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naqt.com wrote:In 2017 NAQT will be publicly congratulating impressive middle school and high school teams each week.

Each Wednesday, we will review the tournaments that occurred the previous week and have sent in their results. We will choose one middle school player, one high school player, one middle school team, and one high school team whose performance is particularly meritous. We will announce the winners on our home page and our social media channels (Facebook and Twitter), and we will contact the players’/teams’ schools and local media outlets.

Selection will be based on a variety of factors at NAQT’s discretion. The goal is not strictly to honor the absolute best team or player; we might also congratulate teams that win their first tournaments or otherwise do particularly well for a new team, players who score many points without ever earning an interrupt penalty, etc. We generally do not expect to honor the same player or school repeatedly within a year. We may skip weeks on which few or no tournaments occurred.

Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:I'm sure lots of people will think this sounds silly or frivolous, but I predict it will do a lot of good raising quizbowl awareness. Imagine each time a player gets honored by NAQT, it gets picked up by the school newspaper, maybe by a local paper, posted to social media by relatives, etc. That might be how somebody learns of quizbowl. Good on NAQT.

• High School Team of the Week: Wayzata High School A (Plymouth, Minnesota)
• Middle School Team of the Week: Midtown Classical A, B, and C (Tallahassee, Florida)
• High School Player of the Week: Sohum Kulkarni, Parish Episcopal School A (Dallas, Texas)
• Middle School Player of the Week: Aditya Singh, Valley Ridge Academy (Ponte Vedra, Florida)

• Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who won the Manheim Township Academic Challenge
• Mesa Verde Middle School of San Diego, who went undefeated to the championship of the Triton Invitational
• Eshaan Vakil of Ed W. Clark High School from Las Vegas, who dominated the Nevada State Championship
• Isak Dai of Mounds Park Academy from St. Paul, Minnesota, who led his team to run the table at GEMSTONE until meeting Parnassus Prep—and still eked out a win there

• Corona del Sol High School’s A Team (Tempe, Arizona), on whom the sun never sets
• Middlesex Middle School A, B, and C (Darien, Connecticut), who took three of the top six spots at the Bergen Winter Classic
• Kara Combs of Northmont High School in Clayton, Ohio, "the true epitome of a team leader"
• Lukas Koutsoukos of Middlebrook School A (Wilton, Connecticut), whose grandfather will be making him study up on his heritage

• Norman High School A (Oklahoma) winning the Bulldog Invitational
• Creekland Middle School A (Canton, Georgia) taking the Georgia Middle School State Championship
• Patrick Hance leading Lincolnton (North Carolina) to second place at the Western North Carolina Shootout
• William Groger winning the Copley Middle School Invitational, playing solo and going undefeated with a 60% power rate

• Middle School Team of the Week: Emerson A from Ann Arbor, winners of the Michigan Middle School State Championship
• High School Player of the Week: Haggai Anglade of North Babylon A (North Babylon, New York)
• Middle School Player of the Week: Hunter Bailey of Columbia Independent School A (Columbia, Missouri)