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• Tiebreaker game
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• Game officials
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• Points per game
  '''PPG''' (or '''points per game'''), is a [[statistic]] used to determine the average scoring ability of an ...presenting the number of points a team or player would score in a "typical game". It is used primarily by [[NAQT]] to standardize scoring records, as the e
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• WRAL Brain Game
  '''''Brain Game''''' is a long-running show that has aired on WRAL featuring teams from Nor ...eam (called a "toss-up" by Roberts) if the first answer is incorrect. The game is divided into the following rounds.
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• Two-game final
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• Two game final
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• History of NAQT game format
  This page traces changes in the "standard" NAQT tossup/bonus game format as used at ICT, SCT, HSNCT, and tournaments using IS sets without lo *If all 28 tossups are read and time remains on clock, game ends
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• How to Get Good at This Game
  '''How to Get Good At This Game''' is an essay by [[Raj Bhan]] about how to improve your quiz bowl skills. How to Get Good at This Game
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• Tiebreaker
  *[[tiebreaker game]]s, the extra game or games used to resolve a tie in either overall or pool standings at a [[t ...or questions used during [[overtime]] to resolve a tie in the score of a [[game]]
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• Half-games
  ...ber of tossup-bonus cycles in the vicinity of half the number of a typical game.
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• PP20H
  #REDIRECT [[Points per game]]
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• PPG
  #REDIRECT [[Points per game]]
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• PP20TUH
  #REDIRECT [[Points per game]]
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• Chicken
  ...takes its name from the real [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game) game of chicken], in which participants drive cars at each other and must choose
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• Illinois Open Literature Tournament
  ...[Mike Sorice]] beat [[Jerry Vinokurov]] and [[Eric Mukherjee]] in a single-game third-place match of 36 questions played on the final two packets. Stats c
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• 2009 NSC
  ...NSC in which two parallel playoff brackets played and had a mere crossover game across brackets to determine the final champion of the tournament (and plac
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• Cheese-melter
  A "real '''cheese-melter'''" is an in-progress quizbowl game with a close score. ...luri]], who was keeping [[board score]] at some national championship. The game was a blowout even at halftime, and Revuluri remarked that it was a cheese-
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• Buzzin.live
  [[File:Buzzin.png|thumb|A screenshot of a buzzin.live game]] One can either create a game or join a game on buzzin.live. Creating a game generates a six-digit code for players to enter. The lobby’s creator has
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• Players
  ...an individual who plays [[quizbowl]]. Players comprise the audience of the game, as well as part of [[the community]] alongside the [[coaches]] who help or Quizbowl is a team-based game: each [[game]] is played between two teams of between one and four players. Each player
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• Advantaged final on half-packets
  ...final]] in which each game in the two-game series was replaced by a "half-game" comprised of 10 tossups and bonuses, created by splitting one packet in ha ...ppeal of being able to finish the schedule much more quickly than in a two-game finals scenario and to make schedules which reserved only one packet for th
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• Chris Fleitas
  ...s on [[Jeopardy]] before losing in the first game of [[Joon Pahk]]'s eight-game streak. Fleitas coached the [[2012 Bellarmine]] team that won the [[2012 HS
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• 2001 ACF Nationals
  ...l Erinjeri]] won the tournament, defeating [[Virginia]] A 300-100 in a one-game final. The tournament was edited by [[Dave Hamilton]], [[Subash Maddipoti]] ...05 for the right to play Michigan A in the finals. Michigan A won in a one-game final. The second-place Virginia team consisted of [[John Kenney]], Abhniva
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• Copyright
  ==Game formats== ...and [[Questions Unlimited]] claims to hold a copyright on the four-quarter game format.
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• High School Bowl
  ....com/hsb/sample.html actual game questions] from a recent High School Bowl Game Packet" which have a copyright date of 2005 and are [https://web.archive.or
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• 2002 Detroit Catholic Central
  ...tion, CC set the record for the widest margin of victory in a championship game by crushing Hartland High School 810-285 in the finals. ...the history of the CC program to have competed in a national championship game.
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• Subapalooza
  ...tive term for the practice of teams making many [[substitution]]s during a game.
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• 2011 WashU Student Life article
  ...n University]]'s student newspaper. It was entitled "Not your average bowl-game" and written by Percy Olsen. ...ame-practicing-and-competing-with-the-academic-team/ Not your average bowl-game: Practicing and competing with the Academic Team]. [http://www.studlife.com
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• Certamen
  ...of the game given by the National Junior Classical League: "Certamen is a game of fast recall of facts about classical civilizations and its peoples, lang
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• ACF format
  The ACF game consists, simply, of twenty ten-point tossups with thirty-point bonuses. Th ...ailing team needs to win two games, if the first-place team is exactly one game ahead of the second-place team.
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• Kevin Olmstead
  ==Game Show Appearances== ...ified Olmstead as the world record holder for having won the most money in game show history. Olmstead currently ranks third on this list behind [[Brad Ru
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• 2007 ACF Nationals
  ...lege]], both of whom finished at 8-4, with Illinois winning the points-per-game tiebreaker to finish fifth. [[2007 Michigan|Michigan]] and [[2007 Vanderbi ...rov]] of Brown, in that order. Weiner led the field with 91.67 points per game.
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• 2007 Chicago
  ...ossups and negging 19 times and average a tournament-best 341.2 points per game. ...s for 55 points per game. Peter went 32-5 and finished with 25 points per game, Susan went 31-7 for 22.92 PPG, while Selene had 22.5 PPG on a 28-3 line.
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• 2015 NSC
  ...ting. [[Detroit Catholic Central|DCC A]] defeated [[LASA|LASA A]] in a one-game final. [[Maggie Walker]] came in third and [[High Tech|High Tech A]] came i In the All-Star Game ....
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• Moot
  {{Rules of the game}} ...e potential change in score is not sufficient to change the outcome of the game. Protests that are invalidated in this way have been '''rendered moot'''.</
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• Micah Hodosh
  ...during an impressive shellacking of the field at [[Jeremy Eaton]]'s video game tournament TIDUS.
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• 2004 ACF Nationals
  ...A&M|Texas A&M]] finished third with a 10-3 record, winning the third-place game against [[2004 Kentucky|Kentucky]], who also went 10-3 and earned fourth. ...of [[Princeton]], in that order. Mathews led the field with 81 points per game.
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• Buzzer rock
  ...omething like 2 tossups and 0 interrupts in 10 games for a 2.00 points per game average. Use of this term is largely discouraged due to its negative connot
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• Overtime
  '''Overtime''' is a period of a quizbowl game played if the teams are [[tie|tied]] after regulation play has concluded an ...e is solely sudden death, although PACE has no interrupt penalties, so the game ends (only) upon the first correct answer being given to a tossup.
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• Paperless
  ...urnament is a tournament for which [[packet|packets]] are distributed to [[Game officials|tournament staff]] electronically and read off of laptops, tablet *The question set can be provided to game staff the night before the tournament.
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• Amanda Goad
  ...e game is unknown, it is known that Goad went on to singlehandedly win the game for Maggie Walker. (See also [[Weiner's Laws#Weiner's Law #4|Weiner's Law #
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• Gananoque
  ...isgar team, missing its captain, later defeated Gananoque in the 3rd place game, 420-180.
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• Dan Leifer
  ...eping error, Dan's 11 individual negs and the team 14's may also be single-game records. ...g/fall08/fall08vcu_playerdetail.html#p1_9 Dan averaged over three negs per game] but still managed to be tied as the 13th highest scorer (out of 44). Esse
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• WRAL Brain Game
  '''''Brain Game''''' is a long-running show that has aired on WRAL featuring teams from Nor ...eam (called a "toss-up" by Roberts) if the first answer is incorrect. The game is divided into the following rounds.
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• 1987 Minnesota
  Defeated [[Georgia Tech]] in championship game. Team consisted of [[Matt Marta]], Bruce Simmons, [[Bob Maranto]], and Mark
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• Canadian finals format
  ...ams did not play each other or split their games, then there is only a one game final. ...equivalently, once the two best teams are found, all games except for the game(s) between those two teams are arbitrarily thrown out. One of the more col
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• Chet Faliszek
  ...alogue writer for the ''Half-Life'', ''Left 4 Dead'', and ''Portal'' video game series. While he never played quizbowl, he was the chief technical contact
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• 2003 ACF Nationals
  ...mezis]], and they finished with a 14-2 record, averaging 317.67 points per game. [[2003 Kentucky|Kentucky]] finished third with a 12-2 record, while [[200 ...[South Carolina]], respectively. Mathews led the field with 72 points per game.
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• Timed play
  In '''timed play''', a timer determines the length of each half of a game. The timer is conventionally called a '''clock'''. ...want fewer tossups to be heard. Accordingly, a team will often hurry the game in two cases:
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• 2005 Freeman
  ...r the Steward game, which taped on the same day as the Homecoming football game, the team made a surprise appearance at the pep rally, garnering wild cheer ...on tournament, where history would be made. In the third game of the seven-game round-robin tournament, Freeman beat [[Maggie Walker]] by the score of 155-
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• Jungle Quiz
  Adapted from the game Jungle Speed, participants sit in a circle with a totem in the center as a * Before the game begins choose a safe word for during buzzer races- this is imperative
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• 1986 NAC
  ...play" (but was then ranked 8th in the final standings based on points per game). :"They asked silly, tricky questions that were much more like a game show than an academic competition." Academic competitors normally field str
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• Conversion metrics
  ===Average/Median Points Per Game=== ...the number of games played. As with bonus conversion, a median points per game is sometimes used as a more accurate conversion metric.
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• 2009 Chicago
  ...oo]], [[Shantanu Jha]] and [[David Seal]], defeated Illinois in the second game of an advantaged final to win the [[2009 ICT]]. Seth led [http://www.naqt.c ...e Koo]], [[Shantanu Jha]], and [[Michael Arnold]], defeated Brown in a one-game final after defeating Stanford to get into the final to win the [[2009 ACF
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• 2012 HSNCT
  ...ated [[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central A]] in the second game of an advantaged final. ...won the first game of the finals 395-370 to even the series. The deciding game went to Bellarmine A in a 455-275 win.
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• Inglemoor
  ...to clerical errors, Paul was listed as the top player with 47.5 points per game. Cameron Pauly was unable to attend the 2013 Fall Classic. ==Individual Points Per Game Records==
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• 2008 Wilmington Charter
  ...ory over Dorman was the subject of some minor controversy due to the last, game-deciding tossup being on computational math. ...n the playoffs, Charter had to win twice in the final. They won the first game 385-335, but lost after TJ got the first five tossups and started the secon
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• 2007 MSHSAA State Championship
  1. [[Nate Kinast]], Thomas Jefferson senior, 16.33 tossups per game 2. [[Jon Blakey]], Bradleyville senior, 12.67 tossups per game
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• 2008 MSHSAA State Championship
  1. [[Nate Schuster]], Pilot Grove, 12.8 tossups per game 2. [[Virginia Geddie]], Thomas Jefferson, 10.8 tossups per game
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• 2010 ACF Nationals
  ...[Andrew Hart]], [[Rob Carson]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]]) in a memorable final game to win the tournament. ...ons and logistics. It represented something of a swan song for many of the game's most notable figures (at least as of now), including Andrew Yaphe, Seth T
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• Texaco Star North American Challenge
  A one-game event in New Orleans between the winners of the [[1988 NAC|1988 National Ac This game was broadcast on the Discovery Channel in June 1988 as the conclusion to th
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• Kevin Lang
  *5th place Class 1 All-State Team (5.8 questions per game average) * 2nd place Class 2 All-State Team (12.33 questions per game average)
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• Peter Komarek
  ...eme packet. He was on the winning team for the [[Westfield Insurance Brain Game]] as a junior, winning $10,000 for [[Walnut Hills]]. He was on the winning ...aused him to miss a few NAQT tournaments and the Westfield Insurance Brain Game his senior year. Also notable for being mistaken for a girl on several occa
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• Virgin Islands Quiz Bowl
  ...questions were provided by [[Questions Unlimited]] in the [[four-quarter]] game format though it is unknown if this is currently the case. Champions of thi
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• Saxony Lutheran
  The team entered the championship game of the [[2014 MSHSAA State Championship]] undefeated after earlier defeatin ...chland in the preliminary rounds and in the third consecutive championship game featuring the two teams to win its second state title.
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• Keller Method
  ...possible, even when this requires harming your chance to actually win the game or lowering your overall PPG. [[Vulturing]], sitting on tossups until you a
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• 2005 MSHSAA State Championship
  1. [[Travis Eakin]], Bell City senior, 17.8 tossups per game (new Class 1 record) 2. [[Nathaniel Russell]], St. Joe Christian senior, 14.2 tossups per game
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• 2006 MSHSAA State Championship
  1. [[Nate Kinast]], Thomas Jefferson junior, 10.60 tossups per game 2. [[Tyson Koenig]], Saxony Lutheran senior, 10.40 tossups per game
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• 2014 NSC
  ...ams participating. [[LASA|LASA A]] defeated [[Western Albemarle]] in a one-game final. [[St. John's (TX)|St. John's]] came in third and [[Ladue]] came in f In the All-Star Game, "The Beasts from the Far East" ([[Eric Xu]] of [[Western Albemarle]], [[Ca
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• Substitution
  .... They may rotate participating from game to game or substitute during the game according to various strategic approaches. ...xperienced players at halftime to let those players gain experience if the game appears to be a blowout in one direction or the other.
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• 2017 MSNCT
  ...ent, defeating [[Mounds Park]] (St. Paul, Minnesota) 470-325 in the second game of an advantaged final. [[Middlesex Middle|Middlesex A]] (Darien, Connectic ...e first game of an advantaged final, though they went on to win the second game and the tournament
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• Tiebreaker games
  If two teams are tied, a single game or "half game" is typically played. For situations involving more than two teams, multipl
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• Taco Bell Soap
  The original "Taco Bell Soap" question appeared as Tossup 3 in the "Fair Game" Theme Packet by "Shaun Cassidy & the Grapico Kid" for [[Ghetto Warz]] III. ...ctator. In a sample game of Scrabble used to demonstrate how to score the game, it is worth two hundred twelve points. In The Last Chronicle of Barset, Me
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• 2013 NSC
  ..., with 72 teams participating. [[Ladue]] defeated [[LASA|LASA A]] in a one-game final. [[Loyola Academy]] came in third and [[Dorman|Dorman A]] came in fou ...CD]]) served as team captains in a playground-style draft. In the All-Star Game, the Boring Jerks (Dogra, [[Raynor Kuang]] of [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|TJ A]
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• Jeopardy!-style tournament
  ...d is cleared. The team with the higher score gets a bonus for winning the game.
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• African American Male Academic Bowl
  ...cademic Bowl is a tournament for 4th-8th grade African American males. Its game format is similar to Jeopardy. Despite being billeted as "academic", a ques * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-iu5D3uB4 A game]
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• Cardinal Classic VII
  Teams competed in a 14-game round robin, after which the top three teams were: Berkeley A 14-0, Vanderb ...ly in a three-team game, with the winner advancing. BYU won the three-team game (with a score of approximately BYU 195, UCLA 140, and Stanford 135). Finall
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• Points per tossup heard
  :''See also: [[points per game]]'' ...s it had the opportunity to answer. This can be calculated within a single game or over the course of several games, and for individual players (considerin
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• 2010 Horace Greeley
  ...ere a semifinalist team at the [[2010 NAC]], took first place on Tri-State game show [[The Challenge]], and won the annual [[Omar Q Beckins Academic Challe
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• Old PACE NSC tournament format
  ...s about the format used to schedule the tournament prior to 2009. For the game format used prior to 2010, see [[Old PACE format]].'' ...hampionship playoff teams were put into two pools of six and played a five-game playoff round robin, with no games carrying over from the prelims. The top
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• Andy Goss
  ...other Maryland players as well; see below). A notable post was his game-by-game chronicle of his trip to the [[Philadelphia Experiment]]. Goss would contin ...low end of average), which perhaps made his oft-trumpeted thoughts on the game even more irritating.
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• Houston (MO)
  ...en lost the final winner's bracket game to [[Southwestern]] and their next game to [[Woodland]] to finish tied for fifth. The next week, the team finished
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• Midlothian Holiday Classic
  ...nsecutive tossups about US-Iraqi relations, while in the 1999 prelims, one game ended with ten consecutive tossups about Republican presidental hopefuls.
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• Dallin Kelson
  ...won the 2011 [[CCCT]] while playing solo and finishing undefeated, with no game closer than 160 points.
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• 2005 ACF Nationals
  ...[[Susan Ferrari]], and they finished with a 12-2 record, 281.2 points per game, and 13.34 points per bonus. [[2005 Berkeley|Berkeley]] finished third wit ...of [[Rutgers]], in that order. Weiner led the field with 71.67 points per game.
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• Viburnum
  ...win a conference or district championship, losing a district championship game on the last question on a botched pronunciation and a conference championsh ...wever, a mistake on a simple [[computational math]] question cost them the game, as they were defeated by Richland 275-220.
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• NCASA
  ...f this will be or how it intends on competing with [[WRAL Brain Game|Brain Game]]. It seems likely that CAM Productions also produces Alabama Scholars Bowl
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• Generalist
  ...ach, extremely popular until the mid-1990s, has been waning in the college game as surface generalists tend not to score points on hard questions or agains == Noted Generalists (Current and Historical) in the College Game ==
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• 2013 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...e top 2 teams in each championship bracket based on record then points per game advanced to a crossover superplayoff. Ladue A won the first game of the advantaged final 570-190 to win the NAQT Missouri Qualifer for the s
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• ACF Pyramid
  ...amid was played on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at the Illinois Open, but the game had previously been played extensively on the [[quizbowl IRC channel]]. Th ...g a gameshow which often went five or six weeks without anyone winning the game as the reason for $100,000 Pyramid being the only such program he ever like
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• Asim Modi
  In 2016, Asim won one game on ''[[Jeopardy!]]''.
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• Studying
  ...sework, rather than the passive accumulation of knowledge from playing the game or simply existing in society.</onlyinclude> ...htful sections on how to improve one's mindset and get the most out of the game. '''A must-read'''.
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• Computer Bowl
  The '''Computer Bowl''' was a fundraising quizbowl game held in 1988 and annually from 1990 to 1998. The event raised money for the Using Computer Bowl II as an example, the game format was:
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• Conversion
  {{Rules of the game}} Various [[conversion metrics]] (like [[points per game]] and [[points per bonus]]) derived from [[stats|conventional statistics]]
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• ESPN
  ...rm originates from Mark Roberts's ever-present malapropism on [[WRAL Brain Game]], where he mixes up the name of the sports channel with the acronym for ex
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• Ben Russell Jones
  ...n Lynch]], who converted 17 tossups out of 24. This has become an infamous game in the UK Quizbowl community, with many claiming this inspired Ben's contin ...saw Edinburgh power nearly a third of the tossups. Cambridge won the first game of an advantaged final 340-235.
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• 2004 MSHSAA State Championship
  1. [[Travis Eakin]], Bell City junior, 13.5 tossups per game 2. [[Alex Moore]], Mound City senior, 11.6 tossups per game
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• Tossup-Bonus Format
  ...rmat used in both high school and collegiate quizbowl. In this format, the game consists of the reading of '''tossup''' questions which either [[team]] can ...clock determines how many tossup-bonus cycles are read in each half of the game.
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• Bay Area Quiz Kids
  ==Season 15 game format== ...railing team the lead.) There is no bonus for sweeping the category. The game ends as soon as the leading team overtakes the trailing team or the trailin
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• Pericles Abbasi
  ...-heard-round-the-world [[Freeze Frame Award]]" at the 2004 CBI NCT for, in game against [[Davidson]], suggesting a particularly wrong answer for a bonus be
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• Cardinal Classic XVI
  ...UCLA A and UCLA C were tied at 7-2. UCLA A then defeated UCLA C in a one game final (that was decided on the last tossup) to win the tournament. The top ...t that used questions from [[Charlie Steinhice]]. It consisted of a three game round robin, which was won by a team of [[Jason Luna]], [[Eok Ngo]], and [[
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• Tie
  ...owl tournament has two meanings: a tie at the end of regulation play in a game (which would be resolved by [[overtime]]) and a tie in the standings at a t
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• Interruption
  The interruption game mechanic allows for [[pyramidal]] tossups to effectively distinguish betwee ...post-2011 [[HCASC]] format) prohibit interruption of tossups, as does the game show ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' When questions are very short or have [[hose]]s, in
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• Jeff Kipnis
  ...erson who decided that untimed quizbowl rounds should have 20 tossups in a game.
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• 2014 Virginia
  ...ossups, negging 27 times, and averaging a tournament-best 458.2 points per game. ...ers, 126 tens, and negged 27 times. All that added up to 416.8 points per game.
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• Nathaniel Miller
  ...of All Time Junior Varsity Scorer since the 2021-2022 season, earning 1873 game points throughout his 4 year tenure on the team.
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• Statistical tiebreakers
  ...r use is generally frowned upon because it would be better to [[tiebreaker game|break the tie by additional gameplay]], but sometimes limitations on time, ..., although some untimed tournaments use the mostly equivalent [[points per game]] (or, for ease of computation, total points). When breaking ties between t
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• Yaphe-style easy part
  ...er material about the answer. The stated rationale for this is to keep the game moving and avoid tempting teams to interrupt the moderator on a bonus, whic
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• 2018 ICT
  ...]] A; since Yale was undefeated and Berkeley had 2 losses before the final game of the playoffs, Yale's win came after two consecutive losses to Berkeley. ...tionals PPB in a victory by getting [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=831067 27.69PPB] in round 4.
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