About The Competition
Science Bowl is a Jeopardy style buzzer competition. Two teams of 5 (4 Players and 1 Alternate) compete against each other in various scientific disciplines, discussed above. Each round has around 25 sets of questions, 1 individually answered toss-up followed by a respective bonus that is discussed within a team. Each toss-up is worth 4 points and each bonus is 10.
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There is one regional tournament for Science Bowl that is generally held in early March. The team that places first will go to the National competition in April, held in Washington DC. There are also various invitationals that may be attended both online and in person.
2023-24 Season Results
This season, the MSJ Science Bowl team continued their streak of stellar competition performance at the Berkeley Science Bowl Invitational and the Sandia National Lab Regionals competition.
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At Berkeley Science Bowl:
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MSJ A Team placed 1st overall
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MSJ B Team qualified for the Double Elimination Round and placed in the top 8
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Team member Theenash Sengupta placed as the highest Biology subject scorer
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Team member Roshan Annamalai placed as the highest Earth and Space Science subject scorer
At Regionals, MSJ A team won first place, qualifying for Nationals for the third time while MSJ B team qualified for the Double Elimination Round.
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Practice/Tryouts
Currently, practices occur from 2-4 PM on Sundays in person. Practices usually involve using prewritten questions from each team member as practice, then splitting into teams and using competition sets.
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Information on tryouts will be sent out in the fall. Tryouts take place on a Saturday morning at MSJ, and involve one hour buzzer question tryouts for each subject, with each person being able to tryout for two sections and optionally math. Tryouts are only one factor that goes into team selection; scores, team synergy, and behavior will all be noted during practices and will go into the final decision.
Past Results
2022-23 Season:
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A Team Placed 1st at Regionals
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B Team placed in the top 4 at Regionals
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Placed 10th at Nationals
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2nd at SSBT (Summer Science Bowl Tournament)
2021-2022 Season:
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A Team Placed 1st at Regionals
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Placed 2nd at Nationals
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