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The Tenth Annual National Scholastics

Championship

June 9-10, 2007

Hosted by Michigan Academic Competitions, the University of Michigan

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History and Mission

The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence was first organized in 1996 by Samer Ismail (then, an undergraduate at Yale), Emil Thomas Chuck (a graduate student

at Case Western Reserve University), and Jonathan Lazar (an undergraduate at University of Maryland Baltimore County) as a volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to raising the profile and quality of high school academic competition throughout the

country. Our dream was to organize a high-quality national championship tournament that featured and encouraged the best high school academic competition players and

teams. To this end, PACE was established with the following mission statement:

The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) is a non-profit alliance of college and high school academic teams that specifically organize high school academic tournaments across the country.

PACE has many objectives:

to promote and encourage the growth of quality high school invitational tournaments around the country,

to provide guidance or assistance to other colleges or high schools that wish to organize such tournaments,

to encourage innovation and creativity in academic competition, to establish visibility for college academic team programs that run high

school tournaments, to foster cooperation among college and high school programs in preparation

for upcoming regional, state, or national tournaments, to encourage participation of teams in tournaments across the country prior to

regional, state, or national tournaments, to allow all teams adequate opportunity to practice, compete, and socialize

among other fellow competitors.

There is no membership fee to be part of this network. However, the success of this project depends on the willingness and dedication of high school and college academic competition organizations to share information and volunteer their time and effort.

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PACE Organization Executive Administration Emil Thomas Chuck, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer David Bykowski Chief Financial Officer Community Service and Projects Jessie Connolly Bykowski, LMSW Director of Outreach Patricia Southard Program Chair, Benjamin Cooper Awards Program NSC Question Editors Matt Weiner Chief Editor Information Technology and Resources Fred Morlan Quizbowl Resource Center (hsquizbowl.org) Chief Administrator Ahmed Ismail, Ph.D. Communications Manager Derek Winkler Assistant Director of Communications 2007 PACE Writers & Readers Bootcamp (Pilot Program) Steve Yang Program Organizer Chris Ray Program Organizer Father Ken Meehan SJ & Ted Gioia Program Hosts NSC 2007 Tournament Executive Staff David Bykowski Tournament Host & Organizer Jessie Connolly Bykowski Assistant Tournament Organizer Dan Greenstein Tournament Director Matt Weiner Assistant Tournament Director

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Question Writers Ezequiel Berdichevsky University of Maryland

University of Michigan George Washington University

Jessie Connolly Bykowski, LMSW +

University of Maryland University of South Carolina

Eric Douglass +

University of South Carolina Ahmed Ismail, Ph.D. +

Sandia National Laboratories Charles Meigs University of California at Los Angeles

Noah Rahman # California Institute of Technology Ray Luo

University of California at Berkeley University of California at Los Angeles

Matt Weiner #

Chief Editor University of Pittsburgh Virginia Commonwealth University

Ryan Westbrook

University of Michigan Wayne State University

Leo Wolpert

University of Michigan University of Virginia

Additional Staff

Mike Bindis Greg Bossick Pat Freeburn Sara Garnett Adam Kittle Matt Lafer Mike Landermith

Charles Meigs Brian Saxton* Justin Sharp Allison Manzuk Thomas* Kelly Tourdot Ryan Westbrook

# former NSC competitor, * Previous members of PACE. + Current PACE member.

This list consists of confirmed attendees at the time of printing, and any

omissions from or mistakes upon compiling this list are unintentional.

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Participating Schools Brindlee Mountain High School Third NSC (2005, 2006) Guntersville, AL Carbondale High School First NSC Carbondale, IL Cary Academy First NC Cary, NC Centennial High School Fifth NSC (2003-2006) Elliott City, MD Culver Academies Second NSC (2005) Culver, IN Detroit Catholic Central High School Tenth NSC (1998-2006) Novi, MI Detroit Country Day High School Fifth NSC (2001-2004) Beverly Hills, MI Eden Prairie High School First NSC Eden Prairie, MN Episcopal Collegiate Academy First NSC Little Rock, AR Garfield Heights High School First NSC Garfield Heights, OH Gonzaga College High School Seventh NSC (1998-1999, 2002, 2004-2006) Washington, DC Hardee Senior High School Third NSC (2005, 2006) Wauchula, FL Maggie Lena Walker Governors School for Government & International Studies Ninth NSC (1998-2002, 2004-2006) Richmond, VA Martin Luther King Magnet High School First NSC Nashville, TN Moravian Academy First NSC Bethlehem, PA New Trier High School Second NSC (2004) New Trier, IL Novi High School First NSC Novi, MI Paul M. Dorman High School Sixth NSC (1998, 2000, 2003-2005) Roebuck, SC

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Perry Hall High School First NSC Baltimore, MD Jay M. Robinson High School First NSC Concord, NC St. Andrews Episcopal High School Third NSC (2002, 2004) Jackson, MS St. Johns High School First NSC Toledo, OH Solon High School Sixth NSC (2001-2005) Solon, OH State College Area High School Tenth NSC (1998-2006) State College, PA Stuyvesant High School First NSC New York, NY Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Sixth NSC (2002-2006) Annandale, VA Tippecanoe High School Second NSC (2004) Tipp City, OH Walter Johnson High School Fifth NSC (1999, 2002, 2005, 2006) Bethesda, MD

2007 PACE NSC Rules

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GAME FORMAT & RULES SUMMARY

The PACE NSC format consists of three phases in each match. In the first phase, the related tossup/bonus phase, there are ten tossups. Each tossup is associated with a two-part, 20-point bonus that is in the same subject area as the tossup. In the second phase, the category quiz, there are eight tossups. After correctly answering a tossup, the team picks the bonus category from a standard list. The bonus here is one-part and worth 15 points. In the third phase, the stretch phase, there are ten tossups. A correct tossup earns a three-part, 30-point bonus that will not be related to the tossup. In this phase, if a player buzzes before or during the reading of the phrase for 10 points with a correct tossup answer; then the correct answer is worth 20 points instead of 10. Whether the first syllable of the next word after for 10 points has been read is a moderator judgment call and is not protestable. If the game is tied after the stretch phase, then there are an additional three tossups with unrelated thirty-point bonuses read. There are no powers on the tossups. Bonus parts bounce back as normal. If the game is still tied following the extra three tossups and associated bonuses, then tiebreaker tossups are read until one team wins the game by answering a tossup correctly. A wrong answer does not automatically lose the gamethe other team must answer the question correctly to win. TOSSUPS Correct tossup answers are worth 10 points at all times in the related tossup/bonus phase and category quiz, and once the first syllable of the next word after for 10 points has been read in the stretch phase. Incorrect tossup answers at any point do not lose points for a team (i.e., there are no negs); however, they do lock out all other members of that team from buzzing on that question and entitle the opponent to hear the remainder of the tossup, if any. On tossups, there is no substantive conferring allowed. This includes talking, writing, or hand signaling that is designed to communicate information about what the answer might be. Conferring will be treated exactly the same as a wrong answer. Waving off teammates from buzzing, verbal interjections of surprise, and other non-substantive communication is permitted. Answering when you have not buzzed in will be treated as conferring and thus a wrong answer, but will not result in the tossup being thrown outthe other team will be allowed to hear the remainder of the question and answer as normal. Thus, moderators will not rule on the correctness of inappropriately blurted answers, but merely call conferring and complete the question. BONUSES There are bouncebacks on all bonus parts. This means that if the team which correctly answered the tossup does not get a bonus part right, the other team has an immediate

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chance to answer that part for the full point value. The next part of the bonus (if any) will then be read to the team which answered the tossup, and the procedure repeated. Bonus ans