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.
Past Results
2024-25 Season:
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A team placed 1st at Regionals and top 12 at Nationals.
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A team placed 1st at Berkeley Science Bowl. Team member Theenash Sengupta placed as the highest Biology subject scorer. Team member Roshan Annamalai placed as the highest Earth and Space Science subject scorer.
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A team placed 1st at Berkeley Science Bowl
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A team placed 2nd at MIT Science Bowl
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A team placed 1st at Stanford Science Bowl
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A team Online Invitational Results:
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1st place at Blair-Amador SB, Texas SB, and Iron City SB
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2nd at South Middle Hollylake, Thomas Jefferson SB, and Amador Valley SB
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3rd at Maryland National SB
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2023-24 Season:
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​A team placed 1st at Regionals and B team qualified for Double Elimination. A team placed top 8 at Nationals
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A team placed 1st at Berkeley Science Bowl
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Practice/Tryouts
Practice times are subject to change after tryouts. Practices usually involve using prewritten questions from each team member as practice, then splitting into teams and using competition sets.
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This year's tryouts will take place on 09/06 in Dr. Sawicka's room (C13) 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.
Upcoming Events
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Tryouts
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ICSBT 2
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Berkeley Science Bowl 2025
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MIT Science Bowl 2025
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AVES 2
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Stanford Science Bowl 2026
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Sandia / LLNL Regionals 2026
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