Dec 15
Congratulations to Stratford Santa Clara A, who defeated Saint Andrew’s A 275-255 in a one-game final to win the 2013 Stratford Santa Clara Invitational!
Complete team and individual statistics are available here.
Thanks to our host, Bryan Martin of Stratford Santa Clara, and the rest of our staff team: Larissa Kelly, Matt Bruce, Stefanie Frazier, Hieu Nguyen, and Roshan Sathyanarayana.
Special thanks to Chris Fleitas of Bellarmine for the loan of two buzzer systems.
Nov 25
I am pleased to report that nine northern California teams are now ranked in the top 100 nationwide!
Congratulations to Bellarmine A (#31), Menlo (#35), Escobar (#38), Amador Valley (#54), Foothill (#59), Bellarmine B (#65), Davis (#75), Crystal Springs (#88), and Mira Loma (#96).
Nov 25
Congratulations to Bellarmine A (varsity) and Davis (JV), the champions of our second California Cup tournament! Complete statistics are here.
Bellarmine A, Escobar, Menlo, Bellarmine B, Amador Valley, and Crystal Springs qualified for NAQT’s High School National Championship Tournament (May 31-June 1, Chicago). Pacific Grove became the first California team to qualify for NAQT’s Small School National Championship Tournament (May 3-4, Minneapolis).
Nov 18
Congratulations to Mira Loma A, which defeated Davis A 425-205 in the second game of an advantaged final to win the 2013 Sacramento Fall Tournament!
Full standings:
1. Mira Loma A (7-1)
2. Davis A (6-2)
3. Moreau Catholic A (4-2)
4. Davis B (3-3)
5. Mira Loma C (2-4)
6. Mira Loma B (1-5)
7. Moreau Catholic B (0-6)
Julian Fuchs of Davis A was the leading individual scorer with 79.17 points per game.
Complete team and individual statistics are here.
My thanks to:
-TD Nicholas Karas
-Andrew Shibata from Berkeley for volunteering to moderate
-our hosts at Mira Loma, Scott Martinez and Claire August, who made this tournament possible
I hope to see everyone at Sacramento Winter on January 11th at Jesuit High in Carmichael!
Nov 11
Congratulations to Bellarmine A (varsity) and Amador Valley C (JV), the champions of this year’s first California Cup tournament!
Complete statistics are here; thanks to all of our moderators, and special thanks to Arcadia for making the trip up from southern California.
Nov 09
NCQBA and Jesuit High School are pleased to announce that the Sacramento Winter Tournament will be held on Saturday, January 11, 2014.
Location: This tournament will take place at Jesuit High School, 1200 Jacob Lane, Carmichael, California. Registration will begin at 9:30AM and we hope to start round 1 at 10:00AM. We will have a field cap of 12 teams.
Questions: This will be a mirror of the Ohio Fall Kickoff Tournament (FKT).
Eligibility: All high schools (public, private, charter, religious, homeschool, etc.) are eligible to play in this event.
Schools are encouraged to enter multiple teams, but please note that players must play for the same team throughout the tournament.
Fees:
Base fee: $65 per team
-$10 second or subsequent team from the same school
-$15 schools playing their first quizbowl tournament
-$10 working buzzer system (must accommodate at least eight players)
-$10 scorekeeper (We will hold a brief training session during check-in for those volunteers who have never kept score before.)
Payment will be taken at check-in on January 11. Please make checks out to Jeff Hoppes.
How to register: please contact the tournament director, Nicholas Karas (njsking (at) hotmail (dot) com), on or before Wednesday, January 8, 2014, indicating how many teams, buzzers, and staff your school plans to bring.
Nov 04
NCQBA and Mira Loma High School are pleased to announce that the Sacramento Fall Tournament will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2013.
Location: This tournament will take place at Mira Loma High School, 4000 Edison Avenue, Sacramento, California. Check-in will begin at 9:30AM and we hope to start round 1 at 10:00AM. We will have a field cap of 12 teams.
Questions: We will be using NAQT Invitational Series #127A.
The top 15% of teams will qualify for the 2014 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament, to be held in Chicago on May 30-June 1, 2014.
Eligibility: All high schools (public, private, charter, religious, homeschool, etc.) are eligible to play in this event.
Schools are encouraged to enter multiple teams, but please note that players must play for the same team throughout the tournament.
Fees:
Base fee: $65 per team
-$10 second or subsequent team from the same school
-$15 schools playing their first quizbowl tournament
-$10 working buzzer system (must accommodate at least eight players)
-$10 scorekeeper (We will hold a brief training session during check-in for those volunteers who have never kept score before.)
Payment will be taken at check-in on November 16. Please make checks out to Jeff Hoppes.
How to register: please contact the tournament director, Nicholas Karas (njsking (at) hotmail (dot) com), on or before Wednesday, November 13, 2013, indicating how many teams, buzzers, and staff your school plans to bring.
Nov 04
The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance and the Stratford School are pleased to announce that Stratford will host its second annual middle school quizbowl tournament on Saturday, December 14, 2013.
Location: This tournament will take place at Stratford Schools Santa Clara, 890 Pomeroy Avenue, Santa Clara, California.
Questions: We will be using NAQT Middle School Series #7. (For practice material similar to the questions we will use at the tournament, please consider the NAQT New Middle School Package and the 2013 Collaborative Middle School Tournament.)
The top 15% of teams will qualify for the 2014 NAQT Middle School National Championship Tournament, to be held in Atlanta on May 10-11, 2014.
Eligibility: All middle schools (public, private, charter, religious, homeschool, etc.) are eligible to play in this event. This tournament is open to any players who have not yet completed 8th grade, though the questions are targeted at 7th and 8th graders.
Schools are encouraged to enter multiple teams, but please note that players must play for the same team throughout the tournament.
Fees:
Base fee: $60 per team
-$10 second or subsequent team from the same school
-$10 working buzzer system (must accommodate at least eight players)
-$20 experienced moderator
-$10 scorekeeper (We will hold a brief training session during check-in for those volunteers who have never kept score before.)
Payment will be taken at check-in on December 14th. Please make checks out to Jeff Hoppes.
How to register: please contact the tournament director, Jeff Hoppes (jeff.hoppes@gmail.com), on or before Monday, December 9th, indicating how many teams, buzzers, and staff your school plans to bring.
Oct 28
Congratulations to Dougherty Valley, who went 9-1 to win Amador Valley’s mirror of the Fall Kickoff Tournament! Albany finished second with a 7-2 record.
Complete tournament statistics are now available.
Thanks to Jerry Li and the Amador Valley team for organizing this tournament.
Oct 16
The UC Berkeley Quiz Bowl team is pleased to announce that we will be holding the second annual California Cup, a series of four tournaments. The third and fourth tournaments will be held on the UC Berkeley campus on Sunday, January 19 and Saturday, February 1, 2014. We hope to attract many teams from across the state and possibly elsewhere. We will guarantee teams a high number of games (8 or more) per tournament and will make provisions so that teams are able to play others of the same skill level after preliminary rounds.
We will be running these tournaments on high-quality question sets that have been vetted by the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE). The sets that will be used are the Brookwood Invitational Scholars Bowl, NAQT Invitational Series #130, the Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament, and the Maggie Walker GSAC XXI. The top teams in each tournament will qualify for the 2014 PACE National Scholastics Championship (NSC), which will be held on May 24-25 at the Reston Hyatt in Reston, Virginia. Additionally, teams that perform well on NAQT sets during the California Cup will qualify for the 2014 High School National Championship Tournament (HSNCT), held May 31-June 1 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare hotel near Chicago, Illinois.
There will be individual results for each tournament as well as a cumulative result. We will split the field into junior varsity and varsity divisions and evaluate each separately. After the cup results are tallied, we will crown a California Cup state champion! There will be book prizes and gift cards for the highest-performing teams and individual scorers at each tournament, and other prizes are in store for the top California Cup teams. When calculating final Cup standings, we will count the top three performances by each team, allowing teams to account for extenuating circumstances at one tournament. Teams that register for the entire series of tournaments will be eligible for prizes at the end. With four guaranteed tournaments and plenty of gameplay, this series will offer the best prizes, value, and national qualification opportunities available anywhere in the state!
Entry Fees:
Base fee per team for package of all four tournaments: $250
New team (first year of quiz bowl competition for the club): -$50
Buzzer discount: -$10 per tournament
Staff discount: -$10 per tournament (if needed)
Travel discount: -$25 per 75 miles one-way (determined by Google Maps)
Registering for a single tournament: $90
*Buzzers and staff discounts apply on an as-needed, first-come, first-serve basis. When registering, please detail how many staff and/or buzzers you may be able to bring. As the tournament approaches, we will let you know whether they are needed or not. Payment will be taken at registration on November 9; please make checks payable to Tanay Kothari.
We are setting a tentative field cap of 40 teams. There is no maximum to the number of teams each school may bring. We will likely be able to expand if there is enough interest, but until that point, we will accept teams on a first-come, first-serve basis. Fields can fill fast, so sign up soon to reserve your slot! To register, please send an email to californiacupquizbowl@gmail.com. Our website is http://californiacupquizbowl.wordpress.com/. The registration deadline for the first tournament, the Beartolt Brecht Invitational, is November 3. Please bring the cash or check for full payment of the series of tournaments to the first tournament and make it out to Tanay Kothari. You can still pay the base fee $250 for three tournaments if you register by the second tournament.
The second California Cup tournament will take place on Saturday, November 23; dates for the two spring-semester tournaments in the series are Sunday, January 19 and Saturday, February 1.
Thank you for your interest, and please spread the word to other high schools that are interested in quiz bowl or are heavily involved in other academic events like debate or Science Bowl. We look forward to an exciting year of academic competition!
The UC Berkeley Quiz Bowl Club is a student group acting independently of the University of California. The student organization is the host of the California Cup and takes full responsibility for the guests.