Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Tournament

MLK was an annual tournament put on by the University of Michigan over Martin Luther King Day weekend, since at least 1996. An incarnation of this tournament was also run at Georgia Tech during the 1990s with the earliest surviving set dating from 1994. It was regularly accompanied by the Ann B. Davis trash tournament.

From 1996 to 2004, the tournament used NAQT timing rules, including a nine-minute clock. In 2005, the clock was expanded to ten minutes per half to allow for more ACF-style tossups. In 2006, the clock was dropped altogether. The tournament featured powers starting in 2004.

In 2008, MLK was a mirror of Terrapin. In 2009, MLK was replaced with ACF Winter (in an agreement that guaranteed Michigan hosting rights to the Midwest site).

In 2016, there were ten mirrors of "MLK XVII," a regular difficulty question set edited by Michigan (Auroni Gupta, Will Nediger, Brian McPeak, Kenji Golimlim, Siddhant Dogra, Justin Millman, Noah Chen), and guest contributor Cody Voight. The use of the Roman numeral "XVII" may have been due to a prior version of this article claiming that the nonexistent 2009 MLK was "MLK XVI."

Results

MLK iteration	Date	Champion	Second	Editors	Field size	Notes
MLK I	January 13, 1996	Iowa State A	Ohio State A		21	Stats
MLK II	January 14, 1997
MLK III	January 17, 1998
MLK IV	January 16, 1999	Chicago A	Chicago B	Craig Barker et al.	20	Stats
MLK V	January 13, 2000	Chicago A	Penn State A	Craig Barker et al.	27	Stats
MLK VI	January 13, 2001	Chicago B	Kentucky	Noel Erinjeri, Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Paul Litvak, Ben Heller, et al.	14	Stats
MLK VII	January 19, 2002	Chicago E	Kentucky	Dave Thorsley	24	Stats
MLK VIII	January 18, 2003	Chicago A	Kentucky	Dave Thorsley et al.	24	Stats
MLK IX	January 17, 2004	Chicago A	Rochester A	Adam Kemezis et al.	28	Stats
MLK X	January 15, 2005	Rochester A	Chicago B	Adam Kemezis, Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Leo Wolpert	28	Stats
MLK XI	January 14, 2006	Chicago E	Chicago A	Ryan Westbrook, Dave Rappaport, Will Turner	22	Stats
MLK XII	January 13, 2007	Chicago B	Chicago A	Ryan Westbrook, Dave Rappaport, Will Turner	20	Stats
MLK XIII	January 19, 2008	Chicago A	Illinois A	Jonathan Magin, Mike Bentley, et al.	18	Stats A mirror of Terrapin.