PetroBowl Arena

Mines SPE · The practice room
Your practice starts hereSEASON 2026
Colorado School of Mines · SPE student chapter
Buzz faster.
Know more.

Build your knowledge. Find your rhythm. Step into practice with focused questions, quick feedback and a buzzer that keeps you on your toes.

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Your daily challenge

Today's ten

Same ten questions for the whole team each day. Compare scores at practice.

Choose your next move

A little practice. A quicker buzz.
How the team uses this
  1. At home: Train on your phone (Listen mode, buzz, 5 seconds), play the Daily Ten, drill Terms and Units.
  2. Practice night: the coach opens Arena on the laptop and turns on phone buzzers. Everyone taps Join a match (or scans the QR code on the board), taps their name and team, and buzzes on their own phone. Laptop keys and touch buttons work too.
  3. Leaderboard: every Arena match adds to the season standings on the coach’s laptop (points, correct, wrong, buzzes with no answer). Training time is counted on each phone and reaches the coach when you join a match.

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Tap a topic to train on it. The bar shows your accuracy so far.

Solo practice

Train

Question set
Topics
Difficulty
Source
In-person practice match

Arena

How a practice match works
  1. Coach: open this page on the laptop or projector, type the team or player names, and choose how people buzz (below).
  2. Phones (easiest): press Turn on phone buzzers. Players scan the QR code, tap their own name from your list, then their team. Their phone becomes their buzzer, so nobody shares a keyboard.
  3. No phones? Each name gets its own laptop key, because one keyboard cannot tell people apart. Touch buttons under the board work too. Or tick Coach picks so any key stops the clock and you tap who buzzed.
  4. Press Start match, then space for each question. Players say the answer out loud within 5 seconds. The answer key appears as soon as someone buzzes, and a phone that buzzed shows you what it heard. A clear spoken match is ruled correct and a clear miss wrong by itself; otherwise press Correct Y or Wrong N. After a wrong interrupt the question keeps being read for the other teams, who then get the buzz window.
Mode
Names and laptop keys
Player roster

Phone buzzers

Every player buzzes on their own phone. No app, no account. Phones and the laptop both need internet.

Topics
Difficulty
Coach keys: space start or next, Y correct, N wrong, R repeat, T throw out. Official scoring: +10 correct, −5 wrong, buzz any time while the question is read and up to 5 seconds after it ends, two appeals each (tap "Appeals" for a coach review before moving on).
Player phone

Join a match

The coach’s board shows a five-character match code and a QR code. Scanning the QR code fills in the code for you. Then you tap your name from the coach’s list.

How phone buzzing works
  1. The coach turns on phone buzzers in the Arena. The board shows a match code and a QR code.
  2. Scan the QR code, or open this app and tap Join a match, then type the code.
  3. Tap your name from the coach’s list (new names cannot be typed), then your team if there are teams. When the coach starts a question, your button lights up. Tap it the moment you know the answer, then say the answer out loud. Your phone listens and shows the coach what it heard.
  4. The board decides who was first, even between phones and laptop keys. A buzz that arrives a moment late still counts if it was pressed first.
  5. Keep this screen open. The phone stays awake while you are in a match.
  6. Joining shares your training time and weekly stats with the coach’s leaderboard. You can turn that off on the buzzer screen.
Team

Leaderboard

Every Arena match played on this device is saved and stacked into season standings: points, correct and wrong answers, buzzes with no answer, early buzzes and rebounds. The coach’s laptop keeps the numbers, so nobody has to send anything.

Season standings

No answer: buzzed, then gave no answer in time. Early buzzes: right answers out of buzzes made while the question was still being read. Rebounds: right answers after another side missed.

Match history

Move season data

Played matches on more than one laptop? Copy the season data here and add it on the other laptop. Matches that are already there are skipped.

Vocabulary

Terms

Read the definition, say the term, flip to check. Cards you miss come back sooner.

Definition
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Term
Fundamentals

Units drill

Conversions and quick calculations PetroBowl players must know cold. Answers within 2 percent count. Enter to check, Enter again for the next one.

Cheat sheet

Question bank

Browse

See how it works

Diagram library

Question bank

Explore equipment, processes and the ideas behind the answers. Open the study notes for key facts.

Your numbers

Progress

Training time

Last 8 weeks

Review boxes

Spaced repetition: a correct answer moves a question up a box and pushes the next review further out; a miss sends it back to box 1.

Accuracy by topic

Weakest subtopics

Flagged questions

Questions you flagged as wrong or unclear. Export and send them to the coach.

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Preferences

Settings

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Phone buzzers

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