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  • '''Ball So Hard University''' (stylized as '''BHSU''') is an open academic and trash team, ...onals]], when [[Chris Ray]] listed [[Rob Carson]]'s affiliation as Ball So Hard University. Later in the thread, Carson carelessly referred to the ostensib
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  • #REDIRECT [[Ball So Hard University]]
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  • ...sy parts. Analogously, a '''Michigan 20''' involves getting the middle and hard part of a bonus, while missing the intended easy part.
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  • ...model of a very competent hard tournament" and "[i]f there were a 'Writing Hard Tournaments for Dummies' book, it would be wise to use this event as the pr
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  • ...hadow zone, and a bonus part likely to get 30% conversion is in the middle-hard shadow zone.
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  • '''Ball So Hard University''' (stylized as '''BHSU''') is an open academic and trash team, ...onals]], when [[Chris Ray]] listed [[Rob Carson]]'s affiliation as Ball So Hard University. Later in the thread, Carson carelessly referred to the ostensib
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  • ...use of intense pressure to get [[Minnesota Open]] itself done, was way too hard and unpolished. [[Jonathan Magin]] answered many questions correctly.
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  • | Difficulty = College hard ...r science and [[Mike Cheyne]] on trash. The tournament ended up being very hard.
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  • ...h positive remarks. However, its final round was deemed disproportionately hard compared to the rest of the set.
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  • | Difficulty = College hard '''Cane Ridge Revival''' was a hard open tournament written by members of the University of [[Chicago]] and [[D
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  • ...ls possibly stemming from the housing crisis, which hit Florida especially hard, forced the cancellation of the 2010 NTAE.
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  • |Subjects=hard sciences, certain areas of philosophy
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  • ...out the state as well as in [[ASCA]]-sponsored competitions, thanks to the hard work and coaching of Br. Jones.
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  • '''Saturnalia''' was a hard (regs+ difficulty) high school set mirrored in fall 2020 and spring 2021. S
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  • ...c Bowl''' is a national quizbowl tournament played by teams of deaf and/or hard of hearing high school students. The competition, which started in 1997, i
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  • '''Scattergories''' is a series of very hard, whimsical open side events written by [[Will Nediger]]. There have been fo
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  • ...hsquizbowl boards for bad distribution, bad clue ordering and excessively hard questions in certain areas. There were also allegations made that answers
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  • In 2021, Arthur became the head editor of [[DART]], a high school hard level charity housewrite produced by the [[Detroit Country Day]] Quiz Bowl
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  • ...ent grammatical errors, and hard bonus parts that were systematically very hard [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12225].{{-}}
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  • ...ge its strategy to become more aggressive or more passive depending on how hard or easy the questions appear to be - games of chicken occur when there is n
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  • ...ar question, then the question is too easy. If I don't know it, it is too hard." Much like the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_erro
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  • ...bly be placed is before the FTP. However, some questions (usually in super-hard tournaments) exist that either place the power mark after FTP or replace it
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  • ...ots of people that understand the tossup-related concepts of pyramidality; hard, unique lead-ins; and (subject-appropriate, if possible) giveaways. Once a ...e to take advantage of their superior knowledge, and that means that super-hard bonus parts have to go.
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  • ...in practice resulted in many problems. It became an excuse to write overly hard bonuses in general, on the theory that a team could just lame an unpalatabl
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  • Real-life commitments and the prevalence of mirror tournaments have made it hard for the core team to get together for events, while Mark's ongoing and Greg
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  • ...f Columbia as well as give teams in those states the opportunity to play a hard NAQT set in preparation for [[HSNCT]]. Low interest in the concept, difficu
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  • ...ed by captains Emily Miller and Jack Larson again defeated Centennial in a hard-fought finals match.
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  • ...a title run—or trying to make a title run—a question set was probably too hard, in my eyes, if I hadn’t heard of 18 or 19 of the 20 toss-up answers, bec ...e play our game. While I don’t recommend making the tournament arbitrarily hard for no reason but indulgence, I do recommend using the tournament to ask al
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  • ** Expansion of Social Science to 2/2, including distinct "Soft" and "Hard" subdistributions getting 1/1 apiece
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  • ...eam's 2013 attempt at a national title was to neg less, but old habits die hard and he started negging like crazy again as the playoffs went on to the detr
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  • |Difficulty=Very hard
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  • Their hard work and drive was evident in an exciting come from behind win against Okem
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  • ...2000 [[NAQT IFT]] at Yale, he participated in a [[Hoppes-Mikanowski limit|hard-to-duplicate feat]] by scoring over 70 PPG while playing on a team with [[J
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  • ...emingly no end in sight. Mike has stated that he could do 10,000 extremely hard Eyes, and that the challenge is always finding easy material in new ways.
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  • # How hard the questions at the [[tournament]] were for the players to answer, as meas # How hard the writers or editors of the tournament expect the questions to be, by ana
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  • | Difficulty = Extremely hard
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  • The tournament was seen as really disjointed with some very hard questions being mixed in with much easier answers randomly; overall it was
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  • ...ntroversy for describing HSNCT questions as "of such low quality that it's hard to call NAQT '[[pyramidal]] [[good quizbowl]]' anymore." The accepted defin ...can still make overpriced things at a loss]</ref> that NAQT was not trying hard enough to lower prices,<ref>[https://discord.com/channels/43116527483459993
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  • ...sh game was discontinued after 2009 and an all-academic game on especially hard questions took its place. The 2009 NSC schedule was also the only NSC in wh
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  • ...ce, Asian Studies, and Classics major, was the only major member without a hard science major). This resulted in very good science conversion, but terribl
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  • ...ddle part" (or "medium part") that about half the teams can answer, and a "hard part" that only the top teams at a given tournament should be able to answe The three parts (easy, medium, hard) may occur in any order.
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  • ...e the assembly of the set. It turned out rather well, if not a little too hard for its intended audience.
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  • The standard format for bonuses has an easy part, a medium part, and a hard part (not necessarily in that order); each is worth 10 points.
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  • ...anizer, was quoted in a 1999 LA Times article as saying "It's a little bit hard to study for the Knowledge Bowl because the questions aren't based on anyth
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  • ...from 2008 to 2012. In the years that it existed, it served as the premier hard tournament before nationals season every year.
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  • ...originally going to host a packet-submission event entitled "Hanover is a Hard Road to Travel" in spring of 2007; hopes remain high that this event will b
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  • ...ing in the college game as surface generalists tend not to score points on hard questions or against good teams. However, surface generalists can still be
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  • ...ar's nationals. Though initially struggling in regular-season tournaments, hard studying enabled a solid tied for 11th finish at the inaugural [[2014 SSNCT
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  • ...am first-lined more questions in their match?" or "which team stole enough hard parts?". Being good enough to get into the fray can sometimes be enough to ...of appearing for the first time at that difficulty. Teams that don't study hard enough sets will be forced to fight over the late clues; the first lines wi
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  • <onlyinclude>'''Conversion metrics''' are a measure of how hard a given tournament is compared to the field it attracted based on how many
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  • ...aired since January 1997. Mark Roberts is the current host, who tries too hard to be hip and cannot tell the difference between ESP, [[ESPN]], and buzzing
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  • ...h UTC stats demigod Wally Edmondson to see if they're retrievable from the hard drive of the laptop he was using; otherwise we'll have to reconstruct."
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  • ...points per bonus. A semi-frequent joke claims that the tournament was "so hard it killed the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II Pope]" (who d
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  • ...c question writer and poster on [[hsquizbowl.org]], and for writing really hard science questions. He was the leading scorer on the Harvard B/DII team at b
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  • ...h as of the 2023/24 season he has returned to his old ways of negging very hard.
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  • ...nd fruitful career as Cornell's club president for the next two years. His hard work finally paid off when he was ranked 94th in [[Amogh Kulkarni]]'s Top 1
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  • ...lso keep in mind that good bonuses have an easy part, a medium part, and a hard part to differentiate between teams, but those parts can be arranged in any
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  • ...ll try not to eat so many turkey legs during games, as the grease makes it hard to grip the buzzer properly.”<ref>[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/view
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  • The first is its location: between rocks and hard places. Libertyville is located in Lake County, just west and north of [[N
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  • ...ger enough Inglemoor Quizbowl members to form a team, and began recruiting hard. His first pick-up was [[Wyatt Carpenter]]. Carpenter was quickly promoted
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  • All this makes it sound like sources are hard to get to and require a lot of work. For the most part, you should be able ...would be fine, whereas a tossup on Social Statics is almost certainly too hard.
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  • ...s, with two principal relative thresholds ("too easy for experts" and "too hard for beginners") defining 2 and 3 dots. Thus, it is not recommended for ques
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  • ...yramidality]]) and bonuses/team rounds that contain "easy", "medium," and "hard" parts
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  • ...ng his former teammate [[John Lawrence]] to a controversial [[Watkins Pole|hard]] music tossup on [[wikipedia:Afro-American Symphony|William Grant Still's
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  • they can be especially good preparation for bonus [[hard part]]s,
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  • ...y [[buzzer race]]s on early clues. They must also be less difficult than [[hard]] tournaments or national championships or else games between average and b
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  • | Featured an insanely hard finals match [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1501]
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  • It should not be forgotten that this requires dedication and hard work - the journey is long one, but the rewards are real. Conversely, imagine preparing to convert canon-busting hard parts at nationals and then losing at a local tournament because teams are
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  • 7. State College 2001: 2001 was a hard call, with both the HSNCT and NSC champions losing a bunch of games, and no
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  • ...arder than tournaments such as ACF Regionals and [[Penn Bowl]], but not as hard as ACF Nationals or last year’s [[George Oppen]]."<ref>[https://hsquizbow
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  • ...rnaments where many teams' ppb are in the single digits are considered too hard for the field.
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  • It is always hard to determine when a program takes a turn for the worse, but two incidents d
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  • ...yramidal tossups and three-part bonuses consisting of an easy, middle, and hard part. In recent years, NAQT has produced five IS and five IS-A sets each ye ...yramidal tossups and three-part bonuses consisting of an easy, middle, and hard part; the tossups are 260 to 291 characters long, or about three lines in t
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  • ...and remains in an overall soluble financial state; further information is hard to come by.
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  • ...ying to make an overall assessment of the quality of NAQT questions, it is hard to know how to weigh the subjective experience of an individual. ...which its editors considered appropriate that a player might consider "too hard" in a vacuum - nevertheless, it may still fit under the "regular difficulty
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  • ...though some packets were criticized for being too transparent (Water), too hard (Geography) or too stupid (Harry Potter).
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  • ...]]. Almost always this means producing [[pyramidal]] questions which start hard and get easier, curating [[clues]] from legitimate sources absent of factua
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  • As a student, he was known for hard work and accomplishment. In addition to several community service projects
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  • ...peting. It is wonderful that they support such a tournament. I have worked hard to support Scholastic Bowl in Illinois for the past twenty years as a coach ...teams, and an annual conference we call SchoBowlFest. Our committee worked hard to forge a consensus to improve our activity in ways that benefit Illinois
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  • ...dest comparable topic on the next link down. This is done by feel as it is hard to quantify.<br>
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  • ...ed high school regs and regs+ sets in what would become a trend of playing hard sets.
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  • ...and [[Kai Madgwick]]. After their surprise BSQC placing, the team trained hard, with Michael choosing to read about (but not card) literature, some furthe
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  • ...s, and I thought he was a typical elite-ish high schooler who would have a hard time transitioning. I was wrong. He’s a very, very good upper level gener ...er-level monster whose success has started to translate to great buzzes on hard questions against top-level competition. Watch out for him on ancient histo
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  • ...a teammate with. Libo would usually, in the same game even, one clue some hard crap but then make various dumb negs (the Libo Special!). Think of him as o 55. BENJI NGUYEN (Stanford): Hard to rank Benji, as he was Stanford's best player for a while and then their
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  • ...home team ... you know ... from the midwest. Although we had lost out in a hard fight to the end, the team was up bright and early to cheer on Texas in the
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  • ...ns at tournaments might be most helpful since players can sometimes have a hard time of recalling exactly what questions they missed after the event. If yo
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  • *Four (three?) syllable name that is hard to pronounce ...ards can be as significant for retention as ''reviewing'' them. It is very hard to beat someone to a fact with a card that they made. For this reason it is
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  • ...trics, Rob often competes at opens under the aegis of "BHSU," or [[Ball So Hard University]].
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  • ...eams, as a tournament which is only able to draw that many teams is likely hard enough for 10 games to be a reasonable number. Compare this to high school
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  • ...of answers - these form an interesting slice into what was considered "too hard" at the time.<ref>[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=55309#p553
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  • ...tossed up at sectionals after never having previously been tossed up below hard college difficulty.
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  • ...classic "one new team shows up to play against a bunch of veteran teams on hard questions, loses every match, and is never seen again" phenomenon. ...ce-level questions like [[SCOP]] as examples to start off with rather than hard questions and direct new teams to those novice question sets specifically.
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  • :Beyond 9 rooms (18 teams) or so, it gets really hard to enter stats and TD at the same time. Ideally, you'll have a separate sco
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  • ...y better quality and, although the familiar complaints of too long and too hard soon came pouring in after the first match, the positives of the change out
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  • ...ith the help of the remaining few CWRU College Trivia Team members, worked hard to bring back the annual high school trash tournament tradition in the 2015
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  • ...olid second on the 2004 ACF Nationals champs. His desire to work extremely hard at the game (albeit more periodically than some of the other players) coupl ...ew summers to play the Artaud and protested that the bonuses were too damn hard, not a good sign in light of the growing realness of questions these days.
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  • ...ments that do not point players to the right answer. Hard clues should be hard because the names are less recognizable, not because the names are complete *There are no vague or opinionated clues. All the clues are hard facts from the novel that lead to ''The Great Gatsby'' and only ''The Great
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  • ...ASIS McLean before winning against [[Evanston]] and [[Rancho Bernardo]] in hard-fought matches. They were finally eliminated by [[Hoover]], placing 33rd ov
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  • ...n thread, [[Justine French]] criticized [[McKenzie-style easy part|putting hard clues in easy parts]] since it would dishearten players by rendering their ...ed with praise. Much of the commentary revolved around the difficulty of "hard" bonus parts as well as niche subjects like world literature and social sci
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  • ...e canon, the lack of a science player or an experienced specialist made it hard for the Hill to come up with wins against the top teams in the state. Colli
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  • ...ationals]], and [[Chicago Open]] -- the three most prestigious and popular hard tournaments -- in the same year. No single school's team has done this (nor
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  • ...ifficulty of the questions in a given match often varies wildly, with very hard questions being included alongside very easy questions. Fourth, the questio
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  • ...the first few weeks of its founding, Guy Tabachnick and Tony Cheng worked hard to gather enough members to constitute a team. A small membership developed
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  • |Hard-wired connections on both sides of 8 out of 10 activators mean there is no ...h D4, which means you shouldn't use both D and B in a game since those are hard to distinguish. The buzzer numbers inscribed on the activators wear off ove
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  • ...ou an idea of what quizbowl (at a ''very'' high level--these are extremely hard questions) looks like before you read the rest of this article.
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  • ...he team caught a break when next playing TJHSST D, then proceeded to choke hard in a game against IMSA B. At tossup 20, the score stood 200-170 in IMSA’s
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  • ...too long. A typical CB player from Joe Schmo St. would think they are too hard. {| "Too hard!"
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  • ...High-quality tournaments don’t just fall from the sky. They evolve out of hard work on your part, dedicated workers, and, in most cases, years of experien
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  • ...losing by 240 points. Despite trading wins with Torrey Pines and taking a hard loss to Ladue, the team of Nolan, Morgan, and Ian managed to go 7-3, enteri
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  • ...ng first and second and thus playing each other for the championship. In a hard-fought battle, the A team managed to win by just 5 points. Needless to say,
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  • ...new teams and permanently dispel the notion that good questions had to be hard questions was conceived by [[Kelly McKenzie]], star player of the [[Kentuck
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  • ...at people were still convinced that the war on CBI was going to be a long, hard-fought slog with CBI fighting to stay on as long as it could. CBI's sudden
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