International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC (IQBT) is pleased to announce the 2025 National All-Star Academic Tournament (NASAT). This will be the sixteenth NASAT.
NASAT will be hosted on June 27 & 28. It will be held in person on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
This tournament will once again be open to all-star teams representing all states, the District of Columbia, all US territories, and all Canadian provinces and equivalents (as well as state or province-equivalent divisions of any other countries). Each state or equivalent may enter multiple teams, with up to six players on its roster, up to four of whom may be playing at any one time. Any player who was enrolled in the 12th grade or below in a school physically located in that state during the 2025-2026 academic year is eligible to play on his or her state’s team. Generally speaking, home school students are also eligible; any questions about eligibility will be answered by IQBT as needed.
This tournament is intended for states seeking an all-star event. We encourage single-school teams interested in competing to reach out to other teams in their state to partner together.
As always, we will use a normal format comparable to regular-season events: games will consist of twenty tossups, with a thirty-point bonus being played after each correct tossup answer. Teams will play head-to-head, two at a time.
The set’s head editor will be announced in the near future.
We will again be downconverting questions from this year’s Undergraduate Championship for use in NASAT.
The entry fee is $600 per team.
Each entry fee has a 6% Kentucky sales tax added to it. Payments that come directly from a tax-exempt organization have the sales tax waived.
Each state is welcome and encouraged to register additional (B and on) teams for NASAT.
Teams can receive a discount of $100 per staffer per day if the staffer is accepted and if they agreed to provide their pay towards the team’s entry fee. Tournament director approval is required for any staffers.
All teams must submit an application to IQBT for entry into the tournament. In the vast majority of these cases, applications will be accepted outright. However, if more than one contingent from a state seeks to enter this tournament, IQBT will evaluate applications from each potential team and determine who may represent their state at the National All-Star Academic Tournament. The only criterion that will be used in this decision is our assessment, based on a review of the players’ achievements in the 2025-26 competition year, of which team is likely to perform the best at the tournament.
IQBT will once again use a rolling application procedure: teams who submit applications to IQBT will normally be notified of IQBT’s decision no later than one week later. Team applications and recruitment will be handled by me, Fred Morlan; you can email me at fred@iqbtnasat.com.
The tournament will be directed by Fred Morlan.
I’m very excited for this tournament and am looking forward to another wonderful competition!