Tournament Results

Missouri A won their state’s second ever National All-Star Academic Tournament (NASAT) championship, holding off Maryland in an advantaged best of three final. Maryland took second, with Illinois Cyan placing third. Fourth place was a tie between Kentucky and Missouri B.

Tournament All-Stars were Yrwin Batan of Missouri B; Camden Williams of Missouri A; Janani Gollapalli of Virginia A; Christopher Stewart of Oklahoma Crimson; Omkar Marathe of Illinois Cyan; Rachel Ezrielev of Maryland; Sam Kemeny of Illinois Cobalt; Soren Gjesfjeld of Illinois Cerulean; Michael Yicheng Ai of Asia; and Charan Pratapaneni of Oklahoma Orange.

Thanks to everyone that made this tournament possible!

Cornell University won our second Undergraduate Championship, going 12-1 and defeated the University of Chicago A in the final. Chicago A took second place. Columbia A and Rutgers tied for third.

Tournament All-Stars were Jason Hong of Brown A, Joseph Chambers of Virginia, Aum Mundhe of Rutgers, John John Groger of Columbia B, Eshan Pant of NYU, Cerulean Ozarow of Brown B, Richard Niu of Cornell, and Luke Zhang of Emory.

Thanks to everyone that made this event possible!

Full stats can be found here.

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.