This event will be held in person at Columbia University in New York, New York.
The difficulty of this set will be three dots per the College Quiz Bowl Calendar Difficulty Scale.
Kurtis Droge is our head editor. Our subject editors are Matt Bollinger, Noah Sheidlower, Andrew Rout, Briana Magin, Maxwell Ye, Dan Ni, John Lawrence, Emmett Laurie, Vasa Clarke, Caleb Kendrick, & Kurtis Droge.
Entry fees
The base entry fee is $540 per team.
There is a $20 discount fee per working lock-out set that accommodates at least eight players. Schools are limited to two such discounts without special dispensation. Wireless buzzers are not accepted.
Staffers are paid $75 per day for their work. They can donate their pay towards a team's entry fee.
Entry fees must be paid by February 22.
Teams can drop from the field without cost by January 31. Schools that drop from the field between February 1-February 22 will owe $270 per registered team. Schools that drop from the field between February 23 & March 2 owe $540 per registered team.
Information about eligibility
Teams may only be made up of teams that qualify as undergraduate students, per the following information.
A competition year is defined as beginning August 1 of a year and concludes on the subsequent July 31.
A postsecondary degree is an associate’s, bachelor’s, doctorate, or master’s degree.
An accredited school is one that offers classes towards earning a postsecondary degree.
A class is a course taken for credit at an accredited school. Classes include practical experiences such as internships or work placement programs. Classes may be taken online.
An undergraduate student is defined as:
• Having graduated from high school or have completed a GED.
• Having not graduated with a postsecondary degree (excluding associate's degrees taking fewer than four years to earn) before the competition year.
• Having completed no more than ten semesters of post-high school education.
• Taking two classes over the competition year.
To compete in the fall semester, an undergraduate student must be taking two “normal” classes worth of credit at the time, where, for a traditional, two semester per academic year college, each class would be worth 3.0 credit hours.
To compete in the spring semester, an undergraduate student must be taking or have taken a total of two “normal” classes worth of credit over the academic year, where, for a traditional, two semester per academic year college, each class would be worth 3.0 credit hours. Students who fulfill this requirement and graduated after the fall semester are eligible in the spring semester.
Students enrolled in a co-op or other experiential course but are under the necessary number of credit hours to be eligible and that meet all the other eligibility requirements may request an exemption to be granted eligibility by email Fred Morlan at [email protected].
Question distribution
The question distribution of subjects is as follows:
Teams interested in registering or that have additional questions may contact Fred Morlan at [email protected].
