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The '''Ontario Quiz Bowl Association''' (or '''ONQBA''') is an organization founded in June 2011 to promote quizbowl in Ontario to students of secondary schools, colleges, and universities. It has held an [[Ontario Provincial Championship]] every year. For most of its history, it has been run by [[Ben Smith]].
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The '''Ontario Quiz Bowl Association''' (or '''ONQBA''') is an organization founded in June 2011 to promote quizbowl in Ontario to students of secondary schools, colleges, and universities. It has held an [[Ontario Provincial Championship]] for high school teams every year.
  
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The Ontario Quizbowl Association (ONQBA) has made an agreement with the [[Guelph]] trivia club to take over organization of the provincial tournament. The organization has a website and newsletter, which advertises tournaments, profile university clubs and list ONQBA decisions, and continue school-targeted (ie: the newsletter and other mailings) and student-targeted (ie: Facebook events and groups) outreach. The ONQBA use any surplus end-of-year funds to support Ontario teams attending national tournaments in the United States including [[PACE]] NSC, [[NAQT]] [[HSNCT]] and with the hope that one day, they can support a NASAT team.  
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From 2012 to 2015, ONQBA was run by [[Ben Smith]], pretty much unassisted. Since then, its elected board of directors has functioned roughly as an organizing committee for high school quizbowl tournaments in Ontario. Their website[http://www.onqba.ca/] is usually up to date and contains event announcements and coverage.
  
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Beginning in the 2011-2012 school year, the ONQBA began to certify tournaments. ONQBA offer different discounts at provincials for schools that hosted and/or did well and/or participated a certified tournament. They will certify any academic quizbowl tournament that has already been certified by PACE and/or NAQT and/or uses a recognized student written event (e.g. SCOP Novice, Early Autumn Collegiate Novice, GSAC) and has an ONQBA member in its staff as a check to make sure the tournament runs smoothly. An ONQBA member must staff in at least one event every year and if applicable, vote at least once a year in an ONQBA procedure. Any events that don't meet these criteria will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
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==Executives==
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* [[Meghan Torchia]] (president)
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* Raymond Chen
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* Sherry Li
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* [[Joe Su]]
  
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More information on the organization, upcoming and past events, and past editions of the newsletter can be found on their website. [http://www.onqba.ca]
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==Former Executives==
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* [[Ben Smith]]
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* [[Peter Cordeiro]] (president)
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* [[User:Ted_Gan|Ted Gan]]
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* [[Patrick Liao]] (president)
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* [[User:Brendan_McKendy|Brendan McKendy]]
  
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==Current Executive==
 
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* [[Patrick Liao]] -  President
 
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* [[Brendan McKendy]] - Secretary
 
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* [[Ted Gan]] - Treasurer
 
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* [[Joe Su]] - Webmaster
 
  
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==External Links==
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* [http://onqba.blogspot.com/ ONQBA Homepage]
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* [https://www.facebook.com/ONQBA/?fref=ts ONQBA on Facebook]
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* [https://twitter.com/OntarioQuizbowl ONQBA on Twitter]
  
 
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Ontario]][[Category:Canada]]
 
[[Category:High school quizbowl in Ontario]][[Category:Canada]]

Latest revision as of 13:14, 15 November 2020

The Ontario Quiz Bowl Association (or ONQBA) is an organization founded in June 2011 to promote quizbowl in Ontario to students of secondary schools, colleges, and universities. It has held an Ontario Provincial Championship for high school teams every year.

From 2012 to 2015, ONQBA was run by Ben Smith, pretty much unassisted. Since then, its elected board of directors has functioned roughly as an organizing committee for high school quizbowl tournaments in Ontario. Their website[1] is usually up to date and contains event announcements and coverage.

Executives

Former Executives


External Links

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