Academic Bowl Online - Revision history

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'''Academic Bowl Online''' is a question-writing company based out of Fort Worth, Texas. Its writers claim to be "business professionals currently working for Fortune 500 companies, educational faculty across multiple states, and current Ivy-League collegiate students." It was founded in 2003.

Prior to 2007-2008 it provided questions for elementary, junior high, and high school practices. It is unclear whether these questions were ever used, or intended for use, at tournaments. In 2007-2008 it provided questions at the for junior high and high school levels.
Recently, the business announced that it would be suspending operations after August 31st, 2009 and ending operations effective December 31st, 2009. [http://store.academicbowlonline.com/]

However, Academic Bowl Online is still a Google "Sponsored Link."

==Question Quality==
Academic Bowl Online's mission is to "provide high quality, affordable academic bowl solutions for America's educational institutions." On the first count, at least, the company is failing its mission. Question quality is largely poor: tossups and bonus parts are less than one line long and rarely teach anything meaningful about the answer; lightning rounds are single subject and can be even shorter. Despite this, the only appearance of non-[[academic]] questions appears to be a heavy dose of math calculation.

Sample high school tossups include, "What is the name of Beethoven's only opera?" and "What is log base two of 2048?".

==External Links==
[http://www.academicbowlonline.com/ Academic Bowl Online]
[[Category: Question writing companies]]
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 {{Companybox|Company Name=Academic Bowl Online
 |president=Unknown
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 |status = CLOSED
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-'''Academic Bowl Online''' was a question-writing company based out of Fort Worth, Texas.  Its writers claim to be "business professionals currently working for Fortune 500 companies, educational faculty across multiple states, and current Ivy-League collegiate students."  It was founded in 2003.
+'''Academic Bowl Online''' was a question-writing company based out of Fort Worth, Texas.  Its writers claimed to be "business professionals currently working for Fortune 500 companies, educational faculty across multiple states, and current Ivy-League collegiate students."  It was founded in 2003.
-Prior to 2007-2008 it provided questions for elementary, junior high, and high school practices.  It is unclear whether these questions were ever used, or intended for use, at tournaments.  In 2007-2008 it provided questions at the for junior high and high school levels.  The business announced that it would be suspending operations after August 31st, 2009 and ending operations effective December 31st, 2009.
+Prior to 2007-2008, it provided questions for grade school practices. It is unknown whether these questions were ever used, or intended for use, at tournaments. In 2007-2008 it provided questions at the for junior high and high school levels.  The business announced that it would be suspending operations after August 31st, 2009 and ending operations effective December 31st, 2009.
 ==Question Quality==
-Academic Bowl Online's mission was to "provide high quality, affordable academic bowl solutions for America's educational institutions."  On the first count, at least, the company was failing its mission.  Question quality was largely poor: tossups and bonus parts are less than one line long and rarely teach anything meaningful about the answer; lightning rounds are single subject and can be even shorter.  Despite this, the only appearance of non-[[academic]] questions appears to be a heavy dose of math calculation.
+Academic Bowl Online's mission was to "provide high quality, affordable academic bowl solutions for America's educational institutions."  However, question quality was regarded as largely poor: tossups and bonus parts were less than one line long and rarely had any meaningful clues; lightning rounds were single-subject and were often binary matching.  Despite this, the only appearance of non-[[academic]] questions appeared to be large amounts of math calculation.
-Sample high school tossups include, "What is the name of Beethoven's only opera?" and "What is log base two of 2048?".
+Sample high school tossups included "What is the name of Beethoven's only opera?" and "What is log base two of 2048?".
 [[Category: Question writing companies]]
 [[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]

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 |status = CLOSED
 |}}
+'''Academic Bowl Online''' was a question-writing company based out of Fort Worth, Texas.  Its writers claim to be "business professionals currently working for Fortune 500 companies, educational faculty across multiple states, and current Ivy-League collegiate students."  It was founded in 2003.
 Prior to 2007-2008 it provided questions for elementary, junior high, and high school practices.  It is unclear whether these questions were ever used, or intended for use, at tournaments.  In 2007-2008 it provided questions at the for junior high and high school levels.  The business announced that it would be suspending operations after August 31st, 2009 and ending operations effective December 31st, 2009.
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 ==Question Quality==
-Academic Bowl Online's mission is to "provide high quality, affordable academic bowl solutions for America's educational institutions."  On the first count, at least, the company is failing its mission.  Question quality is largely poor: tossups and bonus parts are less than one line long and rarely teach anything meaningful about the answer; lightning rounds are single subject and can be even shorter.  Despite this, the only appearance of non-[[academic]] questions appears to be a heavy dose of math calculation.
+Academic Bowl Online's mission was to "provide high quality, affordable academic bowl solutions for America's educational institutions."  On the first count, at least, the company was failing its mission.  Question quality was largely poor: tossups and bonus parts are less than one line long and rarely teach anything meaningful about the answer; lightning rounds are single subject and can be even shorter.  Despite this, the only appearance of non-[[academic]] questions appears to be a heavy dose of math calculation.
 Sample high school tossups include, "What is the name of Beethoven's only opera?" and "What is log base two of 2048?".

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	'''Academic Bowl Online''' is a question-writing company based out of Fort Worth, Texas. Its writers claim to be "business professionals currently working for Fortune 500 companies, educational faculty across multiple states, and current Ivy-League collegiate students." It was founded in 2003.		'''Academic Bowl Online''' is a question-writing company based out of Fort Worth, Texas. Its writers claim to be "business professionals currently working for Fortune 500 companies, educational faculty across multiple states, and current Ivy-League collegiate students." It was founded in 2003.