2a) What other quiz bowl formats are available? (College Bowl)
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This article is from the College Bowl FAQ, by George Atendido aten0001@tc.umn.edu with numerous contributions by others.
2a) What other quiz bowl formats are available? (College Bowl)
[adapted after Lillian Parker]
HONDA CAMPUS ALL STAR CHALLENGE (new format, effective 1995-96 season)
Honda Campus All Star Challenge (HCASC) is a version of CB for historically
black colleges and universities (HBCU). Currently, 87 HBCU's are eligible
for HCASC play at the campus program level. Of these, the first 64 teams to
complete the following requirements are invited to play in the NCT:
-Completion of campus program/tournament with a minimum of 10 teams/40
students participating.
-Turning in scoresheets from all campus tournament games
-Turning in Campus Tournament evaluation/questionnaire
-Turning in Team Sign-up forms
-Turning in National Registration forms.
The Sectional Play-Offs no longer exist. The National Championship
Tournament has been expanded to a field of 64 teams. The Nationals will be
conducted in two phases:
1. Preliminary round-robin (8 teams/group) narrows the field to 16.
2. A single elimination tournament will determine the Champion.
The Nationals are scheduled for March 28 - April 1, 1996 and will be held
in Orlando. Unlike past HCASC NCT's, the 1996 tournament will not be
televised.
American Honda sponsors the program, and provides $305,000 in grants
distributed among all participating schools.
HCASC uses the standard CB rules, except that each half is eight minutes
long in NCT play, seven minutes at the campus level. Although generally
balanced, the questions place a heavy emphasis on African-American
culture and history. The televised portions feature several audio-visual
and/or tactile questions each game.
Many questions used in CB official play are also used in HCASC. Schools
participating in HCASC may not play in any other tournament. HCASC also
has its own newsgroup, alt.college.camp-all-stars.
For more information on HCASC, call CBI at 1-800-234-BOWL (or
818-788-4103). The past HCASC champs are listed in the answer to
question 13.
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Kentucky College Quick Recall League (John Kuchenbrod)
The prize Kentucky colleges compete for. Often held the same weekend
as the CBI RCT, it's occasionally blamed for Kentucky schools not
showing up at the Region 5 RCT. Tourneys are held on various weekends
throughout the year, with a final tourney on or about April. 20 Tossups
and a varied number of bonuses each half; there is no change in difficulty
between tossups and bonuses. Each is worth 2 points, with a -1 for
interrupting the tossup. Nice twists are subs at halftime and during
time-outs that can be called after bonuses or incorrect tossups.
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International Food Technologists College Bowl
Sponsored by the Institute of Food Technologists. Questions deal
with food science and technology. Hosts regional competitions leading to
a national championship. Any relationship of this "College Bowl" to CBI
is unknown.
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The Linnaean Games [after Julie Stahlhut]
The Linnaean Games are a series of quiz matches held at regional and
national meetings of the Entomological Society of America. Most
Linnaean Games players are graduate students in university entomology
and zoology departments, but undergrad players sometimes participate.
Also, current Linnaean Games rules allow non-students to play if they
have graduated within the past year.
Tossup questions are usually science-oriented, concentrating on
insect taxonomy, morphology, and physiology, and on pest control.
Bonus questions can include both science questions and those
pertaining to other fields such as insect imagery in the arts.
Linnaean questions have never been written to CBI/ACF standards, and
"hosings" are common. However, the games are played in good fun;
the preliminaries are run at ESA regional meetings, and the top
two teams from each regional play for the national championship
at the ESA national conference every December.
Linnaean may lack the polish of standard buzzer games, but where
else can a bug-fancier follow up a quick tossup on sexual selection
in moths with a bonus on "I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died"?
[end attribution]
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Possibly defunct:
Glorieta Bowl (Challenge?)
Televised ~1988 on a religious channel in Montgomery, AL, perhaps
elsewhere. Matches have t's and b's, timed rounds. All questions related
to religion (60%) or football (40%). Schools participating in the matches
seen by the contributor were private religious schools in Oklahoma,
Texas, and New Mexico.
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Defunct:
College Mad House
Hosted by Greg Kinnear in his pre-Talk Soup days, syndicated by
Warner. Teams squared off in a combined trivia game/obstacle course(!).
Lasted one season.
Campus Challenge
Sponsored by World Affairs Television. Featured 8 American and
8 Canadian teams in a single elimination tournament, ultimately won by
Harvard University. Taped in September, 1994, it was meant in the U.S.
for PBS stations, and ended up being broadcast in very few markets. The
organizers had never run a tournament before and encountered many
problems, some of which appear on the show. A tape of the first match,
featuring a lockout system that didn't lock out and a confused moderator,
is the Grail of video collectors.
University Challenge--see Question 7.
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HIGH SCHOOL BOWL (Pat Matthews)
CBI also runs High School Bowl. HSB is identical in format to CB, except
that questions tend to be a bit easier. For more information on HSB, call
CBI's toll-free number, 1-800-234-BOWL.
It must be stated here that many colleges conduct quiz tournaments for
high school players, and that there are about a bazillion high school
formats, many of which are similar to CB, but only HSB has official ties
to CBI.
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