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Alan Wu
Alan co-founded the quizbowl club at Holmdel High School, and served as president for all four years. Th ...nally appears in the Northeast to drag unfortunate victims in the quizbowl community to the Met Opera and overpriced dinners.

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Benjamin Cooper
...er had become involved in reaching out to [[PACE]] to improve the state of quizbowl in the Washington DC area. At the end of his junior year, he was named cap ...ir winning programs, sportsmanship and service to the academic competition community are not well appreciated. These virtues not only make academic competitions

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Oklahoma Association for Academic Competition
...its quizbowl tournaments, OAAC is one of the primary supporters of [[good quizbowl]] in the state of Oklahoma. ...to hosting a number of online tests for individuals and teams, OAAC hosts quizbowl tournaments in five different classes across Oklahoma: Fourth Grade, Fifth

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June Yin
In the community, June is a prolific [[editor]], having contributed to a number of question Outside of "[[good quizbowl]]," June competed in the [[National Ocean Sciences Bowl]] throughout high s

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Audio fine arts
...art(s),''' or '''auditory fine art(s),''' is an academic [[category]] of [[quizbowl]] placed under the umbrella of [[fine arts]]. In [[ACF]] and [[mACF]] tourn In quizbowl, "classical music" refers largely to a tradition of Western art music also

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Brad Fischer
...players of his era (2005-06, the beginning of the transition to pyramidal quizbowl in Illinois), and among the very best players to emerge from any smaller sc ...llege career at [[Rock Valley College]], attempting to start a team at the community college. The team traveled to one tournament (Elvis at [[Wisconsin]]) and h

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Stock clue
...erm for [[clue]]s that lack academic importance and yet routinely occur in quizbowl questions. Stock clues, as originally conceived, were considered extinct in "[[good quizbowl]]" by the early 2010s due to higher standards for [[academic]] importance.

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Jakob Myers
...gh School]]. Known in the community as the primary force behind [[Illinois Quizbowl Memes]], they have also established themself as a dominant history-based ge Widely rumored to be good at quizbowl, Myers was the lead scorer on the team that won the [[2019 Chicago Open]],

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THAT
Initially, THAT attracted criticism from many community members for its editors' young age, inexperience, and demonstrated lack of [[Category:Quizbowl scandals]]

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2021 ONCT
...usively promoted through e-mails to qualified teams and on the high school quizbowl [[Discord]]; it had little presence on [[hsquizbowl.org]]. A major selling ...remained uncompromised (to anyone's knowledge) due to quizbowl's strong [[community]] standards.

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Remembering guys
...ns. It is frequently performed in sports-oriented circles of the quiz bowl community, as in the #qbbasketsball channel of the IRC or the #sports channel of the ...o appear to outsiders. This term was coined by [[Joelle Smart]] regarding quizbowl IRC circa 2014.

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Tom Durbin
...trophy room and library of questions that spanned two decades of Illinois quizbowl. Durbin was a highly respected coach in the Illinois quizbowl community, and despised administrative bullying and absue of power. One of Durbin's

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How Quizbowl Works
===Playing Quizbowl=== *Quizbowl matches, which are often called [[rounds]] or [[games]], are played between

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Westview (CA)
...iew High School''' is a public high school located in the Torrey Highlands community of northern San Diego. ...school has historically succeeded from importing in top-tier middle school quizbowl players from [[Mesa Verde]], [[Black Mountain]], and [[Meadowbrook]], thoug

2 KB (221 words) - 20:57, 13 January 2023
Jade Dai
...ditionally a member of the Buzzword societies of "Buzzword Southeast" and "Quizbowl Discord". [[Category: High school quizbowl in Texas]]

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Kristin Strey
...Decemberist]] and [[Huskie Bowl]]. She is the director of the [[Scholastic Community Outreach Program]] (SCOP), an organization that serves underfunded Illinois ...tireless commitment to outreach and resource creation to make the game of quizbowl more accessible for new coaches, players, writers, and everyone in between'

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Writing
'''Writing''' is the process of creating quizbowl [[questions]], with the individuals who write questions being called simply Writers are an essential part of the quizbowl community - with most [[set]]s having about a dozen [[packet]]s of twenty [[tossup]]s

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William and Mary
...hat only make sense to Matt Morrison, a person who hasn't been involved in quizbowl for 10 years== ...eoretically been founded a year earlier by W&M Law student and former Duke Quizbowl President Darren Abernethy but he instead chose to play [[CBI]].

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Bad quizbowl
...ompetitions and questions that do not follow the practices used in "[[good quizbowl]]" (namely, an emphasis on rewarding greater levels of [[knowledge]] and th Canonical examples of "bad quizbowl" include the now-defunct [[College Bowl]] and the still-running [[National

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Magical thinking
...questions trickle in from people who heed your call and have some kind of community-oriented interest in the tournament sucking less than it would otherwise. [[Category: Bad quizbowl]]

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