Reporting Results

Identifying schools

Each school that attended the tournament must be identified. If a school’s name is potentially ambiguous, clarification may be necessary. The use of a pseudonym does not nullify the requirement to identify the actual school. Generally, this requirement is fulfilled in conjunction with submitting coach contact information or via the use of NAQT’s registration system; it is usually not necessary to submit information specifically responsive to this requirement unless NAQT asks.

If there were any schools that attended the tournament without playing, they must be identified. This includes schools connected to spectators, staff members, etc.

Submitting game score

The minimum acceptable information is, for each game:

• The name of each participating team, including the school and any designator (such as “Central B”)
• Each team’s score
• The round in which the game took place. In this context, a “round” is usually a set of games that all took place at the same time, so it is not possible for a team to play multiple games in the same round. If you’re not sure how this applies to your tournament, or if your tournament was scheduled on a more ad hoc basis, it would be sufficient to identify the question packet used for the game.

NAQT also prefers (but does not require) receiving the number of tossups heard (TUH) in each game. This is simply the number of tossups read, disregarding tossups that were replaced; for timed games, it will vary from game to game, while for untimed games, it will likely be the same for each game, except higher for any games that went to overtime.

Every game that was played using NAQT questions must be included, even if it is designated as “unofficial” or “scrimmage,” or is otherwise different from “regular” games.

Forfeits must be included, with an indication of who forfeited to whom. Any interesting circumstances behind the forfeit should be mentioned.

Submitting coach contact information

For middle school and high school tournaments, the name and email address of each school’s coach must be submitted. “Coach” means the adult who is in charge of the school’s quiz bowl team on a day-to-day basis. It is generally (and preferentially) a school faculty member. If no such adult exists, the submission must include the name and email address of the student leadership of the team as well as those of the responsible adult overseeing the team. For emphasis, tournament directors are responsible for ascertaining that information so it can be submitted to NAQT, even if they don’t know it “naturally.”

For college tournaments (including community college tournaments), the name and email address of student leadership (or the coach, if there is one) is acceptable without any further caveats.

Only individual email addresses (not generic/group addresses such as [email protected]) are acceptable for adults.

Submitting information about activities directors, athletic directors, or school administrators does not satisfy this requirement (unless that person is also the coach).

NAQT prefers that this information be submitted in its spreadsheet template (available as an XLSX file or Google Sheets document), but any substantially similar form is also acceptable.

Submitting coach contact information is generally unnecessary for tournaments that use NAQT’s registration system, but in some cases it may be necessary for such tournaments to submit additional information.

Describing the gameplay rules and tournament structure

Usually, NAQT can infer this information from various aspects of context, so providing this information proactively is not necessary (but it is welcome and must be provided upon request).

Such information includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following:

• The rules governing gameplay. This could be as simple as “We used NAQT rules” or more elaborate, such as “We used untimed 16-cycle games, 20-point powers, no interrupt penalties, bounceback bonuses, five players at a time on each team, and sudden-death overtime.”
• The structure of the tournament’s divisions (e.g., varsity and junior varsity), if it had multiple divisions.
• The structure of the preliminary and playoff rounds, or other phase structure (if the tournament had multiple phases). This includes aspects like pool structure if any, how advancement from phase to phase worked, and in general, how it was decided who would play whom when.

Identifying Honor Code violations

If there are any violations or possible violations of the NAQT Honor Code that the tournament director determines are serious or worthy of further investigation, they must be reported.

Optional information

NAQT requests, but does not require, that hosts tell us about any of the following:

• Difficult protests
• Possible errors in questions (or other suboptimalities, such as potentially confusing phrasing)
• Interesting or unusual circumstances

Finally, hosts are welcome to submit the actual paper or electronic scoresheets from their event. Depending on various details, NAQT may be able to use the scoresheets to derive question-by-question conversion data from scoresheets, which is very helpful to our writers and editors so that they can fine-tune difficulty. However, submitting scoresheets is not a substitute for submitting game-by-game results in a readily processable form.