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Do you have any advice on circuit building (specifically for New Mexico and West Texas, although general advice is welcome) and the plausibility of holding a collegiate novice Spring tournament at the University of New Mexico (likely in late April or early to mid May) not mentioned in the previous ...

Hi all. I was wondering if you have any specific advice not mentioned in the previous related thread on starting a new team at The University of New Mexico?

Although I might be getting a bit ahead of myself, as I was thinking about a potential collegiate novice tournament for New Mexico and West Texas, I also thought about the possibility of holding a high school novice tournament (since pyramidal quizbowl does not presently exist in area high schools ...

With a minimum fee of $50. Hosts will not have to pay any hosting fee for teams that qualify for the “new to quiz bowl” discount, i.e. hosts will make more money from new teams. We strongly encourage hosts to reach out to new schools and less-active clubs and will be happy to assist with such out ...

Yeah those are basically HS-only. The issue with UIL/Acadec is that those competitions are based on very specific/narrow curricula, so while there might be some overlap in terms of "people interested in studying for academic competitions" there's a big difference between taking tests on a very ...

There appears to be an active team at the University of Utah . UTEP and New Mexico State would be a good base for a Rio Grande Valley Circuit if they still remain active. The main challenge for New Mexico is that there seems to be basically no all-subject academic competitions outside of perhaps ...

Hello! Great to hear that you're starting a team out there and welcome to the forums! One of the few benefits of the last two years is that it's pretty standard for tournaments to have online sites via Zoom or Discord. I know a lot of teams benefitted from this because getting travel is a pretty ...

I'm from the University of New Mexico, and I've been considering starting a collegiate quizbowl team. However, it seems that's there's few other collegiate quizbowl teams in the Mountain West? From the Quizbowl directory of four-year colleges in North America and the ACF contact list of teams who ...