Aug 28
The 2019 Bay Area Fall Novice Tournament will take place on Saturday, September 21 at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View. Teams from outside of the Bay Area are welcome to compete. Like previous years, this tournament features a division for Novice high school teams and a separate division for (all) middle school teams; middle …
Aug 26
Hello Parents, Teachers, and Coaches, Welcome to the 2019-2020 school year; we hope everyone has had an enjoyable summer break. The Sacramento Fall Middle School Tournament will take place on Saturday, September 28 at Churchill Middle School in Carmichael. Entry fee information/details can be found here; registration takes place on the NAQT website here. The Bay Area …
May 13
This event is taking place at Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose. Apologies for the delay in confirming the host. The High School Division is using SCT DII; these questions are similar in difficulty to those at HS Nationals; Novice-level teams should not compete at this event. Register for the HS division here; entry fees/discounts can …
Apr 14
This event will take place on Saturday, May 4 at Rio Americano HS in Sacramento. This competition features separate Varsity (IS-177) and JV (IS-184A) divisions. Please note that if your team competed at or staffed the March 30 Sunnyvale MS tournament then your school must play in the Varsity Division. The current field cap is …
Apr 14
Registration is now open for the NAQT NorCal State Championship Tournament, to be held on Saturday, April 20 at Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose. This event is using NAQT IS-183 (not SCT); we have an initial field cap of 36 and teams may consist of no more than 6 members. Middle School teams cannot …
Mar 20
Cal Cup #4 is taking place on Sunday, March 31 at Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose. To register, please fill out this form (all teams, including package teams, must fill out the form). We are implementing a field cap of 15 for Competitive, 20 for Standard, and 20 for Novice. Thus, all non-package teams will be placed …
Mar 06
Cal Cup #3 is taking place on Saturday, March 16 at Menlo-Atherton (public) High School in Atherton. Check-in will start at 8:30AM and we will start round 1 no later than 9AM. We will have a field cap of 18 in Competitive, 25 in Standard, and 30 in Novice. Pizza will be available for purchase on-site for lunch. …
Feb 20
We learned this afternoon of additional fees that would be owed for running Cal Cup #3 at Deer Valley HS; such fees would make it prohibitively expensive to run the event there. Therefore, Cal Cup #3 will not be taking place on Saturday. We will run Cal Cup #3 on Saturday, March 16 (location TBA). When the …
Feb 14
We are currently trying to secure rooms at Deer Valley High School in Antioch for Cal Cup #3 on February 23 (DVHS does not have the entirety of next week off as many Bay Area schools do). We will let everyone know as soon as we hear back from the school. None of the South …
Feb 04
Registration is now open for the Sacramento March Middle School Tournament, to be held on Saturday, March 2 at Churchill MS in Carmichael. This event features separate JV/Varsity divisions. Entry fee info is here. This competition is free for middle schools that have never played quiz bowl before. Register here. Any interested Bay Area schools must wait until Tuesday, …