The Quizbowl Resource Center

It's basically the same as last year's thread: I'll maintain a list of tournaments in the area and what dates they fall on, as well as links to the appropriate thread if they exist. If you don't see your tournament up here, or if you know when your tournament is, let me know.

September 10:
September 17:
September 24: Maryland Fall @ University of Maryland (College Park, MD)

October 1:
October 8: OLEFIN @ Thomas Jefferson (Alexandria, VA)
October 15: Fall Novice @ Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), Blake It's Academic Tournament @ Blake (Silver Spring, MD)
October 22: Fall Novice @ St. Anselm's (Washington, DC)
October 29: Cavalier Classic @ University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)

November 5: ACF Fall @ University of Virginia (Charlottsville, VA)
November 12: Fall Kickoff @ Blacksburg (Blacksburg, VA), HFT VI @ Harvard (Cambridge, MA)
November 19: CSI VI @ Cave Spring (Cave Spring, VA), NHBB Tournament @ Mt. St. Joseph (Baltimore, MD)
November 26: Thanksgiving Weekend

December 3: GSAC XIX @ Maggie Walker (Richmond, VA)
December 4: Centennial Tournament @ Centennial (Ellicott City, MD)
December 10: VCU Winter IV @ Virginia Commonwealth (Richmond, VA)
December 17:
December 24: Christmas Eve
December 31: New Year's Eve

January 7: NHBB Tournament @ School Without Walls (Washington, DC)
January 14: Unnamed Tournament @ New Kent (New Kent, VA)
January 21: TJIAT @ Thomas Jefferson (Alexandria, VA)
January 28: Last day for VHSL Districts

February 4: STANLEY CUP @ Georgetown Day (Washington, DC)
February 11: Last day for VHSL Regionals, Delaware Fall @ Charter School of Wilmington (Wilmington, DE)
February 18: NCIS II @ Cave Spring (Cave Spring, VA)
February 25: VHSL States, SWAGFEST @ Richard Montgomery (Rockville, MD)

March 3: Prison Bowl V @ Hunter College (New York, NY)
March 10: Blue Hen @ University of Delaware (Newark, DE), VCU Spring @ Virginia Commonwealth (Richmond, VA)
March 17: NHBB VA State Championship @ Monticello (Charlottesville, VA), NHBB DC @ St. Anselm's (Washington, DC)
March 24: NAQT VA State Championship @ UVA (Charlottesville, VA), NAQT MD/DC State Championship @ Oakland Mills (Columbia, MD), BHSAT XXI @ Yale (New Haven, CT)
March 31: Unnamed Tournament @ Thomas Jefferson (Alexandria, VA)

April 7: Easter Weekend
April 14: BHSAT mirror @ St. Anselm's (Washington, DC)
April 21: Rider Bowl III @ Caesar Rodney (Camden, DE), Virginia Tech Spring Invitational @ Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA)
April 28: NHBB

May 6: Maryland Spring @ University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
May 12: ATTACK mirror @ Maggie Walker (Richmond, VA)
May 19: Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament @ Georgetown Day (Washington, DC)
May 26: NAQT HSNCT @ Hyatt Regency Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
June 2:
June 9: PACE NSC @ WUSTL (St. Louis, Missouri)

Color codes
Black - Regular difficulty, local tournaments
Red - Regular difficulty leagues/tournaments with limited eligibility
Purple - Novice Tournaments
Green - Tournaments outside the region that may appeal to some teams
Blue - National tournaments
Orange - Important non-Quizbowl dates

I'm not sure how much you want to mix up this thread and the NY/NJ one, but i feel like you should probably add at least this tournament to this list.

Prison Bowl - Hunter College - March 3

Great idea including the SAT and major holidays in the schedule. Thanks, Harry.

UVA would like to reclaim the traditional Cavalier Classic date of October 29 for a high school tournament on a set to be determined. This set will definitely not be housewritten (as I believe some previous Cav Classics were), but we're currently more or less open to set suggestions, so if you have a strong desire for a mirror of your set at our tournament and it will be finished by October 29, let me know at sangelo147 at gmail dot com.

We are also interested in a spring tournament but will wait to see what happens with the college calendar before scheduling that.

Just for visual reference, although not as big as the SAT in these parts, the ACT is on September 10th, October 22nd, December 10th, February 11th, April 14th, and June 9th

Cave Spring would like to claim November 19th for the CSI VI, a housewrite, and either February 4th or the 18th for the NCIS II, which will hopefully be a vendor set. Before committing to the NCIS date, I'd like to know if the VHSL State tournament date has been set. We'd like to set our NCIS tournament the weekend before that date, if possible. Does anybody have any idea of when the state tournament date will happen? It seems to fall on the last Saturday in February.

According to this VHSL calendar, this year it will be Feb 25.

It's probably worth adding this, and the district (Jan 28) and region (Feb 11) deadlines to the master calendar.

The VHSL District Deadline is January 28, and the Regional one is February 11 (though Districts and Regions can hold their championships earlier). State is usually the last Saturday in February, as to avoid the early March SAT date, as well as W&M's Spring Break.

Any chance the University of Maryland might host another September season launcher as it did last year? Considering the talented teams that attended last year, we would certainly enjoy an opportunity to play in a similar field this year if the opportunity became available.

You might want to include ACT dates as well as SAT dates because they are becoming even more popular each year. Also I'm assuming that Charter's tournament will either be the second or third Saturday of December.

Is someone planning to run an FNT Mirror in the DC/MD/VA area?

jlchockey94 wrote:Is someone planning to run an FNT Mirror in the DC/MD/VA area?

Virginia Tech is hoping to host one on October 15th, but I'm waiting for our application to be approved before I put it on the calendar.

jlchockey94 wrote:Is someone planning to run an FNT Mirror in the DC/MD/VA area?

St. Anselm's will be running one in early October, exact date TBA.

Blacksburg High School would like to claim November 12, 2011 to host a Scholastic Bowl Fall Kickoff event. This event is intended to allow teams that use few or no regular season VHSL matches to get 8 additional regular season matches in before most district tournaments occur. We will be using regular season matches 21-28. Only VHSL member schools can attend this event. The entry fee for the Scholastic Bowl Fall Kickoff will be $5 to cover minimal costs incurred by the host. Schools will only be allowed to enter one team and coaches will be expected to read for 4 of their 8 matches. A team can bring a reader with them if their coach does not want to read.

I'd tentatively like to claim 3/10 for the Blue Hen tournament at UD. However, we're also looking at 3/17 as a possible date, so I'll try to get a more definite answer soon.

CR would like to tentatively claim Saturday, April 21st for Rider Bowl III. We'll shoot for another great HSAPQ set, probably the same type as before (manufactured from VHSL-ish questions).

NHBB is looking at either March 17 (first choice) or March 10 (second choice) for our DC area A set tournament at Richard Montgomery. If you're thinking of hosting those dates, please let me or Raynell Cooper know, so we can coordinate. We'll also have a C set tournament at School Without Walls in DC and a B set tournament at Mt. St. Joseph High School in Baltimore - dates forthcoming on those latter two. We're going to make a big push to draw in teams at SWW and MSJ that haven't traditionally done more than It's Academic - if even that.

I believe the Maryland Fall Tournament has been set for September 24, announcement coming soon.

Virginia Tech has been awarded a Fall Novice bid, to be held October 15th. Announcement forthcoming.

St. Anselm's FNT date will be October 22nd. This is a little later than I would have liked, but it's the best we can do. An official announcement should appear in the next few days.

Blake (Silver Spring, MD) Academic Tournament (10/15/11)

Fifty toss-ups, designed as preparation for It's Academic competition. To be clear, these questions are shorter than the longer pyramidal questions. Tournament capped at 48 teams. Sixteen-team single-elimination playoff. Finals completed no later than 3 pm. For information, email Joe Caulfield at [email protected]

Kara Mohler
James Hubert Blake High School

The National History Bee and Bowl is pleased to announce that we will be holding a B set tournament at Mt. St. Joseph College High School in Baltimore on Saturday, November 19. We're going to be working with our host school and recruiter to reach out to a number of area schools that haven't traditionally done as much quiz bowl. Hopefully, some of these schools might then seek out additional area tournaments. Final confirmation of dates for our A set at Richard Montgomery and C set at School Without Walls coming soon.

Will the Maryland Fall Tournament of September 24th be offically posted soon? St. Joe's is definitely interested.

Edward Powers wrote:Will the Maryland Fall Tournament of September 24th be offically posted soon? St. Joe's is definitely interested.

I know it's listed on NAQT's page - http://www.naqt.com/schedule.jsp?hs=yes - but they just haven't made an official thread about it yet. It's happening, don't worry.

UVA would like to claim March 24 for a high school tournament TBD.

TJ would like to claim January 21 and March 31 for its TJIAT and a yet-unnamed tournament, respectively.

NHBB is pleased to announce that its VA State Championships on our A set (i.e. our Nationals level questions) will return to Monticello HS in Charlottesville, VA on March 17, 2012. Dates for MD State, DC, and VA - Williamsburg will be forthcoming soon, and we will certainly look to avoid conflicts with other tournaments in scheduling those.

I can now confirm the February 18th date as the NCIS 2. We're planning on a vendor set for this tournament.

New Kent would like to claim January 14th for a vendor set of some type.

GDS would like to claim February 4 for a vendor tournament likely called STANLEY CUP (the actual words that make up the acronym are forthcoming).

NHBB Washington DC on our B Set is now confirmed for School Without Walls in Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC on Saturday, January 7. I don't see anything else that day, so hopefully a bunch of area teams will be able to make it!

It looks like Charter will be holding its Delaware Fall Tournament on December 10th. Also, Charter will be hosting an NHBB event on the A level set on January 14th

Joe,

Do you know what question set you will use at your Delaware Fall Tournament?

Edward Powers wrote:Joe,

Do you know what question set you will use at your Delaware Fall Tournament?

110A for JV and 111 for Varsity

nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:NHBB Washington DC on our B Set is now confirmed for School Without Walls in Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC on Saturday, January 7. I don't see anything else that day, so hopefully a bunch of area teams will be able to make it!

David, will you need staffers for this? I'm not sure when I'll be heading back to New Haven, but I might still be in town and I could come lend a hand?

Sure, we can always use help, if you mean volunteering. In terms of directing, we're probably set (but need to confirm this one with Raynell).

nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:Sure, we can always use help, if you mean volunteering. In terms of directing, we're probably set (but need to confirm this one with Raynell).

I'm good with directing but it's always really great to have another experienced hand around to help deal with any crises that may arise. Also you're cool. We'd love to have you!

Hayley Legg wrote:

nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:Sure, we can always use help, if you mean volunteering. In terms of directing, we're probably set (but need to confirm this one with Raynell).

I'm good with directing but it's always really great to have another experienced hand around to help deal with any crises that may arise. Also you're cool. We'd love to have you!

I'll be around that day and will probably be down there with you

Hayley Legg wrote:

nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:Sure, we can always use help, if you mean volunteering. In terms of directing, we're probably set (but need to confirm this one with Raynell).

I'm good with directing but it's always really great to have another experienced hand around to help deal with any crises that may arise. Also you're cool. We'd love to have you!

Yeah, assuming I'm around that day, I'm willing to help out in any way you need. Plus, it'd be nice to see everybody again (Ray, my life is just less cool without you...)

St. Anselm's would like to claim April 14 for a tournament TBA.

Montgomery Blair High School would like to reserve March 3, 2012 for a mirror of Washington university High School Academic Competition (WUHSAC). More details will come out as soon. If you have any questions email [email protected].

NHBB is looking into switching its Jan 7 tournament since this conflicts with Green Eggs and Hammond, which is not listed here. I was told this by Centennial's coach on Sat. and since Greg Bossick and I will be talking up our DC area B set at Centennial's tournament on Dec. 4, we figured that looking into switching the date would help, since there's lots of overlap between the schools at Centennial and the schools at Hammond. We will do our best to find a new date - Sunday Jan. 15 is a possibility, since the following day is a holiday.

jibjab395 wrote:Montgomery Blair High School would like to reserve March 3, 2012 for a mirror of Washington university High School Academic Competition (WUHSAC). More details will come out as soon. If you have any questions email [email protected].

I would like to apologize an unexpected event has come up and we need to move the date of our tournament we are exploring other options right now and will fill you in with more details latter.

I just got the final word from NAQT, so I can confirm that our tournament on March 24 will be the Virginia NAQT State Championship. It may take me until after finals to get an announcement up, but I hope to see all of you who are eligible there!

Charter has moved their tournament to Feb 11.

jlchockey94 wrote:GDS would like to claim February 4 for a vendor tournament likely called STANLEY CUP (the actual words that make up the acronym are forthcoming).

Jared, do you know what set you're going to use for this tournament? I don't know if any HSAPQ sets have been used in this area... so either 22 or 23 would probably work for here.

List of villages in West Virginia wrote:

jlchockey94 wrote:GDS would like to claim February 4 for a vendor tournament likely called STANLEY CUP (the actual words that make up the acronym are forthcoming).

Jared, do you know what set you're going to use for this tournament? I don't know if any HSAPQ sets have been used in this area... so either 22 or 23 would probably work for here.

New Kent's tournament, which would presumably have at least some interest overlap with GDS', is using Set 23 on 1/14.

As is Penn, possibly, maybe?

RyuAqua wrote:As is Penn, possibly, maybe?

Ha! Oh right! That Penn tournament that was laughably tentatively scheduled in the Spring instead of November like it had been for the last 3 years. There is literally no room for it on the schedule. Awesome.

This is just going to be one of the most ridiculous Spring schedules ever.

More substantive content for GDS: Has anyone in the region used HSAPQ Tournament-22 yet? If so, what portion of the area hasn't yet heard IS-109 or wouldn't hear IS-113?