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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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