http://www.naqt.com Announcements and news from National Academic Quiz Tournaments relating to its question sets, study guides, and state, regional, and national championship tournaments. http://hsnct.wordpress.com Harry White and other staffers will be live-blogging the 2013 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament. This resource will allow parents and friends to follow tournament news even if they were unable to make the trip to Atlanta. 1249 http://www.naqt.com/practice-questions.jsp Invitational Series #117A through #126 and other middle school, high school, and college sets from the 2012-2013 season are now available for purchase as practice material. In addition, for the entire month of May, no (domestic) shipping will be charged on orders of $100 or more. Please note that NAQT will delay shipping orders that may compromise the security of the year's remaining tournaments. 1248 http://www.naqt.com/ms/msnct/2013/ Barrington Middle School Station Campus of Barrington, Illinois defeated Kealing Middle School of Austin, Texas, in the second game of an advantaged final to win the NAQT Middle School National Championship Tournament. Mesa Verde Middle School (San Diego, California) defeated St. John's School (Houston, Texas) to claim third place. Full team and individual stats are now available. 1247 http://www.naqt.com/ict/2012/podcasts Audio files from each round of the 2012 (not 2013!) ICT are now available; rounds 1-7 feature Division II games while 8-15 feature Division I games. 1244 http://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=4301 Yale University defeated the University of Virginia to win the Division I overall title at the 2013 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament. Penn claimed third place. Ohio State defeated Harvard to claim the Undergraduate championship. In Division II, Stanford went undefeated and topped Yale in the final to claim the title, with Chicago A finishing third. The Top Community College team was Chipola. 1243 http://www.naqt.com/registration/waitlist.jsp?tournament_id=4300 NAQT has temporarily closed the field for its 2013 High School National Championship Tournament pending the results of state championships with reserved berths. Teams with reserved berths may still register, but those with "normal" invitations are being placed on a first-come, first-served waitlist. 1241 http://www.naqt.com/articles/security-review-update.html NAQT's ongoing security review has uncovered three additional cases of writers accessing substantive information about questions in packets sets on which they would subsequently compete. 1240 http://www.naqt.com/hsnct/2013 NAQT has decided to expand the field for its 2013 High School National Championship Tournament to 256 teams (from 240) to accommodate more qualifiers from later tournaments and state championships. 1239 http://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=4302 Chipola College of Marianna, Florida, defeated Valencia A (FL) in the finals to win their third consecutive NAQT Community College Championship Tournament. Lamar State College-Orange (TX) took third. Redlands (OK), Jefferson (KY), and Central Florida (FL) also earned invitations to the 2013 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament. 1237 http://www.naqt.com/ict/2012/unauthorized-question-access.html NAQT has discovered that one of its contract writers competing at the 2012 Region 1 Sectional Championship Tournament and the 2012 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament made unauthorized use of the NAQT administrative website to gain access to those question sets. That writer has been fired and his teams' wins and championships earned at those events have been vacated. 1233 hsnct/qualification.html NAQT is now accepting wildcard applications for the 2013 High School National Championship Tournament. To submit one, e-mail hsnct@naqt.com a summary of your competitive season. 1230 http://www.naqt.com/YouGottaKnow/aviators.html NAQT has just published its latest You Gotta Know article, including ten famed aviators. 1216 http://www.naqt.com/YouGottaKnow/world-war-ii-battles.html NAQT has just published a new You Gotta Know article featuring twelve major battles evenly divided between the European and Pacific theaters. 1215 http://www.naqt.com/YouGottaKnow/african-bodies-of-water.html NAQT has published its July 2012 You Gotta Know article featuring six major rivers and five major lakes of Africa. 1212 http://www.naqt.com/YouGottaKnow/art-museums.html NAQT has published a new You Gotta Know article featuring eleven notable art museums. 1211 http://www.naqt.com/hosting NAQT is now reserving packet sets for schools to host tournaments during the 2013-13 competition year. Schools interested in hosting should contact NAQT at hosting@naqt.com. 1209 http://www.naqt.com/hsnct/2013 NAQT is pleased to announce that its 2013 High School National Championship Tournament will be held in Atlanta on Memorial Day weekend. 1207 http://www.naqt.com/hsnct/2012 Bellarmine College Prep (CA) won the 2012 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament by defeating Detroit Catholic Central (MI) High School in the second game of the advantaged final. In the Small School Division, Beachwood (OH) claimed the title. Full team and individual statistics will be available in the near future. 1204 http://www.naqt.com/samples/t1985-middle-school-sample.pdf NAQT has posted a sample packet of middle school tournament questions for hosts considering hosting a qualifying tournament this year. 1121