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Buzzword Leagues let you experience Buzzword with other players. See how you stack up against your friends, teammates, colleagues, family, and more. You can create your own leagues or join an existing league, public or private. Leagues can consist of players in multiple divisions, who therefore coul...

Correct. We're planning more sports events for later this summer.

NAQT is pleased to announce that our online Buzzword platform is adding an eight-week event focusing on popular culture. This event starts July 3, and features questions about television, film, music, video games, musical theater, and comics.

Register here!

cross-posted from the main Buzzword thread --JTH We have two exciting announcements about Buzzword season 2, which starts Thursday, July 2. Buzzword season 2 will add a fourth, more challenging difficulty level. Tossups at Level D are similar to those read at our High School National Championship T...

We have two exciting announcements about Buzzword season 2, which starts Thursday, July 2. Buzzword season 2 will add a fourth, more challenging difficulty level. Tossups at Level D are similar to those read at our High School National Championship Tournament. We've also added a popular culture seas...

Results for Season 1 of Buzzword are now final! Congratulations to our division winners: Level A : Conner Feng (MS), Lukas Koutsoukos (HS), Pranav Veluri (College), and Michael Laudermith (Open) Level B : Nikky Nandipati (MS), Alexander Koutsoukos (HS), Jonathan Suh (College), and Michael Laudermith...

As far as I know, NAQT has not made any clear statement about whether or not its questions can be used in an online tournament over Zoom or Discord for next year We have not yet reached a decision about this issue (but we are having internal discussion about possibilities for online hosting). A lot...

i never see pigeons in wheeling wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:14 pm
The front page of Buzzword has the film sample listed as "Play Level C (hardest) Sample Game."

This has been fixed; thanks for bringing the error to our attention.

Subject-area rankings are based on all questions (not just the five best games).

The film tournament has a five-question sample game; the others do not.

NAQT is pleased to announce a new group of special single-subject events for our online platform, Buzzword . Our first special event, a film tournament read by Ken Jennings, is available through Tuesday, June 16. [Edit: the film tournament is now complete; thanks to everyone who played!] In subseque...

Season 2 of Buzzword starts Thursday, July 2. We've also added a new group of single-subject events, starting with a film tournament read by Ken Jennings (available through June 16). In subsequent weeks, we'll have special events focusing on American literature , sports , world history , and food an...

NAQT stands against racism and police brutality. We are angered by the unjust killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others. Moreover, this spring's protests have underscored the fact that systemic racism influences every aspect of American life, including quiz bowl. NAQT is committe...

The tournament will likely be held using a housewrite but if not viable we will use an NAQT IS set. More information to come on that. Quick clarification here about NAQT policy: we do not currently allow online hosting using NAQT sets. We're discussing potential changes that would allow for online ...

I archived the 2019-20 date claim and made this one sticky.

I don't think forum admins have the power to adjust the order of posts within a thread (but would welcome a correction from the other forum staff if we do!)

Check out the sample set of 5 questions to get a feel for the style of the game and the approximate difficulty of the questions. (Note that the sample game consists of questions that were used in Season 1 Level C of Buzzword.)

NAQT is pleased to announce that registration is now open for our first Buzzword special event. The Buzzword Film Special will run from Thursday, June 11 through Tuesday, June 16. The set features 50 tossups read by NAQT film editor and Jeopardy GOAT Ken Jennings.

Register here!

NAQT is pleased to offer discounted gift certificates that can be used to buy our practice material! Interested in bulking out your team's collection of practice questions? Looking for a graduation gift or birthday present for an avid quiz bowl player, or an end-of-year present for your child's coa...

On a normal Saturday before Memorial Day, 336 high school teams would have gathered in downtown Atlanta for the NAQT HSNCT. Although we can't be together in person, NAQT would like to take this opportunity to extend our best wishes to the graduating class of 2020. We're sorry the season had to end t...

Just a quick reminder that our special Memorial Day weekend event on Buzzword, NAQT's new online game, starts today! This Buzzword special event includes two games of 50 HSNCT-difficulty tossups each. The first game will be available Friday, May 22 and Saturday, May 23, 2020; the second game will be...

The "per packet set" is probably the easiest column to start with. A typical recent NAQT Invitational Series set has a total of 288 tossups and 288 bonuses. That column tells you that of those 288/288 questions, you can expect 15 tossups and 15 bonuses to fall under the general category of "British ...

We're pleased to announce a special Buzzword event for Memorial Day weekend: This Buzzword special event includes two games of 50 HSNCT-difficulty tossups each. The first game will be available Friday, May 22 and Saturday, May 23, 2020; the second game will be available Sunday, May 24 and Monday, Ma...

NAQT's current high school distribution can be seen on this page (which has much additional detail, including numbers for the split among mythology/religious literature/non-religious literature). Note that questions classified as "religion" in some non-NAQT distributions may appear as "religious lit...

I know this isn't the SSNCT update we were hoping for on this particular morning, but

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from NAQT's 2019 Small School National Championship Tournament.

The Buzzword player results screen always shows the complete text of Buzzword questions that you have previously played. (The note about practice questions is there to indicate that after specific Buzzword events conclude, some tossups used in this project will also show up in future collections of ...

(cross-posted from the announcement forums) What is Buzzword? Buzzword is an exciting new online game of knowledge and recall from NAQT. Challenge the depth and breadth of your knowledge in Buzzword's engaging, audio-based format and compare your results with players at your level from around the w...

(cross-posted to the middle school and high school forums as well) What is Buzzword? Buzzword is an exciting new online game of knowledge and recall from NAQT. Challenge the depth and breadth of your knowledge in Buzzword's engaging, audio-based format and compare your results with players at your ...

(cross-posted to the high school and college forums as well) What is Buzzword? Buzzword is an exciting new online game of knowledge and recall from NAQT. Challenge the depth and breadth of your knowledge in Buzzword's engaging, audio-based format and compare your results with players at your level ...

(cross-posted to the middle school and college forums as well) What is Buzzword? Buzzword is an exciting new online game of knowledge and recall from NAQT. Challenge the depth and breadth of your knowledge in Buzzword's engaging, audio-based format and compare your results with players at your leve...

Done.

NAQT regrets to inform the quiz bowl community of the cancellation of the 2020 High School National Championship Tournament, which had been scheduled to take place May 22-24, 2020 at the Hilton Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis. We know this decision is disappointing to everyone who was looking ...

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from the 2019 MSNCT.

AKKOLADE wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 28, 2020 12:48 pm
Is NAQT able to share any news on HSNCT’s status?

Not at the present time. When we have more information, we'll post here.

NAQT's statement about our response to the COVID-19 outbreak can be read here.

Portage qualified at their conference event.

Update for March 16: We have decided to cancel the 2020 SSNCT and MSNCT.

NAQT regrets to inform the quiz bowl community of the cancellation of the 2020 Middle School National Championship Tournament, which had been scheduled to take place May 8–10, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare. NAQT is following the advice from the Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention to canc...

NAQT regrets to inform the quiz bowl community of the cancellation of the 2020 Small School National Championship Tournament, which had been scheduled to take place April 24–26, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare. NAQT is following the advice from the Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention to ca...

What I said in the ICT thread applies here as well. Ideally, we would like to reschedule, but it's difficult to plan because we don't know exactly when we should plan for. If we do manage to reschedule, I'll post here, but for now this announcement should be considered a cancellation rather than a p...

In theory, we would very much like to reschedule the ICT. However, it involves a lot of planning, especially in this case predicting a time at which travel will once more be possible without the concern of spreading COVID-19. If it is possible for us to reschedule, we will definitely announce that h...

Two updates for today, March 11. First: we have decided to cancel our upcoming ICT and IPNCT. (Statements for ICT and IPNCT are available on naqt.com.) Second: at the present time, we are still planning to run SSNCT, MSNCT, and HSNCT. A full statement about those events is now posted on naqt.com. Pl...

NAQT and LetterOne regret to inform the quiz bowl community of the cancellation of the Individual Player National Championship Tournament, which had been scheduled to take place April 5, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, we determined that hosting an event with...

NAQT and LetterOne regret to inform the quiz bowl community of the cancellation of the 2020 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament, which had been scheduled to take place April 3–4, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, NAQT determined that hosting an event with a...

The top 15% of teams qualify for MSNCT (here, that should be the top 5 in a 27-team field).

NAQT is currently monitoring recommendations from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control about the novel coronavirus outbreak. At this time, we do not anticipate any major changes to our 2020 national championship tournaments. We plan to make hand hygiene stations availab...

AgathokakologicalPunk wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 01, 2020 3:15 pm
As regards the IASP State Championship on March 7, are any here privy to the difficulty of the questions being used?

This event is scheduled to use NAQT IS #192 (thus regular difficulty, not introductory).

Could someone from Princeton please contact NAQT as soon as possible to confirm your team's status for the 2020 ICT? Thank you!

edit: thank you, Rutgers, UCF, and UCLA!

edit edit: heard from Princeton, so we're done here

Fixed.

Registration for the 2020 ICT is now open. Qualified teams may now register here. [edit 3/11: links removed now that we are no longer able to take registrations]

Invitations for the 2020 ICT are being sent out today; it should now be possible for invited teams to register here . Yes, we accepted a wildcard bid from Yale-NUS. Some notes on this: 1) they are a substantial distance away from the nearest SCT site 2) it was not possible to host an SCT site in Sin...

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