The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance, in collaboration with Southern California Quiz Bowl and the Georgia Academic Team Association, is pleased to announce that the CA+GA high school site of 2021 ACF Fall will be held on Zoom on Sunday, October 17, 2021. This competition is open to all high schools in the states of California …
Category: Announcements
Sep 16
CA Fall Novice Tournament (Oct 30)
The California Fall Novice Tournament will take place online (Discord) on Saturday, October 30; we plan to use the SCOP Novice set for this event. All high schools from California are welcome to compete (middle school teams cannot compete– sorry!) We are using the same eligibility standards as last year (listed here). Ineligible high school students …
Sep 09
Fall Calendar
Hello Players, Coaches, and Parents! Welcome to the new school year! We hope everyone had a pleasant and healthy summer. 1) Based on the results of the team survey (here– if your school has not already submitted), most Bay Area schools prefer to wait until Spring to resume in-person events. Therefore, we plan to continue with …
Apr 03
Bay Area April MS Tournament
Apr 01
Sacramento Spring HS Tournament
The Sacramento Spring HS Tournament is taking place on Saturday, April 24 on Discord. The competition features separate JV/Varsity divisions. Bay Area teams and Middle School teams may compete. Entry fee info here => https://www.naqt.com/registration/fees.jsp… Register here => https://www.naqt.com/registration/field.jsp…
Feb 23
West Coast Championship Tournament
The (first ever!) West Coast Championship Tournament for High School Teams is taking place on Saturday, March 27 on Discord. This competition uses STASH for Competitive and NAQT IS-201 for Standard. There is no Novice Division; Novice teams are discouraged from playing this event. We are not placing a field cap on either division for …
Jan 27
Update on Cal Cup #4 Novice Division
We have decided to use NAQT IS-194A for the Novice Division at Cal Cup #4 as we feel that the DART set would provide too much of a challenge for Novice teams. We will still use DART for Standard and Competitive. Even though we are using an NAQT set for Novice we are not asking …
Jan 20
Cal Cup #4 Registration is now open
Cal Cup #4 is taking place on Saturday, February 13 on Discord. We will be using the DART set for all three divisions; novice teams should be aware that this set is a medium-difficulty high school set and will be harder in difficulty than the set we used at Cal Cup #3. Entry fee information is the same …
Dec 24
Sacramento Winter HS Tournament
This competition will take place on Saturday, January 9 on Discord. We are using NAQT IS-195 for the Varsity Division and IS-198A for the JV Division. The field cap, for now, is 12 for Varsity and 8 for JV. We are asking that middle school teams not play, sorry. The entry fee is $60 per …
Dec 23
Cal Cup #3 Registration is now open
Cal Cup #3 is taking place on Saturday, January 16 on Discord. We will be using Saturnalia for Competitive, RAFT II for Standard, and ERIS for Novice. We will implement the same priority list that we did at Cal Cup #2. Registration becomes first-come, first-serve on Tuesday, January 4; we will post the field and ask …