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In formats with '''bounceback''', bonus parts incorrectly answered by the team who answered the tossup are given to the opposition.  This supposedly leads to tighter games, and certainly to less complaining about a player's pet topic coming up in a bonus for the other team, who then got zero points on said bonus.
 
In formats with '''bounceback''', bonus parts incorrectly answered by the team who answered the tossup are given to the opposition.  This supposedly leads to tighter games, and certainly to less complaining about a player's pet topic coming up in a bonus for the other team, who then got zero points on said bonus.
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[[Lisgar]] hosted a house written tournament in 2009 which used bouncebacks.
  
 
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Revision as of 20:47, 4 September 2010

In formats with bounceback, bonus parts incorrectly answered by the team who answered the tossup are given to the opposition. This supposedly leads to tighter games, and certainly to less complaining about a player's pet topic coming up in a bonus for the other team, who then got zero points on said bonus.

Lisgar hosted a house written tournament in 2009 which used bouncebacks.