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• Tournament
  ...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
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• RMP
  ...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
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• MacVanity
  ...to write multimedia and interaction questions. Traditionally, half of the tournament's profits are donated to the McMaster's Children's hospital.
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• High School Celebrity Shootout
  ...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
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• CMST II
  ...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
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• Category
  ...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:
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• VICO
  ...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
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• Collegiate difficulties
  ...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.
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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 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
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• Quizbusters (WNAB)
  ...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
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• Kiwanis Bowl
  ...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
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• The Challenge
  ...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)
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• Old PACE format
  ...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
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• Triacontakaipentagon
  ...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
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• Bergstrom Stateline
  ...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.
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• Peoria Area World Affairs Council
  ...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.
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• Team
  ...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.
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• Funn
  * 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
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• Science
  '''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
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• Zain Africa Challenge
  ...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
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