Oct 31
Cal Cup #2 (Cal Classic) is taking place on Saturday, November 17.
Registration takes place on the NAQT website here.
Teams can still purchase the package at Cal Cup #2. If your team is planning to purchase the package at Cal Cup #2 please indicate that in the “other information” section at the bottom of your team’s registration page.
Oct 23
Oct 23
Oct 11
The Bay Area Fall MS Tournament (originally planned for Saturday, October 13 at Stanford) will be postponed to a yet-undetermined date (but will not take place at Stanford). We will keep everyone posted.
Oct 03
Registration is now open for Cal Cup #1, to be held on Saturday, October 27 at St. Francis HS in Mountain View. To register for Cal Cup #1, please fill out this registration form.
Like last year, this competition features three divisions (Competitive, Standard, Novice). Let us know if you are unsure which division your team should play in; we reserve the right to move teams to different divisions. The last day to register is Wednesday, October 24. Teams can drop without penalty by 6PM on Friday, October 26. Send us an email (californiacupquizbowl@gmail.com) if you would like to pay in advance. Please write out any checks to Stanford Quiz Bowl Club (do not write them out to NCQBA or Quiz Bowl Club). Middle School teams are welcome to compete but should be aware that they will be competing against high school teams on high school level questions. Teams can consist of up to 6 players in total.
We are setting an initial field cap of 58 teams: 18 teams in the Competitive division and 20 teams each in Standard and Novice. We may be able to expand later; we have updated the waitlist policies.
We are implementing the following policy for Cal Cup #1: All teams must have a roster submitted by the Cal Cup #1 registration deadline (11:59PM on Oct 24); rosters do not have to be finalized by that time and can be changed after. Teams that do not have any roster indicated by that time will be dropped from the tournament and may not be able to re-enter the field. Teams can update their rosters by emailing us at californiacupquizbowl@gmail.com.
A reminder that only teams that register for the full package (play 4 tournaments for the price of 3) will be eligible for the overall title and prizes awarded at the end of Cal Cup #4. Teams that purchase the package are given priority in case there is a waitlist.
Cal Cup #2 will take place on Saturday, November 17 (location TBA). Cal Cup #2 is the only competition that features NAQT questions (so it is the only Cal Cup tournament that is a qualifier for HSNCT). Registration for Cal Cup #2 will open following the completion of Cal Cup #1.
We have not confirmed the dates for Cal Cup #3 and Cal Cup #4. We have included a couple of questions at the end of the Cal Cup #1 registration form regarding which dates teams prefer for #3 and #4.
Complete details about California Cup can be found here.
Oct 01
Congratulations to Hopkins A for winning the Varsity division and to Harper for winning the JV division at the Sacramento Fall MS Tournament! A big thanks goes to all of our dedicated volunteers for their help and to Mr. Hansen and Churchill for hosting.
Stats/results are here.
Oct 01
Congratulations to Saratoga A for winning the HS division and to Valley Christian Middle for winning the MS division at the 2018 Bay Area Fall Novice tournament! A big thanks goes to all of the moderators and scorekeepers for their help, to Michael and Kashvi for their assistance in the control room, and to Ms. Yang and St. Francis for hosting.
Sep 11
NCQBA and Rio Americano HS are pleased to announce that the Sacramento Fall HS Tournament will be held on Saturday, October 6, 2018. This competition features separate JV and Varsity divisions. The field cap is 19 teams.
Location: This tournament will take place at Rio Americano HS, 4540 American River Drive, Sacramento, California. Registration will begin at 9:00AM and we plan to start round 1 at 9:30AM.
Questions: We will be using NAQT IS-176A
Eligibility: All high schools (public, private, charter, religious, homeschool, etc.) are eligible to play in this event.
Schools are encouraged to enter multiple teams, but please note that participants must play for the same team throughout the tournament.
Fees:
Base fee: $60 per team
-$30 for schools that played zero quiz bowl tournaments during the 2017-2018 school year (per team)
-$30 for schools from Nevada
-$10 per working buzzer system (must accommodate at least eight players)
-$20 per staffer (We will hold a brief training session during check-in for those volunteers who have never kept score before.)
Minimum Entry Fee: $0 per team
Payment (cash or check) will be taken at check-in on October 6
Registration takes place on the NAQT website here
[one must have an account on the NAQT website in order to register]
Sep 03
The Saint Francis High School Quiz Bowl club will be hosting a novice quiz bowl tournament on Saturday, September 22, 2018 at Saint Francis HS in Mountain View. The tournament will be run in order to provide an introduction to quiz bowl without any prior experience necessary and to demonstrate what a truly fun activity quiz bowl is! We highly encourage teams from around NorCal to come.
The possibility of an East Bay site is pending. Teams that would play at an East Bay site are encouraged to register for the Saint Francis tournament for now.
The tournament set will be National Academic Quiz Tournaments’ (NAQT) Invitational Series 178-A, which is aimed at teams with little to no experience. Teams will be restricted to at most 6 players, with 4 players playing at any given time and 2 on the bench. Please be aware that the majority of teams will be teams with new players.
Practice questions of approximate difficulty can be found here => http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/search/?name=SCOP%20Novice&hs=1&archived=y
All teams of high schoolers from the same school are eligible to play in this event, although players who have competed at the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament, the PACE National Scholastic Championship, or finished t-13 or better at any NAQT Middle School National Championship Tournament must receive special permission to play from Nicholas Karas (nicholas.karas@naqt.com).
This competition features a separate division for middle school teams using IS-178A; middle school players cannot compete in the HS division (whether on a team with other middle school players or on a team with high school players). Middle school players may compete in the MS division without restriction (and do not need to receive permission).
Tournament Logistics: The tournament will take place at St. Francis HS at 1885 Miramonte Avenue, Mountain View, CA. Registration will take place at room 201.
We will have registration begin at 8:30AM, will have a brief introduction to quiz bowl at the opening meeting, and we hope to begin the first round by 9:00. We project that the tournament will run from 9 until about 4:15PM, with an hour break for lunch at around noon. For lunch, teams can bring food, order food, or go out and get it.
Fees:
base fee: $60 per team
–$30 per team from schools that did not compete at a pyramidal quiz bowl tournament during the 2017-18 school year: “pyramidal quiz bowl” does not encompass other academic/trivia competitions like Science Bowl or History Bowl
–$10 per working buzzer
–$15 per staffer (must stay whole day)
Minimum entry fee: $0 per team
Payment (cash or check) will be taken at registration on Sept 22.
We urge teams attending to bring buzzers and staffers if available. Though we do not expect that teams have played tournaments previously, we will enforce all the gameplay rules as they are written in Sections D-H of the official rules of the Academic Competition Federation (http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/official-acf-rules/), so all players must fully familiarize themselves with these rules before proceeding. Pay special attention to timing, pronunciation, and protest guidelines. You can find out more about what quiz bowl is here: (https://www.norcalquizbowl.org/?page_id=18)
Registration takes place on the NAQT website here => https://www.naqt.com/registration/field.jsp?tournament_id=9813
[one must first have an account on the NAQT website in order to register]
Questions? Contact TD Nicholas Karas (nicholas.karas@naqt.com).
May 24
Congrats to Swapnil Garg from Harker for tying for fifth place at the inaugural Individual Player National Championship Tournament!
Congrats to Shiva Oswal from Pi-oneers for winning MSNCT! This is the first time that a quiz bowl national competition has been won by a solo player. A big congrats also goes to BASIS (2nd place) and Challenger-Berryessa A (4th place).
Congrats to Escobar for tying for third place at NHBB Nationals!
NHBB results can be found here.
IPNCT results can be found here.
MSNCT results can be found here.