2024 NAQT Michigan State Championship [April 13th, IS-228, Ann Arbor and East Lansing]

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The quiz bowl teams at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, in cooperation with DeWitt High School and the Michigan Quiz Bowl Coaches Association, are pleased to announce the 2023 Michigan State Quiz Bowl Championships will take place on Saturday, April 13th, 2024. The event will comprise three separate tournaments, held across two campuses, on the same day.

Teams will be divided into Class A, Class B, and a combined Class C/D division by their MHSAA Classification, using the "Enrollment Total" column found here: https://www.mhsaa.com/sites/default/fil ... enroll.pdf

The Class A tournament will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The Class B and Class C/D tournaments will be held at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Eligibility and qualification

Only one team per school can compete. Teams will require chaperones. We strongly recommend that all participants (including spectators) receive all vaccinations for COVID-19 for which they are medically eligible.

To qualify (and receive priority registration), Michigan high school teams must have either:
-- won a tournament or league featuring four or more teams from two or more Michigan 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)

Teams who have not fulfilled the qualification requirements are also welcome to register via a wildcard bid, and will be added to the field if it's not full by the qualified priority registration deadline (see "Registration" below).

Question set

We'll be using NAQT's IS-228.

Format and rules

These tournaments anticipate using a bracketed round-robin format. The expectation is that 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 9 AM; teams should expect to arrive by 8:30 AM and to play until 5 PM 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.

Only 6 distinct players per team may play in any given game, with 4 players per team playing at any given time, though there is no actual cap on the number of players allowed on a team's roster.

Prizes

Note: if there are fewer than 10 teams in a division, the number of teams receiving awards may be decreased.

For all divisions:

1st Place team for each division will receive a trophy, and a medal for each player (up to 4 players per team)
2nd Place team for each division will receive a plaque, and a medal for each player (up to 4 players per team)
3rd Place team for each division will receive a plaque, and a medal for each player (up to 4 players per team)

Additionally, if a prize-winning team has more than 4 players, they can optionally get more than 4 of the individual awards associated with their victory if their team is willing to pay the cost of those extra awards.

For individual awards:

Awards will be given based on a player's points per 20 tossups heard through the preliminary rounds. A player will only be eligible for an individual award if they have heard at least 75% of their team's total tossups heard. The top 5 players will be considered their individual Division's "First Team All-State" players and receive First Team All-State medals. The 6th through 10th ranked players will be considered their individual Division's "Second Team All-State" players and Second Team All-State medals. If there are fewer than 12 teams in a division, then it's possible only First Team All-State awards will be distributed

Fees

Base registration fee: $135
Buzzer discount: -$10 per functioning buzzer system
Staffer discount: -$15 per competent staffer provided (subject to need and TD approval)

Fees should be paid at the tournament by cash or check. If you choose to pay by check, they should be addressed to "Michigan Academic Competitions" for Class A and "Michigan State Academic Competition Club" for Classes B and C/D.

Registration and deadlines

Fulfilling one of the qualification requirements does not automatically constitute registration. Teams can register using NAQT's registration system here:
Class A: https://www.naqt.com/registration/field ... t_id=15567
Classes B and C/D: https://www.naqt.com/registration/field ... t_id=15587

The initial field caps will be 24 in all classes.
The qualification priority registration deadline is 11:59PM on Friday, March 29th. After this date, wildcard teams will officially be added to the field in order of registration if the field has not yet filled. Pending field caps, teams will still be able to register until the registration deadline, but qualification will no longer grant any sort of priority over wildcard teams.
The registration deadline is 11:59 PM on Saturday, April 5th. Teams will be expected to have their rosters entered into the NAQT registration system at this time, though they will be free to edit them until April 11th. Teams that don't have their rosters entered and that are not responsive to communication from the tournament directors to verify the school's intent to participate may have their registration revoked at the TD's discretion.

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 Ann Arbor and East Lansing on April 13th!