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| − | + | A national championship is an event purporting to award a title to the best [[Quizbowl]] team in a particular country. Over the years a number of national championships have been held for college, high School, middle School, and levels of play, with widely varying quality of questions and format. | |
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| + | == History of National level play == | ||
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| + | Don Reid developed the [[College Bowl]] format for American university students after success with a similar program for American GIs during WWII. By the 1990's, for a variety of reasons, College Bowl's popularity began to diminish. The Academic Competition Federation was established in 1991 and held an alternate national championship out of dissatisfaction over the CBI corporations handling of quiz bowl. | ||
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| + | Corporate sponsorship has also led to several national championships occurring for periods of time. | ||
== Active titles (scheduled to be awarded in 2014) == | == Active titles (scheduled to be awarded in 2014) == | ||
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Staffing guide to good quizbowl nationals in 2014: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AitgvOoiHJZodHhhMHZEczFpLWE3eTVGUkZYTVIxRGc&output=html | Staffing guide to good quizbowl nationals in 2014: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AitgvOoiHJZodHhhMHZEczFpLWE3eTVGUkZYTVIxRGc&output=html | ||
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| + | [[Category:High school national championships]] | ||
Revision as of 10:38, 21 November 2013
A national championship is an event purporting to award a title to the best Quizbowl team in a particular country. Over the years a number of national championships have been held for college, high School, middle School, and levels of play, with widely varying quality of questions and format.
History of National level play
this section is incomplete
Don Reid developed the College Bowl format for American university students after success with a similar program for American GIs during WWII. By the 1990's, for a variety of reasons, College Bowl's popularity began to diminish. The Academic Competition Federation was established in 1991 and held an alternate national championship out of dissatisfaction over the CBI corporations handling of quiz bowl.
Corporate sponsorship has also led to several national championships occurring for periods of time.
Active titles (scheduled to be awarded in 2014)
Defunct titles
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