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The '''modern era of high school quizbowl''' is considered to have begun with the first [[PACE NSC]] in 1998. Since then, [[PACE]] and [[NAQT]] have led the way to marked improvements in question styles and tournament formats at all levels of play.

Major changes include:
*the shift to offering as many games as possible at invitational tournaments
*the use of round-robin and double-elimination playoffs rather than [[single-elimination]], when possible
*the generally accepted importance of [[pyramidal]] tossups as opposed to [[speed-check]]s
*the defection of good teams away from the [[National Academic Championship]] and to the NSC and [[HSNCT]]

Despite what some may think, the move to modern or "[[good quizbowl|good]]" quizbowl has nothing to do with any attempt to displace four-quarter format tournaments with exclusively tossup/bonus tournaments, and is entirely concerned with making the individual questions good within whatever format happens to be used.

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