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• Buzzer
  ...er a question first. Such systems are necessary for all standard quizbowl games because they make it clear which player was the first to attempt to answer While using a buzzer system, players '''buzz''' to answer a question. Other players are prevented from buzzing ("locked out") after one player has buzz
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• Minnesota High School Quiz Bowl League
  ...eague championship tournament is considered by many to be more prestigious than the official [[NAQT Minnesota State Championship]], as it is generally has ...cts for their round, and has one minute to answer as many as they can. The other team then gets a 30 second bounce-back phase on questions the first team mi
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• Hoppes-Mikanowski limit
  ...he stat in question may have been a pre-modern stat called [[PATH]] rather than PPG, and the original "limit" may not have been set at all; regardless, its Additionally, breaking the H-M limit shares many things in common with other achievements like [[grail]]s in that they are typically very dependent on t
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• ACF
  ...s the [[Carper Award]]. For more information on ACF, see their [http://acf-quizbowl.com/ website]. ...with slight modifications, or especially to make a broad distinction with other formats.
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• 2004 NAC
  ...beating DC champion [[2004 Horace Greeley|Horace Greeley]] 370-345 in the other. Two New Orleans playoff games were decided on sudden-death tiebreakers. One of the questions was "Most o
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• How to study
  ..."[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14099 So You Want to Study Quizbowl]" by [[Max Schindler]]. ...ance - it's a term from poker which has become commonplace in e-sports and other online spaces. Tilting might manifest in a [[negstorm]] or a loss of confid
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• Reach for the Top
  ...cit academic focus, and is usually considered to be a separate game from [[quizbowl]]. ...usually play [[Genies en herbe]], while university students play in the [[quizbowl]] format.
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• Definitive Greatest Players List
  ...aber ranked the top 45 players of all time in five tiers, along with "Other Notable Players and Future Stars", a sort of Honorable Mention categor ...List of the Greatest ACF Players]], which merely listed the Top 25 rather than attempting to rank them.
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• IHSA State Championship Records
  |'''Consecutive State Title Games''' [[Category:High school quizbowl in Illinois]]
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• SWATA
  ...state's capital, and one of only 3 places with at least 7 capitals closer than their own state capital.]] ...thumb|right|Regional map showing western Virginia counties' distances from other capitals vs. their distance from Richmond.]]
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• Dorman
  ...82. Since then, it has been one of the most consistently great high school quizbowl teams in the country, having been a contender at the national level essenti ...playing well but erratically at Texas Invitational and then dropping some games at Prison Bowl. However, they bounced back by winning [[Jag Bowl]] VIII. Th
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• How to prepare for nationals
  The pinnacle of a quizbowl player's life as a competitor is their performance at nationals. It is, for ...h school levels - some advice may be more applicable to one group than the other and will be labeled accordingly.
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• How to Write Questions
  ...always yelling really loudly about question quality and such. I encourage other players to contribute, and I'll incorporate good suggestions into the origi ...they come from a class you're taking or just from some stuff professors at other institutions put up. These are generally reliable (they have been in my exp
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• British Student Quiz Championships
  ...''' ('''BSQC''') is an annual quizbowl tournament that determines the best quizbowl team in the United Kingdom. First held in 1998, the tournament was held for ...British" scoring, by which each bonus is worth a total of 15 points rather than 30)
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• Atendido-Matthews FAQ List
  ...the FAQ in October 1997, which can still be found on the George Washington quizbowl website (but as that hasn't been updated since 2002 who knows how much long ...y meant for June, but the moderators of news.answers got back to me faster than I anticipated. The next guaranteed release is the first week of July.
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• Hunter
  ...ry at the Yale tournament in November, which admittedly had a weaker field than the DC-area tournaments. The culmination of the season was at the [[2007 HS ...w York State Championship]], the team also placed very well in each of the other tournaments it attended. During the 2007-08 year, several younger players j
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• VCU
  ...inia Commonwealth University''', often referred to as '''VCU''', has had a quizbowl team continuously since 2002 and is prominent in hosting and playing events The modern program of VCU quizbowl was founded by Matt Weiner in November 2002 by virtue of his attendance at
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• Maine South
  Quizbowl at Maine South began with the year the school opened in 1963-64, though com ...nt, as its timing conflicted with studies for Advanced Placement exams and other end-of-the-year activities. As a result, the Sectional title was stripped
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• Criticisms of the NAC
  *Tournament format (only six preliminary games guaranteed, and single-elimination playoffs) *"Game show" quality (moderators will often play more to the audience than the players, and will affect the fairness of the game by doing so)
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