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Video from our diversity, equity, and inclusion panel is now available here!

Thank you to our panel participants (moderator Jeremy Nelson; panelists Grace Liu, Caroline Mao, Esther Perceval, and Chris Wright) and to our organizers from NAQT, PACE, ACF, and IAC.

Yes, it'll be available online after & we'll post the link here. Video from our diversity, equity, and inclusion panel is now available here ! Thank you to our panel participants (moderator Jeremy Nelson; panelists Grace Liu, Caroline Mao, Esther Perceval, and Chris Wright) and to our organizer...

Congratulations to Arthur Delot-Vilain of Georgetown Day School, the winner of our 2021 High School Individual Player National Championship Tournament! Tournament statistics are available here ; we'll post more detailed results in the next few days. Update: Category-specific rankings are now availab...

Congratulations to the champions of the 2021 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament, powered by LetterOne! In Division I, Columbia defeated Illinois 295-190 in the second game of an advantaged final. Brown defeated Princeton, 265-215, in the first game of an advantaged final, to claim the Divi...

Here's a video from our logistics team with more details about how our 2021 national championships will work online.

Here's a video from our logistics team with more details about how our 2021 national championships will work online.

Will NAQT be doing practice games on Friday night as in years past? If not, will NAQT be having a playthrough of some sort so teams know exactly what the actual tournament will look like on Saturday and Sunday? Every tournament we have played has had a different online format, so knowing exactly ho...

The field for the 2021 MSNCT has been expanded to 96 teams.

NAQT’s Integrity Policy is intended to ensure that its national championships occur without cheating and—almost as importantly—without the suspicion of cheating. The policy has two parts. First, all active players need to have their faces and both hands visible on camera at essentially all times. S...

Cross-posted from the high school section --JTH NAQT’s Integrity Policy is intended to ensure that its national championships occur without cheating and—almost as importantly—without the suspicion of cheating. The policy has two parts. First, all active players need to have their faces and both han...

NAQT’s Integrity Policy is intended to ensure that its national championships occur without cheating and—almost as importantly—without the suspicion of cheating. The policy has two parts. First, all active players need to have their faces and both hands visible on camera at essentially all times. S...

We do hope to expand the field, but "how much field expansion?" and "when might the field expand?" are both dependent on the course of staff recruitment over the next few weeks. We would like to expand further to give the 82 teams on the waitlist the opportunity to play. To do t...

The field for the 2021 HSNCT has been expanded to 144 teams.

The field for the Open division of the 2021 SSNCT has been expanded to 50 teams.

The field for the 2021 HS IPNCT has been expanded to 112 players.

Both divisions (Traditional Public Schools and Open) of the 2021 SSNCT have now been expanded to 40 teams.

(Note that the Traditional Public division has 39 teams in it right now, so there's a spot available if anyone would like to register!)

We do hope to expand the field, but "how much field expansion?" and "when might the field expand?" are both dependent on the course of staff recruitment over the next few weeks.

The Division II field for the 2021 ICT has been expanded to 32 teams.

The field for the Traditional Public Schools division of the 2021 SSNCT has been expanded to 36 teams.

The field for the Open division of the 2021 SSNCT has been expanded to 36 teams.

The Division I field for the 2021 ICT has been expanded to 32 teams.

William McCurley wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:46 pm Will we be able to qualify for HSNCT from the ASCA district tournaments?

Yes, the ASCA district events will serve as qualifiers for the 2021 HSNCT and SSNCT.

And here's the link to join our panel on Saturday (5 pm Eastern)!

(Participants will be required to enter their name and email address to join.)

And here's the link to join our panel on Saturday (5 pm Eastern)!

(Participants will be required to enter their name and email address to join.)

We now have a full set of complete announcements, and registration is open for each national championship. Note that a number of details are different this year due to the online setup (in particular: we are not accepting wildcards because every event has a period of open registration available). Pl...

NAQT is pleased to announce that its 2021 High School National Championship Tournament, powered by LetterOne, will be held online via Zoom, on May 29-30, 2021. The field is limited to 224 teams. Registration is limited to invited teams through Sunday, March 21. Beginning Monday, March 22 at midnigh...

NAQT is pleased to announce that its 2021 Middle School National Championship Tournament will be held online via Zoom, on May 1-2, 2021. The field is limited to 112 teams. NAQT may expand the field depending on the level of interest and the availability of staff. Registration is limited to invited ...

BananaIceCream0305 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 3:38 pm Have invites for HSNCT been sent out?
If not, then by when?

We have not yet sent out invitations for the 2021 HSNCT, but we expect to announce full details and open registration in the near future.

NAQT is pleased to announce that its 2021 Small School National Championship Tournament will be held online via Zoom, on April 24-25, 2021. The field for the Traditional Public Schools Division is limited to 40 teams. The field for the Open Division is limited to 50 teams. NAQT may expand the field...

We're pleased to announce the composition of our panel: -Grace Liu (MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts) -Caroline Mao (Barnard College, New York, New York) -Esther Perceval (Valencia College, Orlando, Florida) -Chris Wright (Gallatin High School, Gallatin, Tennessee) Jeremy Nelson (former player at Alcor...

We're pleased to announce the composition of our panel: -Grace Liu (MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts) -Caroline Mao (Barnard College, New York, New York) -Esther Perceval (Valencia College, Orlando, Florida) -Chris Wright (Gallatin High School, Gallatin, Tennessee) Jeremy Nelson (former player at Alcor...

The 2021 Middle School Individual Player National Championship Tournament (MS IPNCT) will be held online on April 25, 2021. The MS IPNCT is NAQT’s championship tournament for individual middle school players. The field is limited to 60 players. NAQT may expand the field depending on the level of in...

The 2021 High School Individual Player National Championship Tournament (HS IPNCT) will be held online on April 11, 2021. The HS IPNCT is NAQT’s championship tournament for individual high school players. The field is limited to 112 players. NAQT may expand the field depending on the level of inter...

The Division I field for the 2021 ICT has been expanded to 24 teams.

We hope to announce full details about tournament logistics and qualification by the end of February.

what is the rationale behind barring people who qualified for DII ICT last year and who are still at those schools to play DII ICT this year? We're aware that all of the options in this case are suboptimal, and any decision we make will be disappointing to some number of teams who might want to pla...

castrioti wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 12:21 am expansionist (by design)

let's go

The remaining spots will be available for registration beginning on February 8. Any team consisting of eligible players (respectively by division) may register for these spots. For the first 24 hours of open registration, each school will be limited to no more than three teams total and no more tha...

Update to our payment policy for the 2021 ICT: our new policy is as follows (the older more restrictive one was causing some trouble with school payment offices): Within one week of registering, all teams must pay their registration fee or provide evidence of progress toward doing so. For teams who ...

NAQT has decided to extend our moratorium on licensing questions for in-person quiz bowl tournaments in the United States through July 31, 2021. We plan to reassess the public health situation in mid-June and make a decision at that point about whether to offer in-person tournament hosting beyond Ju...

NAQT is pleased to announce that our spring 2021 national championship events will be held online via Zoom..

Middle School Individual Player National Championship Tournament: April 25

Middle School National Championship Tournament: May 1-2

NAQT is pleased to announce that our spring 2021 national championship events will be held online via Zoom..

High School Individual Player National Championship Tournament: April 11

Small School National Championship Tournament: April 24-25

High School National Championship Tournament: May 29-30

NAQT and LetterOne are pleased to announce that the 2021 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament will take place online Saturday, April 10. This tournament will use NAQT’s Official Gameplay Rules as modified for online play. The field for Division I will be limited to 32 teams. NAQT may expand ...

Update: the deadline for applications has been extended to February 6.

Update: the deadline for applications has been extended to February 6.

Cross-posted from the college section, to encourage more applications from people currently involved in high school quizbowl. The deadline to submit an application is February 6. --JTH PACE, IAC, ACF, and NAQT are organizing a panel discussion in early March, focusing on issues of systemic underrep...

Important Bird Area wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 2:57 pm I'll post here when the recordings are available.

And here we go.

Online tournaments for hosts

Online tournaments for coaches and players

PACE, IAC, ACF, and NAQT are organizing a panel discussion in early March, focusing on issues of systemic underrepresentation and racism in the quizbowl community. The meeting will run as a Zoom webinar, with a moderator asking invited speakers to address questions collected in advance. There will a...

Two history specials for this week: one about European history, the other focusing on American legal history and culture.

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NAQT regrets to inform the quiz bowl community that we have decided not to hold Sectional Championship Tournaments (SCTs) in 2021. The Intercollegiate Championship Tournament (ICT) will still be held. We have not yet finished determining the details of how the ICT will be held (i.e., in person vs. ...

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