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I'll be starting a PhD in Physics at the University of Maryland! I don't plan on playing much, but I'd be happy to staff events as I have time for them.

I am pleased to announce that the North site of 2025 ACF Regionals will be held at the University of Minnesota on Saturday, February 1, 2025. The tournament will take place at Folwell Hall. The opening meeting will begin at 8:40am and gameplay will begin at 9am. I, Shardul Rao will be the tournament ...

I am pleased to announce that the North site of 2024 ACF Winter will be held at the University of Minnesota on Saturday, November 16, 2024. The tournament will take place at 216 Pillsbury Drive on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota campus. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45am and ...

Thank you to all who played and staffed! Congrats to Wisconsin A on winning both games of a disadvantaged final to win the tournament, to Macalester for being the runner-ups and top undergraduate team, and to Carleton A for being the Division II champions! The full statistics of the tournament can ...

We are pleased to announce that the North site of 2024 ACF Fall will be held at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities on Saturday, October 19, 2024. The tournament will take place in Folwell Hall on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota campus. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45am and ...

Thank you to everyone who came to Open Weekend!

Yeah, I'll send out an email tonight!

If anyone is interested in playing SEANCE (a film side event) and hasn't signed up already, we're looking for 1-2 more doubles teams to make a nice 8 round schedule!

In case there's not any current UMN students participating in the shootouts on Sunday, I'd suggest Coffman over Mayo -- the health sciences complex is card-access only at every entrance nowadays. There's a big list of the hours for every building here . "Public Hours" means anyone can get in ...

The sign-up sheet now has tabs for the three side events we're running: SEANCE, TOWNS, and LITANY. We're hoping to run all of these as doubles tournaments, but that may change depending on interest.

Is the Mayo breezeway still regularly open? We ran at least one full (shootout) tournament there once on an MO Sunday. Unfortunately, we checked over the weekend and while some buildings are open and accessible, every classroom is locked (especially in the health sciences areas). I'd personally ...

I would really enjoy playing This Set is Garbo, Litany, and TOWNS. (Or if feasible, Untitled Film Set). Sounds good, thank you for the suggestions! For the film event, UMN's own Nicholas Tunks and Morgan Bozeman have written a film side event (SEANCE) that we'll be running. I'll contact the folks ...

The University of Minnesota Quiz Bowl team, along with the CO Trash team, is excited to announce the 2024 edition of UMN Open Weekend, an open weekend of quiz bowl on Friday August 16 and Saturday August 17, 2024. The tournament will take place at Blegen Hall on the West Bank of the University of ...

Hey, I can confirm that we are planning to have a Minnesota Open Weekend (ish) this summer. Due to some administrative policy changes that we were unable to get around, we're no longer able to reserve rooms on Sundays. Our current plan is to run side events on the evening of Friday, August 16 and to ...

Are you fellas thinking of mirroring this in the twin cities again this summer? We're planning to have another UMN Open Weekend on August 17-18, with a CO Trash mirror happening on the 18th (that the CO Trash team will run)! We'll hopefully have an announcement up for that soon, just waiting on a ...

Due to insufficient interest, we will be cancelling this tournament.

The University of Minnesota Quiz Bowl team is excited to announce Minnesota Pre-Nats on Saturday April 13, 2024. The tournament will be held at Folwell Hall on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota campus. We ask that all teams arrive by 8:30am so that we can begin the tournament promptly by ...

Congrats to Wayzata A for winning the tournament, and thank you to everyone who attended! The full stats can be found here.

The University of Minnesota Quiz Bowl team is excited to announce the continuation of SnowCAT on Saturday February 17, 2024. The tournament will be held at Folwell Hall on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota campus. We ask that all teams arrive by 8:30am so that we can begin the tournament ...

Thank you to everyone who attended the tournament! Congrats to Irondale A for winning and Wayzata A for finishing second, as well as to Anthony Troullier (Mounds Park A), Puna Ekka (Irondale A), Colin Will (St. Paul Academy), Samarth Ram (Wayzata A), and Ai Xing (Wayzata A) for being the top ...

Current Field
Wayzata (5)
Irondale (2)
Mounds Park (2)
Hudson (2)
Eden Prairie (2)
St. Paul Academy (1)

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The University of Minnesota Quiz Bowl team is excited to announce the 2022 Gopher Fall Tournament on Oct 22, 2022. The tournament will be held at Folwell Hall on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus, and it will use the SHOW-ME question set. I, Shardul Rao, will be ...

A quick congrats to Joe Kammann for the Herculean stat line of 7/31/34 in the morning

Mirror Sites Missouri (WashU): November 13th New England (MIT): November 14th Pennsylvania (UPenn): December 4th NW Ohio (NBAL League): starting January Northern Alabama (Cullman County League): starting January Northern California (Cal Cup #3, Standard + Novice): February 12th Asia (Viva Forum ...

The third edition of the Regular Academic Fall Tournament (abbreviated RAFT III) will be available for mirrors beginning on October 30, 2021 and continuing on through the 2021–2022 season. As the name implies, RAFT III will be a high school regular difficulty set, similar to previous editions. RAFT I ...

Hello everyone! Maxwell Ye from Mounds View High School made a preseason poll for the Minnesota high school quiz bowl circuit. We encourage anyone who is knowledgeable about the circuit to fill out this form. Please rank the teams that you think will be in the top 10 overall at the end of the season ...

Current Field Total: 20 teams, 12 buzzers, 8 staffers Mounds View HS: 2 teams, 1 buzzer, 8 staffers Minneapolis Southwest HS: 1 team, 1 buzzer St. Thomas Academy: 2 teams, 1 buzzer Wayzata HS: 4 teams, 2 buzzers Irondale HS: 2 teams, 2 buzzers Hudson HS: 2 teams, 1 buzzer Chanhassen HS: 1 team, 1 ...

Hello everyone, The Mounds View Quiz Bowl team is excited to announce the first ever Mounds View Invitational, taking place at Mounds View High School in Arden Hills, Minnesota on Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 . The tournament will be run on the Regular Academic Fall Tournament (RAFT), a regular ...

Is there a time cutoff for registration? I think I have a team together, but I'm still waiting on some people to confirm.