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A national championship is an event purporting to award a title to the best [[quizbowl]] team in a particular country. Over the years a number of national championships have been held for college, high school, and middle school levels of play, with widely varying formats and question quality.
 
A national championship is an event purporting to award a title to the best [[quizbowl]] team in a particular country. Over the years a number of national championships have been held for college, high school, and middle school levels of play, with widely varying formats and question quality.
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== History of national level play ==
 
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Don Reid developed the [[College Bowl]] format for American university students after success with a similar program for American GIs during WWII. The tournament began in 1953 as a broadcasted event on NBC radio. In 1953 College Bowl made the transition to television as the medium became more popular among American households. For 40 years the College Bowl tournament was the premier American collegiate academic competition. During the 1990's, for a variety of reasons, College Bowl's popularity began to diminish. The Academic Competition Federation was established in 1991 by college quizbowl players who were dissatisfied over the CBI's handling of quiz bowl and held an alternate national championship. In 1997 the newly founded [[National Academic Quiz Tournaments]] company held the first [[Intercollegiate Tournament]] (ICT) and aimed hold academic competition with the same organization as College Bowl but with better questions. Over the years good schools left the CBI sponsored tournament for [[good quizbowl]] and ultimately in 2008 the company became bankrupt and folded, after almost 60 years of existence. Today, there are two major college national championships, ICT and ACF nationals, and are slightly different. A spin-off of CBI, the [[Honda Campus All-Star Challenge]], exists for historically black colleges.
 
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For high school level play, there have also been a number of
 
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Corporate sponsorship has also contributed to formation and continued existence of several national championship tournaments from time to time like the [[PAC|Panasonic All-Star Challenge]].
 
  
 
== Active titles (scheduled to be awarded in 2014) ==
 
== Active titles (scheduled to be awarded in 2014) ==

Revision as of 10:00, 16 December 2013

A national championship is an event purporting to award a title to the best quizbowl team in a particular country. Over the years a number of national championships have been held for college, high school, and middle school levels of play, with widely varying formats and question quality.

Active titles (scheduled to be awarded in 2014)

Title Tournament Awarding Title Sponsoring Organization Eligible Participants Quality status First year awarded Incumbent champion
ACF Nationals Overall ACF Nationals ACF College teams Good quizbowl 1991 Illinois
ACF Nationals Undergraduate ACF Nationals ACF College teams composed of undergraduates Good quizbowl 2008 Chicago
ACF Nationals Division II ACF Nationals ACF College teams composed of new players Good quizbowl 2008 Illinois
NAQT ICT Division I ICT NAQT College teams Good quizbowl 1997 Yale
NAQT ICT Undergraduate ICT NAQT College teams composed of undergraduates Good quizbowl 1998 Ohio State
NAQT ICT Division II ICT NAQT College teams composed of new players Good quizbowl 1998 Stanford
NAQT ICT Division II Top Community College* ICT NAQT Community college teams Good quizbowl 2002 Chipola
NAQT CCCT CCCT NAQT Community college teams Good quizbowl 2009 Chipola
College History Bowl Overall College History Bowl NHBB College teams Good quizbowl 2012 Virginia
College History Bowl Undergraduate College History Bowl NHBB College teams composed of undergraduates Good quizbowl 2012 Harvard
HCASC HCASC College Bowl College teams from HBCUs Bad quizbowl 1990 Morgan State
HSNCT HSNCT NAQT High school teams Good quizbowl 1999 LASA
SSNCT SSNCT NAQT High school teams from small schools Good quizbowl 2014 None
NSC NSC PACE High school teams Good quizbowl 1998 Ladue
NASAT NASAT HSAPQ High school all-star teams by state Good quizbowl 2010 Missouri
National History Bowl Varsity NHBB National Championships NHBB High school teams Good quizbowl 2011 Bellarmine
National History Bowl JV NHBB National Championships NHBB High school teams composed of new players Good quizbowl 2011 Northmont
National History Bowl Middle School§ NHBB National Championships NHBB Middle schools Good quizbowl 2012 Longfellow
Middle School History Bowl§ NHBB Middle School History Bowl NHBB Middle schools Good quizbowl 2013 Stoller
National History Bee Varsity NHBB National Championships NHBB High school players Good quizbowl 2011 Sameer Rai
National History Bee JV NHBB National Championships NHBB High school players who are below 11th grade Good quizbowl 2011 Connor Wood
National History Bee Middle School National History Bee NHBB Middle school players Good quizbowl 2012 Jonathan Tran
National History Bee Elementary School National History Bee NHBB Elementary school players Good quizbowl 2012 Foster Michaelis
Geography Olympiad Varsity Quizbowl Portion NHBB National Championships NHBB High school students Good quizbowl 2013 Anton Karpovich
Geography Olympiad JV Quizbowl Portion NHBB National Championships NHBB High school students who are below an age cutoff Good quizbowl 2013 Taijin Rogers
NAC NAC Questions Unlimited High school teams Bad quizbowl 1983 Horace Greeley
NAC JV NAC Questions Unlimited High school teams composed of new players Bad quizbowl 2010 Harrison
NAC Middle School NAC Questions Unlimited Middle school teams Bad quizbowl 2008 Conway
Beta Club High School Beta Club National Convention Beta Club High school teams Bad quizbowl 1995 Dunbar
Beta Club Middle School Beta Club National Convention Beta Club Middle school teams Bad quizbowl 1995 Blue Ridge
University Challenge (UK) Champion ITV Studios College teams Bad quizbowl? 1963 Manchester

Defunct titles

Title Tournament Awarding Title Sponsoring Organization Eligible Participants Quality status First year awarded Last year awarded Last champion
College Bowl NCT NCT College Bowl College teams Bad quizbowl 1978 2008 Rochester
National Invitation Tournament National Invitation Tournament Emory University College teams Bad quizbowl 1979 1985 North Carolina
All-American Invitational All-American Invitational IBA College teams Bad quizbowl 1988 1989 Georgia Tech
CULT‡ CULT Mike Bentley Open teams Good quizbowl 2010 2010 Cheyne/Seal/Carson/Arnold
TRASHionals TRASHionals TRASH Open teams Bad quizbowl 1998 2010 Quintong/Murphy/Richey/White
HSNCT Top Small School HSNCT NAQT High school teams from small schools Good quizbowl 2002 2013 Macomb
Tournament of Champions TOC ASCN High school teams Bad quizbowl 1987 2005 Dorman
Panasonic Panasonic Academic Challenge Polk County Department of Education High school all-star teams by state Bad quizbowl 1988 2009 Johnson Central
Stars 2000 Stars 2000 National Academic Tournament Academic Enterprises High school teams Bad quizbowl 1989 1991 Dorman
National Academic Super Bowl National Academic Super Bowl Duval County School Board High school all-star teams by county Bad quizbowl 1981 1988 Fayette County
American Academic Challenge AAC Brooks Sanders High school teams Bad quizbowl 1993 1995 Walton
Scholastic Showdown Scholastic Showdown Griffin Experience High school teams Bad quizbowl 1994 1995 Eisenhower
National Academic Bowl National Academic Bowl Just Asking High school teams Bad quizbowl 1996 1997 Edison
National Quiz Bowl for Jesuit Schools National Quiz Bowl for Jesuit Schools Loyola Academy High school teams from Jesuit schools Bad quizbowl 2001 2001 St. Ignatius
  • *While the Top Community College has continued to be recognized at ICT since the launch of the CCCT in 2009, NAQT's website says the ICT team is "not considered a national champion" by NAQT.
  • ‡A sequel to CULT, COLT, was run as Chicago Open Trash in 2011, but was not billed as a national championship.
  • §In 2013, NHBB offered both a middle school division at the high school Bowl and a separate middle school Bowl, held at distinct times on distinct questions, and open to participation in either or both tournaments by a given school. Both tournaments named middle school national champions in 2013.

Staffing guide to good quizbowl nationals in 2014: [1]

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