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• Tiebreaker game
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• Game officials
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• Points per game
  '''PPG''' (or '''points per game'''), is a [[statistic]] used to determine the average scoring ability of an ...presenting the number of points a team or player would score in a "typical game". It is used primarily by [[NAQT]] to standardize scoring records, as the e
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• WRAL Brain Game
  '''''Brain Game''''' is a long-running show that has aired on WRAL featuring teams from Nor ...eam (called a "toss-up" by Roberts) if the first answer is incorrect. The game is divided into the following rounds.
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• Two-game final
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• Two game final
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• History of NAQT game format
  This page traces changes in the "standard" NAQT tossup/bonus game format as used at ICT, SCT, HSNCT, and tournaments using IS sets without lo *If all 28 tossups are read and time remains on clock, game ends
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• How to Get Good at This Game
  '''How to Get Good At This Game''' is an essay by [[Raj Bhan]] about how to improve your quiz bowl skills. How to Get Good at This Game
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• Tiebreaker
  *[[tiebreaker game]]s, the extra game or games used to resolve a tie in either overall or pool standings at a [[t ...or questions used during [[overtime]] to resolve a tie in the score of a [[game]]
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• Half-games
  ...ber of tossup-bonus cycles in the vicinity of half the number of a typical game.
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• PP20H
  #REDIRECT [[Points per game]]
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• PPG
  #REDIRECT [[Points per game]]
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• PP20TUH
  #REDIRECT [[Points per game]]
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• Chicken
  ...takes its name from the real [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game) game of chicken], in which participants drive cars at each other and must choose
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• Illinois Open Literature Tournament
  ...[Mike Sorice]] beat [[Jerry Vinokurov]] and [[Eric Mukherjee]] in a single-game third-place match of 36 questions played on the final two packets. Stats c
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• 2009 NSC
  ...NSC in which two parallel playoff brackets played and had a mere crossover game across brackets to determine the final champion of the tournament (and plac
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• Cheese-melter
  A "real '''cheese-melter'''" is an in-progress quizbowl game with a close score. ...luri]], who was keeping [[board score]] at some national championship. The game was a blowout even at halftime, and Revuluri remarked that it was a cheese-
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• Buzzin.live
  [[File:Buzzin.png|thumb|A screenshot of a buzzin.live game]] One can either create a game or join a game on buzzin.live. Creating a game generates a six-digit code for players to enter. The lobby’s creator has
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• Players
  ...an individual who plays [[quizbowl]]. Players comprise the audience of the game, as well as part of [[the community]] alongside the [[coaches]] who help or Quizbowl is a team-based game: each [[game]] is played between two teams of between one and four players. Each player
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• Advantaged final on half-packets
  ...final]] in which each game in the two-game series was replaced by a "half-game" comprised of 10 tossups and bonuses, created by splitting one packet in ha ...ppeal of being able to finish the schedule much more quickly than in a two-game finals scenario and to make schedules which reserved only one packet for th
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• Chris Fleitas
  ...s on [[Jeopardy]] before losing in the first game of [[Joon Pahk]]'s eight-game streak. Fleitas coached the [[2012 Bellarmine]] team that won the [[2012 HS
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• 2001 ACF Nationals
  ...l Erinjeri]] won the tournament, defeating [[Virginia]] A 300-100 in a one-game final. The tournament was edited by [[Dave Hamilton]], [[Subash Maddipoti]] ...05 for the right to play Michigan A in the finals. Michigan A won in a one-game final. The second-place Virginia team consisted of [[John Kenney]], Abhniva
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• Copyright
  ==Game formats== ...and [[Questions Unlimited]] claims to hold a copyright on the four-quarter game format.
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• High School Bowl
  ....com/hsb/sample.html actual game questions] from a recent High School Bowl Game Packet" which have a copyright date of 2005 and are [https://web.archive.or
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• 2002 Detroit Catholic Central
  ...tion, CC set the record for the widest margin of victory in a championship game by crushing Hartland High School 810-285 in the finals. ...the history of the CC program to have competed in a national championship game.
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• Subapalooza
  ...tive term for the practice of teams making many [[substitution]]s during a game.
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• 2011 WashU Student Life article
  ...n University]]'s student newspaper. It was entitled "Not your average bowl-game" and written by Percy Olsen. ...ame-practicing-and-competing-with-the-academic-team/ Not your average bowl-game: Practicing and competing with the Academic Team]. [http://www.studlife.com
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• Certamen
  ...of the game given by the National Junior Classical League: "Certamen is a game of fast recall of facts about classical civilizations and its peoples, lang
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• ACF format
  The ACF game consists, simply, of twenty ten-point tossups with thirty-point bonuses. Th ...ailing team needs to win two games, if the first-place team is exactly one game ahead of the second-place team.
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• Kevin Olmstead
  ==Game Show Appearances== ...ified Olmstead as the world record holder for having won the most money in game show history. Olmstead currently ranks third on this list behind [[Brad Ru
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• 2007 ACF Nationals
  ...lege]], both of whom finished at 8-4, with Illinois winning the points-per-game tiebreaker to finish fifth. [[2007 Michigan|Michigan]] and [[2007 Vanderbi ...rov]] of Brown, in that order. Weiner led the field with 91.67 points per game.
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• 2007 Chicago
  ...ossups and negging 19 times and average a tournament-best 341.2 points per game. ...s for 55 points per game. Peter went 32-5 and finished with 25 points per game, Susan went 31-7 for 22.92 PPG, while Selene had 22.5 PPG on a 28-3 line.
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• 2015 NSC
  ...ting. [[Detroit Catholic Central|DCC A]] defeated [[LASA|LASA A]] in a one-game final. [[Maggie Walker]] came in third and [[High Tech|High Tech A]] came i In the All-Star Game ....
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• Moot
  {{Rules of the game}} ...e potential change in score is not sufficient to change the outcome of the game. Protests that are invalidated in this way have been '''rendered moot'''.</
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• Micah Hodosh
  ...during an impressive shellacking of the field at [[Jeremy Eaton]]'s video game tournament TIDUS.
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• 2004 ACF Nationals
  ...A&M|Texas A&M]] finished third with a 10-3 record, winning the third-place game against [[2004 Kentucky|Kentucky]], who also went 10-3 and earned fourth. ...of [[Princeton]], in that order. Mathews led the field with 81 points per game.
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• Buzzer rock
  ...omething like 2 tossups and 0 interrupts in 10 games for a 2.00 points per game average. Use of this term is largely discouraged due to its negative connot
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• Overtime
  '''Overtime''' is a period of a quizbowl game played if the teams are [[tie|tied]] after regulation play has concluded an ...e is solely sudden death, although PACE has no interrupt penalties, so the game ends (only) upon the first correct answer being given to a tossup.
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• Paperless
  ...urnament is a tournament for which [[packet|packets]] are distributed to [[Game officials|tournament staff]] electronically and read off of laptops, tablet *The question set can be provided to game staff the night before the tournament.
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• Amanda Goad
  ...e game is unknown, it is known that Goad went on to singlehandedly win the game for Maggie Walker. (See also [[Weiner's Laws#Weiner's Law #4|Weiner's Law #
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• Gananoque
  ...isgar team, missing its captain, later defeated Gananoque in the 3rd place game, 420-180.
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• Dan Leifer
  ...eping error, Dan's 11 individual negs and the team 14's may also be single-game records. ...g/fall08/fall08vcu_playerdetail.html#p1_9 Dan averaged over three negs per game] but still managed to be tied as the 13th highest scorer (out of 44). Esse
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• WRAL Brain Game
  '''''Brain Game''''' is a long-running show that has aired on WRAL featuring teams from Nor ...eam (called a "toss-up" by Roberts) if the first answer is incorrect. The game is divided into the following rounds.
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• 1987 Minnesota
  Defeated [[Georgia Tech]] in championship game. Team consisted of [[Matt Marta]], Bruce Simmons, [[Bob Maranto]], and Mark
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• Canadian finals format
  ...ams did not play each other or split their games, then there is only a one game final. ...equivalently, once the two best teams are found, all games except for the game(s) between those two teams are arbitrarily thrown out. One of the more col
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• Chet Faliszek
  ...alogue writer for the ''Half-Life'', ''Left 4 Dead'', and ''Portal'' video game series. While he never played quizbowl, he was the chief technical contact
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• 2003 ACF Nationals
  ...mezis]], and they finished with a 14-2 record, averaging 317.67 points per game. [[2003 Kentucky|Kentucky]] finished third with a 12-2 record, while [[200 ...[South Carolina]], respectively. Mathews led the field with 72 points per game.
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• Timed play
  In '''timed play''', a timer determines the length of each half of a game. The timer is conventionally called a '''clock'''. ...want fewer tossups to be heard. Accordingly, a team will often hurry the game in two cases:
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• 2005 Freeman
  ...r the Steward game, which taped on the same day as the Homecoming football game, the team made a surprise appearance at the pep rally, garnering wild cheer ...on tournament, where history would be made. In the third game of the seven-game round-robin tournament, Freeman beat [[Maggie Walker]] by the score of 155-
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• Jungle Quiz
  Adapted from the game Jungle Speed, participants sit in a circle with a totem in the center as a * Before the game begins choose a safe word for during buzzer races- this is imperative
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• 1986 NAC
  ...play" (but was then ranked 8th in the final standings based on points per game). :"They asked silly, tricky questions that were much more like a game show than an academic competition." Academic competitors normally field str
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• Conversion metrics
  ===Average/Median Points Per Game=== ...the number of games played. As with bonus conversion, a median points per game is sometimes used as a more accurate conversion metric.
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• 2009 Chicago
  ...oo]], [[Shantanu Jha]] and [[David Seal]], defeated Illinois in the second game of an advantaged final to win the [[2009 ICT]]. Seth led [http://www.naqt.c ...e Koo]], [[Shantanu Jha]], and [[Michael Arnold]], defeated Brown in a one-game final after defeating Stanford to get into the final to win the [[2009 ACF
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• 2012 HSNCT
  ...ated [[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central A]] in the second game of an advantaged final. ...won the first game of the finals 395-370 to even the series. The deciding game went to Bellarmine A in a 455-275 win.
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• Inglemoor
  ...to clerical errors, Paul was listed as the top player with 47.5 points per game. Cameron Pauly was unable to attend the 2013 Fall Classic. ==Individual Points Per Game Records==
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• 2008 Wilmington Charter
  ...ory over Dorman was the subject of some minor controversy due to the last, game-deciding tossup being on computational math. ...n the playoffs, Charter had to win twice in the final. They won the first game 385-335, but lost after TJ got the first five tossups and started the secon
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• 2007 MSHSAA State Championship
  1. [[Nate Kinast]], Thomas Jefferson senior, 16.33 tossups per game 2. [[Jon Blakey]], Bradleyville senior, 12.67 tossups per game
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• 2008 MSHSAA State Championship
  1. [[Nate Schuster]], Pilot Grove, 12.8 tossups per game 2. [[Virginia Geddie]], Thomas Jefferson, 10.8 tossups per game
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