BATE

BATE (Bloomfield Academic Tournament Experiment) is a high school tournament led by Nick Petrilli and Aaron Cohen. Other contributors include Ian Drayer, Sandy Huang, Matthew Greenbacker, Donald Taylor and Trygve Meade. The tournament was held at Bloomfield High School in New Jersey, UCLA, and Cosby High School in Virginia.

BATE 2 ran in fall 2010, and was head-edited by Aaron Cohen after Nick disappeared. The set was noted for its quality and difficulty [1].

With Nick's disappearance, Bloomfield High School has started to run a tournament known as BATE on IS sets. In 2011 and 2012, the tournament was unabashedly run on the same date as Prison Bowl.

BATE succeeded the "Bloomfield Academic Tournament of Excellence", which had 14 previous editions. [2] This predecessor seems to have been in the so-called "Jeopardy!" format that is popular in New Jersey.