Repeat - Revision history

Kevin Wang at 15:38, 27 October 2021

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Kevin Wang at 16:19, 15 June 2021

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Kevin Wang at 20:59, 10 February 2021

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Jacob Reed at 20:12, 21 August 2018

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Jonah Greenthal at 21:28, 20 August 2018

2018-08-20T21:28:02Z

Jonah Greenthal: Created page with "A '''repeat''' is pair of questions that are substantially similar (or, more rarely, identical). The term is also often applied to the second question of the pair that is..."

2018-08-20T02:24:17Z

Created page with "A '''repeat''' is pair of questions that are substantially similar (or, more rarely, identical). The term is also often applied to the second question of the pair that is..."

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A '''repeat''' is pair of [[questions]] that are substantially similar (or, more rarely, identical). The term is also often applied to the second question of the pair that is heard.

Criteria to be a repeat vary depending on many factors, such as the following:
* Editorial philosophy
* [[Difficulty]] (easier tournaments have fewer plausible topics and it may thus be necessary to accept, e.g., repeated answer lines)
* The topic (e.g. two questions asking for France are generally considered okay if they have no clues in common and are in different [[packets]]; two questions asking for ''The World as Will and Representation'' in the same [[question set]] would generally be disdained even if they had no clues in common and were in different packets)
* The question kind (tossup-tossup repeats are generally considered worse than tossup-bonus repeats and bonus-bonus repeats)
* Whether it is possible for a team to play both questions (e.g. the [[2018 HSNCT]] used a scheme in which each team played ''either'' rounds 1–7 ''or'' rounds 8–14, so there was a higher tolerance for repeats if one question was in the former group and the other in the latter)

Identical questions are never acceptable if they could be played by the same team twice, or heard by a team and later played by the same team. Merely repeating an answer line may be fine depending on the above factors. Repeating clues is usually not considered a best practice, especially if hearing one question would help answer the other. Some of these issues cross over into the idea of [[feng shui]].

Some question providers check for repeats between different sets intended for the same audience, albeit less stringently. For example, NAQT does so within its [[Middle School Series]], within its [[Invitational Series]], within its [[Introductory Invitational Series]], and between its [[SCT]] and [[ICT]] correspondingly by [[Division I and Division II|division]].

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 A '''repeat''' is pair of questions, either [[tossups]] or [[bonuses]], in the same [[question set]] that share an answerline or are substantively similar (or, more rarely, identical). It can also refer to the second question of such a pair to be heard.
-Some question providers check for repeats between different sets intended for the same audience, albeit less stringently. For example, NAQT does so within its [[Middle School Series]], within its [[Invitational Series]], within its [[Introductory Invitational Series]], and between its [[SCT]] and [[ICT]] correspondingly by [[Division I and Division II|division]].
+Some question providers check for repeats between different sets intended for the same audience, albeit less stringently. For example, NAQT does so within its [[Middle School Series]], within its [[Invitational Series]], within its [[Introductory Invitational Series]], and between its [[SCT]] and [[ICT]] correspondingly by [[Division I and Division II|division]].</onlyinclude>
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-A '''repeat''' is pair of [[questions]] in the same [[question set]] that are substantively similar (or, more rarely, identical), or the second question of such a pair to be heard.
+A '''repeat''' is pair of questions, either [[tossups]] or [[bonuses]], in the same [[question set]] that share an answerline or are substantively similar (or, more rarely, identical). It can also refer to the second question of such a pair to be heard.
-Criteria vary widely, depending on factors such as:
+Some question providers check for repeats between different sets intended for the same audience, albeit less stringently. For example, NAQT does so within its [[Middle School Series]], within its [[Invitational Series]], within its [[Introductory Invitational Series]], and between its [[SCT]] and [[ICT]] correspondingly by [[Division I and Division II|division]].
-Identical questions are never acceptable if they could be played by the same team twice, or heard by a team and later played by the same team. Merely repeating an answer line may be fine depending on the above factors. Repeating clues is usually not considered a best practice, especially if hearing one question would help answer the other. Some of these issues cross over into the idea of [[feng shui]].
+* some editorial philosophies are not as stringent about repeats
+[[Category: Quizbowl lingo]]

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-A '''repeat''' is pair of [[questions]] in the same [[question set]] that are substantially similar (or, more rarely, identical), or the second question of such a pair to be heard.
+A '''repeat''' is pair of [[questions]] in the same [[question set]] that are substantively similar (or, more rarely, identical), or the second question of such a pair to be heard.
-Criteria to be a repeat vary depending on many factors, such as the following:
+Criteria vary widely, depending on factors such as:
 * Editorial philosophy
 * [[Difficulty]] (easier tournaments have fewer plausible topics and it may thus be necessary to accept, e.g., repeated answer lines)

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−	A '''repeat''' is pair of [[questions]] that are substantially similar (or, more rarely, identical)~~. The term is also often applied to~~ the second question of ~~the~~ pair ~~that is~~ heard.	+	A '''repeat''' is pair of [[questions]] in the same [[question set]] that are substantially similar (or, more rarely, identical), or the second question of such a pair to be heard.

	Criteria to be a repeat vary depending on many factors, such as the following:		Criteria to be a repeat vary depending on many factors, such as the following: