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Update for 4/26: For those participating in tomorrow’s tournament, you should have received an informational email from me earlier today. If you haven’t received it, email me at fred@iqbtnasat.com.

IQBT is holding an online quiz bowl tournament as a fundraiser for New American Pathways on Sunday, April 27 using IQBT Regular Season Set #4. This set is at “normal” high school difficulty, so it’d be a great introduction to any players new to quiz bowl. This is an open tournament – anyone can participate regardless of education level.

Quiz bowl is a team-based academic competition game where teams of up to four compete to answer questions in various academic subjects, including history, science, literature, fine arts, world religions, mythology, philosophy, current events, pop culture, geography, and beyond. You can watch this YouTube video to see how a game of quiz bowl works.

The tournament will start at 10 a.m. Eastern. Teams will play approximately 7-9 rounds, depending on scheduling and the number of teams signed up.

New American Pathways is an Atlanta-based 501(c)(3) charity that helps refugees adjust to moving to the United States. You can read more about their mission here.

This charity is supported annually by the Charity Bowl, organized by the hosts of the Shutdown Fullcast podcast, the internet’s only college football podcast. People donate to money under the name of their college, or their rival college, or Protect Trans Kids University. The Charity Bowl raised over a million dollars for NAP last year.

To play, please make a donation to New American Pathways of at least $20.

Note that there is a specific Charity Bowl donation link that is live on April 14 and goes through April 18. Donations at other times are welcome, but they won’t count towards the bragging rights of the Charity Bowl.

Players will need a webcam, a microphone, and a Zoom account.

All inquiries regarding this tournament can be directed to me at fred@iqbtnasat.com.

If you would be interested in volunteering as a moderator for this event, please email me.

To sign up to play as part of a team or as a free agent, please do so here.

International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC will be hosting a qualifying event for the 2025 IQBT Undergraduate Championship on Wednesday, October 30 through Tuesday, November 5, 2024.

This event will consist of 70 bonuses played by each team. The difficulty of this set will be two dots per the College Quiz Bowl Calendar Difficulty Scale. The difficulty of the Undergraduate Championship proper is three dots.

The entry fee will be $60 per team. Teams can be made up of up to four players, all of whom must be undergraduate students as defined below. Schools can register multiple teams.

Staffers will be paid $20 per qualification session read.

Editors will be announced in the near future.

Information about eligibility

Teams may only be made up of teams that qualify as undergraduate students, per the following information.

A competition year is defined as beginning August 1 of a year and concludes on the subsequent July 31.

A postsecondary degree is an associate’s, bachelor’s, doctorate, or master’s degree.

An accredited school is one that offers classes towards earning a postsecondary degree.

A class is a course taken for credit at an accredited school. Classes include practical experiences such as internships or work placement programs. Classes may be taken online.

An undergraduate student is defined as:
• Having graduated from high school or have completed a GED.
• Having not graduated with a postsecondary degree (excluding associate’s degrees taking fewer than four years to earn) before the competition year.
• Having completed no more than ten semesters of post-high school education.
• Taking two classes over the competition year

To compete in the fall semester, an undergraduate student must be taking two “normal” classes worth of credit at the time, where, for a traditional, two semester per academic year college, each class would be worth 3.0 credit hours.

To compete in the spring semester, an undergraduate student must be taking or have taken a total of two “normal” classes worth of credit over the academic year, where, for a traditional, two semester per academic year college, each class would be worth 3.0 credit hours. Students who fulfill this requirement and graduated after the fall semester are eligible in the spring semester.

Students enrolled in a co-op or other experiential course but are under the necessary number of credit hours to be eligible and that meet all the other eligibility requirements may request an exemption to be granted eligibility by email Fred Morlan at fred@iqbtnasat.com.

Question Distribution

The question distribution of subjects is as follows:

Registration

This event has a soft registration deadline of October 21, 2024. Teams that have registered by this date will be presented with a list of time slots that are available to play in, from which each team will select their five preferred slots in order. Teams will then be randomly drawn and given a time slot per their preferred selections and what are available. If a team’s preferred time slots are not available, they will not be assigned a time slot but will be able notified via email of the remaining time slots and what their options are. These selections are on a first come, first serve basis.

Teams can register after October 21, 2024, but they will not have priority in selecting their time slot for registration. They will be able to pick from the remaining time slots as they are available.

To register for this event, please fill out https://forms.gle/GH49riavkaZsigsA7

Teams that have additional questions may contact Fred Morlan at fred@iqbtnasat.com.

International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC (IQBT) is pleased to announce the IQBT Hawaii Introductory Tournament. This tournament will take place on Saturday, December 9, 2023.

This tournament is only open to teams from schools based in Hawaii.

This tournament will be played on IQBT’s Regular Season Set 2. This set is meant to be of normal high school difficulty.

This tournament will consist of up to eight rounds. Depending on the number of teams involved, we will use either round robin or Swiss pairs scheduling.

Each match will consist of 20 tossups and 20 bonuses. Teams may consist of up to six players, with four players playing at any one time. Teams with less than four players are allowed.

We will be using Zoom as our platform. Zoom requires the owner of an account to be at least 16 years of age.

The entry fee is $70 per team.

The tournament director is Fred Morlan. To register or to ask any questions, please contact him via email at fred@iqbtnasat.com.

IQBT has released multiple question sets for free, including:

• The 2023 Undergraduate Championship Tournament, our collegiate national championship
• The 2023 Undergraduate Championship Qualifier Packet, the qualifier for the previously mentioned
• The 2023 National All-Star Academic Tournament, our high school national championship.

International Quiz Bowl Tournaments (IQBT) is happy to announce that our IQBT Regular Season Set #1 (RSS #1) is now freely available for use as a practice set.

RSS #1 consists of 12 packets of 21 tossups and 21 bonuses. These questions are intended to be at high school regular season difficulty.

The set may be downloaded here.

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.