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|currentcoach = Ruth Crabtree | |currentcoach = Ruth Crabtree | ||
|state = [[2010 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2010 NAQT]] [[2011 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2011 NAQT]] [[2012 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2012 NAQT]] [[2013 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2013 NAQT]] [[2016 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2016 NAQT]] | |state = [[2010 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2010 NAQT]] [[2011 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2011 NAQT]] [[2012 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2012 NAQT]] [[2013 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2013 NAQT]] [[2016 NAQT Ontario Provincials|2016 NAQT]] | ||
| − | |nats = [[2008 Reach for the Top Nationals|2008]] [[Reach for the Top|Reach]], 2015 IHBB Canada (Varsity Bowl), 2015 Reach | + | |nats = [[2008 Reach for the Top Nationals|2008]] [[Reach for the Top|Reach]], 2015 IHBB Canada (Varsity Bowl), 2015 Reach, 2016 IHBB Canada (Varsity Bowl), 2017 Reach |
| − | |nats appearances = HSNCT: 2006-2008, 2010, 2011, 2014-2015<br/> PACE: 2011, 2013<br/> Reach for the Top: 2008, 2011, 2015<br/> IHBB Canada: 2015 | + | |nats appearances = HSNCT: 2006-2008, 2010, 2011, 2014-2015, 2018<br/> PACE: 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019<br/> Reach for the Top: 2008, 2011, 2015-2017<br/> IHBB Canada: 2015, 2016-2019 |
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===National=== | ===National=== | ||
| − | Despite their overwhelming success at the provincial and regional level, Lisgar has only appeared at the national finals | + | Despite their overwhelming success at the provincial and regional level, Lisgar has only appeared at the national finals four times. Lisgar won the [[2008 Reach for the Top Nationals|2008 Reach championship]], defeating [[2008 UTS|UTS]] in the final by 5 points. See [[2008 Lisgar]]. |
In 2011, Lisgar was invited to Nationals as the 3rd Ontario team after the Saskatchewan Provincial Champion dropped out. Lisgar finished 3rd after losing to Centennial CVI in the semi-finals. | In 2011, Lisgar was invited to Nationals as the 3rd Ontario team after the Saskatchewan Provincial Champion dropped out. Lisgar finished 3rd after losing to Centennial CVI in the semi-finals. | ||
In 2015, Lisgar qualified for Nationals after placing 2nd in Provincials. After suffering several close losses, Lisgar went into the playoffs as the 6th seed with a 9-5 record. They narrowly beat Eric Hamber in a quarter-final game that went down to a tiebreaker, and then defeated UTS in the semis and Kennebecasis in the final to win their school's second Reach Nationals title. | In 2015, Lisgar qualified for Nationals after placing 2nd in Provincials. After suffering several close losses, Lisgar went into the playoffs as the 6th seed with a 9-5 record. They narrowly beat Eric Hamber in a quarter-final game that went down to a tiebreaker, and then defeated UTS in the semis and Kennebecasis in the final to win their school's second Reach Nationals title. | ||
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| + | In 2019, Lisgar qualified for Nationals after defeating Glebe CI at provincials to take third place. At Nationals, they made it to the playoffs and upset the favoured UTS team in the semi-finals, opening the way for a shot at the national title. They came second after a close game against Westmount Secondary School who took the 2019 title. | ||
==Quizbowl== | ==Quizbowl== | ||
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* 2014: 8-5 | * 2014: 8-5 | ||
* 2015: Lisgar A: 5-5, Lisgar B: 3-7 | * 2015: Lisgar A: 5-5, Lisgar B: 3-7 | ||
| + | * 2018: 5-7 | ||
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| + | ===PACE Results=== | ||
| + | * 2011: Lisgar A: 28th, Lisgar B: 55th | ||
| + | * 2013: Lisgar A: 61st | ||
| + | * 2017: Lisgar A: 22nd, Lisgar B: 78th | ||
| + | * 2019: Lisgar A: 42nd | ||
===Open events=== | ===Open events=== | ||
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* Charles Li [[McGill]] | * Charles Li [[McGill]] | ||
* Akhil Garg, Gentleman and Scholar, the Canadian [[Eric Mukherjee|Mukherjee]] [[VCU]] | * Akhil Garg, Gentleman and Scholar, the Canadian [[Eric Mukherjee|Mukherjee]] [[VCU]] | ||
| − | *Andrej Vuković, [[Carleton University|Carleton]] | + | * Andrej Vuković, [[Carleton University|Carleton]] |
| − | *Andreas Loken, [[McGill]] | + | * Andreas Loken, [[McGill]] |
| − | *Aidan Ryan, [[Carleton]] | + | * Aidan Ryan, [[Carleton University|Carleton]] |
| − | *Nicholas Sunderland, [[Waterloo]] | + | * Nicholas Sunderland, [[Waterloo]] |
| − | *Benjamin Hillier-Weltman, [[Toronto]] | + | * Benjamin Hillier-Weltman, [[Toronto]] |
| − | *Alex Roeder, [[Carleton]] | + | * Alex Roeder, [[Carleton University|Carleton]] |
| − | *Sam Karovitch, [[Waterloo]] | + | * Sam Karovitch, [[Waterloo]] |
==Seasons== | ==Seasons== | ||
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* [[Woburn]] (Quizbowl, Reach for the Top) | * [[Woburn]] (Quizbowl, Reach for the Top) | ||
* [[Centennial CVI]] (Quizbowl, Reach for the Top) | * [[Centennial CVI]] (Quizbowl, Reach for the Top) | ||
| + | * Martingrove (Reach for the Top) | ||
| + | * Abbey Park (Reach for the Top) | ||
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===Regional=== | ===Regional=== | ||
* [[Bell]] | * [[Bell]] | ||
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{{Succession_box|Tournament = IHBB Canada: Varsity Bowl | {{Succession_box|Tournament = IHBB Canada: Varsity Bowl | ||
| − | |year = 2015 | + | |year = 2015, 2016 |
|previous = Inaugural | |previous = Inaugural | ||
|next = TBD | |next = TBD | ||
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|year = 2015 | |year = 2015 | ||
|previous = [[Martingrove]] | |previous = [[Martingrove]] | ||
| − | |next = | + | |next = [[Kennebecasis]] |
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|year = 2016 | |year = 2016 | ||
|previous = [[Colonel By]] | |previous = [[Colonel By]] | ||
| + | |next = TBD | ||
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| + | {{Succession_box|Tournament = [[Reach for the Top]] | ||
| + | |year = 2017 | ||
| + | |previous = [[Kennebecasis]] | ||
|next = TBD | |next = TBD | ||
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| Ruth Crabtree | | Ruth Crabtree | ||
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| + | | Ottawa [[SCOP Novice]] 7 Mirror | ||
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| + | | Lisgar | ||
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| + | | [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3945/stats/full_stats/] | ||
| + | | Colin Veevers | ||
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[[Category:Lisgar]] | [[Category:Lisgar]] | ||
Latest revision as of 10:27, 11 March 2021
| Lisgar Collegiate Institute | |
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| Location: Ottawa, ON | |
| Coaches | Ruth Crabtree |
| State Championships | 2010 NAQT 2011 NAQT 2012 NAQT 2013 NAQT 2016 NAQT |
| National Championships | 2008 Reach, 2015 IHBB Canada (Varsity Bowl), 2015 Reach, 2016 IHBB Canada (Varsity Bowl), 2017 Reach |
| National Appearances | HSNCT: 2006-2008, 2010, 2011, 2014-2015, 2018 PACE: 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019 Reach for the Top: 2008, 2011, 2015-2017 IHBB Canada: 2015, 2016-2019 |
| Program Status | Active |
| School Size | Unknown |
| NAQT Page | link |
Lisgar Collegiate Institute is a public school in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Regularly placing highly in annual Ontario high school academic rankings, they are located several blocks south of the Parliament Buildings, and across the Rideau Canal from the University of Ottawa. A Reach for the Top team was established in the late 1990s under the guidance of Paul Paquet, and teams from Lisgar have been competitive at the city and provincial level nearly every year of existence. They won the 2008 Reach title by 5 points over UTS, and the 2015 title over Kennebecasis. The team has also been one of the most active Canadian participants in traditional tossup/bonus quizbowl in recent history, and is the first of a handful of Canadian teams to participate at either major American quizbowl championship.
Early History
Lisgar began playing Reach for the Top in the 1966-67 academic year. Lisgar occasionally appeared during the CBC years of Reach for the Top, including a team that featured future CBC personality Shelagh Rogers.
Though they had no established team at the time (and probably didn't pay membership fees to Reach in September), a team from Lisgar appeared in 1995 as part of the controversy surrounding Bell that year. Bell's school board was in a teacher's strike, and the team was considered illegal for most of the year. A team from Lisgar (part of a different Ottawa school board) was assembled for regional play and heralded by SchoolReach director Sandy Stewart as "the correct team" to go to provincials. A few court proceedings and lawyers later, Bell ended up competing at provincials.
Archived news article: "Quiz masters reach to court to stay on show" by Brenda Branswell of the Ottawa Citizen, April 27, 1995, page B2.
Reach for the Top
Regional
Lisgar has been among the top 3 teams in Ottawa at Reach for the Top since the late 1990s. Lisgar has won or shared the Richard Mageau Trophy, awarded to the Ottawa Schoolreach League champions, in 2001, 2004, 2006-2012, and 2015. In both 2008 and 2009, Lisgar shared the title with Merivale, after question problems created unresolvable disputes in two consecutive finals. Lisgar won the title in the following three years before their streak was ended with two second-place finishes (the 2014 final was notably lost by 10 points to Colonel By). They reclaimed the title in 2015 in dominant fashion, sweeping the field across both days of play.
Provincial, Pre 2008
Lisgar has had mixed success at the Ontario provincial level. Though having qualified for the top ten playoff round in nine consecutive years (2001-2009), and ten out of eleven appearances all time, prior to the 2008 finals the team had won just one game. As of 2009, the team has a playoff record of 5-12. The team has regularly blamed these disappointments on the change in format between classroom-based round-robin matches and the televised playoffs. In 2008, Lisgar swept their round-robin division to take first seed for the playoffs, and would go on to defeat South Secondary (twice) and Vincent Massey, before losing the final game to UTS. By advancing to the final game, Lisgar became the first school to qualify for both the NAQT HSNCT and the Reach for the Top National Finals.
Provincial, Post 2008
After Lisgar's Nationals run, most of the team had left and only freshmen and sophomores remained, giving way to a fresh group of new people. In 2009, the team lost in the first round of the playoffs to Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute. In 2010, the team failed to qualify for the provincial playoffs, the first time in team history. In 2011, Lisgar came fourth after the first day and won two playoff games and controversially lost in the semifinals to UTS. However, the controversy coupled with a third place finish meant a nationals berth after a team from Saskatchewan dropped out. The year after, a second place finish after the first day led to an acceptable 4th place result. In 2015, having failed to make the playoffs the year before, Lisgar took the second seed behind UTS and made it to the final (for the first time since 2008), where they were defeated by Martingrove.
National
Despite their overwhelming success at the provincial and regional level, Lisgar has only appeared at the national finals four times. Lisgar won the 2008 Reach championship, defeating UTS in the final by 5 points. See 2008 Lisgar.
In 2011, Lisgar was invited to Nationals as the 3rd Ontario team after the Saskatchewan Provincial Champion dropped out. Lisgar finished 3rd after losing to Centennial CVI in the semi-finals.
In 2015, Lisgar qualified for Nationals after placing 2nd in Provincials. After suffering several close losses, Lisgar went into the playoffs as the 6th seed with a 9-5 record. They narrowly beat Eric Hamber in a quarter-final game that went down to a tiebreaker, and then defeated UTS in the semis and Kennebecasis in the final to win their school's second Reach Nationals title.
In 2019, Lisgar qualified for Nationals after defeating Glebe CI at provincials to take third place. At Nationals, they made it to the playoffs and upset the favoured UTS team in the semi-finals, opening the way for a shot at the national title. They came second after a close game against Westmount Secondary School who took the 2019 title.
Quizbowl
Regional
Lisgar was one of the first Canadian teams to begin participating in tossup/bonus quizbowl. A team from Lisgar won the first three high school quizbowl events in Canada, though that streak was broken in 2008 when Merivale won that year's Ottawa Quizbowl Tournament. They often submit multiple teams, forming 5 teams of the 11-team field for the 2008 OQT. Lisgar won the Ottawa Quizbowl tournament from 2009-2012, the latter two years saw the first and second place being won by Lisgar. After a period of two years where Colonel By prevented them from winning any local tournaments, Lisgar returned to the top of the Ottawa Quizbowl Tournament in 2015, with Lisgar B tying for 2nd.
Provincial
Lisgar has attended the NAQT Ontario Provincial Championship every year since it was first held in 2010. They won the first four editions of the tournament, only losing one game in that time. They were defeated by Colonel By in 2014 and suffered an upset to Bell, thereby ending their streak with a 3rd place overall. In 2015 Lisgar once again lost to Colonel By, this time in the first game of a disadvantaged final.
National
They have qualified for the HSNCT every year since 2005. Lisgar reached the playoffs in 2006 and 2007, with captain Jamie Cooper earning All-Star honours each time. They did not attend the 2008 HSNCT after qualifying for Reach for the Top Nationals. In 2009, the team finished 5-5. In 2010, Lisgar sent two teams to the 2010 HSNCT, with their A team finishing 6-4 and their B team finished 4-6. In 2011 the sent a team to PACE NSC which finished 2-3 4-1 2-3 for 28th out of 60 teams. They also sent a team of HSNCT which finished 5-5 after losing their last game by 5 points, just missing the playoffs. In 2012, the team did not attend any nationals event due to financial issues.
Other American Tournaments
In November 2014, Lisgar participated in the Brainbusters Fall tournament in Ithaca, New York. They defeated the highly-rated A team from Bethlehem Central HS on their way to the final, where they defeated Delaware Valley to become the first Canadian team to win the tournament. The following year, an entirely new team of grade 11s (and one grade 10) placed 4th, nearly defeating the returning Delaware Valley team that had almost won the tournament one year prior.
HSNCT Results
- 2006: 7-6
- 2007: 8-5
- 2008: 5-5
- 2010: Lisgar A: 7-5, Lisgar B: 4-6
- 2011: 5-5
- 2014: 8-5
- 2015: Lisgar A: 5-5, Lisgar B: 3-7
- 2018: 5-7
PACE Results
- 2011: Lisgar A: 28th, Lisgar B: 55th
- 2013: Lisgar A: 61st
- 2017: Lisgar A: 22nd, Lisgar B: 78th
- 2019: Lisgar A: 42nd
Open events
The team has also competed open-level tournaments, competing in the 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 incarnations of the Ottawa Hybrid Tournament. In 2008, the team had the top two individual scorers, Nevin Hotson and Jeff Gao, respectively. The team formed an alumni team for 2008 VETO, and did so again in 2009, along with a team of current students. VETO 2009 was thought to be a simple Guerrilla style tournament with write-in questions, as exemplified in past tournaments, however because of the editing of Jerry Vinokurov, the tournament was made to reflect an mACF format. Some of the teams in attendance felt that this change disadvantaged the Lisgar high school because of a perceived increase in difficulty.
In October 2009, Lisgar sent a team to THUNDER and went 4-4 against a university playing field.
Current team
- Sheena Li '17
- Colin Veevers '18
- Gareth Adamson '17
- Joshua Lane '17
Alumni
A few former Lisgar players have continued playing, or plan to continue playing quizbowl at the university level:
- Jessica Li, UBC
- Tamara Vardomskaya, Ottawa
- Jamie Cooper, Waterloo
- Simon Sokyrko, Ottawa
- Ben Hare, Toronto
- Belle Song, Toronto
- Nevin Hotson, RMC
- Jeff Gao, Waterloo
- Chris Greenwood, Guelph
- Celia Byrne, Toronto
- Jibril Jeewanjee, Carleton
- Vincent Jiang, Queen's
- Patrick Liao, University of Pennsylvania
- Harry Rusnock, Toronto
- Jj Li, Waterloo
- Di Xiao, Berkeley
- Joe Su, McGill
- Alex Rochon, Carleton
- Will Sanna Waterloo
- Charles Li McGill
- Akhil Garg, Gentleman and Scholar, the Canadian Mukherjee VCU
- Andrej Vuković, Carleton
- Andreas Loken, McGill
- Aidan Ryan, Carleton
- Nicholas Sunderland, Waterloo
- Benjamin Hillier-Weltman, Toronto
- Alex Roeder, Carleton
- Sam Karovitch, Waterloo
Seasons
Rivalries
Provincial
- UTS (Reach for the Top)
- Woburn (Quizbowl, Reach for the Top)
- Centennial CVI (Quizbowl, Reach for the Top)
- Martingrove (Reach for the Top)
- Abbey Park (Reach for the Top)
Regional
See Also
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| Date | # of Teams | Name | Format/Set | Champion | Runner Up | Results | Director(s) |
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| December 2007 | ? | Lisgar Open | Reach for the Top | UTS | Unknown | N/A | Chris Greenwood |
| October 2009 | 11 | Lisgar Open | Reach/Quizbowl hybrid | Lisgar | Unknown | N/A | JJ Li, Jennifer Hurd |
| February 2010 | 11 | Lisgar Winter Invitational | NAQT IS-91A | Gloucester | Merivale | [1] | Patrick Liao, JJ Li |
| October 2010 | 8 | Lisgar Fall Novice Mirror | [2] | Lisgar | Lisgar | [3] | Patrick Liao, JJ Li |
| February 2011 | 14 | PV=nRT I | Reach for the Top | Kennebecasis | Lisgar | N/A | Patrick Liao, JJ Li, Joe Su |
| April 2012 | 9 | BLASTOISE | [4] | Jordan Palmer et al. | Ottawa | [5] | Patrick Liao, JJ Li |
| October 2012 | 12 | Lisgar Fall Novice Mirror | [6] | Lisgar | Lisgar | [7] | Joe Su |
| December 2012 | 10 | Lisgar Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Mirror | [8] | Lisgar | Woburn | [9] | Joe Su |
| February 2012 | 14 | PV=nRT II | Reach for the Top | Lisgar | Kennebecasis | N/A | Joe Su |
| April 2012 | 9 | Lisgar GSAC Mirror | [10] | Lisgar | Earl of March | [11] | Joe Su |
| October 2012 | 8 | Lisgar SCOP Novice Mirror | SCOP Novice III | Colonel By | Colonel By | [12] | Ben Smith |
| February 2013 | 10 | Lisgar GSAC Mirror | GSAC XX | Lisgar | Colonel By | [13] | Joe Su, Ben Smith |
| May 2013 | 8 | Lisgar's LIST III Mirror | LIST III | Lisgar | Colonel By | [14] | Joe Su |
| October 2013 | 9 | Ottawa SCOP Novice 4 Mirror | SCOP Novice 4 | Bell | Colonel By | [15] | Ted Gan |
| November 2013 | 8 | Lisgar's JAMES Mirror | 2013 JAMES | Colonel By | Lisgar | [16] | Joe Su |
| October 2014 | 14 | Ottawa SCOP Novice 5 Mirror | SCOP Novice 5 | Bell | Merivale | [17] | Aidan Ryan |
| December 2014 | 11 | Lisgar December Tournament | 2014 BELLOCO | Colonel By | Colonel By | [18] | Joe Su, Ben Smith |
| January 2015 | 16 | 2015 Lisgar Invitational | NAQT MN-14-A (Reach-style) | Colonel By | Lisgar | [19] | Joe Su, Ben Smith |
| March 2015 | 11 | 2015 Ontario Provincial Championship | NAQT IS-146 | Colonel By | Lisgar | [20] | Ben Smith |
| October 2015 | 9 | Ottawa SCOP Novice 6 Mirror | SCOP Novice 6 | Lisgar | Colonel By | [21] | Aidan Ryan |
| December 2015 | 8 | Stegosaurus Bowl | 2015 BASK | Lisgar | Lisgar | [22] | Brendan McKendy |
| January 2016 | 16 | Winterlude 1 | LIGHT-35/SC-48 | UTS | Kennebecasis | [23] | Ruth Crabtree |
| October 2016 | 4 | Ottawa SCOP Novice 7 Mirror | SCOP Novice 7 | Lisgar | Lisgar | [24] | Colin Veevers |