2017 IHSA State Championship Tournament

The 2016 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Championship Tournaments will end the thirty-first State Championship Series conducted in Scholastic Bowl by the IHSA. It will be the twenty-sixth season in which there were separate State Championship Tournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA). For the twenty-first year, both tournaments were held at the Peoria Civic Center. The tournaments were held on a Friday, March 17.

This was the first quizbowl tournament under the supervision of IHSA administrator, Kraig Garber.

Advancement

Teams were assigned to one of eight sectionals within each class. Coaches then seeded the top 8 teams in their sectional. The IHSA then assigned the seeded teams to one of four regionals (1 with 8, 2 with 7, etc), with the remainder of the teams assigned to a regional geographically. The winners of the regionals would advance to their respective sectional tournaments, where they would play a three match round robin to determine a winner. The determination of the geographic boundaries of the Sectional was arbitrarily decided by the IHSA Office.

Tournament Format

Each round was comprised of 24 toss-ups and accompanying bonus questions.

In the State Championship Tournament, teams were randomly assigned to pools of four, and played a three match round robin. The winners of each pool advanced to the Championship Match, and the runners-up in each pool advanced to play for third place. Ties were broken by head-to-head results or total points scored among tied teams (in the event of a three-way tie).

The top four teams earned trophies and medals for team members, coaches, principals, and activities directors.

CLASS A

2014 Class A IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: Timothy Christian

Runner-Up: Williamsville

Third Place Southwestern

Fourth Place Robinson

POOL #1

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Southwestern	260	Riverdale	190
	Timothy Christian	330	Byron	250
2	Timothy Christian	150	Southwestern	140
	Byron	170	Riverdale	150
3	Southwestern	350	Byron	220
	Timothy Christian	290	Riverdale	230

POOL #2

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Williamville	330	Robinson	200
	Maroa-Forsyth	200	Johnston City	150
2	Robinson	250	Johnston City	110
	Williamville	240	Maroa-Forsyth	140
3	Robinson	350	Maroa-Forsyth	210
	Williamville	290	Johnston City	160

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Southwestern	260	Robinson	170

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Timothy Christian	360	Williamsville	170

CLASS AA

2014 Class AA IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion:

Runner-Up:

Third Place

Fourth Place

POOL #1

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1
2
3

POOL #2

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1
2
3

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
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Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score

2017 IHSA State Championship
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