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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Paperless
  ...resheet|scoresheets]] and [[Schedule|schedules]] may be printed out, or in formats with [[computational math|computation]], scratch paper may be provided to t ...nts are increasingly popular; almost all college tournaments and many high school tournaments are paperless.
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• Metro Conference Academic League
  ...area of San Diego County, California and run by the Sweetwater Union High School District. It is one of four members of the [[San Diego County Academic Leag ...eams in semi-final matches. All semi-finalist teams qualify for the [[High School National Championship Tournament]]. The winners of the semi-final matches p
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• San Diego City Academic League
  ...League''' is a format of high school quizbowl run by the San Diego Unified School District. It is one of four members of the [[San Diego County Academic Leag ...rsity, or Varsity. As of 2017, the novice division uses two [[NAQT Middle School Series]] sets, the JV divison uses two Introdudtory Invitational Series set
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• Computational math
  ===High school=== The amount of computational math in the high school game varies significantly from format to format and from state to state. Th
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• North Kansas City
  ...chool''', also known as '''NKC''' or '''Northtown''', is a suburban public school in North Kansas City. Its quizbowl team has been active since the 1980s in North Kansas City has hosted many tournaments over the years in varying formats. Earlier iterations were generally hosted in a [[four-quarter]] format. The
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• Officials
  ...quizbowl formats just need a moderator and scorekeeper in every room. Some formats use additional game officials. ...e can keep track of the score from afar during the match. In Illinois high school quizbowl, this function was traditionally performed by a non-playing team m
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• Hose
  ...ably assume that the answer could be Tesla, and in some "[[bad quizbowl]]" formats be ruled incorrect despite the given answer being correct based on the info ...written or included in a tournament. However, under the rules of some high school state [[quizbowl]] associations, an answer of "Bismarck" would be marked in
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• Tournament structure
  Tournament directors often try to incorporate into their formats the principle that a single loss should never eliminate a team from champio * Varsity and Junior Varsity/Novice (middle and high school tournaments)
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• How Quizbowl Works
  ...most common number. In most matches, players on a team all attend the same school, though [[open]] tournaments do not have this requirement. ...correctly answering a tossup and up to 30 points possible on a bonus. Some formats, including [[NAQT]], reward 15 points for correctly answering a tossup [[po
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• Names for quizbowl
  ...r Bowl]], [[Cullman County Scholar Bowl]], [[AISA]], [[Madison County High School Scholars' Bowl]], [[Snead State Scholars Bowl]] and [[Chilton County Schola ...cially do so. Some teams are formally known as "[School] Academic Team", "[School] Quiz Team", or other variations.
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• Arizona Knowledge Bowl
  ...quizbowl|bad quality]]. Arizona Knowledge Bowl largely resembles other KB formats in that three teams play at the same time and it is [[tossup]] only. ...m/index.php?type=groups&action=details&id=119 Schedule on Thatcher Unified School District Website]
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• SkillsUSA
  | Stockbridge High School | Stockbridge High School
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• Academic Olympics
  ...from around the greater Reno area. Although it is run by the Washoe County School District, there does not appear to be anything specifically describing what According to [http://www.inclineschools.org/index.php/schools/36-high-school-news/978-ihs-academic-olympic-team-places-third| this article], "Academic O
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• NAQT Invitational Series
  ...any different tournaments around the country on different dates during the school year. ...ter (maximum 300 characters) questions and are intended for beginning high school players, and use [https://www.naqt.com/hs/distribution-introductory.jsp a s
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• Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions
  ...is composed of 29 Intermediate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous In recent years, some IUs have created or changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia IU's Regional Qualifier, for
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• National Academic Quiz Tournaments
  ...so hosts end-of-year championships for middle schools, small high schools, high schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges. ...discontinuation in 2001. NAQT's middle school program began in the 2010-11 school year and continues to this day.
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• Division I and Division II
  ...wl (though they may have extensive experience in high school and/or middle school quizbowl). A team is eligible for Division II if all of its players are eli ...a function of the specific players on a specific team, not of a school. A school can generally enter one or more Division I teams and also one or more Divis
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• Educational Service Unit
  The Educational Service Unit "provide[s] educational services to thirteen school districts in south-central and southwestern Nebraska." Their mission "is to ...llowed for any team member to respond", the player must wait until his/her school name and position is completely called before giving the answer", "The team
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• Lakeside (WA)
  {{Highschoolteam|Name = Lakeside School '''Lakeside School''' is a private grade 5-12 school in Seattle, Washington.
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• Chris White
  ...zbowl who remains nostalgic for the 30-20-10 and other "nonstandard" bonus formats. ==High School==
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