Superpowers (gimmick)
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- Not to be confused with the variant form of power tossups currently used at some tournaments.
At several trash tournaments and at least one academic tournament run by Boston-area teams Boston University and Boston College in the mid-2000s, each player could claim one of a set of "superpowers" at the start of the tournament. Players could use these abilities to alter the course of gameplay in various ways. This was part of a trend towards "fun" rules alterations in trash tournaments that petered out around 2010.