southwestern Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[York Suburban High School]] (2017-<br />
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[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:High school leagues]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Regional_Academic_Competitions&diff=36270Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions2018-04-05T03:32:25Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>{{Pic|Image = [[File:PA_School_Districts.gif|frameless|485px]]<br />
| Caption = Each Intermediate Unit and its subsidiary districts in Pennsylvania. All schools within those districts are a part of their respective IU<br />
| }}<br />
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'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases by virtue of winning one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each Intermediate Unit to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers (or lack thereof) have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition. Because the bill enacting PSAC does not stipulate how each Intermediate Unit may select their team, a wide variety of styles of tournaments and selection methods are used across Pennsylvania.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running (with the exception of Delaware County's Hi-Q) and most prominent qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC, which is itself loosely based on the [[Panasonic Academic Championship]]. Three teams compete at once to answer tossups in some rounds, followed by team-specific fanfare rounds of 60 seconds each. To determine who advances to the playoffs, overall score is measured rather than win-loss record. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often misleading, poorly worded, repeated, unfair, or, at times, downright offensive. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the limited use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers -- but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Capital Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time (and, in fact, have featured four at once). Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. Because only one match is run at a time, the rest of the teams at the CCIU qualifiers must sit and watch the other matches take place. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU may use NAQT questions to a lesser degree than PSAC or the Chester County league itself. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have created or changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia IU's Regional Qualifier, for instance, is its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. The [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], which -- though previously using different question providers and rules -- plays on untimed NAQT rules with minor adjustments, sends its champion to PSAC.<br />
<br />
Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three or four team format that PSAC uses. These events also usually occur on one day, like the CCIU-style qualifiers. Schuykill IU follows this format, where their regular-season league culminates in an "Academic Bowl" that uses NAQT questions but pits only two teams at once using the CCIU-style scoring rules. Other IUs have entirely different formats, like NEIU 19 or DelCo IU 25, which have more unique tournaments. The NEIU tournament does not use buzzers, uses only 8 CCIU-produced tossups per round, and only one team may answer a tossup at a time (whereupon an incorrect response will allow the other team to "steal."). Delaware County's Hi-Q follows its own set of rules.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. The Allegheny IU simply grants a PSAC berth to the team that first expresses interest. Others, like Central IU 10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, most of the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and, on occasion, have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points.<br />
<br />
The rising, exorbitant cost of the CCIU tournaments on high schools, combined with the little actual competition at the event, has arguably driven away schools that are not as historically competitive. Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually involves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most.<br />
<br />
Because matches at CCIU-hosted qualifiers are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three or four teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match against two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Colonial, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that Central IU 10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
IU competitions are also lambasted for "hogging" [[NAQT]] sets, not because they claim geographic exclusivity on them in general, but because they frequently do not use much of the packet and do not distribute copies of the packet to the teams in attendance. Some believe that certain IU Regional Tournaments modify NAQT tossups to fit their own format, potentially removing pyramidality and preventing teams from hearing the whole tossup.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Regional_Academic_Competitions&diff=36269Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions2018-04-05T03:22:50Z<p>Jack Edmondson: minor syntax</p>
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<div>{{Pic|Image = [[File:PA_School_Districts.gif|frameless|485px]]<br />
| Caption = Each Intermediate Unit and its subsidiary districts in Pennsylvania. All schools within those districts are a part of their respective IU<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases by virtue of winning one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each Intermediate Unit to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers (or lack thereof) have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition. Because the bill enacting PSAC does not stipulate how each Intermediate Unit may select their team, a wide variety of styles of tournaments and selection methods are used across Pennsylvania.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running (with the exception of Delaware County's Hi-Q) and most prominent qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC, which is itself loosely based on the [[Panasonic Academic Championship]]. Three teams compete at once to answer tossups in some rounds, followed by team-specific fanfare rounds of 60 seconds each. To determine who advances to the playoffs, overall score is measured rather than win-loss record. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often misleading, poorly worded, repeated, unfair, or, at times, downright offensive. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the limited use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers -- but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Schuylkill Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time (and, in fact, have featured four at once). Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. Because only one match is run at a time, the rest of the teams at the CCIU qualifiers must sit and watch the other matches take place. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU may use NAQT questions to a lesser degree than PSAC or the Chester County league itself. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have created or changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia IU's Regional Qualifier, for instance, is its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. The [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], which -- though previously using different question providers and rules -- plays on untimed NAQT rules with minor adjustments, sends its champion to PSAC.<br />
<br />
Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three or four team format that PSAC uses. These events also usually occur on one day, like the CCIU-style qualifiers. Other IUs have entirely different formats, like NEIU 19 or DelCo IU 25, which have more unique tournaments. The NEIU tournament does not use buzzers, uses only 8 CCIU-produced tossups per round, and only one team may answer a tossup at a time (whereupon an incorrect response will allow the other team to "steal."). Delaware County's Hi-Q follows its own set of rules.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. The Allegheny IU simply grants a PSAC berth to the team that first expresses interest. Others, like Central IU 10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, most of the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and, on occasion, have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points.<br />
<br />
The rising, exorbitant cost of the CCIU tournaments on high schools, combined with the little actual competition at the event, has arguably driven away schools that are not as historically competitive. Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually involves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most.<br />
<br />
Because matches at CCIU-hosted qualifiers are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three or four teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match against two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Colonial, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that Central IU 10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
IU competitions are also lambasted for "hogging" [[NAQT]] sets, not because they claim geographic exclusivity on them in general, but because they frequently do not use much of the packet and do not distribute copies of the packet to the teams in attendance. Some believe that certain IU Regional Tournaments modify NAQT tossups to fit their own format, potentially removing pyramidality and preventing teams from hearing the whole tossup.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Regional_Academic_Competitions&diff=36268Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions2018-04-05T03:16:24Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Fixed some big mistakes.</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Pic|Image = [[File:PA_School_Districts.gif|frameless|485px]]<br />
| Caption = Each Intermediate Unit and its subsidiary districts in Pennsylvania. All schools within those districts are a part of their respective IU<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases by virtue of winning one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each Intermediate Unit to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers (or lack thereof) have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition. Because the bill enacting PSAC does not stipulate how each Intermediate Unit may select their team, a wide variety of styles of tournaments and selection methods are used across Pennsylvania.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running (with the exception of Delaware County's Hi-Q) and most prominent qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC, which is itself loosely based on the [[Panasonic Academic Championship]]. Three teams compete at once to answer tossups in some rounds, followed by team-specific fanfare rounds of 60 seconds each. To determine who advances to the playoffs, overall score is measured rather than win-loss record. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often misleading, poorly worded, repeated, unfair, or, at times, downright offensive. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the limited use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers -- but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Schuylkill Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time (and, in fact, have featured four at once). Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. Because only one match is run at a time, the rest of the teams at the CCIU qualifiers must sit and watch the other matches take place. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU may use NAQT questions to a lesser degree than PSAC or the Chester County league itself. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have created or changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia IU's Regional Qualifier, for instance, is its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. The [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], which -- though previously using different question providers and rules -- plays on untimed NAQT rules with minor adjustments, sends its champion to PSAC.<br />
<br />
Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three or four team format that PSAC uses. These events also usually occur on one day, like the CCIU-style qualifiers. Other IUs have entirely different formats, like NEIU 19 or DelCo IU 25, which have more unique tournaments. The NEIU tournament does not use buzzers, uses only 8 CCIU-produced tossups per round, and only one team may answer a tossup at a time (whereupon an incorrect response will allow the other team to "steal."). Delaware County's Hi-Q follows its own set of rules.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. The Allegheny IU simply grants a PSAC berth to the team that first expresses interest. Others, like Central IU 10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and, on occasion, have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points.<br />
<br />
The rising, exorbitant cost of the CCIU tournaments on high schools, combined with the little actual competition at the event, has arguably driven away schools that are not as historically competitive. Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually involves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most.<br />
<br />
Because matches at CCIU-hosted qualifiers are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three or four teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match against two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Colonial, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that Central IU 10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
IU competitions are also lambasted for "hogging" [[NAQT]] sets, not because they claim geographic exclusivity on them in general, but because they frequently do not use much of the packet and do not distribute copies of the packet to the teams in attendance. Some believe that certain IU Regional Tournaments modify NAQT tossups to fit their own format, potentially removing pyramidality and preventing teams from hearing the whole tossup.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Regional_Academic_Competitions&diff=36267Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions2018-04-04T23:14:18Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Changed formatting of picture.</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Pic|Image = [[File:PA_School_Districts.gif|frameless|485px]]<br />
| Caption = Each Intermediate Unit and its subsidiary districts in Pennsylvania. All schools within those districts are a part of their respective IU<br />
| }}<br />
<br />
'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases by virtue of winning one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each Intermediate Unit to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers (or lack thereof) have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition. Because the bill enacting PSAC does not stipulate how each Intermediate Unit may select their team, a wide variety of styles of tournaments and selection methods are used across Pennsylvania.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running and most notable qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC, which is itself loosely based on the [[Panasonic Academic Championship]]. Three or four teams compete at once to answer tossups in some rounds, followed by individual "fanfare" rounds of 60 seconds each. To determine who advances to the playoffs, overall score is measured rather than win-loss record. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often misleading, poorly worded, repeated, unfair, or, at times, downright offensive. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers -- but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Schuylkill Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time (and, in fact, have featured four at once). Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. Because only one match is run at a time, the rest of the teams at the CCIU qualifiers must sit and watch the other matches take place. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU often only partially use NAQT questions. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia's IU, for instance, now runs its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three or four team format that PSAC uses. These events also usually occur on one day, like the CCIU-style qualifiers.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. Others, like IU #10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the little Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points.<br />
<br />
The rising, exorbitant cost of the CCIU tournaments on high schools, combined with the little actual competition at the event, has arguably driven away schools that are not as historically competitive. Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually inovlves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most.<br />
<br />
Because matches are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three or four teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match agianst two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Carbon-Lehigh, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that IU #10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
Non-CCIU, non-NAQT Regional Competitions are, generally speaking, not as poorly run as the CCIU events, but still utilize poor housewritten and repeat questions and the three team format.<br />
<br />
IU competitions are also lambasted for "hogging" [[NAQT]] sets, not because they claim geographic exclusivity on them in general, but because they frequently do not use much of the packet and do not distribute copies of the packet to the teams in attendance.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
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'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases through one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each IU to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers (or lack thereof) have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running and most notable qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC, which is itself loosely based on the [[Panasonic Academic Championship]]. Three or four teams compete at once to answer tossups in some rounds, followed by individual "fanfare" rounds of 60 seconds each. To determine who advances to the playoffs, overall score is measured rather than win-loss record. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often misleading, poorly worded, repeated, unfair, or, at times, downright offensive. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers -- but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Schuylkill Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time (and, in fact, have featured four at once). Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. Because only one match is run at a time, the rest of the teams at the CCIU qualifiers must sit and watch the other matches take place. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU often only partially use NAQT questions. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia's IU, for instance, now runs its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three or four team format that PSAC uses.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. Others, like IU #10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the little Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points.<br />
<br />
The rising, exorbitant cost of the CCIU tournaments on high schools, combined with the little actual competition at the event, has arguably driven away schools that are not as historically competitive. Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually inovlves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most.<br />
<br />
Because matches are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three or four teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match agianst two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Carbon-Lehigh, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that IU #10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
Non-CCIU, non-NAQT Regional Competitions are, generally speaking, not as poorly run as the CCIU events, but still utilize poor housewritten and repeat questions and the three team format.<br />
<br />
IU competitions are also lambasted for "hogging" [[NAQT]] sets, not because they claim geographic exclusivity on them in general, but because they frequently do not use much of the packet and do not distribute copies of the packet to the teams in attendance.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=File:PA_School_Districts.gif&diff=36265File:PA School Districts.gif2018-04-04T22:27:25Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases through one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each IU to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers (or lack thereof) have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition.<br />
<br />
==General Format==<br />
The longest-running and most notable qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC, which is itself loosely based on the [[Panasonic Academic Championship]]. Three or four teams compete at once to answer tossups in some rounds, followed by individual "fanfare" rounds of 60 seconds each. To determine who advances to the playoffs, overall score is measured rather than win-loss record. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often misleading, poorly worded, repeated, unfair, or, at times, downright offensive. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers -- but has kept its original format.<br />
<br />
Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. The Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Schuylkill Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time (and, in fact, have featured four at once). Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. Because only one match is run at a time, the rest of the teams at the CCIU qualifiers must sit and watch the other matches take place. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU often only partially use NAQT questions. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
<br />
In recent years, some IUs have changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia's IU, for instance, now runs its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three or four team format that PSAC uses.<br />
<br />
Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. Others, like IU #10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
<br />
Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
<br />
==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the little Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points.<br />
<br />
The rising, exorbitant cost of the CCIU tournaments on high schools, combined with the little actual competition at the event, has arguably driven away schools that are not as historically competitive. Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually inovlves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most.<br />
<br />
Because matches are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three or four teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
<br />
The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match agianst two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
<br />
Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Carbon-Lehigh, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that IU #10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
<br />
Non-CCIU, non-NAQT Regional Competitions are, generally speaking, not as poorly run as the CCIU events, but still utilize poor housewritten and repeat questions and the three team format.<br />
<br />
IU competitions are also lambasted for "hogging" [[NAQT]] sets, not because they claim geographic exclusivity on them in general, but because they frequently do not use much of the packet and do not distribute copies of the packet to the teams in attendance.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Camp_Hill&diff=36263Camp Hill2018-04-04T18:09:49Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>{{Highschoolteam|Name = Camp Hill High School<br />
|image = <br />
|citystate = Camp Hill, PA<br />
|currentcoach = Andrew Gianelli<br />
|state = <br />
|nats = [[2017 SSNCT|2017 NAQT Very Small School]]<br />
|nats appearances = [[HSNCT]]: 2011-2013 <br/> [[SSNCT]]: 2014-2017<br />
|status = Active<br />
|size = ~400<br />
| }}<br />
'''Camp Hill High School''' is a small, public school in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.<br />
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==Team History==<br />
Camp Hill has been a regular at high school tournaments in Pennsylvania and Delaware since at least 2011. They have consistently been among the state's top Small School programs and have placed very highly at SSNCT, and before it in small school titles at HSNCT (finishing 11th or higher for seven straight years as of 2017).<br />
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The team had its start with NAQT at the 2008 Capital Area League, a 5-month long series of scrimmages among teams in the appropriately named Capital Area, where they finished 4th among 16 teams. They finished fifth the following year, finally winning the League in 2011. That same season they attended their first major NAQT weekend tournament, the Battle of the Burgh XIV, finishing 2nd, behind only State College A. In May at the [[2011 HSNCT]], led by seniors Brad Seltzer and Nick Lehotsky, junior Tim Lehotsky, and sophomore David Cohen, Camp Hill finished 5th in the nation among 24 small schools. The next year saw more success, with them again winning the League, this time undefeated, as well is winning SAGACITY VII. At the [[2012 HSNCT]] they finished 3rd among 27 small schools, which saw the return of Tim and David as well as senior Matt Easton and junior Patrick Yang. The 2013 season started with similar success, with Camp Hill again winning both the League and SAGACITY VIII. At the [[2013 HSNCT]] they managed a solid tied for 9th out of 25 small schools.<br />
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The next several years were rebuilding years for Camp Hill after graduating 75% of their scoring from last year's nationals. Though initially struggling in regular-season tournaments, hard studying enabled a solid tied for 11th finish at the inaugural [[2014 SSNCT]], with the nationals team including returning seniors Sam Horowitz-Soyos and Seth Kodner, juniors Paxton Fitzpatrick and Rebecca Easton, as well as new arrivals Catherine Jones (sophomore) and Colton Sanden (freshman). The ensuing years saw increased success, finishing tied for 7th at the [[2015 SSNCT]], tied for 11th at the [[2016 SSNCT]], culminating in a third place finish in the Traditional Public division and a championship in the Very Small School division at the [[2017 SSNCT]] with the team lead by senior Colton Sanden, juniors Ben Haas and Alex Drda, as well as sophomore Sydney Preston.<br />
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==Notable Accomplishments==<br />
*5th Place, Small School, [[2011 HSNCT]]<br />
*3rd Place, Small School, [[2012 HSNCT]]<br />
*1st Place, [[SAGACITY]] VII and VIII (2011/2012)<br />
*7th Place, [[2015 SSNCT]]<br />
*3rd Place, Traditional Public Division, [[2017 SSNCT]]<br />
*1st Place, Very Small School Division, [[2017 SSNCT]]<br />
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==Alumni==<br />
*Colton Sanden<br />
*Brad Seltzer<br />
*Tim Lehotsky<br />
*Patrick Yang<br />
*David Cohen<br />
*Catherine Jones</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_State_Academic_Competition&diff=36262Pennsylvania State Academic Competition2018-04-04T17:58:19Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>The '''Pennsylvania State Academic Competition''' is a [[quizbowl]] tournament held each year around May in Harrisburg, in the state House of Representatives and Senate Chambers. Each year's top three competing teams are awarded scholarships. It is run by the [http://www.cciu.org/ Chester County Intermediate Unit].<br />
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The competition is televised live by the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) and rebroadcast throughout the year.<br />
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==History==<br />
The Pennsylvania State Academic Competition (PSAC) was started in 1992 by Pennsylvania Representative Joseph Pitts. The first year contained 12 qualifying schools but has since been expanded to one school for each of Pennsylvania's 29 "intermediate units". For several years, the winning team received a scholarship to the [[Panasonic Academic Challenge]], and its format is loosely based on PAC. Most years, the field is around 24 teams. <br />
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==Format==<br />
Three teams compete head-to-head in each game in the tournament. The game is broken into two tossup rounds made up of 10 questions each, and two "fanfare" rounds where each table is given a series of 6 questions. Tossup rounds allow conferring before a team buzzes in, and give the team up to 15 seconds after the entire question is read to come up with an answer. One buzzer is supplied to each player. Fanfare rounds are 60 second timed affairs. Each team gets one fanfare per round, which can result in widely varying swings in difficulty between the fanfares given to different teams. Fanfare questions are asked in rapid succession and once a team passes on a question, they are not permitted to go back to answer it. <br />
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The day's preliminary matches are followed by 3 semi-finals and final match for the top 9 and 3 teams respectively. The semi-final round was introduced at some point between 1999 and 2007. Prior to that time each team played two preliminary matches; of the teams which won both preliminary matches, the three teams with the highest points per game were selected to play in the final match. The preliminary matches are currently randomly assigned, which can lead to wildly imbalanced schedules.<br />
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==Qualifying and Costs==<br />
''Main article:[[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions]]''<br />
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Qualifying teams, usually the winners of local championships, are chosen by the various intermediate units. In addition, the previous year's champion receives an automatic bid to attend the tournament.<br />
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The top three competing teams are each awarded scholarships. The winner receives 2,000 dollars, while the runners-up receive 500. There is no charge for participating teams, but hotel costs are only partially subsidized, and travel costs are the responsibility of each district.<br />
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==Questions==<br />
Up until 2016, PSAC used house-written questions, some of which were recycled from year-to-year and from the CCIU tournaments. In 2016, after fielding many complaints about the questions, PSAC switched to the [[NAQT]] state championship set for tossups and a mix of NAQT and CCIU-written fanfare questions. <br />
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Sample old questions included:<br />
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Q. Written by Stephen Crane, this novel depicts the civil war by describing an individual soldier's reactions, fears, cowardice and courage in the battle zone. What is the name of Crane's novel?<br />
A. "The Red Badge of Courage"<br />
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Q. In 1963, representatives from thirty African nations met in Addis Adaba, capital of Ethiopia, and signed a charter establishing the O.A.U.. What do the letters O.A.U. stand for?<br />
A. Organization of African Unity<br />
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Q. This German physiologist was noted for his work with digestion; however, he is better known for stating the theory that all animals are made up of cells. Name him.<br />
A. Theodor Schwann<br />
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Q. In 1953 Congress pass a legislative act which extended the U.S. government's guarantee to protect the rights of workers to organize or join labor unions. Name the act.<br />
A. Wagner Act<br />
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Q: What kind of colleges are best for women? <br />
A: Women's colleges<br />
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Q: Cetology is the study of whales. For 10 points, who wrote Moby Dick?<br />
A: Herman Melville<br />
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2003 was notable for having at least 4 different questions on characters from Catch-22 as tossups in different rounds, as well as at least 4 different questions on ranks in the US military in different rounds.<br />
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==Notable Events==<br />
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In 2013, an extremely unlikely three way tie occurred between [[Conestoga]], [[West Chester Henderson]], and [[State College]] in the championship match. Conestoga won the tournament after a five question tiebreaker.<br />
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==Winners==<br />
* 2017: [[Spring Grove]]<br />
* 2016: [[Lehigh Valley]]<br />
* 2015: [[Downingtown East]]<br />
* 2014: [[Downingtown East]]<br />
* 2013: [[Conestoga]]<br />
* 2012: [[West Chester Henderson]]<br />
* 2011: [[West Chester Henderson]]<br />
* 2010: [[West Chester Rustin]]<br />
* 2009: [[Wilson]]<br />
* 2008: [[2008 State College|State College]]<br />
* 2007: [[Scranton]]<br />
* 2006: [[2006 State College|State College]]<br />
* 2005: [[Emmaus]]<br />
* 2004: [[Emmaus]]<br />
* 2003: [[Emmaus]]<br />
* 2002: [[Downingtown]]<br />
* 2001: [[Moravian]]<br />
* 2000: [[Lancaster Catholic]]<br />
* 1999: [[Manheim Township]]<br />
* 1998: [[Manheim Township]]<br />
* 1997: [[State College]]<br />
* 1996: [[West Chester East]]<br />
* 1995: [[General McLane]]<br />
* 1994: [[Downingtown]]<br />
* 1993: [[Radnor]]<br />
* 1992: [[Conestoga]]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
[http://www.cciu.org/page/384 Chester County Intermediate Unit's PSAC Page]<br />
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[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_State_Academic_Competition&diff=36261Pennsylvania State Academic Competition2018-04-04T17:57:32Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Updated Qualifying, added link to other article</p>
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<div>The '''Pennsylvania State Academic Competition''' is a [[quizbowl]] tournament held each year around May in Harrisburg, in the state House of Representatives and Senate Chambers. Each year's top three competing teams are awarded scholarships. It is run by the [http://www.cciu.org/ Chester County Intermediate Unit].<br />
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The competition is televised live by the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) and rebroadcast throughout the year.<br />
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==History==<br />
The Pennsylvania State Academic Competition (PSAC) was started in 1992 by Pennsylvania Representative Joseph Pitts. The first year contained 12 qualifying schools but has since been expanded to one school for each of Pennsylvania's 29 "intermediate units". For several years, the winning team received a scholarship to the [[Panasonic Academic Challenge]], and its format is loosely based on PAC. Most years, the field is around 24 teams. <br />
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==Format==<br />
Three teams compete head-to-head in each game in the tournament. The game is broken into two tossup rounds made up of 10 questions each, and two "fanfare" rounds where each table is given a series of 6 questions. Tossup rounds allow conferring before a team buzzes in, and give the team up to 15 seconds after the entire question is read to come up with an answer. One buzzer is supplied to each player. Fanfare rounds are 60 second timed affairs. Each team gets one fanfare per round, which can result in widely varying swings in difficulty between the fanfares given to different teams. Fanfare questions are asked in rapid succession and once a team passes on a question, they are not permitted to go back to answer it. <br />
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The day's preliminary matches are followed by 3 semi-finals and final match for the top 9 and 3 teams respectively. The semi-final round was introduced at some point between 1999 and 2007. Prior to that time each team played two preliminary matches; of the teams which won both preliminary matches, the three teams with the highest points per game were selected to play in the final match. The preliminary matches are currently randomly assigned, which can lead to wildly imbalanced schedules.<br />
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==Qualifying and Costs==<br />
===Main article:[[Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions]]===<br />
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Qualifying teams, usually the winners of local championships, are chosen by the various intermediate units. In addition, the previous year's champion receives an automatic bid to attend the tournament.<br />
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The top three competing teams are each awarded scholarships. The winner receives 2,000 dollars, while the runners-up receive 500. There is no charge for participating teams, but hotel costs are only partially subsidized, and travel costs are the responsibility of each district.<br />
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==Questions==<br />
Up until 2016, PSAC used house-written questions, some of which were recycled from year-to-year and from the CCIU tournaments. In 2016, after fielding many complaints about the questions, PSAC switched to the [[NAQT]] state championship set for tossups and a mix of NAQT and CCIU-written fanfare questions. <br />
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Sample old questions included:<br />
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Q. Written by Stephen Crane, this novel depicts the civil war by describing an individual soldier's reactions, fears, cowardice and courage in the battle zone. What is the name of Crane's novel?<br />
A. "The Red Badge of Courage"<br />
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Q. In 1963, representatives from thirty African nations met in Addis Adaba, capital of Ethiopia, and signed a charter establishing the O.A.U.. What do the letters O.A.U. stand for?<br />
A. Organization of African Unity<br />
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Q. This German physiologist was noted for his work with digestion; however, he is better known for stating the theory that all animals are made up of cells. Name him.<br />
A. Theodor Schwann<br />
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Q. In 1953 Congress pass a legislative act which extended the U.S. government's guarantee to protect the rights of workers to organize or join labor unions. Name the act.<br />
A. Wagner Act<br />
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Q: What kind of colleges are best for women? <br />
A: Women's colleges<br />
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Q: Cetology is the study of whales. For 10 points, who wrote Moby Dick?<br />
A: Herman Melville<br />
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2003 was notable for having at least 4 different questions on characters from Catch-22 as tossups in different rounds, as well as at least 4 different questions on ranks in the US military in different rounds.<br />
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==Notable Events==<br />
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In 2013, an extremely unlikely three way tie occurred between [[Conestoga]], [[West Chester Henderson]], and [[State College]] in the championship match. Conestoga won the tournament after a five question tiebreaker.<br />
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==Winners==<br />
* 2017: [[Spring Grove]]<br />
* 2016: [[Lehigh Valley]]<br />
* 2015: [[Downingtown East]]<br />
* 2014: [[Downingtown East]]<br />
* 2013: [[Conestoga]]<br />
* 2012: [[West Chester Henderson]]<br />
* 2011: [[West Chester Henderson]]<br />
* 2010: [[West Chester Rustin]]<br />
* 2009: [[Wilson]]<br />
* 2008: [[2008 State College|State College]]<br />
* 2007: [[Scranton]]<br />
* 2006: [[2006 State College|State College]]<br />
* 2005: [[Emmaus]]<br />
* 2004: [[Emmaus]]<br />
* 2003: [[Emmaus]]<br />
* 2002: [[Downingtown]]<br />
* 2001: [[Moravian]]<br />
* 2000: [[Lancaster Catholic]]<br />
* 1999: [[Manheim Township]]<br />
* 1998: [[Manheim Township]]<br />
* 1997: [[State College]]<br />
* 1996: [[West Chester East]]<br />
* 1995: [[General McLane]]<br />
* 1994: [[Downingtown]]<br />
* 1993: [[Radnor]]<br />
* 1992: [[Conestoga]]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
[http://www.cciu.org/page/384 Chester County Intermediate Unit's PSAC Page]<br />
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[[Category:State championships]] [[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]<br />
[[Category:Bad quizbowl]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Pennsylvania_Regional_Academic_Competitions&diff=36260Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions2018-04-04T17:54:12Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Created page for the Regional Qualifiers for PSAC</p>
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<div>'''Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions''' are a collection of quiz bowl tournaments that take place across Pennsylvania as qualifiers for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]. Pennsylvania is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from that IU, in which case two schools are sent), in many cases through one of the Regional Academic Competitions.<br />
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==History==<br />
In 1992, Chester County State Rep. Joseph Pitts created a bill that sponsored a state academic competition that allowed for each IU to send one team. Since then, regional qualifiers (or lack thereof) have been held across the Commonwealth. Currently, the Chester County Intermediate Unit is in charge of creating rules and facilitating the statewide competition.<br />
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==General Format==<br />
The longest-running and most notable qualifier is in Pitts's hometown of Chester County. The Chester County Intermediate Unit, or CCIU, holds its own academic competition that essentially follows the same format of the PSAC, which is itself loosely based on the [[Panasonic Academic Championship]]. Three or four teams compete at once to answer tossups in some rounds, followed by individual "fanfare" rounds of 60 seconds each. To determine who advances to the playoffs, overall score is measured rather than win-loss record. Originally, questions were exclusively written by the CCIU and were often misleading, poorly worded, repeated, unfair, or, at times, downright offensive. Because of pushback from many Chester County schools, CCIU has adopted the use of NAQT tossups and bonuses for some of its qualifiers -- but has kept its original format.<br />
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Qualifiers held in other IUs often mirror this format. These other IUs can pay the CCIU thousands of dollars (prices generally are around $3,500+) to have the CCIU team host a qualifier. the Lincoln, Colonial, Carbon-Lehigh, and Schuylkill Intermediate Units have done so in the past. Unlike the CCIU Academic Competition, which takes place over many months, the CCIU-hosted Regional Qualifiers take place in one day, meaning that teams generally only play two preliminary matches. Matches always have at least three teams at the same time (and, in fact, have featured four at once). Qualification is likewise only based on total points scored. Because only one match is run at a time, the rest of the teams at the CCIU qualifiers must sit and watch the other matches take place. In these events, registration fees are directly passed on to school districts, often amounting to >400 dollar costs for one tournament. Unlike the Chester County competition, Regional Qualifiers hosted by the CCIU often only partially use NAQT questions. In 2017, for instance, the Lincoln IU competition featured NAQT tossups for only the second tossup and fanfare round. The first round relied on the house-written questions from the CCIU.<br />
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In recent years, some IUs have changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia's IU, for instance, now runs its own Saturday, pyramidal tournament, the [[Philadelphia City-Wide Championship]]. In 2018, the Lincoln IU followed suit and held a tournament using untimed NAQT rules and head-to-head matches. Other Intermediate IUs run their own Regional Qualifiers with only NAQT questions, but still follow the three or four team format that PSAC uses.<br />
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Despite the Pennsylvania State Academic Competition having been continuously run for nearly thirty years, some IUs do not sent a team or hold a qualifier. Others, like IU #10, randomly draw a high school from a hat each year to represent them at PSAC.<br />
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Top teams at the Regional Qualifiers which use, in some manner, NAQT questions have been considered by NAQT as winning qualifiers for [[HSNCT]] and/or [[SSNCT]]. <br />
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==Criticism==<br />
Much like the PSAC, the Regional Competitions are an example of [[bad quizbowl|Bad Quiz Bowl]]. Generally speaking, questions written by the CCIU are not pyramidal, repeated year to year, and often misleading; and the rules are not consistently applied. In the past, judges have evaluated protests by Googling things and looking at the little Wikipedia infobox. The CCIU also does not often proofread their own packets, meaning that they have had repeats within matches and have had to retroactively deduct points from teams. This practice led to, at the Lincoln IU Competition, one team defending another team by saying into the microphone that "It's not fair that they are penalized for your own mistake," leading to a thunderous applause from the rest of the teams in attendance. The judges did not reverse their decision of deducting the affected team's points.<br />
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The rising, exorbitant cost of the CCIU tournaments on high schools, combined with the little actual competition at the event, has arguably driven away schools that are not as historically competitive. Moreover, the CCIU -- a government agency -- has received criticism for essentially profiting at the expense of other IUs. The CCIU has, from its own funding, the ability to pay its employees who work for the Academic Competitions, regardless of income from hosting the other IUs' Regional Competitions. Invoices sent to other IUs feature the line item "equipment/room setup," which comprises the bulk of the expense. In reality, the room setup usually inovlves plugging in one or two buzzer systems, a computer monitor into a laptop, and a couple of microphones at most.<br />
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Because matches are both randomly drawn to determine the lineup, and require three or four teams at a time, it is often luck that advances a team to the next round. Matches where two objectively good teams play one another often results in a "crowding out" effect, because the points are split between the two, whereas a third good team that might not be as good as the first two could play two terrible teams in their own match, easily get more points, and qualify for the finals above the other two, despite being worse.<br />
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The three team format also means that last-second drops often throw a Qualifier into chaos. In 2017, the Lincoln IU's competition experienced an hour delay because one school did not show up and would not respond to phone calls. Because a new schedule was impossible (as the new number of teams was not divisible by three), one school was forced to play an extra exhibition match agianst two other schools who were playing for real. This exhibition team ended up being [[Spring Grove Area High School|Spring Grove]], (who ultimately won PSAC that year), meaning the other two teams playing for real had to face an even harder school than they would have otherwise had to, stifling their ability to get points. Some might argue that this prevented one school (who was close to having the third most points) from making it to the playoff round.<br />
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Some IUs have banned certain schools from attending, such as Carbon-Lehigh, which essentially segregated [[Lehigh Valley Academy]] by stipulating that only public, non-charter schools can attend the regional qualifier. This move occurred after dominant performances from LVA. Similarly, many speculate that IU #10 draws a random team from a hat because [[State College]] had dominated the Qualifier for many years, and the IU board got sick of the same team winning.<br />
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Non-CCIU, non-NAQT Regional Competitions are, generally speaking, not as poorly run as the CCIU events, but still utilize poor housewritten and repeat questions and the three team format.<br />
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IU competitions are also lambasted for "hogging" [[NAQT]] sets, not because they claim geographic exclusivity on them in general, but because they frequently do not use much of the packet and do not distribute copies of the packet to the teams in attendance.<br />
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[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York_Suburban_High_School&diff=36259York Suburban High School2018-04-04T04:00:02Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>{{Highschoolteam|Name = York Suburban High School<br />
|image = YorkSuburbanLogo.png<br />
|citystate = York, Pennsylvania<br />
|currentcoach = Sarah Lawrence, Jesse Weld<br />
|nats appearances = None<br />
|status = Active<br />
|size = ~850<br />
|}}<br />
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'''York Suburban High School''' is a high school located in York, Pennsylvania. Their quiz bowl team has played extensively and well in regional and state leagues, but has almost no experience playing tournaments.<br />
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==History==<br />
===Tournament Results===<br />
York Suburban's earliest recorded results are at its only tournament appearance at the ''Maryland DR YAKUB Invitational'' in December, 2010 at the [[Maryland|University of Maryland]], where their A team finished 4-7 with 157PPG on [[NAQT]] IS-98. Since this tournament, York Suburban has not attended a Saturday event.<br />
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===League Results===<br />
Though their tournament experience is little, Suburban has enjoyed consistent success in numerous local formats. It competed in the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]] from 2011 to 2017. It left the LL League when it joined seven other schools in York and Adams Counties to form the [[York-Adams Quiz Bowl League]]. York Suburban was the original proponent of the YA League, and had tried unsuccessfully to create it for the 2016-17 school year.<br />
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York Suburban competed well in the LL League, with multiple top five finishes in the playoff tournament. Only in 2015-16 did their program suffer a poor season, finishing in 21st place. In the first year of the YA League, York Suburban won the title, posting the best PPG, PPB, and overall record.<br />
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The team has competed at the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], winning its Intermediate Unit's qualifier multiple times: from 2012 and before, York Suburban won every single iteration of the Lincoln IU 12's competition -- qualifying it for states -- except for its inaugural year.<br />
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York Suburban has also competed on the program [[Brainbusters]].<br />
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[[Category: Pennsylvania high school teams]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Bermudian_Springs_High_School&diff=36258Bermudian Springs High School2018-04-04T03:57:31Z<p>Jack Edmondson: </p>
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<div>{{Highschoolteam|Name = Bermudian Springs High School<br />
|image =Bermudian_Logo.png<br />
|citystate = York Springs, Pennsylvania<br />
|currentcoach = Shane Miller<br />
|nats appearances = None<br />
|status = Active<br />
|size = ~550 (qualifies for [[SSNCT]])<br />
|}}<br />
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'''Bermudian Springs High School''', or '''Bermudian Springs''', is a high school in York Springs, Pennsylvania that participates in regional and statewide pyramidal quiz bowl tournaments.<br />
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==History==<br />
Bermudian Springs attended quiz bowl tournaments since 2006, with its first recorded attendance at a tournament hosted by Elizabethtown College, where on [[NAQT]] set IS-58, the A team [//https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=2034 finished 5-6.]<br />
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Bermudian competed in the [[Capital Area League|Capitol Area Quiz Bowl League]], normally played by schools in the surrounding Harrisburg area. They started competing in 2008, finishing 7-8 and garnering a 9th place finish. This result would be their best: after three more disappointing seasons, including a 2010-11 season finish at 0-16, Bermudian stopped competing in the league.<br />
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With a new coach, Bermudian rejoined the circuit in 2015, competing at the [[Manheim Township Academic Challenge]], which they have done annually since. They also made an appearance at [[GVQBT]] in 2017. Though they have qualified for both [[HSNCT]] and [[SSNCT]], Bermudian Springs has attended neither.<br />
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Their arguable best-finishes at a tournament were two consecutive years of finishing second at the Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12's [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]] qualifier, behind [[Spring Grove]] both times. The team has also competed on the show [[Brainbusters]], with their best result a loss to [[Spring Grove]] in the quarterfinal.<br />
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Bermudian Springs was one of the founding members of the [[York-Adams Quiz Bowl League]], where it competes today.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
[//https://www.naqt.com/stats/school/index.jsp?org_id=62023 ''NAQT School Results Page'']<br />
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[[Category: Pennsylvania high school teams]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=York-Adams_Quiz_Bowl_League&diff=36257York-Adams Quiz Bowl League2018-04-04T03:52:29Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Added first year results</p>
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<div>The York-Adams Quiz Bowl League is a pyramidal quiz bowl league based out of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by Chris Manning, former coach of [[Manheim Township]] and commissioner of the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]].<br />
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==History and Formation==<br />
In 2016, York Suburban High School, then a member of the LL League, contacted schools in the region to see if there was interest to form a quiz bowl league in York and Adams Counties. At first, response was low, with only Bermudian Springs High School expressing strong interest.<br />
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However, the next year, an email was again sent by York Suburban to coaches of the local quiz bowl teams to find support for a league. This time, response was much higher, with nine teams ultimately expressing interest, perhaps in part to the misfortunes at the Chester County Intermediate Unit's qualifier tournament at the end of the 2016-17 school year (which was, at the time, the only quiz bowl event many of the nine schools played) for the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], where a last-second drop caused an hour delay and logistical problems throughout the event.<br />
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The league began its inaugural season in the 2017-18 school year with seven members after Logos Academy and Delone Catholic decided not to participate.<br />
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==Format==<br />
The York-Adams League uses A set question sets from [[NAQT]], using two packets to completion in the course of the regular season and playoffs. Each game is essentially identical to an untimed [[NAQT rules|NAQT match]]: each four-member team plays 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Because the league does not use three sets like the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]], it has uneven scheduling. Namely, some matches at the beginning of the season are only played with two rounds rather than three, and each team has a bye week while the other teams compete. Unlike the LL League, statistics are kept for both the regular season and playoffs.<br />
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==Results==<br />
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" <br />
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"<br />
!width="75"|Season||width="100"|Champion||width="50"|Score||width="100"|Second||width="45"|Teams||width="100"|Host||width=145|Best PPG<br />
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|[//https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8514 2017-18]||[[York Suburban High School|York Suburban]]||365-145||[[Southwestern Senior High School|Southwestern]]||7||Central York||York Suburban, 314.75<br />
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==Membership==<br />
===Adams County===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]] (2017-<br />
===York County===<br />
*[[Central York High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Hanover Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Red Lion Area Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Spring Grove Area High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[Southwestern Senior High School]] (2017-<br />
*[[York Suburban High School]] (2017-<br />
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[[Category:High school leagues]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Greater_Pennsylvania_Quizbowl_Resource&diff=34853Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource2018-01-16T18:19:43Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Added link to PA Novice 2016</p>
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The '''Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource''' (or GPQB) is a quizbowl blog that covers the quizbowl circuit in Pennsylvania. Founded in July 2014, it was previously known as '''Greater Philadelphia Quizbowl Resource''' until its expansion to all of Pennsylvania in June 2015.<br />
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==Purpose==<br />
The current focus of the GPQB blog is coverage and analysis of the high school circuit of Pennsylvania quizbowl. This includes tournament wrap-ups, interviews, advice, and the occasional podcast from the contributors. Complementing its Pennsylvania focus is its content for general high school quizbowl audiences. GPQB has covered the basics of quizbowl, outreach advice, studying strategies, and tournament hosting. The site features a schedule for all Pennsylvania pyramidal events and [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition|PSAC]], as well as tournaments in the surrounding states.<br />
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==Question Writing==<br />
The members of the site organized and edited the [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/1871/ 2016 Pennsylvania Novice Initiative], a novice-level tournament designed to correct the lack of material for novice teams to practice on.<br />
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==Awards==<br />
The staff at GPQB announce three awards each year to outstanding members of the quizbowl community in Pennsylvania. Players are not considered for the same award multiple times, and coaches are not eligible to win again until eight years have passed -- the equivalent of two student cycles.<br />
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===Past Winners===<br />
{| border="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Player of the Year<br />
! JV Player of the Year<br />
! Coach of the Year<br />
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| 2014-15<br />
| [[Ryan Bilger]], [[Emmaus|Emmaus High School]]<br />
| [[Alex Schmidt]], [[Lehigh Valley|Lehigh Valley Academy]]<br />
| [[Missy Doll]], [[Manheim Township|Manheim Township High School]]<br />
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| 2015-16<br />
| Alex Schmidt, Lehigh Valley Academy<br />
| [[Sam Scarfone]], [[Great Valley|Great Valley High School]]<br />
| [[Bern McCauley]], Great Valley High School<br />
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| 2016-17<br />
| Sam Scarfone, Great Valley High School<br />
| [[Vijay Anne]], [[Henderson|Henderson High School]]<br />
| [[Andrew Gianelli]], [[Camp Hill|Camp Hill High School]]<br />
|}<br />
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==Poll==<br />
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The site has, since the 2015-2016 season, ranked the teams in Pennsylvania at the season's beginning, midpoint, and end. The poll is conducted by current and former members of the Pennsylvania quizbowl community. The pollsters rank the top ten teams by their own metrics; a statistical formula is not used. All the ranking committee members are affiliated with Pennsylvania's circuit.<br />
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Because there is no [[NAQT]] or pyramidal state championship (the only official tournament held is the non-pyramidal [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]), the poll has served as a ''de facto'' state title for performance on pyramidal questions.<br />
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===Past Results===<br />
{| border="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Fourth<br />
! Fifth<br />
|-<br />
| 2015-16<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Delaware Valley]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
| [[Great Valley]]<br />
| [[West Chester Henderson|Henderson]]<br />
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| 2016-17<br />
| [[Winchester Thurston]]<br />
| [[Lehigh Valley]]<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Alagar Homeschool]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
|}<br />
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==External Links==<br />
* [https://gpqb.wordpress.com/ Link to the GPQB Website]<br />
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/656320281165140/?fref=nf GPQB on Facebook]<br />
* [https://twitter.com/paquizbowl GPQB on Twitter]<br />
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<div>{{Collegebox|College Name = <center>Princeton University</center><br />
|Image = Princeton.gif<br />
|citystate = Princeton, NJ<br />
|president = <center>Jared Lockwood, Amy Tien</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 now rusts away in the club's trophy hoard.<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 ACIU 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 host 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 />
<br />
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|Rutgers']] decision to cancel going to [[ACF Regionals 2007]] at [[Maryland]] controversially turned that tournament into a farce, consiting 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 Link==<br />
*[http://www.princeton.edu/~cbowl/ Princeton College Bowl]<br />
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==Title Succession==<br />
<br />
{{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 />
<br />
===Unofficial title succession===<br />
<br />
{{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 />
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The '''Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource''' (or GPQB) is a quizbowl blog that covers the quizbowl circuit in Pennsylvania. It was previously known as '''Greater Philadelphia Quizbowl Resource''' until its expansion to all of Pennsylvania in 2015.<br />
<br />
==Purpose==<br />
The current focus of the GPQB blog is coverage and analysis of the high school circuit of Pennsylvania quizbowl. This includes tournament wrap-ups, interviews, advice, and the occasional podcast from the contributors. Complementing its Pennsylvania focus is its content for general high school quizbowl audiences. GPQB has covered the basics of quizbowl, outreach advice, studying strategies, and tournament hosting. The site features a schedule for all Pennsylvania pyramidal events and [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition|PSAC]], as well as tournaments in the surrounding states.<br />
<br />
The blog began in 2014. The blog has since grown and includes more contributors, with some at the high school level.<br />
<br />
==Question Writing==<br />
The members of the site organized and edited the [[2016 Pennsylvania Novice Initiative]], a novice-level tournament designed to correct the lack of material for novice teams to practice on.<br />
<br />
==Awards==<br />
The staff at GPQB announce three awards each year to outstanding members of the quizbowl community in Pennsylvania. Players are not considered for the same award multiple times, and coaches are not eligible to win again until eight years have passed -- the equivalent of two student cycles.<br />
<br />
===Past Winners===<br />
{| border="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Varsity Player of the Year<br />
! JV Player of the Year<br />
! Coach of the Year<br />
|-<br />
| 2014-15<br />
| [[Ryan Bilger]], [[Emmaus|Emmaus High School]]<br />
| [[Alex Schmidt]], [[Lehigh Valley|Lehigh Valley Academy]]<br />
| [[Missy Doll]], [[Manheim Township|Manheim Township High School]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2015-16<br />
| Alex Schmidt, Lehigh Valley Academy<br />
| [[Sam Scarfone]], [[Great Valley|Great Valley High School]]<br />
| [[Bern McCauley]], Great Valley High School<br />
|-<br />
| 2016-17<br />
| Sam Scarfone, Great Valley High School<br />
| [[Vijay Anne]], [[Henderson|Henderson High School]]<br />
| [[Andrew Gianelli]], [[Camp Hill|Camp Hill High School]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Poll==<br />
<br />
The site has, since the 2015-2016 season, ranked the teams in Pennsylvania at the season's beginning, midpoint, and end. The poll is conducted by current and former members of the Pennsylvania quizbowl community. The pollsters rank the top ten teams by their own metrics; a statistical formula is not used. All the ranking committee members are affiliated with Pennsylvania's circuit.<br />
<br />
Because there is no [[NAQT]] or pyramidal state championship (the only official tournament held is the non-pyramidal [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]), the poll has served as a ''de facto'' state title for performance on pyramidal questions.<br />
<br />
===Past Results===<br />
{| border="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Fourth<br />
! Fifth<br />
|-<br />
| 2015-16<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Delaware Valley]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
| [[Great Valley]]<br />
| [[West Chester Henderson|Henderson]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2016-17<br />
| [[Winchester Thurston]]<br />
| [[Lehigh Valley]]<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Alagar Homeschool]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
* [https://gpqb.wordpress.com/ Link to the GPQB Website]<br />
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/656320281165140/?fref=nf GPQB on Facebook]<br />
* [https://twitter.com/paquizbowl GPQB on Twitter]<br />
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[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:State Quizbowl Organizations]][[category: Quizbowl on the internets]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Greater_Pennsylvania_Quizbowl_Resource&diff=34842Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource2018-01-15T05:08:27Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Important edit, do not change.</p>
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<div>{{Pic|Image = GPQB_Logo.png<br />
|Caption = Official Logo for the Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource<br />
}}<br />
The '''Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource''' (or [[GPQB]]) is a quizbowl blog that covers the quizbowl circuit in Pennsylvania. It was previously known as '''Greater Philadelphia Quizbowl Resource''' until its expansion to all of Pennsylvania in 2015.<br />
<br />
==Purpose==<br />
The current focus of the GPQB blog is coverage and analysis of the high school circuit of Pennsylvania quizbowl. This includes tournament wrap-ups, interviews, advice, and the occasional podcast from the contributors. Complementing its Pennsylvania focus is its content for general high school quizbowl audiences. GPQB has covered the basics of quizbowl, outreach advice, studying strategies, and tournament hosting. The site features a schedule for all Pennsylvania pyramidal events and [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition|PSAC]], as well as tournaments in the surrounding states.<br />
<br />
The blog began in 2014. The blog has since grown and includes more contributors, with some at the high school level.<br />
<br />
==Question Writing==<br />
The members of the site organized and edited the [[2016 Pennsylvania Novice Initiative]], a novice-level tournament designed to correct the lack of material for novice teams to practice on.<br />
<br />
==Awards==<br />
The staff at GPQB announce three awards each year to outstanding members of the quizbowl community in Pennsylvania. Players are not considered for the same award multiple times, and coaches are not eligible to win again until eight years have passed -- the equivalent of two student cycles.<br />
<br />
===Past Winners===<br />
{| border="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Varsity Player of the Year<br />
! JV Player of the Year<br />
! Coach of the Year<br />
|-<br />
| 2014-15<br />
| [[Ryan Bilger]], [[Emmaus|Emmaus High School]]<br />
| [[Alex Schmidt]], [[Lehigh Valley|Lehigh Valley Academy]]<br />
| [[Missy Doll]], [[Manheim Township|Manheim Township High School]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2015-16<br />
| Alex Schmidt, Lehigh Valley Academy<br />
| [[Sam Scarfone]], [[Great Valley|Great Valley High School]]<br />
| [[Bern McCauley]], Great Valley High School<br />
|-<br />
| 2016-17<br />
| Sam Scarfone, Great Valley High School<br />
| [[Vijay Anne]], [[Henderson|Henderson High School]]<br />
| [[Andrew Gianelli]], [[Camp Hill|Camp Hill High School]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Poll==<br />
<br />
The site has, since the 2015-2016 season, ranked the teams in Pennsylvania at the season's beginning, midpoint, and end. The poll is conducted by current and former members of the Pennsylvania quizbowl community. The pollsters rank the top ten teams by their own metrics; a statistical formula is not used. All the ranking committee members are affiliated with Pennsylvania's circuit.<br />
<br />
Because there is no [[NAQT]] or pyramidal state championship (the only official tournament held is the non-pyramidal [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]), the poll has served as a ''de facto'' state title for performance on pyramidal questions.<br />
<br />
===Past Results===<br />
{| border="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Fourth<br />
! Fifth<br />
|-<br />
| 2015-16<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Delaware Valley]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
| [[Great Valley]]<br />
| [[West Chester Henderson|Henderson]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2016-17<br />
| [[Winchester Thurston]]<br />
| [[Lehigh Valley]]<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Alagar Homeschool]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
* [https://gpqb.wordpress.com/ Link to the GPQB Website]<br />
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/656320281165140/?fref=nf GPQB on Facebook]<br />
* [https://twitter.com/paquizbowl GPQB on Twitter]<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:State Quizbowl Organizations]][[category: Quizbowl on the internets]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=File:GPQB_Logo.png&diff=34841File:GPQB Logo.png2018-01-15T04:59:20Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Jack Edmondson uploaded a new version of File:GPQB Logo.png</p>
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<div>Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Logo</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Greater_Pennsylvania_Quizbowl_Resource&diff=34840Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource2018-01-15T04:53:21Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Edited some of the purpose/background, added a table of award winners, and expanded the poll information.</p>
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<div>{{Pic|Image = GPQB_Logo.png<br />
|Caption = Official Logo for the Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource<br />
}}<br />
The '''Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Resource''' (or [[GPQB]]) is a quizbowl blog that covers the quizbowl circuit in Pennsylvania. It was previously known as '''Greater Philadelphia Quizbowl Resource''' until its expansion to all of Pennsylvania in 2015.<br />
<br />
==Purpose==<br />
The current focus of the GPQB blog is coverage and analysis of the high school circuit of Pennsylvania quizbowl. This includes tournament wrap-ups, interviews, advice, and the occasional podcast from the contributors. Complementing its Pennsylvania focus is its content for general high school quizbowl audiences. GPQB has covered the basics of quizbowl, outreach advice, studying strategies, and tournament hosting. The site features a schedule for all Pennsylvania pyramidal events and [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition|PSAC]], as well as tournaments in the surrounding states.<br />
<br />
The blog began in 2014 and was founded by [[Ben Herman]] and [[Chris Chiego]]. The blog has since grown and includes more contributors, with some at the high school level.<br />
<br />
===Contributors===<br />
* [[Ryan Bilger]]<br />
* [[Chris Chiego]]<br />
* [[Ben Herman]]<br />
* [[Jackie Wu]]<br />
* [[Connor Mayers]]<br />
<br />
==Question Writing==<br />
The members of the site organized and edited the [[2016 Pennsylvania Novice Initiative]], a novice-level tournament designed to correct the lack of material for novice teams to practice on.<br />
<br />
==Awards==<br />
The staff at GPQB announce three awards each year to outstanding members of the quizbowl community in Pennsylvania. Players are not considered for the same award multiple times, and coaches are not eligible to win again until eight years have passed -- the equivalent of two student cycles.<br />
<br />
===Past Winners===<br />
{| border="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Varsity Player of the Year<br />
! JV Player of the Year<br />
! Coach of the Year<br />
|-<br />
| 2014-15<br />
| [[Ryan Bilger]], [[Emmaus|Emmaus High School]]<br />
| [[Alex Schmidt]], [[Lehigh Valley|Lehigh Valley Academy]]<br />
| [[Missy Doll]], [[Manheim Township|Manheim Township High School]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2015-16<br />
| Alex Schmidt, Lehigh Valley Academy<br />
| [[Sam Scarfone]], [[Great Valley|Great Valley High School]]<br />
| [[Bern McCauley]], Great Valley High School<br />
|-<br />
| 2016-17<br />
| Sam Scarfone, Great Valley High School<br />
| [[Vijay Anne]], [[Henderson|Henderson High School]]<br />
| [[Andrew Gianelli]], [[Camp Hill|Camp Hill High School]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Poll==<br />
<br />
The site has, since the 2015-2016 season, ranked the teams in Pennsylvania at the season's beginning, midpoint, and end. The poll is conducted by current and former members of the Pennsylvania quizbowl community. The pollsters rank the top ten teams by their own metrics; a statistical formula is not used. All the ranking committee members are affiliated with Pennsylvania's circuit.<br />
<br />
Because there is no [[NAQT]] or pyramidal state championship (the only official tournament held is the non-pyramidal [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]]), the poll has served as a ''de facto'' state title for performance on pyramidal questions.<br />
<br />
===Past Results===<br />
{| border="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
! Season<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Fourth<br />
! Fifth<br />
|-<br />
| 2015-16<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Delaware Valley]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
| [[Great Valley]]<br />
| [[West Chester Henderson|Henderson]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2016-17<br />
| [[Winchester Thurston]]<br />
| [[Lehigh Valley]]<br />
| [[Manheim Township]]<br />
| [[Alagar Homeschool]]<br />
| [[State College]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
* [https://gpqb.wordpress.com/ Link to the GPQB Website]<br />
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/656320281165140/?fref=nf GPQB on Facebook]<br />
* [https://twitter.com/paquizbowl GPQB on Twitter]<br />
<br />
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:State Quizbowl Organizations]][[category: Quizbowl on the internets]]</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=File:GPQB_Logo.png&diff=34838File:GPQB Logo.png2018-01-15T04:06:19Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Logo</p>
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<div>Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl Logo</div>Jack Edmondsonhttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Capital_Area_League&diff=34796Capital Area League2018-01-14T19:10:54Z<p>Jack Edmondson: Added some info to de-stub this article. Didn't add any results.</p>
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<div>The '''Capital Area Quiz Bowl League''', or just the '''Capital Area League''', is a high school pyramidal quiz bowl league that competes in the greater Harrisburg, PA area, including Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, and York Counties. The league has been in existence as late as 2008, but may have played non-[[NAQT]] questions before.<br />
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==Format==<br />
The Capital Area League's members compete by playing one round matches against each other. Unlike the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]] and [[York-Adams Quiz Bowl League]], stats have traditionally not been kept for matches. The league uses two [[NAQT]] A set questions for its regular season and postseason.<br />
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Currently, the league is hosted by [[Cumberland Valley High School]], and has been previously hosted by [[Camp Hill]]. Though the league produces one winner, it does not decide who advances to the [[Pennsylvania State Academic Competition]], as the Capital Area Intermediate Unit runs a separate qualifier tournament.<br />
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==Membership==<br />
Historically, member composition has varied, with schools dropping and rejoining in later years. Camp Hill, for instance, no longer participates, despite previously hosting the league. The league briefly included Adams County as part of its member Counties, but has since returned to the original Capital Area.<br />
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===Current Membership===<br />
*[[Big Spring High School]]<br />
*[[Bishop McDevitt High School]]<br />
*[[Boiling Springs High School]]<br />
*[[Carlisle High School]]<br />
*[[Cumberland Valley High School]]<br />
*[[Central Dauphin High School]]<br />
*[[East Pennsboro High School]]<br />
*[[Harrisburg Academy]]<br />
*[[Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School]]<br />
*[[Northeastern High School]]<br />
*[[Shippensburg Area High School]]<br />
*[[Susquenita High School]]<br />
*[[Trinity High School]]<br />
*[[Harrisburg University of Science and Technology High School|Harrisburg SciTech]]<br />
<br />
===Past Membership===<br />
*[[Bermudian Springs High School]]<br />
*[[Camp Hill|Camp Hill High School]]<br />
*[[Susquehanna Township High School]]<br />
*[[Central Dauphin East High School]]<br />
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[[Category:High school quizbowl in Pennsylvania]]<br />
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