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Welcome to QBWiki,
a compendium of information on Quizbowl.
Featuring 5,369 articles on tournaments, players, sets, and theory.

• Intro
• Categories
• Rules
• Studying
• Collegiate difficulties

The header contains the name of the wiki. The right box contains a list of main pages for various "boxes" (like the Intro box, the Rules of the game box, and the Category box) - future boxes should be included here.

Introduction

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Introduction

Quizbowl, or quiz bowl, is the most common name for a team-based competition involving answering knowledge-testing questions with a buzzer. Quizbowl is played at thousands of colleges, high schools, and middle schools across the United States, but competitions exist throughout the world with different names and different formats. In the US, the most common format on the national high school and college level is a two-team competition in which the teams compete to buzz in on tossup questions and then collaborate on bonus questions.

The most important organizations in quizbowl are ACF (at the collegiate level), PACE (at the high school level), IQBT (at the collegiate and high school levels) and NAQT (at the collegiate, high school, and middle school levels). Much quizbowl community activity occurs at hsquizbowl.org, which is hosted by the Quizbowl Resource Center. Also check out our pages on quizbowl software, buzzer sets, and outreach to new schools and players.

This section is directly transcluded from the "Quizbowl" page.

Getting started

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Getting started as a collegiate team

Start
a team

Run a
practice

Study for a
tournament

ACF Fall
October 19, 2024

ACF Winter
November 16, 2024

ACF Regionals
February 1, 2025

ACF Nationals
Unannounced

This section is intended to center pages which are important to new players. The goal to is point to comprehensive guides for getting started, as well as the ACF tournaments as the flagship (collegiate) tournaments.

Primary goals right now are to create the linked guides and to consider what information should be put in this section.

Quick Links

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Quick Links

Find information about a club or team

• List of collegiate clubs (directory of contact information)
• List of high school clubs
• List of middle school clubs

Quizbowl History

• Follow the history of quizbowl at the timeline of quizbowl history
• Find out how they play overseas in Canada, the United Kingdom, Asia, and elsewhere
• Read about the predecessor and long-time competitor to quizbowl, College Bowl
• Learn which quizbowl players have won big on Jeopardy!

How-to's and guides

• Let past players teach you how-to learn science or run a club
• Peruse various documents written by the community

Miscellaneous

• Wondering why people keep saying "m"? Find out that, and more at quizbowl lingo‏‎
• Interested in the significance of capybaras? Stop by the list of quiz bowl in-jokes
• Want to catch the game? Visit the list of quizbowl TV shows
• Curious about the accolades of the game? Read through the list of quizbowl awards

The "Quick links" section is managed at QBWiki:Quick links.

Tournament results and info

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Recent tournament results

No recent results

Archive · Database (external)

Historical tournament info

Internal

• List of high school tournaments
• List of college tournaments
• GrogerRanks: community-organized rankings of high school quizbowl teams

External

• NAQT HS results
• NAQT college results
• NAQT community college results
• NAQT middle school results

The goal of the "Recent tournament results" box is to have at-a-glance information about recent tournaments. Emphasis should be on tournaments which are most likely to be relevant: major priority are on nationals, which are given top billing, then regional tournaments. Novice tournaments are occasionally included, but there is less immediate need for that. The "Historical tournament info" is intended to provide useful resources about past tournaments - as of right now, none are as fleshed out as one would want.

The "Recent tournament results" section is managed at QBWiki:Recent tournament results.

Featured picture

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Featured picture

The UCF team poses for a selfie at the 2015 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament.

Front: Ian Braun

Back: Casey Bindas, Michael Tichy, Mickey Sizemore, Bradley Kirksey, Cody Johansen

Photo credit: Ian Braun

Archive

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Improving QBWiki

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Improving the QBWiki

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