After having played Illinois High School Association Scholastic Bowl for four years, I was relatively well prepared for college, as the format is roughly the same. It works this way: -- 20 or 30 TU rounds, with all correct answers worth 10 points. Negs do not exist. (depending on the tournament/conference -- our conference played 30 TU matches during the regular season and 20 during our end-of-season round-robing tourney) -- Bonuses are worth 20 points and usually are 4 parts, but sometimes 3 parts, where the value is 6/7/7 (6 if one right, 13 if two right, 20 if three right). These are all read at once, answers are written down silently by the team, and team members may not confer until the last part of the bonus has been read. Nor may they look at the paper of any other player. The captain may defer ALL or NONE of the bonus to another player on the team -- no such thing as deferring a single part or two. I never played a timed match in high school, and weekend tournaments were usually much shorter than in college -- seldom more than 5-7 rounds in a day, often playing just the other teams in a bracket you were randomly placed in, and perhaps playoffs out of those brackets. Scho Bowl (as we called it) is sanctioned through the state athletic association and there is a state tournament with regional, sectional and state levels of competition, where the questions get increasingly difficult (much like NAQT's IFT, SCT and ICT). There are two divisions of play, based on the enrollment of the school -- 1A for smaller schools and 2A for larger schools (like mine). Hope this helps, Stan Jastrzebski, captain, Elgin High School Scholastic Bowl -- Conference Champions 1998-1999
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