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• Minnesota Effect
  ...ho had won CBI Nationals despite having limited or no knowledge of several categories, most prominently literature. These major knowledge holes led to their 27t ...is a wild card ostensibly picked at random from the second-place Regional Tournament finishers (but no statistically strong second-place team has been chosen as
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• Quizbowl
  Quizbowl tournaments are buzzer competitions that cover a variety of academic categories ...state]] championships developed in addition to many [[:Category:Tournament categories|local tournaments]].
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• Matt Laird
  In 2005, Laird was present at the [[New Trier Varsity]] Tournament, and was a part of the conversation to start a new question company based o ...he was invited to join the moderating corps at the IHSA State Championship Tournament, making him the youngest moderator to ever read at the State Finals.
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• Reach for the Top
  ==Categories== ...stions open to both teams and are worth ten points each. Snapout/Snapstart categories take place at the beginning and end of each round, respectively, and the su
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• Michael Kohn
  ..., although he is a generalist and can buzz on, and especially neg on, most categories. During his quizbowl career he has won 3 student tournaments: 2021 [[SMH]], ...the 2020-21 season, he was on the first Imperial team to win a non-novice tournament, beating Southampton A in the final of the 28-team Southeast-Midwest housew
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• How Quizbowl Works
  *Teams that attend a quizbowl [[tournament]] usually play eight or more matches in a single day. ...hip for individuals is the [[IPNCT|Individual Player National Championship Tournament]], which has high school and middle school divisions.
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• National Academic League
  Place the following animals in the categories of [[carnivore]], [[omnivore]], or [[herbivore]]: Fruit bats, white-tailed ===National Tournament===
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• Writing
  ...enty [[bonus]]es, roughly 500 questions need to be written for any given [[tournament]]. The long history of [[packet submission]] and [[housewrites]] means that ...can offer flat rates, with bonuses for things like writing in high-demand categories, high volume, and consistency. By contrast, [[housewrite]]s tie their compe
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• Andrew Hart
  ...Nationals from 2008 through the end of his career in 2013, and 35 outright tournament victories (excluding side events). ...at HSNCT in 2005 and a runner-up finish at [[Chip Beall]]'s 2006 national tournament. Rob was one of his high school teammates.
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• QBWiki talk:Naming conventions
  ...the Governor's School name, but if you're on the results page of some 90s tournament and it says "Governor's School," it's unlikely that you'll know what school ...tle case, while only the first letter of the first word was capitalized in categories (except when absurd to do so; e.g., "Category:High school tournaments" but
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• Tom Egan's Report on the 2005 NAC
  ...had claimed it to be. Interviews of coaches who had actually attended the tournament ([[David Riley]], being most notable) were inconclusive. With the 2005 NAC ...atches, and a brief interview with one coach whose team was entered in the tournament. All assertions are thus based upon a relatively limited number of observa
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• User:Gregory Gauthier/JML
  ...tag. Optional attributes are <code>title</code>, <code>year</code>, <code>tournament</code>, and <code>number</code>, which should be self-explanatory. ...ld benefit from such a common taxonomy will probably already use ACF-style categories.)
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• Scoresheet
  ...out the identity of the moderator, scorekeeper, packet number, [[room]], [[tournament|event]], and [[round]]. ...y for the game to be scored but which facilitate the administration of the tournament and adherence to the rules. This includes space at the top for marking if a
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• How Collegiate Quizbowl Works
  ...asics|Quizbowl basics]]''' and [[:Category:Quizbowl lingo|Quizbowl lingo]] categories as a glossary if need arises. ...//hsquizbowl.org/forums/ forums]''', which is also the site for almost all tournament announcements. Registering for tournaments usually is as simple as sending
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• Talk:John Augustyn
  ...doing a disservice to those that staff, maintain, and participate in this tournament. As far as I am concerned, an award given by a reputable quizbowl organizat ...wiki. However, "lightning round" tests, which can vary from tournament to tournament, are often used in numerous quizbowl competitions as a means of qualifying
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• How to Write Questions
  First, you have to know your audience. Are you writing for a novice tournament, a standard invitational, or [[ACF Nationals]]? This will determine, to som With regard to difficulty, context matters a lot. If you're writing for a tournament like [[ACF Fall]], which is going to include a lot of new players who are,
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• Talk:Quizbowl lingo
  ** Subsections can't be categorized. (This also causes categories in general to be much less useful and less complete.) ...ice for this, because it is possible for concepts to be placed in multiple categories. <ref group=note>
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• 2009 Interview with Chip Beall
  ...2For_intimidation|ethical improprieties]] that might have happened at your tournament in years past. Do you care to speak to that at all? ...led at some seemingly arbitrary decisions relating to protests and mystery categories that disappeared and whatnot. [NOTE: Jason Russell never actually mentioned
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• The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranking
  ...ng more stuff. He does impress me as someone who really be a force in many categories (again, not easy to do), if not overwhelming. He also has one of the most d ...ut who is?). At his peak, pretty fearsome and able to snipe a lot of other categories.
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• Criticisms of the NAC
  ...e been mounting since the 2000s. They can be broken down into a few basic categories: *Tournament format (only six preliminary games guaranteed, and single-elimination playo
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