2025 British Student Quiz Championships
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| Champion | Cambridge A | |
| Runner-up | Oxford A | |
| Third | LSE A | |
| High scorer | Omer Keskin | |
| Site | Imperial | |
| Field | 24 | |
| Stats | [1] | |
The 2025 British Student Quiz Championships were held at Imperial College London on the 8th of March 2025. The questions were Briticised from the 2025 IQBT Undergraduate Championship, with additional pop culture and geography to expand the set to 22/22. A total of 13 different universities took part, with UCL making their first appearance at a BSQC since 2020.
Qualification
Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh and Imperial all automatically qualified their A teams from placing in the top four in the 2024 BSQC. 16 further teams were selected from the qualifying round, also adapted from IQBT, with the final four places being awarded as wildcard slots, for a total field of 24.
Tournament summary
The field was split into four prelim brackets and three playoff brackets. Oxford A, Imperial A, LSE A and Sheffield A all cleared their prelim brackets without a defeat, the latter inflicting a surprise defeat on defending champions Cambridge A.
On the conclusion of the playoffs, Oxford A led with 10 wins and 1 loss (to LSE A), with Cambridge A and LSE A close behind on 9 wins and 2 losses each.[note 1] Due to only two packets being available and up to three games being needed for the final, the play-in game (between Cambridge and LSE) was played on a half-packet; this was won by Cambridge. Oxford lost the initial final match, leading to a second final being played on the remaining half-packet, also won by Cambridge, who thus successfully defended their BSQC title for the first time ever.
Participating universities
- University of Birmingham (1 team)
- University of Bristol (2 teams)
- University of Cambridge (4 teams)
- Durham University (1 teams)
- University of Edinburgh (1 team)
- Imperial College London (2 teams)
- London School of Economics (2 teams)
- University of Manchester (1 team)
- University of Oxford (3 teams)
- University of Sheffield (2 teams)
- University of Southampton (1 team)
- University College London (1 team)
- University of Warwick (3 teams)
Notes
- ↑ LSE A had in fact tied against Imperial A, but were awarded the win due to an unnoticed scoring error.
Trivia
- Cambridge defended a BSQC title for the first time, becoming the first team to do so since 2017.
- Oxford A became the first team of fewer than four people to reach the final of BSQC.