ICT

The Intercollegiate Championship Tournament (ICT) is an annual event held by NAQT. Along with ACF Nationals, the ICT is one of the two tournaments which determine a national champion each year in collegiate quizbowl.

Competitors must be invited to the ICT based on performance at Sectional Championship Tournaments held around North America in February. British teams have also been invited in past years.

ICT is divided into Division I and Division II. Division I is the general collegiate division and awards the overall national championship. Division II is a "novice" style division, limited to university players who are in their first year of ICT competition, and to Community College players in their first three years.

The tournament has been held every spring since 1997. The Undergraduate and Division II titles were first awarded in 1998, and the Community College title was first awarded in 2002.

ICT master info table

Year	Overall National Champion	Undergraduate Champion	Division II Champion	Community College Champion	Host City
1997	Chicago	N/A	N/A	N/A	Philadelphia, PA
1998	Stanford	Swarthmore	Harvard	N/A	Nashville, TN
1999	Chicago	Carleton College	Princeton	N/A	Ann Arbor, MI
2000	Illinois	Princeton	Harvard	N/A	Boston, MA
2001	Chicago	Princeton	Pittsburgh	N/A	St. Louis, MO
2002	Michigan	Princeton	Yale	Valencia	Chapel Hill, NC
2003	Chicago	Harvard	Berkeley	Valencia	Los Angeles, CA
2004	Berkeley	Illinois	UCLA	Valencia	St. Louis, MO
2005	Michigan	VCU	Chicago	Faulkner State	New Orleans, LA
2006	Berkeley	Williams	Stanford	Broward	College Park, MD
2007	Chicago	Carleton College	Maryland	Valencia	Minneapolis, MN
2008	Maryland	Harvard	Carleton College	Valencia	St. Louis, MO
2009	Chicago	Minnesota	Chicago	Northeast Alabama	Dallas, TX
2010	Chicago	Minnesota	Brown	St. Charles	Chicago, IL
2011	Minnesota	VCU	Yale	Chipola	Chicago, IL
2012	Virginia	Ohio State	Harvard	Chipola	Chicago, IL
2013	Yale	Ohio State	Stanford	Chipola	Chicago, IL
2014	Virginia	Yale	Harvard	Valencia	Chicago, IL
2015	Virginia	Maryland	Texas	N/A	Atlanta, GA
2016	Chicago	Berkeley	Chicago	N/A	Chicago, IL
2017	Michigan	Oklahoma	Berkeley	N/A	Chicago, IL
2018	Yale	Berkeley	Chicago	N/A	Chicago, IL
2019	Yale	Michigan State	Maryland	N/A	Chicago, IL

The Undergraduate and Division II titles were created in 1998. By current definitions, the top-finishing UG team in 1997 was South Carolina and the top-finishing Division II team was Swarthmore.

Division I Expanded Top Finishers Table

Year	Champion	Second Place	Third Place	Fourth Place	Top Individual Scorer	Other All-Stars	Stats
1997	Chicago	Harvard	Berkeley	Cornell	Robert Margolis UT-Dallas	Eric Tentarelli (Cornell) • John Edwards (Howard) • Jeff Johnson (Harvard) • James Rogers (Johns Hopkins) • R. Hentzel (Iowa State) • Mike Starsinic (Ohio State) • Tom Michael (Auburn-Mongomery)	Stats
1998	Stanford	Chicago	Harvard	Berkeley	John Sheahan Chicago	Robert Margolis (UT-Dallas) • Jeff Johnson (Harvard) • James Rogers (Johns Hopkins) • John Edwards (Howard) • Tim Young (George Washington) • T.C. Ford (South Carolina) • Alex Mouat (Florida)	Stats
1999	Chicago	Berkeley	Michigan	Stanford	Andrew Yaphe Chicago	John Kenney (Virginia) • Roger Lee (Stanford) • Tim Young (George Washington) • Steve Lin (Berkeley) • Steve Watchorn (Wisconsin) • Eliot Brenner (Virginia Tech) • Julie Singer (Maryland)	Stats
2000	Illinois	Chicago	Michigan	Berkeley	Andrew Yaphe Chicago	Subash Maddipoti (Illinois) • Mike Wehrman (Arkansas) • Guy Jordan (Massachusetts) • John Kenney (Virginia) • Richard Mason (Caltech) • John Nam (Maryland) • Eliot Brenner (Yale)	Stats
2001	Chicago	Michigan	Michigan B	Illinois	Andrew Yaphe Chicago	Jeff Hoppes (Princeton) • Vik Vaz (Harvard) • Mike Wehrman (Arkansas) • Raj Dhuwalia (Florida Atlantic) • Philip Huang (Oregon) • Brian Jenkins (Georgia) • John Kenney (Virginia)	Stats
2002	Michigan	Virginia	Chicago	Princeton	Matt Weiner Pitt	Vik Vaz (Harvard) • Raj Dhuwalia (Florida Atlantic) • Mike Usher (MIT) • Jeff Hoppes (Princeton) • Kevin Comer (Florida) • Fred Bush (Rochester) • David Hayes (Rutgers)	Stats
2003	Chicago	Berkeley	Maryland	Michigan	Subash Maddipoti Chicago	Raj Dhuwalia (Florida) • Vik Vaz (Harvard) • Roger Craig (Delaware) • Joon Pahk (Stanford) • Pat Friel (UCLA) • Robert Beard (Yale) • Brandon Eilertson (Case Western)	Stats
2004	Berkeley	Florida	Michigan	Maryland Yale	Sudheer Potru Illinois	Raj Dhuwalia (Florida) • Jason Keller (Rutgers) • Fred Bush (Rochester) • Jeff Hoppes (Berkeley) • Wesley Mathews (Indiana) • Leo Wolpert (Michigan B) • Andrew Ullsperger (Illinois)	Stats
2005	Michigan	Chicago	Rochester	Illinois	Matt Weiner VCU	Andrew Yaphe (Chicago) • Jason Keller (Rutgers) • Eric Smith (Stanford) • Mike Wehrman (Yale) • Adam Kemezis (Michigan) • Gerry Tansey (Emory) • Sudheer Potru (Illinois)	Stats
2006	Berkeley	Illinois	Chicago	VCU	Jerry Vinokurov Brown	Matt Weiner (VCU) • Eric Smith (Stanford) • Jason Keller (Rutgers) • Pat Hope (Carleton College) • Jeff Hoppes (Berkeley) • Charles Meigs (UCLA) • Lenny Kostovetsky (Princeton)	Stats
2007	Chicago	Illinois	Michigan	VCU	Matt Weiner VCU	Jerry Vinokurov (Brown) • Aaron Kashtan (Florida) • Paul Drube (Iowa) • Mike Sorice (Illinois) • Matt Keller (Vanderbilt) • Ezra Lyon (Minnesota) • Pat Hope (Carleton College)	Stats
2008	Maryland	Chicago	Illinois	Brown	Jerry Vinokurov Brown	Jason Keller (Rutgers) • Mike Sorice (Illinois) • Garrett Ryan (Carleton College) • Brendan Byrne (Drake) • Paul Drube (Iowa) • Charlie Steinhice (UTC) • Seth Teitler (Chicago)	Stats
2009	Chicago	Illinois	Minnesota	Irvine Stanford	Mike Sorice Illinois	Brendan Byrne (Minnesota) • Dwight Wynne (Irvine) • Seth Teitler (Chicago) • Chris Ray (Maryland) • Gordon Arsenoff (WUSTL) • Garrett Ryan (Carleton College) • Aaron Kashtan (Florida)	Stats
2010	Chicago	Penn	Illinois	Minnesota	Evan Adams VCU	Brendan Byrne (Minnesota) • Mike Sorice (Illinois) • Jerry Vinokurov (Brown) • Eric Mukherjee (Penn) • Chris Ray (Maryland) • Dwight Wynne (Irvine) • Seth Teitler (Chicago)	Stats
2011	Minnesota	Brown	Chicago VCU	N/A	Chris Ray Maryland	Matt Bollinger (Virginia) • Dwight Wynne (Irvine) • Henry Gorman (Rice) • Kurtis Droge (Michigan) • Gordon Arsenoff (WUSTL) • Guy Tabachnick (Brown) • Aaron Cohen (RPI)	Stats
2012	Virginia	Illinois	Yale	Maryland	Auroni Gupta UCSD	Will Butler (Georgia Tech) • Trevor Davis (Carnegie Mellon) • Eric Mukherjee (Penn) • Neil Gurram (MIT) • Chris Ray (Maryland) • Matt Bollinger (Virginia) • Andrew Hart (Minnesota)	Stats
2013	Yale	Virginia	Penn	Illinois	Rob Carson MCTC	Ike Jose (Illinois) • Chris Ray (Maryland) • Neil Gurram (MIT) • Matt Jackson (Yale) • Matt Bollinger (Virginia) • Andrew Hart (Minnesota) • Eric Mukherjee (Penn)	Stats
2014	Virginia	Yale	Penn	Chicago	Matt Bollinger Virginia	Matt Weiner (Reynolds) • Rob Carson (MCTC) • Will Nediger (Michigan) • Eric Mukherjee (Penn) • Adam Silverman (Georgia Tech) • Matt Jackson (Yale) • Richard Yu (WUSTL)	Stats
2015	Virginia	Penn	Chicago	Maryland	Matt Bollinger Virginia	Dylan Minarik (Northwestern) • Eric Mukherjee (Penn) • Auroni Gupta (UCSD) • Adam Silverman (Georgia Tech) • Yogesh Raut (New Mexico State) • Will Nediger (Michigan) • Shan Kothari (Minnesota)	Stats
2016	Chicago	Michigan	Stanford	Maryland	Kurtis Droge Louisville	Jordan Brownstein (Maryland) • Eric Mukherjee (Penn) • Jacob Reed (Yale) • Neil Gurram (MIT) • Auroni Gupta (Michigan) • Itamar Naveh-Benjamin (Missouri) • Chris Ray (Chicago)	Stats
2017	Michigan	Northwestern	Stanford	Maryland	Jordan Brownstein Maryland	Itamar Naveh-Benjamin (Missouri) • Derek So (McGill) • Caleb Kendrick (Oklahoma) • Max Schindler (Chicago) • Stephen Liu (Stanford) • Auroni Gupta (Michigan) • Rafael Krichevsky (Columbia)	Stats
2018	Yale	Berkeley	Chicago	Columbia Michigan Penn	Itamar Naveh-Benjamin Missouri	Eric Mukherjee (Penn) • John Lawrence (Chicago) • Kenji Shimizu (Michigan) • Aseem Keyal (Berkeley) • Jakob Myers (Michigan State) • Jacob Reed (Yale) • Chris Ray (Ohio State)	Stats
2019	Yale	Columbia	Chicago	Minnesota	Adam Silverman Northwestern	Jakob Myers (Michigan State) • Chris Ray (Ohio State) • Charles Hang (WUSTL) • Jacob Reed (Yale) • Kevin Wang (Amherst) • John Lawrence (Chicago) • Eric Wolfsberg (Delaware) • Eric Xu (Virginia) • Natan Holtzman (Stanford)	Stats

Champions whose names are in bold were undefeated.

Division I Medal count

Team	Championships	Second Place Finishes (Total Top 2 Finishes)	Third Place Finishes (Total Top 3 Finishes)	Fourth Place Finishes (Total Top 4 Finishes)
Berkeley	2	3 (5)	1 (6)	2 (8)
Brown	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	1 (2)
Chicago	8	4 (12)	6 (18)	1 (19)
Columbia	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	1 (2)
Cornell	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)
Florida	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Harvard	0	1 (1)	1 (2)	0 (2)
Illinois	1	4 (5)	2 (7)	3 (10)
Irvine	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)
Maryland	1	0 (1)	1 (2)	5 (7)
Michigan	3	2 (5)	5 (10)	2 (12)
Minnesota	1	0 (1)	1 (2)	2 (4)
Northwestern	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Penn	0	2 (2)	2 (4)	1 (5)
Princeton	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)
Rochester	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
Stanford	1	0 (1)	2 (3)	2 (5)
VCU	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	2 (3)
Virginia	3	2 (5)	0 (5)	0 (5)
Yale	3	1 (4)	1 (5)	1 (6)

Division II Expanded Top Finishers Table

Year	Champion	Second Place	Third Place	Fourth Place	Top Individual Scorer	Other All-Stars	Stats
1998	Harvard	Florida	Texas	South Carolina	Adam Humphries South Carolina	David Murphy (Oklahoma) • Kevin Comer (Florida) • Jason (Johns Hopkins) • Gautam Mukunda (Harvard) • David Farris (Harvard) • Mike Angel (Illinois) • Andrew Schnell (Tennessee Tech)	Stats
1999	Princeton	Chicago	Carleton College	Harvard	Jeff Hoppes Princeton	Mike Chiswick-Patterson (Princeton) • Sahir Islam (Harvard) • Jay Catherwood (Caltech) • Ian Jeffress (Furman) • Jeff Bennett (Chicago) • Steve Traicoff (Michigan) • Gabe Lyon (Carleton College)	Stats
2000	Harvard	Rhodes	Princeton	Berkeley	Steve Perry Rhodes	Vik Vaz (Harvard) • Kenny Easwaran (Stanford) • Justin Kolb (DePauw) • Aaron Schroeder (George Washington) • Paul Lujan (Harvard) • Dave McCaughrin (Texas A&M) • Peter Onyisi (Chicago)	Stats
2001	Pitt	Emory	Stanford	Princeton	Matt Weiner Pitt	Jacob Mikanowski (Princeton) • Wesley Mathews (Occidental) • Matt Reece (Chicago) • Justin Sausville (Sewanee) • Tim Youker (Stanford) • Vinita Kailasanath (Stanford) • Amar Hatti (Berkeley)	Stats
2002	Yale	Michigan	Wisconsin	Texas A&M	Matt Lafer Michigan	Erik Nielsen (Boston) • Mengmeng Zhang (Texas) • Robert Beard (Yale) • James Baker (Valencia) • Sudheer Potru (Illinois) • Patrick Riser (Tennessee) • Colby Burnett (Northwestern)	Stats
2003	Berkeley	Valencia	Michigan	Stanford	Charles Meigs UCLA	Martin Devecka (Chicago) • Chris White (Swarthmore) • Jerry Vinokurov (Berkeley) • Grayson Holmes (North Carolina)•Gwen Archard (Virginia) • Jim Baker (Valencia) • Kyle Willett (Carleton College)	Stats
2004	UCLA	Illinois	Harvard	Carleton College	Paul Drube St. Thomas	Charles Meigs (UCLA) • Andrew Moore (Georgia) • Pat Hope (Carleton College) • David Kiang (Illinois) • Amy Harvey (Valencia) • Lee Henry (Athens State) • S.R. Sidarth (Virginia)	Stats
2005	Chicago	Michigan	Harding	WUSTL	Will Turner Michigan	Jason Loy (Harding) • Shaan Ghandi (Case Western) • Eric Kwartler (Texas) • Michael Wright (Virginia) • David Lugrin (Florida) • Jonathan Thompson (Faulkner State) • Andrew Brantley (WUSTL)	Stats
2006	Stanford	Harvard	Caltech	Amherst	Will Sullivan Princeton	Noah Rahman (Caltech) • Garrett Ryan (Carleton College) • Jonathan Magin (Maryland) • Matt Alford (Florida State) • Mason Liang (Princeton) • Kyle Haddad-Fonda (Harvard) • Yevgeny Shrago (Michigan)	Stats
2007	Maryland	Dartmouth	Yale	Chicago	Chris Ray Maryland	Michael Bilow (Yale) • Brendan Byrne (Drake) • Dominic Machado (Dartmouth) • Jonathan Thompson (Alabama) • Patrick Riley (Snead State) • Travis Vitello (Florida) • Andrew Hart (Minnesota)	Stats
2008	Carleton College	Western Ontario	Dartmouth	Cornell	Greg Peterson Lawrence	Peter Burton (Western Ontario) • Matt Chadbourne (Missouri S&T) • Justin Byrd (Florida) • Hannah Kirsch (Brandeis) • Trevor Davis (Carnegie Mellon) • Kunle Demuren (Princeton) • Andy Watkins (Harvard)	Stats
2009	Chicago	Michigan	RPI	Yale	Kurtis Droge Michigan	George Berry (Reynolds) • Aaron Cohen (RPI) • Jacob Durst (Ohio State) • Tyler Smith (Chicago) • Chris Sparks (Gonzaga) • Andy Knowles (Alabama) • Spencer Pate (Miami-Ohio)	Stats
2010	Brown	Clemson	Rice	Michigan	Henry Gorman Rice	Guy Tabachnick (Brown) • Charles Hang (St. Charles) • Sam Bailey (Chicago) • Jamie Ding (Princeton) • Charlie Rosenthal (Carleton College) • Dallin Kelson (Chipola) • Joe Wells (Centre)	Stats
2011	Yale	Chicago	MIT	Ohio State	Neil Gurram MIT	Matt Jackson (Yale) • Dallin Kelson (Chipola) • Dan Puma (Montgomery) • Brad Fischer (Northern Illinois) • Charles Hang (WUSTL) • Dan Donohue (Northwestern) • Daichi Ueda (Chicago)	Stats
2012	Harvard	NYU	Michigan State	Delaware	Paul Kelson Chipola	Stephen Eltinge (MIT) • Alex Gerten (Wisconsin) • Peter Estall (Minnesota) • Alex Gross (Delaware) • Dennis Beeby (Ottawa) • Andrew Nadig (Carnegie Mellon) • Matt Messana (Notre Dame)	Stats
2013	Stanford	Yale	Chicago	Harvard	Paul Kelson Chipola	Matt Moschella (Cornell) • Richard Yu (WUSTL) • Benji Nguyen (Stanford) • Austin Brownlow (Louisville) • Grace Liu (Yale) • Andrew Wang (Illinois) • Anderson Wang (MIT)	Stats
2014	Harvard	Northwestern	McGill	WUSTL	Dylan Minarik Northwestern	Morgan Venkus (Chicago) • Itamar Naveh-Benjamin (Missouri) • Tristan Willey (Illinois) • Leslie Newcombe (McMaster) • Seth Ebner (WUSTL) • Wilton Rao (Columbia) • Alec Vulfson (NYU)	Stats
2015	Texas	Chicago	Stanford	Georgia	Hidehiro Anto UCLA	Carlo De Guzman (Texas A&M) • Jason Asher (Minnesota) • Paul Kirk-Davidoff (Carleton College) • Sean McBride (Cornell) • Nathan Weiser (Stanford) • Neil Vinjamuri (Pitt) • Will Mason (WUSTL)	Stats
2016	Chicago	Oklahoma	Virginia	Notre Dame	Eric Xu Virginia	Ryan Bilger (Gettysburg) • Ziad Ali (NC State) • Caleb Kendrick (Oklahoma) • Adam Fine (Yale) • Kai Smith (Chicago) • Henry Hawthorn (Rochester) • Paul Kossik (Faulkner State CC)	Stats
2017	Berkeley	Illinois	Ohio State	Delaware	Eric Wolfsberg Delaware	Cole Timmerwilke (Illinois) • Vincent Doehr (Georgetown) • Rohin Devanthan (Berkeley) • Sam Moon (Vanderbilt) • Yu Lu (Maryland) • Ryan Golant (Princeton) • Clark Smith (Ohio State)	Stats
2018	Chicago	Harvard	Penn	Berkeley	Erik Christensen Waterloo	Tracy Mirkin (Florida) • Nathaniel Brodsky (Harvard) • Matthew Lehmann (Chicago) • Rahul Keyal (Berkeley) • Paul Kasinski (Toronto) • Henry Atkins (McGill) • Nitin Rao (Penn)	Stats
2019	Maryland	Chicago	Wesleyan	Harvard	Jack Lewis Maryland	Jakob Boeye (Carleton College) • Jonathan Williams (Williams) • Maximilian Shatan (Wesleyan) • Thomas Gioia (Harvard) • Ethan Skinner (De Anza) • Jesse Gingold (Valencia) • Vishwa Shanmugam (Maryland)	Stats

Champions whose names are in bold were undefeated.

Division II Medal count

Team	Championships	Second Place Finishes (Total Top 2 Finishes)	Third Place Finishes (Total Top 3 Finishes)	Fourth Place Finishes (Total Top 4 Finishes)
Amherst	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)
Berkeley	2	0 (2)	0 (2)	2 (4)
Brown	1	0 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Caltech	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
Carleton College	1	0 (1)	1 (2)	1 (3)
Chicago	4	4 (8)	1 (9)	1 (10)
Clemson	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Cornell	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)
Dartmouth	0	1 (1)	1 (2)	0 (2)
Delaware	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (2)
Emory	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Florida	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Georgia	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)
Harding	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
Harvard	4	2 (6)	1 (7)	3 (10)
Illinois	0	2 (2)	0 (2)	0 (2)
Maryland	2	0 (2)	0 (2)	0 (2)
McGill	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
Michigan	0	3 (3)	1 (4)	1 (5)
Michigan State	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
MIT	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
Northwestern	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Notre Dame	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)
NYU	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Ohio State	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	1 (2)
Oklahoma	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Penn	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
Pitt	1	0 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Princeton	1	0 (1)	1 (2)	1 (3)
Rhodes	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Rice	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
RPI	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
South Carolina	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)
Stanford	2	0 (2)	2 (4)	1 (5)
Texas	1	0 (1)	1 (2)	0 (2)
Texas A&M	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)
UCLA	1	0 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Valencia	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Virginia	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
Wesleyan	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
Western Ontario	0	1 (1)	0 (1)	0 (1)
Wisconsin	0	0 (0)	1 (1)	0 (1)
WUSTL	0	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (2)
Yale	2	1 (3)	1 (4)	1 (5)

Notes

Post-hoc adjustments

The 2012 Undergraduate title was originally awarded to Illinois. It was later found that, due to an honest misunderstanding of the eligibility rules, Illinois was not eligible for Undergraduate placement, though they retained their second-place overall finish. The UG trophy was then awarded to MIT; however, Josh Alman was found to have cheated. Ohio State, originally named the third-place UG finisher, turned out to be the highest-finishing eligible UG team.

The 2009 and 2011 Undergraduate, 2010 DI, and 2011 DI championships were originally awarded to Harvard, however, Andy Watkins was found to have cheated, and Harvard's wins were vacated and given to the teams originally announced as runners-up in those divisions.

Top Community College

Beginning in 2009, NAQT determined its official community college national championship at the CCCT. From 2009 to 2014 the top-finishing community college in the DII ICT was recognized as "ICT Top Community College" but did not become the community college national champion. However, the CCCT champion also won the ICT Top Community College trophy in every year from 2010 to 2014; in 2009, Reynolds won the CCCT but Northeast Alabama won the ICT Top Community College trophy.

Ties

NAQT policy is to play off the top three spots so that there are no ties. Due to the adjustment of team standings in 2011 after Harvard's disqualification, what was formerly thought to be a fourth-place tie turned out to be a third-place tie too late to resolve it at the tournament. Both Chicago and VCU are now tied for third and there is no fourth-place team for that year. It is possible to have an unresolved fourth-place tie in the current tournament format, as well as most prior ones, and this has happened on two other occasions noted above.

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