February
February is a bad month for quiz bowl, with a number of scandals occurring or becoming public:
- 2009
- the Neil Sammader cheating incident
- Matt Knupp's scandal [1]
- the incident at the Southeast SCT (DII)
- 2011
- the Dmitri Halikias fraud/cheating incident [2]
- 2012
- Josh Alman cheats at the SCT
- 2013
- Josh Alman's cheating at various tournaments is publicly revealed
- 2017
- A "statistically anomalous performance by the Windhaven Park E team" at the St. Mark's Invitational [3]
February is also prone to snow storms which ruin or reschedule sites of NAQT SCT and ACF Regionals, perhaps the only two bright spots of the month.