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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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• 2003 ICT
  ...ded the third-place finish, one spot ahead of a Michigan team which lost 3 games, all to the top 2 teams in the tournament. As a result of the backlash to t ...was castigated by [[Subash Maddipoti]] for playing junior and experienced quizbowl player [[Jerry Vinokurov]] in Division II.
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• Bracket
  ...operly described as a "pool": a set of teams in which each team plays each other team, and from which records and statistics can be used for comparison. ...uctures are occasionally used in [[tiebreaker games|tiebreaker]] cases and other relatively narrow situations even in tournaments following best practices.
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• Rohan Woods School
  ==Quizbowl Program== ...ntroduction to quizbowl. In the three-game series, Southern Boone took two games to claim the series.
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• Justin Chen
  '''Justin Chen''' is a [[quizbowl]] player for the [[NYU|NYU Violets]]. He previously played for [[Thomas Jef ...squizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7641/stats/prelims/individuals/ 22–20–12 in 7 games].
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• 2011 NAQT Ontario Provincials
  ...ight to play Lisgar B in an disadvantaged final, which Centennial won both games. [[Daniel Carter]] was the top scorer ==Other==
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• Jeff Johnson
  '''Jeff Johnson''' was a player for [[Harvard]] who was active in mainstream quizbowl from the 1995 through 1998 seasons while a PhD student in American literatu ...h new reading material at a fantastic pace including during breaks between games at tournaments.
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• 2008 SnowCAT
  The '''2008 Snow Carleton Academic Tournament (SnowCAT)''' was a high school quizbowl tournament run on [[NAQT]] IS-72 at [[Carleton College]] and directed by [[ ...ing. The playoffs consisted of the top 16 teams playing single elimination games with seeding based on preliminary round records.
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• Burden of knowledge
  ...ens as a result of vague or non-[[unique]] clues that are common in "[[bad quizbowl]]", although sometimes players will invoke it while playing normal [[pyrami ...hat have wild difficulty swings and/or poor questions and is often seen in games of [[chicken|buzzer chicken]].
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• 2008 SAVANT
  The '''2008 Saint Anthony Village Annual Neural Test (SAVANT III)''' was a [[quizbowl]] tournament that run on [[NAQT]] IS #73A at its [[St. Anthony Village | na ...ng. The playoffs consisted of the top 16 teams playing single elimination games with seeding based on preliminary round records.
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• Andrew Alexander
  |Subjects = Chemistry, Video Games '''Andrew Alexander''' played high school quizbowl for [[Princess Anne]]. His team went 5-5 at the [[2004 HSNCT]] and tied for
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• Circle of death
  ...(or the use of [[statistical tiebreakers]]). The term sometimes refers to other types of three-way ties and occasionally to five-way (or even higher-order) ...the other better spot. Frequently, [[half-games]] are used instead of full games.
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• Regular difficulty
  ...ross the whole range of skill levels can play meaningful games against any other eligible team. For example, a regular-difficulty high school set should hav ...less difficult than [[hard]] tournaments or national championships or else games between average and below-average teams will feature too many [[dead]] toss
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• Graham Moyer
  ...e as captain of State College A since then, he led that team to four title games and won three ([[2010 NSC]], where they defeated a cheating [[Southside]] t
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• Canadian finals format
  ...was invented by [[Peter McCorquodale]] for use at [[VETO]]. Most American quizbowl players agree that it is a terrible idea and should never be used at an Ame ...two. Presumably, if the two teams did not play each other or split their games, then there is only a one game final.
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• Matt Weiner's List of the 10 best 21st Century High School Teams
  ...l A team on pyramidal questions, there is no justification for listing any other team from the modern era up here. ...SC final that constitutes the greatest game I've ever seen on any level of quizbowl.
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