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− | The '''National Championship Tournament''' ('''NCT''') was held annually by the [[College Bowl]] Company, Inc., to determine its format's national title during the company's affiliation with [[ACUI]] from 1977-1978 to 2007-2008. | + | The '''National Championship Tournament''' ('''NCT''') was held annually by the [[College Bowl]] Company, Inc., to determine its format's national title during the company's affiliation with [[ACUI]] from 1977-1978 to 2007-2008. Occasional matches appeared on radio or TV during that time. |
− | + | The [[College Bowl]]-ACUI program was discontinued after 2008. College Bowl continued to offer products to limited markets such as the [[HCASC]] and the [[2021 College Bowl TV Show]], but has not staged a competition for the general college level since the end of the ACUI partnership. | |
− | + | ==Tournament/field quality== | |
− | + | For a full discussion of the mainstream quizbowl community's issues with the College Bowl program and the reasons for teams choosing not to participate, see the [[College Bowl|main page for College Bowl as a whole]]. This page is focused on the National Championship Tournament specifically. | |
− | + | By 1990, several major contenders in [[ACF Nationals|ACF]] and, ultimately, [[NAQT ICT|NAQT]] tournaments such as [[Maryland]], [[Tennessee]], and [[Georgia Tech]] no longer participated in College Bowl. By 2000 the only regular participants in College Bowl among the top tier of quizbowl teams were [[Chicago]] and [[Michigan]], who themselves did not compete after the 2003-2004 season, and who never sent their best possible lineups to the tournament after 1998, due to a combination of the grad student restriction and individual players not wishing to play College Bowl. In the last eleven instances of the NCT, the only serious ICT or ACF title contenders who sent their best player lineups to College Bowl NCT were [[2006 UCLA]] and [[1998 Chicago|Chicago's 1998 team]], though other Chicago and Michigan lineups often won the NCT even without the top players from those clubs. The field quality below the top 4 was also very weak compared to other nationals due to the qualification system. | |
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+ | ==ACUI Regional System== | ||
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+ | During the time of the ACUI/College Bowl affiliation, ACUI was divided into 16 geographical regions. Regions 1-15 covered all areas of the United States and Canada. Region 16, for Australia, New Zealand, and "the Far East," never participated in College Bowl. | ||
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+ | Generally, each region held a tournament and the champion qualified for NCT. Except in 2003 (when only the 15 regional champions were invited), 1986 (when an intermediate "sectional" stage was used), and 1980 and 1981 (when 9 wild cards were invited to create a 24-team, multi-stage national tournament) the NCT field selected a 16th team by picking one regional runner-up as a wild card. The process for choosing the wild card was purported to be a random draw, though some questioned whether teams were actually chosen for other reasons. Though almost all NCTs had a 16-team field, the specific tournament format varied often, as noted below. | ||
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+ | From 2005 to 2007, the region 3 and 4 tournaments were combined in one, single-site event, with the highest-finishing teams from each region in the overall field each receiving NCT bids. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ACUI's region system continued to influence tournament placement and nationals qualification during ACUI's affiliation with NAQT from 2010-2013, though with significantly less rigidity than during the College Bowl era. Since the end of ACUI involvement in quizbowl in 2013, they have reorganized into an 8-region system. | ||
==College Bowl NCT top finishers/locations== | ==College Bowl NCT top finishers/locations== | ||
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| [[1978 Cornell|Cornell]] | | [[1978 Cornell|Cornell]] | ||
| [[1978 Oberlin|Oberlin]] | | [[1978 Oberlin|Oberlin]] | ||
− | | | + | | Probably the WTVJ studio in Miami<ref>The tournament was produced for CBS television and was advertised as being held "in Miami." WTVJ was the Miami CBS affiliate at the time and had a production studio with significant capabilities compared to most local stations, so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it.</ref> |
| "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv" | | "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv" | ||
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| [[1979 Oberlin|Oberlin]] | | [[1979 Oberlin|Oberlin]] | ||
| [[1979 Cornell|Cornell]] | | [[1979 Cornell|Cornell]] | ||
− | | | + | | Probably the WTVJ studio in Miami<ref>The tournament was produced for CBS television and was advertised as being held "in Miami." WTVJ was the Miami CBS affiliate at the time and had a production studio with significant capabilities compared to most local stations, so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it. One participant recalls playing the event at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel, though that same account misremembers the Miami NCT as being held in 1980, so it is not clear if this is a reliable memory.</ref> |
| "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv" | | "16-team single elimination tournament with final 3 matches and World's Championship taped for tv" | ||
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| [[1982 WUSTL|WUSTL]] | | [[1982 WUSTL|WUSTL]] | ||
| [[1982 Vassar|Vassar]] | | [[1982 Vassar|Vassar]] | ||
− | | | + | | Probably the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City<ref>The tournament was produced for CBS radio and was advertised as being held "in New York," so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it.</ref> |
| "16-team single-elimination tournament taped for radio" | | "16-team single-elimination tournament taped for radio" | ||
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| [[1994 Chicago|Chicago]] | | [[1994 Chicago|Chicago]] | ||
| [[1994 Virginia|Virginia]] | | [[1994 Virginia|Virginia]] | ||
− | | [[1994 | + | | [[1994 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]] |
| [[1994 George Washington|George Washington]] | | [[1994 George Washington|George Washington]] | ||
| [[Florida]] | | [[Florida]] | ||
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| [[1995 Chicago|Chicago]] | | [[1995 Chicago|Chicago]] | ||
| [[1995 Michigan|Michigan]] | | [[1995 Michigan|Michigan]] | ||
− | | [[1995 | + | | [[1995 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]] |
| Akron | | Akron | ||
| "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff" | | "16-team full round robin tournament with best 2-of-3 playoff" | ||
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− | == | + | ==Regional champions & wild cards== |
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+ | Except as discussed in footnotes and other text below, the set of "regional champions & wild card teams" for each year also comprises that year's list of NCT participants. | ||
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| [[1979 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]] | | [[1979 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]] | ||
| [[1979 Pacific Lutheran|Pacific Lutheran]] | | [[1979 Pacific Lutheran|Pacific Lutheran]] | ||
− | | [[1979 San Francisco State|San | + | | [[1979 San Francisco State|San Francisco State]] |
| [[1979 SIU-Carbondale|SIU-Carbondale]] (R9) | | [[1979 SIU-Carbondale|SIU-Carbondale]] (R9) | ||
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| [[1982 Fresno State|Fresno State]] | | [[1982 Fresno State|Fresno State]] | ||
| [[1982 Wisconsin-Eau Claire|Wisconsin-Eau Claire]] (R8) | | [[1982 Wisconsin-Eau Claire|Wisconsin-Eau Claire]] (R8) | ||
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+ | | 1983<ref>The NCT was not held in 1983. As best as can be determined, a full set of Regional tournaments was run, but the complete list of winners is not preserved anywhere, and no wild-card team was named. 1983 teams are not counted as nationals appearances in the table.</ref> | ||
+ | | [[1983 Harvard|Harvard]] | ||
+ | | | ||
+ | | | ||
+ | | [[1983 Maryland|Maryland]] | ||
+ | | [[1983 North Carolina|North Carolina]] | ||
+ | | [[1983 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]] | ||
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+ | | [[1983 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] | ||
+ | | [[1983 Earlham|Earlham]] | ||
+ | | [[1983 Minnesota|Minnesota]] | ||
+ | | [[1983 WUSTL|WUSTL]] | ||
+ | | | ||
+ | | [[1983 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]] | ||
+ | | [[1983 Puget Sound|Puget Sound]]<ref>Some sources list the University of Idaho as winning this tournament. As there was no 1983 national, the discrepancy cannot be explained by the winning team declining their bid and being replaced, and is most likely a mistake. The best judgment of which article is more reliable indicates that Puget Sound probably won.</ref> | ||
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+ | | See note on 1983 tournament | ||
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| [[1984 NCT|1984]] | | [[1984 NCT|1984]] | ||
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| [[1984 Maryland|Maryland]] | | [[1984 Maryland|Maryland]] | ||
| [[1984 North Carolina|North Carolina]] | | [[1984 North Carolina|North Carolina]] | ||
− | | [[1984 Georgia Southern-Armstrong|Georgia Southern-Armstrong]] | + | | [[1984 Georgia Southern-Armstrong|Georgia Southern-Armstrong]]<ref>"Georgia Southern University-Armstrong Campus" is the current full name of the school that was known as "Armstrong State College" at the time of this tournament.</ref> |
| [[1984 Michigan|Michigan]] | | [[1984 Michigan|Michigan]] | ||
| [[1984 Chicago|Chicago]] | | [[1984 Chicago|Chicago]] | ||
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| [[1984 Idaho|Idaho]] | | [[1984 Idaho|Idaho]] | ||
| [[1984 San Jose State|San Jose State]] | | [[1984 San Jose State|San Jose State]] | ||
− | | [[1984 Berkeley|Berkeley]] ( | + | | [[1984 Berkeley|Berkeley]] (R15) |
+ | |- | ||
+ | | 1985<ref>The NCT was not held in 1985. As best as can be determined, no wild-card team was named. 1985 teams are not counted as nationals appearances in the table.</ref> | ||
+ | | [[1985 Connecticut|Connecticut]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Syracuse|Syracuse]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Princeton|Princeton]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Georgetown|Georgetown]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Duke|Duke]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Emory|Emory]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Ohio State|Ohio State]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Notre Dame|Notre Dame]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Carleton|Carleton]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 WUSTL|WUSTL]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Tulane|Tulane]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Utah|Utah]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Idaho|Idaho]] | ||
+ | | [[1985 Berkeley|Berkeley]] | ||
+ | | See note on 1985 tournament | ||
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| [[1986 NCT|1986]] | | [[1986 NCT|1986]] | ||
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| [[1986 Alaska|Alaska]] | | [[1986 Alaska|Alaska]] | ||
| [[1986 UC-Irvine|UC-Irvine]] | | [[1986 UC-Irvine|UC-Irvine]] | ||
− | | See note<ref> | + | | See note<ref>This year used a "sectional" stage between the RCT and NCT. Only the top four teams, presumably the sectional champions, actually participated in the final national stage. Whether any teams beyond the 15 regional champions were invited to participate in the sectionals has not been determined; thus, it is possible there was no wild card in this year.</ref> |
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| [[1987 NCT|1987]] | | [[1987 NCT|1987]] | ||
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| [[1988 NCT|1988]] | | [[1988 NCT|1988]] | ||
− | | [[1988 Harvard|Harvard]] | + | | [[1988 Harvard|Harvard]]/[[1988 MIT|MIT]]<ref name="NCT88bids">The Region 1 champion Harvard and the Region 14 champion Washington declined to attend the NCT. Harvard was replaced by runner-up MIT. Washington's spot was offered to the (unrecorded) second-place finisher, who also declined. To fill the remaining spot, a second wild-card draw was held. In addition to the original wild-card bid for Syracuse, region 12 runner-up LSU attended the tournament as the final replacement team as a result of the second draw.</ref> |
| [[1988 Cornell|Cornell]] | | [[1988 Cornell|Cornell]] | ||
| [[1988 Princeton|Princeton]] | | [[1988 Princeton|Princeton]] | ||
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| [[1988 Rice|Rice]] | | [[1988 Rice|Rice]] | ||
| [[1988 Utah|Utah]] | | [[1988 Utah|Utah]] | ||
− | | [[1988 Washington|Washington]] | + | | [[1988 Washington|Washington]]/None<ref name="NCT88bids">The Region 1 champion Harvard and the Region 14 champion Washington declined to attend the NCT. Harvard was replaced by runner-up MIT. Washington's spot was offered to the (unrecorded) second-place finisher, who also declined. To fill the remaining spot, a second wild-card draw was held. In addition to the original wild-card bid for Syracuse, region 12 runner-up LSU attended the tournament as the final replacement team as a result of the second draw.</ref> |
| [[1988 UC-San Diego|UC-San Diego]] | | [[1988 UC-San Diego|UC-San Diego]] | ||
− | | [[1988 | + | | [[1988 Syracuse|Syracuse]] (R2), [[1988 Louisiana State|Louisiana State]] (R12)<ref name="NCT88bids">The Region 1 champion Harvard and the Region 14 champion Washington declined to attend the NCT. Harvard was replaced by runner-up MIT. Washington's spot was offered to the (unrecorded) second-place finisher, who also declined. To fill the remaining spot, a second wild-card draw was held. In addition to the original wild-card bid for Syracuse, region 12 runner-up LSU attended the tournament as the final replacement team as a result of the second draw.</ref> |
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| [[1989 NCT|1989]] | | [[1989 NCT|1989]] | ||
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| [[1991 Illinois|Illinois]] | | [[1991 Illinois|Illinois]] | ||
| [[1991 Minnesota|Minnesota]] | | [[1991 Minnesota|Minnesota]] | ||
− | | [[1991 Truman State|Truman State]] | + | | [[1991 Truman State|Truman State]]<ref name="truman">The school now known as Truman State University was called Northeast Missouri State University until June 1996.</ref> |
| [[1991 Rice|Rice]] | | [[1991 Rice|Rice]] | ||
| [[1991 Utah|Utah]] | | [[1991 Utah|Utah]] | ||
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| [[1992 Illinois|Illinois]] | | [[1992 Illinois|Illinois]] | ||
| [[1992 Minnesota|Minnesota]] | | [[1992 Minnesota|Minnesota]] | ||
− | | [[1992 Truman State|Truman State]] | + | | [[1992 Truman State|Truman State]]<ref name="truman">The school now known as Truman State University was called Northeast Missouri State University until June 1996.</ref> |
| [[1992 Rice|Rice]] | | [[1992 Rice|Rice]] | ||
| [[1992 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]] | | [[1992 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]] | ||
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| [[1993 Puget Sound|Puget Sound]] | | [[1993 Puget Sound|Puget Sound]] | ||
| [[1993 Stanford|Stanford]] | | [[1993 Stanford|Stanford]] | ||
− | | [[1993 | + | | [[1993 Cornell|Cornell]] (R2) |
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| [[1994 NCT|1994]] | | [[1994 NCT|1994]] | ||
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| [[1994 Illinois|Illinois]] | | [[1994 Illinois|Illinois]] | ||
| [[1994 Iowa State|Iowa State]] | | [[1994 Iowa State|Iowa State]] | ||
− | | [[1994 Truman State|Truman State]] | + | | [[1994 Truman State|Truman State]]<ref name="truman">The school now known as Truman State University was called Northeast Missouri State University until June 1996.</ref> |
| [[1994 Midwestern State|Midwestern State]] | | [[1994 Midwestern State|Midwestern State]] | ||
| [[1994 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]] | | [[1994 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]] | ||
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| [[1997 Washington|Washington]] | | [[1997 Washington|Washington]] | ||
| [[1997 Stanford|Stanford]] | | [[1997 Stanford|Stanford]] | ||
− | | [[1997 Illinois-Chicago|Illinois-Chicago]] | + | | [[1997 Illinois-Chicago|Illinois-Chicago]] (R8) |
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| [[1998 NCT|1998]] | | [[1998 NCT|1998]] | ||
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| [[1999 NCT|1999]] | | [[1999 NCT|1999]] | ||
− | | [[1999 Williams|Williams]]<ref>The Williams team attended the NCT site but was not permitted to participate in games due to their faculty sponsor failing to arrive.</ref> | + | | [[1999 Williams|Williams]]<ref name="Williams">The Williams team attended the NCT site in 1999 but was not permitted to participate in games due to their faculty sponsor failing to arrive. This is counted as a nationals appearance in the table.</ref> |
| [[1999 Cornell|Cornell]] | | [[1999 Cornell|Cornell]] | ||
| [[1999 College of New Jersey|College of New Jersey]] | | [[1999 College of New Jersey|College of New Jersey]] | ||
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| [[2004 Washington|Washington]] | | [[2004 Washington|Washington]] | ||
| [[2004 UCLA|UCLA]] | | [[2004 UCLA|UCLA]] | ||
− | | [[2004 Illinois-Chicago|Illinois-Chicago]] ( | + | | [[2004 Illinois-Chicago|Illinois-Chicago]] (R8) |
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| [[2005 NCT|2005]] | | [[2005 NCT|2005]] | ||
| [[2005 Williams|Williams]] | | [[2005 Williams|Williams]] | ||
| [[2005 Rochester|Rochester]] | | [[2005 Rochester|Rochester]] | ||
− | | [[2005 SUNY-Stony Brook|SUNY-Stony Brook]] | + | | [[2005 SUNY-Stony Brook|SUNY-Stony Brook]]<ref name="combined">From 2005 to 2007, Region 3 and Region 4 ran a combined tournament. The overall winner, plus the highest-finishing team from the other region, received NCT bids. In all three years, the Region 4 team actually won. 2005 Stony Brook, 2006 Seton Hall, and 2007 Seton Hall received NCT bids as the highest-finishing Region 3 teams in each year.</ref> |
| [[2005 Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]] | | [[2005 Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]] | ||
| [[2005 Wofford|Wofford]] | | [[2005 Wofford|Wofford]] | ||
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| [[2005 Montana State-Billings|Montana State-Billings]] | | [[2005 Montana State-Billings|Montana State-Billings]] | ||
| [[2005 Stanford|Stanford]] | | [[2005 Stanford|Stanford]] | ||
− | | [[2005 Valdosta State|Valdosta State]] ( | + | | [[2005 Valdosta State|Valdosta State]] (R6) |
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| [[2006 NCT|2006]] | | [[2006 NCT|2006]] | ||
| [[2006 UMass-Lowell|UMass-Lowell]] | | [[2006 UMass-Lowell|UMass-Lowell]] | ||
| [[2006 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]] | | [[2006 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]] | ||
− | | [[2006 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]] | + | | [[2006 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]<ref name="combined"></ref> |
| [[2006 Bucknell|Bucknell]] | | [[2006 Bucknell|Bucknell]] | ||
| [[2006 Davidson|Davidson]] | | [[2006 Davidson|Davidson]] | ||
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| [[2007 Williams|Williams]] | | [[2007 Williams|Williams]] | ||
| [[2007 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]] | | [[2007 St. Bonaventure|St. Bonaventure]] | ||
− | | [[2007 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]] | + | | [[2007 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]]<ref name="combined"></ref> |
| [[2007 UMBC|UMBC]] | | [[2007 UMBC|UMBC]] | ||
| [[2007 Southern Virginia|Southern Virginia]] | | [[2007 Southern Virginia|Southern Virginia]] | ||
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| [[2008 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]] | | [[2008 Seton Hall|Seton Hall]] | ||
| [[2008 UMBC|UMBC]] | | [[2008 UMBC|UMBC]] | ||
− | | [[2008 Georgetown|Georgetown]] | + | | [[2008 Georgetown College|Georgetown College]] |
− | | [[2008 Florida State|Florida State]]<ref>Florida State no-showed to the NCT. All of their games were recorded as losses with FSU scoring 0 points and each opponent scoring their tournament average PPG.</ref> | + | | [[2008 Florida State|Florida State]]<ref name="FSU">Florida State no-showed to the NCT in 2008. All of their games were recorded as losses with FSU scoring 0 points and each opponent scoring their tournament average PPG. This is not counted as an NCT appearance in the table.</ref> |
| [[2008 Ohio State|Ohio State]] | | [[2008 Ohio State|Ohio State]] | ||
| [[2008 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] | | [[2008 Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] | ||
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− | ! Appearances | + | ! Appearances<ref>Includes teams which lost at the "Sectional" level in 1986.</ref> |
! Team | ! Team | ||
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− | | [[Brigham Young | + | | [[Brigham Young]] · [[Princeton]] · [[Rice]] |
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|8 | |8 | ||
− | | [[Virginia]] | + | | [[Harvard]] · [[Virginia]] |
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|7 | |7 | ||
− | | [[Iowa]] · [[Ohio State]] · [[Oklahoma | + | | [[Iowa]] · [[Ohio State]] · [[Oklahoma]] |
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|6 | |6 | ||
− | | [[George Washington]] · [[ | + | | [[George Washington]] · [[Indiana]] · [[Pittsburgh]] · [[Truman State]] · [[Washington]] · [[Williams]]<ref name="Williams">The Williams team attended the NCT site in 1999 but was not permitted to participate in games due to their faculty sponsor failing to arrive. This is counted as a nationals appearance in the table.</ref> · [[Wisconsin]] |
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− | | [[Michigan State]] · [[MIT]] · [[North Carolina]] · [[Rochester]] · [[UCLA]] | + | | [[Georgetown]] · [[Michigan State]] · [[MIT]] · [[North Carolina]] · [[Rochester]] · [[UCLA]] |
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− | | [[Berkeley]] · [[Brandeis]] · [[Delaware | + | | [[Berkeley]] · [[Brandeis]] · [[Delaware]] · [[Fresno State]] · [[Georgia]] · [[Illinois-Chicago]] · [[Johns Hopkins]] · [[Kansas]] · [[Louisiana State]] · [[Oberlin]] · [[Pomona College]] · [[San Francisco State]] · [[SIU-Carbondale]] · [[St. Bonaventure]] · [[SUNY-Stony Brook]] · [[Temple]] · [[UMBC]] · [[USC]] · [[Valdosta State]] · [[Western Michigan]] · [[Wichita State]] · [[Yale]] |
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− | | [[Alabama]] · [[Alfred]] · [[Ball State]] · [[Boston University]] · [[Bucknell]] · [[Case Western]] · [[Centre]] · [[Charleston]] · [[Colorado State]] · [[Earlham]] · [[Eckerd]] · [[Georgia Southern-Armstrong]] · [[Harding]] · [[Houston]] · [[Illinois College]] · [[IUPUI | + | | [[Alabama]] · [[Alfred]] · [[Ball State]] · [[Boston University]] · [[Bucknell]] · [[Case Western]] · [[Centre]] · [[Charleston]] · [[Colorado State]] · [[Earlham]] · [[Eckerd]] · [[Florida State]]<ref name="FSU">Florida State no-showed to the NCT in 2008. All of their games were recorded as losses with FSU scoring 0 points and each opponent scoring their tournament average PPG. This is not counted as an NCT appearance in the table.</ref> · [[Georgia Southern-Armstrong]] · [[Georgetown College]] · [[Harding]] · [[Houston]] · [[Illinois College]] · [[IUPUI]]· [[Midwestern State]] · [[Missouri]] · [[Oklahoma Baptist]] · [[Pacific Lutheran]] · [[Penn State]] · [[Portland Community College-Sylvania]] · [[Rhodes]] · [[Roanoke]] · [[Rose-Hulman]] · [[San Jose State]] · [[South Carolina]] · [[South Dakota]] · [[Southern Virginia]] · [[SUNY-Albany]] · [[SUNY-Oneonta]] · [[Texas A&M]] · [[Texas Christian]] · [[UC-San Diego]] · [[UMass-Lowell]] · [[Wabash]] · [[Wake Forest]] · [[Washington State]] · [[Western Connecticut State]] · [[Western Oregon]] · [[Wofford]] |
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Latest revision as of 03:04, 17 September 2024
The National Championship Tournament (NCT) was held annually by the College Bowl Company, Inc., to determine its format's national title during the company's affiliation with ACUI from 1977-1978 to 2007-2008. Occasional matches appeared on radio or TV during that time.
The College Bowl-ACUI program was discontinued after 2008. College Bowl continued to offer products to limited markets such as the HCASC and the 2021 College Bowl TV Show, but has not staged a competition for the general college level since the end of the ACUI partnership.
Tournament/field quality
For a full discussion of the mainstream quizbowl community's issues with the College Bowl program and the reasons for teams choosing not to participate, see the main page for College Bowl as a whole. This page is focused on the National Championship Tournament specifically.
By 1990, several major contenders in ACF and, ultimately, NAQT tournaments such as Maryland, Tennessee, and Georgia Tech no longer participated in College Bowl. By 2000 the only regular participants in College Bowl among the top tier of quizbowl teams were Chicago and Michigan, who themselves did not compete after the 2003-2004 season, and who never sent their best possible lineups to the tournament after 1998, due to a combination of the grad student restriction and individual players not wishing to play College Bowl. In the last eleven instances of the NCT, the only serious ICT or ACF title contenders who sent their best player lineups to College Bowl NCT were 2006 UCLA and Chicago's 1998 team, though other Chicago and Michigan lineups often won the NCT even without the top players from those clubs. The field quality below the top 4 was also very weak compared to other nationals due to the qualification system.
ACUI Regional System
During the time of the ACUI/College Bowl affiliation, ACUI was divided into 16 geographical regions. Regions 1-15 covered all areas of the United States and Canada. Region 16, for Australia, New Zealand, and "the Far East," never participated in College Bowl.
Generally, each region held a tournament and the champion qualified for NCT. Except in 2003 (when only the 15 regional champions were invited), 1986 (when an intermediate "sectional" stage was used), and 1980 and 1981 (when 9 wild cards were invited to create a 24-team, multi-stage national tournament) the NCT field selected a 16th team by picking one regional runner-up as a wild card. The process for choosing the wild card was purported to be a random draw, though some questioned whether teams were actually chosen for other reasons. Though almost all NCTs had a 16-team field, the specific tournament format varied often, as noted below.
From 2005 to 2007, the region 3 and 4 tournaments were combined in one, single-site event, with the highest-finishing teams from each region in the overall field each receiving NCT bids.
ACUI's region system continued to influence tournament placement and nationals qualification during ACUI's affiliation with NAQT from 2010-2013, though with significantly less rigidity than during the College Bowl era. Since the end of ACUI involvement in quizbowl in 2013, they have reorganized into an 8-region system.
College Bowl NCT top finishers/locations
- ↑ Formats used for old NCTs: https://web.archive.org/web/19970506201422/http://www.collegebowl.com/archives/archnct.html
- ↑ The tournament was produced for CBS television and was advertised as being held "in Miami." WTVJ was the Miami CBS affiliate at the time and had a production studio with significant capabilities compared to most local stations, so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it.
- ↑ This team is denoted "Harvard-Radcliffe" in some sources. Harvard and Radcliffe began a formal affiliation in 1977 and merged into one university in 1999. Most likely, some students who began their university careers at an independent Radcliffe College did in fact play on this team.
- ↑ The tournament was produced for CBS television and was advertised as being held "in Miami." WTVJ was the Miami CBS affiliate at the time and had a production studio with significant capabilities compared to most local stations, so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it. One participant recalls playing the event at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel, though that same account misremembers the Miami NCT as being held in 1980, so it is not clear if this is a reliable memory.
- ↑ The tournament was produced for CBS radio and was advertised as being held "in New York," so this is the most likely location, though no contemporary article actually specifies it.
- ↑ This was one of the two years in which the NCT used a 3-stage, 24-team format. The additional teams invited besides the 15 regional champions were Earlham, Harvard, Marshall, Oklahoma Baptist, Texas Christian, Georgia, Iowa, Notre Dame, and Vanderbilt.
- ↑ This was one of the two years in which the NCT used a 3-stage, 24-team format. The additional teams invited besides the 15 regional champions were Davidson, Marshall, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Temple, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Wichita State, and Yale.
- ↑ The NCT was not held in 1983. As best as can be determined, a full set of Regional tournaments was run, but the complete list of winners is not preserved anywhere, and no wild-card team was named. 1983 teams are not counted as nationals appearances in the table.
- ↑ Some sources list the University of Idaho as winning this tournament. As there was no 1983 national, the discrepancy cannot be explained by the winning team declining their bid and being replaced, and is most likely a mistake. The best judgment of which article is more reliable indicates that Puget Sound probably won.
- ↑ "Georgia Southern University-Armstrong Campus" is the current full name of the school that was known as "Armstrong State College" at the time of this tournament.
- ↑ The NCT was not held in 1985. As best as can be determined, no wild-card team was named. 1985 teams are not counted as nationals appearances in the table.
- ↑ This year used a "sectional" stage between the RCT and NCT. Only the top four teams, presumably the sectional champions, actually participated in the final national stage. Whether any teams beyond the 15 regional champions were invited to participate in the sectionals has not been determined; thus, it is possible there was no wild card in this year.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 The Region 1 champion Harvard and the Region 14 champion Washington declined to attend the NCT. Harvard was replaced by runner-up MIT. Washington's spot was offered to the (unrecorded) second-place finisher, who also declined. To fill the remaining spot, a second wild-card draw was held. In addition to the original wild-card bid for Syracuse, region 12 runner-up LSU attended the tournament as the final replacement team as a result of the second draw.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 The school now known as Truman State University was called Northeast Missouri State University until June 1996.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 The Williams team attended the NCT site in 1999 but was not permitted to participate in games due to their faculty sponsor failing to arrive. This is counted as a nationals appearance in the table.
- ↑ There was no wild card team in 2003. The tournament ran with 15 teams.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 From 2005 to 2007, Region 3 and Region 4 ran a combined tournament. The overall winner, plus the highest-finishing team from the other region, received NCT bids. In all three years, the Region 4 team actually won. 2005 Stony Brook, 2006 Seton Hall, and 2007 Seton Hall received NCT bids as the highest-finishing Region 3 teams in each year.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Florida State no-showed to the NCT in 2008. All of their games were recorded as losses with FSU scoring 0 points and each opponent scoring their tournament average PPG. This is not counted as an NCT appearance in the table.
- ↑ Includes teams which lost at the "Sectional" level in 1986.