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. CBCI or College Bowl format emphasizes comparitively short questions on academics, current events, pop culture, and general knowledge. The limits on participation are 6 years total in CBCI tournaments and only one grad student per team. Questions tend to be structured so that most of the players know the answers to tossups read in their entirety. It is played in 7 minute halves, to a total of 24 tossups read.