Modern era of high school quizbowl

The Modern Era of High School Quiz Bowl encompasses the period beginning with the first PACE NSC in 1998. It continues to this day with the PACE NSC and NAQT HSNCT leading the way to marked improvement in question styles and tournament formats at all levels of play.

Major changes include the shift to offering as many games as possible at invitational tournaments, the use of brackets and double-elim rather than single-elim playoffs when possible, the generally accepted importance of pyramidal tossups as opposed to speed checks, and the defection of good teams away from the National Academic Championship and to the above two tournaments.

Despite what some may think, the move to modern or "good" quizbowl has absolutely nothing to do with any attempt to displace four-quarter format tournaments with exclusively tossup/bonus tournaments, and is entirely concerned with making the individual questions good within whatever format happens to be used.