League Database - Please add to this thread!

[Standard-winged Nightjar]

Hi All,
I’m in the process of putting together the first-ever (as far as I can tell) database of quiz bowl leagues. Note: a league by this definition is not just a single tournament, nor is it a TV show where if you lose one match you're out (though if certain matches of the league are televised, that's fine). If you are familiar with a league of any sort, no matter where it runs, what question provider it uses, no matter how horrific any of its regulations, please post the following information in this thread:
-Name of League
-State(s) Served
-Area or School the league is based in
-Geographic Restrictions? (i.e. is the league limited to teams from a certain state, county, etc.?)
-Question Provider
-Game Format
-Competition Season (include dates if known, or just say something like “Monday afternoons, November – March”)
-League Website (if one exists)
-Contact Person (ideally, this should be the person who coordinates the league)
-Contact Person email (or phone # or position if email unavailable)
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season
N.B.: Please highlight the name of the league in bold at the top of your post so that others can easily recognize if information on a particular league has been posted or not!
I have posted information on a league below as an example.
I have come to realize over the past year that there are probably over 100 leagues around the country, but often these leagues are isolated in terms of their interaction with the wider quiz bowl community. We need to reach out to them in order to encourage the spread of not only good quiz bowl, but also things like the existence of ACE Camps, National Championships, the full spectrum of question providers, and tournaments outside their league structure. Also, this way prospective teams can learn about leagues they might be able to join. The information posted below will be combined with my own research in a database that will be online by the end of July at a site to be revealed when ready.
One last minor point, if you know the email address of the contact person, please include it, but do it in the form: firstpartofemail at secondpartofemail so as to avoid spam. If you don’t think the contact person would want their email posted, then don’t post it, but then do post their position (e.g. Basque Language teacher at Walla Walla High School, Walla Walla, WA) so I can reach out to them. Thanks!

[Standard-winged Nightjar]

Name of League: Masterminds
States Served: New York
Area or School the league is based in: Upstate New York, roughly from Albany – Buffalo, also Upper Hudson Valley, Southern Tier region
Geographic Restrictions?: New York schools only
Question Provider: NAQT (A sets)
Game Format: Timed NAQT
Competition Season: October – June
League Website (if one exists): http://www2.monroe2boces.org/masterminds/
Contact Person: Scott Kroner
Contact Person Email or Position: mminds at rochester dot rr dot com
Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 Season: late September / early October

[Excelsior (smack)]

Greater Miami Conference
State(s): Ohio
Area: Northern Greater Cincinnati
Geographic Restrictions?: Tied to the Greater Miami Conference athletic league, so entry and exit from the quizbowl league is only by entry and exit from the athletic league; all schools in the athletic league participate in quizbowl.
Question Provider: unknown, but it's probably one of the standard providers of bad OAC questions.
Game Format: OAC (Ohio Academic Competition)
Competition Season: Wednesday afternoons from December to February, with a league tournament on a Saturday in February
League Website: http://gmcsports.com/confStandings.aspx?satc=153 - this website, which posts results from matches in the conference, is the closest thing to a league website.
Contact Person: unfortunately, I have no idea; my quizbowl coach at my old high school, Ken Clark, is the best I have.
Contact Person email: for the above-mentioned Ken Clark - clarkk at sycamoreschools dot org
Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season: N/A, owing to it being tied to an athletic league

[MahoningQuizBowler]

Mahoning County Quizbowl League
State: Ohio
Area: Mahoning and Columbiana counties
Geographic restrictions: A school must receive services from the Mahoning County Educational Service Center (ESC) in order to be eligible to play in the league. Exceptions are made for Youngstown City Schools.
Question provider: NAQT
Game format: 24/24 NAQT, untimed, ties stand in League play; standard untimed NAQT in tournament play
Competition season: Wednesdays after school from first Wednesday in January until last Wednesday in February/first Wednesday in March depending on snow days. End of season county tournament is scheduled around state speech/debate tournament and regional band/choir competition, typically second Saturday in March.
League website: results.scobo.net/Bossick
Contact Person: John Kuzma, Mahoning County ESC
Contact Person email: J dot Kuzma at MahoningESC dot com
Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season: At the discretion of the ESC, but currently the league has 16 teams and will not accept a single new member for scheduling purposes; 2 teams would have to come in at the same time.

[idrayer]

Regional Quiz Bowl (RQB)
State(s): New York
Area: Long Island
Geographic Restrictions?: I believe it's only Nassau and Suffolk county schools.
Question Provider: Academic Hallmarks.
Game Format: 4 Quarters
Competition Season: Wednesday afternoons from November to March once a month, with a league tournament on a Wednesday in April
League Website: http://regionalquizbowl.org/
Contact Person: No idea, they never got back to me when I sent an e-mail to the contact e-mail.
Contact Person email: regionalqb@optonline.net
Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season: Not posted yet, last year's was October 15

[bt_green_warbler]

-Name of League: Lancaster-Lebanon League
-State(s) Served: Pennsylvania
-Geographic Restrictions? Lancaster, Lebanon, and York Counties
-Question Provider: unknown
-Game Format: tossup/bonus, three rounds with increasing bonus values
-Competition Season: weekday afternoons October-January; championship tournament in February
-League Website: http://nie.lancasteronline.com/node/95
-Contact Person: Kay Baxter of Elizabethtown (email is on the website)
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season: unknown

[The Motley Eye]

-Name of League: Mountain Academic Competition Conference (MACC) and SouthWest Academic Conference (SWAC)
-State(s) Served: Virginia
-Area or School the league is based in: Southwest Virginia, west of the Roanoke Valley
-Geographic Restrictions?: None known
-Question Provider: Unknown
-Game Format: 10 directed questions to each team, followed by 10 tossups. Each match consists of four subject-area games (english, math, science, social studies), and a final "all-around" game. Each of the four subject-area games is played by a unique 4-person team; they may also play in the all-around match.
-Competition Season: Mon/Thurs evenings, January to March
-League Website: http://moodle.wythe.k12.va.us/course/view.php?id=12
-Contact Person: George Reasor, Commissioner
-Contact Person email: greasor AT wythek12 DOT org, 276-686-9030 ext 105
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season: Unknown

[dtaylor4]

Central Illinois Scholastic League
State: IL
Area: central IL
Restrictions: by invite only, fixed at nine teams
Provider: Each team provides a pack, sometimes written by coaches. For tournament, QG
Format: 24/24 IHSA
Season: four tuesday nights in October, two saturdays for tournaments
Website: none
Contact: Donna Robinson, Sangamon Valley HS

[Sulawesi Myzomela]

Name of League: South Central Kentucky Academic Conference
States Served: Kentucky
Area or School the league is based in: South Central Kentucky in the area around Bowling Green
Geographic Restrictions?: Being in the Bowling Green/South Central Kentucky area
Question Provider: It's usually short quick recall questions, although I think they're changing providers this year.
Game Format: Kentucky Quick Recall
Competition Season: September-November
League Website (if one exists): http://www.sckac.com
Contact Person: Marla Lee
Contact Person Email or Position: marla dot lee at warren dot kyschools dot us

[Coelacanth]

Minnesota High School Quizbowl League (MNHSQB)
-State(s) Served - Minnesota
-Area or School the league is based in - Twin Cities
-Geographic Restrictions? Nominally none
-Question Provider - Currently NAQT
-Game Format - 3 phases including short tossups, tossup/bonus, and lightning rounds
-Competition Season - Thursday evenings November-February
-League Website - http://www.naqt.com/mqba/league/2010/announcement.html (this covers the 2010-2011 season)
-Contact Person - R. Hentzel
-Contact Person email - Robert dot Hentzel at naqt dot com
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season - entries are accepted right up to the first night of competition

[Mike Bentley]

-Name of League: Chester County Academic Competition
-State(s) Served: Pennsylvania
-Area or School the league is based in: Chester County, PA
-Geographic Restrictions?: Limited to teams from Chester County, PA
-Question Provider: Some low-quality question provider.
-Game Format: 3 teams playing at once. Each team has 4 players playing at once but must use 6 total players over the course of the three rounds. Each round has 11 (speed) tossup questions, followed by a timed directed round of 6 questions for each team.
-Competition Season: Mornings and afternoons on schooldays, October to January. Finals are in February and March.
-League Website: http://www.cciu.org/2225104279342433/bl ... NodeID=178
-Contact Person: Jennifer Fraim
-Contact Person email: Jenniferf@cciu.org or 484-237-5053
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season: Unknown

[jonah]

At some point in the near future, I will email you information on all the conferences/leagues in Illinois that the Illinois High School Scholastic Bowl Coaches Association knows about.

[The Predictable Consequences]

Westchester Academic Challenge Knowledge Organization (WACKO)
-State(s) Served: Westchester, southeastern CT, occasional LI or NJ team
-Area or School the league is based in: White Plains High School
-Geographic Restrictions: None? There's never really been a problem.
-Question Provider: Questions Unlimited
-Game Format: Four-quarter, basically NAC rules
-Competition Season: Three Saturday tournaments culminating in the Omar Q Beckins two-day tournament in April-May.
-League Website: None
-Contact Person: Les Roby, math teacher at White Plains High School
-Registration Deadline: Unknown

[Kyle]

Oxford Fall Quizbowl League
-County (or counties) Served: Oxfordshire
-Area or School the league is based in: University of Oxford
-Geographic Restrictions: None.
-Question Provider: University of Oxford
-Game Format: 24/24 tossup/bonus, untimed, with powers
-Competition Season: ongoing throughout the fall (schools play one game a week, culminating in semifinals and finals in November or December)
-League Website: None (yet)
-Contact Person: Kyle Haddad-Fonda
-Registration Deadline: September or so

Pretty exciting stuff, huh? This looks almost certain to happen now, which is awesome.

[FCPanther]

Name of League: Limestone Academic League
States Served: Kentucky
Area or School the league is based in:Northeastern Kentucky from the Ohio River in the north to I-64 on the south end.
Geographic Restrictions?: ????
Question Provider: KAAC
Game Format: Kentucky Governor's Cup
Competition Season: Fall (September to Thanksgiving)
League Website (if one exists):https://sites.google.com/site/limestoneacademics/
Contact Person: Bradley Persinger
Contact Person Email or Position: bkpersinger@gmail.com
Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 Season: August 2011

[Mr. Scogan]

Mid-State Academic League
-State(s) Served: Ohio
-Area or School the league is based in: Fisher Catholic/ all members belong to the athletic league we play in (not every member of the athletic league participates in this academic league), the Mid-State League. This league is located to the south and east of Columbus, and member schools are located in Fairfield, Licking and Pickaway Counties, all contiguous to Franklin County.
-Geographic Restrictions?: Have to be a Mid-State League member school for athletics, and would have to be in either of the aforementioned counties (If I'm correct, I don't know for certain but I would imagine for the sake of logistics and scheduling).
-Question Provider: Unknown
-Game Format: Team directed questions/timed rounds
-Competition Season: Wednesday afternoons (some afternoons are incorporated as makeup days for inclement weather) from mid January to mid March
-League Website: N/A
-Contact Person: Lynn Stevenson
-Contact Person info: Lynn Stevenson, English and Social Studies department at Fisher Catholic High School
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season: I don't know of one.

[davud363000]

-Name of League：Academic League
-State(s) Served: California
-Area or School the league is based in: San Diego
-Geographic Restrictions? (i.e. is the league limited to teams from a certain state, county, etc.?): San Diego County
-Question Provider: Has coaches write questions, questions recycled
-Game Format: One line tossups, short bonuses (3 to 5 parts), timed rounds
-Competition Season (include dates if known, or just say something like “Monday afternoons, November – March”): February-April, Thursday nights
-League Website (if one exists): http://www.sdcoe.net/al/ （not updated very often）
-Contact Person (ideally, this should be the person who coordinates the league):　Richard Harrison
-Contact Person email (or phone # or position if email unavailable)rahar@sdcoe.net
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season: No idea sorry

[alexdz]

Name of League: Mid-Missouri Conference
States Served: Missouri
Area or School the league is based in: Boone and Callaway Counties [members are South Callaway, Hallsville, Harrisburg and Southern Boone County schools]
Geographic Restrictions?: must be a member of the MMC, of which this is the last year before the conference dissolves
Question Provider: Each school purchases their own questions for the matches they host. Questions Galore has been a popular choice lately.
Game Format: standard MSHSAA format (15/10/15/10 tossups with qtrs 2 and 4 having attached 2-part bonuses)
Competition Season: December-March, culminating in a conference tournament held in MSHSAA-style (drawn seeded morning play with single-elim afternoon)
League Website (if one exists): none that I know of
Contact Person: Scott Allen
Contact Person Email or Position: sallen@hallsville.org
Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 Season: conference activities are already set up as far as I know

[ether a go-go]

Jonah already contacted David using a better format, but in case anybody for whatever reason is interested in Illinois conferences and does not read the Illinois section of this website, a list is here.

[The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi]

Name of League: Four Rivers Conference
States Served: Missouri
Area or School the league is based in: Franklin and another county (maybe St James)
Geographic Restrictions?: I honestly have no idea.
Question Provider: MSHSAA Provider, I believe.
Game Format: standard MSHSAA format (15/10/15/10 tossups with qtrs 2 and 4 having attached 2-part bonuses)
Competition Season: The only one I know of was a Conference Tournament that was held in March. A round-robin where every team played each other.
League Website (if one exists): none that I know of
Contact Person: Randy Meyer
Contact Person Email or Position: rmeyer@mvr3.k12.mo.us (He also happens to be the quiz bowl coach at Pacific High)
Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 Season: conference activities are already set up as far as I know

[jgalea84]

-Name of League: Southwestern Conference (SWC)
-State(s) Served: Ohio
-Area or School the league is based in: western Cuyahoga, Lorain Counties
-Geographic Restrictions? (i.e. is the league limited to teams from a certain state, county, etc.?): unknown
-Question Provider: some sort of OAC question provider.
-Game Format: OAC
-Competition Season (include dates if known, or just say something like “Monday afternoons, November – March”): Fall and Spring league tournaments?
-League Website (if one exists): ?
-Contact Person (ideally, this should be the person who coordinates the league): ?
-Contact Person email (or phone # or position if email unavailable): ?
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season: ?

[Nun's puffs]

Some digging around based on my roommate last year saying he captained a quiz bowl team got me the following:
Name of League: Shoreline High School Bowl
States Served: Connecticut
Area or School the league is based in: Southern Connecticut
Geographic Restrictions?: Presumably it's just schools from the area
Question Provider: Unknown, although a 1994 article mentions that the teams themselves would write the questions, and since byes are involved this is a possibility
Game Format: Unknown, but consider the fact that a game in which a team got "destroyed" was 165-10
Competition Season: October – May
League Website (if one exists): Unknown
Contact Person: Unknown, but very likely someone at Haddam-Killingworth since the finals are held there
Contact Person Email or Position: Unknown
Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 Season: Unknown
The schools involved: Coginchaug, Haddam-Killingworth, Nathan Hale-Ray, Lyme-Old Lyme, Morgan, North Branford, Old Saybrook (the only one with NAQT experience), Valley Regional (Deep River), Westbrook

[maged]

Name of League: Jefferson County Public School League
States Served: Kentucky
Area or School the league is based in: Louisville, KY
Geographic Restrictions?: Jefferson County Public Schools
Question Provider: JCPS
Game Format: KAAC Format
Competition Season: October – January
League Website (if one exists): http://jefferson.k12.ky.us/AcademicComp ... efault.asp
Contact Person: Janet Morris
Contact Person Email or Position: janet dot morris at jefferson dot kyschools dot us
Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 Season: unknown

[rhonnasmith]

-Name of League--Southwest Conference
-State(s) Served--Ohio
-Area or School the league is based in--Lorain and Cuyahoga Counties
-Geographic Restrictions? (i.e. is the league limited to teams from a certain state, county, etc.?) aligns with the athletic conference
-Question Provider--2011-12--Bob Kilner
-Game Format--OAC
-Competition Season (include dates if known, or just say something like “Monday afternoons, November – March”)--Dual matches on Tuesday's after school in January and February, league tournament usually the first Saturday in March.
-League Website (if one exists)--none
-Contact Person (ideally, this should be the person who coordinates the league)--the coordinator of the league rotates between member schools each year alphabetically. 2011-12 the league coordinator is Avon Lake High School (2012-13, it will be Berea High School, etc.)
-Contact Person email (or phone # or position if email unavailable) Patty Frank, coach, Avon Lake High School
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season -- this is a closed league, it doesn't accept outside members.
Member schools: Amherst, Avon Lake, Berea, Brecksville-Broadview Heights, Midpark, North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls, Westlake

[rhonnasmith]

-Name of League--Northeast Ohio Academic League
-State(s) Served--Ohio
-Area or School the league is based in--Northeast Ohio
-Geographic Restrictions? (i.e. is the league limited to teams from a certain state, county, etc.?) Northeast Ohio
-Question Provider--2011-12 -- Bob Kilner
-Game Format -- OAC
-Competition Season (include dates if known, or just say something like “Monday afternoons, November – March”) Fall League takes place after school on two Tuesday's--one in November and one in December. Spring Tournament is held on one day in February at Baldwin Wallace College (Berea, OH)
-League Website (if one exists)--none
-Contact Person (ideally, this should be the person who coordinates the league) Dave Stebbins, Twinsburg High School
-Contact Person email (or phone # or position if email unavailable)-- Dave Stebbins, teacher, Twinsburg High School
-Deadline for Registration for 2011-2012 season--I believe this is a closed league. It has 8 members and there must be an opening for another school to join.
Schools that are members: Bay, Columbia, Fairview, Garfield Heights, Highland, Lutheran West, Olmsted Falls, Twinsburg

[Scaled Flowerpiercer]

Metropolitan Academic Challenge Conference (MACC)
-State(s) Served: Westchester, NY, occasionally southeastern CT, LI, or NJ team
-Area or School the league is based in: Irvington High School
-Geographic Restrictions: None I believe
-Question Provider: Questions Unlimited
-Game Format: Four-quarter NAC format
-Competition Season: Four saturday tournaments from November to March
-League Website: None
-Contact Person: Michele Cella, Latin teacher at Irvington High School
-Contact email: Michele dot Cella at Irvingtonschools dot org
-Registration Deadline: None, to my knowledge