The Quizbowl Resource Center

I think it would be beneficial to have one of these here so we can keep track of what tournaments are in the area so we can find tournaments to attend.

January 1 :
January 8 : 21st Annual Hornet Invitational (IS-100), Savannah Country Day School, Savannah, Georgia
January 15 : Classic City Classic (IS-98), University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; Fleming County Academic Tournament (Governor's Cup format), Fleming County High School, Flemingsburg, Kentucky; LSU Academic Challenge (Questions Unlimited), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
January 22 : SAT, Dorman Cavalier Challenge (Housewrite), Dorman High School, Spartanburg, South Carolina
January 29 : Bulldog Brawl at Cedar Shoals (IS-102), Cedar Shoals High School, Athens, Georgia; Challenge in the Grove Tourney JV (IS-101A), Locust Grove High School, Locust Grove, Georgia
February 5 : Okefenokee Quiz Bowl Tournament (unknown), Ware County High School, Waycross, Georgia; 2011 Groundhog Day Academic Tournament (IS-101A), Lincoln County High School, Fayetteville, TN; South Fork High Quizbowl Invitational (IS-100), South Fork High School, Stuart, Florida; Deep South Academic Challenge (Questions Unlimited), LAMP High School, Montgomery, Alabama; Alpharetta Varsity GSAC Mirror (GSAC), Alpharetta High School, Alpharetta, Georgia.
February 12 : ACT, Brookwood JV Scholars Bowl (unknown), Brookwood High School, Snellville, Georgia
February 19 : DAR Invitational (IS-102), Kate Duncan Smith DAR High School, Grant, Alabama
February 26 : Free Tournament at Wofford College (HSAPQ 17), Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
March 5 : Georgia Qualifier for National History Bowl and National History Bee, Ola High School McDonough, Georgia
March 12 : [urlhttp://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11074]Norcross Mirror of Prison Bowl[/url] (Prison Bowl), Norcross High School, Norcross, Georgia
March 19 : Jag Bowl V (IS-104), Cedar Shoals High School, Athens, Georgia; Western NC Shootout (IS-102), South Caldwell High School, Hudson, North Carolina; Southeastern Academic Challenge (Questions Unlimited), Central High School, Macon, Georgia
March 22 (Tuesday): Tennessee National History Bee/Bowl Qualifier, Donelson Christian Academy, Nashville, Tennessee
March 26 : College Heights Academic Tournament (GSAC), Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky; Ransom Everglades Invitational (IS-103A), Ransom Everglades Upper School, Coconut Grove, Florida; NC State Quiz Bowl Tournament (run by NCASA) - district tournaments (set unknown), East District: Raleigh Charter HS, Raleigh, North Carolina West District: Newton-Conover HS, Newton, North Carolina
April 2 : Conway Academic Tournament, Conway High School, Conway, South Carolina
April 9 : Duke Invitational (set unknown), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; ACT
April 16 : Georgia Tech HSNCT Warm-up (Division II SCT tentatively), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; Danville Spring Tournament (IS-100), Danville High School, Danville, Kentucky
April 23 : Cedar Shoals Hybrid (unknown), Cedar Shoals High School, Athens, Georgia; Quizclub Invitational Academic Tournament (QuizTeamQuestions), Bainbridge High School, Bainbridge, Georgia
April 30 : Dorman Season Ender (IS-103A), Dorman High School, Spartanburg, South Carolina
May 7 : SAT
May 14 :
May 21 :
May 28 : HSNCT, Atlanta, Georgia
June 4 : SAT; PACE NSC, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
June 11-13: NASAT, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

For the unlinked Georgia tournaments, you can find the registration forms and information here.
For the unlinked North Carolina tournaments, you can find the registration forms and information here.
For the unlinked NAQT tournaments, you can find the registration forms and information here.

Also, please post tournaments on here because I'll inevitably mess something up.

Here is a calendar with mostly Georgia events, including elementary and middle school ones.

List of wrestling-based comic books wrote:Here is a calendar with mostly Georgia events, including elementary and middle school ones.

Thanks!

The Locust Grove tournament is going to use IS-101A. I'd look at the announcements on the GATA forum to check on some of the others, but it just happens to be down right now.

Also, NASAT is June 11-13.

EDIT: Ok, it's back. Looks like Savannah Country Day is using IS-100, Brookwood JV is a housewrite, Jag Bowl is IS-104 (no official announcements for any of them, though). The same thread from which I got this info also says that Dorman's is also a housewrite.
Norcross is mirroring Prison Bowl March 12. There are also rumors about North Georgia College holding something February 19.

One minor correction is that the set we're using for our tournament is abbreviated GSAC instead of GSCA.

As for Kentucky tournaments, I think Danville is hosting an NAQT tournament on April 30th. Dunbar will probably host its usual spring tournament, although you'd have to ask them for more specific details.

Arsonists Get All the Girls wrote:Classic City Classic (IS-something)

I believe this set is likely to be IS #98.

Hilltopper22 wrote:I think Danville is hosting an NAQT tournament on April 30th.

Scheduled for IS #100.

Thanks guys, I've updated the calendar with more NAQT events except for the tentative ones and the state championship ones.

Just a warning that the Fleming County tournament will be Quick Recall, rather than Quiz Bowl. Teams from out of state
should know what they're getting into... It is a timed, terribly restrictive format (hesitation rules) that is not pyramidal. It also has math comp.

Edit: Less offensive to KY state format.

Norcross High School (Norcross, GA) will be hosting a mirror of the Prison Bowl on March 12th.

I would love to see either a Prisonbowl and/or PSAT mirror in Kentucky/Nashville.

Manual was actually considering mirroring Prison Bowl...

mkanu wrote:Manual was actually considering mirroring Prison Bowl...

That would be nice.
Maybe in Febuary, since there seems to be more tournaments in March and April as of now (WKU, Dunbar, Danville, etc.)
Later would work too though...

We are thinking about hosting a tournament on DII questions sometime in May.

But it's probably not going to happen.

grayson77 wrote:I would love to see either a Prisonbowl and/or PSAT mirror in Kentucky/Nashville.

Saajid Moyen is pretty much denying any chance of a PSAT mirror in KY

I thought I made this clear to Nick before. I want the southwestern Ohio teams to go to Case to play PSAT. Also, since PSAT is pretty late in the school year, I was hoping for some other midwestern states to be represented at Case. I offered a couple months ago to let Manual have the set (I would have switched to a different set) but no one seemed to be interested in that. Besides, there are plenty of sets to use. If there are no mirrors of Prison Bowl or BATE nearby then use those. There's no need to continually worry about one set.

TheCopleyIndian wrote:I thought I made this clear to Nick before. I want the southwestern Ohio teams to go to Case to play PSAT. Also, since PSAT is pretty late in the school year, I was hoping for some other midwestern states to be represented at Case. I offered a couple months ago to let Manual have the set (I would have switched to a different set) but no one seemed to be interested in that. Besides, there are plenty of sets to use. If there are no mirrors of Prison Bowl or BATE nearby then use those. There's no need to continually worry about one set.

From what I understand, BATE can't be mirrored in Kentucky because Chattahoochee HS in Georgia is hosting a mirror of it on December 11th, and will apparently be drawing Kentucky teams.

Edit: Also, if Manual hosted a PSAT mirror and just barred Ohio teams from the field, wouldn't that prevent a conflict?

I guess so, but wouldn't the top KY teams want to play against the top OH teams?

Why not just use Prison Bowl? I'm sure some OH teams would want to play that if it's hosted in KY. Plus, doesn't Maryland write a spring tournament? And is GDS writing the Ben Cooper tournament again? These would all be valid options to mirror.

TheCopleyIndian wrote:I thought I made this clear to Nick before. I want the southwestern Ohio teams to go to Case to play PSAT. Also, since PSAT is pretty late in the school year, I was hoping for some other midwestern states to be represented at Case. I offered a couple months ago to let Manual have the set (I would have switched to a different set) but no one seemed to be interested in that. Besides, there are plenty of sets to use. If there are no mirrors of Prison Bowl or BATE nearby then use those. There's no need to continually worry about one set.

I know -- I was assumed no one wanted to knock you off PSAT. I was stating that another set should be used. I'm sorry if I implied something more than that.

TheCopleyIndian wrote:I guess so, but wouldn't the top KY teams want to play against the top OH teams?

I think it would be great for top KY teams to play top OH teams, although the date that your tournament is on is the same weekend Dunbar traditionally hosts their Spring tournament. Even if they use another date, I'm not sure how many teams in Kentucky will want to or can afford to go to Cleveland the week before the state tournament. All this aside, if nobody in Kentucky wants to do a PSAT mirror I'm not going to complain.

Plus it's relative position means many southern Ohio teams won't want to go and the same with KY teams.

To be completely honest, I'm a little frustrated when people (and this is a general trend not just the situation we're talking about here) are very insistent on teams traveling large distances (therefore costing them more money) to play quizbowl because they want to have giant fields with a bunch of good teams from multiple circuits. This hurts newer teams and programs with smaller budgets. Saying Kentucky can't have a PSAT mirror because there's one in Cleveland or Kentucky can't have a BATE mirror because there's one in Georgia means that the only teams in this area that will play those sets are teams who have the means to travel several hours away. In my opinion that's bad for quizbowl.

More tournaments is always better than bigger tournaments.

If there are no other question sets to use in Kentucky other than PSAT, then I would be fine with letting someone use it there, but I am under the impression that this is not the case.

I think we will be fine on sets.
We already have two NAQT IS, GSAC, and one HSAPQ.

Prison bowl is still open, along with the other HSAPQ sets.
That said, I'm not sure who else would host a tournament aside from the scheduled ones other than Manual and Grayson.
There are more than enough questions to go around.

If someone really wants PSAT, they probably should have spoken up about it earlier.

However, I do agree that the Case tournament will probably not have very many Kentucky teams.

I'm not sure how happy Culver would be if someone held a DII SCT mirror in Kentucky, seeing as how Dunbar and Manual went to theirs last year and it's a shorter drive from both Louisville and Lexington to Culver than to Case.

Joe N wrote:I'm not sure how happy Culver would be if someone held a DII SCT mirror in Kentucky, seeing as how Dunbar and Manual went to theirs last year and it's a shorter drive from both Louisville and Lexington to Culver than to Case.

I'm sure no good teams would go to the KY mirror if it were mutually exclusive with Culver, as the competition at Culver is just too good. Manual wouldn't.

SoLegit12 wrote:

Joe N wrote:I'm not sure how happy Culver would be if someone held a DII SCT mirror in Kentucky, seeing as how Dunbar and Manual went to theirs last year and it's a shorter drive from both Louisville and Lexington to Culver than to Case.

I'm sure no good teams would go to the KY mirror if it were mutually exclusive with Culver, as the competition at Culver is just too good. Manual wouldn't.

Danville is also already planning to attend.

Midwest completely slipped my mind.
We are actually thinking about going there, so using DII would make no sense.

So, we still have Prison Bowl, IS 104, 102, and the HSAPQ sets to work with.
They should be enough for any teams in KY that would want to hold a tournament that are not currently planning to do so.

grayson77 wrote:Midwest completely slipped my mind.
We are actually thinking about going there, so using DII would make no sense.

So, we still have Prison Bowl, IS 104, 102, and the HSAPQ sets to work with.
They should be enough for any teams in KY that would want to hold a tournament that are not currently planning to do so.

There was only HSAPQ set made. So not really

Edit: Of ACF format, I think.

Do you mean there is only one HSAPQ set? If so, that's not true for the timeframe you're talking about, they're making more next semester.

I was told by HSAPQ people a couple months ago that there will be a set 16 done by January and a set 17 within a month or two after that. Set 16 will be another mACF one and Set 17 will be as well, made from the VHSL sets, similar to last year's set 11.

Jeremy Gibbs Freesy Does It wrote:Do you mean there is only one HSAPQ set? If so, that's not true for the timeframe you're talking about, they're making more next semester.

Oh ok, thanks.

While poking around the Questions Unlimited website, I stumbled across the unfortunate information that Central will be hosting 's Georgia regional tournament. Kill me now. Anyway, the dates and locations for Regionals are all here if you want to add them (there are also the announcements on this board).

Fun fact: Way back at the start of the semester, GT was approached to host that very event.

Does anyone have any idea when/if Vanderbilt is going to have a spring tournament?

This applies mainly to Florida and Alabama people, but... Pensacola is thinking of running a tournament in the fall, and we were wondering which set you would like to see used. We're thinking of mirroring GSAC or Prison Bowl, but we're also willing to just do a normal IS-A, IS, or HSAPQ set.

Thoughts?

Chipola will be hosting a tournament on IS-104 on March 11.

Just to let you know, you've got the link to the Dorman Cavalier Challenge going to the Fleming one.

Thanks for the heads up. I have fixed the issue.

The complete North Carolina tournament schedule can be found here.

Eric

It might also be noted that the TN qualifier for the National History Bee/Bowl is Tuesday March 22nd at Donelson Christian Academy.

On 4/2, Conway High School near Myrtle Beach is hosting NAQT IS-104 at their inaugural Conway Academic Tournament. I spoke to the TD and he said he was generating a lot of interest in his area. We're going down, and it would be great to see some other NC teams come, particularly with the state tourney coming up and the lack of NAQT sets in our area.

Can someone add this date to the calendar?

(Cross-posted in NC discussion).

Updated. Tell me if there are any more events coming up.

I noticed that Dorman's "Season Ender" tournament on April 30 isn't on the calendar. They are using NAQT IS-103A.

Kay,

Danville's Spring tournament has been moved to April 16th. We're still using IS-100.

Rectified.

Quizcub Open (JV/MS Hybrid) at Bainbridge High School (GA) on April 23...we'll be using a set written by QuizTeamQuestions.

Bainbridge is relatively convenient for South GA/North FL/The Panhandle, but I will admit that we're in a very odd position, geographically (we're pretty much as far south as you can get in Georgia without actually being in Florida...haha).

Here's the link to the Norcross mirror of the Prison Bowl. Congratulations to Centennial:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11074

Hey, I just noticed that we don't really have a mirror of BHSAT in the area, and I think this would be a really good set to mirror here. We've exhausted most of the NAQT sets this year, and from what I know it's somewhere between regular difficulty and HSNCT so it's a good preparation for nationals. I've been assured by a friend that it's a good set so yeah. Try to get on this, Southeast. The more good tournaments we can have, the better.

Ar$oni$t$ Get All the Girl$ wrote:Hey, I just noticed that we don't really have a mirror of BHSAT in the area, and I think this would be a really good set to mirror here. We've exhausted most of the NAQT sets this year, and from what I know it's somewhere between regular difficulty and HSNCT so it's a good preparation for nationals. I've been assured by a friend that it's a good set so yeah. Try to get on this, Southeast. The more good tournaments we can have, the better.

This is Correct.

We are still actively seeking mirrors in the Southeast, perhaps multiple if circuits don't overlap to heavily (i.e. one in SC/GA, another in KY/TN, another in AL/MS, etc). If you are interested, email matthew.jackson AT yale DOT edu to secure a mirror at your school. The set is open for mirroring by any interested high school or college in the region on any weekend between now and HSNCT.