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• Reach for Dalhousie
  ...n other words, teams are not in a rush to buzz and win by earning the most correct answers on all the questions. Questions are multiple choice. ...offs. In the playoffs, teams meet head-to-head, only needing to earn more correct answers than their opponent.
  2 KB (353 words) - 12:02, 17 May 2010
• Sit
  Many [[buzzer race]]s are won by players who were sitting on the correct answer and thus [[primed]] to buzz immediately on a crucial clue - as a res
  764 bytes (127 words) - 11:49, 13 February 2023
• How to turn a lower-tier high school team into a good high school team
  ...u have above average knowledge of the subject, and getting all three parts correct means that you have deep knowledge of the subject.
  4 KB (623 words) - 11:05, 6 January 2022
• Westbrook's Amended ACF Rules
  ...y know, they should buzz and say what they think the answer is. If they're correct, they should be awarded points and get a bonus. If they're not, they should ...and one bonus part and win by a final score of 357 to 500. To attempt to correct for these perceived problems in the rule set, Dwight amended the rules into
  3 KB (541 words) - 02:51, 10 December 2020
• Hose
  ...cally punish players who possess [[uniquely identifying]] knowledge of the correct answer at the time the player buzzed. ...ecify the one answer being sought and does not account for the potentially correct alternative answer. For example:
  4 KB (715 words) - 10:58, 6 January 2022
• Boston College College Bowl Jam: Tournament Edition
  ...n while a team was on fire, that team could "goaltend" by shouting out the correct answer before the other team had a chance to answer. While this did not gi
  1 KB (175 words) - 22:40, 29 July 2011
• Wordwang!
  ...e question becomes more of a puzzle to figure out which of several equally-correct words fits the pattern required by the question. This also does not test a
  1 KB (173 words) - 20:45, 24 January 2010
• Buzzpoints
  ...at buzzpoints from [[2018 ACF Regionals]] found, among other trends, that correct buzzes within the first 25% of tossups were rare even in a set widely playe
  1 KB (171 words) - 16:28, 22 June 2021
• Educational Service Unit
  ...s for a correct answer, to profound (more difficult), with 10 points for a correct answer, and cover all academic disciplines: language arts, mathematics, sci
  6 KB (821 words) - 01:09, 23 March 2020
• Romero Method
  ...ing that her buzz "was probably a bad idea", which invariably results in a correct answer being given. In the UK, the Romero Method is most closely associated
  1 KB (164 words) - 11:28, 21 June 2023
• Clue
  ...yers cannot buzz off of them in tossups, and they cannot get closer to the correct answer in bonuses. # '''Factual correctness''': A clue must be factually correct and non-[[hypothetical]].
  5 KB (735 words) - 21:59, 26 October 2021
• Bad Negs
  #Correct answer is gettable by average 6-year-old
  1 KB (177 words) - 12:34, 7 October 2021
• Litvak's Linear Regression Statistic
  ...ses with opponent strength. Although this is usually thought of as a more correct indicator of player depth, it can also be seen a rough measure of a player' The statistic does not adequately correct for players who play partial games, and the regression coefficients are rid
  3 KB (509 words) - 09:51, 24 February 2021
• KYVE Apple Bowl
  ...tions in some of the rounds. A host reads the questions and determines the correct responses, although off-camera judges are used when an answer is contentiou ...on either team can buzz in and collect 10 points for his or her team for a correct response. If one member of the team answers incorrectly, no other members o
  5 KB (779 words) - 16:53, 16 January 2014
• NBA Jam Rule
  ...red, a member of the team on fire can call out the answer, and if they are correct before the person who has buzzed gets their answer out, the question is con
  1 KB (217 words) - 17:55, 23 April 2021
• I.Q.
  ...s format]]. "Solo questions" were open to both teams with no conferring. Correct answers were worth 10 points; interrupts were -10. "Team questions" specif
  1 KB (249 words) - 17:56, 24 January 2010
• Bonus
  ...he answer given. If correct, they may verbally confirm with a phrase like "Correct" or "10 points" or they may simply proceed to the next part; if incorrect, ...r, 5 for one, 10 for two, 20 for three and 30 for getting all four answers correct
  7 KB (1,228 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
• Conversion
  ...n''' (or '''converting''' a question) is the act of getting a [[question]] correct.
  1 KB (213 words) - 09:18, 28 October 2021
• Commissioner's Academic Challenge
  ...ch team, requiring several minutes to complete. Teams earn points for each correct answer, and are not subject to losing points for incorrect answers as they ...question, that question is finished regardless of whether the team gave a correct or incorrect response.
  6 KB (840 words) - 22:07, 15 April 2014
• Interruption
  ...an incorrect answer. Some formats award extra points (a [[power]]) for a correct answer to a tossup interrupted sufficiently early.
  1 KB (228 words) - 18:06, 9 July 2017

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