Terrapin
TIT or the Terrapin Invitational Tournament is an annual academic quizbowl tournament held at Maryland. It has been held since 1987, when Emory defeated Georgia Tech in the final. Note: Despite the fact that the 2004-2005 tournament was announced as Terrapin XVIII, and several older announcements confirm that the first tournament happened in the 1987-1988 year, the 2007-2008 tournament somehow became Terrapin XXII when it should have been XXI (the reason being that a file with the packets from the 2007 tournament used to figure out what the current number was had an incorrect label). The below numerals will skip from XX to XXII in accordance with Maryland's own announcements.
After 2013
To some extent, Terrapin has been replaced in more recent years by collaborations between Maryland and other schools, such as 2014's SUBMIT, 2015's STIMPY, and 2016's MYSTERIUM.
Spring 2013
After a year's hiatus, a spring 2013 iteration was planned, to be edited by Arun Chonai, Chris Manners, and Brian McPeak. After many logistics, scheduling, and packet-submission snafus (documented here), a tournament materialized around submitted packets edited by Ike Jose, with help from Brian and Isaac Hirsch. A 6-team main site occurred, which UVA-sans-Bollinger won over Penn; relatively open mirrors were held at WashU, Michigan State, and Skype (Mike Bentley directing).
Fall 2011 (Cancelled)
The Fall 2011 iteration was planned but never happened. It was originally to be held on December 3rd, however this proved to be a bad date. Therefore, no packets were submitted. Plans to turn the tournament into a spring or summer event quickly fell through.
Winter 2011
The January 2011 iteration of TIT was edited by SteveJon Guth with help from the rest of the Maryland team. Mirrors were held at Toronto, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Yale, and Michigan.
Fall 2009
This tournament was edited by Chris Ray, Mike Sorice and others as a combination with Illinois Open at "Regionals-plus" difficulty. It was generally well-received, though 10-line tossups and 3-line bonus parts were routine throughout the set.
Winter 2009
This tournament was edited mainly by Chris Ray and hosted in January 2009.
2008
The 2008 tournament was edited by Jonathan Magin, Mike Bentley, Ray Luo, Eric Mukherjee, Matt Weiner and a few other contributers. It was directed by Mike Bentley and was a mirror of MLK. Brown went undefeated to win the Maryland tournament. It was also mirrored by Georgia, UCLA and Missouri S&T.
2007
The 2007 tournament was edited by Jonathan Magin. Matt Weiner praised the tournament despite chiding teams that felt it was a "packet submission optional" tournament.
2006
The 2006 tournament was edited by Dan Greenstein, and directed by Brittany Clark and Ali Daniels. It was won by Chicago A. A bonus answer in the Masters packet from this tournament incorrectly gave the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine's name as "William Van Orman Quince," and repeatedly referred to "Quince" throughout the rest of the bonus. This mistake was referenced in the answer space of a tossup from the 2009 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament.