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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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• 2011 HSNCT
  ...t to LASA A; and [[Bellarmine|Bellarmine A]], who lost their first playoff game to [[Northmont|Northmont A]] 385-345 but then won five straight elimination State College A defeated Stevenson in 510-190 in one semi-final game, while the other semifinal match saw LASA A beat Bellarmine A 525-245.
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• Paul DeJong
  ...SBCA Turnabout]] in 2011, leading the team in scoring with 24 [[points per game]]. He is possibly better known for being an all-star starting shortstop for
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• 2024 ACF Nationals
  ...n Cornell and Waterloo was played on-stage before the awards ceremony. The game's final tossup, on the musical ''The Fantasticks'', ended with the apt word
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• 2023 ACF Nationals
  After winning a play-in game against [[Cornell]], [[Georgia Tech A]], led by [[Matt Bollinger]], won two ...regular game and lost on the tiebreaker tossup. If Chicago B had lost that game, they and UNC would have gone 6-1, which would have pushed Cornell into the
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• Single-elimination
  ...ogress one step further in the bracket and play a team who also just won a game. The losers of those matches would also be eliminated until there are only ...on the team's continual play in the tournament. A team which has one 'bad game', gets a moderator they have trouble understanding, experiences buzzer issu
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• 2008 Chicago Open
  ...nament had a record number of teams participating (17), necessitating a 16-game round robin followed by an advantaged final. In the end, the 16-0 Refugees ...and [[Susan Ferrari]]. Brendan's field-leading total was 64.69 points per game.
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• 2008 ACF Nationals
  ...nswered tossups 19 and 20 on diols and ''Some Prefer Nettles'' to pull the game within 15, but only converted ten points on a superfluidity bonus, and Chic ...ta's against Stanford, Dartmouth's against Minnesota), necessitating a one-game final between the two teams to determine the champion. Minnesota converted
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• 2001 MSHSAA State Championship
  '''Championship Game'''<br> '''Championship Game'''<br>
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• Richland (MO)
  ...e title fifteen times over that time period, only missing the championship game in 2002 and 2010. ...mpion [[Saxony Lutheran]] 390-350, but won the rematch in the championship game 480-290 to earn its fifteenth state title.
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• Robert Muñiz
  ..._id=772379 most powers in a game] (17) and highest individual PP20TUH in a game (285)
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• Paul Paquet
  ...ow Congress and TRASHionals. He has conducted several interviews with top game show players, such as Kevin Olmstead and Brad Rutter. His trivia-writing b
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• James Zhou
  ...reer at Hinsdale Central and aims to replicate that success in the college game.
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• Haircut thread
  ...es within quizbowl ranging between the [[queer representation]] within the game,<ref>https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=341049#p341049</ref> the ...zbowl men objectifying women and associating non-male participation in the game with how good-looking the players are.
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• Main Page/Quick Links
  * Want to catch the game? Visit the list of [[:Category:Quizbowl TV shows|quizbowl TV shows]] * Curious about the accolades of the game? Read through the list of [[:Category:Quizbowl awards|quizbowl awards]]
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• Going dead
  ...[difficulty|difficult]] if it regularly features multiple dead tossups per game when played by its target audience (i.e. it has low [[conversion]] statisti
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• Jeopardy! with teams
  .... The phrase is meant to take advantage of people's awareness with popular game show ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' to succinctly convey concepts like the [[buzzer]] an American TV show ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' is the mainstream game show that most closely resembles the format and content of quizbowl - thoug
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• 2011 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...avannah (Missouri High School)|Savannah A]] won the tournament after a one game final against [[Helias|Helias A]], while [[Centralia (Missouri High School) ...Missouri Qualifier. Villa Duchesne and Rock Bridge A played a tiebreaker game, which Rock Bridge A won 420-150 to take home third place. All four of the
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• 2010 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...e Central were tied at 5-2 against other championship bracket teams, a one-game tiebreaker was played, which Rock Bridge A won 225-110 to take second. Oak ...e game final to determine the small school champion; North Shelby won that game 160-45 (in stark contrast to their earlier match, which Centralia won 250 t
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• Chris Thompson
  *Once scored 45 points in a game and lead his team in scoring.
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• NAQT finals format
  ...e worse record must win two. If the two teams are tied, then a single one-game final determines the championship. If there are ties for a spot in the fin
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• 2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...ayed the team of the same rank from the other pool in a round 10 placement game to determine 5th-12th place. ...ked up the tossup after Washington answered incorrectly, winning the final game 365-285 to claim the 2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier title!
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• ACUI
  ...d with [[College Bowl]] to provide questions and rules for a quizbowl-like game at the intramural, regional, and national levels until [[College Bowl]] fol
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• Alex Abshire
  ...[[Adam Kemezis]], and [[Michael Davidson]]. Michigan A eventually won that game 410-60 and the tournament.
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• 2004 Washington Post Article
  ...quizbowl players that had succeeded in winning large prizes on television game shows. The article also profiled several members of [[NAQT]] including [[Ke
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• 2003 MSHSAA State Championship
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• 2008 Brown
  ...] against [[2008 Chicago|Chicago A]], losing by only 5 points in the first game of a disadvantaged final. ...hopes of a national title were dashed during the final bonus in the first game of a disadvantaged final against Chicago A; none of the team members were f
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• Detailed stats
  ...statistics of points per game, points per bonus, and powers/gets/negs per game. Detailed stats often include, but are not limited to, [[conversion data]].
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• Quizbusters (WKAR)
  ===Game format=== The main game consists of toss-up/bonus cycles, except that a bonus question ends if a te
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• 2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...ayed the team of the same rank from the other pool in a round 10 placement game to determine 5th-8th place. ...ton B 3rd place. Central advanced to play Washington A in the championship game, which Washington A won 410-220 to take home the 2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifi
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• St. Olaf
  ...while in Santa Clara, California, Vernon and Marie Gedge were watching the game. The player's conduct in the face of defeat impressed the Gedges so much th
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• 1997 PAC
  ...the game by themselves or forfeit. They proceeded to win their preliminary game.
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• Naveed Chowdhury
  ...is a former player for the [[University of Maryland]]. Overshadowed in the game room by teammate [[Jordan Brownstein]], Naveed is better known for his form
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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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• Ethan Ashbrook
  ...nnesota B to a second-place finish, losing to [[Vanderbilt]] in the second game of a disadvantaged final.
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• Western Albemarle
  ...final tossup to [[New Kent]], in the winners' bracket final and the first game of the championship final, to finish second. In 2014, under the realigned V ...HSNCT|HSNCT]] and a second-place run at [[2014 NSC|NSC]], losing in a one-game final to [[LASA]] A after defeating LASA earlier in the playoffs.
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• Zeke Berdichevsky
  ...ayed for [[Michigan]] and [[Maryland]]. He is widely considered one of the game's elite players and editors, being part of the Michigan teams that claimed ...universally regarded as one of the greatest editors in the history of the game. Zeke edited the successful [[2006 Chicago Open]], the [[2007 ACF Nationals
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• 2013 NAQT Ontario Provincials
  ...n outright with a 10-0 record. Colonel By B defeated Colonel By A in a one game second place final. Ted Gan from Colonel By A was the top scorer.
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• 2000 ACF Nationals
  ...n Scranton]] won the tournament, defeating [[Illinois]] A 305-155 in a one-game final. The tournament was edited and directed by [[Dave Hamilton]]. ...and [[Joon Pahk]] of [[Harvard]]. Yaphe led the field with 76.5 points per game.
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• Introductions
  Introductions are also used to identify any substitutes that enter the game.
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• Schools' Challenge
  Sample game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt8GhoRal90
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• 2018 MSNCT
  ...alley|BASIS Silicon Valley A]] (San Jose, California) 490-335 in the first game of an advantaged final. [[Longfellow Middle|Longfellow A]] (Falls Church, V ...[[Challenger-Berryessa|Challenger-Berryessa A]] 500-300 in the third place game.
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• Circle of death
  ...the winner gets one of the better two spots, after which the lower of that game plays the originally lowest team, the winner of which gets the other better ...of time, question availability, or other constraints. Very occasionally, a game is played with all three teams playing at once, which is very much not a be
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• Greg Peterson
  ...ying for the semifinals as a wildcard. He won a very convincing semifinal game, but narrowly lost to [[Meryl Federman]] in the finals. ==Television Game Show Appearances==
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• Dennis Haskins Open
  ...his crew for the top three). Charlie also points out the best negs of the game in lieu of awarding a neg prize. As usual, Charlie and company recite his t
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• The Super Bowl of the Mind
  ...Bowl of the Mind: Is quiz bowl the ultimate test of smarts or an overblown game of Trivial Pursuit?"''' was a 2012 article written by Alan Siegel written f
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• 2011 ACF Nationals
  ...ew Hart]], [[Rob Carson]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]], [[Mike Cheyne]]) in a one-game final. [[Illinois]] took third. ...st to [[Michigan]]). Minnesota defeated Illinois in a de facto elimination game in the final round of the playoffs to square off against Yale.
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• YSU Academic Challenge
  ...resenting different high schools across the WYTV viewing area compete in a game similar to that of the format of [[College Bowl]]. ...an incorrect answer deducted them. The team with the most points won the game and advanced through further rounds of an elimination tournament to determi
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• 2010 MSHSAA State Championship
  |scorer = [[Grant Monnig]], Glasgow (average per game) '''Championship Game'''<BR>
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• Format
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• 2009 ICT
  ...hicago|Chicago]] defeated [[Illinois]] to win the tournament in the second game of the final. ...hicago|Chicago]] won the DII title after beating [[Michigan]] in the first game of an advantaged final. Michigan emerged from a [[circle of death]] with [
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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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• Dylan Minarik
  ...being the only member of his team who bothered to show up to every playoff game. ...irst and likely only national championship by defeating [[MIT]] B in a one game final for the [[2015 ACF Nationals]] DII title. Playing on shorthanded team
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• 2009 Reach for the Top Nationals
  ...ved, opted not to correct what was presumably a mistake the day before the game. Cobequid ended up losing by 20 points. The game was marred by controversy as a challenge made by the Cobequid team was acce
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• Botticelli
  ...cial settings, such as after practice or while driving to tournaments. The game is similar to 20 Questions and involves the guessing the identify of a nota ...author?". If the bot answers "Yes, I am X" to a non-freebie question, the game is over because the person who the bot was thinking of has been revealed. T
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• Mike Bentley videogame packets
  ...r questions on older eras of gaming, and especially for questions on video game history and hardware.
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• 2012 NAQT Ontario Provincials
  ...A won outright with a 11-0 record. Woburn B defeated Westmount A in a one game third place final. Sam Challen from Westale was the top scorer for the seco
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• Costas Pavlou
  ...Costas is widely considered to be one of the strongest specialists in the game within his narrow field.
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• Peter Cordeiro
  ...stifiably, if unkindly) mocks for his general lack of awareness of how the game works and for his basic inability to understand how to use stats to determi
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• Buzzword
  ...ts (at various times separate and together) were added, and single- or few-game specials occurred in specific subjects or interest areas (film, the holiday ...may still be worth more than 10 points at the time it is said.) After the game is over, players can look at a leaderboard of total scores and see the poin
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• Osmosis
  ...he many advantages of attending [[practice]] is exposure to questions in a game-like environment.
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• 2015 NAQT Ontario Provincials
  ...with an 11-0 record after narrowly defeating Lisgar A 390-360 in the first game of an advantaged final. Tommy Power from Bell was the top scorer.
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• 1995 ACF Nationals
  ...Tech played a three game final for the championship, Harvard won the first game by a score of 250-240, Georgia Tech then responded devastating Harvard 455-
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• 2019 MSNCT
  ...[[Liberty Middle (AL)|Liberty]] and 3 card [[Hopkins]] for a spot in a one-game final against [[Churchill Middle|Churchill A]]. [[Hunter|Hunter A]] won 415 The finals were chaotic, with multiple protests. The game ended on tossup 21 when [[Moxie Strom]] powered on [[Oliver Twist]] and the
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• Christopher Newport
  ...ter]], [[George Berry]], and [[Chris Diming]]. While the team only won one game, the Captains were pleased to beat [[NC State]] and be only one of two team
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• Mike Wehrman
  ...rth Kansas City]] and set [[MSHSAA]] state records for tossups in a single game (30 of 50) and tossups throughout the five round tournament (133 of 250) in
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• Pat Freeburn
  After that, Pat left the game until 2007, where he proceeded to suck at the 2007 MLK tournament as well a
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• Kent Buxton
  ...ay/Lafer/Tabachnick/Jose) in which a frauded Donald Duck bonus decided the game.
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• Ed Cohn
  ...one of the best current events and politics players in the history of the game.
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• Douglas Graebner
  ...til 2010. That year, at the [[2010 NSC]], he earned a spot in the All-Star Game after [[Jasper Lee]] had to leave.
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• 2002 MSHSAA State Championship
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• 2023 ICT
  ...[[Ohio State]] A placed third after defeating [[WUSTL]] A in a third-place game. ...Division I Undergraduate title after defeating [[Columbia]] B in the first game of an advantaged final.
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• Real knowledge
  ...from the intersection of the information that someone gains outside of the game and the [[canon|space of things that come up in quizbowl]]. ...to know from independent study (e.g. from coursework) versus time with the game, respectively. However, the term is almost always accompanied by a value ju
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• Scott Green
  Green made appearances on the game shows ''The Chase'' and ''Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?'' He also became a
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• Fair Grove
  ...l with [[Southwestern]]. Fair Grove [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=1230321 claimed the first 14 tossups] to lead 495 to -10, clinc
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• Jason Zhou
  ...iewtopic.php?f=21&t=19925&p=330932#p330932], prompting the creation of the game "Food or Not Food?"
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• Aaron Lichtig
  In 2019, Aaron won one game on ''[[Jeopardy!]]''.
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• 2008 Detroit Catholic Central
  ...m, in a state championship game, or attended a national tournament playoff game. This year’s team was one of the youngest and least experienced teams ev
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• St. Joseph Central
  ...] and barely missed the playoffs at the [[2016 HSNCT]], losing their final game by 15 points. In 2017, Central debuted in the top 200 of [[HSQBRank]], fini ...er|NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]; and to [[Ladue]] in the Class 4 championship game of [[2018 MSHSAA State Championship|MSHSAA State]]. Central B also performe
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• 2014 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...n what effectively became a one-game overall and small school championship game to take home both titles, marking the first time a small school eligible te ...h and 19th-22nd place. All ties for rebracketing were broken by points per game due to the incoming weather.
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• Syra-quiz
  ...one another. Syra-quiz may be the earliest collegiate-level quizbowl-like game besides [[College Bowl]], a title currently held by the [[Southeastern Invi
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• Matt Weiner's List of the 10 best 21st Century High School Teams
  ...ute shattering of every scoring record and the fact that they never lost a game all year when playing their full A team on pyramidal questions, there is no ...ason, to Maggie Walker in the 2004 NSC final that constitutes the greatest game I've ever seen on any level of quizbowl.
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• Chenery
  ...st MSNCT in [[2022 MSNCT|2022]], losing to [[Longfellow]] 310-280 in a one-game final. ...relims against the other 5 teams. The solo Chenery "A" team lost the first game of an advantaged final, but had shown improvement since Charter Oak, going
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• 2018 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...gible for the inaugural very small school title. [[Ladue]] A won the first game of the advantaged final over [[Central (St. Joseph, MO)|St. Joseph Central] ...ayed the team of the same rank from the other pool in a round 10 placement game to determine 5th-12th place.
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• 1985 NAC
  ...feating [[1984 Charles E. Jordan|Jordan]] after being down 145 points in a game during the 1984 tournament.
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• 2014 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...s in each of the four classes were held on April 12. District championship game matchups are posted [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2799 her '''Championship Game'''<br>
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• 2016 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...s in each of the four classes were held on April 16. District championship game matchups are posted [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3160 her ...lass 2 state champion [[Calvary Lutheran]] in the District 10 championship game.
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• Koo's Law
  ...ative shame of having lost to children, while if the college team wins the game, they achieve no more than the result that a naïve observer would expect o
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• 2016 SSNCT
  [[AMSA]] A defeated [[Macomb]] A in a one-game final.
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• 2015 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...s in each of the four classes were held on April 18. District championship game matchups are posted [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2945 her '''Championship Game'''<br>
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• Bonus conversion
  ...s where bonuses take different maximum point values over the course of the game, bonus conversion is computed by finding the average percentage of bonus po ...ustomary to accept or resolve protests that do not affect the outcome of a game, otherwise meaningless disputes about questions can affect bonus conversion
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• MODAQ
  ...integrated reading and scoring interface allows a single staffer to run a game room with essentially no additional time or effort compared to a two-staffe
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• 2019 MSHSAA State Championship
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• Tristan Gruchet
  ...emorial Tournament. In that tournament, Tristan scored the most points per game in his career for a high school set. Tristan is agreed upon in the Irving,
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• Ben Smith
  Smith played one game of "Brain Bowl" at the American School in Japan in seventh grade, and didn' ...the Top]] championship. He was still an alternate in 2002, but played one game of playoffs at provincials in 2003 and lost.
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• Seven Lakes
  ...Lakes won its first state championship, defeating [[St. Mark's]] in a one-game final, and finished in 9th place at the [[2012 NSC|2012 NSC]].
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• Protest
  {{Rules of the game}} ...est after the half for any question in the first half or at the end of the game for any question in the second half.
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• 2009 Wilmington Charter
  ...tournament. Dorman beat Charter twice in the prelims and during the first game of the final. Charter had won an earlier playoff match. The final was mar
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• Question
  ...a bonus. Together, they comprise the [[tossup/bonus format]], in which the game is structured as a series of tossup/bonus [[cycles]] where the successful a
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• 2009 MSHSAA State Championship
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• 2022 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...nts in each of the six classes were held on April 9. District championship game matchups are available on the [https://www.mshsaa.org/Activities/Scoreboard ...he championship game and the bottom two teams advancing to the consolation game.
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• Cardinal Classic XIII
  ..., Berkeley Seth and Berkeley Larissa were tied at 11-1. They played a one-game final, which Berkeley Seth (consisting of [[Seth Teitler]], [[Juliana Frogg
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• Roland Michener
  ...oronto, though the only scores available show that they lost their opening game 365-295 to [[Cobequid]] (the CBC format allowed the three best first-round
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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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• 2013 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...s in each of the four classes were held on April 13. District championship game matchups are posted [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2675 her '''Championship Game'''<br>
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• Negstorm
  ...s more often than usual, especially if the negs ends up costing the team a game against another school that they expected to beat.</onlyinclude>
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• 2005 ICT
  ...sadvantaged final. The outcome was controversial; Michigan enjoyed a three-game lead on Chicago before the final, and under [[ACF]] rules would have won th
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• Bobby Dorigo Jones
  ...ss ups in game one of a disadvantaged final to Bellarmine High School in a game that has been called the best comeback in NAQT history [citation needed].
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• Kyle Gregory
  ...do and St. Louis as incentive to continue playing. After winning only one game (but not finishing last!) at the HCASC Nationals, Kyle decided to study. </ ...points per game. At his final HCASC NCT, he averaged nearly 58 points per game. Kyle was also the top scorer on the "Know Your Heritage: Black College Qu
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• 2015 Lisgar
  ...their own BELLOCO mirror; while they lost 2nd place as a result of a poor game against the second half of Colonel By's split A-team, their performance was ...owledge of William Howard Taft. The final score of 390-360 was the closest game Colonel By had had in a local highschool tournament since the 2012-2013 sea
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• Summer of Kleist
  ...Nam]], [[John Edwards]], and [[Chris Zimpleman]]) tied, they played a one-game final which also ended in a tie. [[Michigan]] won the tournament after win
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• Interrupt penalty
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• 2001 HSNCT
  ...e State College and Detroit Country Day both finished 6-2 and played a one-game tiebreaker for the right to face Catholic Central in the final. ...lege|State College "A"]] was eligible for the final, but lost a tiebreaker game to finish in third place.
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• 2003 HSNCT
  ...Other than this, no team played a game against a team with more than one game's difference in record, and teams eliminated from playoff contention were d ...ased on their final rankings after the preliminary round. After the first game, the lowest seeded team still in the winner's bracket would play the highes
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• 1999 NSC
  ...would require detailed scoresheets such as "most bonus points stolen in a game," and the presence of the single individual record indicates that individua
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• 2005 Thomas Jefferson
  ...ee-year period. In all three years of nationals, the team never played any game, other than the NSC final four matches, in which they faced elimination fro ...format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 263-1 in 264 games played on pyramidal format
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• Slapbowl
  ...insufficient functional [[buzzer|buzzer systems]] to play every scheduled game with one. Players thus slap the table (hence the name), yell "buzz!", or o ...bowl rather than take time to find a replacement buzzer, as evinced by his game against Michigan at the EFT 2 at Chicago.
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• Scobowl
  ...g could be manually corrected by channel ops or the person who started the game.
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• 2004 Illinois
  ...rgraduate final, an advantaged best two-of-three that they won in a single game taped by [[Dan Passner]].
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• Kapil Nathan
  ...nding player from the beginning of high school, putting up 52 [[points per game]] in his first ever [[HSNCT]]. At the [[2022 HSNCT]], Kapil led Hoover to a
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• Two Saints Conference
  ...entral beating out Fort Zumwalt West by slightly over a hundred points per game.
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• 2017 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...AM to 12 PM, semifinals at 1 PM, and finals at 2 PM. District championship game matchups are posted [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3392 her '''Championship Game'''<br>
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• Champlain Valley
  ...Bennett''' took over as coach in 2001-02 season, reaching the state title game four times and securing their first championship in 2007. ...ol to advance a team to the Panasonic playoffs, winning their second-round game against Connecticut, North Carolina and the Virgin Island. CVU finished fou
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• Cult of PPG
  The tendency to distill people's essence into the numbers central to the game is natural, but should be avoided through deliberate, conscious effort. In ...cognized, pushed aside by others with inferior ability but more points per game. This does not mean that every player with lots of points is intrinsically
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• Loyburn
  * The 2009 edition featured a single-elimination playoff with no third-place game, so the teams listed as third and fourth place would actually be tied for t
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• 2006 State College
  ...to [[2006 Richard Montgomery|Richard Montgomery]], after winning the first game of the finals, with a lineup of Alison Hudson, Barry Liu, Eric Driscoll, an
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• 2022 HSNCT
  ...425-235. This was a rematch of the 2017 final, which also went to a second game but ended with Hunter defeating DCC. This marked only the third repeat matc ...leaving Arcadia the last unbeaten team. Arcadia dropped their tenth prelim game to [[Carmel|Carmel A]], ensuring another year without an undefeated HSNCT c
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• Graham Moyer
  ...nd currently plays for [[Harvard]]. As a sophomore, he played in the title game of the [[2009 NSC]]; in his role as captain of State College A since then,
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• 2012 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...s in each of the four classes were held on April 14. District championship game matchups are posted [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2492 her '''Championship Game'''<BR>
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• 2011 MSHSAA State Championship
  '''Championship Game'''<BR> '''Championship Game'''<BR>
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• 2018 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...s in each of the four classes were held on April 14. District championship game matchups are posted [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=59134#p59134 '''Championship Game'''<br>
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• Susan Mitchell
  Susan won 5 games on [[Jeopardy!]] in 2007, and won one game in the 2007 Tournament of Champions.[https://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.p
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• 2024 ICT
  ...; [[Stanford]] A placed third after defeating [[Toronto]] in a third-place game. ...n the following year); to do so, they defeated [[Columbia]] B in the first game of an advantaged final.
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• Randall Maas
  ...ifest. He powered 12 questions, including a William Blake tossup to win a game against Villanova.
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• Shiva Oswal
  ...irst started playing Quiz Bowl in 5th grade, after being introduced to the game in late 2014 by [[Ankit Aggarwal]]. In 2016, he wrote the 60-tossup [https: ...nt on to win the game by a score of [https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=839176 400-395]. In the finals, he defeated [[BASIS Silicon Val
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• 2011 Lisgar
  ...ar came 3rd with a 11-1 record in the round robin, won their quarterfinals game, but lost to [[Centennial]] CVI in the semifinals. ...hosted by [[Ottawa]], with Lisgar B team taking a close second in a finals game that went down to the final buzer. Like earlier years, the win earned the
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• 1984 NAC
  ...nburg|East Mecklenburg]] defeating Jordan after being down 145 points in a game during this tournament, thought the 2000 tournament summmary said that a 16
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• Eric Mukherjee final
  An '''Eric Mukherjee Final''' is a somewhat mean-spirited name for a game or series of play-in games to determine second place at a tournament. They
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• Ghetto Warz
  ...l/ghetto2004/ghetto_standings.html here] show that UCLA/Berkeley had a one-game lead after the round robin, and thus was declared the winner based on total ...ailable. UCLA A was awarded the championship based on a higher points per game average. Discussion of the tournament can be found [http://www.hsquizbowl.o
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• 1999 Maggie Walker
  ...PACE NSC, where they made the playoffs but proceeded to lose every Sunday game, presumably finishing twelfth overall.
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• ZIGZAG
  ZIGZAG was won by [[Georgetown Day]], who defeated [[TJ]] in the first game of an advantaged final; results can be found at [http://results.scobo.net/S
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• Cardinal Classic XI
  ...al full round robin, after which they split into brackets of 4 to play a 3-game round robin.
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• Freeze Frame Award
  ...believed that, in the spirit of youth sports leagues and the MLB All-Star Game, every team in attendance will have at least one member win a Freeze Frame
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• 2023 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...ts in each of the six classes were held on April 15. District championship game matchups are available on the [https://www.mshsaa.org/Activities/Scoreboard ...he championship game and the bottom two teams advancing to the consolation game.
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• 2024 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...ts in each of the six classes were held on April 13. District championship game matchups are available on the [https://www.mshsaa.org/Activities/Scoreboard ...he championship game and the bottom two teams advancing to the consolation game.
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• NAQT rules
  ...ertime]] consists of three tossups that do ''not'' lead to bonuses. If the game is still tied after that, it goes into [[sudden death]]. ...rnaments abrogate the provisions for [[timed play]], instead confining the game to a fixed number (often 20) of [[tossup-bonus cycles]].
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• Blurt
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• Tennessee State
  ...coring for three years, scoring well over nine toss-ups per sixteen minute game, ending his reign of terror with an HCASC Championship. TnSU has hosted a
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• 2011 NSC
  ...ith 60 teams participating. [[State College]] defeated [[Hunter]] in a one-game final, with [[LASA|Liberal Arts and Sciences Academy]] and [[Stevenson]] ta ...rgest margin of victory for this stage of the tournament at 310 points per game. The second spot went to St. Ignatius, whose only playoff loss was to Maggi
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• DeWitt
  ...[Detroit Country Day]] in a very close match, and has had one really close game with [[East Lansing]] in a Patrick's Press league.
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• Greg Bossick
  ...reader/moderator, he only played high school quiz bowl once in a televised game.
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