Talk:National Science Bowl

Time?
Is it ten minute or eight minute halves? - crazynas March 20, 2005 6:42 (GMT)

&mdash; mathwiz2020\talk 22:13, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * According to the rules (see #20):
 * The match is played until either the time expires or all the toss-up questions have been read. Regional competitions will have two 8-minute halves with a 2-minute break (halves at the Nationals are 10 minutes).
 * The National Middle School Science Bowl, though, has eight minute halves for both the regionals and the nationals (I believe).

Regional rules vary widely. Most regionals follow the prescribed 8-minute halves. Some regionals play untimed. Aerion//talk 07:29, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but at National finals we play with 11-minute halves. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 | T | C | @ 04:03, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * National Finals were 11 minutes because of the visual bonuses, which was a new concept introduced this year. Lucas(CA)
 * Visual boni were introduced in 2003 ("back in my day," you might say). Halves were still 10 minutes for all rounds back then&mdash;that really helped us win the fifth place match, since visual boni killed the clock while the opponents were trying to mount a comeback. Aerion 05:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Poudre
This might not be the place to announce this, but the Poudre High School team that won the 2007 competition will not be attending the 2008 event due to a conflict with International Bacchalaureate testing. Poudre won the regional competition with five IB seniors who would have to miss the English Paper 1 exam to attend. In their place, second-place Fairview High School will attend.

I was on Poudre's winning teams in 2007 and 2008. Since the regional competition on February 2nd, we have tried to get Science Bowl to allow a time slot for us to take the English test, and for me to take the Psychology Papers 1 and 2. Neither Science Bowl nor IB has budged, and the end result is that we will not be allowed to defend our title. Best of luck to Fairview and the other teams at the national competition. -- Sam Elder —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.101.231.179 (talk) 02:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

They recently added an energy section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.51.157 (talk) 22:32, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Brackets and such
There is absolutely no need for these brackets on Wikipedia. The information is extraneous and Science Bowl as a whole isn't very significant (its not even mentioned on DoE's wikipedia page)--Prisencolinensinainciusol (talk) 04:57, 5 March 2014 (UTC)