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Varsity Coach - Mr. Launius The Hamilton County Scholastic Bowl is a group of students who go to other schools as well as colleges to answer the question of which school is smarter. We have two teams in our school. For students in the class of 9th and 10th is the Jr. Varsity Team and for the students in 11th and 12th is Varsity. Setup In a normal match there are two
teams each made up of five people with one captain for each team. The
person who asks the questions is known as the moderator. To play you need
10 lights and 10 buzzers so you know who got the question first. You will
also need 10 pencil's and some scrap paper so they can do math problems and
bonuses. Rules There are a total of 24 tossup
questions in a normal match. These questions can answered by anyone
person from each team only once meaning that once just one person from the team
has answered then no one on that team can answer again until the next tossup. If both teams miss then the next
question is asked, but if one of them gets it right then a bonus question is
asked. Note: When the question is asked you can buzz in while the moderator is
reading the question if you know it. When a question is answered correctly
then a bonus question is asked. There is a bonus question for each
question. There are 2-part, 3-part, and 4-part questions. The team
who got the question right gets a shot at it first and is given the ability for
questions to be repeated and the ability to call time. When time is called
all papers must stop being passed to the captain. The captain's can still use
their pencils to mark things, but the rest of the team MUST PUT THEIR PENCILS
DOWN AND STOP PASSING PAPERS!!!!!! If the team that answers the bonus
questions first misses at least one. Then the other team is allowed to
give an answer for the questions that were missed. Ex. Say team one
got bonus questions 1 & 3 right on a 4 part bonus, but got 2 & 4 wrong.
Then team two is allowed to answer on questions 2 & 4 only. Each tossup question is worth 10
points and each bonus question is worth 5 points individually. To win a match you need the most points at the end of the last question/bonus. If there is a tie then tossup questions are asked until one team gets it right.
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