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Matt Weiner: /* Results */

2024-09-11T22:25:12Z

Results

Joseph Feldman at 15:47, 28 March 2020

2020-03-28T15:47:07Z

Justin Young: /* History */ ABC XLIV result, ABC XLV cancelled

2016-03-31T08:19:46Z

History: ABC XLIV result, ABC XLV cancelled

Justin Young: /* Results */ +2015

2016-03-31T08:18:24Z

Results: +2015

Gregory Gauthier: correct information from someone who was there (I don't like to remember it)

2014-05-10T01:55:15Z

correct information from someone who was there (I don't like to remember it)

Rohan Nag at 00:31, 10 May 2014

2014-05-10T00:31:43Z

Rohan Nag: /* Results */

2014-05-10T00:26:04Z

Results

Rohan Nag: /* Results */

2014-05-10T00:21:32Z

Results

Rohan Nag: /* History */

2014-05-10T00:18:49Z

History

Rohan Nag: /* History */

2013-12-19T01:46:03Z

History

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+| Spring 1992 III
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+| [[Franklin-Simpson]]
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+| [[Madisonville-North Hopkins]]
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+| October 28-29, 1992 IV
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+| [[Walton]]
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+| [[Indian Springs]]
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 | 1993 V[https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!searchin/alt.college.college-bowl/high$20school$20tournament/alt.college.college-bowl/9wWnyZI5qKQ/3HdXbG1NurQJ]

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+| 2011 XL
 | [[Johnson Central]]
 | [[duPont Manual|duPont Manual A]]
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-| 2011 XLI
+| 2012 XLI
 | [[University School of Nashville]]
 | [[Ezell-Harding]]
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 | [[Gatton Academy]]
 | [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=6124 10]
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	ABC XLIII was held in spring 2014 on [[IS]]-134 with [[Ezell-Harding]] as champion.		ABC XLIII was held in spring 2014 on [[IS]]-134 with [[Ezell-Harding]] as champion.
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		+	ABC XLIV was held in the spring of 2015 on [[IS]]-144 with [[Hume-Fogg]] as champion. ABC XLV was canceled due to low turnout.

	==Competition format==		==Competition format==

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 | [[University School of Nashville|USN A]]
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 The first ABC was run in the spring of 1991 for 40 teams. The tournament was so successful that the club decided to host the tournament twice each year and the second ABC followed in the fall of 1991. Both of the first two editions featured house-written questions. The questions at ABC were generally judged to be too difficult and teams' final scores were too low and the club felt their efforts could be better deployed on tasks other than question writing.
-As a result of these problems, ABC III in the spring of 1992 (referred to as the "Bastard Child" of ABCs) purchased the question set from a vendor called "Triple Q". Quality and difficulty varied wildly from one question to the next. In addition, the vendor required the tournament to use an unfamiliar rulebook; among the quirks of the rules was the requirement that a team correctly answer two consecutively numbered tossup questions before earning a bonus. However, the rules also included a provision that if the team answering a bonus missed a part, the other team got a chance to answer. The "bounceback bonus" would become one of the most popular and enduring traditions at ABC but was de-instituted in 2010.
+As a result of these problems, ABC III in the spring of 1992 (referred to as the "Bastard Child" of ABCs) purchased the question set from a vendor called "Triple Q". Quality and difficulty varied wildly from one question to the next. In addition, the vendor required the tournament to use an unfamiliar rulebook; among the quirks of the rules was the requirement that a team correctly answer two consecutively numbered tossup questions before earning a bonus. However, the rules also included a provision that if the team answering a bonus missed a part, the other team got a chance to answer. The "bounceback bonus" would become one of the most popular and enduring traditions at ABC, and it was still used as late as ABC XLI in Fall 2011.
 The tournament really took off in the fall of 1992 with ABC IV. First, the club switched back to using house-written questions, carefully play-testing each round in practice to ensure the difficulty level was correct. Also, the 84 teams in competition witnessed the addition of a number of features and organizational elements that gave ABC its unique appeal. For the first time, the tournament began on Friday evening with four optional power-matched rounds. The Friday rounds allowed the organizers to efficiently sort the participating teams for Saturday morning's main event - six-team, seeded round-robin groups. The top teams from each group advanced to the 32-team single-elimination playoffs on Saturday afternoon to decide the overall champion.
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 After Buehler's graduation, [[Darrell Frye]] assumed most of the responsibilities for organizing the tournament each semester, with other club members filling in as needed during his occasional absences from school. The tournament continued to grow in prestige and popularity throughout the rest of the 1990's and regularly drew 80 to 120 teams each edition.
-ABC has used various questions sets, in 2008 it used the [[Chitin Classic]], and ABC XXXVI, XXXVII, and XXXVIII were all run on [[HSAPQ]] sets. ABC XL was a collaboration with [[VCU]]. ABC XLI was run on an [[IS]] set with standard NAQT untimed rules.
+ABC has used various questions sets, in 2008 it used the [[Chitin Classic]], and ABC XXXVI, XXXVII, and XXXVIII were all run on [[HSAPQ]] sets. ABC XL was a collaboration with [[VCU]]. ABC XLI was run on an [[IS]] set with modified NAQT untimed rules, rewritten to incorporate many traditional ABC rules (bouncebacks, three-part blitzing, etc.).
 ABC XXV was held in the spring of 2003, and for the first time a team from Tennessee, [[Ezell-Harding]] won first place.
 [[Matt Keller]] was skilled at gathering teams and using many dozens of game rooms across buildings for  the large number of teams he managed to draw in his years at Vanderbilt. However, after he left...
-ABC XL and XLI were noted for their horrific logistics and had teams staying until 11 PM because of bad moderators, late teams, and poor planning, leading to a decrease in Vanderbilt's reputation from many newer (and more experienced) teams. E.g. Various teams were informed that they were not in the playoffs after the playoffs began around 9 PM. It has taken many years for Vanderbilt to regain that reputation in the eyes of high school coaches.
+ABC XL was noted for its horrific logistics and poor planning, as well as overly optimistic tournament-directing decisions by the Vanderbilt team.
 ABC XLII was held in spring 2013 on [[IS]]-124 with [[Farragut]] as champion.
 ABC XLIII was held in spring 2014 on [[IS]]-134 with [[Ezell-Harding]] as champion.

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 ABC XXV was held in the spring of 2003, and for the first time a team from Tennessee, [[Ezell-Harding]] won first place.
-ABC XL and XLI were noted for their horrific logistics and had teams staying until 11 PM because of bad moderators, late teams, and poor planning, leading to a decrease in Vanderbilt's reputation from many newer (and more experienced) teams. Various teams were informed that they were not in the playoffs after the playoffs began around 9 PM. It has taken many years for Vanderbilt to regain that reputation in the eyes of high school coaches.
+ABC XL and XLI were noted for their horrific logistics and had teams staying until 11 PM because of bad moderators, late teams, and poor planning, leading to a decrease in Vanderbilt's reputation from many newer (and more experienced) teams. E.g. Various teams were informed that they were not in the playoffs after the playoffs began around 9 PM. It has taken many years for Vanderbilt to regain that reputation in the eyes of high school coaches.
 ABC XLII was held in spring 2013 on [[IS]]-124 with [[Farragut]] as champion.
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 ==Competition format==
-The format ABC used to arrive at a champion was distinctive for its time. A number of the conventions and traditions at ABC were unique on the high school quiz bowl circuit or ahead of their time. Each tournament from ABC IV on was staged in three distinct phases. The three phases took place on Friday evening, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon.
+The format ABC used to arrive at a champion was distinctive for its time (?-2011). Today, it is the standard double-elimination NAQT tournament in Tennessee which starts at 9 AM on Saturday and ends around 5 PM, but it didn't used to be that way. A number of the conventions and traditions at ABC were unique on the high school quiz bowl circuit or ahead of their time. Each tournament from ABC IV on was staged in three distinct phases. The three phases took place on Friday evening, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon.
 ===Friday evening===
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 | [[University School of Nashville]]
 | [[Ezell-Harding]]
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 | 2013 XLII

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 | 2014 XLIII
 | [[Ezell-Harding|Ezell-Harding A]]
-| [[USN|University School of Nashville A]]
+| [[University School of Nashville|USN A]]
 | [http://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=5383 32]
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 | [[Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet|Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet A]]
 | [http://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=4447 16]
 |}