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• Academic Competition for Excellence
  ...d by several quiz bowl formats in the eastern U.S., most notably in [[High school quizbowl in Virginia|Virginia]]. The competition takes place in local [[lea {{c|Formats}}{{c|High school quizbowl in Virginia}}{{c|Stubs}}
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• Olympia
  ...stion writing company focused on providing [["good"]] questions in various formats. * [[Olympia High School]], a high school in Olympia, WA.
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• Scholastic Bowl
  * [[VHSL Scholastic Bowl|Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl]] [[Category:High school tournaments]]
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• Multiple choice
  ==Formats that use multiple choice questions== *[[High School Quiz Show]] (WGBH Boston)
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• Modern era of high school quizbowl
  ...have led the way to marked improvements in question styles and tournament formats at all levels of play. [[Category:High school formats]]
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• High School Bowl
  ...rmat produced by the [[College Bowl Company]] and marketed for use on high school quizbowl television shows and independent tournaments. ...latest, fall 2008. It is unknown what tournaments, if any, still use High School Bowl or if new questions are being produced.
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• List of high school state champions
  ...(A-F)]], [[List of high school state champions (G-M)]], and [[List of high school state champions (N-W)]]. If you would like to help fill the table out, plea {{:List of high school state champions (A-F)}}
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• Substitution
  Especially at the high school level, bringing teams of more than four players is common. They may rotate The most common high school approach is to have four "starters" and to substitute in less experienced p
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• Four-quarter format
  ...broken into, as the name implies, four quarters, the differing individual formats vary but may include worksheets, lightning rounds, give-and-takes, and toss Four-quarter format was the predominant style of high school quizbowl in the 1990s prior to the growth in popularity of [[NAQT]] and oth
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• National Academic Association
  [[Category:Mysteries]] [[Category:Chip Beall antics]] [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Mainstream quizbowl
  ...g [[academic]] content. Implicitly, such teams are [[affiliated]] with a [[school]] - active players who have graduated are often considered part of the para ==High school==
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• Category round
  Featured in some high school formats, a '''category round''' involves reading ten questions on some theme (such Almost all [[four quarter format|four quarter]] formats include a category round. In some tournaments, including the [[NAC]], getti
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• Tossup-Bonus Format
  The '''tossup/bonus format''' is the most common format used in both high school and collegiate quizbowl. In this format, the game consists of the reading o ...at is sometimes called the 20/20 format. Some local high school and middle school tournaments use a different number of questions. The tossup-bonus format ca
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• ACF IS IMPOSSIBLE
  ...ined about [[ACF]]-format questions being difficult in comparison to other formats. This line of argument was considered unworthy of serious consideration for ...would be foolish to say that the [[Maryland Classic]], an ACF-format high school tournament, is of a higher difficulty than the [[NAQT ICT]]. Thus, individu
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• Freshman Method
  ..., and is aggravated by playing [[Chip Beall]] or other bad formats in high school which involve poorly worded questions that do not clearly specify what they
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• High Q
  ...l-ish competitions. Although some are known by other more specific names, "High Q" alone generally refers to the WSBTV televised competition, which airs in ...connection to IA. The variety of not necessarily affiliated shows called "High-Q" indicates that the name is probably not trademarked.
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• 2004 Thomas Jefferson
  ...rked this team's only loss while playing their full A team in tossup/bonus formats during the 2004 season. [[Category: Historical High school teams]]
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• Timed play
  ...rently in nationwide use that involve timing games. Middle school and high school games use nine-minute halves. [[Community college]] games use 10-minute hal ==Pseudotimed formats==
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• MACF
  ...d high-school tournaments were more likely to imitate [[CBI]] or bad local formats. Since every full-length tournament in collegiate quizbowl besides [[NAQT]] More recently, the term has seen a resurgence of usage among the high-school quizbowl community, to distinguish sets with an ACF-like [[distribution|sub
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• Bounceback
  ...ven a chance to answer the part. Bouncebacks are common in middle and high school quiz bowl, but probably used at less than a majority of tournaments, and ar ...linois]] and [[MSHSAA|Missouri]], used bouncebacks at pretty much all high school tournaments before 2005, but now have tournaments both with and without the
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• Singles
  ...acket readings rather than main events, and do not use head-to-head or bee formats. Most ladder formats decide a winner using one of the following two systems: (1) cumulative scor
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• Team
  ...lly speaking a team is [[affiliated]] with a [[school]] at either the high school or college level.</onlyinclude> Most formats allow four players to play at once - there may also be [[substitutes]], but
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• Scholastic Bowl Company of Virginia
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Civility
  ...]] at the college level and [[National Academic Championship]] at the high school level. While this conflict is still not fully resolved, the death of Colleg ...lone the start of their outreach. This made the process of replacing these formats and their very conservative-minded administrators very difficult. One conse
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• Quizbowl
  ...he US, the [[Tossup-bonus format|most common format]] on the national high school and college level is a two-team competition in which the teams compete to b ==Formats==
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• Booker T. Washington
  {{Highschoolteam|Name = Booker T. Washington High School ...ington''' (often simply referred to as "'''Booker T.'''") is a magnet high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose quizbowl team won the 2001 and 2004 [[NAQT Oklaho
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• York Suburban High School
  {{Highschoolteam|Name = York Suburban High School '''York Suburban High School''' is a high school located in York, Pennsylvania. Their quiz bowl team has played extensively
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• Bonus
  ...up is said to "control" the bonus, as they have the right to answer it. In formats with [[bouncebacks]] like [[PACE]] [[NSC]], the other team has the opportun ...10 points, but this was not always the case. For discussion of these older formats, see the section on "[[Bonus#Defunct styles of bonuses|defunct styles of bo
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• Advantaged final on half-packets
  The '''advantaged final on half-packets''' was a format used in many high school tournaments from 2009 to the mid-2010s. ...a single packet. Certainly, this has some drawbacks (as do all tournament formats and finals schemes, including advantaged finals).
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• Bad quizbowl
  ...]] and the pursuit of [[fairness]] in question structure and competition [[formats]]). ...g [[National Academic Championship]] as well as a number of state-specific formats.</onlyinclude>
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• Hastings High School
  {{Highschoolteam|Name = Hastings High School ...eagues [[WACKO]] and [[MACC]], but has increasingly been playing pyramidal formats over the past two years.
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• NAQT rules
  * Matches consist of two [[timed play|nine-minute]] (middle school and high school) or ten-minute (college, including community college) halves (but may end s ...ariable-value bonuses]] were eliminated c. 1997, while all remaining bonus formats (besides three parts worth 10 points each) were eliminated c. 2014.
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• History of NAQT game format
  ...without local modifications. NAQT has also produced sets in various other formats. ===Differences in original NAQT format from other major game formats in 1997===
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• James Monroe
  |status = Active in state league & TV formats '''James Monroe High School''' is located in Fredericksburg, VA and participates in [[VHSL Scholastic B
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• SAGES
  ...on writing company, based in the St. Louis area, for elementary and middle school level tournaments. SAGES may also refer to the elementary-level set produce ...In the fall of 2015, Alex was asked if he would consider writing a middle school set as well, and given the expansion of effort, SAGES was founded as a comp
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• Questions Unlimited
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• AAUW Knowledge Bowl
  Games are played once a week after school over the course of four weeks during the spring. ...e noted that most Knowledge Bowl teams do not usually participate in other formats.
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• Kiwanis Bowl
  ...post indicates that a Kiwanis Bowl tournament was held at Los Amigos High School in November 2006. ...mid-1990s, possibly 1996, though [[Gustavo Arellano]] claims that Anaheim High won in both 1996 and 1997 (it's possible that this writer has misremembered
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• 2005 Thomas Jefferson
  ...etitive schedule (the mid-Atlantic was the most competitive region in high school quizbowl at the time). ...on after Maryland negged on the final question. While not credited to the school, it could be argued that the members of this team in fact won a third natio
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• Reach for Dalhousie
  '''Reach for Dalhousie''' is a competition for Atlantic Canada high school teams held at Dalhousie University in Halifax. It is held in late October/ The inaugural event was attended by 45 high schools in Nova Scotia - nearly the entire province. The [[2005 Cobequid]]
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• Chip Beall
  ...eferred to as "Chip Bowl." Chip grew up in Arkansas and played on his high school team.
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• Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl Association
  ...ing body. The group sponsors a Fall Camp for both Senior High and Jr. High school students and helps coordinate tournaments in the state throughout the year. Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl is particularly unique among quiz bowl formats in how it chooses to structure question challenges ([[protest]]s) during ma
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• Interrupt penalty
  ...legiate quizbowl, including [[NAQT]] and [[ACF]] and in many forms of high school quizbowl. The verb "to neg" (word forms: negged, negging, etc.) can either In nearly all team-based formats that issue interrupt penalties, a penalty can only be incurred if the answe
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• Bonus conversion
  ...l number of bonuses heard, and is expressed in points per bonus (ppb). In formats where bonuses take different maximum point values over the course of the ga Formats which use [[bouncebacks]] and are connected enough to the quizbowl mainstre
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• Protest
  In some state high school formats (such as [[IHSA]]), protests must be made immediately and are resolved on t ==Other formats==
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• Central vs. Maggie Walker (2016 VHSL)
  ..."Wise County PACE" (in Pound's case) and VHSL formats. While Central High School is located in the depths of Southwest Virginia, it is one of a small number [[Category:High school quizbowl in Virginia]]
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• Idaho National Labs Scholastic Tournament
  '''Idaho National Laboratory Scholastic Tournament''' is a high school science and math focused quizbowl program played throughout the state of Id [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Public Library Quiz Bowl
  The '''Public Library Quiz Bowl''' is a format of high school quiz bowl played in North Carolina, sponsored by the Public Library system. ...ory: High school formats]] [[Category: Quizbowl TV shows]] [[Category:High school quizbowl in North Carolina]]
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• Single-elimination
  ...re dropped from the competition after a single loss. Some [[bad quizbowl]] formats utilize single-elimination playoffs after an initial pool or bracket, which ==Classic high school format==
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• Rules
  ...overning gameplay at [[tournaments]]. (Sets of rules are sometimes called "formats", a usage that can create confusion with the different concept of [[tournam | [[timed play|timed]] with two halves of 9 minutes (middle school, high school) or 10 minutes (college) each; maximum 24 [[tossup-bonus cycles]]
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