International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, LLC. will be hosting its third Undergraduate Championship in February 2026 at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The exact date and entry fee will be announced in the near future.
The difficulty of this set will be three dots per the College Quiz Bowl Calendar Difficulty Scale.
Universities and colleges are eligible to register multiple teams for this tournament if they qualify at the IQBT Undergraduate Championship Qualification Event.
The field will initially be capped at 32 teams, but it will be expanded as interest and staffing allows.
Entry fees
The base entry fee is to be announced.
Staffers are paid $100 per day for their work. They can donate their pay towards a team’s entry fee.
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 on a per round basis is as follows:
Additional information
Teams that have additional questions may contact Fred Morlan at fred@iqbtnasat.com.