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Congratulations to Barrington High School, who defeated Buffalo Grove High School 555-210 in a one-game final to win the 2023 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament! Detroit Country Day School finished third; Hunter College High School claimed fourth place. Complete team and individual st...

Playoff brackets for the 2023 HSNCT

Statistics for the Saturday prelim games for the 2023 HSNCT. We'll see everyone tomorrow morning for the start of round 15!

Results for the 2023 High School National Championship Tournament will be available here.

Our team of livebloggers will have up-to-the minute coverage live from Atlanta!

I archived the two old NAQT threads. I might (or might not) have time to look at the others after HSNCT.

Congratulations to Chenery Middle School of Belmont, Massachusetts, the champions of the 2023 MSNCT! Chenery defeated River Trail (Johns Creek, Georgia) 370-290 in the second game of an advantaged final. Cooper (McLean, Virginia) claimed third place with a 395-175 victory over Middlesex (Darien, Con...

Playoff brackets for the 2023 MSNCT are now available.

Preliminary statistics are now available for the 2023 MSNCT. Teams with a 5-3 or better record will advance to tomorrow's playoffs.

Thank you for posting these stats, Kevin- there's much here to think about, and I'll share these with NAQT's other editors. I may or may not have more to say later from NAQT's perspective (but anything substantive will wait until after MSNCT).

We recorded selected Sunday afternoon games from the Traditional Public Schools Division. The recordings will eventually appear on our podcasts page (but not soon; after the set is clear and after we finish editing the audio).

NAQT wishes to remind people considering running side events at our national championships that we have an explicit policy governing when, where, and how side events are permitted . Anyone considering running a side event at an NAQT national championship should read that policy carefully and make su...

Congratulations to the champions of the 2023 NAQT Small School National Championship Tournament! In the Traditional Public Schools Division, Fair Grove (Missouri) defeated Piasa Southwestern (Illinois) 655-165. Fair Grove was also our Very Small School champion. In the Open Division, BASIS McLean A ...

Preliminary statistics for the 2023 SSNCT are now available.

Thanks for the note, Conor. We're not planning on large-scale revisions to the format of the 2023 SSNCT, but we'll take this into consideration for future years.

The field for the 2023 HSNCT has been expanded to 304 teams.

The "frozen waste theory" of this historical period was challenged in Fergus Millar's study of its "crowd." A commentary on this period claims that the "multitude" is "wiser than a prince." Niccolo Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy studies this period of histo...

In this thread from some years ago Seth expressed opposition to posting seeds prior to the tournament. What's NAQT's position on posting them now that the event has concluded? To be clear I think this year's seeding was quite bad (regarding teams nominally in contention for top bracket; I have no o...

Some non-fossilized specimens known by this term were taken from a research center and badly damaged by Teuku Jacob. A 2007 paper by Hershkovitz et al. posited that specimens given this name suffered from Laron syndrome. The holotype of a species with this name was found in Liang Bua cave. A specie...

Passages from a novel originally in this language were translated by Jacques Benoist-Mechin for a 1921 lecture billed as a "seance." Helene Cixous's 800-page dissertation was on the "exile" of an author who wrote in this language, whose letters she pirated from Cornell's library...

In this type of permutation, each element's magnitude is not between the neighboring elements. The smallest non-abelian simple group is the fifth group of this type, which is the group of even permutations on five elements. A (*) convergence test named for this type of series checks that the absolu...

The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division of the 2023 SSNCT has been expanded to 77 teams.

These items have a central tono as described by Friar Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and may be carried by ox-drawn gerlugs . Bill Coperthwaite started advocating these items in the U.S. after reading a National Geographic article by jurist William O. Douglas. (*) Marco Polo commented on the portabi...

Could I additionally see the von Bulow and C. P. E. Bach tossups? It sounded like the first tossup was a commonlink, and I'm just curious as to what was going on there. A man with this surname created a bloc of pro-imperialist parties that was successful in the election of 1907 during his decade as...

The first-ever All-American quarterback was named Edgar Allan Poe in honor of a famous relative. For 10 points each— A. Poe played quarterback for what school that, 20 years earlier, lost 6-to-4 in what is considered the first game of American football? B. This later Princeton quarterback was the b...

In this musical, the "sweetest candy" that "ever shook loose a tooth" is sold at "Sandy's booth." A chorus urges "run and get him now or you won't plough another meadow" in a chase sequence from this musical's second act that ends with the discovery of Harry ...

In 2019 this MLB team became the first to make the playoffs under a manager who had never played professional baseball. In that postseason, this team posted a record 10-run first inning in the divisional round. During the 2021 offseason, this team named a 35-year-old as manager in a surprise move t...

Jenna Le used the word "hickey" to translate this poem's line about a red mark on the speaker's forehead from the "kiss of the Queen." This poem is quoted after the command "O swallow swallow" in the last stanza of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." A pseudonym ...

This is your question-specific discussion for the 2023 Division II ICT and IPNCT sets.

This is your question-specific discussion for the 2023 Division I ICT set.

This is your general discussion thread for the 2023 NAQT ICT.

Congratulations to Rohan Ganeshan from Buffalo Grove High School in Illinois, the champion of the 2023 NAQT Individual Player National Championship Tournament!

Complete statistics are now available.

A private discussion forum for commentary on the ICT question sets will be available tomorrow evening after the conclusion of the IPNCT.

Edit: this is available now. --JTH

Congratulations to the champions of the 2023 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament! Cornell A went undefeated to claim the Division I Overall title. Brown defeated Columbia B 380-90 in the first game of an advantaged final to win the Division I Undergraduate title. In Division II, Waterloo de...

The field for the 2023 MSNCT has been expanded to 160 teams.

As of Thursday, March 23, the HSNCT has 288 teams in the field and three teams on the waitlist. We would like to expand further if there is demand: to 304 teams, 320 teams, or perhaps beyond! If your team has qualified and would like to attend, please go ahead and sign up for the waitlist. We'll exp...

The field for the 2023 MSNCT has been expanded to 144 teams.

The field for the 2023 HSNCT has been expanded to 288 teams.

The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division of the 2023 SSNCT has been expanded to 66 teams.

The field for the 2023 IPNCT has been expanded to 200 players.

The field for the 2023 HSNCT has been expanded to 272 teams.

The field for the 2023 SSNCT has been expanded to 55 teams in each division.

Congratulations to Guilder A, who defeated Saratoga A 475-200 in the first game of an advantaged final to win the Competitive division of Cal Cup #3! In the Standard division, Lowell won outright with a 4-1 playoff record. In the Novice division, Henry M. Gunn defeated Fremont American 545-225 in a ...

Prelim stats for California Cup #3.

The field for the 2023 IPNCT has been expanded to 180 players.

NAQT is offering a $50 stipend, on top of the usual Sunday lunch stipend, to any ICT players who are willing to work at the Individual Player National Championship Tournament (IPNCT) on Sunday, April 2. The IPNCT will be held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare, the same hotel as the ICT. This offer does no...

NAQT is offering a $50 stipend, on top of the usual Sunday lunch stipend, to any ICT players who are willing to work at the Individual Player National Championship Tournament (IPNCT) on Sunday, April 2. The IPNCT will be held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare, the same hotel as the ICT. This offer does no...

The field for the 2023 IPNCT has been expanded to 160 players.

NAQT's national championships logistics team is seeking additional staff, particularly qualified moderators, for three of our upcoming championships: -the 2023 Small School National Championship Tournament at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, April 28–30 -the 2023 Middle School National Championship Tournam...

The field for the 2023 IPNCT has been expanded to 150 players.

The field for the 2023 IPNCT has been expanded to 140 players.

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