NAQT Virginia State Championship

An NAQT state championship in Virginia was established in 2000 to complement the VHSL Scholastic Bowl championship. While Scholastic Bowl is generally considered a well-run event on fair questions, the NAQT tournament provided the only opportunity for schools from different VHSL enrollment divisions and non-VHSL members to compete in one field for a single overall title.

The tournament has been run under various names from year to year. It was originally dubbed the "Commonwealth of Virginia High School Academic Championship" and a large travelling trophy was ordered with this name, though both the name and the trophy were almost immediately lost.

Only in the 2000 tournament was a separate JV state championship held. The B team from Thomas Jefferson won it, collecting the only JV state title ever awarded in Virginia.

In 2006 and 2007, a separate division was run for "small schools" as defined by the tournament hosts (grade 10-12 enrollment under 750 -- official NAQT cutoff is 500). The small school title was awarded again in 2019 to the highest-finishing small school in the overall field.

The tournament was notorious for ending with Thomas Jefferson's A team being upset by its own B team and excluded from the final, which happened four times between 2004 and 2013.

After being severely underpromoted in 2018 and 2019, the tournament was not a priority for running online during the COVID-19 outbreak and has not operated since. Whether it will return in the future is uncertain.

Results

Teams in bold italic unified the championship by winning NAQT Virginia and their respective class of VHSL Scholastic Bowl in the same year.

Year	Number of teams	Overall Champion	Overall Second Place	Overall Third Place	Overall Fourth Place	Small School Champion	Location/Host club
2000	12 (7 varsity and 5 JV)	C.D. Hylton	Thomas Jefferson	Collegiate	Mills Godwin	Not awarded	Maggie Walker
2001	16	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson A	Maggie Walker A	C.D. Hylton	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2002	Unknown	Thomas Jefferson	Maggie Walker	Results needed	Results needed	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2003	Tournament was not held	--	--	--	--	--	--
2004	Unknown	Maggie Walker	Thomas Jefferson B	Results needed	Results needed	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2005	20	Thomas Jefferson A	Princess Anne	Thomas Jefferson B	Maggie Walker A	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2006	30 (total)	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson A	Maggie Walker B	Langley	Cave Spring	University of Virginia
2007	15	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson B	Thomas Jefferson A	Cave Spring A and Freeman	Cave Spring A	University of Virginia
2008	16	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson A	Maggie Walker B	Collegiate	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2009	8	Maggie Walker A	Collegiate	Cosby	Maggie Walker B	Not awarded	Collegiate School (physical site); Tournament co-hosted by VCU and UVa
2010	8	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson A	Thomas Jefferson B	Robinson	Not awarded	UVa (physical site); Tournament co-hosted by VCU and UVa
2011	16	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson B	Thomas Jefferson A	Meridian	Meridian	New Kent (physical site); Tournament hosted by VCU
2012	14	Cave Spring	Christiansburg	Western Branch	Thomas Jefferson A	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2013	21	Western Albemarle	Thomas Jefferson B	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson A	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2014	18	Western Albemarle	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson A	Cave Spring A and Loudoun County	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2015	10	Western Albemarle	Thomas Jefferson	Albemarle	Loudoun County	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2016	20	Thomas Jefferson A	Thomas Jefferson B	Quince Orchard	Maggie Walker A	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2017	34	Thomas Jefferson A	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson B and Maggie Walker B	Not awarded	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2018	25	Thomas Jefferson A	Thomas Jefferson B	Robinson A	McLean	Not awarded	University of Virginia
2019	12	Thomas Jefferson A	Thomas Jefferson B	BASIS McLean	Thomas Jefferson C	BASIS McLean	University of Virginia