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Important Bird Area wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 2:57 pm I'll post here when the recordings are available.

And here we go.

Online tournaments for hosts

Online tournaments for coaches and players

PACE, IAC, ACF, and NAQT are organizing a panel discussion in early March, focusing on issues of systemic underrepresentation and racism in the quizbowl community. The meeting will run as a Zoom webinar, with a moderator asking invited speakers to address questions collected in advance. There will a...

Two history specials for this week: one about European history, the other focusing on American legal history and culture.

Register today!

NAQT regrets to inform the quiz bowl community that we have decided not to hold Sectional Championship Tournaments (SCTs) in 2021. The Intercollegiate Championship Tournament (ICT) will still be held. We have not yet finished determining the details of how the ICT will be held (i.e., in person vs. ...

Not yet; we're still working on editing. I'll post here when the recordings are available.

Buzzword's Holiday Extravaganza is here! New for this week we're offering two special games (Level A and Level C) with a mix of festive content about both academic and pop-culture knowledge. We also have a special FREE offer: if you missed our film and sports special events back in June, each of tho...

As part of our planning efforts, we sent out links to surveys to many coaches, parents, and players. We are collecting survey responses through December 18, so if you haven't filled out a survey yet and want us to have your input, please respond soon. If you are not sure whether a survey response ha...

As part of our planning efforts, we sent out links to surveys to many coaches, parents, and players. We are collecting survey responses through December 18, so if you haven't filled out a survey yet and want us to have your input, please respond soon. If you are not sure whether a survey response ha...

As part of our planning efforts, we sent out links to surveys to many teams. We are collecting survey responses through December 18, so if you haven't filled out a survey yet and want us to have your input, please respond soon. If you are not sure whether a survey response has been submitted on beha...

This week's special events are ready!

Through Tuesday, December 15, we have a Pop Music special and an American History special.

Register today!

Reminder that our first seminar is at 7:30 Central tonight!

Links for these upcoming events: December 10th, December 13th

Many of the suggestions made by Joe in the first post in this thread echo the advice in NAQT's online tournament guide . Because we think audio quality and network stability are critical elements of running online tournaments, we prefer the use of Zoom as a videoconferencing platform. We recommend u...

NAQT is pleased to announce that we will run two, one-hour video seminars on running and participating in online quiz bowl tournaments. The first seminar will take place on Thursday, December 10th at 7:30 pm CT, and will be aimed at tournament hosts. This session will discuss the steps of running an...

NAQT has decided to extend our moratorium on licensing questions for in-person quiz bowl tournaments in the United States through April 2, 2021. We plan to reassess the public health situation in early March and make a decision at that point about whether to offer in-person tournament hosting beyond...

Our first two special events for December are now available!

We're offering a second film tournament, and a Let's Remember Some Guys sports event in partnership with Defector Media. Both are available through Tuesday, December 8.

Register today!

Cross-posted to different parts of the forum, since this post includes updates about middle school, high school, and college events. --JTH NAQT has signed contracts with hotels to host in-person versions of all of our 2021 national championships other than the Community College Championship Tournam...

Cross-posted to different parts of the forum, since this post includes updates about middle school, high school, and college events. --JTH NAQT has signed contracts with hotels to host in-person versions of all of our 2021 national championships other than the Community College Championship Tournam...

Cross-posted to different parts of the forum, since this post includes updates about middle school, high school, and college events. --JTH NAQT has signed contracts with hotels to host in-person versions of all of our 2021 national championships other than the Community College Championship Tournam...

Questions from the first two seasons of Buzzword (Levels A, B, and C) are now available for purchase as practice material.

For Cyber Monday, we are releasing new practice materials from Seasons 1 and 2 of NAQT’s online individual quiz competition, Buzzword . For $99 you can get all the questions from Levels A, B, and C for Season 1 and Season 2. That’s 2400 tossup questions, new to anyone at your school who didn’t play ...

Buzzword will be back for a fourth season! Season 4 starts January 14 and will run through March 9. We're also pleased to announce our range of special events for December and January: Let's Remember Some Guys (December 3-December 8) NAQT is thrilled to partner with the blog Defector to bring sports...

NAQT has decided to extend our moratorium on licensing questions for in-person quiz bowl tournaments in the United States through January 1, 2021. We plan to reassess the public health situation in early December and make a decision at that point about whether to offer in-person tournament hosting b...

NAQT would like to apologize to the quiz bowl community, and particularly to the teams who played Saturday's tournament hosted by Thomas Jefferson, for our part in the security violation that disrupted that event. This was an avoidable error in NAQT operations that directly compromised the integrity...

NAQT's long-standing practice has been that some of our question sets are made available for tournament hosting in the competition year following the year in which they were produced. (For example, it is common for tournament hosts to use the previous spring's SSNCT set at events in the fall and win...

In general, the top 15% of the field at a varsity tournament using NAQT questions qualifies for HSNCT. Full details are here.

We're in the process of investigating what happened here, and we'll have more to say about the details in the next few days.

Yes, this event is a qualifier for NAQT's 2021 national championships.

NAQT anticipates that most tournaments during the 2020-2021 competition year will be held online. We have prepared this guide to help everybody involved with quiz bowl—players, parents, coaches, spectators, moderators, scorekeepers, tournament directors, etc.—make the transition to online competiti...

The competition window for Week 1 of Buzzword Level A and Buzzword Popular Culture has been extended to 11:59 PM Central Time, Monday, September 28, due to a server outage on Sunday, September 27. If you received an email stating that judging was complete, it was an automated message and can be igno...

The 2020 edition of the Rising Freshmen Contact List is now available here.

NAQT would like to inform the community that we have recently discovered evidence of ethical violations committed by a current high school player. This player sent pseudonymous emails to the leadership of their own high school team, falsely claiming to be an NAQT representative and encouraging team ...

NAQT eligibility rules C.4 wrote:A player may appear in an event prior to undertaking the course or engaging in non-course work; teams should note that failure to undertake the required course or non-course work renders a player retroactively ineligible and subjects the team to the penalty described in Eligibility Rule 10.

Results for Season 2 of Buzzword are now final! Congratulations to our division winners: Level A : Nikky Nandipati (MS), Alexander Koutsoukos (HS), Jay Misuk (College), and Michael Laudermith (Open) Level B : Nikky Nandipati (MS), Arthur Delot-Vilain (HS), Eric Li (College), and Michael Laudermith (...

Our next Buzzword special event, focusing on soccer, begins today and runs through Tuesday, September 1.

In upcoming weeks, we'll have special events for Shakespeare, science, television, geography, and pro football.

Registration for all six events is now open.

cross-posted from the high school section --JTH NAQT has made the difficult decision to temporarily suspend licensing of questions for in-person quiz bowl tournaments scheduled to take place before Saturday, November 14 in the United States. Because conditions are rapidly changing, we plan to reass...

NAQT has made the difficult decision to temporarily suspend licensing of questions for in-person quiz bowl tournaments scheduled to take place before Saturday, November 14 in the United States. Because conditions are rapidly changing, we plan to reassess the public health situation in mid-October a...

Read a replacement from the end of the packet. Instead of doing this, can we please finally have the option to request printed editions that excise comp math already? I know that NAQT can and does print custom editions of its sets for local circuits to use according to their specifications, and the...

Read a replacement from the end of the packet.

Yes, we plan to change the printing format to reduce the amount of paper-shuffling.

Bonus questions are now paired with tossup questions. This does not refer to content (i.e., tossups and bonuses are not related in terms of content, or if they are, it is a coincidence); it only refers to numbering and presentation. For example, if tossups 1 and 3 are answered correctly but tossup ...

Just to get the interpretation of this down, please correct if any of this is incorrect: If a student starts the year playing at Physical School A and transfers to Physical School B, they may play for B. Correct (the student could play for either of Physical Schools A or B, but not both at the same...

(cross-posted from the high school section --JTH) NAQT has made a number of changes to its rules and policies for the 2020–2021 season. Some highlights: -Bonus questions are now paired with tossup questions. This does not refer to content (i.e., tossups and bonuses are not related in terms of conte...

NAQT has made a number of changes to its rules and policies for the 2020–2021 season. Some highlights: -Bonus questions are now paired with tossup questions. This does not refer to content (i.e., tossups and bonuses are not related in terms of content, or if they are, it is a coincidence); it only r...

NAQT has made a number of changes to its rules and policies for the 2020–2021 season. Some highlights: -Bonus questions are now paired with tossup questions. This does not refer to content (i.e., tossups and bonuses are not related in terms of content, or if they are, it is a coincidence); it only r...

We hope to allow paperless hosting at in-person events in the future, but that will not be part of the initial release of this new platform for fall 2020. (We want to make certain the platform works well for tournaments that have to be online for public health reasons.)

(cross-posted from the high school section --JTH) NAQT is pleased to announce that for the 2020-2021 competition year, we will allow use of our questions for online tournaments (including online leagues and other events run online). Please note that this is distinct from both Buzzword and from elec...

NAQT is pleased to announce that for the 2020-2021 competition year, we will allow use of our questions for online tournaments (including online leagues and other events run online). Please note that this is distinct from both Buzzword and from electronic delivery of practice materials via Locklizar...

NAQT would like to let the community know about the status of Division II eligibility with respect to the cancellation of the 2020 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament. We've decided that players on Sectionals teams for four-year schools that earned invitations to the 2020 ICT (in either division...

NAQT is listening to this discussion, and welcomes input from the community about the best ways to share information and make sure that all tournaments are welcoming and safe environments. As David pointed out, though, there are a number of challenges when it comes to implementing policy around thes...

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