Optimist Brain Bowl

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The Colorado-Wyoming Optimist Brain Bowl is a quizbowl type competition. It is presented by the Colorado-Wyoming Optimist Club, the University of Denver, Denver Public Schools, and Boulder Valley Schools. It has two separate competitions, the North Region and Central Region competitions. It quizzes middle school aged children on a variety of topics.

[edit] Competition Structure

The competition has several oral rounds and a written round in the morning of the competition day. The written round has 60 questions. The competition is not elimination in the morning. All teams try to score higher. This gives the possibility of a team losing to another team, yet making it into the semi-finals. The semi-finals are oral rounds, but they are elimination rounds.