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...where [[teams]] play [[rounds]] of quizbowl against on another. Any given tournament will use a [[set]] of questions that were either [[housewrite#Historical Ho A tournament is typically one day, but may be longer - many [[national]] tournaments tak

...on, [[Mythology|'''M'''ythology]], and '''P'''hilosophy. Until 2018, these categories were grouped together in the [[ACF#ACF_Distribution|ACF distribution]] and An RMP subject tournament called [[RMPFest]] was produced in 2008 and 2009 by [[Bruce Arthur]] and ot

...to write multimedia and interaction questions. Traditionally, half of the tournament's profits are donated to the McMaster's Children's hospital.

...Thomas Chuck]], who also invented the format while at Case in c.1995, the tournament is usually mirrored around the same time by [[Duke]]. ...ans," the "Beijing Olympics," and "Composers" (categories seen in the 2008 tournament). There are 44 questions in this round worth either 10, 20, or 30 points fo

...standing for '''Chicago-Maryland Spearheaded Tournament''') was a [[open]] tournament held in the fall of 2022. It was head-edited by [[John Marvin]] of The [[Un The tournament was written at a "Nationals-minus" (3.5 [[Collegiate_difficulties|dot]]) di

...quiz bowl, every [[set]] has a prescribed [[distribution]] dictating what categories will appear in and how much of each.</onlyinclude> ...tossups and twenty bonuses per [[packet]] (20/20) are split amongst these categories:

...ought (broadly conceived). Several of these more nontraditional "-thought" categories were integrated into the distribution of 2016's [[MYSTERIUM]], also edited The tournament was mostly well-received, with [[Marshall Steinbaum]] declaring it "the fut

...ege graduates, and seasoned players at national championships, [[open|open tournament]]s, and beyond. ...ng, or ill-defined. This page attempts to explain commonly-used collegiate tournament difficulties.

A '''Jeopardy!-style tournament''' is a knowledge tournament for high schools and is popular in New Jersey. Although it is generally not Each round contains 30 questions, grouped into six categories with point values from 20 to 100, like on the game show. The point values o

...e large Vanderbilt ABC tournaments of the past. The final iteration of the tournament was held in 2016. ...20 questions in a category for 20 points each. As teams are assigned the categories, this has the effect of potentially screwing a team that gets stuck with a

...District high schools; a Myspace forum post indicates that a Kiwanis Bowl tournament was held at Los Amigos High School in November 2006. ...wer questions on. The other team would then pick from the remaining three categories. In Round 3, "Best of Twenty", teams answered twenty more pyramidal tossup

...nd; each team received three directed 10 point questions in the same three categories. When a player answered a question correctly in a category, that player co ...In the first round, questions were all multiple choice and come from four categories (always pertaining to history, literature, science, and computational math)

...ch is worth 15 points. Each round has only one bonus part per category, so categories are gradually eliminated as the round goes on; for example, if a team picks .... Each packet included two copies of a handout listing the available bonus categories in that particular round for teams to peruse and check off. At most tournam

...Tricon was its 35/0 distribution, which was not divided into conventional categories but rather into very specific and esoteric niches (examples from the first ...sults would be collected and played without further editing. As with every tournament employing this format, the results varied wildly, something that was only e

...h school teams. The tournament has held six seasons as of 2020, while the "Tournament of Champions" has held two seasons. ...d by Eric Wilson a Eyewitness News Anchor, who to this day still hosts the tournament.

...e tournament typically draws teams from central & down-state Illinois. The tournament is ostensibly a subject-focused academic competition towards social studies ...nationally at the World Affairs Council of America ''Academic WorldQuest'' Tournament.

...nowledge]] specialist, due to the large amount of emphasis placed in those categories. ...icantly overlap in their strengths and lack knowledge in one or more major categories, leading to an imbalanced and often weak team.

* Most [[Reach for the Top]] categories, especially "chain snappers", wherein each question is related to the answe ...es appended to questions) relating the answer to the location in which the tournament is taking place<ref>Such silly questions as seen in the [https://archive.or

'''Science''' is one of [[Big Three|three major academic]] [[categories]] of quizbowl competitions. Science is a [[Big Three]] category along with ...science, earth science, astronomy, etc. will appear several times across a tournament. [[Math]] questions are usually grouped in as a subcategory of science. Rec

...hampionship Festival and Competition, a single-elimination tournament. The tournament is broadcast, one game a week, over fifteen weeks. In 2009 it expanded into ...ten-point "Face-Off" ([[tossup]]) questions from one of four Jeopardy-like categories (e.g. World Politics, Numbers, or Animal Anagrams) and twenty-point related

...ket archive]], which is merely a list of files organized by their source [[tournament]], but many provide additional functionality like search and filtering.</on ...s and the questions inside them by [[difficulty]] typically uses the broad categories of "high school", "college", and "middle school", but the utility of additi

...oll meant to "recognize collegiate players and community leaders in unique categories who may not otherwise be recognized". Inspired by a post of [[Justin Hawkin '''Set of the Year''': [[Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament]]

...'conversion data''') measure the [[conversion]] of individual questions or categories It can also show which categories a team is strong or weak at.

...0, this rule changed to allow nine events per year if one's school hosts a tournament. '''Fixed Order of Categories'''

...been completed, the remaining team chooses from one of the three remaining categories. ...ord at another pyramidal quiz bowl tournament (such as an NAQT event). The tournament was divided into elementary and middle school divisions.

|Subjects = Social Science, "NAQT categories" ...nd social science for [[2017 ACF Fall]]. His work on Fall and as assistant tournament director for the [[2018 ACF Nationals]] earned him an invitation to become

...axiom, "Know thyself," works pretty well in this case. There will be some categories you rock, some you're so-so in, and some that just fly right over your head ...st other people besides your own [[WUSTL|WUAT]] members. Depending on what categories you handle, you can see how you rate against the other lit or science or wh

..."play-off". Teams accumulate points for correct answers in the following categories: Math, Physical Science, Life Science, Current Events, English/Literature, ...were nevertheless more than adequately prepared on the night of the final tournament, as they came from behind, eliminating all opposition, and captured the fir

Brain Busters, stylized as '''BrainBusters''', is a high school quiz bowl tournament sponsored by WellSpan Health (formerly by Westfield Insurance and Capital B The tournament is structured as a single-elimination bracket; recent fields have been capp

...st high-school level regular-season events, including the former [[HSAPQ]] Tournament Sets, have 1 to 2 trash questions per round. ...e content tend to be more willing to allow "borderline" topics in academic categories, so that popular culture with some reasonable claim on being academic-adjac

*[[Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament|CMST]] – contributed Literature, Thought, and Other Arts *[[2022 Winter Closed]] – contributed Literature, Art, and other categories

..., in reference to the 1982 film. This inspired several years of [[Tricon]] categories.

...of time, the other team may choose a question set from the remaining three categories. ...ws anchor Dave Ettl was the longtime host for a stint ending with the 2003 tournament. The 2004 event also brought about other changes, including the relocation

In the first season, questions were restricted to ten categories announced by the host at the start of the show (e.g. Social Science, Sports ...points won the game and advanced through further rounds of an elimination tournament to determine the champion.

...n its stead, Weiner was hired as Head Writer for the [[NHBB]] and [[IHBB]] tournament series (with an option to subcontract out assignments as he saw fit) as a f ...spreadsheet became awash with completed answerlines, it appeared that the tournament was going to finish in record time...

The '''Conestoga Valley Tournament''' is a high school tournament run annually by [[Conestoga Valley]] High School of Lancaster, Pennsylvania Moderators at the tournament are not allowed to give correct answers. Full names are required by some m

...bruary 2019. A group of players from Chenery planned on going to that same tournament in 2020, but was canceled due to COVID. ==Increased tournament activity (2021-2022)==

Gautam writes questions in most categories, but most people think he only writes science. *[[2008 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament]] (with [[Andrew Hart]] and [[Rob Carson]])

...nts that are hosted at 6 sites across the state and the State Championship Tournament. The format is most beloved for its allowing of conferral that is teams ar In this round, teams are asked questions in ten categories. They are (in order) American Literature, Mathematics, World History, Fine

The IHSA started sponsoring a Scholastic Bowl State Tournament in 1986-7, with [[Quincy]] beating Salem in the first ever Championship Mat ..., the chief question editor, and the supervisor of officials for the State Tournament were elevated to voting positions on the AdCo, after being non-voting invit

...''', was an annual, [[ACF]]-sponsored, strictly [[novice]]-only collegiate tournament designed as an introduction for players who were entirely new to collegiate ...able to produce the set, so [[Fred Morlan]] and [[Nicholas Karas]] wrote a tournament in the same spirit called the '''Introductory Collaborative Collegiate Set'

The '''Scobol Solo''' is a [[singles]] tournament held each fall since 2001. It is open to any high school student. It typica ...the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. That tournament, run by [[Ken Johnson]], ended when IWU could no longer provide the space f

Bonus conversion is used as a benchmark for tournament difficulty relative to attending teams. The standard for tournaments is th *For commenters who believe that any tournament in which initial seeding or final ranking does not match bonus conversion r

...o wild card teams, for 18 total from Varsity and Junior Varsity, play in a tournament to decide the team that will be RQB's Long Island Champion. ...ion cooperative lightning round with bouncebacks; teams choose one of four categories

...rotected floppy disk (earlier years) or CD (later years) in advance of the tournament, and the password was announced on the KMO website at the start of the offi ...e questions (100 questions for the 5th/6th grade division) in a variety of categories. Questions has five answer choices and teams are given two chances to answ

...s just clarify that a bit: Since 2007, Seth’s teams have lost one national tournament. He also won an ICT and a Nationals at Berkeley. No one can rival his achie ...ning social science tossups to pulling ridiculous third bonus parts in all categories. He’s approaching the omega point faster than anyone right now.

...ho had won CBI Nationals despite having limited or no knowledge of several categories, most prominently literature. These major knowledge holes led to their 27t ...is a wild card ostensibly picked at random from the second-place Regional Tournament finishers (but no statistically strong second-place team has been chosen as

Quizbowl tournaments are buzzer competitions that cover a variety of academic categories ...state]] championships developed in addition to many [[:Category:Tournament categories|local tournaments]].

In 2005, Laird was present at the [[New Trier Varsity]] Tournament, and was a part of the conversation to start a new question company based o ...he was invited to join the moderating corps at the IHSA State Championship Tournament, making him the youngest moderator to ever read at the State Finals.

==Categories== ...stions open to both teams and are worth ten points each. Snapout/Snapstart categories take place at the beginning and end of each round, respectively, and the su

..., although he is a generalist and can buzz on, and especially neg on, most categories. During his quizbowl career he has won 3 student tournaments: 2021 [[SMH]], ...the 2020-21 season, he was on the first Imperial team to win a non-novice tournament, beating Southampton A in the final of the 28-team Southeast-Midwest housew

*Teams that attend a quizbowl [[tournament]] usually play eight or more matches in a single day. ...hip for individuals is the [[IPNCT|Individual Player National Championship Tournament]], which has high school and middle school divisions.

Place the following animals in the categories of [[carnivore]], [[omnivore]], or [[herbivore]]: Fruit bats, white-tailed ===National Tournament===

...enty [[bonus]]es, roughly 500 questions need to be written for any given [[tournament]]. The long history of [[packet submission]] and [[housewrites]] means that ...can offer flat rates, with bonuses for things like writing in high-demand categories, high volume, and consistency. By contrast, [[housewrite]]s tie their compe

...Nationals from 2008 through the end of his career in 2013, and 35 outright tournament victories (excluding side events). ...at HSNCT in 2005 and a runner-up finish at [[Chip Beall]]'s 2006 national tournament. Rob was one of his high school teammates.

...had claimed it to be. Interviews of coaches who had actually attended the tournament ([[David Riley]], being most notable) were inconclusive. With the 2005 NAC ...atches, and a brief interview with one coach whose team was entered in the tournament. All assertions are thus based upon a relatively limited number of observa

...out the identity of the moderator, scorekeeper, packet number, [[room]], [[tournament|event]], and [[round]]. ...y for the game to be scored but which facilitate the administration of the tournament and adherence to the rules. This includes space at the top for marking if a

...asics|Quizbowl basics]]''' and [[:Category:Quizbowl lingo|Quizbowl lingo]] categories as a glossary if need arises. ...//hsquizbowl.org/forums/ forums]''', which is also the site for almost all tournament announcements. Registering for tournaments usually is as simple as sending

First, you have to know your audience. Are you writing for a novice tournament, a standard invitational, or [[ACF Nationals]]? This will determine, to som With regard to difficulty, context matters a lot. If you're writing for a tournament like [[ACF Fall]], which is going to include a lot of new players who are,

...2For_intimidation|ethical improprieties]] that might have happened at your tournament in years past. Do you care to speak to that at all? ...led at some seemingly arbitrary decisions relating to protests and mystery categories that disappeared and whatnot. [NOTE: Jason Russell never actually mentioned

...ng more stuff. He does impress me as someone who really be a force in many categories (again, not easy to do), if not overwhelming. He also has one of the most d ...ut who is?). At his peak, pretty fearsome and able to snipe a lot of other categories.

...e been mounting since the 2000s. They can be broken down into a few basic categories: *Tournament format (only six preliminary games guaranteed, and single-elimination playo

Each year, the IHSA contracts the writing of questions for their tournament to a head editor. Since 2003, that editor has been [[Sister John Baricevic] :Name these types or categories or branches of psychology.

*Each tournament you play is an opportunity for improvement. ...time you get beat to a question, write down the clue you missed. After the tournament, take the steps to learn that piece of information.

...nd countless singles wins, top scorer awards, and invitational and masters tournament wins. ...at a real tournament like the 2004 Chicago Open. A nice guy whose lack of tournament wins has to be counted against him in the final analysis.

<nowiki> 9a. How to run the campus tournament</nowiki><br> 14a. How does my school go about hosting a tournament<br>

...have arisen over questions submitted and used in the IHSA Scholastic Bowl Tournament this year. I worked this year as the Math Subject Editor and as one of the Name these types or categories or branches of psychology.