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NAQT Intramural questions are now available to help collegiate teams attract new members and run events for their entire student body. Interested teams may also want to check out NAQT's discounted New College Package.

If at least five Canadian schools attend the 2009 HSNCT, NAQT will award a Top Canadian School title after a final on Sunday. If at least ten attend, there will be a parallel playoff (as is done for the Top Small School).

As of the upcoming 2009 Sectional Championship Tournaments, NAQT has revised its policy on automatic bids to give more bids to hosts that qualified multiple Division I teams in the previous year; this is an incentive to motivate those (larger, successful) teams to host Sectionals.

NAQT has made a number of changes to its Official Rules for the 2008-2009 season. One change is that the rules about what constitutes a correct answer in specific cases (most of Section I) have been split out into a separate document.

NAQT has prepared a set of recommended (but optional!) standards for using SQBS to track statistics. Following these guidelines will make it easier for NAQT to incorporate results into its statistics database and will help prevent errors.

If a student receives his or her bachelor's degree in December, is he or she still eligible to compete for the undergraduate title at that year's SCT or ICT? Generally, yes.

NAQT has published a new You Gotta Article on notable deserts for September 2008.

NAQT invites players, coaches, and alumni to visit the beta release of its database of high school tournament results. We welcome corrections to any and all of the data found there as well as suggestions on new records, pages, or search options that people would like to see.

The 2009 High School National Championship will be held at Chicago's Hyatt Regency O'Hare hotel on May 29-31, 2009 (the weekend after Memorial Day weekend). Qualified teams may now register online.

NAQT is pleased to announce that, starting in 2009, it will hold a separate championship to determine the top community college quiz bowl team in North America. The inaugural competition will be held at Valencia Community College in Orlando on February 27-28, 2009. Teams will qualify for the CCCT via Community College Sectional Championship Tournaments (CC SCTs) held on Saturday, January 24, 2009.

NAQT has named longtime member Chad Kubicek as its Director of Community College Programs for 2008-2009.

NAQT is now accepting bids from schools to host the 2009 Community College Sectional Championship Tournaments (CC SCTs) on the weekend of January 24, 2009.

NAQT is now accepting bids from schools to host the 2009 (four year) Sectional Championship Tournaments on the weekend of February 7, 2009.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (Alexandria, VA) claimed its fourth NAQT HS NCT title by defeating the Charter School of Wilmington (DE) in the final. Walt Whitman HS (Bethesda, MD) finished in third place by defeating Paul M. Dorman HS (Roebuck, SC) in the final placement game. In the Small School division, Russell (KY) High School claimed the title by defeating Brindlee Mountain HS (Guntersville, AL) in the final, with Brindlee Mountain's "B" team and Ottawa Hills HS (Toledo, OH) rounding out the top four. Complete team and individual statistics are available. In addition, an audio file of one game from every round of the tournament is available.

Invitational Series #68 through #76 and NAQT's 2007-2008 IHSA-style questions are now available for purchase as practice material.

NAQT now offers a discounted package of warm-up questions, practice questions, and study materials for community colleges that are just starting their quiz bowl teams.

NAQT has updated its discounted package of intramural packets, practice questions, and study materials for new college and university quiz bowl programs.

NAQT offers a discounted package of warm-up questions, practice rounds, and study materials for new high school quiz bowl teams.

NAQT has posted a short survey on issues relating to packet distribution, question difficulty, and question style on its website. If any of those were not precisely to your liking at this year's ICT, please take the time to fill it out!

Since the main (Wyndham) and overflow (Holiday Inn Express) hotels for the High School National Championship have filled, NAQT has arranged for a discounted block of rooms at a tertiary hotel, the Holiday Inn Select.

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NAQT is now accepting bids from schools to host its 2009 High School State Championships.

Information on running high school tournaments using NAQT questions in 2008-2009. NAQT will provide free questions for high school tournaments in 2008-2009 that are held in states/territories that did not have a high school qualifier in 2007-2008: AK, CO, GU, HI, ID, ME, MT, NV, NH, ND, PR, VI, WA, WY.

Information on running juniorbird, community college, CUT-style, and singles tournaments with NAQT questions. NAQT will provide free questions for community college tournaments in 2008-2009 that are held in states that did not have active NAQT circuits in 2007-2008.

NAQT is now accepting bids from colleges and universities to host the 2009 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament on April 3-4, 2009.

Maryland followed up last year's Division II title by defeating defending champion Chicago to win the ICT Division I overall title while Harvard beat Dartmouth in the Undergraduate final. In Division II, Carleton defeated the first Canadian finalist, Western Ontario, to take the crown, while Valencia successfully defended its Community College championship by defeating Chipola in the title match. Complete team and individual statistics for both divisions are now available.

NAQT has set up an organizational Facebook page as well as pages specifically focusing on the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament and High School National Championship Tournament.

NAQT is now offering packages of ten-part lightning rounds for sale as practice questions. These are questions that were originally written for use on television shows.

NAQT has updated its frequency list study guides to include all of its sets through November 1, 2007. Teams that have already purchased study guides may buy the updated versions at a significant discount. Abbreviated versions of the new lists are available in the You Gotta Know section.

NAQT has short articles on steps to take when starting new college and high school quiz bowl teams.

NAQT is in the process of compiling a list of quiz bowl players, past and present, who have competed on televised game shows. If you know of somebody who is not on the list, please let us know so that he or she may be added.

NAQT has compiled an incomplete list of the state organizations responsible for overseeing quiz bowl; please let us know if your state's group is not listed.

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