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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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