Michigan State Quizbowl Championships (East Lansing AND Ann Arbor; 28 March 2020)
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:23 pm
The quizbowl teams at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, in cooperation with the Michigan Quizbowl Coaches Association, are pleased to announce the 2020 Michigan State Quizbowl Championships will take place on Saturday, March 28, 2020. The event will comprise four separate tournaments, held across two campuses, on the same day.
Teams will compete in one of four classes (A, B, C, or D) based on their classification with the MHSAA, with the exception that all-boys and all-girls schools will not need to double their enrollment when determining their classification. (For example, an all-boys school with 600 students would ordinarily compete in Class A, being considered to have 1200 students for the purpose of athletic contests, but would compete in Class B here.) Homeschool collectives and schools not in the MHSAA will be asked to estimate their enrollment.
The Class A and C tournaments will be held at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The Class B and D tournaments will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Eligibility and qualification
All Michigan high school teams who have either:
-- won a tournament or league featuring four or more teams from two or more schools, except for a tournament explicitly restricted to novice or JV teams, or
-- qualified for one of HSNCT, SSNCT, PACE NSC, or the NAC (in the latter case, by explicit qualification rather than receipt of a wildcard bid)
are automatically eligible.
Only one team per school can compete.
Teams who have not fulfilled the qualification requirements are also welcome to register, and will be added to the field if it's not full by the registration deadline (see "Registration" below).
Question set
We'll be using NAQT's IS-192.
Format and rules
Unlike past state championships run by the MSU honors college, but like most quizbowl tournaments, these tournaments will use a bracketed round-robin format. Teams will play a round-robin in preliminary pools, will be split into playoff brackets on the basis of their performance, and will play another round-robin (potentially carrying over games from the prelims). A final will be played as necessary.
The tournaments will begin at 9am; teams should expect to arrive by 8:30am and to play until 5pm or so.
Games will be untimed and read 20 tossups (and as many bonuses as the teams earn over those tossups). We will skip computational math tossups but not computational math bonuses, in accordance with NAQT's high school nationals format. We will use 5/5/5 timing rules. We will otherwise use NAQT's rules.
Fees
Base registration fee: $90
Buzzer discount: -$5 per functioning buzzer system
Staffer discount: -$10 per competent staffer provided
Registration and deadlines
Fulfilling one of the qualification requirements does not automatically constitute registration. In order to register for the tournament, you MUST fill out this registration form.
The initial field caps will be 24 in Classes A and B and 13 in Classes C and D. The registration deadline is 11:59 PM on Sunday, March 8th. After the deadline, wildcard teams -- who have not fulfilled the qualification requirements but still want to play -- will be added to the field in order of registration if it has not filled.
[Edit on March 9th: Some classes' fields have not filled. We still welcome registrations and will add newly registered teams to the fields in a first-come-first-served manner until they are full.]
Field updates
Fields as of 25 February, 4PM:
Class A (21)
Detroit Catholic Central
DeWitt
East Grand Rapids
Flushing
Hartland
Haslett
Holland
Holt
Huron (New Boston)
Kearsley
Livonia Churchill
Mount Pleasant
Okemos
Port Huron
Riverview
Roseville
Saline
Southgate Anderson
Sturgis
Troy
Woodhaven
Class B (20)
Berrien Springs
Chelsea
Cranbrook Kingswood
Detroit Country Day
Fennville
Flat Rock
Forest Hills Eastern
Fremont
Hamilton
Houghton
Ionia
Ludington
Manistee
Mercy
North Branch
Orchard View
Plainwell
Reed City
Spring Lake
West Catholic
Class C (13)
Bad Axe
Bridgman
Calumet
Kalamazoo Christian
Kent City
Lakeview
Monroe County Middle College
Pewamo-Westphalia
Roscommon
Sandusky
White Cloud
White Pigeon
Whitmore Lake
Class D (6)
Carsonville-Port Sanilac
Fulton
Hillsdale Academy
Peck
Roeper
Sacred Heart Mt. Pleasant
Field map.
We are excited to continue the long tradition of the Michigan state championship tournaments, and we look forward to seeing the state's finest teams in East Lansing and Ann Arbor at the end of March!
Teams will compete in one of four classes (A, B, C, or D) based on their classification with the MHSAA, with the exception that all-boys and all-girls schools will not need to double their enrollment when determining their classification. (For example, an all-boys school with 600 students would ordinarily compete in Class A, being considered to have 1200 students for the purpose of athletic contests, but would compete in Class B here.) Homeschool collectives and schools not in the MHSAA will be asked to estimate their enrollment.
The Class A and C tournaments will be held at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The Class B and D tournaments will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Eligibility and qualification
All Michigan high school teams who have either:
-- won a tournament or league featuring four or more teams from two or more schools, except for a tournament explicitly restricted to novice or JV teams, or
-- qualified for one of HSNCT, SSNCT, PACE NSC, or the NAC (in the latter case, by explicit qualification rather than receipt of a wildcard bid)
are automatically eligible.
Only one team per school can compete.
Teams who have not fulfilled the qualification requirements are also welcome to register, and will be added to the field if it's not full by the registration deadline (see "Registration" below).
Question set
We'll be using NAQT's IS-192.
Format and rules
Unlike past state championships run by the MSU honors college, but like most quizbowl tournaments, these tournaments will use a bracketed round-robin format. Teams will play a round-robin in preliminary pools, will be split into playoff brackets on the basis of their performance, and will play another round-robin (potentially carrying over games from the prelims). A final will be played as necessary.
The tournaments will begin at 9am; teams should expect to arrive by 8:30am and to play until 5pm or so.
Games will be untimed and read 20 tossups (and as many bonuses as the teams earn over those tossups). We will skip computational math tossups but not computational math bonuses, in accordance with NAQT's high school nationals format. We will use 5/5/5 timing rules. We will otherwise use NAQT's rules.
Fees
Base registration fee: $90
Buzzer discount: -$5 per functioning buzzer system
Staffer discount: -$10 per competent staffer provided
Registration and deadlines
Fulfilling one of the qualification requirements does not automatically constitute registration. In order to register for the tournament, you MUST fill out this registration form.
The initial field caps will be 24 in Classes A and B and 13 in Classes C and D. The registration deadline is 11:59 PM on Sunday, March 8th. After the deadline, wildcard teams -- who have not fulfilled the qualification requirements but still want to play -- will be added to the field in order of registration if it has not filled.
[Edit on March 9th: Some classes' fields have not filled. We still welcome registrations and will add newly registered teams to the fields in a first-come-first-served manner until they are full.]
Field updates
Fields as of 25 February, 4PM:
Class A (21)
Detroit Catholic Central
DeWitt
East Grand Rapids
Flushing
Hartland
Haslett
Holland
Holt
Huron (New Boston)
Kearsley
Livonia Churchill
Mount Pleasant
Okemos
Port Huron
Riverview
Roseville
Saline
Southgate Anderson
Sturgis
Troy
Woodhaven
Class B (20)
Berrien Springs
Chelsea
Cranbrook Kingswood
Detroit Country Day
Fennville
Flat Rock
Forest Hills Eastern
Fremont
Hamilton
Houghton
Ionia
Ludington
Manistee
Mercy
North Branch
Orchard View
Plainwell
Reed City
Spring Lake
West Catholic
Class C (13)
Bad Axe
Bridgman
Calumet
Kalamazoo Christian
Kent City
Lakeview
Monroe County Middle College
Pewamo-Westphalia
Roscommon
Sandusky
White Cloud
White Pigeon
Whitmore Lake
Class D (6)
Carsonville-Port Sanilac
Fulton
Hillsdale Academy
Peck
Roeper
Sacred Heart Mt. Pleasant
Field map.
We are excited to continue the long tradition of the Michigan state championship tournaments, and we look forward to seeing the state's finest teams in East Lansing and Ann Arbor at the end of March!