Switching players between an A team and a B team at any given tournament.
Always assumed to be an honest mistake or oversight, and not an attempt at stacking teams.
Bottom Feeding
An often pleasant result of restraining the urge to vulch, bottom feeding
arises when one team has negged early and the unread portion of the
question contains information which makes the correct answer very obvious.
When the question is completed, members of the other team are welcome to take a trip
to the bottom to scoop up the points. Point of caution: players who
bottom feed and get the answer wrong will earn the ire of their
teammates (i.e. make sure you know the answer). See also: Pseudo-vulch.
Digit
To claim complete victory over an opponent. From Alex's remark at 2000 TRASH regionals as the
team stormed through the field with an average 250 ppg differential: "it's nice to finish with an extra digit on your opponent".
Dirty Deal
(1) An intramural tournament team consisting of more than the one allotted
UF Quiz Bowl Team member. Only one dirty deal (1997) has ever won the tournament.
(2) Any intramural team with Jeff on the roster is automatically considered a Dirty Deal.
Disillusionment
Feeling experienced by many when they finally realize that, despite a certain number of success stories,
College Bowl is still not an ideal venue for picking up females.
Geographical Captain
A team captain chosen not for superior playing ability or leadership
qualities, but by virtue of physical position when seated at a table - generally in the center. UF College Bowl does not recommend
the selection of captains on a geographical basis outside practices as it blurs the cause/effect reasoning for the central location of the
captain and, more importantly, is not something Jock Ewing would do.
(See Real Power Can't Be Given - It Has To Be Taken.)
Johnson Hat Trick
A consultation, interrupt, and talking during a bonus in one round.
Named for Brian Johnson, who pulled one of these stunts at NAQT SEC '97.
Lines
Certain statistical ratios achieved at tournaments, generally named
after the team members that first attained them.
Low Man Out
(1) Method of structuring teams where the lower scorer in a particular
round is replaced by an alternate for the next round.
(2) A vulch waiting to happen.
Malshe Marseillaise
Work premiered at Sword Bowl 2002, in which a player answers a tossup without being recognized and without his/her light being on.
Differentiable from the Nordby Triple Play by virtue of the answer being correct.
Neg
To interrupt the reading of a tossup with an incorrect answer, thus earning one's team a five-point penalty.
Negate
To finish with one's opponents on the wrong side of zero. Not to be confused with negging.
Nordby Triple Play
An event where, on a single tossup, a player (1) answers incorrectly, (2) when his/her light is not on, (3) without being recognized.
First observed at CBI Regionals '99.
OSA
The Office of Student Activities, from which UF College Bowl is run. Located at 330 John Wayne Reitz Union.
Pootie Tang
The 2001 film starring Lance Crouther and Chris Rock, quotes from which are fair game as responses to boni that nobody actually knows.
Power
Convention of National Academic Quiz Tournaments(NAQT), where answering a tossup correctly before the power mark("*")
is read (varies between questions) earns 15 points instead of the usual 10.
Power Vulch
One of two times when a vulch is acceptable, this occurs during NAQT play
when a question is interrupted very early and one can vulch and still
receive the power points. Warning: If you try for a power vulch
and get the answer wrong, it's still a neg-5 and you will earn the wrath
of your teammates. Attempt with caution.
Pseudo-Vulch
Not quite a vulch, but an action with the same intent. Occurs when a
player rings in on the last syllable of a question for the purpose of
bulking up individual stats. Again - you'd better get it right.
Real Power Can't Be Given - It Has To Be Taken
(1) Official Slogan of the UF Team.
(2) An acceptable answer to virtually any question, and correct answer to What Would Jock Ewing Do In This Situation?
Shane Pack
Any pack of questions for a high-school tournament with an abundance
of unacceptable material. Named after a former team member who wrote four packets
for the 1997 Fall High School Tournament, in which answers included "Traci
Lords" and "Ed Gein", and several questions involved matching beers to their countries of origin.
Shoulder Surfing
When 20/20 vision supplants memory, recall, and reflexes as the most important asset of the Quiz Bowl player.
Sub-Freshman
A member of the UF team who is dual-enrolled in high school and the University of Florida.
Taking One For The Team
Doing something unpleasant for the good (and from
fear of less tactful members) of the team. This term evolved from one
of UF College Bowl's raging debates: whether a person, being the sole
survivor of a plane crash in which the record for most casualties
was equaled, should "take one for the team" in order to set that record?
Team N+1
Where N = [the number of teams taken on trips], a team especially
designed for those who either do not bathe on a regular basis or do
not write questions for High School tournaments. Request to be added
to this team and never worry about those pesky tournaments again!
Vulch
To unnecessarily pounce on easy questions in pursuit of personal vanity
after the other team has answered incorrectly but before the question has
been completed. Players who enjoy this should immediately apply for
Team N+1 status.
Vulture
[Middle English, from Old French voltour, from Latin vultur]
(1) Any of a number of large birds of prey with a featherless head and dark plumage
found in tropical and temperate regions.
(2) A person of rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.
(3) One who vulches, and therefore isn't welcome on any College Bowl trips. So--if you vulch--don't bother buying that travel toothbrush just yet.
What Would Jock Ewing Do In This Situation?
The question asked whenever there is any discord among the team. Inspired by the patriarch of the
Ewing family, hero to many, the correct answer is Real Power Can't Be Given - It Has To Be Taken.
Who Let the Dogs Out?
(1) UF Academic Team slogan for one, disastrous tournament.
NOTE: This tournament occurred in Spring 1999, a full 18 months before
the appearance of the version popularized by the Baha Men. Word to the
wise: Do not write this on the chalkboard before you play a match. You
will lose.