Timed play - Revision history

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Jonah Greenthal at 19:24, 20 December 2017

2017-12-20T19:24:29Z

Gregory Gauthier: update to reflect new title

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update to reflect new title

Jonah Greenthal: updates

2017-12-19T04:00:14Z

updates

Jonah Greenthal: Jonah Greenthal moved page Timed tournaments to Timed play: It's not really the tournaments that are timed, at least not directly

2017-11-21T21:34:14Z

Jonah Greenthal moved page Timed tournaments to Timed play: It's not really the tournaments that are timed, at least not directly

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 In '''timed play''', a timer determines the length of each half of a game.  The timer is conventionally called a '''clock'''.
-[[NAQT]] rules are the only rules currently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school and high school games use nine-minute halves. [[Community college]] games use 10-minute halves. [[ICT]] games use 11-minute halves
+[[NAQT]] rules are the only rules currently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school games use 9-minute halves. High school and [[Community college]] games use 10-minute halves. [[ICT]] games use 11-minute halves
 Timed games generally also have an upper limit on the number of [[tossup-bonus cycles]] that will be read regardless of time. (In NAQT matches the limit is currently 24 tossup-bonus cycles.)

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 Conversely, the other team will want to slow the game.
-Under the CBI and pre-2008 NAQT rules, the half ended immediately when time expired in the middle of reading a tossup, unless a team buzzed before time expired and answered correctly (earning the team a bonus as usual in NAQT).  This rule allowed a team with a small lead in the closing seconds of the game to preserve a victory with the [[clock-killing neg]], preventing the other team from answering the tossup and getting a bonus.  Since CBI is defunct and NAQT has changed its timing rules, the clock-killing neg is no longer a useful strategy.
+Under the CBI and pre-2008 NAQT rules, the half ended immediately when time expired in the middle of reading a tossup, unless a team buzzed before time expired and answered correctly (earning the team a bonus as usual in NAQT).  This rule allowed a team with a small lead in the closing seconds of the game to preserve a victory with the [[clock-killing neg]], preventing the other team from answering the tossup and getting a bonus.  Since CBI is defunct and NAQT has changed its timing rules, the clock-killing neg is no longer a useful strategy. See also [[history of NAQT game format]].
 ==Pseudotimed formats==
 In many TV tournaments as well as at the [[National Academic Championship]], a fixed number of questions are read, but drama is created by omitting the question numbers and slowing or speeding the reading pace in order to fill a pre-designated amount of time. Rounds at these formats are ended by a "clock expiration" noise (buzzer, whistle, conch shell, etc.) after the last question in the packet is completed.
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 Under the CBI and pre-2008 NAQT rules, the half ended immediately when time expired in the middle of reading a tossup, unless a team buzzed before time expired and answered correctly (earning the team a bonus as usual in NAQT).  This rule allowed a team with a small lead in the closing seconds of the game to preserve a victory with the [[clock-killing neg]], preventing the other team from answering the tossup and getting a bonus.  Since CBI is defunct and NAQT has changed its timing rules, the clock-killing neg is no longer a useful strategy.
 [[Category: Quizbowl basics]]
 [[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]

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 In '''timed play''', a timer determines the length of each half of a game.  The timer is conventionally called a '''clock'''.
-[[NAQT]] rules are the only rules currently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school and high school games use nine-minute halves. Collegiate games officially use 10-minute halves, but in 2018 NAQT experimented with untimed [[Sectional Championship Tournaments]] (11-[[cycle]] halves) and 11-minute halves at the [[2018 ICT]]. (No announcement has yet been made with respect to the 2019 NAQT College Championship series.)
+[[NAQT]] rules are the only rules currently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school and high school games use nine-minute halves. [[Community college]] games use 10-minute halves. [[ICT]] games use 11-minute halves
 Timed games generally also have an upper limit on the number of [[tossup-bonus cycles]] that will be read regardless of time. (In NAQT matches the limit is currently 24 tossup-bonus cycles.)

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	[[NAQT]] rules are the only rules currently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school and high school games use nine-minute halves. Collegiate games officially use 10-minute halves, but in NAQT is experimenting with this: the 2018 [[Sectional Championship Tournaments]] will use untimed 11-[[cycle]] halves and the [[2018 ICT]] will use 11-minute halves.		[[NAQT]] rules are the only rules currently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school and high school games use nine-minute halves. Collegiate games officially use 10-minute halves, but in NAQT is experimenting with this: the 2018 [[Sectional Championship Tournaments]] will use untimed 11-[[cycle]] halves and the [[2018 ICT]] will use 11-minute halves.
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		+	Timed games generally also have an upper limit on the number of [[tossup-bonus cycles]] that will be read regardless of time. (In NAQT matches the limit is currently 24 tossup-bonus cycles.)

	==History==		==History==

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−	'''~~Timed tournaments~~''' ~~use~~ a timer ~~to determine~~ the length of each half of a game. The timer is conventionally called a '''clock'''.	+	In '''timed play''', a timer determines the length of each half of a game. The timer is conventionally called a '''clock'''.

	[[NAQT]] rules are the only rules currently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school and high school games use nine-minute halves. Collegiate games officially use 10-minute halves, but in NAQT is experimenting with this: the 2018 [[Sectional Championship Tournaments]] will use untimed 11-[[cycle]] halves and the [[2018 ICT]] will use 11-minute halves.		[[NAQT]] rules are the only rules currently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school and high school games use nine-minute halves. Collegiate games officially use 10-minute halves, but in NAQT is experimenting with this: the 2018 [[Sectional Championship Tournaments]] will use untimed 11-[[cycle]] halves and the [[2018 ICT]] will use 11-minute halves.

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-'''Timed''' tournaments use a '''clock''' or timer to determine the length of each half of a game. At present, [[NAQT]] is the only question provider whose rules call for timed halves - 9-minute halves for high school games; 10-minute halves for college.
+'''Timed tournaments''' use a timer to determine the length of each half of a game.  The timer is conventionally called a '''clock'''.
 ==History==
+[[College Bowl]] used timed games. Evolution away from this began in the early 1990s, with only the most purist [[ACF]] events—such as the [[Georgia Tech MLK]] and [[ACF Nationals]]—being untimed. By the turn of the millenium, the only timed tournaments remaining were NAQT Sectionals and ICT, Stanford's [[Cardinal Classic]], [[Michigan MLK]], and [[Penn Bowl]], plus of course all [[College Bowl]]-run events. Cardinal Classic dropped the clock starting in 2001, Penn Bowl in 2003, and MLK in 2006. In order to better simulate the ICT environment, the 2008 and 2009 [[FICHTE]] tournaments used the clock and NAQT's 2-second recognition rule.
 ==Strategies==
-In general, teams playing a timed match will want to hurry if they want more tossups to be heard or, inversely, use as much time as possible if they want fewer tossups to be heard.  Accordingly, a team will often hurry the game in two cases:
+In general, teams playing a timed match will want to hurry if they want more tossups to be heard, or use as much time as possible if they want fewer tossups to be heard.  Accordingly, a team will often hurry the game in two cases:
 *The team is behind near the end of the game and needs to hear more tossups to improve its chance to come back.
 *The team believes itself to be better than the other team, so hearing more tossups will reduce the likelihood of an upset.

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