2022 British Student Quiz Championships

2022 British Student Quiz Championships
Champion	Cambridge A
Runner-up	Edinburgh A
Third	tie: Oxford A, Oxford B, Imperial A
High scorer	Jacob McLaughlin
Site	Imperial
Field	24
Stats	[1]

The 2022 British Student Quiz Championships were held at Imperial College London on the 5th of March 2022. This was the first quizbowl tournament held in-person in the United Kingdom since the 2020 BSQC. The tournament was run on a Briticised version of the 2022 DI SCT. 12 different universities were represented.

Qualification

Teams could qualify for the 2022 BSQC from being ranked fourth or higher in the 2021 BSQC, from being assigned one of four wildcard spaces, or from their performance in any of the four designated qualifying tournaments: 2022 MRNA, 2022 ACF Regionals, 2022 ACF Winter and 2021 Penn Bowl. Cambridge A, Oxford A, Oxford B and Southampton A all automatically qualified.

Tournament summary

Oxford A (Oliver Clarke, Jacob Robertson, Oliver Hargrave, Michael O'Connor), Cambridge A (Michael Kohn, Liam Hughes, Harrison Whitaker, Delia Cropper, Tony Ford), Edinburgh A (Ben Russell Jones, Nicholas Winter, Niall Karunaratne, Holly Parkinson) and Imperial A (Adam Jones, Justin Lee, Michael Mays, Enoch Yuen) cleared their respective prelim groups without a defeat. The top bracket playoffs were unusually competitive, with all teams registering at least one defeat. After the playoffs, Cambridge A led by one victory against runners-up Edinburgh A for an advantaged final. In what was their seventh consecutive appearance in a BSQC final, Cambridge defeated Edinburgh A 340-235 to win their third title.

Participating universities

• University of Bristol (1 team)
• University of Cambridge (3 teams)
• Durham University (2 teams)
• University of Edinburgh (2 teams)
• University of Glasgow (1 team)
• Imperial College London (3 teams)
• University of Manchester (2 teams)
• University of Oxford (4 teams)
• Oxford Brookes University (1 team)
• University of Sheffield (1 team)
• University of Southampton (1 team)
• University of Warwick (3 teams)

Trivia

• This is the first BSQC that Cambridge won without having to play both games of an advantaged final.
• This is the last quizbowl tournament to feature Oxford Brookes, and the last in-person tournament to feature the University of Glasgow.
• The Imperial A team that competed in this tournament would go on to compete in 10 more tournaments (including the next two BSQCs) with the exact same set of players, winning five of them.