Oxford Open

The Oxford Open (OOT) has been an open tournament written and hosted by Oxford. Its first four iterations were all won by teams from the University of Chicago, which flew out every year to compete. Two of these (2014 and 2015) featured Chicago v. Chicago finals. The earlier of these results led to a heated exchange on Facebook among various members of the British quizzing community, in part because the second-place team was led by then-freshman Morgan Venkus, partially due to this dominance on the watered down difficulty of the science. Since 2017, Oxford Open has been won by British teams. The tournament is usually attended by a mixture of quizbowlers, both student teams and alumni, and teams with players from the wider British Quiz circuit, many of whom have been successful at tournaments such as the International Quizzing Association European Champions.

Since 2021, Oxford has combined forces with Cambridge to produce a tournament known as the Cambridge and Oxford Open Tournament (COOT).

Results

Year	Champion	Second	Third	Editors	Teams
2012	Chicago: Marshall Steinbaum, Tyler Smith, Sam Bailey, Shantanu Jha	MUESLI: Stephen Pearson, Gareth Aubrey, Nick Mills, Reuben Roy	Dakkas Cowboys: Bruce Arthur, Dallas Simons, Ted Gioia, Stephen Liu	Kyle Haddad-Fonda	25
2014	Chicago A: John Lawrence, Ben Gammage, Charles Tian, Michael Coates	Chicago B: Morgan Venkus, Doug Graebner, Luke Bretscher, Vinay Bhaskara		Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Joey Goldman, Chris Savory, Ewan MacAulay, George Corfield	26
2015	Chicago A: John Lawrence, James Lasker, Kay Li, Jason Zhou	Chicago B: Chris Ray, Max Schindler, Marianna Zhang, Athena Kern	Broken Hearts A: Ian Bayley, Mark Grant, Olav Bjortomt, Sean Carey	Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Joey Goldman, Charlie Clegg, Ewan MacAulay, George Corfield, Oliver Clarke, Peter Berry, Daoud Jackson	24
2016	Chicago A: John Lawrence, James Lasker, Alston Boyd, Marianna Zhang	Oxford Forever: Edmund Dickinson, Zachary Vermeer, Luke Pitcher, Alex Bubb	Chicago B: Chris Ray, Kai Smith, Athena Kern, Jason Zhou	Oliver Clarke, George Corfield, Charlie Clegg, Joey Goldman, Daoud Jackson, Ewan MacAulay, Chris Stern, Spencer Weinreich	24
2017				Oliver Clarke, George Corfield, Charlie Clegg, Daoud Jackson, Chris Stern, Spencer Weinreich	24
2018	Cambridge A: Jason Golfinos, Ewan MacAulay, Joseph Krol, Ephraim	Oxford 5ever: Joey Goldman, Edmund Dickinson, Charlie Clegg, Oliver Clarke	Chicago B: Kai Smith, Matthew Lehmann, Samir Khan, Halle Friedman	George Charlson, Alex Peplow, Daoud Jackson, Jacob Robertson, Leonie Woodland	23
2019	Shrimps are Pretty Rich: Ewan MacAulay, Daoud Jackson, Joey Goldman, Ben Salter	Cambridge: Joseph Krol, Marius Posa, Lillian Crawford, Nick Clanchy	Chicago A: Kai Smith, Matthew Lehmann, Alston Boyd, Grant Li	Isaac Brown, George Charlson, Oliver Clarke, Claire Jones, Alexander Peplow, Jacob Robertson, Leonie Woodland, Laura Cooper	24
2020	Vitalijs Uncensored: Evan Lynch, Daoud Jackson, Ewan MacAulay, Vitalijs Brejevs	Broken Hearts: Mark Grant, Ian Bayley, Tris Cole	Cambridge A: Joseph Krol, Boyang Hou, Molly O'Gorman, Dan Lawson	George Charlson, Oliver Clarke, Alex Hardwick, Claire Jones, Alexander Peplow, Jacob Robertson	22