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• Ball So Hard University
  '''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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• Ball So Hard Open
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• BHSU
  #REDIRECT [[Ball So Hard University]]
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• Michigan 10
  ...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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• 2010 Minnesota Open
  ...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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• Shadow zone
  ...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
  '''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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• Minnesota Open Literature Tournament
  ...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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• George Oppen
  | Difficulty = College hard ...r science and [[Mike Cheyne]] on trash. The tournament ended up being very hard.
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• BELFAST
  ...h positive remarks. However, its final round was deemed disproportionately hard compared to the rest of the set.
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• Cane Ridge Revival
  | 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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• 2009 NTAE
  ...ls possibly stemming from the housing crisis, which hit Florida especially hard, forced the cancellation of the 2010 NTAE.
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• Cory Smith
  |Subjects=hard sciences, certain areas of philosophy
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• St. Bernard Prep
  ...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
  '''Saturnalia''' was a hard (regs+ difficulty) high school set mirrored in fall 2020 and spring 2021. S
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• Deaf Academic Bowl
  ...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
  '''Scattergories''' is a series of very hard, whimsical open side events written by [[Will Nediger]]. There have been fo
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• Boston College College Bowl Jam: Tournament Edition
  ...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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• Arthur Gayden
  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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• MAGNI
  ...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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• Chicken
  ...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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• Fundamental Difficulty Error
  ...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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• FTP
  ...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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• All Things Bonus
  ...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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• Lame
  ...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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• The Gerbils
  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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• Mid-Atlantic Championship
  ...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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• Champaign Central
  ...ed by captains Emily Miller and Jack Larson again defeated Centennial in a hard-fought finals match.
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• 2017 Chicago Open/Transcript
  ...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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• CMST II
  ** Expansion of Social Science to 2/2, including distinct "Soft" and "Hard" subdistributions getting 1/1 apiece
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• Libo Zeng
  ...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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• Manu Ginobili
  |Difficulty=Very hard
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• 2005 Detroit Catholic Central
  Their hard work and drive was evident in an exciting come from behind win against Okem
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• Jacob Mikanowski
  ...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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• Eyes That Do Not See
  ...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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• Difficulty
  # 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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• Fernando Arrabal Tournament of the Absurd
  | Difficulty = Extremely hard
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• Harvard International
  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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• HSNCT and its Problems
  ...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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• 2009 NSC
  ...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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• Buffalo
  ...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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• Bonus
  ...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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• Titanomachy
  ...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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• Tossup-Bonus Format
  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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• AAUW Knowledge Bowl
  ...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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• Minnesota Open
  ...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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• Dartmouth
  ...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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• Generalist
  ...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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• Camp Hill
  ...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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• How to prepare for nationals
  ...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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• Conversion metrics
  <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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• WRAL Brain Game
  ...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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