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Schedule and Results Page—May and June 2001

Submit new tournaments or corrections to Matt Weiner at mattweiner@hsquizbowl.org.

This information is gathered from many sources, some of which may not be firsthand. Although I strive for accuracy, there may be errors below. Always check with the tournament director to make sure the date and conditions of the tournament have not changed before sending money or leaving for a tournament.

In the final column, if the school listed is the defending champion from the 1999-2000 season, the information will be in dark red. If the information is the results from the 2000-2001 season, it will be in dark green. 2000-2001 results may also appear below the rest of the tournament information.

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2000-2001 Schedule and Results: September October November December January February March April May-June

Date

Tournament

Host and Location

Format [note]

Entrance
restrictions
[note]

Qualifies for [note]

Contact Person(s) and Contact Information

2000-2001 Results or 1999-2000 champion

May 25-29

American Scholastic Competition Network Tournament of Champions

Lake Forest College; Lake Forest, IL

Four quarter [note]

Winners of tournaments from throughout the year

None

Gary Lipshutz; American Scholastic Competition Network Quiz Bowl Tournament of Champions, 800 5th Street, Suite 125, Sioux City, IA 51101; 1-800-252-4289; galco@gateway.net; www.morningside.edu/ascn

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Northside (Fort Smith, AR); 2. Brookwood (Snellville, GA); 3. Cookeville (Cookeville, TN); 4. Riverdale (Murfreesboro, TN); 5. Eisenhower (Shelby Township, MI); 6. Irmo (Columbia, SC); 7. Walter Johnson (Bethesda, MD); 8. Dorman (Spartanburg, SC); full results at www.morningside.edu/ascn/01tourn

May 31-June 3

19th Annual National Academic Championship: New Orleans Phase

Questions Unlimited; Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

Four quarter [note]

[note]

Phase: 2001 NAC Finals; Tournament:  2002 QU NAC [note]

Chip Beall; (614) 848-5113; 6959 Candace Place, Worthington, OH, 43085; qunlimited@iwaynet.net; http://qunlimited.com/na296.htm

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. St. John’s (Houston, TX); 2. Huntsville (Huntsville, TX); full results at www.qunlimited.com/national.htm

 

Date

Tournament

Host and Location

Format [note]

Entrance
restrictions
[note]

Qualifies for [note]

Contact Person(s) and Contact Information

2000-2001 Results or 1999-2000 champion

Jun 7- 10

19th Annual National Academic Championship: Arlington Phase

Questions Unlimited; Marymount University, Arlington, VA

Four quarter [note]

[note]

Phase: 2001 NAC Finals; Tournament:  2002 QU NAC [note]

Chip Beall; (614) 848-5113; 6959 Candace Place, Worthington, OH, 43085; qunlimited@iwaynet.net; http://qunlimited.com/na296.htm

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Klein (Klein, TX); 2. Caddo Magnet (Shreveport, LA); full results at www.qunlimited.com/national.htm

June 8-9

National Academic Quiz Tournaments High School National Championship Tournament

University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI

NAQT [note]

Automatic and at-large qualifiers from tournaments throughout the year [note]

None

naqt@naqt.com; www.naqt.com

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Catholic Central (Redford, MI); 2. Detroit Country Day (Beverly Hills, MI); 3. State College A (State College, PA); 4. Riverdale (Murfreesboro, TN); 5. Brookwood (Snellville, GA); 6. Capistrano Valley (Mission Viejo, CA); 7. Plymouth Salem (Canton, MI); 8. Churchill (Livonia, MI); full results at www.naqt.com/Results/2001-hsnct-results.html

Jun 14-17

19th Annual National Academic Championship: Malibu Phase

Questions Unlimited; Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

Four quarter [note]

[note]

2002 QU NAC [note]

Chip Beall; (614) 848-5113; 6959 Candace Place, Worthington, OH, 43085; qunlimited@iwaynet.net; http://qunlimited.com/na296.htm

See below for 2000-2001 results

Overall: 1. Irmo (Irmo, SC); 2. Walton (Marietta, GA); 3. St. John’s (Houston, TX); 4. Klein (Klein, TX); Los Angeles Phase: 1. Irmo (Irmo, SC); 2. Walton (Marietta, GA); 3T. Scripps Ranch (San Diego, CA); 3T. Southside (Greenville, SC); full results at www.qunlimited.com/national.htm

June 15-17

Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence National Scholastics Championship

Bowling Green State University; Bowling Green, OH

NSC [note]

Automatic and at-large qualifiers from tournaments throughout the year [note]

2002 PACE NSC [note]

Samer Ismail, Dr. Thomas Chuck, David Bykowski, Brian Saxton, and Anthony de Jesus; pace_nsc@hotmail.com; www.pace-nsc.org/

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. State College A (State College, PA); 2. Georgetown Day (Washington, D.C.); 3T. Catholic Central (Redford, MI); 3T. Detroit Country Day (Beverly Hills, MI); Quarterfinalists: Adlai Stevenson (Lincolnshire, IL);  Governor’s School (Richmond, VA); Maret (Washington, D.C.); Plymouth Salem (Canton, MI); Russellville (Russellville, AL);  State College B (State College, PA); Troy (Troy, MI); Woodward (College Park, GA)

Jun. 16

National Quiz Bowl for Jesuit Schools

Loyola High School; Wilmette, IL

Four quarter [note]

Jesuit schools only

None

David Riley; driley@loy.org

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. St. Ignatius A (Chicago, IL); 2. Gonzaga (Washington, DC); 3. St. Joseph (Philadelphia, PA); 4. St. Ignatius B (Chicago, IL)

June 23-25

Panasonic Academic Challenge

Walt Disney World; Lake Buena Vista, FL

Panasonic [note]

One team per state  [note]

None

Peggy Harrod; P.O. Box 391, Bartow, FL 33831; phone: (941) 534-0213; fax: (941) 534-0767; pharrod@polk.k12.fl.us or harrod42@aol.com; www-curriculum.inst.pcsb.k12.fl.us/
InstructionalServicesDiv/Academic
Competitions/AcademicComp.html

See below for 2000-2001 results

1. Washington, D.C. all-stars; 2. Florida all-stars; 3. Maryland all-stars; 4. Burlington (Burlington, VT); 5. Paul L. Dunbar (Lexington, KY); 6. South Carolina all-stars

Format: Assume untimed games, -5s on tossup interrupts, 10-point tossups, no power tossups, 30-point boni which break down in multiples of 5, and no bouncebacks on boni unless otherwise noted. Detailed rules may be found on the websites listed for each tournament.

NAQT format is: 15-point blind powers on tossups and games timed to 9-minute halves.

NSC format is: bouncebacks on all boni and no -5s on tossups, opening phase of ten tossups with 20-point related boni, second phase of eight tossups with 15-point, one-part boni chosen from a category list, and final phase of ten tossups with open, 20-point powers and unrelated 30-point boni. Some tournaments other than the actual PACE NSC using NSC format may truncate the number of tossups in each phase.

Four quarter format is: A phase of tossups, a phase of tossups with boni, a category phase, and another phase of tossups. Variations exist.

It's Academic format: See http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/4992/itvshow.html.

Illinois format is: Twenty tossups with boni; boni are worth a total of 20 points and bounce back; unlike most formats, boni do not necessarily break down in multiples of 5.

Vermont format is: 9-minute phase of tossups with 20-point boni; 60-second phase for each team of up to ten 5-point questions; 9-minute phase of tossups

Alabama Scholastic Competition Association format is: A phase of ten 5-point tossups; a phase of ten 10-point tossups with 20-point boni and bouncebacks; a phase with a worksheet for each team of twenty 5-point questions; a phase of ten 15-point tossups.

Virginia High School League format is: A phase of fifteen tossups, a team phase of ten questions for each team, read alternately, with bouncebacks; a phase of fifteen tossups.

Ohio format: see http://www.shawnee.edu/outreach/univout/OAC/rules.htm.

Celebrity Shoot format: See http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/trivia/hsbio/format.html.

KMO format: Using a disk which is mailed to participating teams, questions and five possible answers are displayed on the screen. The point value of each question decreases from a maximum of 10 depending on how long it takes to answer. If the first answer given is incorrect, the team can try again for 2 points. The team's score is reported to Academic Hallmarks and compared to the scores of other schools. For more information, see http://www.greatuk.com/kmo.html.

Panasonic format: A phase of twenty 5-point tossups; one 10-point written question; a phase of twenty 10-point tossups; one 20-point written question; a phase of twenty-five 15-point tossups; one 30-point written question There is only one buzzer per team (sometimes two) and conferral is permitted at all times. An incorrect answers causes a deduction of the question’s value; an incorrectly answered question may not be answered by any other teams.

Entrance restrictions: "Varsity only" means only one team per school can enter. "JV" in this box means that all players must be in grades 9 or 10 unless otherwise noted; however, some tournaments with JV divisions do NOT require that JV players be underclassmen; these tournaments will not have "JV" in the entrance restrictions box. Teams may only play once on each NAQT invitational set; see NAQT’s schedule page for information on which set is being used for which tournament.

Qualification: All tournament winners qualify for the ASCN Tournament of Champions.

NAC: Winners of all tournaments of eight or more teams, finalists of tournaments of 32 or more teams, teams which “can demonstrate that they are the best of 16,” winners of QuizNet matches, winners of the QU “20 Questions” contest, and the top 33 finishers of the previous year’s NAC qualify.

Qualification for the Panasonic Academic Challenge in states without a qualifying tournament is at the discretion of the national tournament. PAC teams may be composed of all-stars from various schools in the state or may represent a single school.

NAQT: Winners of all official NAQT events and most unofficial events using NAQT questions qualify for the NAQT High School Championship Tournament. NAQT also accepts several automatic qualifiers from each NAQT state championship (roughly the top ten percent of the field). NAQT also accepts, at its discretion, as many at-large qualifiers as are needed to fill the national field, with preference given to teams which did well at events using NAQT questions.

PACE: The top two teams of officially designated PACE affiliate tournaments with fields of less than forty teams qualify for the PACE National Scholastics Championship. The top four teams of officially designated PACE affiliate tournaments with fields of forty or more teams qualify for the PACE National Scholastics Championship. PACE also accepts at-large qualifiers at its discretion, with preference given to teams which finished highly but out of contention for automatic bids at PACE affiliate events. The top 4 teams from each PACE NSC qualify for the next year's NSC.

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