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'''RAT-RACE''', which has stood for '''Roseville Area Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event''', '''Rosemount Annual Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event''', and '''Really Awesome Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event''', is a high school quiz bowl tournament in Minnesota. First started by [[Roseville Area High School|Roseville]], the tournament was later hosted by Rosemount, and is currently run at [[Chanhassen High School|Chanhassen]]. | '''RAT-RACE''', which has stood for '''Roseville Area Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event''', '''Rosemount Annual Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event''', and '''Really Awesome Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event''', is a high school quiz bowl tournament in Minnesota. First started by [[Roseville Area High School|Roseville]], the tournament was later hosted by Rosemount, and is currently run at [[Chanhassen High School|Chanhassen]]. | ||
| − | It is traditionally one of the largest tournaments in Minnesota, with a field size of 64 teams. RAT-RACE is run on NAQT speedchecks, so it is often used by large schools like [[Wayzata High School|Wayzata]] and [[Eden Prairie High School|Eden Prairie]] to qualify large numbers of teams for [[HSNCT]] by spreading out their best players. The best example of this phenomenon occurred in | + | It is traditionally one of the largest tournaments in Minnesota, with a field size of 64 teams. RAT-RACE is run on NAQT speedchecks, so it is often used by large schools like [[Wayzata High School|Wayzata]] and [[Eden Prairie High School|Eden Prairie]] to qualify large numbers of teams for [[HSNCT]] by spreading out their best players. The best example of this phenomenon occurred in 2020, when Wayzata qualified a record eight teams. |
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Revision as of 13:12, 11 May 2021
RAT-RACE, which has stood for Roseville Area Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event, Rosemount Annual Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event, and Really Awesome Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event, is a high school quiz bowl tournament in Minnesota. First started by Roseville, the tournament was later hosted by Rosemount, and is currently run at Chanhassen.
It is traditionally one of the largest tournaments in Minnesota, with a field size of 64 teams. RAT-RACE is run on NAQT speedchecks, so it is often used by large schools like Wayzata and Eden Prairie to qualify large numbers of teams for HSNCT by spreading out their best players. The best example of this phenomenon occurred in 2020, when Wayzata qualified a record eight teams.