Editing Quiz bowl (section)

=== Educational value ===
Some proponents of reform seek to increase the educational value and fairness of quiz bowl, primarily by using pyramidal questions.<ref name="Quizbowl lexicon">{{Cite web|url=http://www.pace-nsc.org/pace-quizbowl-lexicon/|title=Quizbowl lexicon|first=Stephen|last=Eltinge|website=Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence|access-date=June 4, 2014|archive-date=June 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605055158/http://www.pace-nsc.org/pace-quizbowl-lexicon/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.norcalquizbowl.org/?page_id=18|title=What is quiz bowl|website=Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance|date=12 July 2013 |access-date=May 23, 2014|archive-date=March 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309102928/http://www.norcalquizbowl.org/?page_id=18|url-status=live}}</ref> Many competitions below the college level are criticized for their use of speed-check questions, which encourage participants to rely more on their ability to buzz in quickly than on knowledge of the subjects tested.<ref name="Quizbowl lexicon" /> Some tournaments, such as College Bowl, are criticized for being insufficiently academic, including using superfluous clues in their questions, and for recycling questions from previous years.<ref name="Siegel" /><ref name="brainiac" /> The use of "hoses," misleading clues that discourage players from buzzing in too early, is also considered a mark of "bad" quiz bowl.<ref name="brainiac" /><ref name="Quizbowl lexicon" />

The use of mathematical computation problems in tossups is criticized by some for rewarding fast problem-solving skills over conceptual knowledge and for being non-pyramidal by nature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hsapq.com/math|title=Math Calculation Tossups|website=High School Academic Pyramid Questions (HSAPQ)|access-date=June 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309142840/http://www.hsapq.com/math|archive-date=March 9, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>