TJIAT
The TJIAT (Thomas Jefferson Invitational Academic Tournament, formerly Thomas Jefferson It's Academic Tournament) is an annual or semi-annual high school tournament hosted by Thomas Jefferson. In recent years, one annual tournament, known as the TJIAT, has purchased questions from a vendor, while another has used house-written questions and is named for a TJ player who graduated the previous year. The first TJIAT was started by Andrew Yaphe [1], though information about that time period is vague at best.
Date | Champion | Runner-up | Stats | Questions | Notes | |
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1993/1994 | House-written | The first confirmed instance of a TJIAT [2] | ||||
1994/1995 | House-written | |||||
1995/1996 | House-written | |||||
1996/1997 | House-written | |||||
1997/1998 | House-written | |||||
1998/1999 | House-written | |||||
December 1999 | Eleanor Roosevelt | Walton | House-written | Used related tossup/bonus format, and supposedly contained an impossible finals packet [3] | ||
December 16, 2000 | Georgetown Day | C.D. Hylton | House-written | Used tossup/bonus format [4] [5] | ||
December 16, 2001 | Eleanor Roosevelt | Sidwell Friends | House-written | Used tossup/bonus format [6] | ||
February 8, 2003 | Maggie Walker | Montgomery Blair | House-written | [7] [8] | ||
October 25, 2003 | Richard Montgomery | Eleanor Roosevelt | [9] [10] | NAQT | Supposedly a mace was awarded as an individual prize [11] | |
January 17, 2004 | Maggie Walker A | Maggie Walker B | [12] | House-written | [13] | |
October 2, 2004 | State College | Gonzaga | NAQT | [14] [15] | ||
January 15, 2005 | Raleigh Charter | Maggie Walker | [16] | House-written | Featured an insanely hard finals match [17] | |
October 1, 2005 | Richard Montgomery | Raleigh Charter | [18] | NAQT | [19] | |
January 14, 2006 | State College | Richard Montgomery | [20] | House-written | [21] | |
October 7, 2006 | Richard Montgomery | State College | NAQT | [22] | ||
January 13, 2007 | Maggie Walker | Raleigh Charter | [23] [24] | House-written | [25] | |
October 13, 2007 | Richard Montgomery | Stuyvesant | [26] | NAQT | [27] | |
January 12, 2008 | Walt Whitman | Wilmington Charter | [28] | House-written | Known as the T.J. Housh Classic [29] | |
October 18, 2008 | Wilmington Charter | Dorman | [30] | NAQT | [31] | |
January 10, 2009 | Wilmington Charter | Georgetown Day | [32] | House-written | Known as the Mostly Over-hyped House-written Invitational Tournament (MOHIT) [33] | |
October 17, 2009 | Maggie Walker | Georgetown Day | [34] | HSAPQ | [35] | |
January 30, 2010 | Maggie Walker | Walter Johnson | [36] | House-written | Known as the Nicely Awesome Rather Excellent iNvitational [37] | |
October 16, 2010 | Richard Montgomery | Thomas Jefferson | [38] | Fall Novice Tournament 2010 | Known as the Novice-Oriented EXcellent Invitational Tournament [39] | |
February 12, 2011 | St. Anselm's | Richard Montgomery | [40] | HSAPQ | [41] | |
October 8, 2011 | St. Anselm's | Detroit Catholic Central | [42] | House-written | Known as the Outstanding Like Excellent Fantastic INvitational [43] | |
January 28, 2012 | Walt Whitman | Montgomery Blair | [44] | LIST II | Was re-scheduled at the last minute due to inclement weather [45] | |
March 31, 2012 | Montgomery Blair | St. Anselm's | [46] | Prison Bowl | [47] | |
November 16, 2013 | Western Albemarle | Montgomery Blair | [48] | JAMES | Known as the Random Acronym You'll Never Once Remember, held at Woodson High School [49] | |
April 5, 2014 | Wilmington Charter | Walter Johnson | [50] | NAQT | Held at Longfellow Middle School [51] | |
April 18, 2015 | Maggie Walker | Richard Montgomery | [52] | Harvard Fall Tournament | [53] | |
April 2, 2016 | Centennial A | Lehigh Valley Academy | [54] | NAQT A set | [55] |