BATE

BATE (Bloomfield Academic Tournament Experiment) is a high school tournament led by Nick Petrilli and Aaron Cohen. Other contributors include Ian Drayer, Sandy Huang, Matthew Greenbacker, Donald Taylor and Trygve Meade. The tournament was held at Bloomfield High School in New Jersey, UCLA, and Cosby High School in Virginia.

BATE 2 ran in fall 2010, and was head-edited by Aaron Cohen after Nick disappeared. The set was noted for its quality and difficulty [1]. Amusingly, Bloomfield High School ran a separate tournament known as BATE on an IS Set in March 2011.

BATE succeeded the "Bloomfield Academic Tournament of Excellence", which had 14 previous editions. [2] This predecessor seems to have been in the so-called "Jeopardy!" format that is popular in New Jersey.