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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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2014 HSNCT
...s Director [[Nathan Murphy]], it was once again, at 272 teams, the largest quizbowl tournament ever held at a single site. After a schedule of 10 [[card system|power-matched]] preliminary games and several rounds of double elimination, [[St. John's]] emerged as the onl

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2015 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
The [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] hosted the '''2015 [[NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]''' on March 7, 20 ...After round 10, the top 2 teams in each championship pool played crossover games for rounds 11-12 and any necessary finals or tiebreakers to determine 1st-4

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Protest
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Bergstrom Stateline
'''Bergstrom Stateline''' is a a high school televised quizbowl tournament in Rockford, Illinois hosted by WTVO Channel 17 / WQRF FOX 39. I ...ssups heard in a game, though variation exists. For rules that use untimed games, it represents the number of tossups that will be read in regulation in a s

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Turkey Leg Match
...ho had earlier spent the summer debating the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and other Jewish issues. ...more implies that anything I say must be nutty because I'm a wacky stoner than your girth implies you miss the nuances of my points when you can't see ove

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Steven Liu
...aws, plays the piano, debates politics, and wastes his life on Paper Mario games.

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Idaho National Labs Scholastic Tournament
...the [[National Science Bowl|Science Bowl]]. Schools play in weekly league games in November and December, advance to regional play in February and March, a ...eaves and the process is repeated, with the same set of questions, for the other team. Five points are awarded for each correct answer during the bonus roun

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Missouri Fall Academic Tournament
...fall season-kickoff event for high school teams hosted by the [[Missouri]] Quizbowl Club. ...of these teams received plaques (from local Columbia engraver and Missouri Quizbowl Club favorite U-Win Trophy). The top three teams as well as small-school ch

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IASP State Finals
...tate Finals used a 16-team double-elimination format with three guaranteed games. ...Qualifier. 2010 also saw the debut of the '''Rotary Club Northern Indiana Quizbowl Championship''', which was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Indiana and drew

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York-Adams Quiz Bowl League
...ups and 20 bonuses, with powers and negs. Each match is comprised of three games played on three separate packets. Unlike the similar [[Lancaster-Lebanon Le ...he league reverted to using only two packets in order to conserve some for other tournament play. As a consequence, the regular season's length is capped an

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Mike Sorice
...he 2007 [[Illinois Novice]] tournament, [[ACF Fall]] 2007, and the physics/other science for [[2013 ACF Nationals]]. Sorice was known for a long time as "Ha ...e]], who took over as team captain upon Sorice's effectual retirement from quizbowl after a 3rd place finish at [[2011 ACF Nationals]].

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Money
...to pay [[writer]]s, [[editor]]s, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money can be raised by acting in this role or come from outside Quizbowl is a game with that provides players with competitive depth and writers wit

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ACF Pyramid
...llinois Open, but the game had previously been played extensively on the [[quizbowl IRC channel]]. The first ACF Pyramid was won by [[Andrew Hart]] and [[Rob ...tems that one player must see, then describe to the other player until the other player either correctly guesses the item or passes to the next one. No wor

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Quizbusters (WNAB)
'''Quizbusters''' was a quizbowl show that aired on WNAB-58 in Nashville, Tennessee. The show premiered in The season consisted of 13 regular season games. In the regular season, each game consisted of three rounds. The first an

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2012 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7/stats/all_games/ All Games] The [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] hosted the '''2012 [[NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]''' on March 3, 20

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Matt Jackson
...Day|Georgetown Day School]]. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest quizbowl players, writers, and editors of all time. ...d on the televised game show [[Jeopardy]]!, appearing in regular-season 14 games and winning 13 of them (25 September 2015 - 14 October 2015). At that poin

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London Central
In [[2007 London Central|2007]], London Central won all of its games at the Ontario [[Reach for the Top]] provincial championships, advancing ea The 2007 championship team re-united to play at the Ontario Bowl quizbowl tournament as a "London" team, finishing third out of 16 teams. Three-fourt

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2014 NTAE
...ly use a similar format as previous iterations, which was considered [[bad quizbowl]]. Teams currently known to be attending include Florida and Oklahoma. The ...highest aggregate score proceeds directly to the championship round. The other teams continue to the elimination round (formerly, the semifinal), competin

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Misuse of statistics
...ze simple but correct objections to the process. It can be a sign of [[bad quizbowl]]. *Tournament formats which rank teams based on factors other than win-loss or progress through a power matching system through complicated fo

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2018 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
The [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] hosted the '''2018 [[NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]''' on March 3, 20 ...The remaining championship teams played 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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2012 NSC
...the top four from each playoff bracket played in crossover "superplayoff" games, implementing the [[2010 NSC|2010]] format with four fewer teams. The tourn ...and [[Max Schindler]] of [[Ladue]]) made up one four-person team; for the other team, the traditional ballots were replaced by selecting the top individual

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Dog with a Blog
...ent's head editor. [[Matt Bollinger]] singled out the question as "a weird quizbowl meta joke" as part of more general criticism of the tournament's trash.<ref

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2021 ICT
...teams and no tiebreaker games; due to the longer times involved in online quizbowl, all ties for moving from one phase of the tournament to another were broke ...ing their first all-time appearance in the top 4. Vanderbilt won its first quizbowl national title of any kind, becoming the 13th school all-time to win DII IC

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Criticisms of Reach for the Top
...poly in the country, and remains the predominant format despite inroads by quizbowl (facilitated by [[ONQBA]]) and History Bowl. All cited questions are verbat ...s more people are aware that mercury is Hg and would interrupt after that, than being able to get it off the second clue of having atomic number of 80. The

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Abigail Tan
...n 6th place. At [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7536/stats/combined/games/ Varsity 2022], she played for Cambridge B again, winning 375-250 against O ...same team won [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8200/stats/all_games/games/#R2-CambridgeA-OxfordA Varsity 2023] by 310-280, the first Cambridge victor

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Trivia formats
...a variety of very different formats broadly within the category of "[[not quizbowl]]", with the unifying thread being a focus on "[[trivia]]" topics and [[pop ...'quizzes''' or simply '''quiz''', with the act of playing either trivia or quizbowl events termed '''quizzing'''.

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2012 MSHSAA State Championship
...University of Missouri-Columbia (obviously unaffiliated with the Missouri quizbowl team) 1. Mound City 3-0, 500 ppg. (1500 pts. in 3 games) 

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Sharath Narayan
Narayan began his quizbowl career by playing for [[Liberty Middle (AL)|Liberty]] in middle school. He Narayan is a freelance writer for Spring Academic Games for Elementary Students (SAGES).

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Bay Area Quiz Kids
'''''Bay Area Quiz Kids''''' was a televised quizbowl show that airs on Peninsula TV in the San Francisco Bay Area. It ended in 2 ...to buzz must answer without conferring, but if a team misses a tossup, the other team may confer and answer. The team correctly answering the tossup then g

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Génies en herbe
...nces (even Alberta) by the late 1980s. In the early 1990's, the televised games were hosted by Martin Gélinas. "Génies en herbe" also appears to be used to refer to non-quizbowl but similar knowledge-recalling competitions in West Africa, including one

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Cult of PPG
...eone as "good at quiz bowl" leads others to view them as "good" at various other things.</onlyinclude> ...new name for an old phenomenon: there is a long history of top scorers and other "prominent" members of the community being assigned responsibilities like [

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Science Bowl
...only [[science]] [[questions]]. It could be called the bastard child of [[quizbowl]] and government-bureaucratized science. It is run and sponsored by the U.S ...in the middle of a tossup, 4 points are awarded to the other team, rather than losing 4 points for your team.

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Quizbowl in the United Kingdom
...urnament between university teams, but this is generally considered "[[not quizbowl]]". There is also a secondary school circuit consisting near-totally of [[S ==University quizbowl==

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WCTE Academic Bowl
...formerly known as the '''Upper-Cumberland Academic Bowl,''' is a televised Quizbowl tournament held by WCTE, the channel 22 Tennessee Upper-Cumberland affiliat ...tion lightning round. In 2023, the lightning round was eliminated, but all other rules remained the same. The tossups have no powers or negs and are very co

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How Quizbowl Works
===Playing Quizbowl=== *Quizbowl matches, which are often called [[rounds]] or [[games]], are played between two [[teams]] of 1-5 players each, with 4 players bei

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Old PACE format
...up 1 of the Category Quiz round, their opponents must pick something other than Science. Old NSCs would feature one [[computational math]] bonus per packet ...uses changed from round to round (within the broad confines of an expected quizbowl distribution; e.g., there might be 1 or 2 science questions but there would

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Zain Africa Challenge
...s broadcast, one game a week, over fifteen weeks. In 2009 it expanded into other African countries. ...o join the university's CAC Scholars Club and must participate in practice games in order to be selected for the four-person CAC Scholars Team. Interesting

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Chitin Classic
...Maryland]], and [[Vanderbilt]] that were also mirrored at other sites. The games were played on packets of 20 tossups/bonuses. ...t the tournament was expected to have more teams from outside of Minnesota than within, but the final field had a Minnesota majority.

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Belmont
...time in 2018. Since then, Belmont has become a fixture in the high school quizbowl scene, with a noteworthy fifth-place finish at the [[2021 NSC]]. ...by Rahul Ramakrishnan in 2013. Like much of the Massachusetts high school quizbowl circuit, Belmont played casually and did not attend any nationals or garner

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Tournament of Champions
...the games was four-quarter, and the tournament consisted of playing prelim games until all but a certain number of teams had three losses, at which point th ASCN was often viewed as a tournament with all the quizbowl shortcomings of the [[National Academic Championship]], but without the eth

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NAQT Middle School Team of the Week
|Went 8-1 to win Greenhill Games. [[Category:Quizbowl awards]]

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MSNCT
...hampionship tournament run by [[NAQT]] to determine the best middle school quizbowl team in the country. It debuted in 2011, with the first winners being [[Kea ...der questions similar to those of [[Invitational Series]] sets for playoff games.

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Quizbowl
...ion involving answering [[knowledge]]-testing questions with a [[buzzer]]. Quizbowl is played at thousands of colleges, high schools, and middle schools across The typical quizbowl competition features questions from a variety of academic [[subjects]], inc

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Affiliation
...ending classes for credit or pursuing a degree may be [[eligible]] to play quizbowl for them if they meet additional criteria. ...l college or university. The act of having an affiliation with and playing games for a institution above one's current level of schooling is typically refer

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Trash
...sports, movies, TV, video games, non-classical music, comic books, etc) in quizbowl.</onlyinclude> In mainstream academic quizbowl tournaments, trash usually takes up between 0 and 5 percent of the distribu

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Tennessee Academic Coaches Association State Championship
...fees to the state champion and named the [[TACA All-State Team]] after all games are completed. No state championship occurred during the 2021 season, due t [[Category:High school quizbowl in Tennessee]]

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NAQT Middle School Player of the Week
|72 powers in 9 games. Led team to 9-0 (1st place). [[Category:Quizbowl awards]]

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Jackson-Bollinger rivalry
...] and [[Jerry Vinokurov]], former teammates at [[Berkeley]] who faced each other three times in the finals of [[ACF Nationals]] from 2007-09, feel about thi ...ricksburg, VA [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/662/stats/playoffs/games/]. Though the score was close to tied at the half, and neither Jackson nor

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2007 Francis Howell Central
...well Central team''' disappointed expectations despite winning a number of games by failing to win any significant victories. [[Category:High school quizbowl in Missouri]]

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Lancaster-Lebanon League
...matches of three games each, for a total schedule of 15-18 regular season games. The regular season results are used to seed teams for the league's champi *[http://ll-quizbowl.wikispaces.com/League+Schedule Schedule]

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Woburn CI
...Agincourt first, but as the highest seeded winning school of each of their games Woburn would face the stronger winning school of another match, while highl ==Quizbowl==

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2021 HSNCT
|site = [[Online quizbowl | Online]] via Zoom The '''2021 NAQT HSNCT''' was held on May 29–30. It was hosted [[online quizbowl|virtually]] through [[Zoom]] using [[Buzzin.live]], due to the [[COVID-19 p

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Phil Blessman
...010 NHBB being his teams' top US finishes. JFKS won the inaugural European Quizbowl Championship in 2016. !width="60pt" align="left"|Games

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Mahoning County Quizbowl League
...onships awarded in each classification. Each match consists of two untimed games played to 24 tossups. Each game counts on its own in the standings, and tie ...mes coinciding with the schedule contraction, each match was expanded to 3 games, a move that prompted one coach to threaten the league director with phone

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Bonus conversion
Formats which use [[bouncebacks]] and are connected enough to the quizbowl mainstream to report full statistics, such as the [[PACE NSC]], will usuall ...a competitive environment with the other team is a fundamental feature of quizbowl as opposed to any question-and-answer game generally, and many people belie

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Dallas Simons
...r his bitter rivalry with [[Jeff Hoppes]] for the title of [[Nicest Guy in Quizbowl]]. ...ormance at EFT3 was the subject of the [[2008 Harvard Crimson article|Mind Games]] article by Christian Flow, and he quickly proved himself to be an dangero

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2008 Francis Howell Central
...'s skills as a generalist and Yu's math abilities, which complemented each other perfectly. [[Category:High school quizbowl in Missouri]]

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Central vs. Maggie Walker (2016 VHSL)
...in the region, giving its student body a slightly more affluent background than most its neighboring schools. Central also possessed a slight edge in age, [[Category:High school quizbowl in Virginia]]

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2021 ONCT
...sidered weaker, due to fewer teams with high placements on [[GrogerRanks]] than the two major nationals. ...), question security remained uncompromised (to anyone's knowledge) due to quizbowl's strong [[community]] standards.

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Chicago Open Trash Tournament
...e some of the TRASH people who show up to the tournaments, questions about quizbowl events and individuals join meta clues in regular tossups. .... Curiously, in 2008 this proved more controversial among academic players than among the so-called "TRASH people," who more or less shrugged it off.[http:

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How Collegiate Quizbowl Works
'''How Collegiate Quizbowl Works''': A Guide for New Players and Teams ...ask questions in the [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=45 quizbowl forum for new collegiate teams].

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How to expand the canon
...thing. It is a series of individual writing choices at a certain level of quizbowl competition that tend to fall within a central limit. It's a pattern of our ...ansion occurs at every level, whether it's a topic that's never come up in quizbowl before becoming an early clue at [[ACF Nationals|ACF nationals]], or a topi

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Kevin Robb
...of seven games, and a B team consisting of Kevin and several of the team's other generalists placed in the top 8 at the [[Helias Tournament|2008 Helias Tour ...team which took third at the tournament. [http://justpredictions.webs.com/quizbowl/09ACFFall_teamdetail.html#t7]

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2011 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
[http://results.scobo.net/MOQBA/2011NAQTAllGames All Games] The [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] hosted the '''2011 [[NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]''' on March 5, 20

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2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
The [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] hosted the '''2016 [[NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]''' on March 5, 20 ...The remaining championship teams played 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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Grail
...lly, this implies a team answering 20 correct tossups, though in a [[timed games|timed match]] this can vary. The team does not need to answer all of the bo This page will attempt to focus on the memorable games where a team faced another team of non-negligible skill on non-trivial ques

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Bob Kilner
'''Bob Kilner''' is the former quizbowl coach at [[Garfield Heights|Garfield Heights High School]] in Ohio. He is ...ut his team still managed to make it to [[OAC]] regionals and win a couple games. Then, they made the mistake of attending [[NAC]] in [[2001 NAC|2001]]. A

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This Tournament Goes To 11
...to 11''' (commonly abbreviated '''TTGT11''') is a [[hybrid]] [[themed]] [[quizbowl]] tournament. It is edited by [[Iowa]], and usually mirrored at different ...on]] edited most of the packets from the west coast. [[Mike Bentley]] and other people from Maryland including [[Charles Meigs]] and [[Jonathan Magin]] als

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Jake Sundberg
|Subjects = Math, Physics, Sports, Video Games, Japan, General ...ions. He served as Vice President of Internal Affairs of Alabama Academic Quizbowl Team during the 2012-13 season and the President during the 2013-14 season.

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2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
The [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] hosted the '''2017 [[NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]''' on March 4, 20 ...The remaining championship teams played the team of the same rank from the other pool in a round 10 placement game to determine 5th-8th place.

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West Suburban Conference
...ois High School Association (IHSA). In general, its teams do not play much quizbowl outside of the conference and IHSA meets, though occasionally a competitive ...o-head, so in the case that the top two teams happened to have played each other twice and split, such as in 2011-12, the regular season title is split. The

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2010 MSHSAA State Championship
Tim Schmitz, St. Joseph Christian (total in 5 games) ...University of Missouri-Columbia (obviously unaffiliated with the Missouri quizbowl team)

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Robert Grierson Friend of Scholastic Bowl Award
...e competition, enhanced opportunities for competition, or helped publicize quizbowl in the state of Illinois. ...the Rockford Register Star Newspaper|For their establishment of the "Brain Games" page on the newspaper's website; the first attempt by a newspaper in Illi

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National Ocean Sciences Bowl
...ns" or "TCQs") on which team members can cooperate, followed by two timed, quizbowl-style buzzer halves of 6 minutes each. Some regionals may instead administe ...(e.g. "The Pacific Ocean" for "Pacific Ocean") is acceptable; however, any other modification (e.g. "octopuses" for "octopus") is still counted as wrong.

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Canyon Crest
...t Academy's 2020-21 Season, like most teams, marked the first fully online QuizBowl season. In addition, this season marked the arrival of freshmen Yaj Jhajhri ....11 PPG) made solid contributions. Freshman Aaron Combs also appeared in 6 games, netting a 10 PPG with 2 powers. Canyon Crest B and C appeared in the JV Di

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Georgetown Day
...private K-12 college prep school in Washington, DC. GDS began competing in quizbowl along with [[It's Academic]] in the mid-1980s, one of the first DC-area sch ...ACE NSC and T-31 at that year's NAQT HSNCT. The team negged 70 times in 14 games, giving the 2019 iteration of the GDS team the dubious distinction of holdi

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Gautam Kandlikar
...recent graduate of [[Minnesota]] who is one of the best science players in quizbowl history, and also one of the most well-rounded players known mainly for sci ...touch with high-school quiz bowl in Minnesota, and he moderates at league games and invitational tournaments.

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Chenery
'''Chenery''' is a [[middle school|middle school quizbowl team]] located in Belmont, Massachusetts. It feeds into [[Belmont|Belmont H ...[[Ella Sheffield]], and [[Pablo Hu]] each recruited their siblings to play Quizbowl.

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New Essays on Quizbowl Understanding
...nderstanding''' is a ranking posted in 2009 of the top 20 currently active quizbowl players. The identity of Theophilius and Philalethe is still unknown. Its t ...l his achievements in quizbowl’s high modern era, and he’s making a run at quizbowl’s greatest champion, Andrew Yaphe.

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National Academic League
...ffs", "shot clocks", and "possessions". Competitions also include some non-quizbowl activities. Players join in a fast-paced one-on-one speed quizbowl contest. Any other teammate may buzz in if both players involved in the one-on-one are unable

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HSNCT
...eason, though there are [http://www.naqt.com/hsnct/qualification.html some other ways]. ...st HSNCT packets now contain exactly one computation bonus (and never more than one). Packets also contain non-computational math questions.

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How to Get Good at This Game
...the improvement methods category]]. Whether or not it is done strictly for quizbowl, it is always good to [[Read a book]]. ...le don't know, then you're already on the right track. This is a game, and games are meant to be fun. If this is frustrating or boring, or too serious for y

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KC Suburban Conference
...]]. Even though the provided rounds were presumably in MSHSAA format, the games were 20 tossup with 4-part rebounding bonuses, or the 2nd and 4th quarters ...gh school tournaments]][[Category:Missouri (State)]][[Category:High school quizbowl in Missouri]]

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2010 Raider Academic Winter Rumble
...t was directed by [[Greg Bossick]], also director of the [[Mahoning County Quizbowl League]], which South Range is a member of. The tournament used [[NAQT]] I ...ley and Northmont would face off, as they both had a lower Points Per Game than Olmsted Falls. Northmont won that match, and they would play Olmsted Falls

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Battle of the Brains
'''Battle of the Brains''' is a a high school televised quizbowl competition in Virginia, currently airing on Saturday mornings on WTVR (CBS ...owbrook]] High School after previously running one-off quizbowl exhibition games between student and teacher teams at Meadowbrook as an end-of-year activity

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Thomas De Bock
...he writes, as evidenced by his production of the first (and thus far only) quizbowl packet exclusively on Formula One. ...ts who had no idea what a quizbowl was before, and the team lost all their games. For the last game, only Tom and Judy remained, and at least one of them wo

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2009 MSHSAA State Championship
...hree teams participating, and in at least one case a win-by-default as all other teams decided not to participate. ...a test that was administered two weeks earlier and can also be taken at 5 other times during the year, it conflicted with several proms.

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Lexington (MA)
...High School''' is a public high school in Lexington, Massachusetts. Its [[quizbowl]] team was formed in 2012, but it began competing in [[National History Bee Lexington began competing in quizbowl events in Massachusetts.

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Carbondale
Carbondale Quizbowl began in 1984 when it was founded by mathematics teacher Brenda Berg, and s ...in playoffs, only losing to Paul Laurence Dunbar A. After losing two more games on Sunday, Carbondale finished in 55th place with a record of 8-7.

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2024 MSHSAA State Championship
While the preliminary schedule is a full round robin, the order that the games are played rotates each year. The Class 1-3 finals on Friday mistakenly use ...on (MO)|Houston]] and [[Kickapoo]] also losing their district championship games, Central's is the only streak active as of 2024 that extends before 2021 in

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Walnut Hills
...ever HSNCT playoff berth, where they would win 3 of their first 4 playoff games before falling to Santa Monica 365-185. Their performance would earn them 1 With Nutter graduating and joining [[Michigan State]]'s quizbowl team, the Eagles would need to replace his production. They were able to do

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2022 MSHSAA State Championship
...te champions met in the following season's state series. Both quarterfinal games were closely contested: the first game was tied after nineteen cycles befor ...sible). It was also the highest score for a team in any of the forty-eight games played during the 2022 state finals. This also made Clayton the fourth scho

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2013 MSHSAA State Championship
...University of Missouri-Columbia (obviously unaffiliated with the Missouri quizbowl team) ...University of Missouri-Columbia (obviously unaffiliated with the Missouri quizbowl team)

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2021 MSHSAA State Championship
...illed with obscure [[biographical clues]], [[hose|hoses]], and other [[bad quizbowl]] features that frustrated many participants. Content overlap between packe A particularly notorious bonus that became memetic on the Missouri Quizbowl Circuit Student [[Discord]] Server simply asked players to answer the quest

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Conestoga Valley Tournament
...ng questions about Lancaster area high school sports teams and mascots and other local trivia, "math" problems of a format similar to "take the number of pl ...ment attracted around fifty teams a year, most teams did not know of other quizbowl formats. This has changed, however, in recent years and attendance has stee

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2011 MSHSAA State Championship
...University of Missouri-Columbia (obviously unaffiliated with the Missouri quizbowl team) ...University of Missouri-Columbia (obviously unaffiliated with the Missouri quizbowl team)

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Modern World
...ons over Skype consisted of the tournament's two editors screaming at each other. Plans to move the tournament out of the slot allocated to it by PACE (whic ...to several instances of saying answers without buzzing or interrupting the other team's bonus. In the second round, aforementioned moderator Kirk Jing illus

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Chicago Open Literature Tournament
...r]] in the finals after several of the best all-time literature players in quizbowl failed to show up due to the effects of a post-CO party the prior night. ...50#p141723] Though the tournament was criticized for only guaranteeing six games but costing twenty dollars to play, it was well received overall. [http://h

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2014 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
The [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] hosted the '''2014 [[NAQT Missouri Qualifier]]''' on March 1, 20 ...After round 8, the top 2 teams in each championship pool played crossover games for rounds 9-10 to determine 1st-4th, and the remaining teams similarly cro

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VHSL Black Diamond District
...o an opposing school, the two teams play a double-header, and the night of quizbowl is over. Each year, the host of the double-header switches. This model is a ...rundy and Honaker finished 7-1, splitting their double-header against each other (with no official tiebreaker in place, though overall points would've gone

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List of high school nationals appearances by Missouri teams
...inish at HSNCT was [[Ladue]]'s second place finish in [[2013 HSNCT|2013]]. Other Missouri teams to appear in the playoffs include (in order of each school's ...ms have compiled a 271-506 record at NSC. (These counts do not include any games from North Kansas City's 6th place finish in 1999, as those records have ap

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2018 MSHSAA State Championship
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Kirksville
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1282/stats/all_games/ All Games] ...uri high school teams]][[Category:Missouri (State)]][[Category:High school quizbowl in Missouri]]

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2017 MSHSAA State Championship
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OSSAA State Championship
...ompeting in District and Area competitions earlier in the season. Like all other OSSAA events, teams competing in Academic Bowl are placed into divisions ac ...f any given OSSAA event will likely have played no more than three or four games.

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Langston
...ng stomped, Langston's first winning season in anything remotely trivia or quizbowl related, and pushed Langston in the direction of participating in more tour Mind Games, 2013 (semi-finals), 2014 

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Ladue
...en Zhang]] began attending tournaments regularly, Ladue dominated Missouri quizbowl and became one of the best teams in the nation, winning two national titles ...naments with national or super-regional fields, at the urging of Louis and other team members. Ladue notably stayed up all night to win the [[Singapore Amer

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University of Illinois Lab
...llinois]] campus in Urbana. Because it includes eighth grade students, its quizbowl program has contained both a high school team and a middle school team sinc ...NAQT State Championship]], they qualified for the 2014 and 2015 HSNCTs via other means and placed 201st and 145th respectively. In 2015, Uni won the Class A

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Neg prize
...tournaments properly based on factors that should have nothing to do with quizbowl logistics competence. ...n purpose. This has a lot of bad consequences, primarily that it makes the games those players participate in meaningless for their opponents.

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Rob Carson
...ndrew Hart]], [[Billy Busse]], [[Tejas Raje]], and a shadowy assortment of other geriatrics, Rob often competes at opens under the aegis of "BHSU," or [[Bal * 2008 [[EPIC]] (chief video games editor, overall editing; with [[Andrew Hart]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]], [[Trev

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2009 Interview with Chip Beall
Matt: So, one of my big questions that I was wondering about; compared to the other Nationals, is, why the three site system? CB: No, we don’t allow games to be recorded.

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Oxford Brookes
...[[Southampton]], Oxford Brookes has been a regular presence on the British quizbowl circuit in recent years. ...r at Brookes, and subsequently took over as coach of the quiz team just as quizbowl was beginning to once again find its feet in the United Kingdom.

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Loyola Academy
...choke in a series of increasingly crushing losses, eventually losing four games by a margin of 60 points or less, including a 10 point loss to Bellarmine. ...to play IMSA in the next round. After a close loss to IMSA they won three games in a row, beating Northmont and LASA B and avenging their prelim game again

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Minnesota Open
...[[Bernadette Spencer]] with several contributions by [[Charles Meigs]] and other gracious members of the community. Mirrors of the 2008 MO were held at [[UT ...entire ensuing weekend. The always ill-conceived, rarely-executed idea of "Quizbowl Basketball" has haunted the world ever since.

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MSHSAA
...is the organization responsible for running Missouri's district and state quizbowl championships, taking over the role from the [[MACA|Missouri Academic Assoc ...bonus parts are worth 10 points each, with no powers or negs. Previously, games were run in a [[four-quarter format]], from the tournament's inception in 1

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Andrew Hart
...om/i-was-a-quizbowl-champion-1707805654 long essay] for Deadspin about his quizbowl career and the game in general. ...won the [[Carper Award]] in recognition of his contributions to collegiate quizbowl.

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2000 NAC
Quizbowl aficionados have noted several problems with this writeup: ...first year at the NAC. A team member later [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quizbowl/message/3268 expressed his opinions] about the tournament:

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List of side events
|subject=Video games ...s://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16160 Chicago Open History 2015: Quizbowl's New Chains Discovered]

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Arcadia
...leus Incident]], Arcadia is one of the few teams to have both won and lost games by 500 or more points at the same tournament. Arcadia Quizbowl was originally led by coach Patrick Tierney. Albert Sylvia later coached th

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NCT
For a full discussion of the mainstream quizbowl community's issues with the College Bowl program and the reasons for teams ...se clubs. The field quality below the top 4 was also very weak compared to other nationals due to the qualification system.

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Darin Clayton
...mbined record of 4-36 and the entire starting lineup had elected to forego Quizbowl before Darin had arrived. During this season, Harrisburg struggled, but imp ...the tournament 7-0 as the 1 seed. The team blasted through their first two games, and Darin won his second consecutive All-Conference 1st Team Captain selec

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National Academic Championship
...by serious quizbowl teams due to its inferior question quality and myriad other issues (see below). In 2013, no teams who participated in [[NSC]] and no te ...hen, its popularity among both the elite and the mainstream of high school quizbowl has declined precipitously, with less active teams who are not in touch wit

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Strake Jesuit
The earliest quizbowl tournaments that Strake Jesuit was mentioned as competing in (ie: listed in ...ath teacher, went on a tournament-playing frenzy, participating in no less than 10 tourneys during the 2015-2016 season, including a Louisiana tournament.

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Lisgar
...rst of a handful of Canadian teams to participate at either major American quizbowl championship. ...story. In 2011, Lisgar came fourth after the first day and won two playoff games and controversially lost in the semifinals to [[UTS]]. However, the controv

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Missouri Quizbowl Alliance
...izbowl]]" in the state of Missouri through hosting tournaments, certifying other tournaments and performing outreach activities. In addition, MOQBA sponsors |2020-2021 (all [[Online quizbowl|online]])

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2014 MSHSAA State Championship
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Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl
...state finals while teams that go 3-2 advance to the '''Medlar Cup'''. All other teams are eliminated. == Other tournaments ==

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25 for 25: A Definitive List of the Greatest ACF Players
...at ACF Nationals, rather than skill in the abstract or accomplishments at other events or formats, when compiling this list. We've also recalled a represen ...the finals for MN, where they would go on to play one of the most exciting games in Nationals history against an Andrew Yaphe-led Stanford team.''

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Collegiate player poll
==Other rankings== ...ed [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=8259 "New Essays on Quizbowl Understanding"] in [[AHAN]], ranking the top 20 players.

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NAQT New Jersey State Championship
| [http://quizbowl.gimranov.com/t/naqtnjstates2010/teams/standings TAFT] | [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quizbowl/message/5454]

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Carmel (IN)
...esident Justin Yu and seniors Joey Heerens and Andrew Sleugh to reform the Quizbowl club entering the 2018-19 season. ...School in Winnetka, Illinois, where Carmel's A Team became infamous among Quizbowl rankings analysts for participating on the Sun God set and requiring manual

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How to run a high school tournament
*A good primer is the old [https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tdguide.html Berkeley TD Guide]. Although a bit dated, it is still an excel ...ide/ in-depth guide to running tournaments] comes from Southern California Quizbowl and contains a wealth of detailed advice as well as potential scenarios tha

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2001 MSHSAA State Championship
...s/games marked with * have been deduced based on the tournament format and other confirmed data.'' ...A State championships]][[Category:Missouri (State)]][[Category:High school quizbowl in Missouri]]

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2009 Francis Howell Central
...did it win many tournaments, but more importantly, it improved on "[[good quizbowl]]" by attending "good" tournaments, efforts rewarded by a tie for 27th at t ...at the [[2009 HSNCT|2009 NAQT HSNCT]], but it placed highly at a series of other "good" Quiz Bowl tournaments and won every [[MSHSAA]] Academic Competition

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Brown
Between 2013 and 2019, Brown played and hosted relatively fewer quizbowl tournaments. ...wn placed at the top of the second bracket, winning DII by virtue of being games ahead and beating Cornell 270-125 in the first game of an advantaged final

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2016 MSHSAA State Championship
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How to run a practice
Like any other activity, it is important to ensure that practice is held at a time and pla ...mplest to stay after the official end of practice and allow those who have other commitments to filter out as they desire.

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Brooklyn Bridge Battle Tournament
..., resulting in some stats being erroneously entered and the stats for some games being lost when Josh Xu eventually manually converted the stats to SQBS. ...urnament directors would constantly defer the task of fixing things to the other tournament directors, severely hindering the tournament.

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2015 MSHSAA State Championship
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Bergen County Academies
...er]] A to win the 2005 [[Long Island Fall Tournament]], along with several other tournaments in the area. Unfortunately, the logistic issues created by a la ...and shocked many (including themselves) by finishing tied for 11th with 6 other teams, by far their best finish at a [[HSNCT]].

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Fort Zumwalt West
...the preliminary rounds and placed 7th before winning its first two playoff games and losing to [[Parkway Central]] in the championship game. ...ampionship]] in May 2010, and attempting to get FZW to attend more "[[good quizbowl]]" tournaments. However, Jeremy Gibbs decided to stop coaching the team af

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2003 MSHSAA State Championship
2. Noah Burke, Koshkonong senior, 32 tossups in 3 prelim games (10.67/game) ...A State championships]][[Category:Missouri (State)]][[Category:High school quizbowl in Missouri]]

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Chaska
|Other Players= |Other Notable People= *Reilly Melville (occasional consultant)

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Timeline of Quizbowl History
...of the game's history in other countries, see [[quizbowl in Canada]] or [[quizbowl in the United Kingdom]]. ...consists of a table with two columns: one for high school history, and the other for collegiate. When there is an item that pertains to both or an item rela

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2002 MSHSAA State Championship
2. Matt Conway, Boonville senior, 44 tossups in 3 games (14.67/game) ...e first female-identifying individual in tournament history to answer more than 50 tossups correctly. This also set the Class 3 record, which was previousl

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College Bowl
...y on as long as it could. CBI's sudden "suspension" of the program was the quizbowl equivalent of the collapse of the Soviet Union.'' --[[Dwight Wynne]], l ...here was less than a 10% crossover between teams competing on the NAQT/ACF quizbowl circuit and teams participating in College Bowl or its affiliated products.

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Harvard
From 2009 to 2011, Harvard A did not win any games at the DI ICT. In late 2008, the Harvard quizbowl team became the center of [[2008 Harvard Crimson article|two articles]] by

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EFT
...distinct series of easier-than-regular, non-[[packet submission]] college quizbowl tournaments. The intent of EFT is to serve as an accessible "introduction to college quizbowl" for newer or less experienced teams, while still being appropriate for pla

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MSHSAA State Championship
...ossible score is 880. Bonuses have three parts that [[bounce back]] to the other team. The question category must be read aloud before each question. There ...ovider, as [[Avery Enterprises]] and [[Questions Unlimited]] were the only other companies capable of providing questions. The packets consisted of 20 tossu

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Jeopardy!
'''''Jeopardy!''''' is an American game show that is frequently compared to [[quizbowl]] due to a passing similarity in question content and a similar [[buzzer]]- ...o varying degrees of success. The higher concentration of academic content than the average game show makes it one of the better game shows for people with

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