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Half-games
...], if necessary, is generally unaffected. For tournaments that use [[timed games]], a half-game may consist of a single timed half or (more commonly) a fixe ...occasionally used when a tournament is running far behind or has run into other constraints.

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Notebook
..., game scores, clues to remember, or some combination thereof as they play games or [[practice]] packets. ...s a study aid. A notebook allows players to easily flip through many days'/games'/tournaments' worth of notes, track their improvement over time, or otherwi

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Chicken
.../Chicken_(game) game of chicken], in which participants drive cars at each other and must choose to veer away.</onlyinclude> ...or more passive depending on how hard or easy the questions appear to be - games of chicken occur when there is no clear indicator on how a team should adap

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Scrabble
[[Category:Games other than quizbowl]]

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Tie
...me]]) and a tie in the standings at a tournament (resolved by [[tiebreaker games]]). [[Category:Quizbowl basics]]

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WUFAT
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3205/stats/combined/ All Games] | [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3947/stats/combined/ All Games]

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Tiebreaker games
'''Tiebreaker games''' are extra games used to resolve ties in the standings at a tournament. ...For situations involving more than two teams, multiple games or fractional games are necessary, with teams seeded into them using a [[statistic]]. [[NAQT]]

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Buzzin.live
...line [[buzzer]] site. The site gained popularity with the rise of [[online quizbowl]] as the first replacement for a physical buzzer system.</onlyinclude> ...[Moderator|moderators]] to keep score and create teams, and unlock several other customizable settings.

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Adam Marshall
...stuff from non-academic sources, baseball history, stock clues, NAQT word games ...hitman]]. Adam owes a disturbing amount of his history knowledge to video games, especially Age of Empires II, Civilization IV, and the Total War series.

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Board score
...t on a chalkboard, whiteboard, large piece of paper, projection screen, or other method visible to as many people as possible (ideally including the players

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Buzzer race
...ive of question quality, and thus buzzer races are not a hallmark of [[bad quizbowl]]; however, poorly written questions can exacerbate the frequency of these {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}

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Micah Hodosh
|Subjects = Computer Science, Video Games ...legiate quizbowl career ended in 2010. His encyclopedic knowledge of video games and random knowledge of old TV shows made him a highly skilled trash player

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Schedule
...who gather to play a [[tournament]] and the time and order in which those games occur. Good scheduling is vital to an efficiently run tournament. Popular f [[Category: Quizbowl basics]]

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Certamen
==Notable quizbowl players Who play(ed) Certamen== [[Category:Games other than quizbowl]]

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Dante Lovullo
|Subjects = History, Video Games Dante Lovullo is a member of the [[UCF]] quizbowl club who often gets bizarre buzzes off Europa Universalis and Crusader King

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2008 Harvard Crimson article
...f the Harvard Crimson, Harvard's student newspaper. It was entitled "Mind Games" and written by Christian B. Flow. ...e. The article was widely praised for its accurate, positive portrayal of quizbowl, which can be attributed to the author's actual [http://grapesmoker.com/qb-

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Clear
<onlyinclude>The term '''clear''' has two primary uses in quizbowl: ==In games==

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Statistical tiebreakers
...e than two teams, statistics are used to seed the teams for the tiebreaker games. ...onents, some have criticized points per tossup heard for rewarding blowout games against weaker teams and punishing neg or interrupt prone teams who are nev

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Cheese-melter
A "real '''cheese-melter'''" is an in-progress quizbowl game with a close score. .../www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/lexicon.html], who has occasionally deemed games to be cheese-melters while moderating at [[NAQT]] national championships.

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Bible Bowl
...nd question styles, some of which are quite similar to pre-modern forms of quizbowl. It may be played through teams organized by churches or by Christian priva ...s. Several of the challenges unique to the "invitational circuit" model of quizbowl as opposed to the radio/television shows were first addressed by Bible Bowl

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Jeopardy! with teams
...''Jeopardy!'' with teams'''") is commonly used to describe the premise of quizbowl to those who are unfamiliar, especially at [[recruiting]] events like club With the introduction of the team-based All-Star Games in 2019, ''Jeopardy!'' also satisfies the category of "''Jeopardy!'' with t

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Western Albemarle
...traight years. In 2011, they finished second in AA. In 2013, they lost two games on the final tossup to [[New Kent]], in the winners' bracket final and the ==Other quizbowl==

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Tossups heard
...cs. Many tournaments also require a minimum number of tossups heard (or [[games played]]) for a player to be eligible for individual awards. {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}

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Modern era of high school quizbowl
The '''modern era of high school quizbowl''' is considered to have begun with the first [[PACE NSC]] in 1998. Since t *the shift to offering as many games as possible at invitational tournaments

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ACUI
.... It contracted with [[College Bowl]] to provide questions and rules for a quizbowl-like game at the intramural, regional, and national levels until [[College

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The Decemberist
...ally, the format is set up to allow teams to play significantly more games than most area tournaments. ...ayoff pools of four teams each were bracketed at lunch based on those five games. [[Auburn (Rockford, Illinois High School)|Auburn A]] won the tournament, f

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Timed play
...e-minute halves. [[Community college]] games use 10-minute halves. [[ICT]] games use 11-minute halves Timed games generally also have an upper limit on the number of [[tossup-bonus cycles]]

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1999 Chicago
...or more of the above at ICT or CBI) [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/990429/quizbowl.shtml]. Recently, Yaphe has claimed that this team was the most dominant quizbowl team of his career, compared at least to the field it had to play [http://h

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Conversion metrics
...es when computing this as only a small percentage of the field plays these games. ...he total number of points scored by all teams and divides by the number of games played. As with bonus conversion, a median points per game is sometimes us

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Points per game
...er (tossup points only) or team (all points) and dividing by the number of games played. ...standardize scoring records, as the existence of the [[clock]] results in games of varying lengths at many of its championships.

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Alex Zachwieja
...onaker]] and is widely regarded as the forerunner of modern [[ACF]]-format quizbowl's expansion into the westernmost high schools of Virginia. ...us major changes: Prior to 1998, Honaker played only a regional variety of quizbowl. He was one of the earliest adopters of the [[VHSL]] Scholastic Bowl format

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Accessibility
#For a question, the percentage of games in which a certain question was correctly answered. {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}

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Michael Gaffney
'''Michael Gaffney''' played quizbowl for [[South Burlington]] between 2006 and 2009. He previously attend [[Cham ...ammates went 0/12/12 over 9 games; South Burlington as a whole stunned the quizbowl world with their 3-7 record

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McDonald's High School Challenge
...d Concordia College-Moorhead and broadcast on NBC affiliate KXJB-TV Fargo. Games are usually taped during Saturday mornings and then broadcast in the evenin ..., despite the fact that it doesn't use [[Academic Hallmarks]] questions or other usual KB features like the Quizbox or written rounds. Like most television

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2003 ICT
...ded the third-place finish, one spot ahead of a Michigan team which lost 3 games, all to the top 2 teams in the tournament. As a result of the backlash to t ...was castigated by [[Subash Maddipoti]] for playing junior and experienced quizbowl player [[Jerry Vinokurov]] in Division II.

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Bracket
...operly described as a "pool": a set of teams in which each team plays each other team, and from which records and statistics can be used for comparison. ...uctures are occasionally used in [[tiebreaker games|tiebreaker]] cases and other relatively narrow situations even in tournaments following best practices.

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Rohan Woods School
==Quizbowl Program== ...ntroduction to quizbowl. In the three-game series, Southern Boone took two games to claim the series.

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Kai Madgwick
...Moore]] they ended up in the bottom bracket but subsequently won all their games. After their first year of Quizbowl, Kai ran for and was elected President of Durham University Quiz Society (D

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Justin Chen
'''Justin Chen''' is a [[quizbowl]] player for the [[NYU|NYU Violets]]. He previously played for [[Thomas Jef ...squizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7641/stats/prelims/individuals/ 22–20–12 in 7 games].

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2011 NAQT Ontario Provincials
...ight to play Lisgar B in an disadvantaged final, which Centennial won both games. [[Daniel Carter]] was the top scorer ==Other==

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Jeff Johnson
'''Jeff Johnson''' was a player for [[Harvard]] who was active in mainstream quizbowl from the 1995 through 1998 seasons while a PhD student in American literatu ...h new reading material at a fantastic pace including during breaks between games at tournaments.

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2008 SnowCAT
The '''2008 Snow Carleton Academic Tournament (SnowCAT)''' was a high school quizbowl tournament run on [[NAQT]] IS-72 at [[Carleton College]] and directed by [[ ...ing. The playoffs consisted of the top 16 teams playing single elimination games with seeding based on preliminary round records.

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Burden of knowledge
...ens as a result of vague or non-[[unique]] clues that are common in "[[bad quizbowl]]", although sometimes players will invoke it while playing normal [[pyrami ...hat have wild difficulty swings and/or poor questions and is often seen in games of [[chicken|buzzer chicken]].

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2008 SAVANT
The '''2008 Saint Anthony Village Annual Neural Test (SAVANT III)''' was a [[quizbowl]] tournament that run on [[NAQT]] IS #73A at its [[St. Anthony Village | na ...ng. The playoffs consisted of the top 16 teams playing single elimination games with seeding based on preliminary round records.

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Andrew Alexander
|Subjects = Chemistry, Video Games '''Andrew Alexander''' played high school quizbowl for [[Princess Anne]]. His team went 5-5 at the [[2004 HSNCT]] and tied for

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Circle of death
...(or the use of [[statistical tiebreakers]]). The term sometimes refers to other types of three-way ties and occasionally to five-way (or even higher-order) ...the other better spot. Frequently, [[half-games]] are used instead of full games.

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Regular difficulty
...ross the whole range of skill levels can play meaningful games against any other eligible team. For example, a regular-difficulty high school set should hav ...less difficult than [[hard]] tournaments or national championships or else games between average and below-average teams will feature too many [[dead]] toss

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Graham Moyer
...e as captain of State College A since then, he led that team to four title games and won three ([[2010 NSC]], where they defeated a cheating [[Southside]] t

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Canadian finals format
...was invented by [[Peter McCorquodale]] for use at [[VETO]]. Most American quizbowl players agree that it is a terrible idea and should never be used at an Ame ...two. Presumably, if the two teams did not play each other or split their games, then there is only a one game final.

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Matt Weiner's List of the 10 best 21st Century High School Teams
...l A team on pyramidal questions, there is no justification for listing any other team from the modern era up here. ...SC final that constitutes the greatest game I've ever seen on any level of quizbowl.

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Eric Mukherjee final
...Final''' is a somewhat mean-spirited name for a game or series of play-in games to determine second place at a tournament. They only plausibly can occur wh {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}

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Regional Quiz Bowl
Regional Quiz Bowl is a high school Quizbowl league on Long Island. It is sponsored by RQB Associates Inc. of East Setau ...teams on Long Island participate, including all of those who play "[[good quizbowl]]".

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Tidewater Challenge
'''Tidewater Challenge''' was a televised quizbowl-like competition for high schools in the Hampton Roads area that aired on t ...s is accurate then Poquoson won every season to that point except 1988. No other information on the pre-1988 finalists has yet been found.

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Buzzer rock
...k will have a stat line of something like 2 tossups and 0 interrupts in 10 games for a 2.00 points per game average. Use of this term is largely discouraged {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}

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Zone out
...agically becoming alert at the sound of "[[For ten points]]"; its usage in quizbowl is an application of the common English phrase of the same meaning. ...ments where fatigue may become a factor in a team's ability to win pivotal games.

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WRAL Brain Game
...are worth plus or minus the value of the question and rebound to only one other team (called a "toss-up" by Roberts) if the first answer is incorrect. The ...anced to the playoffs. This meant that two teams that played against each other could both qualify; conversely, it also meant that two strong teams who low

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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 fo *"Bonus rounds" which were played like traditional quizbowl [[bonuses]] for up to 20 points.

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Ryan Bilger
In 2019, Ryan won four games of ''[[Jeopardy!]]'', winning $107,049 (+$2,000). ...the WLVT [[Scholastic Scrimmage]] TV show. After discovering [[pyramidal]] quizbowl his Senior year, Ryan led Emmaus to a series of high finishes at Eastern PA

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Random Online Tourneys (ROT)
...ine Tourneys, known as "ROT", is a public [[Discord]] server which hosts a Quizbowl league with cash prizes. The ROT discord server plans to kick off the second iteration of their Quizbowl league starting in mid-December of 2023, with more info coming soon.

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2011 SnowCAT
The '''2011 Snow Carleton Academic Tournament (SnowCAT)''' was a high school quizbowl tournament run on [[NAQT]] IS-100 at [[Carleton College]] and directed by [ ...e, with all teams agreeing to use statistical tiebreakers rather than play games to decide placement, as the top five teams all qualified for HSNCT regardle

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Taylor Smith
'''Taylor Smith''' is a quizbowl club member at [[Missouri]], formerly of [[Hallsville]]. ...le team to a district victory over the [[South Callaway]] squad led by his quizbowl archrival [[Alex Dzurick]]. At the MSHSAA state competition that year, he e

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Truman Bowl
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1976/stats/all_games/ All Games] [[Category: High school quizbowl in Missouri]]

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Advantaged final on half-packets
...d due to the appeal 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 ...hat something actually is by changing its name; calling a single game "two games" does not change the fact that it is actually one game.

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Fair Grove
...1bZKhLBRJzyDH2JYtgHIIGFu-4l0ryqmlAVSRYusnxIM/edit#gid=1630119316 two close games] in the best-of-three quarterfinals of the [[2022 MSHSAA State Championship ...have been the highest winning score in any national championship final in quizbowl history to date, though this score was later surpassed by [[St. Mark's]] 66

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Metro Conference Academic League
The '''Metro Conference Academic League''' is a format of high school quizbowl played in the South Bay area of San Diego County, California and run by the The season runs from January to March. Each team in the league plays each other over a series of 11 round robin matches. Various matches are televised on

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2010 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
[http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org=MOQBA&id=3&page=standings All games] The [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] hosted the '''2010 [[NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]''' on March 20, 2

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2011 Lisgar
At provincials, Lisgar came 3rd with a 6-1 record, won two playoff games, but lost to [[UTS]] in the semifinals by 10 points. Because of controversy ==Quizbowl==

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Question recycling
'''Question recycling''' is the practice of reusing [[questions]] at more than one [[tournament]]. In general, '''''question recycling is only acceptable *[[Questions Galore]] has reused old questions for the Nashville quizbowl show ''[[Quizbusters (WNAB)|Westfield Insurance Quizbusters]]

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VCU Last-Minute Tournament
...on NAQT IS-74, held on February 23, 2008 under the auspices of the [[VCU]] quizbowl team and on the grounds of [[Collegiate (VA)|The Collegiate School]]. The t ...Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson A]] won three straight elimination games (a tiebreaker over [[2008 Dorman|Dorman B]] and both parts of a disadvantag

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Botticelli
'''Botticelli''' is a game frequently played by members of the quizbowl community in quasi-social settings, such as after practice or while driving Popularized in the early 2000s by the [[University of Chicago]] quizbowl team, it has since spread; many innovations and best practices traveled wit

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Montgomery Academic Beltway League
MABL games consist of four quarters: a "four corners round" that consists of teams ans ...chools, each group assigned to a different host school, who each play each other in a round robin. These matches are followed by an "up-down round," in whic

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Berry
...mber since at least the 1970s. In fact, much of the early development of a quizbowl "circuit" can be attributed to invitational tournaments hosted at Berry, mo ...th many photographs of Carper and other Berry players, and many tournament games are held in it.

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Scholars' Bowl (East Tennessee)
...usual for teams to have the same questions multiple times over a series of games. Jim Kuehn (sic?) was the host in 1992, and 1994-2007 the show was hosted b [[Category: Quizbowl TV shows]]

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Illinois Open East
Unable to convince his non-quizbowl friends to get up at 8 AM on a Saturday morning in order to read at a tourn ...d robin ended with Maryland A and Duke each at 7-1, having split their two games. A one-game final was held in which Maryland took the title 210-155. Matt d

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Parkland Challenge
...lity and choice of topics. The tournament is considered a example of [[bad quizbowl]] as a result, which resulted in [[University Lab]] boycotting and prominen [[Category: Quizbowl TV shows]]

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AAUW Knowledge Bowl
...dge Bowl has never used [[Academic Hallmarks]] questions and also predates other [[Knowledge Bowl]] events by nearly 20 years. Knowledge Bowl was created in ...edge Bowl utilizes [[variable value bonus]]es, a notable hallmark of [[bad quizbowl]].

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Zach Foster
|Subjects = History, Visual Arts, Video Games, Hockey, Other Trash ...for a tendency to register for tournaments via the [[Hsquizbowl.org forums|Quizbowl Resource Center forums]] and then withdraw precipitously shortly before the

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Names for quizbowl
People just can't decide what to call quizbowl. ...competition as quizbowl, some similar competitions are not referred to as quizbowl, even in a informal context.

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Priming
...when they know the answer. These few saved milliseconds can be crucial in games, giving players an extra edge on [[buzzer race|buzzer races]]. {{c|Quizbowl lingo}}

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List of national tournaments that ended without a championship final
...reduces to a single-elimination among those teams. The disregarding of all games played before the double elimination bracket begins, and the arrangement of ...he last few teams remaining; all other known NAC years and all defunct bad quizbowl nationals used a straight single-elimination playoff bracket.

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Cody Voight
...efforts include biology and chemistry for [[Fernando Arrabal]], physics & other science for [[PADAWAN]], and electrical engineering questions for his [[Cla == Three-factor theory of quizbowl moderating ==

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St. Joseph Central
...; they ultimately tied for 65th place after dropping both of their playoff games. ...minster]] in their sixth place finish at [[WUHSAC]] XX, which featured six other top 100 teams; twice to [[Ladue]] to finish second at the [[2018 NAQT Misso

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Tossup-Bonus Format
...ormat''' is the most common format used in both high school and collegiate quizbowl. In this format, the game consists of the reading of '''tossup''' questions ...ed the winner. The standard used by [[ACF]], [[HSAPQ]], [[PACE]], and many other [[question sets]] is the reading of 20 tossup-bonus cycles, in which case t

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2005 Thomas Jefferson
...schedule (the mid-Atlantic was the most competitive region in high school quizbowl at the time). ...lability of practice material, expansion of interest in highly-competitive quizbowl, and adoption of round-robin playoffs at the NSC all make it more likely th

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Ken Jennings
...nnings won a still-record 74 consecutive games and defeated numerous other quizbowl personalities, including [[Leo Wolpert]] and [[Jeff Hoppes]], in the proces ...l 1996 until 1999-2000. In 1998, [[Adam Fine]] ranked him as the 81st best quizbowl player he had seen play.

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Michael Kohn
...ralist and can buzz on, and especially neg on, most categories. During his quizbowl career he has won 3 student tournaments: 2021 [[SMH]], 2022 [[BSQC]], and [ ...n most of the University Challenge/ Quizbowl canon. He then led Imperial's quizbowl teams in the 2019-20 season and 2020-21 season, serving as Secretary of the

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2015 Lisgar
...Varsity History Bowl Nationals, along with several strong performances in quizbowl. ==Quizbowl==

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Robert Meredith
...uted "The System", a program that Georgia Tech, and later other successful quizbowl programs, followed to develop players. A key element of the System was requ Meredith innovated the now standard match format of untimed games of twenty ten point toss-up questions with thirty point bonuses, with all q

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Ben Russell Jones
...with a really aggressive quizbowl style, based more on feel and intuition than actual knowledge, which resulted in many wild negs. He had adjusted to a fa ...Quizbowl community, with many claiming this inspired Ben's continuation of quizbowl.

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Tournament structure
...ers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings. (The same phrase is also sometimes used * The desire to give teams as many games as is reasonably possible and appropriate in light of the entry fee they pl

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Paul Paquet
...e Top]] in the early 1980s. More recently, he has played in open Canadian quizbowl events, including three [[Ottawa]] Hybrid Tournaments. He won the 2005 VET ==Other Trivia Work==

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UBC
The '''University of British Columbia''' ('''UBC''') [[quizbowl]] [[team]] was first established in 2003, and was re-established in 2017 af The new UBC quizbowl team was founded by [[Carlos Doebeli]] in 2017. The squad entered two teams

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Skype
...oom where other players have signed on; players usually type "buzz" rather than saying it or using an actual [[buzzer]] system to maximize impartiality. Th ...s across time zones usually cause these tournaments to be somewhat shorter than regular events, at around 8 or 9 rounds.

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St. Paul Academy
...consisting of Levitt, his father Michael, and sister Linda, also a former quizbowl player, in front of a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul. ...B meets with a 12-0 record. However, this was tarnished when they lost two games and were disqualified at Playoffs.

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Julie Gittings
...]], [[2009 NSC]], [[2010 HSNCT]]), making her the most decorated pyramidal quizbowl coach of all time. She retired as coach after the [[2011 NSC]].

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Officials
'''Officials''' or '''staff''' are people who facilitate tournaments and games happening. * Acquiring enough other staff and equipment to run the tournament,

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Round robin
...und robin''' is a [[tournament format]] where each team plays against each other team once. In a round robin, 2n - 1 rounds are needed for 2n teams or 2n - ...uld be avoided if possible, as they double count the results of individual games, but this is not unique to round robins.

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Gordon Arsenoff
Gordon Arsenoff played quizbowl for [[WUSTL]] from 2007 through 2012 as a grad student. He also played for ...fs to fulfill a one-credit choral singing obligation. Rochester lost both games of an advantaged final to [[Minnesota]] and finished second.

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Washington (Missouri High School)
...rplayoffs] [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4626/stats/all_games/ All Games] ...mpionship] [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4868/stats/all_games/ All Games]

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2013 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1218/stats/all_games/ All Games] The [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] hosted the '''2013 [[NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]''' on March 2, 20

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