Masters tournaments are tournaments which do not place any restrictions on who may play. They are intended for those who want to play with people from other schools, have graduated, or are otherwise ineligible for college play. The intent behind them varies. Trash tournaments are similar to Masters tournaments, except that all the questions are on trash subjects. For questions, this includes question topics, clue difficulty, order of clues, and writing style.
Most questions contain multiple clues.
Rules of play include player eligibility, scoring of questions, acceptible answers, and procedures for protesting a question. Also, certain tournaments and programs have developed their own distinctive formats. There is no limit on grad participation. Questions are almost all on academic topics, and are more difficult than other formats. Games are usually played to a total of 20 tossups read.