Real

Real quizbowl is a shorthand used for playing well-written academic questions. Other forms are known as fake quizbowl.

At the college level, real quizbowl refers to all tournaments played on academic, written-for-college questions; that is, NAQT SCT and ICT, the ACF series, and independent mACF tournaments. It excludes tournaments that use trash, hybrid, College Bowl, Honda, and NAQT high school questions.