International Quiz Bowl Tournaments

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Fred Morlan

Congratulations to the 2023 IQBT Undergraduate Champions, the University of Chicago!

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On the weekend of March 4 and March 5, 2023, 29 teams representing 24 colleges and universities from the United States and Canada competed against each other to determine who had the best team of undergraduate quiz bowl players.

The University of Chicago’s A team of Amogh Kulkarni, Ned Tagtmeier, Vivek Sasse, and Henry Cafaro went undefeated to win the tournament. The University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign’s A team of Mitch McCullar, Justin Wytmar, Max Brodsky, and Yash Mandavia finished second, defeating Cornell University’s A team of Raymond Wang, Geoffrey Chen, Nathan Zhang, and Mitchell Indek in a tiebreaking game. Cornell finished third.

Fourth place Georgia Tech (Arya Karthik, Tegan Kapadia, S.A. Shenoy, and Quentin Mot), fifth place Harvard University (Arjun Nageswaran, Mazin Omer, and Jeffrey Fung), and sixth place the University of Texas (Karan Gurazada, Chinmay Murthy, Jisoo Yoo, and Raul Passement) rounded out the top six.

Complete statistics for the event are available here.

Congratulations to the 2022 IQBT NASAT champions, New Jersey A!

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New Jersey A survived a strong field and was able to defeat Illinois Blue in a thrilling final. This was New Jersey’s first ever NASAT championship. Illinois’ championship streak ends at five.

Missouri A finished third, with Maryland Gold and North Carolina rounding out the top five.

Full results are available here.

Announcing the IQBT Rookie Set!

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IQBT is pleased to announce the introduction of their first Rookie Set. This is a set of 12 packets of 21 tossups and 21 bonuses intended for use at easy-level high school tournaments and at some middle school tournaments. Our goal is to produce a well-written set that is a good introduction to quiz bowl for new teams and players, while maintaining an appropriate challenge of pyramidal tossups and easy/medium/hard bonuses for that difficulty level.

This set will be completed by October 1. The head editor is Clark Smith. The rest of the editing team is Jakob Boeye, Briana Magin, Eve Fleisig, and Noah Sheidlower.

The mirror fee will be $15 per team.

If you would like to reserve this set for use at your tournament, please contact Fred Morlan via email.

The distribution of the tournament is as follows, on a per-packet basis. For those unfamiliar, the numbers indicate indicates the number of tossups and bonuses per packet – for 1/1, this indicates one tossup and one bonus per round.

Science – 4/4 total
Biology – 1/1
Chemistry – 1/1
Physics – 0.75/0.75
Other Science, including Astronomy, Earth Science, Computer Science, etc. – 1.25/1.25
Non-computation math – 1/1
History – 4/4 total
American History – 1/1
European History – 1/1
World History – 1/1
British & Other History – 1/1
Literature – 4/4 total
American Literature – 1.5/1.5
British Literature – 1.5/1.5
European/World/Other Literature – 1/1/
Classical Music – 0.5/0.5
Paintings – 0.5/0.5
Other Fine Art, including Sculpture, Opera, Film, Ballet, etc. – 0.5/0.5
Religion – 0.5/0.5
Mythology – 1/1
Philosophy – 0.5/0.5
Social Science – 0.5/0.5
Current Events – 1/1
Pop Culture – 1/1
Geography – 1/1

This distribution is for the 20/20 that will be used in a full game. The remaining 1/1 are for tiebreakers and replacement questions, and these questions will be split evenly between science, history, and literature.