The Quizbowl Resource Center

UTC will host the third annual Summer Camp trash tournament on Sun., June 26, 2005, in scenic Chattanooga, Tennessee. This is a one-day trash tournament [for the uninitiated: a quizbowl tournament where the content is all pop culture.] The tournament is open to all players. Packet submission by each...

As previously announced, UTC will hold a delayed mirror of the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament as an open quizbowl tournament. This will be a one-day tournament in Chattanooga on Sat., June 25, 2005. This tournament is open to all interested players regardless of school level, acad...

Mark your calendars now! Barring the unforeseen, UT-Chattanooga plans to host the 8th annual COTKU, or Center of the Known Universe Open, collegiate academic quizbowl tournament on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005. This will be followed on Sun., Oct. 23, by the Big Lots Clearance Open, our annual mirror of t...

Thanks to Lee, Ron, et al. for the kind words. Sorry to be so slow in getting the full results here -- after a tournament week, I usually have to put in some time on the home front, not to mention the ol' day job. But just to make everything official: Congratulations to Berean Christian A and Paul L...

(Apologies in advance for the inevitable cross-posting.) This is a reminder that UT-Chattanooga will host ACF Midsouth Regionals on Sat. 2/26/05, followed on Sun. 2/27 by a trash tournament, ACF Detox. There's still plenty of room in both for more teams. In both cases, several of the usual suspects ...

Congratulations again to Georgia Tech, winners of Sword Bowl 2005, UTC's seventh annual "junior bird" tournament. Full results and stats follow, as well as the tournament's best gloriously wrong answers, but first: GRATITUDE Thanks to Nikki Poarch and Eileen Steinhice for tag-teaming stats...

Here's the field we're expecting as of today for NAQT Sectionals Southeast at UTC 2/5/05. Right now we're expecting 23-24 teams total, with 10 of those in Division I: Athens State 1 team Div. I 1 team Div. II Berry 1 team Div. II Emory 1 team Div. I Florida 2 teams Div. I 2 teams Div. II Florida Sta...

UTC has a high school tournament coming up on March 19, the 8th annual Dennis Haskins Open. As you may have seen already, we also have an open trash tournament on Feb. 27, ACF Detox. We are soliciting freelance contributions for either or both. For each packet's worth of original questions received ...

The UTC Academic Trivia Association will host its sixth annual ACF Detox one-day trash tournament on Sun., Feb. 27, 2005. That's the day after ACF Midsouth Regionals (also at UTC; if you don't have the earlier message and want details on ACF Regionals, let me know.) The tournament is designed to hel...

This is to let you know the dates for our annual season finale events at UTC. The Moon Pie Classic will be held on Sat., April 23rd. Right now we plan to have it as a standard collegiate tournament, packet submission strongly encouraged, with the field split into two divisions based on experience. D...

(Apologies for the inevitable cross-posting.) The UTC Academic Trivia Association will host its 7th annual Sword Bowl in scenic Chattanooga, TN. This academic quizbowl tournament will be a one-day event Sat., Jan. 22, 2005. Sword Bowl is a "junior bird" tournament. Because it's the same we...

(Apologies in advance for the dreaded cross-posting...) The field for TrashMasters 2004 has grown considerably since the earlier message. (So much for the quindecimary round robin format.) Right now we have 12 to 15 teams on tap, two of which have actually sent me packets. The field is below, but fi...

Apologies for cross-posting, but to get the word out... UTC has question sets from several recent tournaments available for sale or trade. We are definitely interested in trading for any recent independent tournaments, high school and college. We will also trade any set for one freelance round of hi...

UTC has question sets from several recent tournaments available for sale or trade. We are definitely interested in trading for any recent independent tournaments, high school and college. We will also trade any set for one freelance round of high school or college academic questions. Unless otherwis...

As you may have seen, UTC tentatively announced Sword Bowl (our spring junior bird tournament) for Sat., Jan. 22. We then found out that there's a junior college tournament in Tallahassee that same day, with a significant overlap in target teams. We're now trying to figure out which weekend will wor...

It's time once again for the granddaddy of 'em all. UTC will host the 12th annual TrashMasters trash tournament on Saturday and Sunday, December 4-5, 2004. This is a two-day open trash tournament (in a quizbowl format, but all about pop culture), a continuation of the first and longest-running trash...

If you haven't signed up for FOGHAT at Missouri-Rolla this weekend but are still considering it, here's some advice from the old guy: Go. Do it. As you may know, we "mirrored" FOGHAT one week in advance for our Big Lots Clearance Open at UTC. The reviews were universally good, from both th...

UTC is eagerly seeking freelance packets or even random question submissions for its upcoming summer tournaments. The more pressing need is for academic material for Moc Masters, which is "ACF Lite" style and medium difficulty. We would also welcome fresh trash questions for Muck Masters, ...

So far I've had many inquiries but few commitments for teams for both Muck Masters (open trash, Sat. 8/7) and Moc Masters (open academic, Sun. 8/8.) Both are at UTC in Chattanooga. I'd like to send out a field update, so if you have plans to attend either, please let me know. Both are packet submiss...

Disclaimer in advance: I consider myself neither a CBCI apologist not a CBCI basher, at least as they are are currently administered. I have never met Richard Reid, and my dealings with Mary Oberempt have always been pleasant. That being said, I'm one of the few people left in this game who can tell...