Talk:List of current good quizbowl status of all North American states, provinces, and territories

Is a similar page planned to track the continued existence of bad quizbowl by location? There are several locations that have successful good quizbowl circuits but still a significant bad quizbowl presence (Illinois and Missouri, at least). Jonah (talk) 20:39, 9 March 2014 (PDT)

I overwrote some aesthetic changes to the page to get my info drop finished; if you want to retrieve your formatting work to get it back in without redoing it, it's in the revision history. Matt Weiner (talk) 20:46, 9 March 2014 (PDT)

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I think having the overall status on one page makes the most sense (having it on separate pages would make Missouri look good on the "good" page and bad on the "bad" page, for instance). Ben Zhang suggested in the IRC:

would it be better to organize it as a table with columns for "good quizbowl presence", "bad quizbowl presence", and "quizbowl organizations"

I think a table similar to this makes sense. How about something like this, with Missouri/Kansas as examples:

State/Province/Territory	Overall status	Good quizbowl presence	Bad quizbowl presence
Kansas	overwhelmingly bad; restrictive governing body	KSHSAA does not bar hosting a good quizbowl event in Kansas. So far, a few NAQT sets have been run. Possible that support for a better system will arise at some point.	KSHSAA is one of the most backwards governing bodies in any state; terrible state championship, season restricted to late October to mid-February, and restrictions on out-of-state participation (including at national championships) are probably not going away anytime soon.
Missouri	many good tournaments, but still a large bad quizbowl presence; restrictive governing body	Many good tournaments hosted every year, largely thanks to the efforts of the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance. MSHSAA state championship has used NAQT questions since 2011 and has resulted in many more tournaments using NAQT.	Participation in grades 7-12 is governed by MSHSAA, which imposes restrictions on the length of the season, number and locations of tournaments, who can attend national tournaments, etc. As of the 2012-2013 season MSHSAA requires certain rules to be used at all tournaments, such as recognition by name after buzzing. Fewer tournaments are run on bad questions than had been in previous years, but despite using better questions, the MSHSAA state series and many regular-season tournaments still include bad quizbowl features like speed-check tossups, tons of computational math, and single-elimination playoffs.

I'm undecided on whether or not it looks better with bullet points; doesn't really matter to me. - Jeffrey Hill (talk) 17:18, 10 March 2014 (PDT)

I like the idea of having a table, but those things can get to be a bit of an eyesore when they're 25+ rows long--Zachary Yan (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2014 (PDT)