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The '''IASP Senior Quiz Bowl State Finals''' are the current iteration of the Indiana Quiz Bowl State Championship, first hosted in 2020 after the [[Indiana Association of School Principals]] began sponsoring high school quiz bowl.
==Format==
State Finals is a closed-invite tournament where teams qualify by virtue of their performances at Indiana's [[Area Championships]]. The tournament features 18 teams, but only one team is permitted from each participating school. Teams are split into three pools of six in the prelims, then organized by record into three more pools of six; however, the bottom playoff pool is an optional "scrimmage" pool and teams may elect not to play matches in it.

Prior to 2024, State Finals used a modified 16-team double-elimination format with three guaranteed games.
==Qualification==
The champion of each of Indiana's Area Championships receives an automatic bid to State Finals. Additionally, if an Area's field is large enough to necessitate splitting into two or more pools for the prelims, the runner-up also qualifies automatically. Beyond those auto-qualifiers, teams are given "at-large" bids based on their overall points per game over the course of the tournaments.

Prior to 2024, all Area Championships automatically admitted the top two teams to the State Finals, and "at-large" qualifiers were chosen purely by their points per game during the single-elimination playoff rounds of the tournaments.
==History==
The earliest known [[NAQT State Championship]] in Indiana was hosted by DePauw University in 2000, and lasted until 2002. There are no records of a championship being held in 2003, but another "NAQT Indiana State Championship" was hosted by [[Notre Dame]] in 2004 and won by [[Solon]], a school from Ohio. From then on, the event became known as the '''NAQT Indiana State Qualifier''', which was hosted by [[Culver]] in 2005 before finding a more long-term home at [[St. Joseph (IN)|Saint Joseph]]. From 2006 to 2011, Culver hosted the [[Midwest Championship]] a couple of months after State, inviting teams from Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan.

In 2009, the State Qualifier was hosted by [[Indiana|IU-Bloomington]], but was suddenly accompanied by two other tournaments billing themselves as state championships; the '''Indiana Frosh/Soph State Championship''' at Culver, and the [[4-quarter format]] '''Indiana State Championship''' at [[Harrison]]. The next year, Harrison's State Championship became the [[Questions Unlimited]] '''Classic State Championship,''' while Saint Joseph once again hosted the NAQT State Qualifier. 2010 also saw the debut of the '''Rotary Club Northern Indiana Quizbowl Championship,''' which was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Indiana and drew a healthy field of 20 teams.

In 2011, Culver's Frosh/Soph State Championship changed hands to [[North White]], who hosted it until 2018. Having only drawn four teams from two schools the previous year, the NAQT State Qualifier was discontinued, and the Rotary Club's tournament became the '''Rotary Club Indiana Quizbowl State Championship.''' This tournament introduced several format changes, including splitting the field based on school size and running games with lightning rounds between 8-tossup halves. The Rotary Club's sponsorship went towards gaudy prizes for winning teams and coaches, leading to many isolated one-off appearances by inexperienced teams.

For several years, there were three regular state championship tournaments: Classic State at Harrison, Frosh/Soph State at North White, and Rotary Club State at [[Ancilla College]]. Rotary Club State's attendance consistently decayed with each year, likely due to Ancilla's inconvenient and very remote location, as well as the Rotary Club discontinuing many of their larger prizes. During this era, Saint Joseph began a long streak of state championship titles, possibly empowered by Ancilla's Christian iconography. Starting in 2016, Rotary Club State could not attract enough small schools to justify splitting the field by size. In 2018, Frosh/Soph State became a division of Rotary Club State at Ancilla.

In 2019, Purdue University stepped in as the new host of Rotary Club State, resulting in the Rotary Club pulling its sponsorship. The resulting tournament was billed as the '''NAQT Indiana State Championship''' and removed the lightning rounds from the format, restoring it to 20 tossups and bonuses per round. In attendance at the tournament was IASP Director of Student Programs [[Jill Slinker]], who endorsed the IASP's sponsorship of state quiz bowl starting the following year. Purdue remained the host, but the state championship became closed-invite for the first time in its history, taking on a controversial modified double-elimination format.

In 2020, Harrison coach [[Lyn Schneider]], the director of Classic State, retired as a teacher, but remained the tournament's director. After Harrison's quiz bowl team collapsed in 2021, Classic State found a new host in [[University High School of Indiana]]. In 2022, [[Carmel (IN)|Carmel]] ended Saint Joseph's run of nine straight NAQT State titles, and the Greyhounds currently hold a three-year championship streak of their own.

Following lobbying by coaches, the IASP changed the State Finals format going into the 2024 season. The new format involved a carry-over game from the prelims to the playoffs, removing a playoff round. However, a miscommunication resulted in the tournament director neglecting the carry-over games. As a result, a 2-3 [[Herron]] was passed over for the final bracket in favor of a 1-4 [[Culver]].
==Results==
This page records only the results of the NAQT state championship from each year. Results are tabulated back to 2016, since results before then are split apart by school size.
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|-
! Year
! Packet set
! Sponsor
! First Place
! Second Place
! Third Place
! Fourth Place
|-
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=14737 2024]
|IS-228
|IASP
|Carmel
|[[Park Tudor]]
|[[John Adams]]
|Culver
|-
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=13474 2023]
|IS-219
|IASP
|Carmel
|Culver
|[[Herron]]
|[[Hamilton Southeastern]]
|-
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=12564 2022]
|IS-210
|IASP
|Carmel
|Saint Joseph
|Hamilton Southeastern
|Crown Point
|-
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=11829 2021]
|IS-201
|IASP
|Saint Joseph
|Carmel
|Harrison
|[[North Central]]
|-
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=10614 2020]
|IS-192
|IASP
|Saint Joseph
|Harrison
|Carmel
|Culver
|-
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=10410 2019]
|IS-183
|Purdue
|Saint Joseph
|Carmel A
|Harrison
|Carmel B
|-
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8857 2018]
|IS-174
|Rotary
|Saint Joseph
|Culver
|Harrison
|[[Mishawaka]]
|-
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8113 2017]
|IS-166
|Rotary
|Saint Joseph
|Harrison
|Culver
|[[Avon]]
|-
|[https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=7228 2016]
|IS-156
|Rotary
|Saint Joseph
|Harrison
|Culver
|North White
|-
|}