Oct 29

Cal Cup #1 Results / Cal Cup #2 Registration

Congratulations to Guilder A for winning the Competitive Division, to BASIS A for winning the Standard Division, and to Monta Vista for winning the Novice Division at Cal Cup #1! Thank you to all of our team and Berkeley staff for your help!
Competitive Results are here.
Standard and Novice Results are here.
Overall Cal Cup standings are here [will be up in a few days]
Registration is now open for Cal Cup #2, to be held on Saturday, November 11 at Menlo (private) School in Atherton (not to be confused with Menlo-Atherton (public) High School). The last day to register is Wednesday, November 8.
Registration takes place on the NAQT website here.
[one must have an account on the NAQT website in order to register]
Full Cal Cup details can be found here. Teams that did not purchase the package at Cal Cup #1 can still purchase the package at Cal Cup #2.

Oct 17

2017-2018 California Cup

Registration is now open for Cal Cup #1, to be held on Sunday, October 29 at UC Berkeley (with the possibility of expanding to include rooms at Berkeley HS). We apologize for the announcement delay.
New for this year:
Cal Cup tournaments this year feature 3 divisions: Competitive, Standard, and Novice (instead of the usual JV and Varsity divisions). We have also slightly increased the entry fee for non-new teams (and have eliminated the travel discount).
Complete details (including entry fee info and a detailed explanation about the divisions) about Cal Cup can be found here.
To register for Cal Cup #1, fill out this registration form. The last day to register will be Thursday, October 26. We have a field cap of 15 teams per division for Cal Cup #1 unless we can get more rooms.
If you have any questions regarding which division your team should play please contact us at californiacupquizbowl@gmail.com and we can assist you with that.

Oct 17

Sacramento Winter MS Tournament @ da Vinci (Dec 2)

The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance and Leonardo da Vinci K-8 School are pleased to announce that da Vinci will host the Sacramento Winter MS tournament on Saturday, December 2, 2017. This tournament will feature a JV division (for newer teams) and a Varsity division (for more experienced teams).

Location: This tournament will take place at Leonardo da Vinci K-8 School, Sacramento, California. Registration will begin at 9:00AM and we plan to start round 1 at 9:30AM.

Questions: We will be using NAQT Middle School Series #24. (For practice material similar to the questions we will use at the tournament, please consider the NAQT New Middle School Package).

The top 15% of teams will qualify for the 2018 NAQT Middle School National Championship Tournament, to be held in Chicago in May, 2018 (only teams playing in the Varsity division are eligible to qualify for MSNCT).

Eligibility: All middle schools (public, private, charter, religious, homeschool, etc.) are eligible to play in this event. This tournament is open to any players who have not yet completed 8th grade, though the questions are targeted at 7th and 8th graders.

Schools are encouraged to enter multiple teams, but please note that players must play for the same team throughout the tournament.

Fees:

Base fee: $60 per team

-$40 for schools that played zero quiz bowl tournaments during the 2016-2017 school year (per team)

-$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.)

-$10 if your school successfully recruits a new school (see definition above) to compete

Schools from Nevada will play this tournament for free.

Minimum entry fee: $0

Payment will be taken at check-in on December 2.

Registration takes place on the NAQT website: https://www.naqt.com/registration/field.jsp?tournament_id=8944
[One must have an account on the NAQT website in order to register]

Oct 16

South Bay Fall Novice Results

Congratulations to Dublin for winning the HS division and to Pi-oneers B for winning the MS division of the South Bay Fall Novice Tournament! Thank you to all of the staff and to Ms. Yang and St. Francis HS for hosting.

Stats/results are here: https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=8835

Unfortunately, the North Bay site was cancelled to due air-quality concerns relating to the recent North Bay wildfires (so some of those teams competed at the South Bay site instead).

Oct 04

Sacramento Fall MS Tournament Results

Congratulations to Team Pi-oneers for winning the Sacramento Fall Quiz Bowl Tournament for Middle School Teams! A big thanks to all of our staff for their help and to Mr. Hansen and Churchill for hosting.

Complete stats/results: https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-t … nt_id=8654

Sep 23

Sacramento Fall HS Tournament Results

Congratulations to team Pi-oneers for winning the Sacramento Fall Quiz Bowl Tournament for High School Teams! A big thanks to Mr. Blenner for reserving the rooms and to all of our excellent staff for their help.
 
Complete stats and results can be found here: https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=8625

Sep 01

East/South Bay Novice Tournaments (Oct 14)

The first high school quiz bowl tournaments of the year in the Bay Area will be the annual Fall Novice tournaments on Saturday, October 14; registration is now open. The South Bay tournament will take place at St. Francis HS in Mountain View; the East Bay tournament will take place at Berean Christian HS in Walnut Creek. Schools may compete at either site but will probably want to attend the site closest to them. These tournaments are not qualifiers for either of the high school quiz bowl national tournaments.
Eligibility: Players who have previously competed at any HSNCT, NSC, or have played on a team that finished t-13 or better at any MSNCT must receive permission from Jeff (jeff.hoppes@gmail.com) in order to compete. Students who are ineligible to play are strongly encouraged to help staff.
New for this year: we will have a separate division for middle schools only at the South Bay site (using the same high school questions as the high school division). Middle schools cannot play in the high school division at either tournament. Middle school teams that are new to quiz bowl will find this tournament challenging (and should instead play at tournament #3 below).
Registration for the South Bay tournament takes place on the NAQT website here.
Registration for the East Bay tournament takes place on the NAQT website here.
[One must first have an account on the NAQT website in order to register]

Aug 17

Sacramento Fall High School Tournament (September 23)

NCQBA and Rio Americano HS are pleased to announce that the Sacramento Spring HS Tournament will be held on Saturday, April 22 2017. All teams will play in one division; we will not have separate JV and Varsity divisions. The field cap is 16 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-167A

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: $65 per team

-$10 per working buzzer system (must accommodate at least eight players)

-$10 per scorekeeper (We will hold a brief training session during check-in for volunteers who have never kept score before)

-$15 per experienced moderator

-$10 if your school successfully recruits a new school (see definition below) to compete

Schools that are new to quiz bowl (defined as having played zero quiz bowl tournaments during the 2016-2017 school year) will play this tournament for free

Minimum Entry Fee: $0 per team

Payment (cash or check) will be taken at check-in on September 23

Registration takes place on the NAQT website: https://www.naqt.com/registration/field.jsp?tournament_id=8625

Aug 17

Fall Middle School Quiz Bowl Tournaments

Registration is now open for the first Northern California Middle School Quiz Bowl tournaments of the year.

The Sacramento Fall MS tournament will take place on Saturday, September 30 at Churchill Middle School in Carmichael.

Registration takes place on the NAQT website here.

The South Bay Fall Middle School Tournament will take place on Saturday, November 18 at Valley Christian HS in San Jose.

Registration takes place on the NAQT website here.

[You must first have an account on the NAQT website in order to register]

Please note: schools CANNOT play both of these tournaments because we are using the same set (NAQT MS-23) at both.

Apr 17

Results from NAQT States

Congrats to Harker A for winning the 2017 NorCal NAQT State Championship Tournament for high school teams and congratulations to Pi-oneers B for winning the tournament for middle school teams! Thank you to all of our team and Berkeley staff for your help!
Complete stats and results can be found here.