Nicholas Karas
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Oct 01
Results from Bay Area Fall Novice Tournament
Congratulations to Saratoga A for winning the HS division and to Valley Christian Middle for winning the MS division at the 2018 Bay Area Fall Novice tournament! A big thanks goes to all of the moderators and scorekeepers for their help, to Michael and Kashvi for their assistance in the control room, and to Ms. Yang and …
Sep 11
Sacramento Fall HS Tournament (Oct 6)
NCQBA and Rio Americano HS are pleased to announce that the Sacramento Fall HS Tournament will be held on Saturday, October 6, 2018. This competition features separate JV and Varsity divisions. The field cap is 19 teams. Location: This tournament will take place at Rio Americano HS, 4540 American River Drive, Sacramento, California. Registration will …
Sep 03
Bay Area HS Novice Tournament @ St. Francis (Sept 22)
The Saint Francis High School Quiz Bowl club will be hosting a novice quiz bowl tournament on Saturday, September 22, 2018 at Saint Francis HS in Mountain View. The tournament will be run in order to provide an introduction to quiz bowl without any prior experience necessary and to demonstrate what a truly fun activity …
May 24
Results from Recent Nationals
Congrats to Swapnil Garg from Harker for tying for fifth place at the inaugural Individual Player National Championship Tournament! Congrats to Shiva Oswal from Pi-oneers for winning MSNCT! This is the first time that a quiz bowl national competition has been won by a solo player. A big congrats also goes to BASIS (2nd place) …
May 24
Pre-Nationals Results
Congratulations to Crystal Springs for winning the Bay Area Pre-Nationals Tournament! Thank you to the staff for your help and to Crystal Springs for hosting. Stats/results are here.
May 07
Sacramento Spring HS Tournament Results
Congratulations to Davis A for winning the Competitive Division and to Churchill A for winning the Standard Division at the Sacramento Spring Tournament today! A big thanks goes to our phenomenal staff for their help and to Mr. Blenner and Rio for hosting. Stats/Results can be found here
May 07
Bellarmine MS Tournament (May 12)
Bellarmine College Prep (San Jose) will be hosting a Middle School Tournament on Saturday, May 12 using the HIGS Invitational set (written by Bay Area folks with profits going to charity). This competition is taking place on the same day as MSNCT so this event is geared towards teams not competing at MSNCT. The field …
Mar 26
Hillview Middle School Tournament Results
Congratulations to BASIS Silicon Valley (Varsity) and Harker A (Jv), champions of yesterday’s middle school tournament at Hillview! My thanks to our host, Sue Kayton, and to all of the staffers who made this tournament possible. Stats/Results can be found here.
Mar 26
NAQT State Tournament (April 7) at Stanford
The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance and Berkeley Quiz Bowl are pleased to announce that Stanford will host the 2018 NAQT Northern California State Championship on Saturday, April 17, 2018 Location: This tournament will take place at Stanford; games will take place in Huang and Old Union. Questions: We will be using the 2018 NAQT …
Mar 20
Sacramento Spring MS Tournament Results
Congratulations to Churchill A for winning the Varsity Division and to Kittredge for winning the JV Division at the Sacramento Spring MS Tournament! A big thank you to the volunteers for your help and to Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Anderson, and Sylvan for hosting. Stats/results can be found here. This school year we ran 3 MS …