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• ACF Pyramid
  ...e first ACF Pyramid was won by [[Andrew Hart]] and [[Rob Carson]] of the [[University of Minnesota]]. ACF Pyramid begins with an adversarial round between two teams. Six categories are available, and the highest-seeded team chooses first. Each category is
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• Ian Bayley
  '''"Iron" Ian Bayley''' is the co-founder of the [[Oxford]] University Quiz Society, and is widely regarded as the best quizbowl player of the UK' ...t quizzers, winning 11 European titles in the club, pair and national team categories. He has also won several quiz shows, such as Mastermind, Only Connect and B
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• High School Celebrity Shootout
  ...ot''', is an annual tournament hosted every fall at [[Case Western Reserve University]] in Cleveland, Ohio. Organized by [[Emil Thomas Chuck]], who also invented ...pics, such as "Native Americans," the "Beijing Olympics," and "Composers" (categories seen in the 2008 tournament). There are 44 questions in this round worth ei
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• MacVanity
  ...central editing, suggesting 1/1 of each major academic and popular culture categories and the rest writer's choice. Writers are encouraged to write multimedia an
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• CMST II
  ...t held in the fall of 2022. It was head-edited by [[John Marvin]] of The [[University of Chicago]], with [[Adam Fine]], [[Wonyoung Jang]], [[Jason Golfinos]], [[ ...th a guarantee of 1/1 "decentralized" Mythology content across the various categories per packet (and some unspecified amount of current events spread about as w
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• Cincinnati
  '''Cincinnati''' was a Quizbowl team located in Clifton, OH at the University of Cincinnati. Their nickname was the Academic Bearcats. They appeared in S ^- leader in most statistical categories
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• Jaimie Carlson
  |schoolpast = [[University of Pennsylvania]] (2015-2019) ...-killer drones for Amazon, plays quizbowl. She previously played for the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and captained a successful [[Wilmington Charter]] team.
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• Zain Africa Challenge
  ...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 ...team ahead at the end of the third quarter then chooses from the remaining categories, and the process is repeated, even if it would not make any difference in t
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• KYVE Apple Bowl
  ...wl studio, which is located on the [[Central Washington|Central Washington University]] campus in Ellensburg, Washington. The first and second place team members The competition is co-produced by Central Washington University and airs on PBS station KYVE Yakima each spring. The program reaches an aud
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• Michael Kohn
  |schoolcur = [[Durham University]] (2022-) ..., 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]],
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• How to Get Good at This Game
  ...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
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• Trash
  ...F Nationals]], the [[PACE NSC]], or [[NASAT]] (see below note on crossover categories), though [[ACF Fall]] and most high-school level regular-season events, inc ...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
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• Peoria Area World Affairs Council
  ...ns featuring some clue relating to current events or social studies. Bonus categories typically correspond with the category of the toss-up. The PAWAC Tournament has been held on the campus of Bradley University since its inception.
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• Quizbowl
  Quizbowl tournaments are buzzer competitions that cover a variety of academic categories ...state]] championships developed in addition to many [[:Category:Tournament categories|local tournaments]].
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• YSU Academic Challenge
  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 * [http://www.ysu.edu Official site of Youngstown State University, the title sponsor of YSU Academic Challenge]
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• IHSA
  ...categories were represented by 2/2. Each of these six categories had sub-categories which were used as guides for writers to draw questions from, though the he ...ad a much larger distribution of grammar, spelling, and speech. These sub-categories was also eventually whittled away, leaving a stronger "Literature" category
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• Scobol Solo
  ...wnstate [[Sullivan]] before being moved to the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. That tournament, run by [[Ken Johnson]], ended wh ...nners; since the advent of specialized software for tracking this in 2010, categories have been randomized (and not announced).
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• Chenery
  ...ranavkrishna Bharanidharan and Evans Senvalds. Andrew placed highly in the categories of literature, geography, and current events at IPNCT. ...x A, and then they won their game against [[University School of Nashville|University School of Nashville A]] to clinch a spot in playoffs. Chenery finished with
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• Gautam Kandlikar
  He has been active at the [[University of Minnesota]]. Gautam has stayed in touch with high-school quiz bowl in Mi Gautam writes questions in most categories, but most people think he only writes science.
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• Ohio Academic Competition
  In this round, teams are asked questions in ten categories. They are (in order) American Literature, Mathematics, World History, Fine ...till a tossup for both teams. This process is repeated throughout all ten categories.
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