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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;spirit-of-shiloh, post: 26981, member: 32&quot;]<a href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/National_Academic_Championship" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/National_Academic_Championship" rel="nofollow">http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/National_Academic_Championship</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A tournament run by <a href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/Chip_Beall" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/Chip_Beall" rel="nofollow">Chip Beall</a>&#039;s <a href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/Questions_Unlimited" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/Questions_Unlimited" rel="nofollow">Questions Unlimited</a> since 1983, the <b>National Academic Championship</b> was the first high school national tournament involving normal teams (the <a href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/National_Academic_Super_Bowl" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/National_Academic_Super_Bowl" rel="nofollow">National Academic Super Bowl</a> preceded it but used county-based all-star teams).</p><p><br /></p><p>The tournament is almost universally avoided by serious quizbowl teams due to its inferior question quality and myriad other issues (see below). In 2013, no teams who participated in <a href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/NSC" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/NSC" rel="nofollow">NSC</a> and no team who finished in the top 100 of the <a href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/HSNCT" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/HSNCT" rel="nofollow">HSNCT</a> participated in the NAC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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