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• Montgomery Academic Beltway League
  MABL games consist of four quarters: a "four corners round" that consists of teams ans ...chools, each group assigned to a different host school, who each play each other in a round robin. These matches are followed by an "up-down round," in whic
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• Berry
  ...mber since at least the 1970s. In fact, much of the early development of a quizbowl "circuit" can be attributed to invitational tournaments hosted at Berry, mo ...th many photographs of Carper and other Berry players, and many tournament games are held in it.
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• Scholars' Bowl (East Tennessee)
  ...usual for teams to have the same questions multiple times over a series of games. Jim Kuehn (sic?) was the host in 1992, and 1994-2007 the show was hosted b [[Category: Quizbowl TV shows]]
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• Illinois Open East
  Unable to convince his non-quizbowl friends to get up at 8 AM on a Saturday morning in order to read at a tourn ...d robin ended with Maryland A and Duke each at 7-1, having split their two games. A one-game final was held in which Maryland took the title 210-155. Matt d
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• Parkland Challenge
  ...lity and choice of topics. The tournament is considered a example of [[bad quizbowl]] as a result, which resulted in [[University Lab]] boycotting and prominen [[Category: Quizbowl TV shows]]
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• AAUW Knowledge Bowl
  ...dge Bowl has never used [[Academic Hallmarks]] questions and also predates other [[Knowledge Bowl]] events by nearly 20 years. Knowledge Bowl was created in ...edge Bowl utilizes [[variable value bonus]]es, a notable hallmark of [[bad quizbowl]].
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• Zach Foster
  |Subjects = History, Visual Arts, Video Games, Hockey, Other Trash ...for a tendency to register for tournaments via the [[Hsquizbowl.org forums|Quizbowl Resource Center forums]] and then withdraw precipitously shortly before the
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• Names for quizbowl
  People just can't decide what to call quizbowl. ...competition as quizbowl, some similar competitions are not referred to as quizbowl, even in a informal context.
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• Priming
  ...when they know the answer. These few saved milliseconds can be crucial in games, giving players an extra edge on [[buzzer race|buzzer races]]. {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}
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• List of national tournaments that ended without a championship final
  ...reduces to a single-elimination among those teams. The disregarding of all games played before the double elimination bracket begins, and the arrangement of ...he last few teams remaining; all other known NAC years and all defunct bad quizbowl nationals used a straight single-elimination playoff bracket.
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• Cody Voight
  ...efforts include biology and chemistry for [[Fernando Arrabal]], physics & other science for [[PADAWAN]], and electrical engineering questions for his [[Cla == Three-factor theory of quizbowl moderating ==
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• St. Joseph Central
  ...; they ultimately tied for 65th place after dropping both of their playoff games. ...minster]] in their sixth place finish at [[WUHSAC]] XX, which featured six other top 100 teams; twice to [[Ladue]] to finish second at the [[2018 NAQT Misso
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• Tossup-Bonus Format
  ...ormat''' is the most common format used in both high school and collegiate quizbowl. In this format, the game consists of the reading of '''tossup''' questions ...ed the winner. The standard used by [[ACF]], [[HSAPQ]], [[PACE]], and many other [[question sets]] is the reading of 20 tossup-bonus cycles, in which case t
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• 2005 Thomas Jefferson
  ...schedule (the mid-Atlantic was the most competitive region in high school quizbowl at the time). ...lability of practice material, expansion of interest in highly-competitive quizbowl, and adoption of round-robin playoffs at the NSC all make it more likely th
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• Ken Jennings
  ...nnings won a still-record 74 consecutive games and defeated numerous other quizbowl personalities, including [[Leo Wolpert]] and [[Jeff Hoppes]], in the proces ...l 1996 until 1999-2000. In 1998, [[Adam Fine]] ranked him as the 81st best quizbowl player he had seen play.
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• Michael Kohn
  ...ralist and can buzz on, and especially neg on, most categories. During his quizbowl career he has won 3 student tournaments: 2021 [[SMH]], 2022 [[BSQC]], and [ ...n most of the University Challenge/ Quizbowl canon. He then led Imperial's quizbowl teams in the 2019-20 season and 2020-21 season, serving as Secretary of the
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• 2015 Lisgar
  ...Varsity History Bowl Nationals, along with several strong performances in quizbowl. ==Quizbowl==
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• Robert Meredith
  ...uted "The System", a program that Georgia Tech, and later other successful quizbowl programs, followed to develop players. A key element of the System was requ Meredith innovated the now standard match format of untimed games of twenty ten point toss-up questions with thirty point bonuses, with all q
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• Ben Russell Jones
  ...with a really aggressive quizbowl style, based more on feel and intuition than actual knowledge, which resulted in many wild negs. He had adjusted to a fa ...Quizbowl community, with many claiming this inspired Ben's continuation of quizbowl.
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• Tournament structure
  ...ers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings. (The same phrase is also sometimes used * The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they pl
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