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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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• Eric Mukherjee final
  ...Final''' is a somewhat mean-spirited name for a game or series of play-in games to determine second place at a tournament. They only plausibly can occur wh {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}
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• Regional Quiz Bowl
  Regional Quiz Bowl is a high school Quizbowl league on Long Island. It is sponsored by RQB Associates Inc. of East Setau ...teams on Long Island participate, including all of those who play "[[good quizbowl]]".
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• Tidewater Challenge
  '''Tidewater Challenge''' was a televised quizbowl-like competition for high schools in the Hampton Roads area that aired on t ...s is accurate then Poquoson won every season to that point except 1988. No other information on the pre-1988 finalists has yet been found.
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• Buzzer rock
  ...k will have a stat line of something like 2 tossups and 0 interrupts in 10 games for a 2.00 points per game average. Use of this term is largely discouraged {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}
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• Zone out
  ...agically becoming alert at the sound of "[[For ten points]]"; its usage in quizbowl is an application of the common English phrase of the same meaning. ...ments where fatigue may become a factor in a team's ability to win pivotal games.
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• WRAL Brain Game
  ...are worth plus or minus the value of the question and rebound to only one other team (called a "toss-up" by Roberts) if the first answer is incorrect. The ...anced to the playoffs. This meant that two teams that played against each other could both qualify; conversely, it also meant that two strong teams who low
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• Computer Bowl
  The '''Computer Bowl''' was a fundraising quizbowl game held in 1988 and annually from 1990 to 1998. The event raised money fo *"Bonus rounds" which were played like traditional quizbowl [[bonuses]] for up to 20 points.
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• Ryan Bilger
  In 2019, Ryan won four games of ''[[Jeopardy!]]'', winning $107,049 (+$2,000). ...the WLVT [[Scholastic Scrimmage]] TV show. After discovering [[pyramidal]] quizbowl his Senior year, Ryan led Emmaus to a series of high finishes at Eastern PA
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• Random Online Tourneys (ROT)
  ...ine Tourneys, known as "ROT", is a public [[Discord]] server which hosts a Quizbowl league with cash prizes. The ROT discord server plans to kick off the second iteration of their Quizbowl league starting in mid-December of 2023, with more info coming soon.
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• 2011 SnowCAT
  The '''2011 Snow Carleton Academic Tournament (SnowCAT)''' was a high school quizbowl tournament run on [[NAQT]] IS-100 at [[Carleton College]] and directed by [ ...e, with all teams agreeing to use statistical tiebreakers rather than play games to decide placement, as the top five teams all qualified for HSNCT regardle
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