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• Michigan 10
  ...tting the middle and hard part of a bonus, while missing the intended easy part.
  530 bytes (84 words) - 22:49, 6 May 2023
• Shadow zone
  ...hadow zone, and a bonus part likely to get 30% conversion is in the middle-hard shadow zone.
  917 bytes (147 words) - 08:03, 12 March 2020
• Bonus
  ...nus is typically worth 30 points, and they have been standardized as three-part questions whose parts are worth 10 points each.</onlyinclude> ...ad-in''' of the bonus is its introduction and comes before the first bonus part.
  7 KB (1,228 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
• Tossup-Bonus Format
  The standard format for bonuses has an easy part, a medium part, and a hard part (not necessarily in that order); each is worth 10 points.
  2 KB (364 words) - 11:10, 20 June 2021
• All Things Bonus
  ...ots of people that understand the tossup-related concepts of pyramidality; hard, unique lead-ins; and (subject-appropriate, if possible) giveaways. Once a ...e to take advantage of their superior knowledge, and that means that super-hard bonus parts have to go.
  13 KB (2,339 words) - 15:23, 3 December 2021
• Lame
  ...lso was incompatible with modern styles of bonus writing in which the easy part or even the true topic of a bonus may not be apparent just from the bonus l
  1 KB (213 words) - 16:54, 2 October 2021
• How to turn a lower-tier high school team into a good high school team
  ..., but those parts can be arranged in any order. Theoretically, getting one part correct means you have a basic knowledge of the subject, getting two parts ...st majority of tossups by the end and can consistently answer at least one part of each bonus. If you need easier questions, start with Novice and Middle S
  4 KB (623 words) - 11:05, 6 January 2022
• How to expand the canon
  B. A common early clue should become a third bonus part.<br> C. A common third bonus part should become a middle clue.<br>
  7 KB (1,278 words) - 17:55, 12 August 2011
• How to prepare for nationals
  ...especting the choices of others and accepting what one has to work with is part of this process. ...am first-lined more questions in their match?" or "which team stole enough hard parts?". Being good enough to get into the fray can sometimes be enough to
  13 KB (2,291 words) - 16:53, 15 January 2024
• Difficulty
  # How hard the questions at the [[tournament]] were for the players to answer, as meas # How hard the writers or editors of the tournament expect the questions to be, by ana
  12 KB (1,927 words) - 19:05, 22 November 2023
• Writing
  Writers are an essential part of the quizbowl community - with most [[set]]s having about a dozen [[packe ...]]. Almost always this means producing [[pyramidal]] questions which start hard and get easier, curating [[clues]] from legitimate sources absent of factua
  5 KB (808 words) - 09:26, 28 March 2022
• National Academic Quiz Tournaments
  ...dal tossups and three-part bonuses consisting of an easy, middle, and hard part. In recent years, NAQT has produced five IS and five IS-A sets each year; i ...r the high school associations of Missouri and Virginia) that are drawn in part from [[IS]] sets. In addition, NAQT modifies some IS and/or IS-A sets for t
  12 KB (1,738 words) - 18:02, 25 July 2022
• How to Write Questions
  ...ion; those are usually associated with universities in some way. The worst part of using Wikipedia as a source is the noted problem of [[Plagiarism#Wikipla ...nd like sources are hard to get to and require a lot of work. For the most part, you should be able to get a lot of mileage out of a few books available fr
  31 KB (5,374 words) - 23:27, 16 October 2021
• How to Coach Quizbowl
  ...ther teams, so providing adult supervision and guidance is of course a key part of being a sponsor. ...ns at tournaments might be most helpful since players can sometimes have a hard time of recalling exactly what questions they missed after the event. If yo
  7 KB (1,191 words) - 21:18, 9 March 2022
• Collegiate difficulties
  ...s, with two principal relative thresholds ("too easy for experts" and "too hard for beginners") defining 2 and 3 dots. Thus, it is not recommended for ques
  5 KB (631 words) - 17:12, 29 July 2022
• Speed-check
  they can be especially good preparation for bonus [[hard part]]s,
  4 KB (673 words) - 12:13, 6 January 2022
• Matt Weiner's List of the 10 best 21st Century High School Teams
  3. Maggie Walker 2007: They lost a few games in the early part of the season, but it only motivated them to get stronger. Unifying the HSN 7. State College 2001: 2001 was a hard call, with both the HSNCT and NSC champions losing a bunch of games, and no
  4 KB (719 words) - 04:24, 11 June 2014
• Bonus conversion
  ...rnaments where many teams' ppb are in the single digits are considered too hard for the field. ...tiebreakers or rankings unjustifiably privileges what should be a smaller part of the game. In a related point, being "opponent-independent" is exactly th
  5 KB (730 words) - 13:47, 12 February 2022
• Rob Carson
  ...e overall [[ICT]] title in 2011, and a [[Chicago Open]] title. He also was part of the Ooh Aah Aah Aah team that won the inaugural CULT national title. He ...trics, Rob often competes at opens under the aegis of "BHSU," or [[Ball So Hard University]].
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• College Bowl Company
  ...Reid]], the son of its founder, [[Don Reid]]. It has several paid full- or part-time employees, including Reid, head question writer [[Mike Decker]], [[Raj ...and remains in an overall soluble financial state; further information is hard to come by.
  5 KB (789 words) - 04:46, 22 June 2023

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