The Bay Area Academic League
| BAAL is back for Season 8! |
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What is Quiz Bowl? | ||
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The Bay Area Academic League is back and will soon begin enrolling teams for an eighth season (2009-10) of quiz competition! This year BAAL will modify its normal calendar. We will try to run weeknight matches on 25 Feb for East Bay (location: San Leandro High) and 1 March for the Peninsula (location: Menlo School). Latest revisions to the schedule can be found here . Each night will feature 4 matches. BAAL gives your school the opportunity to showcase its quizbowl knowledge, talents, and skills. Since 2006-07 BAAL has been the largest quizbowl competition in the SF Bay Area with as many as 56 teams. This year, BAAL plans to reward existing teams that recruit new schools to join the BAAL circuit with a recruitment bonus. The commitment for BAAL
is small (1 or 2 nights out of the entire school year), but the benefits are many! Please note: Teams wishing to participate should register as soon as possible. For questions, more information, or inquiries about how your school can join BAAL, or to re-register for this season, please email Gaius Stern:
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Quiz Bowl is an academic knowledge / trivia game played by teams of four with a buzzer system. Players signal to answer open
"toss-up" questions from all academic areas (art, history,
literature, math, science), plus pop culture from current events to
sports. On bonus questions, the whole team confers to earn
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Congratulations to University High School for winning the 2008-09 BAAL championship! |
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organization bears no resemblance to or affiliation with the British
Association for Applied Linguistics. Ours is much more fun.