British Novice

The British Novice tournament is an annual novice collegiate-level tournament held in the United Kingdom, typically around November. The British Novice tournament is aimed at players with minimal quizbowl experience, and therefore skews slightly less academic compared to most tournaments. British Novice was first held in 2017 at Imperial College London, and in subsequent years was held simultaneously at Imperial and at the University of Glasgow. Questions are typically house-written by the British quizbowl community, although the 2022 tournament experimented with using a Briticised NAQT Collegiate Novice set instead.

In 2022, due to industrial action from train drivers, as well as clashes with term dates, the tournament was held twice on separate dates, with an online site on the 26th of November and an in-person site at Imperial on the 3rd of December. The 2023 edition of the tournament was adapted by IQBT for mirrors in North America held in the spring of 2024 as the IQBT Collegiate Novice tournament.

Results

Results by year

Year	Site	1st place	Top individual scorer	Stats	Head editor(s)
2023	Imperial	Southampton	Alessandro d'Attanasio (Cambridge A)	Stats	Rhys Lewis
	Durham	Edinburgh Purple	Matthew Stafford (Edinburgh Purple)	Stats
2022	Imperial	Imperial A	Catherine Archer-Richards (Roehampton)	Stats	Felix Roberts (Briticising)
	Online	York	Sourajit Debnath (Oxford D)	Stats
2021	Online	Imperial	Arun Uttamchandani (Edinburgh 3)	Stats	Joseph Krol
2020	Online	Oxford A	Saif Awan (Glasgow A)	Stats	?
2019	Imperial	Oxford A	Jamie Burchett (Southampton B)	Stats	Joseph Krol & Alex Peplow
	Glasgow	Glasgow 1	Brian Nieves (Glasgow 1)	Stats
2018	Imperial	Brookes A	Ruairidh Forgan (Cambridge)	Stats	?
	Glasgow	Miscellaneous	Jack Pollock (Miscellaneous)	Stats
2017	Imperial	Oxford	Michael O'Connor (Oxford)	Stats	?