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• Gautam Kandlikar
  ...in 2005]] [[Category:High school players active in 2006]] [[Category:High school players active in 2007]] [[Category:Players active in 2008]] [[Category: Pl ==High School Career==
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• Conversion stats
  ...'conversion data''') measure the [[conversion]] of individual questions or categories It can also show which categories a team is strong or weak at.
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• Chenery
  {{Middleschoolteam|Name = W. L. Chenery Middle School ...]] located in Belmont, Massachusetts. It feeds into [[Belmont|Belmont High School]].
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• Trash
  ...st high-school level regular-season events, including the former [[HSAPQ]] Tournament Sets, have 1 to 2 trash questions per round. ...e content tend to be more willing to allow "borderline" topics in academic categories, so that popular culture with some reasonable claim on being academic-adjac
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• Conestoga Valley Tournament
  ...ia since 1993. It is known for asking questions about Lancaster area high school sports teams and mascots and other local trivia, "math" problems of a forma ...sually features around 5 preliminary rounds and complimentary lunch at the school cafeteria. The prelims are randomly assigned, meaning that some teams get
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• Ohio Academic Competition
  ...nts that are hosted at 6 sites across the state and the State Championship Tournament. The format is most beloved for its allowing of conferral that is teams ar In this round, teams are asked questions in ten categories. They are (in order) American Literature, Mathematics, World History, Fine
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• Regional Quiz Bowl
  ...o wild card teams, for 18 total from Varsity and Junior Varsity, play in a tournament to decide the team that will be RQB's Long Island Champion. ...ion cooperative lightning round with bouncebacks; teams choose one of four categories
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• 5th of March Incident
  ...resigned from NHBB with an entire NHBB A-set (the highest-difficulty high school regional set) to write by that following Saturday. The set had to consist o ...spreadsheet became awash with completed answerlines, it appeared that the tournament was going to finish in record time...
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• Quizbowl
  ...he US, the [[Tossup-bonus format|most common format]] on the national high school and college level is a two-team competition in which the teams compete to b ...friends all across the country.”–Roxanne Ilagan, Grosse Pointe North High School (MI) ‘12]]
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• Early Autumn Collegiate Novice
  ...''', was an annual, [[ACF]]-sponsored, strictly [[novice]]-only collegiate tournament designed as an introduction for players who were entirely new to collegiate ...able to produce the set, so [[Fred Morlan]] and [[Nicholas Karas]] wrote a tournament in the same spirit called the '''Introductory Collaborative Collegiate Set'
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• Matt Laird
  |'''Former school(s): [[Loyola Academy]], [[Stevenson]]''' ==High School Career==
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• IHSA
  The '''Illinois High School Association''' governs many sports and activities in Illinois, including [[ ...IHSA was founded in 1900, and is the second oldest (Wisconsin) state high school athletic/activities governing organization.
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• Knowledge Master Open
  ...be part of the same school/team depending on the structure of one's local school district was addressed in the eligibility rules. ...rotected floppy disk (earlier years) or CD (later years) in advance of the tournament, and the password was announced on the KMO website at the start of the offi
  5 KB (847 words) - 09:21, 8 March 2023
• How Quizbowl Works
  ...most common number. In most matches, players on a team all attend the same school, though [[open]] tournaments do not have this requirement. *Teams that attend a quizbowl [[tournament]] usually play eight or more matches in a single day.
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• Scobol Solo
  ...a [[singles]] tournament held each fall since 2001. It is open to any high school student. It typically attracts many of the top players in Illinois and occa ...the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. That tournament, run by [[Ken Johnson]], ended when IWU could no longer provide the space f
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• Bonus conversion
  Bonus conversion is used as a benchmark for tournament difficulty relative to attending teams. The standard for tournaments is th ...les include the [[D-value]] and [[Groger ranks]]. The [[Fred Morlan]] high school team rankings relied entirely on bonus conversion numbers, and difficulty c
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• Reach for the Top
  '''Reach for the Top''' is the dominant high school quiz competition in Canada. It is composed largely of speed-check questions Francophone high school students usually play [[Genies en herbe]], while university students play i
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• Andrew Hart
  ...Nationals from 2008 through the end of his career in 2013, and 35 outright tournament victories (excluding side events). ==High school==
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• New Essays on Quizbowl Understanding
  ...d a Nationals at Berkeley. No one can rival his achievements in quizbowl’s high modern era, and he’s making a run at quizbowl’s greatest champion, Andr ...ences, but also an amazing literature and history player who is capable of high-level buzzes on any given question. More strategic than you might expect. O
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• How Collegiate Quizbowl Works
  ...asics|Quizbowl basics]]''' and [[:Category:Quizbowl lingo|Quizbowl lingo]] categories as a glossary if need arises. ...&t=14419 here], which may give you an idea of what quizbowl (at a ''very'' high level--these are extremely hard questions) looks like before you read the r
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• Scoresheet
  ...out the identity of the moderator, scorekeeper, packet number, [[room]], [[tournament|event]], and [[round]]. ...y for the game to be scored but which facilitate the administration of the tournament and adherence to the rules. This includes space at the top for marking if a
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• Tom Egan's Report on the 2005 NAC
  ...had claimed it to be. Interviews of coaches who had actually attended the tournament ([[David Riley]], being most notable) were inconclusive. With the 2005 NAC ...atches, and a brief interview with one coach whose team was entered in the tournament. All assertions are thus based upon a relatively limited number of observa
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• IHSA plagiarism scandal
  ...or has been [[Sister John Baricevic]], who was the coach at Mater Dei High School in Breese, Illinois from 1987 to 1999. The head editor contracts with other :Name these types or categories or branches of psychology.
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• Criticisms of the NAC
  ...e been mounting since the 2000s. They can be broken down into a few basic categories: *Tournament format (only six preliminary games guaranteed, and single-elimination playo
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• The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranking
  ...ng more stuff. He does impress me as someone who really be a force in many categories (again, not easy to do), if not overwhelming. He also has one of the most d ...ut who is?). At his peak, pretty fearsome and able to snipe a lot of other categories.
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• 2009 Interview with Chip Beall
  ...2For_intimidation|ethical improprieties]] that might have happened at your tournament in years past. Do you care to speak to that at all? ...led at some seemingly arbitrary decisions relating to protests and mystery categories that disappeared and whatnot. [NOTE: Jason Russell never actually mentioned
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• How to Write Questions
  First, you have to know your audience. Are you writing for a novice tournament, a standard invitational, or [[ACF Nationals]]? This will determine, to som ...g to include a lot of new players who are, at best, familiar with the high school [[canon]], the goal should be for every tossup to be answered by every team
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• How to study
  ...in a relatively short amount of time. This is especially true at the high school level, where every year new teams emerge as contenders for the title. *Each tournament you play is an opportunity for improvement.
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• IHSA plagiarism scandal/Email from David Reinstein to Ron McGraw
  ...have arisen over questions submitted and used in the IHSA Scholastic Bowl Tournament this year. I worked this year as the Math Subject Editor and as one of the ...oh-FOH-bik] tails of the membrane. As these molecules move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration, what gradient are these mole
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• Definitive Greatest Players List
  ...nd countless singles wins, top scorer awards, and invitational and masters tournament wins. ...at a real tournament like the 2004 Chicago Open. A nice guy whose lack of tournament wins has to be counted against him in the final analysis.
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• Atendido-Matthews FAQ List
  <nowiki> 9a. How to run the campus tournament</nowiki><br> 13a. How does a school get to the Nationals<br>
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