Colorado Knowledge Bowl - Revision history

Foster Michaelis: /* List of Knowledge Bowl Leagues */

2018-02-21T18:35:24Z

List of Knowledge Bowl Leagues

Chris Chiego: /* Relation to Quizbowl */

2016-12-08T07:04:50Z

Relation to Quizbowl

Chris Chiego: /* Meet Format */

2016-12-08T07:03:31Z

Meet Format

Chris Chiego at 06:44, 8 December 2016

2016-12-08T06:44:09Z

Nicholas Karas: /* Relation to Quizbowl */

2015-12-18T11:36:37Z

Relation to Quizbowl

Zachary Yan: i don't know if it just changed this year but this is not true

2014-04-18T05:32:00Z

i don't know if it just changed this year but this is not true

Zachary Yan at 18:26, 26 February 2014

2014-02-26T18:26:41Z

Zachary Yan: leagues

2014-02-26T18:08:55Z

leagues

Zachary Yan: /* Class 2A */

2014-02-26T06:15:26Z

Class 2A

Zachary Yan at 06:09, 26 February 2014

2014-02-26T06:09:18Z

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 ==List of Knowledge Bowl Leagues==
-*Arkansas Valley Knowledge Bowl League
+*[[Arkansas Valley Knowledge Bowl League]]
-*Black Forest League
+*[[Black Forest League]]
-*Colorado 7 League
+*[[Colorado 7 League]]
-*Dove Creek Knowledge Bowl
+*[[Dove Creek Knowledge Bowl]]
-*Front Range Knowledge Bowl League
+*[[Front Range Knowledge Bowl League]]
-*Mountain Range Knowledge Bowl
+*[[Mountain Range Knowledge Bowl]]
-*North Central League
+*[[North Central League]]
-*Northern Colorado Megamind Knowledge Bowl
+*[[Northern Colorado Megamind Knowledge Bowl]]
-*Northwestern Colorado Knowledge Bowl League
+*[[Northwestern Colorado Knowledge Bowl League]]
 *[[Optimist Brain Bowl]]*
-*San Juan Basin League†
+*[[San Juan Basin League]]†
-*San Luis Valley League
+*[[San Luis Valley League]]
-*Union Pacific League
+*[[Union Pacific League]]
-*YWKC League
+*[[YWKC League]]
 <small>*not Knowledge Bowl per se</small>

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 ==Relation to Quizbowl==
-Colorado is known for being an epicenter of [[Bad quizbowl]]. Teams have traditionally attended either Chip Beall's [[National Academic Championship]] or the [[NTAE|National Tournament for Academic Excellence/Panasonic Academic Challenge]] for "nationals". [[Fairview High School|Fairview]] hosted the first pyramidal tournament in Colorado on good questions in Spring 2015.
+Colorado is known for being an epicenter of [[Bad quizbowl]]. Teams have traditionally attended either Chip Beall's [[National Academic Championship]] or the [[NTAE|National Tournament for Academic Excellence/Panasonic Academic Challenge]] for "nationals". [[Grand Junction]] has, however, attended several [[HSNCT]] tournaments in the past.
 There has also been little quizbowl participation at any degree-granting higher education institution in the state until 2015 when [[Colorado|University of Colorado Boulder]] under [[Jordan Boyd-Graber]] started a program.

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 During oral rounds three teams compete against each other simultaneously in a single room. Only four members of a team may take part in these rounds, so if the team has more than four members, the other members may substitute in after half of the questions in that round.
-The subject of each questions is announced before it is read. Teams can buzz at any time, even before the reader has finished reading the question. The team may not discuss the question, but they may decide who answers the question. In the Colorado Springs area meets, no talking period is allowed. However, teammates may use hand signals to determine who will answer.
+The subject of each questions is announced before it is read. Teams can buzz at any time, even before the reader has finished reading the question. The team may not discuss the question after buzzing, but they may decide who answers the question. In the Colorado Springs area meets, no talking period is allowed. However, teammates may use hand signals to determine who will answer.
-A team that buzzes has 15 seconds to answer. If the first team that buzzes in answer incorrectly, either of the other two teams may ask the reader to finish the question and even repeat the question once. Use of paper is allowed during rounds for taking notes, computations, or keeping score.
+A team that buzzes has 15 seconds to answer and is prompted when 5 seconds remain. If the first team that buzzes in answers incorrectly, either of the other two teams may ask the reader to finish the question and even repeat the question once. Use of paper is allowed during rounds for taking notes, computations, or keeping score.
 After each round teams are reassigned to rooms according to their total oral and written scores. After the final round, the team with the highest cumulative score throughout the tournament wins the meet.
 ==Season Structure==

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 Around 1983, [[Bill Brown]] founded [[Academic Hallmarks]] after having worked with Colorado Knowledge Bowl. At some point after this AH took over responsibilities of writing questions.
 ==Meet Format==
-Colorado, like other states, feature two types of rounds, written rounds (worksheet) and oral rounds (quizbowl). The winner of a meet is decided based on cumulative score from every round.
+Colorado, like Knowledge Bowl in other states, feature two types of rounds, written rounds (worksheet) and oral rounds (quizbowl). The winner of a meet is decided based on cumulative score from every round.
 Colorado Knowledge Bowl meets start off with the written round. This round comprises of 40 or 60 multiple choice questions. The teams can discuss content of questions only during the written round. Teams may have between 2 to 5 people, a number that is often dependent on school size. The scores from the written round determines which teams will compete against each other in the first oral round. There are usually four oral rounds during a meet and consist of forty or fifty questions each.

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 ==Relation to Quizbowl==
-Colorado is known for being an epicenter of [[Bad quizbowl]] and will likely be for years to come. Teams have traditionally attended either Chip Beall's [[National Academic Championship]] or the [[NTAE|National Tournament for Academic Excellence/Panasonic Academic Challenge]] for "nationals".
+Colorado is known for being an epicenter of [[Bad quizbowl]]. Teams have traditionally attended either Chip Beall's [[National Academic Championship]] or the [[NTAE|National Tournament for Academic Excellence/Panasonic Academic Challenge]] for "nationals". [[Fairview High School|Fairview]] hosted the first pyramidal tournament in Colorado on good questions in Spring 2015.
-There has also been little quizbowl participation at any degree-granting higher education institution in the state, although the [[Colorado|University of Colorado Boulder]] is known to have been on [[College Bowl]].
+There has also been little quizbowl participation at any degree-granting higher education institution in the state until 2015 when [[Colorado|University of Colorado Boulder]] under [[Jordan Boyd-Graber]] started a program.
 ==State Meet Results==

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 ==Season Structure==
 ''(under construction)''
-A team typically plays in around six meets a season, excluding "postseason" play[https://sites.google.com/site/colorado7leagueknowledgebowl/]. Some meets are organized based on Colorado High School athletic association (CHSAA) conferences, however a number of invitations during the probably occur. At the end of the season regional competition occurs and these results will determine participation in the State Meet.
+A team typically plays in around six meets a season, excluding "postseason" play[https://sites.google.com/site/colorado7leagueknowledgebowl/]. Some meets are organized based on leagues or Colorado High School athletic association (CHSAA) conferences, and a teams may attend a number of invitations as well. At the end of the season regional competition occurs and these results will determine participation in the State Meet.
 ==Colorado State Knowledge Bowl Meet==
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 Colorado is known for being an epicenter of [[Bad quizbowl]] and will likely be for years to come. Teams have traditionally attended either Chip Beall's [[National Academic Championship]] or the [[NTAE|National Tournament for Academic Excellence/Panasonic Academic Challenge]] for "nationals". Interestingly, it seems that Colorado high school teams can only qualify for the NAC by high placement at the State Meet, as opposed to the normal NAC qualification procedures (winning a meet with more than 8 teams; placing in the top 15% of a meet)
-There has also been scarce quizbowl participation at any degree-granting higher education institution in the state, although the [[Colorado|University of Colorado Boulder]] is known to have been on [[College Bowl]].
+There has also been little quizbowl participation at any degree-granting higher education institution in the state, although the [[Colorado|University of Colorado Boulder]] is known to have been on [[College Bowl]].
 ==State Meet Results==

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 |2011
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 |2008
-|Rocky Ford
+|Rocky Ford(?)
-|Fountain Valley School
+|Fountain Valley School(?)
-|Custer County
+|Custer County(?)
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 Results from Knowledge Bowl competitions are apparently not posted on the internet, except for local press reports. The following is a rough summation of said data.
-==Governor's Cup==
+===Governor's Cup===
 {| class="wikitable sortable"
 !Year