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• Tournament formats
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• Trivia formats
  ...parallel to the quizbowl community. These span a variety of very different formats broadly within the category of "[[not quizbowl]]", with the unifying thread In the United Kingdom, trivia formats are much more popular and are typically called '''quizzes''' or simply '''q
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• Fun practice formats
  Several alternative or "fun" formats of quizbowl exist for use at less serious [[practice]]s or in scrimmages.
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• Comparison of distributions in collegiate formats
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• 5-on-5
  While most quizbowl formats involve four players per team, some events use five-player teams, including [[Category: Formats]]
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• Trivia community
  #REDIRECT[[Trivia formats]]
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• Quiz
  #REDIRECT[[Trivia formats]]
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• Trivia format
  #REDIRECT[[trivia formats]]
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• Quizzing
  #REDIRECT[[Trivia formats]]
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• Not quizbowl
  #REDIRECT[[Trivia formats]]
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• Online Quiz League
  #REDIRECT[[Trivia formats#Quiz League]]
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• Academic Competition for Excellence
  ...ic Competition for Excellence''' (ACE) is a name used by several quiz bowl formats in the eastern U.S., most notably in [[High school quizbowl in Virginia|Vir {{c|Formats}}{{c|High school quizbowl in Virginia}}{{c|Stubs}}
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• OQL
  #REDIRECT[[Trivia formats#Online Quiz League]]
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• College Clubs
  ==List of College Quizbowl Clubs Active in mACF Formats== ==List of College Quizbowl Clubs Active in CBI Formats==
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• Victoria Groce
  ...to prominence (and dominance) at many [[Trivia formats|non-quizbowl quiz]] formats [https://www.geekswhodrink.com/questionist/tv-victoria-groce/] [https://qui
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• Multiple choice
  ==Formats that use multiple choice questions== ==Formats that no longer use multiple choice questions==
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• Captain
  In national formats, the only role of the captain is to designate an answer on [[bonuses]] if m In some state-specific formats the captain takes on additional roles, e.g. being required to give bonus an
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• Bracket
  In [[round robin]]-based [[schedule]] formats, it is typical in quizbowl discourse to use the word "bracket" for what is ...use of proper brackets, as in the kind that define [[single elimination]] formats, is highly discouraged unless no alternatives are possible. [[NAQT]] does u
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• ACF finals format
  [[Category: Finals formats]]
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• Recognition
  ...those of [[Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl Association|Arkansas]]. In these formats, players are provided placards which either bear their name or a seat numbe
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• Interruption
  ...ainst the first team to interrupt a tossup with an incorrect answer. Some formats award extra points (a [[power]]) for a correct answer to a tossup interrupt Some [[bad quizbowl]] formats (such as the post-2011 [[HCASC]] format) prohibit interruption of tossups,
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• Blurt
  Blurts are very rare in quizbowl, found only in state formats like that of [[Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl Association|Arkansas]]. They a The presence of blurts are defining characteristics of the [[non-quizbowl]] formats of [[Science Bowl]] and [[Ocean Sciences Bowl]].
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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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• Real
  ...quizbowl''' is a term meant to contrast [[mainstream quizbowl]] from other formats (pejoratively known as [[fake]] quizbowl). Real quizbowl involves playing w
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• Clock-killing neg
  ...wrong answer (or nothing) in order to preserve the victory. Many of those formats deduct the full value of the question for a wrong answer to prevent this ex
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• Olympia
  ...stion writing company focused on providing [["good"]] questions in various formats.
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• Copyright
  ==Game formats== ...rchive.org/web/20050305040721/https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.pdf game formats cannot be copyrighted]. Attempts to get College Bowl or, to a lesser exten
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• Points per bonus
  ...bonus questions]], divided by the number of bonus questions heard. In most formats, it therefore is between 0 and 30, inclusive. ..., which in many formats means correct tossups answered in [[overtime]]. In formats with [[bonus bouncebacks]], PPB conventionally only refers to points on ''c
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• Schedule
  ...occur. Good scheduling is vital to an efficiently run tournament. Popular formats for scheduling include Round Robins and single or double elimination bracke
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• Fairness
  ===Match Formats=== Some may view certain match formats in which teams are presented with different questions such as during [[60 s
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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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• 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 ...difficulty than their counterparts, such as [[NAQT Sectionals]], in other formats, statistically speaking.
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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 [[Category:High school formats]] [[Category:Stubs]]
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• Academic Competition in Education
  {{c|Formats}}{{c|Bad quizbowl}}{{c|Stubs}}
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• Edmond Deer Creek
  ...Schools and has become a contender in both [[OSSAA state|OSSAA]] and NAQT formats. They finished fifth at the [[Timberwolf Invitational]] in 2012 only after
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• Driver's Ed
  ...) is a question category historically featured in some local academic bowl formats, perhaps most notably in old [[IHSA]] question sets. Driver's ed questions ...and thus very easy to fully grasp, much to the delight of players of older formats.
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• Timed play
  ==Pseudotimed formats== ...ing pace in order to fill a pre-designated amount of time. Rounds at these formats are ended by a "clock expiration" noise (buzzer, whistle, conch shell, etc.
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• National Academic Association
  [[Category:Mysteries]] [[Category:Chip Beall antics]] [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Substitution
  ...ts using the unmodified [[NAQT]] rules, or in most state-level high school formats. In VHSL and IHSA it is not uncommon to see teams with 8 or more players on In formats such as [[VHSL Scholastic Bowl]] where certain subjects are clustered in ce
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• Importance
  ! Other formats ==Other formats==
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• Scholastic Bowl
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Shoot-out
  ...ghly equivalent to each player acting a separate team. Unlike conventional formats, more than two incorrect buzzes are typically allowed (though the specific
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• Academic Competition Foundation
  [[category: formats]][[category: Quizbowl basics]]
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• Confer
  ...ded a [[5 point penalty]], regardless of the correctness of his answer. In formats with stricter recognition rules, players who answer without having first be With the demise of [[CBI]], almost all formats allow nonverbal conferral on tossups, so long as no substantive information
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• Independent Buzzer Association
  [[category: formats]]
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• Freshman Method
  ...tossup structure, and is aggravated by playing [[Chip Beall]] or other bad formats in high school which involve poorly worded questions that do not clearly sp
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• SQBS
  Its custom [[SQBS data file|data file]] and [[SQBS roster file|roster file]] formats are documented.
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• TV show
  ...[[speed check]] questions and issues with seeding as well as unusual match formats and rules.
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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]] [[Category: Formats]]
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• Tossup-Bonus Format
  [[Category:Formats]][[Category:High school formats]][[Category:Quizbowl basics]]
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• High School Bowl
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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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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• 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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• Jeff Boulier
  ...ading scorer, he was a moderately capable third banana in both ACF and CBI formats. He attended CBI nationals twice, and ACF nationals more times than was goo
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• Misuse of statistics
  *Tournament formats which rank teams based on factors other than win-loss or progress through a ...ies to the HSNCT itself is debatable, but local tournaments that use short formats with barely modified swiss pairs and then cut to the playoffs on record alo
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• Mainstream quizbowl
  ...f teams across the nation. NAQT has also become the provider for the state formats like [[VHSL|Virginia]], [[IHSA|Illinois]], and [[MSHSAA|Missouri]] (though
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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
  ...a single packet. Certainly, this has some drawbacks (as do all tournament formats and finals schemes, including advantaged finals). [[Category: Finals formats]]
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• Bible Bowl
  ...ames which focuses on knowledge of the Christian Bible. It uses a range of formats and question styles, some of which are quite similar to pre-modern forms of
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• Hybrid
  [[Category: Formats]]
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• Points per tossup heard
  ...and for individual players (considering only tossup points, which in most formats means [[powers]] and regular tossup answers and [[interrupts]]) or for team ...number of points a team or player would score "in a typical game". In some formats, numbers other than 20 are used.
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• Scholastic Bowl Company of Virginia
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Civility
  ...quizbowl]]", which did not prioritize these properties. The most prominent formats in this group were [[College Bowl]] at the college level and [[National Aca ...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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• Whiz Quiz
  Unlike other local formats, the questions are well edited and there usually aren't that many hoses.
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• Bounceback
  ===High school formats which use bouncebacks===
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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
  ...ariable-value bonuses]] were eliminated c. 1997, while all remaining bonus formats (besides three parts worth 10 points each) were eliminated c. 2014. [[Category:formats]]
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• Superplayoff
  ...iner]] for the 2010 NSC as a logical extension of, and improvement on, the formats used at the 2009 Penn Bowl and 2009 NSC. The standard NSC format since 201
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• Distribution
  See [[Comparison of distributions in collegiate formats]].
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• Quizbowl software
  ===Stats data formats=== ===Packet formats and parsing===
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• Quizbowl
  ...competitions exist throughout the world with different names and different formats. In the US, the [[Tossup-bonus format|most common format]] on the national ==Formats==
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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.
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• Mehrun Etebari
  ...placement in any academic nationals. He also played and excelled in Trash formats.
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• Team
  Most formats allow four players to play at once - there may also be [[substitutes]], but ...t. The fourth specialist is often a computation specialist in high school formats that place emphasis on computation questions. Other common specialties for
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• Trivia formats
  ...parallel to the quizbowl community. These span a variety of very different formats broadly within the category of "[[not quizbowl]]", with the unifying thread In the United Kingdom, trivia formats are much more popular and are typically called '''quizzes''' or simply '''q
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• Jumping packet
  [[Category: Formats]]
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• Massolit
  ...stats]) and doubles ([https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4417/ stats])) formats.
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• List of high school state champions
  This is a list of '''state champions''' in various '''high school quizbowl''' formats. The information is transcluded from the pages [[List of high school state
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• FTP
  In most formats with "[[powers#Blind and open powers|blind powers]]," the latest point in t
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• QB League
  ...format. It was written to occupy the space between various online [[trivia formats]] (like [[Online Quiz League]]) while retaining the format and [[good quizb
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• Lame
  [[Category: Formats]]
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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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• Zoom
  ...ue to the rules. While tournaments have increasingly returned to in-person formats, some tournaments and tournament mirrors still use video chat services such
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• Guerrilla
  [[Category: Formats]] [[Category: Quizbowl lingo]]
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• Interrupt penalty
  In nearly all team-based formats that issue interrupt penalties, a penalty can only be incurred if the answe In some TV-style formats like [[It's Academic]], answering incorrectly prevents other teams from att
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• Questions Unlimited
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• High Q
  ...hare some of the same questions, while others appear to have evolved their formats independently and have no connection to IA. The variety of not necessarily
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• The Experiment
  ...[Dan Passner]]. This Experiment had 30 tossups that alternated between two formats: half had the same format as the previous iteration's, and the other half s
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• Overtime
  Some formats that use [[bouncebacks]] (though not [[PACE]]) use complete [[tossup-bonus
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• SAGES
  ...,000 short tossups), and conference/dual match sets in the MSHSAA and IESA formats, among other smaller projects.
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• Practice
  ...ons of different difficulties. Clubs may also sometimes use [[fun practice formats]] as a changeup from regular practices.
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• ACF rules
  [[Category:formats]]
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• Science
  ...20 percent of the questions in a packet in [[ACF]], [[NAQT]], and similar formats.</onlyinclude>
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• 2003 ICT
  ...rd 4x8 + crossover ICT format was implemented in 2004; since then, all ICT formats have been based on [[round robins]].
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• Chip Beall
  ...al Academic Championship]], as well as other tournaments run using similar formats and [[bad quizbowl]] practices, colloquially referred to as "Chip Bowl." Ch
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• 30-20-10 bonuses
  [[Category:formats]]
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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 ...o find out that the question is looking for an American president. In most formats that practice "[[good quizbowl]]", such a question would never be written o
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• NAQT finals format
  [[Category: Finals formats]][[Category: NAQT]]
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• Powers
  In most formats with powers, they are usually worth 15 points. (In some formats, they are worth 20 points.) Some formats have both powers and '''super-powers''' (or '''superpowers'''), which form
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• 2005 Thomas Jefferson
  ...be the greatest high school team of all time. When playing in tossup/bonus formats with their full lineup, TJ A went undefeated for the entire school year, an ...game record) for a total record of 263-1 in 264 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
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• Vulturing
  ...There is no [[neg]] penalty for a second incorrect answer in most quizbowl formats, though this does exist in [[Science Bowl]].
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• Booker T. Washington
  ...s historically shied away from such competitions in favor of non-pyramidal formats.
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• Officials
  ...quizbowl formats just need a moderator and scorekeeper in every room. Some formats use additional game officials. ...BI official whose duties would be performed by the moderator in most other formats, the reset/timer announcer (or RTA) is responsible for starting the clock a
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• 2007 Reach for the Top Nationals
  No new question formats were introduced. What-am-I questions were moved to the front of the packet
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• Boston University
  BU has long been active in both academic and trash formats since the team's founding in 1990-91. However, since the graduation and de
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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
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• List of national tournaments that ended without a championship final
  *[[PACE NSC]]: From 2010 through 2019 and from 2022 onwards. Formats used from 1998 to 2009 guaranteed a final of exactly one game. When the tou *Arguably, all of the double-elimination formats listed below are similar to the ACF-style final in certain key respects: A
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• Circle of death
  ...ties that do not involve first place to be left unresolved. However, some formats (or participant preferences) require the breaking of ties. If three teams a
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• James Monroe
  |status = Active in state league & TV formats
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• Repeat
  * some tournament formats allow repeats to occur because it is not possible for a team to play both q
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• Canadian finals format
  [[Category: Finals formats]]
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• York Suburban High School
  ...ience is little, Suburban has enjoyed consistent success in numerous local formats. It competed in the [[Lancaster-Lebanon League]] from 2011 to 2017. It left
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• ACF Pyramid
  [[Category: Formats]]
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• Trivia
  "Trivia" is also used to refer to [[trivia formats|formats used in the broader trivia community]], e.g. Learned League and ''[[Jeopard ...t. For more information on these other formats, visit the page on [[trivia formats]].
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• Computational math
  ====State formats==== Many state formats still have significant amounts of comp math. Until 2022, computation compri
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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
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• Round robin
  Round robins are the building blocks for many invitational tournament formats. An experienced [[tournament director]] will be familiar with the round ro ...rd practice and is often implied to be the format used - hence, tournament formats can frequently be described in terms of just their bracket sizes. For examp
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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 ==Building blocks of formats==
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• AAUW Knowledge Bowl
  ...e noted that most Knowledge Bowl teams do not usually participate in other formats.
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• Reach for Dalhousie
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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• How Quizbowl Works
  ...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 ===Question Sources and Formats===
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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.
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• Collegiate team poll
  ...op 20" polls. Debate over how to rank teams relative to the wildly varying formats of the 1990s was a constant feature at the time.
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• Knowledge Bowl
  ...edgebowl_buzzer.jpg|thumb|300px|The buzzer strip in action]]Knowledge Bowl formats are generally the same across the nation although some regional differences In some Knowledge Bowl formats, one rule that somewhat addresses the latter issue is that if a team buzzes
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• Old PACE NSC tournament format
  For the tournament formats used in [[2000 NSC|2000]] and [[2002 NSC|2002]] see those pages.
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• Hastings High School
  ...eagues [[WACKO]] and [[MACC]], but has increasingly been playing pyramidal formats over the past two years.
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• Fun practice formats
  Several alternative or "fun" formats of quizbowl exist for use at less serious [[practice]]s or in scrimmages.
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• Kiwanis Bowl
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl Association
  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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• Pennsylvania Regional Academic Competitions
  In recent years, some IUs have created or changed their formats to follow NAQT rules exclusively. Philadelphia IU's Regional Qualifier, for ...once using the CCIU-style scoring rules. Other IUs have entirely different formats, like NEIU 19 or DelCo IU 25, which have more unique tournaments. The NEIU
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• Idaho National Labs Scholastic Tournament
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Conversion metrics
  ...rsion metric popularized by [[Matt Weiner]] that allows comparisons across formats. The total points scored by the field, discounting all powers and negs, is
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• Public Library Quiz Bowl
  [[Category: High school formats]] [[Category: Quizbowl TV shows]] [[Category:High school quizbowl in North
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• Mind-reading
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• Bryce Avery
  ...able in comparison to his smaller competitors, who do not write in as many formats as he does, as well as favorable in comparison to his larger competitors, w
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• Central vs. Maggie Walker (2016 VHSL)
  ...some previous success in the "Wise County PACE" (in Pound's case) and VHSL formats. While Central High School is located in the depths of Southwest Virginia,
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• Division I and Division II
  [[Category:formats]]
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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
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• TRASH
  [[Category: Formats]]
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• National Academic Quiz Tournaments
  ...produces sets of questions for the Missouri, Illinois, and Virginia state formats (including custom state championship series for the high school association [[Category: Formats]]
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• Cody Voight
  * [https://acf-quizbowl.com/formats/ tournament formats], including room-balanced round robin schedules (see also [https://hsquizbo
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• North Kansas City
  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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• Ohio Academic Competition
  ...is the most common format in the state, second to NAQT and television-show formats. Every year, the OAC Committee hosts two tournaments at the end of the sea Like most formats, two teams compete in a match. The rules state that the sides are chosen b
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• Money
  The existence and continued popularity of other [[trivia formats]] is a useful point of comparison for the quizbowl community. This example
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• Names for quizbowl
  Some formats and competitions using the Brain Bowl name including:
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• Illinois High School Scholastic Bowl Coaches Association
  ...te in the development and communication of coaching techniques, tournament formats, and other ways of improving the quality of competition with integrity and ...esheets are designed for the IHSA format, but are easy to use for [[mACF]] formats as well.
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• Illinois Scholastic Bowl
  ...tion afternoons, though occasionally tournaments did experiment with other formats. ...dominant at them because they learned more by playing tournaments in other formats). During this time, several Illinois invitationals became a [[mirror]] of t
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• Educational Service Unit
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• Good quizbowl
  ...re tossups that get answered by a wider array of teams than "bad quizbowl" formats that often use [[speed-check]] questions that are more likely to go dead en
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• San Diego City Academic League
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• Outreach
  ===Avoid bad-mouthing other formats or activities=== ...formats are satisfied with their experiences and will view any alternative formats or denigration of their local format with suspicion. Over time, if they pla
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• Chris White
  ...zbowl who remains nostalgic for the 30-20-10 and other "nonstandard" bonus formats.
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• Metro Conference Academic League
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• NAQT Invitational Series
  ...custom offerings, such as questions for the unique [[MSHSAA]] and [[IHSA]] formats, and in 2015-2016 and earlier, questions for [[televised quizbowl|TV shows]
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• USABB
  [[Category:Formats]]
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• SkillsUSA
  [[Category: High school formats]] [[Category: High school national championships]]
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• Varsity Quiz
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• Lakeside (WA)
  In recent years, Lakeside has cemented itself (in most formats) as once again the best team in the Pacific Northwest. When the school fiel
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• Science Bowl
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• How to run a practice
  There are a variety of [[fun practice formats|alternative practice formats]] which exist to spice up gameplay and help involve players who would not n
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• Anti-quizbowl quizbowler
  *introduce all sorts of bizarre question and tournament formats out of inexplicable anger at standard practices
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• Jeremy Gibbs
  ===On Other Formats===
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• Long Island Quiz Bowl Alliance
  ...and quietly provides tournament questions for leagues with nontraditional formats throughout the Northeast and beyond, notably resulting in the conversion of ...rienced as Quizbowl, the LIQBA started writing questions in nontraditional formats in the 2023-24 season, and quickly eliminated all Chipbowl in the Lower Hud
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• Tennessee Knowledge Bowl
  ...ve the same [[bad quizbowl]] issues that most other Knowledge Bowl-branded formats have with [[swerve]]s, [[speed-check]]s, and [[hose]]s as well as a focus o
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• Academic Olympics
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• "stanford housewrite"
  The Oklahoma mirror was only 7 rounds and was forced to change formats after its fifth round when two of the eight total players spread across its
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• Alex Damisch
  ..., and included [https://acf-quizbowl.com/formats/#finals-procedures finals formats] on the ACF site. Significantly, they created the [https://docs.google.com/
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• Weiner's Laws
  ...ams is directly and positively correlated with the quality of the quizbowl formats preferred. I.e., [[ACF]] supporters are more well-groomed than [[NAQT]] fan
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• National Ocean Sciences Bowl
  {{c|High school formats}}
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• List of current good quizbowl status of all North American states, provinces, and territories
  ...every year. Still dominated by [[Quick Recall]] and some smaller Chip-ish formats ...few Chip pockets in the Lehigh Valley and local quizbowl-ish non-pyramidal formats like [[Delco Hi-Q]]
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• Old PACE format
  ...ormat, which was intended as a compromise between several competing packet formats of the time.
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• Charlie Steinhice
  ...mber of reasons: they tended to last for fewer-than-normal rounds and used formats unheard-of in the rest of the country such as single-elimination playoffs;
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• North County Academic League
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• College Bowl Company
  ...pt to destroy other quizbowl tournaments. As a matter of settled law, game formats are not copyrightable, period; as a matter of empirical research, no copyri
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• Olympia Academic Competition Questions
  Olympia also offers question sets in various formats (such as those of [[GATA]] and [[IESA]]) which share questions with its ACF
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• Pyramidality
  ...high standards in [[bonus]] writing, [[difficulty]] control, [[tournament formats]], and other areas.
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• National Tournament of Academic Excellence
  ...ng to the challenge, each team shares a single button to buzz in. IN other formats players usually each have their own buzzers. Teams also share a graphing ca == Topic and Question Formats ==
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• Prompt
  ...mmon in ''Jeopardy!'' discourse and may exist in other non-quizbowl trivia formats as well. As a result of this universal understanding of its meaning, even p ...ed is underlining, though in older sets it is possible to find alternative formats.
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• NAQT Oklahoma State Championship
  Typically, the tournament uses standard round-robin formats with preliminary and playoff stages. In 2007, the [[small school|small]] an
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• Knowledge Master Open
  ...pants were quizbowl teams, or at least squads that had success in local TV formats. Some teams that were initially formed to compete in KMO evolved into very
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• NAQT Illinois State Championship
  ...d, question quality saw a gradual improvement. Local tournament and match formats are now largely in line with national standards.
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• Power-matching
  [[Category:formats]]
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• San Diego County Academic League
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• Vermont-NEA Scholars' Bowl
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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• How to Get Good at This Game
  ...2''': Figure out what you're good at. This game, regardless of [[:Category:Formats|format]] ([[ACF]], [[CBI|College Bowl]], or [[NAQT]]), contains tons of [[:
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• ACF
  ...slight modifications, or especially to make a broad distinction with other formats. Despite the antipathy between some supporters of the two "formats," the same team won both College Bowl and ACF Nationals two times at the he
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• Schools Challenge
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Conestoga Valley Tournament
  ...acted around fifty teams a year, most teams did not know of other quizbowl formats. This has changed, however, in recent years and attendance has steeply decl
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• Colorado Knowledge Bowl
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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• VHSL Scholastic Bowl
  ...a round-robin or double-elimination format and could not design their own formats. [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Woburn CI
  ...ted in the year 2015) was given indicating that there would be a change in formats for the finals. It became clear that the format was rigged against Woburn a
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• Arcadia
  ...the team began to take quiz bowl more seriously. They began to delve into formats outside of NAQT, namely PACE and ACF, an initiative first proposed by co-ca
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• Common Tournament Directing Mistakes
  ...ar for teams who are used to shorter, non-pyramidal questions or different formats). On the other hand, if a team is bringing a very competent moderator, be s
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• National Scholastic Championship
  ...on-ACF variations designed to incorporate elements of regional high school formats. From 2010 through 2019, matches consisted of 20 tossups and 20 three-part
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• Trash
  [[Category: Formats]]
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• Anti-NAQT sentiment
  ...l term coined during the transition away from [[College Bowl]] and related formats which encompasses a number of axioms which are held to be essential to a fa ...strictly pyramidal. In these situations NAQT has been limited by existing formats which prevent the use of pyramidal questions, but their work with these con
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• Timeline of Quizbowl History
  ...finishing with an 88-0 record for their regular A team in non-College Bowl formats.}} ...eated performance at HSNCT and NSC and an undefeated year in [[pyramidal]] formats.
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• College Bowl
  ...2, the College Bowl Company has issued more firm suggestions on tournament formats and so forth to the Regional tournament directors, who previously had full ...ed to a 16-team College Bowl Nationals field at this point. However, other formats have been used on occasion, including a 15-team Nationals with no wild card
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• HSNCT
  *The formats used between 2000 and 2016, inclusive, did not allow for fourth-place ties.
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• Atendido-Matthews FAQ List
  <nowiki> 2a. Other formats available</nowiki><br> <nowiki> 2b. What are the rules for the various formats</nowiki><br>
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• Thomas De Bock
  *Tom regularly competes in various quiz formats, including the Quiz League of London and written Grand Prix quizzes. Based
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• Multi-championship achievements
  Because College Bowl, NAQT, and ACF used wildly differing question formats and distributions, teams that had success at all three usually fielded dras
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• MACA
  ...d]]" tournaments in Missouri, and actively promote bad questions, bad game formats, and bad rules in Missouri quizbowl.
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• Scoresheet
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• National Academic Championship
  ...ut Beall's ethics arose--from questionable protest resolutions, to playoff formats changed at the last minute to the benefit of longtime Beall supporters, to ...that they so prefer the [[four quarter format]] to either the NAQT or PACE formats that they will continue to attend NAC exclusively regardless of the differe
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• Buzzer
  .... Systems that may be suitable only for Knowledge Bowl or other peripheral formats will be added in the future. ...lights are the most visible available and are good for larger rooms or for formats that require recognizing by buzzer color. They are easily recognized as a "
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• Thomas Jefferson (VA)
  ...n Wright, Will Sullivan, and Jacob Oppenheim. When playing in tossup/bonus formats with that full lineup, TJ A went undefeated for the entire year, believed t
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• Honaker
  The 2007-2008 season was the first year for Honaker in non-VHSL formats since 1997, when it placed a local format known as "PACE" (no known relatio
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• Francis Howell Central
  ...School Activities Association ([[MSHSAA]]) Academic Competition and other formats such as [[NAQT]], reaching the State competition in 2000 and 2001 and placi
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• MSHSAA
  ...he length of a game in the MSHSAA four-quarter format, district tournament formats still involve randomly drawn matchups and [[single-elimination]] playoffs, [[Category:High school formats]] [[Category:High school quizbowl in Missouri]] [[Category: Bad quizbowl]][
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• 25 for 25: A Definitive List of the Greatest ACF Players
  ...s, rather than skill in the abstract or accomplishments at other events or formats, when compiling this list. We've also recalled a representative "favorite m
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• Reach for the Top
  [[Category:High school formats]]
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• Battle of the Brains
  The show has experimented with several different match formats over the years, including a standard [[four quarter]] setup and a modified
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• IHSA
  [[Category: High school formats]]
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• How to study
  ...cumvented somewhat by saving your notes offline or exporting them to other formats)
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• NCT
  ! Tournament format<ref>Formats used for old NCTs: https://web.archive.org/web/19970506201422/http://www.co
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• Tom Egan's Report on the 2005 NAC
  ...this has on their participation levels, but it is a lesson that the other formats could learn from.
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• Missouri Quizbowl Alliance
  ...n its first year, MOQBA focused on increasing awareness of "good quizbowl" formats and promoting tournaments that adhered to the principles of "good quizbowl"
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• Definitive Greatest Players List
  ...sheer effort, into a force on the buzzer. His numerous titles in multiple formats (three ACF, two NAQT, even a Penn Bowl) speak for themselves, especially wh ...yers on this tier. Very fine humanities player who could play all academic formats well, though it never seemed to me that he could take over a game like the
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