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• Clear
  <onlyinclude>The term '''clear''' has two primary uses in quizbowl: ==In games==
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• Statistical tiebreakers
  ...e than two teams, statistics are used to seed the teams for the tiebreaker games. ...onents, some have criticized points per tossup heard for rewarding blowout games against weaker teams and punishing neg or interrupt prone teams who are nev
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• Cheese-melter
  A "real '''cheese-melter'''" is an in-progress quizbowl game with a close score. .../www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/lexicon.html], who has occasionally deemed games to be cheese-melters while moderating at [[NAQT]] national championships.
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• Bible Bowl
  ...nd question styles, some of which are quite similar to pre-modern forms of quizbowl. It may be played through teams organized by churches or by Christian priva ...s. Several of the challenges unique to the "invitational circuit" model of quizbowl as opposed to the radio/television shows were first addressed by Bible Bowl
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• User:Scott Le
  ...quickly climbed up the ladder and found himself on Varsity B winning many games with his team. His best subject is mythology and he has a passion for art a
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• Jeopardy! with teams
  ...''Jeopardy!'' with teams'''") is commonly used to describe the premise of quizbowl to those who are unfamiliar, especially at [[recruiting]] events like club With the introduction of the team-based All-Star Games in 2019, ''Jeopardy!'' also satisfies the category of "''Jeopardy!'' with t
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• Western Albemarle
  ...traight years. In 2011, they finished second in AA. In 2013, they lost two games on the final tossup to [[New Kent]], in the winners' bracket final and the ==Other quizbowl==
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• Tossups heard
  ...cs. Many tournaments also require a minimum number of tossups heard (or [[games played]]) for a player to be eligible for individual awards. {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}
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• Modern era of high school quizbowl
  The '''modern era of high school quizbowl''' is considered to have begun with the first [[PACE NSC]] in 1998. Since t *the shift to offering as many games as possible at invitational tournaments
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• ACUI
  .... It contracted with [[College Bowl]] to provide questions and rules for a quizbowl-like game at the intramural, regional, and national levels until [[College
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• The Decemberist
  ...ally, the format is set up to allow teams to play significantly more games than most area tournaments. ...ayoff pools of four teams each were bracketed at lunch based on those five games. [[Auburn (Rockford, Illinois High School)|Auburn A]] won the tournament, f
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• Timed play
  ...e-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]]
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• 1999 Chicago
  ...or more of the above at ICT or CBI) [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/990429/quizbowl.shtml]. Recently, Yaphe has claimed that this team was the most dominant quizbowl team of his career, compared at least to the field it had to play [http://h
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• Conversion metrics
  ...es when computing this as only a small percentage of the field plays these games. ...he total number of points scored by all teams and divides by the number of games played. As with bonus conversion, a median points per game is sometimes us
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• Points per game
  ...er (tossup points only) or team (all points) and dividing by the number of games played. ...standardize scoring records, as the existence of the [[clock]] results in games of varying lengths at many of its championships.
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• Alex Zachwieja
  ...onaker]] and is widely regarded as the forerunner of modern [[ACF]]-format quizbowl's expansion into the westernmost high schools of Virginia. ...us major changes: Prior to 1998, Honaker played only a regional variety of quizbowl. He was one of the earliest adopters of the [[VHSL]] Scholastic Bowl format
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• Accessibility
  #For a question, the percentage of games in which a certain question was correctly answered. {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}
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• Kai Madgwick
  ...Moore]] they ended up in the bottom bracket but subsequently won all their games. After their first year of Quizbowl, Kai ran for and was elected President of Durham University Quiz Society (D
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• Michael Gaffney
  '''Michael Gaffney''' played quizbowl for [[South Burlington]] between 2006 and 2009. He previously attend [[Cham ...ammates went 0/12/12 over 9 games; South Burlington as a whole stunned the quizbowl world with their 3-7 record
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• McDonald's High School Challenge
  ...d Concordia College-Moorhead and broadcast on NBC affiliate KXJB-TV Fargo. Games are usually taped during Saturday mornings and then broadcast in the evenin ..., despite the fact that it doesn't use [[Academic Hallmarks]] questions or other usual KB features like the Quizbox or written rounds. Like most television
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