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• FTP
  <onlyinclude>The acronym '''FTP''' in a [[packet]] stands for "for 10 points," the standard phrase which marks the beginning of the [[giveaway]] clue to ...or confusing newer moderators, it is preferred to always write out "for 10 points" instead of the acronym "FTP."</onlyinclude>
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• 30-20-10 bonuses
  ...chance to answer for 10 points. If the team is incorrect, they receive no points and the bonus ends. They were used in [[NAQT]] questions until about 2009. ...rth 20 points, and the easiest clue(s) should go last and only be worth 10 points, but question writers generally now prefer to use the same clues in the sam
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• List bonuses
  ...s]] format more common today, in which there are three separate questions, each of which has a single answer. List bonuses are rarely used in modern quizbo *You get 5 points for one, 10 for two, 20 for three and 30 for getting all four answers correct. Name the four states that meet at the Fou
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• Rules
  :''For the QBWiki rules, see [[QBWiki:Rules]].'' ...o halves of 9 minutes (middle school, high school) or 10 minutes (college) each; maximum 24 [[tossup-bonus cycles]]
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• NAQT rules
  ...[[NAQT]] uses for its team-based [[national championships]] and recommends for most local tournaments. ...points, respectively, while non-power correct tossup answers are worth 10 points.
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• ACF rules
  '''ACF rules''' are the [[rules]] used for [[ACF]] tournaments. They are based on the [[common ruleset]] project with ...of 20 [[tossup-bonus cycles]], with a very brief [[halftime]] break after 10 cycles
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• Giveaway
  ...in the tossup. The giveaway almost always comes after the words "[[For 10 points]]." ...a namesake isthmus and host to a namesake canal.}} rather than {{q|For 10 points, a canal over an isthmus crosses what Central American country?}} (assuming
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• Conversion
  ...[[downconversion]] (editing questions to be shorter and easier to use them for another purpose) or [[upconversion]] (the opposite)}} ...rstood as taking the words of a question and "converting" them into points for one's team.
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• Computer Bowl
  ...rs were packaged into two episodes of PBS's series ''Computer Chronicles'' for later TV broadcast. Each Computer Bowl featured a team representing the West coast technology indust
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• Idaho National Labs Scholastic Tournament
  ...March. The championship matches for each division are taped and broadcast for Idaho Public Television. ...ed for each correct answer during the bonus round, and there is no penalty for incorrect answers. The team with the highest score after 3 periods win.
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• Visual tournament
  ...e the painting"). The "clues" for each tossup are a set of 6 to 10 slides. Each slide contains an image, such that the first slide contains the hardest ima ...kground to indicate that they are worth [[power]]. Regular slides worth 10 points are black, and the [[giveaway]] slide is green, to indicate the end of the
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• Moot
  ...s). This scenario can also be described as "having a potential swing of 75 points". ...was in the lead, then the resolution of the protest could not win the game for team B and team A wins outright - the protest is moot.
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• Buzzerpalooza
  ...d contains eight questions worth 10 points apiece, with a 10 point penalty for wrong answers (even if the question has finished). There are no bouncebacks ...ifferent set of 6 questions worth 20 points apiece. There are no penalties for wrong answers.
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• Answers Please
  ...uestion or team question part) was worth 5 points in the first half and 10 points in the second half. The winning team returned for the following show, up to a maximum of three appearances.
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• Bay Area Quiz Kids
  Each episode (except the championship) consists of two matches between two diffe ...ted bonus questions. Answering one question correctly increases the score for the tossup-bonus cycle to 25; answering both bonus questions increases the
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• 2004 ACF Nationals
  The '''2004 ACF Nationals''' was held on April 10 at [[Maryland]]. [[Chicago]] A, consisting of [[Andrew Yaphe]], [[Subash Ma ...ing the third-place game against [[2004 Kentucky|Kentucky]], who also went 10-3 and earned fourth. [[2004 Rochester|Rochester]] defeated [[2004 Michigan
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• Bonus
  ...been standardized as three-part questions whose parts are worth 10 points each.</onlyinclude> The [[variable-value bonus]], which assigns different point values to each bonus question, is an [[unfair]] "[[bad quizbowl]]" practice which has larg
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• The Challenge
  ...nsored by Tri-state network News 12, and was hosted by various newscasters for the network. In 2009, the show was transferred to MSG Varsity, and was last ...orth 10 points, but a wrong answer allowed the other team to answer for 20 points.
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• Buzzer rock
  ...t line of something 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 negati
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• Buzzword
  '''Buzzword''' is an [[asynchronous]], online, [[audio]] quizbowl competition for individual players, created and hosted by [[NAQT]]. [https://www.naqt.com/b ...and Popular Culture (i.e. excluding sports) questions, delivered in weekly 10-question increments; there is not currently a regular season of academic Bu
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• Jeopardy!-style tournament
  A '''Jeopardy!-style tournament''' is a knowledge tournament for high schools and is popular in New Jersey. Although it is generally not con ...s until the board is cleared. The team with the higher score gets a bonus for winning the game.
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• Chloe Levine
  ...uizbowl's gender divide amoung younger players. In 2018, she was nominated for Player of the Year through the [[National Quizbowl Awards]].
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• Old PACE format
  Each game in the old PACE format had three parts: the Related Tossup-Bonus round ...nsisted of ten tossups, which were each worth 10 points and had no powers. Each tossup was paired with a 2-part, 20-point bonus related to the topic of the
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• Quizbusters (WNAB)
  ...the effect of potentially screwing a team that gets stuck with a category for which they have little knowledge. ...s are worth 20 points, and the lightning round questions are worth only 10 points. Additionally, teams can now select from a choice of three categories from
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• Farragut
  |currentcoach = Kelly Loveday for Quizbowl. Alex Shaffer for History Bowl. ...lic high school located in the suburbs of Knoxville, TN. Farragut is known for several recent high finishes at various National Championships: the History
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• Quizbusters (WKAR)
  ...ts in one toss-up/bonus cycle (10 for the tossup, 30 for the bonus, and 10 for the sweep). ...ead in 60 seconds; unlike in the rest of the game, a wrong answer loses 10 points, and the question is not offered to the other team.
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• 2005 ACF Nationals
  ...7-5 and beating [[2005 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]] head-to-head to break the tie for 4th place. TAMU placed fifth, while 6-6 [[2005 VCU|VCU]] placed sixth and ...n Keller]] of [[Rutgers]], in that order. Weiner led the field with 71.67 points per game.
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• Bonus conversion
  ...definition even though their bonuses are not all worth the same amount of points. ...n bounceback opportunities, which may be labeled "bounceback percentage," "points per bounceback," or similar.
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• Tossup-Bonus Format
  ...expiration of a clock determines how many tossup-bonus cycles are read in each half of the game. ...t buzz in and answer the tossup correctly for their team to receive points for their team.
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• Westbrook's Amended ACF Rules
  ...hese rules. They were facetiously adopted as the unofficial rules of play for [[ACF]] tournaments in 2007. ...e]] posted the original 1998 Rules of Play for ACF, to provide a guideline for people who sought to revise the rules. After reading through two separate
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• Powers
  ...of early [[clue]]s where a [[buzz]] with the correct answer is worth extra points. Powers serve to reward deep [[knowledge]] of a subject more than basic kno The region of a question which is worth additional points is referred to as "'''in power'''"; the remainder is "'''out of power'''".
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• Laming
  ...tion of saving a just-lamed bonus for itself. The saved bonus will be read for the opponent at the next opportunity. ...a 3-part question; team B answers two parts correctly. Team A collects 10 points on the punt). At Maryland 11, this was referred to as "screwing", similar
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• Weijia Cheng
  '''Weijia Cheng''' played for [[Maryland]] from 2015 to 2019 and was on the team that won [[2017 ACF Nati ...so early that moderator [[Rob Carson]] recorded it on his scoresheet as 15 points, making them one of the few individuals known to have powered a tossup at [
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• South Forsyth
  ...pionship in 2012, losing to eventual champion [[Chattahoochee]] by only 10 points after failing to convert a bonus part. They later went 5-5 in prelims at th ...e [[2013 HSNCT]] and a T-50th finish. Sean also received an All-Star award for being the 14th highest scorer.
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• Tossup
  ...o score points for their team. Tossup questions are the staple of gameplay for virtually all contemporary quizbowl. "[[Good quizbowl]]" advocates for tossups in [[pyramidality|pyramidal]] style, in which a question begins wit
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• 2015 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...final to repeat as tournament champion, also taking the small school title for the third consecutive year. ''Teams marked with * were eligible for the small school title''
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• Copley Invitational
  ...ossible. They consist of B teams and non-qualified teams hoping to qualify for OAC Regionals. In 2015, a middle school NAQT tournament was paired with th
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• 2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...hington B finishing third. [[Hallsville]] A claimed the small school title for the fifth consecutive year, finishing eighth overall. ''Teams marked with * were eligible for the small school title''
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• Sycamore (Indiana middle school)
  ...ycamore School''' is a small Preschool-8th school in Indianapolis, Indiana for gifted students. The school offers quiz bowl to its seventh and eighth grad ...n, Gavin Sigua, and Evan Ting, set the all-time NAQT tournament record for points per 20 tossups heard across a tournament, with 670. This is the highest ave
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• Ann B. Davis
  ...convert the entire bonus. If the team missed any bonus part, they get zero points. ...eligible for the bonus. A second incorrect answer earned the team minus-10 points.
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• Classen SAS
  ...during the 2020-21 season. At the [[2023 MSNCT]], Classen SAS placed tied for 21st while captained by Sreekar Vajjha, who placed third in individual scor ...y in-state tournament they played. The other 2 teams they competed against for the title of "Best in Oklahoma" with being [[Morris]] and [[Yukon]]. Playin
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• 2003 ACF Nationals
  ...go A|Chicago A]] head-to-head to earn fourth; both schools finished with a 10-4 record. [[2003 Harvard|Harvard]] beat [[2003 Yale|Yale]] to earn sixth w ...port]] of [[South Carolina]], respectively. Mathews led the field with 72 points per game.
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• Taco Bell Soap
  ...sup 3 in the "Fair Game" Theme Packet by "Shaun Cassidy & the Grapico Kid" for [[Ghetto Warz]] III. It was later revealed by the question's author, [[Dwi ...cuss Crawley's daughter Grace making one out of Archdeacon Grantly. For 10 points, identify this eight-letter word that also names a USC fight song.<br>
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• Science Bowl
  ...ce, which have to be answered by repeating the correct choice exactly word-for-word or by saying the corresponding letter (w, x, y, or z), short answer, a *[[Tossups]] and [[bonuses]] are interchangeable, but are worth 4 and 10 points respectively.
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• Ultima
  ...tournament as a early-in-the-year way of discovering potential candidates for [[Team Illinois]], especially so that he could recommend to coaches that ce ...ach in the first period, ten points each in the second, and fifteen points each in the third. There were no rebounds, and any incorrect answer results in
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• 2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...] A to win the tournament. [[Hallsville]] A claimed the small school title for the fourth consecutive year, finishing sixth overall. ''Teams marked with * were eligible for the small school title''
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• Tennessee Knowledge Bowl
  ...V in the Memphis and greater Mid-South region. It has taken place annually for over 31 years, though production was halted on the 2020-2021 season due to ...f Meteorologist Jim Jaggers took over and is currently the host. The judge for possibly the entire course of the show has been (now-retired) Dean Richard
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• Public Library Quiz Bowl
  ...with teams competing on a local, district and state level. The winner of each tier advances to the next tier, and the winner of the state tournament is d ...Again, if the question is missed, the other team has a chance to answer it for half credit. Rounds are not timed.
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• 2018 NAQT Missouri Qualifier
  ...Missouri Qualifier title. [[Hallsville]] A claimed the small school title for the sixth consecutive year, finishing third overall. [[Louisiana (MO)|Louis ...igible for the small school title. Teams marked with ** were also eligible for the very small school title''
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• John Nam
  ...with [[Carol Guthrie]] and [[Ramesh Kannappan]], and for playing quizbowl for a really, really long time. He was also the assistant coach of the [[1990 M ...e standard of college eligibility, despite continuing to play for Maryland for another 12 years after 1990. This was far from the only such case prior to
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• Fred Morlan
  ...known West Virginian in the wider world of quizbowl. He played in college for [[West Virginia Wesleyan]] as well as in high school, and has since gone on ...2009 and the Tommy and Cameron Open. His studying and leading of practices for West Virginia high schoolers apparently paid off as he had his highest PPG
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• 2006 ACF Nationals
  ...finished fourth at 9-3, while [[2006 Princeton|Princeton]] went 7-5, good for fifth. [[2006 UCLA|UCLA]] (6-6), and [[2006 Chicago B|Chicago B]] rounded ...t among players in the top playoff bracket. [[Paul Litvak]]'s solo effort for [[Carnegie Mellon]] resulted in 62.5 PPG, earning him fifth overall in scor
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• University Challenge
  ...teams of students from universities and colleges in the UK compete against each other in a knockout tournament. University Challenge was originally a spin- ...chester and [[Oxford]]'s Magdalene College are tied for second with 4 wins each.
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• 1999 ICT
  ...egiate Championship Tournament''' was the third [[ICT]] and was held April 10-11, 1999 on the campus of the [[University of Michigan]] in Ann Arbor, MI. ...adjust the former for bonuses, and assess a higher penalty to the average for negs. Final individual rankings were based on the PCbPG number, but this l
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• Gettier
  ...ponded to the right answer, but were mistaken about how. The term is named for the "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem Gettier problem]" of Am # and they have a justification for believing that P is true
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• Lucas Brown
  ...rn CA State Championships and the 2010 Technophobia Jr). He is also known for a gaping hole in trash that he managed to fill in the span of about a month ...onsidered to be the first individual to have a career total of over 10,000 points from NAQT's high school level preliminary rounds, though use of pseudonyms
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• Island Cup
  ...man]]; after a year of preparation, the tournaments began in October 2019. Each leg is a direct successor to a discontinued Long Island tournament: the Oct ...was widely mocked as the "Meme Tournament" due to the small field. Reviews for the February 2020 event were highly positive. Notably, the event featured f
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• Schools Challenge
  ...d that as a result, it is considered the ''de facto'' national competition for quiz in the UK and involves a base of at least 50-60 schools every year. ...to the previous rounds in that conferring time for bonuses is reduced from 10 to 4 seconds. If a match is tied, 'sudden death' tiebreakers may be played
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• 2010 Lisgar
  ...uad from [[Lisgar]] Collegiate Institute played to success in both [[Reach for the Top]] and [[NAQT]]. ==Reach for the Top==
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• NAQT High School Team of the Week
  ...at began on 7 January 2017. This program recognizes a high school team(s) each week based on performance at competitions the previous week. |A team: 10-1, 85-64-27-491.8 (3rd place). B team: 9-2, 58-78-26-400.9 (4th place)
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• Literature
  '''Literature''' (or '''lit''' for short) is one of [[Big Three|three major academic subject]] in the quizbowl ...the first title location with passivity and the second with energy. For 10 points, name this illuminated book by William Blake which reverses orthodox concep
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• Common link
  ...an Eyck’s The Arnolfini Marriage also contains a red one of these objects. For 10 points, name this piece of furniture, on which the title figures of the paintings
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• 2015 VHSL State Championship
  ...ch regional tournament, competed in six size classifications of four teams each. Questions were provided by [[HSAPQ]] for the sixth year.
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• 2016 VHSL State Championship
  ...ch regional tournament, competed in six size classifications of four teams each. Questions were provided by [[HSAPQ]] for the seventh year.
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• Educational Service Unit
  ...m/media/set/?set=a.10152753751659968.1073741864.126783964967&type=1 photo] each team member receives a medal as a prize. ...points for a correct answer, to profound (more difficult), with 10 points for a correct answer, and cover all academic disciplines: language arts, mathem
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• 2001 Detroit Catholic Central
  Coach Weinberg’s players set team records for total victories at 184, highest winning percentage in a season at .925, and ...the end of the two day competition in Lansing, CC captured the state title for a remarkable seventh time in the fourteen year history of the tournament.
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• IHSA State Championship Records
  ...keep individual records, and no scoresheets from tournaments are available for conversion data. ==10 Sectional Titles (State Tournament Appearances)==
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• 2023 IQBT Undergraduate Championship
  ...dergraduate]] students, held online on 4-5 March of 2023. The question set for the tournament was head-edited by [[John Lawrence]], with subject editors [ ...held from 10-13 November 2022. Teams were ranked according to their total points scored over the 60 questions, with ties being broken by performance on five
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• Parkland Challenge
  ...stion is answered incorrectly, the team that answered incorrectly loses 10 points and the toss-up becomes dead. Questions packets used are questionable as a
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• MACA JV State
  ...cademic Coaches Association]] sponsors an annual '''JV State''' tournament for novice teams, usually hosted in the central part of the state. For many years, the tournament was run in a five-period format:
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• 2018 VHSL State Championship
  ...te tournament. 24 teams competed in six size classifications of four teams each. Questions were provided by [[NAQT]] for the first time.
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• High school quizbowl national poll
  ...h as Illinois, do [[Illinois Scholastic Bowl Coaches' Poll|their own polls for state teams]]. ...n]], and [[2001 Cookeville|Cookeville]] each received one first-place vote each.
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• 2017 VHSL State Championship
  ...ch regional tournament, competed in six size classifications of four teams each. Questions were provided by [[HSAPQ]] for the eighth year.
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• WHIO-TV High-Q
  ...rs, with weatherman Rich Wirdzig filling in as needed. The show was hosted for many years by News Anchor Ken Jefferson. Round One: 10 point toss-ups, no negs.
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• 2011 Lisgar
  ...uad from [[Lisgar]] Collegiate Institute played to success in both [[Reach for the Top]] and [[NAQT]]. ==Reach for the Top==
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• 2019 VHSL State Championship
  ...te tournament. 24 teams competed in six size classifications of four teams each. Questions were provided by [[NAQT]] for the second time.
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• Ottawa Schoolreach League
  ...tournament. The top 3 finishing teams at the final tournament also qualify for the Ontario provincial championships in May. ...e they compete for the Richard Mageau Trophy, and the losing teams compete for third place, and the right to join the finalists at the Ontario provincial
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• Varsity Quiz
  ...Dondero) Scholarship. A Junior Varsity Quiz, similar to Varsity Quiz, runs for area middle school teams. ...interrupts until the 2019-20 season, when five points began to be deducted for incorrect interrupts.
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• USABB
  ...], the [[National Science Bee]] and [[National Humanities Bee]]. Questions for the competition are [[pyramidal]]. ...ch bounce back if missed by the answering team. A team gets 20 more points for a sweep. After the trailing team has answered and the bounceback has been c
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• How Quizbowl Works
  ...d [[rounds]] or [[games]], are played between two [[teams]] of 1-5 players each, with 4 players being the most common number. In most matches, players on a ...s|Incorrect answers]] given while the question is being read lose a team 5 points and that team is not allowed to answer on that question.
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• Quizbowl in the United Kingdom
  ...rnament has been won 14 times by Oxford, four times by Cambridge, and once each by Imperial and Manchester. BSQC is a 3-dot difficulty tournament. The questions for BSQC are taken from other sets, most frequently the [[NAQT]] [[SCT]], and [
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• University of Toronto Schools
  |nats = 2002, 2003, 2012, 2013 [[Reach for the Top|Reach]] ...ser Simpson. They compete in the [[Toronto Schoolreach League]] to qualify for the Ontario provincial championships.
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• Colonel By
  ...ents from across the city, giving the school a strong Quizbowl and [[Reach for the Top]] team. ==Reach for the Top==
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• International History Bee and Bowl
  ...nally, the fourth quarter features powermarked tossups worth 30, 20, or 10 points. ...it" the round, and gain a number of bonus points based on where they exit (for a total score ranging from 8 to 15).
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• 2024 OAC States
  ...Berlin High School on May 4, 2024, to determine the state champion of Ohio for the 2024 season. ...olation pool with the other teams who lost in the same round, guaranteeing each team at least five games.
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• Merivale
  |state = 2000 [[Reach for the Top|Reach]] |nats = 2000 [[Reach for the Top|Reach]], 2003 [[SmartAsk!]]
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• Kings Park
  ...s Park won the Suffolk County finals over [[Half Hollow Hills West]] by 15 points, only to lose to eventual Tri-State champion [[Great Neck South]] by about In the 2009-10 season, Kings Park again made it to the Suffolk finals, only to lose to [[S
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• Deb Eaton
  ...for first, Springfield claimed the sectional title due to having the most points scored. Eaton led Springfield to their first-ever podium finish at the [[20
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• History of NAQT game format
  *If tossups 1-27 were all converted, tossup 28 read for points but no bonus read *Variable value bonuses possible but 90% of bonuses worth 30 points
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• Mixed impure academic
  "'''Mixed impure academic'''" is a name for a type of quizbowl question that contains both [[academic]] and [[trash|pop For example, a "mixed impure academic" question about Pittsburgh might include
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• Fair Grove
  Led by sophomores Braden Booth and Christian Allen, Fair Grove finished tied for seventh place and second among "very small schools" in their SSNCT debut in ...story to date, though this score was later surpassed by [[St. Mark's]] 660 points in the [[2024 SSNCT]] Open Division final.
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• 2002 HSNCT
  ...eams competed. This was also the first year that the HSNCT awarded awards for a "Small School" Championship. ...entral]] and [[2002 Detroit Country Day|Detroit Country Day]] finished 4-3 for third and fourth place, respectively. In addition, the first-ever HSNCT Sm
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• Gallatin
  ...ith an 11-1 record, barely edging out a [[Merrol Hyde]] team that finished 10-2 (and would have held the tiebreaker.) However, they finished second to Me ...]] a considerable number of years. 2016 also marked the first championship for longtime coach [[Brian Hoover]], either as a player or coach. In 2023, Hoov
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• Edmontago
  ...most importantly, the fact that Lisgar had never qualified for the [[Reach for the Top]] National Finals. ...d the team demolished [[Gananoque]] in the final, thus qualifying the team for the 2008 HSNCT.
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• Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions
  | Caption = Each Intermediate Unit and its subsidiary districts in Pennsylvania. All schools ...diate Units that act as coalitions of the public school districts therein. Each IU sends one team to the PSAC (unless the previous year's champion is from
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• Bell
  |state = 1994 [[Reach for the Top|Reach]] |nats = 1994 [[Reach for the Top|Reach]]
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• 2000 HSNCT
  ...the playoffs. Ties to join the playoff bracket were broken by a series of 10-tossup mini-games. ...rs of those games played each other for 13th place while the losers played for 15th).
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• Singles
  ...l players compete in a single room. The winner is usually decided by total points scored. ...l 24-player ladder format consists of three rooms of 8 players each. After each round, the bottom 2 players of the top room move down to the middle room, t
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• Génies en herbe
  ...e French-speaking world internationally. It is not affiliated with [[Reach for the Top]], the major anglophone format in Canada. ...watch?v=ptLtsv3_oS0 ) shows players doing something like dodgeball to earn points.
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• Mind-reading
  ...riter]], such as the original writer for [[Academic Hallmarks]]'s affinity for Western novels and geography, the poem the Jabberwock, and other pet topics ...." may make a player who knows of multiple Romanian leaders pause and wait for more clues to specify which Romanian leader, while a player who only knows
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• 2002 Detroit Catholic Central
  ...e fifteen year history of the competition. In addition, CC set the record for the widest margin of victory in a championship game by crushing Hartland Hi ...final which went down to the final tossup and saw DCC lose the game by 10 points (DCC answered the final tossup, on "fugues," and 30ed the bonus, but needed
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• Woburn CI
  |nats =Reach for the Top: [[2006 Woburn|2006]] ...ntario. In [[2006 Woburn|2006]], the team won their first national [[Reach for the Top]] title. They compete in the [[Scarborough Schoolreach League]]
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• 2003 TOC
  ...mmend the 2002-2003 Dorman High School Academic Team of Spartanburg County for its commitment to academic excellence and to congratulate the team on winni !Rank||School, Location||Record||Points
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• Ali Saeed
  '''Ali Saeed''' was a player for [[Stanford]] and [[Stevenson|Stevenson High School]]. ...lower than DCC B in the final standings - Stevenson also beat DCC B by 10 points (410-400) despite only converting 8 tossups. That year, Ali was made an Hon
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• Scoresheet
  ...to track the score of a quiz bowl [[game]]; it is also used as synecdoche for detailed results on the outcome of a game or the literal scoresheet used to ...t, termed '''scoring''', is performed by a [[scorekeeper]]; it is possible for the scorekeeper and the [[moderator]] to be the same person.</onlyinclude>
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• Harvard Fall Tournament
  ...high school quiz bowl tournament held by the [[Harvard]] College Bowl Team each fall. Along with the [[BHSAT]] produced by Yale, the HFT question set is co ...tournament director for the first; [[Dennis Sun]] was tournament director for the second.
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• 2013-14 HSQBRank
  ...ike previous HSQBRank rankings, teams are mostly ranked based on available points per bonus (PPB). Power rates are occasionally used to rank team. The curren |10
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• Rappahannock County
  ...[[Steven Nelson]] and [[Joe Vickers]]. A few members on the team also play for Mountain Vista Governor's School, which draws students from Rappahannock Co ...e in the Small School Division (behind Ottawa Hills and Russell), and tied for 43rd place overall
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• Turkey Leg Match
  ...ause I'm a wacky stoner than your girth implies you miss the nuances of my points when you can't see over the oversized turkey legs you gnaw while perusing m ...er's team correctly answered Shakuntala on Tossup 20, but was able to only 10 the bonus. Borglum's team emerged victorious, 220-200.
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• 2011 Detroit Catholic Central
  ...with the outcome of the final match separating the two teams by a mere ten points. The Varsity A Team was represented by seniors Ryan Dillon, David Ciccarel ..., for a combined total of 19 tournament victories in five different states for Catholic Central Academic Teams.
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• Stevenson
  ...p]], where they began a longstanding tradition of eating [[Panda Express]] for lunch and tanking afternoon rounds. ...mprised of graduating seniors, while the B team was organized as a preview for next year. Stevenson B accomplished its sole objective of powering every ro
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• Alpharetta
  ...c high school located in Alpharetta, Georgia and a part of the 6A division for GHSA and competition in [[GATA]]. At its first national competition, the Alpharetta team tied for 16th at the [[2010 NSC]]. The team's only other national appearance was at
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• VHSL Black Diamond District
  ...ol, the two teams play a double-header, and the night of quizbowl is over. Each year, the host of the double-header switches. This model is also followed b ...e of the district and won either the district tournament or regular season for 15 straight years, earning a spot in the VHSL Region D tournament every yea
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• Zain Africa Challenge
  ...y of the next Face-Off question. The maximum number of possible points in each Face-Off Round is 480 (360 in Qualifying Tournaments). ...ly answer Face-Off questions in one round. In addition, players must wait for the end of the question before buzzing in, and there are no [[negs]].
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• 2001 HSNCT
  ...sions. Teams were ranked within each division, and the top 6 by record in each division moved on to the playoffs. Ties to join the playoff bracket were b ...rs of those games played each other for 13th place while the losers played for 15th).
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• Quizbowlese
  ...wlese makes quizbowl questions harder to read, and makes it more difficult for new players to understand what their moderator is asking them.</onlyinclude ...articularly the "would go on to win" instead of "won" and "was responsible for writing" instead of "wrote" types of error, if you ruthlessly eliminate nee
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• 2015 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...ions made three A sets (137A, 139A, 143A) and one IS set (146) unavailable for use during the regular season in Missouri. Sixteen district tournaments in each of the four classes were held on April 18. District championship game match
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• Pennsylvania State Academic Competition
  ...in Harrisburg, in the state House of Representatives and Senate Chambers. Each year's top three competing teams are awarded scholarships. It is run by the ...expanded to one school for each of Pennsylvania's 29 "intermediate units". For several years, the winning team received a scholarship to the [[Panasonic A
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• Criticisms of Reach for the Top
  ...evel, for similar reasons that people criticize [[NAC]]. Unlike NAC, Reach for the Top has a monopoly in the country, and remains the predominant format d ...ing - repeats, uneven and trash-heavy distribution, different questions to each team of inconsistent difficulty
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• 2015 NAC
  .... The field included only 113 teams, less than half of the 272 team field for the [[2015 HSNCT]]. ...]] by 5 points. At the DC phase, Coronado beat [[West Chester East]] by 45 points. [[Harrison]] won the DC JV division and Coronado's Luke Minton was declare
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• 2013 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...ions made three A sets (117A, 119A, 123A) and one IS set (126) unavailable for use during the regular season in Missouri [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewto Sixteen district tournaments in each of the four classes were held on April 13. District championship game match
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• National History Bee and Bowl
  ...ional History Bee''', an individual elimination-style event. Teams qualify for Nationals by placing above a certain threshold at regional Bowls; all sites ...HBB staff and Nationals were written by [[HSAPQ]]; until 2014, HSAPQ wrote for all History Bowl events, before that task fell to teams led by [[Matt Weine
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• Hose
  ...de>A '''hose''' is a quizbowl question that deliberately punishes a player for having greater knowledge of the topic being asked about in the question. Ho ...history, it took place in 480 BC. (*) The Battle of Salamis saw a victory for what Greek city-state?
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• 2008 NAC
  ...ite. But the lack of advance communication led many to suspect favoritism for Booker T Washington and/or New Rochelle. *Charter was the overall high scorer, at 431 points per game. This was the highest scoring team since the 2002 James Island te
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• Lakeland (MO)
  ...|next year]], Lakeland went undefeated through the semifinals, including a 10 point win over [[Wellsville-Middletown]] in the semifinals, before perennia ...This schedule was notably challenging as those three schools had combined for 17 of the 22 previous state championships in Class 1 and had reached the fi
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• Officials
  :''"Tournament director" redirects here. For the software, see [[Tournament Director]].'' * Ensuring the registration of teams for the tournament, and serving as the main point of communication between part
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• Knowledge Bowl
  ...quizbowl, but has come under criticism by advocates of "[[good quizbowl]]" for its question quality and format. ...et to play in room A, Teams 4-6 play in room B and so on. After the end of each round, the teams are reseeded based on the cumulative score. The aggregate
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• Hallsville
  ...[2013 MSHSAA State Championship|MSHSAA state]], losing to [[Priory]] by 10 points. Later that year, Hallsville B became the first ever [[small school]] eligi ...naments. At MSHSAA State, Hallsville set new Class 3 single game and total points records. Despite returning the entire SSNCT champion team, Hallsville finis
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• Belmont
  ...r the quiet formation of its quizbowl team in 2013, Belmont attended HSNCT for the first time in 2018. Since then, Belmont has become a fixture in the hig ...notably put up 56.81 PPG on a 25/44/17 line; the rest of the team combined for 12/47/12.
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• 2013 HSNCT
  ...20. After a brief timeout, that was read as tossup 24; LASA got it for 10 points and 30d their bonus to take the championship with a final score of 455-440.
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• 2023 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...AQT]] in the 22 [[tossup-bonus format]]. All questions are worth 10 points each with no powers or negs. ...rences and the state series, IS-212A, IS-214A, and IS-219 were unavailable for use during the regular season in Missouri.
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• 2000 NSC
  ...seriously considered at the time, but perhaps would have been a good idea for attracting more participants. ...would be shut off campus-wide. The Sunday rounds were hastily re-scheduled for [[Pickens]] High School about twenty miles west of the campus. The 2000 and
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• NAQT New Jersey State Championship
  ...ersey schools are listed, but non-NJ teams are included within the ranking for a given tournament. !data-sort-type="number" width=30|'10
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• 2017 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...ssouri. 159A was also unavailable for standard invitationals, but was used for two conference tournaments that did not use NAQT's MSHSAA formatted confere Sixteen district tournaments in each of the four classes were held on April 8. After being held in the afternoon
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• Mahoning County Quizbowl League
  ...tournament. By using NAQT questions, normal qualification guidelines apply for the [[High School National Championship Tournament]]. [[Greg Bossick]] has In 2004, the League expanded for the first time since the 1990s with the addition of Struthers, who promptly
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• Strake Jesuit
  ...1995), but the team's first known NAQT tournament was the [[2006 HSNCT]]. For the next decade, the team stayed more or less active at the state level, th For the next several years, Strake participated in only [[TQBA]] tournaments, w
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• Parkway Central
  ...at the HSNCT; in an elimination game, they fell to Thomas Jefferson B by 5 points. ...g teams with superior statistics in "[[good quizbowl]]", and an enthusiasm for conversation.
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• 2022 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...ferent provider as a result of NAQT's prohibition on using their questions for in-person competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...nus packets with minimal customizations. All questions are worth 10 points each with no powers or negs.
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• 2018 ACF Nationals
  ...yoffs. Yale came in third after second scorer [[Isaac Kirk-Davidoff]] left for the Sunday rounds. [[Itamar Naveh-Benjamin]] led the tournament in scoring.
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• 2024 OAC Regionals
  ...double-elimination format, with between 10 and 15 teams participating from each region. After a team lost two games, they would be placed into a consolatio ...ons. New for the 2024 season was a rule that teams could not be considered for a wild-card berth if a team who placed in front of them in their region fai
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• 2018 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...A and 169A were also unavailable for standard invitationals, but were used for some conference tournaments that did not use NAQT's MSHSAA formatted confer Sixteen district tournaments in each of the four classes were held on April 14. District championship game match
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• Minnesota High School Quiz Bowl League
  ...s, teams from the top 16 schools convene for a double-elimination playoff. Each school can only send one team to the championship tournament. The MNHSQB Le Schools are listed in the division they play in for the 2022-23 season.
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• Tournament structure
  ...' refers to what matches are played at a tournament and how they relate to each other and to the tournament's standings. (The same phrase is also sometimes * An appropriate amount of time for the tournament to last
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• Brain Busters
  ...y WHTM of Harrisburg and also hosted by Rosen. Rich Rosen is well-regarded for his extremely charismatic, friendly, and welcoming qualities. The show's fo * first round: 10-point [[tossup]]s
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• 2003 HSNCT
  ..., "Steve Smith", and "Tommy Smith," which were used as rotating pseudonyms for [[Sam Lederer]], [[Jacob Oppenheim]], [[S.R. Sidarth]], [[Steve Young]], an ...to a predetermined schedule in which teams with the same record would play each other. Due to two no-shows, several teams were credited with forfeit wins
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• Wilton
  ...er. Under the leadership of [[Alexander Koutsoukos]], they were also known for having fewer negs per game than most high-level teams. ...a whole would be cancelled by 2013, putting an end to quiz bowl in Wilton for another three years.
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• North Metropolitan Scholastic Bowl League
  The League supports competition on both the frosh-soph and varsity levels. Each team plays the other teams twice throughout the year. Fourteen rounds are p ...ding bonuses, with questions based on the Illinois distribution. Questions for the 2008-2009 season were provided by [[Bryce Avery|Avery Enterprises]]. Th
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• Savannah NAQT
  ...mpionship bracket for a total of 9 rounds (with any ties broken by playoff points per game), which lasted until 5:00 and was not well-received by some partic | 10
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• Lisgar
  |nats = [[2008 Reach for the Top Nationals|2008]] [[Reach for the Top|Reach]], 2015 IHBB Canada (Varsity Bowl), 2015 Reach, 2016 IHBB Can ..., 2010, 2011, 2014-2015, 2018<br/> PACE: 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019<br/> Reach for the Top: 2008, 2011, 2015-2017<br/> IHBB Canada: 2015, 2016-2019
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• 2024 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...QT]] in the 22 [[tossup-bonus format]]. All questions were worth 10 points each with no powers or negs. ...rences and the state series, IS-221A, IS-223A, and IS-228 were unavailable for use during the regular season in Missouri.
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• Hinsdale Central
  ...], regularly winning its Conference & IHSA Sectional as well as qualifying for playoffs in large tournaments like HSNCT & PACE NSC. The team was coached b ...bsent. The team did not attend any State Championships, failing to qualify for [[IHSA]] and [[Masonics]], and opting to not attend the [[NAQT Illinois Sta
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• Barge photo
  While the reasoning for its popularity as a joke and much of the original discussion about the phot ...mically photoshopped into a Kill Bill poster and the 9/11 attacks. For 10 points, name this masterpiece of Lily Vonderheide, that depicts a certain figure c
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• List of high school nationals appearances by Missouri teams
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• Jake Sundberg
  ...13 season and the President during the 2013-14 season. He currently plays for Louisiana where he is a club officer. ...ionship game to advance to [[ICT]], where they unfortunately finished tied for 26th. Also, in his first campaign as president, the team consisting of [[J
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• PACE
  {{Companybox|Company Name = Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence ...it organization formed in 1996 that helps to promote and provide a network for high school tournaments throughout the country.
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• 2007 NAC
  ...the other semifinal. The "Muller Foundation" sponsored a $2000 scholarship for the winning team. ...of the Year," while Rye Country Day was named "Comeback Team of the Year" for going from 95th in 2006 to 26th in 2007.
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• Winnebago
  ...[IHSSBCA Hall of Fame]] coach [[Karen Niemeier]], who served as head coach for over thirty years until 2010. Currently, the team is coached by Winnebago a |10
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• National Academic Quiz Tournaments
  ...s throughout the regular season. NAQT also hosts end-of-year championships for middle schools, small high schools, high schools, community colleges, and f [[Invitational Series]] packet sets, for use at tournaments throughout the year, debuted in fall 1997. There are two
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• Ohio Academic Competition
  ...st beloved for its allowing of conferral that is teams are able to talk to each other at any time. ...nly get one opportunity each to answer. A correct answer is worth two (2) points.
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• 2018 IHSA State Championship Tournament
  ...ournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA). For the twenty-second year, both tournaments were held at the Peoria Civic Cent ...] (responsible for providing scorekeepers and timers, as well as arranging for set up at the facility). Equipment was furnished by [[Buzzersystems.com]].
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• 1998 NAC
  ...o]] in the New Orleans finals to earn free travel to Washington to compete for overall championship. Both graduating senior [[Justin Powell]] and returnin ...nts in every prelim match, scoring 470 PPG in the prelims, and scoring 635 points in a single game against [[1998 Highlands Ranch|Highlands Ranch]], but was
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• 1997 TOC
  !Rank||School, Location||Record||Points |7||[[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson HS for Science & Technology]], Alexandria, Virginia||5-2||2710
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• All Things Bonus
  ...answers no one (or almost no one) can give. I would argue that this makes for a more satisfying playing experience and at least as satisfying a learning ...oday's tournaments. I would argue that the hard part of a bonus should aim for 15-20% conversion by the field. In a 20-tournament field, this translates t
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• Honaker
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• 1998 TOC
  !Rank||School, Location||Record||Points |6||[[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson HS for Science & Technology]], Alexandria, Virginia|| 5-1||2355
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• Hanover
  ...in 2007. Hanover reclaimed the crown in 2008 and successfully defended it each of the next two years. ...e prelims, losing to eventual tournament champion Bellarmine by only fifty points; in the playoffs, Hanover lost to St. Anselm's, beat Ezell-Harding, and los
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• Ladue
  ...most of their players in 2020-21, Ladue's A team swept the regular season. For the first time since 2014, the team went undefeated at every in-state tourn ...re high for the upcoming season. Ladue would face a formidable challenger for the title of best team in Missouri with the emergence of [[Fair Grove]]. Th
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• Furman
  * Furman for some reason traveled all the way to [[Wichita State]] to play in the 1998 [ ...at the [[1999 ICT]]. Jeffress finished fifth in DII "scoring" based on [[Points Contributed per Game]], which measures how good your teammates are at getti
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• 2011 NSC
  ...third place teams from each bracket were involved in a play-in tournament for wild card bids in the top playoff brackets. ...ced third in their preliminary brackets took part in a elimination playoff for four spots in the top tier of the playoff brackets. The teams involves were
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• Reach for the Top
  '''Reach for the Top''' is the dominant high school quiz competition in Canada. It is co ...or [[powers]] in Reach, although negs (-5) appeared in the 2007 Nationals for the first time.
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• 2005 NAC
  ...ty in Arlington, VA (June 3-6), and Embassy Suites O'Hare in Chicago (June 10-13) ...if it had been planned beforehand. A New Orleans site was once again held for the 2009 NAC, and every year since then.
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• 2019 MSHSAA State Championship
  Questions for Districts and State were provided by [[NAQT]] for the eighth year. ...s packet with additional math questions. All questions are worth 10 points each with no powers or negs.
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• Maine South
  ...ecided not to attend the tournament, as its timing conflicted with studies for Advanced Placement exams and other end-of-the-year activities. As a result ...der the structure of the CSL. The tournament schedule also permitted play for a "B" team as the number of players grew, something that would not have bee
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• Collegiate player poll
  Each season, there is an informal '''player poll''' to determine the best active ...appeared in the Top 25 every year except for 2007. He has been in the Top 10 every year since 2009.
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• MSHSAA State Championship
  ...back]] to the other team. The question category must be read aloud before each question. There is no longer additional [[math computation]] beyond the nor ...tions are worth 10 points each with no powers or negs, for a total of 1040 points possible.
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• 1998 VHSL State Championship
  ...regional tournament, competed in three size classifications of eight teams each. The tournament was the only state championship held at Charlottesville, as The top two teams from each district tournament advanced to the eight-team regional. The top two teams
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• Chaska
  ...n of all national tournaments). Many Chaska alumni have gone on to compete for their universities or in [[open]] [[tournament]]s. ...ed to bring it to the Twin Cities metro area. Baker remained the [[coach]] for the program's first few decades, when it competed mostly in [[Minnesota Kno
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• 2004 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...rnament. This resulted in a bye in each of the three preliminary rounds. For seeding purposes, byes were counted as wins. ...without a full round robin, and tie-breaking teams with the same record by points in the case where one does not make the playoffs.
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• Fremd
  ...e players of his sectional, and was denied an opportunity to be considered for All-State honors. Following the rules set down years earlier, Fremd formal Though the Fremd players and coaches never acted like it, this was for all intents and purposes as locked a championship season as there could be.
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• Minnesota Knowledge Bowl
  The 48 teams that qualify for the Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet are ordered by enrollment size and *Room 4: #10-11-12
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• Loyola Academy
  ...hip Series, as well as in the [[Metro North League]]. The team was coached for many years by [[David Riley]], who was succeeded in 2011 by one of his form Regular Season - The 2008-2009 season is considered a radical turning season for Loyola, as they fully embraced good quiz bowl and began to excel. Headed by
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• Walnut Hills
  |nats appearances = HSNCT: 2006-10, 2016-19, 2022 <br> MSNCT: 2022, 2023 ...nnati, Ohio. Founded in 1895, Walnut Hills High School continues to strive for academic excellence in all fields.
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• Carbondale
  |size = in school, about 1000;<br/>on team, fluctuates around 10 total}} ...eard in the prelims and finished the day with a third place finish overall for Carbondale. Due to graduation party interference with Srinivas, Ben was the
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• IMSA
  ...ce 1987) in Scholastic Bowl than any school. It ended its longest drought (10 years without a title) by winning the 2011 IHSA State Championship Tourname Under coach Czerny, IMSA developed a reputation for no-showing and being late, in addition to rarely playing good quizbowl. Alt
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• Tom Egan's Report on the 2005 NAC
  ...hen coaching Team Illinois at [[2005 PAC|PAC]]. He was also keeping score for the first time at the [[2005 HSNCT|NAQT HSNCT]]. He felt that the somewhat ...election, the report was filed immediately after attending the NAC on June 10. This was done to preserve the essence and details of the experience, with
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• Computational math
  ...led over arguments for computation - for a more in-depth look at arguments for and against comp math, see the "Historical" section below. ...round until it was phased out in 2010. Therefore, it is eminently possible for the best high school team in the country to become a legitimate national ch
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• ABC
  ...ntest for a large number of teams on the Vanderbilt campus as a fundraiser for the university club. The tournament format was engineered to leverage a num * abundant classrooms in a compact area on campus that allowed for easy movement of teams and officials between buildings as needed
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• Anti-NAQT sentiment
  ...idence-based criticisms that have been leveled against it over the years - for a detailed discussion of just the former, see [[criticisms of NAQT]]. ...ropensity for [[mixed academic]] questions, have long been sticking points for those who prefer a different sort of quizbowl experience.
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• University of Illinois Lab
  ...NAQT Illinois State Championship|NAQT State Championship]], they qualified for the 2014 and 2015 HSNCTs via other means and placed 201st and 145th respect ...in its high school enrollment, due to [[IHSA]]'s "success factor" policies for selective-admissions schools without set attendance zones. Under captain An
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• Francis Howell Central
  ...ri under coach Kathryn Keierleber and team captain [[Charles Hang]], tying for 27th at the [[2009 HSNCT|2009 NAQT HSNCT]]. The team is currently coached b ...first years as coach. The team earned no [[MSHSAA]] District titles except for a second place finish in 2004 when the team was defeated by eventual State
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• Darin Clayton
  ...eam Captain and All-Tournament 1st Team in his senior year. Darin is known for his strong knowledge of pop culture, sports, and social sciences, in additi ...amed to the All District 2nd Team. Overall, the Harrisburg Bulldogs went 9-10 on the season, showing improvement and a bright future.
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• Grail
  ...nswer all of the bonus parts correctly to achieve a grail - achieving 30 [[points per bonus]] over a non-trivial number of questions is called an [[Andrew Ha ...ut the most common reason is an established team playing a newer one. Even for strong teams, grails almost always happen on easier questions and are limit
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• 2014 MSHSAA State Championship
  The '''2014 [[MSHSAA]] State Championship''' was held on May 9-10, 2014. Classes 1 and 2 competed on Friday and Classes 3 and 4 played on Sat ...ions made three A sets (127A, 129A, 133A) and one IS set (136) unavailable for use during the regular season in Missouri.
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• 2013 IHSA State Championship Tournament
  ...ournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA). For the seventeenth year, both tournaments were held at the Peoria Civic Center ...] (responsible for providing scorekeepers and timers, as well as arranging for set up at the facility). Equipment was furnished by [[Buzzersystems.com]].
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• How to Write Questions
  ...you. Look around you. Just look around you. Do you see what we're looking for yet? That's right, the subject of today's lesson is sources. ...erb for many topics, particularly history. Masterplots are a good resource for literature plot summaries, and there are many topic-specific encyclopedias
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• 2006 NAC
  For the first time since 1995, no part of the tournament was held in New Orlean ...meback Team of the Year" (changed from "Most Improved Team" in past years) for going from 105th in 2005 to 34th in 2006.
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• IHSA
  ...HSA, and three "at-large" positions which are voted statewide and reserved for a woman, an underrepresented ethnic minority, and a private school. The Bo ...ector and a team of (currently nine) Assistant Executive Directors (AED). Each assistant executive director is given direct oversight of a number of sport
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• 1997 NAC
  ...ngle-elimination playoff bracket. The winners of the two sites then played each other in an overall championship game. ...ler returns?" (James Island interrupted early with an answer of "space"). For reasons known only to [[Chip Beall]], the penultimate tossup of the final w
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• Prompt
  <onlyinclude>A '''prompt''' is a request for additional information given by a [[moderator]] to a [[player]] whose [[ans A player may receive multiple successive prompts. It is possible for a player to intentionally aim to be repeatedly prompted to [[stall]] or to
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• EFT
  ...izbowl" for newer or less experienced teams, while still being appropriate for players of all skill levels. ...ion model of EFT gives it a wide appeal, but it is still quite challenging for new players.
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• British Student Quiz Championships
  ...wl team in the United Kingdom. First held in 1998, the tournament was held for the nineteenth time in March 2023. The questions are provided by NAQT, but ...e BSQCs used "British" scoring, by which each bonus is worth a total of 15 points rather than 30)
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• Scobol Solo
  The '''Scobol Solo''' is a [[singles]] tournament held each fall since 2001. It is open to any high school student. It typically attrac ..., run by [[Ken Johnson]], ended when IWU could no longer provide the space for free.
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• IESA
  ...'''Illinois Elementary School Association''' (IESA) is the governing body for middle school and junior high school athletics and activities in Illinois. ...eing said, there are about 400 schools that compete in the IESA tournament each year.
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• Northmont
  ...f the most successful teams in the West Central region of Ohio, qualifying for regionals on 16 occasions, winning the past five regional championships (20 ...Mrs. Roberts retirement from coaching in 2004, Bill Patrizio led the team for 2 years.
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• Robinson (VA)
  ...ied for 17th place out of 176 teams at the [[2008_HSNCT|2008 HSNCT]], tied for 20th place out of 352 teams at the [[2018_HSNCT|2018 HSNCT]], and 23rd plac Robinson defeated [[McLean]] by 40 points to win the 2017 6A [[VHSL State Championship]]. They defeated [[McLean]] ag
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• Vincent Massey
  ...ublic school in South Windsor, Ontario. The school participates in [[Reach for the Top]] as part of the Greater Essex County District School Board and the ...th a loss in the 2012 [[Windsor Schoolreach League]] playoffs, a streak of 10 straight regional championships was snapped by longtime county rival, Kings
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• IHSSBCA Novice
  • Have played fewer than 40 varsity-level matches for his or her school’s top team<br> • Have never scored more than 35 points per game at a varsity invitational tournament<br>
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• 2021 MSHSAA State Championship
  ...stions for in-person use due to the ongoing pandemic, MSHSAA instead opted for questions from [[Academic Hallmarks]]. Though the questions were meant to b ...he question "When you go to the store to buy mussels, what should you look for?" The set also featured a number of very bad common links, including multip
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• David Riley Memorial Kickoffs
  For several years, some sites divided teams into "large" and "small" school div ...ns]], a company founded by Martin Stroup and two of his friends who played for [[Illinois]] in the early 1990s. The questions were in [[IHSA]] format and
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• 1999 NAC
  ...the DC final. James Island was given free transportation to DC to compete for the overall title. *"He was given a royal grant of a yearly allowance of wine for his work as England's poet laureate in the late 14th century. The author of
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• The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranking
  ...ce round number, so I decided to rank them (although it's really a top 65, for reasons I'll explain below). I'm going to try to post this in one day, but it will be in a series of 10 player blocks, so think of them as your commercial break as you're watching
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• Masonic tournament
  ...which are split into two pools and play round robin. The top two teams in each pool advance to a single-elimination semifinal, starting with the 1st place ...tes so that each team is guaranteed to control half of the team questions. Each match consists of six tossups, eight team questions, six tossups, eight tea
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• National Academic Championship
  Methods of qualifying for the NAC include winning a tournament of eight or more teams, finishing in t ...winning prize money. Prior to the mid-1990s it was the default destination for top teams looking to prove themselves the best in the country. Since then,
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• New Essays on Quizbowl Understanding
  T: Now that I’ve convinced P to vote for Seth, I feel guilty about writing something about Andrew. He’s still quit ...re all but guaranteed the best bonus conversion in the field. Surprisingly for a player often associated with list knowledge, he seems to get many of his
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• May 2014 Illinois General Assembly hearing on the IHSA
  ...aring in the state capitol concerning the [[IHSA]]. The resolution calling for the hearing had been introduced a month earlier by committee chair Linda Ch ...sociation, or IHSA, Scholastic Bowl Tournament. I was grateful to the IHSA for holding the tournament. I am glad that many supporters of the IHSA are here
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• Grissom
  ...h of the district tournament to traditional rival Decatur HS 380-275, only for Grissom to win out in pool play while Decatur dropped two later matches, pl ...in Orlando, Florida. The Tigers would go 1-1, finishing in 25th place on points.
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• VHSL Scholastic Bowl
  Each district produced two teams to send to regionals. 44 of the 46 districts in ...championship. The state championship consisted of the top eight teams (in each enrollment class) playing a double-elimination tournament. The state champi
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• IHSA plagiarism scandal/Email from David Reinstein to Ron McGraw
  ...scandal/Email from Ron McGraw to David Reinstein|fired him in response]]. For more details, see [[IHSA plagiarism scandal]]. The following people were co ...d this year as the Math Subject Editor and as one of the Assistant Editors for the overall set.
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• NCT
  ...]] and the [[2021 College Bowl TV Show]], but has not staged a competition for the general college level since the end of the ACUI partnership. ...ns for teams choosing not to participate, see the [[College Bowl|main page for College Bowl as a whole]]. This page is focused on the National Championshi
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• College Bowl
  ...ity by the vast majority of quizbowl teams. In 2007, there was less than a 10% crossover between teams competing on the NAQT/ACF quizbowl circuit and tea ...oot of College Bowl hosted by Peyton Manning. It is currently booked for a 10-episode series, in which 12 teams "selected from schools of all sizes" will
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• Centennial (IL)
  ...laced by Andrew Cheun in the 2017-2018 season. Cheun became the main coach for the 2020-2021 season, after Sorice left to teach at Rantoul High School. Em ===2009-10===
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• MSHSAA
  ...State High School Activities Association) is the organization responsible for running Missouri's district and state quizbowl championships, taking over t ...e Championship]] is held in early May. Teams are divided into six classes, each with eight districts. District tournaments are hosted in early April, with
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• 25 for 25: A Definitive List of the Greatest ACF Players
  '''25 for 25: A Definitive List of the Greatest ACF Players''' is a ranking published ...ged to share your favorite moments of those players (or additional moments for the 25) below.
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• 2000 NAC
  ...layoffs. See [[2000_NAC#Grand_Junction_retroactive_forfeit_scandal|below]] for details. A category round written for the [[1985 NAC|1985 tournament]] and offered without any takers in every su
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• Missouri Quizbowl Alliance
  |17 teams from 10 schools |12 teams from 10 schools
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• HSNCT Record Book
  ...nks for individuals are their rank on the overall individual scoring table for the entire tournament, based on PP20TUH. ...t tossups]] - [[Negs]]'', or as ''Powers - 10 point tossups - negs - [[PPG|Points per 20 tossups heard]]''.
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• Team Illinois
  ...Coaches are encouraged to send players of exceptional talent, with an eye for players who tend to excel beyond [[IHSA]] format, but anyone attending high ...uce a variety of room conditions and buzz points are carefully recorded on each question.
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• Criticisms of the NAC
  ...stances of plagiarism by Questions Unlimited, which provides the questions for NAC) ...into the open air and the light. Identify this painting by Leonardo noted for its sfumato and chiaroscura.
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• Definitive Greatest Players List
  ...4 Definitive Greatest Players List: Revisited] and one in 2016 titled [[25 for 25: A Definitive List of the Greatest ACF Players]], which merely listed th For your enjoyment and edification, we present the following ranking of the gre
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• Quizbowl directory of four-year colleges in North America
  ...nt, whether they are or have ever been active in collegiate quiz bowl, and points of contact (with a timestamp, when applicable). <!--For information on how to fill out a row, please check out Template:College dir
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