2018 High School National Championship Tournament

The 2018 High School National Championship Tournament, powered by LetterOne, will bring over 350 teams from across the U.S. and world to Atlanta on May 25–27 for an action-packed weekend. Read more! Register now!
2018 Individual Player National Championship Tournament
Jack Lewis, a senior at Battle Ground Academy (Franklin, Tennessee), is congratulated by NAQT president R. Robert Hentzel on winning the inaugural Individual Player National Championship Tournament
2018 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament, Division I
NAQT President R. Robert Hentzel (left) with Jacob Reed (second from left), Isaac Kirk-Davidoff, Stephen Eltinge, and Adam Fine (right) of Yale University A and their first-place Division I trophy.
2018 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament, Division II
Halle Friedman (left), Luke Tierney, Matthew Lehmann, and Ian Baram (second from right) of the University of Chicago C pose with NAQT president R. Robert Hentzel (right) and their first-place Division II trophy.
2018 Intercollegiate Championship Tournament, Division I Undergraduate
Rohin Devanathan (left), John Xiang, Eric Chen, and Jonchee Kao (second from right) of the University of California-Berkeley B pose with NAQT president R. Robert Hentzel (right) and their first-place Division I Undergraduate trophy.
2018 Community College Championship Tournament
Kelly Han (C) and Jaya Mosai (C) (front row); Shauna Clifton (B), Victoria Cancina (C), and Jake Shannin (B) (second row); Jack Ogozaly (A), Jesse Gingold (A), Melisa Nicholas (A), De'eve Mendez (B), and Suzi Kim (third row); and Aidan Bohan-Moulton (A), Joseph Pajuelo (C), coach Chris Borglum, and coach Damion Hammock (back row) pose with Valencia College A’s (Orlando, Florida) first-place trophy.

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What’s the Buzz? · News from NAQT

April 20, 2018

2017 MSNCT Podcasts

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from NAQT's 2017 Middle School National Championship Tournament.

April 15, 2018

Jack Lewis Wins IPNCT Title

Congratulations to Jack Lewis (Battle Ground Academy, Franklin, Tennessee) for winning the 2018 NAQT Individual Player National Championship Tournament! Jack defeated Maximilian Shatan (Bard Early College Manhattan, New York, New York) 125-70 in the final.

April 14, 2018

Yale, Berkeley, and Chicago Win ICT Titles

Yale University defeated the University of California-Berkeley to win the Division I Overall title at the 2018 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament. UC-Berkeley's B team defeated the University of Oklahoma to claim the Division I Undergraduate title. The University of Chicago defeated Harvard University to win the Division II championship. Congratulations to all of these teams and the 62 others who represented the finest in collegiate quizbowl!

April 8, 2018

2017 SSNCT Podcasts

Podcasts are now available of selected matches from NAQT's 2017 Small School National Championship Tournament.

April 1, 2018

You Gotta Know These Novels by Charles Dickens

Our latest You Gotta Know article summarizes key characters and plot points from ten major novels by Charles Dickens.

March 23, 2018

SSNCT Overflow Hotel

The official hotel of the 2018 Small School National Championship Tournament, the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, is out of rooms on Thursday night. Teams needing rooms starting on Thursday night should book their entire stay at the event's overflow hotel, the Crowne Plaza O'Hare, which offers identical rates and concessions (and is a 7-minute walk away). Teams needing rooms on Friday and/or Saturday nights (but not Thursday), should continue to book at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare.