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'''Parkland Challenge''' is an local high school quiz bowl tournament hosted at Parkland College in Champaign, IL. It consist of 17 high schools in Champaign County, IL and its surrounding areas. The schools are separated into 4 brackets. Mike Coulter, the instructional technology specialist at Parkland College moderates the games. Single-elim on mostly one-clue tossups are used and there are no bonuses. There's conferring on tossups for a team when the other team guesses wrong. At certain points of the match, each team is given a video question answer. There is a lighting round in the middle of the match. When a question is answered incorrectly, the team that answered incorrectly loses 10 points and the toss-up becomes dead.  
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'''Parkland Challenge''' is an local high school quiz bowl tournament hosted at Parkland College in Champaign, IL. It consist of 17 high schools in Champaign County, IL and its surrounding areas. The schools are separated into 4 brackets. Mike Coulter, the instructional technology specialist at Parkland College moderates the games. Single-elim on mostly one-clue tossups are used and there are no bonuses. There's conferring on tossups for a team when the other team guesses wrong. At certain points of the match, each team is given a video question answer. There is a lighting round in the middle of the match. When a question is answered incorrectly, the team that answered incorrectly loses 10 points and the toss-up becomes dead. Questions packets used are questionable as a result of its quality and choice of topics. The tournament is considered a example of [[bad quizbowl]] as a result, which resulted in [[University Lab]] boycotting and prominent players from [[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]] to decline to attend.  
  
 
=Past Results=
 
=Past Results=
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! 3rd Place  
 
! 3rd Place  
 
! 4th Place  
 
! 4th Place  
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! Top Individual Scorer
 
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| 2014  
 
| 2014  
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| [[Mahomet-Seymour]]
 
| [[Mahomet-Seymour]]
 
| [[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]]
 
| [[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]]
| [[Blue Ridge]]
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| Blue Ridge
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| David Fischer<br><span style="font-size:85%">[[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]]
 
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|-
 
| 2015
 
| 2015
 
| [[Bloomington]]
 
| [[Bloomington]]
| [[St. Joseph Ogden]]
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| St. Joseph Ogden
| [[Monticello]]
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| Monticello
| [[Judah Christian]]
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| Judah Christian
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| [[Alston Boyd]]<br><span style="font-size:85%">[[Bloomington]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 2016
 
| 2016
 
| [[Mahomet-Seymour]]
 
| [[Mahomet-Seymour]]
| [[Prairie Central]]
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| Prairie Central
 
| [[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]]
 
| [[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]]
| [[St. Thomas More]]
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| St. Thomas More
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| Nathan Somers<br><span style="font-size:85%">Prairie Central
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 2017
 
| 2017
 
| [[Mahomet-Seymour]]
 
| [[Mahomet-Seymour]]
| [[Danville]]
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| Danville  
| [[Prairie Central]
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| Prairie Central
| [[Blue Ridge]]
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| Blue Ridge
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| [[Iain Carpenter]]<br><span style="font-size:85%">[[Mahomet-Seymour]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 2018
 
| 2018
 
| [[Mahomet-Seymour]]
 
| [[Mahomet-Seymour]]
| [[Blue Ridge]]
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| Blue Ridge
 
| [[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]]
 
| [[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]]
| [[Prairie Central]]
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| Prairie Central
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| Parker Otto<br><span style="font-size:85%">Blue Ridge
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 2019
 
| 2019
| [[Villa Grove]]
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| Villa Grove
 
| [[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]]
 
| [[Centennial (IL)|Centennial]]
| [[Rantoul]]
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| Rantoul
| [[Central]]
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| Central
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| Jackson Wiessing<br><span style="font-size:85%">Villa Grove
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|-
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| 2020
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| Cancelled
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| Cancelled
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| Cancelled
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| Cancelled
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| Cancelled
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|-
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| 2021
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| Cancelled
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| Cancelled
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| Cancelled
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| Cancelled
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| Cancelled
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|-
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| 2022
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| Villa Grove
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| St. Thomas More
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| Fisher
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| Oakwood
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| Caleb Wiessing<br><span style="font-size:85%">Villa Grove
 
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=External Link=
 
*[https://www.parkland.edu/Audience/Community-Business/Parkland-Presents/PCTV/Programs]
 
  
[[Category:Quizbowl TV shows]]
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=External List=
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*[https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUlKFETZknNyCA_ne0gf9C7bmfFHzLQ-_]
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*[https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUlKFETZknNzsvBj8u3lZJJpJ59S65imH]
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*[https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUlKFETZknNyQmFMI_C_NYllin271xg6H]
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*[https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUlKFETZknNyJH-xL2hbBGOig2mEB2apK]
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*[https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUlKFETZknNyoduEcMLSQsWu66WOGPlij]
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*[https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUlKFETZknNxI_-XUlW-0hIl-lVsB3TeB]
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*[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUlKFETZknNwMUQfzf7ZTpOw2PzPFyPh8]
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*[https://www.parkland.edu/Audience/Community-Business/Parkland-Presents/PCTV/Programs]
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[[Category: Quizbowl TV shows]]
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[[Category: High school quizbowl in Illinois]]

Latest revision as of 07:21, 29 July 2022

Parkland Challenge is an local high school quiz bowl tournament hosted at Parkland College in Champaign, IL. It consist of 17 high schools in Champaign County, IL and its surrounding areas. The schools are separated into 4 brackets. Mike Coulter, the instructional technology specialist at Parkland College moderates the games. Single-elim on mostly one-clue tossups are used and there are no bonuses. There's conferring on tossups for a team when the other team guesses wrong. At certain points of the match, each team is given a video question answer. There is a lighting round in the middle of the match. When a question is answered incorrectly, the team that answered incorrectly loses 10 points and the toss-up becomes dead. Questions packets used are questionable as a result of its quality and choice of topics. The tournament is considered a example of bad quizbowl as a result, which resulted in University Lab boycotting and prominent players from Centennial to decline to attend.

Past Results

Tournaments

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place Top Individual Scorer
2014 Bloomington Mahomet-Seymour Centennial Blue Ridge David Fischer
Centennial
2015 Bloomington St. Joseph Ogden Monticello Judah Christian Alston Boyd
Bloomington
2016 Mahomet-Seymour Prairie Central Centennial St. Thomas More Nathan Somers
Prairie Central
2017 Mahomet-Seymour Danville Prairie Central Blue Ridge Iain Carpenter
Mahomet-Seymour
2018 Mahomet-Seymour Blue Ridge Centennial Prairie Central Parker Otto
Blue Ridge
2019 Villa Grove Centennial Rantoul Central Jackson Wiessing
Villa Grove
2020 Cancelled Cancelled Cancelled Cancelled Cancelled
2021 Cancelled Cancelled Cancelled Cancelled Cancelled
2022 Villa Grove St. Thomas More Fisher Oakwood Caleb Wiessing
Villa Grove


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