Sep 10
Welcome back to a new season of northern California quizbowl! Here’s what we’ve got in store for 2015-16: -Our first event of the year will be Sacramento Fall, Saturday, September 19th, at Rio Americano HS in Sacramento. -Our Bay Area novice tournaments return for October this year. Berkeley High and Valley Christian (San Jose) will …
Aug 20
We are pleased to announce the Northern California high school site of ACF Fall 2015, to be held at Bellarmine College Preparatory on Sunday, 8 November 2015. ACF Fall is the year’s premier introductory-level collegiate quizbowl tournament, suited for advanced high school teams looking for a more challenging tournament. We do hope that you join …
Apr 22
Statistics from the Northern California State Championship can be found here. This write-up contains only the top eight teams. 1st place – Saratoga With the failure to appear of Bellarmine’s entire usual A-team, Saratoga easily went 13-0 to become the Northern California state champions. With a PPG among the highest ever seen in NAQT …
Mar 06
Junior varsity statistics from California Cup #3 can be found here. This write-up is part two of two write-ups and contains only the top seven junior varsity teams. 1st place – California Crosspoint California Crosspoint leaps back to a first place finish after third in their last tournament, with sophomore Benson Yi taking 4th scorer and …
Mar 03
Varsity statistics from California Cup #3 can be found here. This write-up is part one of two write-ups and contains only the top six varsity teams. 1st place – Bellarmine A Led for the first time this season by senior Jonchee Kao (4th scorer at 50 PPG, Bellarmine for the most part retains …
Feb 20
Statistics from Sacramento Winter can be found here. This write-up focuses only on the four teams that placed within the Finals and Playoffs brackets. Because rosters were so anomalous, there isn’t much to be gained with future performance predictions by these specific teams, so they’ve been left out. 1st place – Davis …
Feb 18
High School Quiz Bowl tournament @ UC Berkeley (Mar 7, 2015) What: Quiz Bowl is a team buzzer competition (similar to science bowl and history bowl) that features questions in all academic subjects (such as science, history, literature, etc). Each team is composed of 4 students from the same school. There will be teams …
Jan 28
Statistics from Bellarmine Novice can be found here. This write-up only focuses on the top six teams. 1st place – Menlo-Atherton Menlo-Atherton takes first place for the first time this season, led by tournament 7th scorer junior Mason Seymour (60 PPG), who made the jump from B team at Palo Alto Novice, surpassing …
Dec 29
Junior varsity statistics from California Cup #2 can be found here. This write-up is part two of two write-ups on California Cup #2 and contains only the top nine JV teams. 1st place – Albany Albany takes first place in their first tournament of the year with one close loss to Chinese Christian …
Dec 16
Cross-posting on behalf of Jonchee Kao of Bellarmine College Prep: Bellarmine’s Quiz Bowl team is pleased to announce that our annual novice tournament will be held on January 17, 2015 at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California. We will be using NAQT’s Introductory Invitational Set #143A. This particular set of questions is intentionally geared towards newer …