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−	:''See also: [[:Category:tournaments\|List of tournaments]]''	+	:''See also: [[:Category:tournaments\|List of tournaments]] and [[:Category:High school tournaments\|List of high school tournaments]]''
	<onlyinclude>A '''tournament''' is the basic unit of [[quizbowl]] competition and refers to a competition [[hosted]] by a school or other venue where [[teams]] play [[rounds]] of quizbowl against on another. Any given tournament will use a [[set]] of questions that were either [[housewrite#Historical Housewrite\|written by the host]] or purchased from either a national provider like [[NAQT]] or an informal [[housewrite#Modern housewrite\|writing team]].		<onlyinclude>A '''tournament''' is the basic unit of [[quizbowl]] competition and refers to a competition [[hosted]] by a school or other venue where [[teams]] play [[rounds]] of quizbowl against on another. Any given tournament will use a [[set]] of questions that were either [[housewrite#Historical Housewrite\|written by the host]] or purchased from either a national provider like [[NAQT]] or an informal [[housewrite#Modern housewrite\|writing team]].

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		+	:''See also: [[:Category:tournaments\|List of tournaments]]''
	<onlyinclude>A '''tournament''' is the basic unit of [[quizbowl]] competition and refers to a competition [[hosted]] by a school or other venue where [[teams]] play [[rounds]] of quizbowl against on another. Any given tournament will use a [[set]] of questions that were either [[housewrite#Historical Housewrite\|written by the host]] or purchased from either a national provider like [[NAQT]] or an informal [[housewrite#Modern housewrite\|writing team]].		<onlyinclude>A '''tournament''' is the basic unit of [[quizbowl]] competition and refers to a competition [[hosted]] by a school or other venue where [[teams]] play [[rounds]] of quizbowl against on another. Any given tournament will use a [[set]] of questions that were either [[housewrite#Historical Housewrite\|written by the host]] or purchased from either a national provider like [[NAQT]] or an informal [[housewrite#Modern housewrite\|writing team]].

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 <onlyinclude>A '''tournament''' is the basic unit of [[quizbowl]] competition and refers to a competition [[hosted]] by a school or other venue where [[teams]] play [[rounds]] of quizbowl against on another. Any given tournament will use a [[set]] of questions that were either [[housewrite#Historical Housewrite|written by the host]] or purchased from either a national provider like [[NAQT]] or an informal [[housewrite#Modern housewrite|writing team]].
-A tournament is typically one day, but may be longer - many [[national]] tournaments take a weekend and [[league]] play may spaced rounds out over the course of weeks or months.</onlyinclude>
+A tournament is typically one day, but may be longer - many [[national]] tournaments take a weekend and [[league]] play may spaced rounds out over the course of weeks or months.
 ==Terminology==
-*The '''host''' of a tournament is either the physical location where the tournament is located (typically a [[school]] or [[hotel]]) or the organizers of the tournament. For the typical regular season tournament, these will refer to the same institution: the school which is hosting and their quizbowl club.
+*The '''[[host]]''' of a tournament is either the physical location where the tournament is located (typically a [[school]] or [[hotel]]) or the organizers of the tournament. For the typical regular season tournament, these will refer to the same institution: the school which is hosting and their quizbowl club.
 **The '''[[tournament director]]s''' (or '''TDs''') are the individual(s) in charge of the logistics of a tournament. This typically extends to organization before the date of the tournament as well, like organizing the [[field]].
 *A tournament is said to '''run''' the question set which teams are playing.

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 ==Terminology==
 *The '''host''' of a tournament is either the physical location where the tournament is located (typically a [[school]] or [[hotel]]) or the organizers of the tournament. For the typical regular season tournament, these will refer to the same institution: the school which is hosting and their quizbowl club.
-**The '''[[tournament director]]s''' (or '''[[TD]]s''') are the individual(s) in charge of the logistics of a tournament. This typically extends to organization before the date of the tournament as well, like organizing the [[field]].
+**The '''[[tournament director]]s''' (or '''TDs''') are the individual(s) in charge of the logistics of a tournament. This typically extends to organization before the date of the tournament as well, like organizing the [[field]].
 *A tournament is said to '''run''' the question set which teams are playing.
 *A tournament is typically considered a '''site''' of the set that it is used. It can be classified as either a '''[[main site]]''' or a '''[[mirror]]''' based on whether the set was written by the school that is hosting it or not. In cases where all (or most) of the [[writing team]] of the set does not belong to a single institution or they do not have a corresponding physical location, a tournament can be manually designated as the main site.

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 ==Categories==
-Tournaments can be broadly classified as local or [[:Category:National championships|national]], by level (middle school, high school, community college, college, or [[open]]), and in other ways.
+Tournaments can be broadly classified as local or [[:Category:National championships|national]], by [[difficulty]], or by [[eligibility]], with these last two categories having some overlap in nomenclature (middle school, high school, community college, college, or [[open]]). Some
 The QBWiki has some categories pertaining to tournaments; note that they are incomplete:

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-A '''tournament''' is a quiz bowl competition. The term may mean an event taking place over one to three consecutive days (usually Saturday, or including Saturday), but may also refer to an extended event like a [[league]] or [[conference]] in which gameplay is split over many days over a course of weeks or months.
+<onlyinclude>A '''tournament''' is the basic unit of [[quizbowl]] competition and refers to a competition [[hosted]] by a school or other venue where [[teams]] play [[rounds]] of quizbowl against on another. Any given tournament will use a [[set]] of questions that were either [[housewrite#Historical Housewrite|written by the host]] or purchased from either a national provider like [[NAQT]] or an informal [[housewrite#Modern housewrite|writing team]].
-Tournaments can be broadly classified as local or [[:Category:National championships|national]], by level (middle school, high school, community college, college, or open), and in other ways.
+A tournament is typically one day, but may be longer - many [[national]] tournaments take a weekend and [[league]] play may spaced rounds out over the course of weeks or months.</onlyinclude>
-The QBWiki has some categories pertaining to tournaments, but they are very incomplete:
+==Terminology==
 * [[:Category:Tournaments|Collegiate tournaments]]
 * [[:Category:High school tournaments|High school tournaments]]

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 * [[:Category:Tournaments|Collegiate tournaments]]
 * [[:Category:High school tournaments|High school tournaments]]
-* [[:Category:National championships|national championships]]
+* [[:Category:National championships|National championships]]
 There is also a guide on [[how to run a high school tournament]] that is not actually limited to high school tournaments, but could use some updating.
 [[Category:Quizbowl basics]]

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		+	[[Category:Quizbowl basics]]