2018–2019 season

Last updated on June 24, 2019.

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Fall 2018

Tournament name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	EFT	Penn Bowl	ACF Fall	Delta Burke	SGI
Full name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	Early Fall Tournament	Penn Bowl	ACF Fall	Delta Burke	Sun God Invitational
Slot name	“Early Fall Novice”	“Fall Medium 1”	“Fall Medium 2”	ACF Fall	“Late Fall Novice”	“Fall Medium 3”
Difficulty (target audience)	Easy ●	Medium ●●	Regionals ●●●	Easy ●	Easy ●	Medium (“Regular”) ●●◖
Eligibility (unless noted)		Closed; HS allowed; chimera by permission		Closed; HS-only mirrors		Closed; “bend eligibility rules” by permission
Packet submission				Required if not new team
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	Collegiate Novice ICCS VCU Novice EACNT	EFT 2017 EFT 2016 MFT PADAWAN IFT	past Penn Bowls Terrapin DRAGOON QUARK	past ACF Falls	past Delta Burkes	WAO II Missouri Open STIMPY (in March) SUBMIT (in March) DEES
Announced on		12/31/17	5/16/18	8/1/18	9/7/18	11/29/17
First mirror	9/15	9/29 9/22 (online playtest)	10/20	11/3	11/3	11/10 9/29 (online playtest)
Last mirror	3/30	2/24	12/9	11/4	3/2	12/29
Mirrors	15 (see on map)	18 (see 17 on map)	12 (see on map)	16 (see on map)	2 (see on map)	13 (see 12 on map)
☆ Online playtest		9/22 Online Open				9/29 Online Open
☆ Online			12/9 Online Open			12/29 Online Closed
☆ New England	3/30 Brandeis	10/13 Yale	10/27 Harvard	11/3 MIT		12/1 Brown
☆ New York
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic	10/6 Johns Hopkins 10/27 NYU	9/29 UMD 12/1 Penn HS only	10/20 Penn	11/3 UMD		11/10 Johns Hopkins 11/10 Rutgers
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic		11/10 Virginia Tech	10/27 North Carolina
☆ Upper South				11/3 Tusculum cancelled
☆ Deep South	9/15 Georgia Tech	10/13 Georgia Tech	10/27 Auburn	11/3 Georgia Tech
☆ Florida	9/22 Florida	10/13 UCF		11/3 Florida	11/3 Valencia	11/10 New College
☆ Texas/Louisiana	10/6 Louisiana Tech	11/18 Rice cancelled	10/20 LASA	11/3 LASA 11/3 LASA HS only		12/1 UT-Austin
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California		10/27 UCSD cancelled 12/1 UCSD		11/3 UCLA		11/17 UCSD
☆ N. California	10/6 Stanford	11/10 Stanford	10/20 Stanford Open	11/3 Stanford		12/1 Stanford
☆ Pacific Northwest		10/13 Boise State	12/1 Washington Open	11/3 Washington
☆ Rocky Mountains				11/3 Colorado
☆ Great Plains
☆ Missouri	10/27 Missouri S&T	10/6 WUSTL	10/27 Truman State
☆ Upper Midwest	9/22 Minnesota 12/1 Northern Michigan	10/6 Minnesota	10/20 Minnesota cancelled	11/3 Minnesota
☆ Central Midwest	10/13 Chicago		10/20 Chicago	11/3 UIUC 11/3 UIUC HS only	3/2 Purdue	11/10 UIUC 12/15 New Trier HS only
☆ Eastern Midwest	9/22 CMU 9/22 Michigan State	9/29 Michigan 2/24 Solon HS only		11/4 OSU
☆ Canada	9/22 McMaster 9/29 Carleton	10/13 Carleton	10/27 Queen’s	11/3 Toronto		11/17 Toronto
☆ UK		10/13 Oxford Open 10/20 Oxford 10/20 Edinburgh	10/27 Cambridge	11/3 Warwick		11/24 Southampton
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least	never	2/20confirmed clear	12/9confirmed clear	11/8confirmed clear	8/20confirmed clear	12/29confirmed clear
Packets on archive?	never	2018 EFT packets	2018 Penn Bowl packets	2018 ACF Fall packets	2018 Delta Burke packets	2018 SGI packets

Spring 2019

Tournament name	SHW	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	Terrapin	ILLIAC	PIANO	FST	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Full name	Spartan Housewrite	ACF Regionals	NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament	Terrapin	Illinois Academic Competition	Pre-ICT and ACF Nationals Open	Florida Spring Tournament	NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament	ACF Nationals
Slot name	“Winter Medium”	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	“Spring Medium”	“Spring Novice 1”	“Spring Open”	“Spring Novice 2”	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Difficulty (target audience)	Medium (“Regular”) ●●◖	Regionals ●●●	Regionals (or Easy in Div II) ●●● (or ● in Div II)	Medium ●●	Easy ●◖	Nationals ●●●◖	Easy ●	Nationals (or Med. in Div II) ●●●● (or ●● in Div II)	Nationals ●●●●
Eligibility (unless noted)	Closed; HS allowed; special exceptions by permission	Closed		Closed; HS-only mirrors	Closed; undergrad or HS; grad by permission	Open		Qualify at NAQT SCT	Qualify at ACF Regionals
Packet submission		Required half-packet							Optional
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	Oxford Open/OAT WIT	past ACF Regionals WAO MLK VCU Closed	past NAQT SCTs	Terrapin 2016 SMT EMT MYSTERIUM	FST SUN MUT EMT SMT	CMST TTIAC “stanford housewrite” George Oppen Cane Ridge Revival	FST SUN MUT	past NAQT ICTs	past ACF Nationals
Announced on	3/30/18	8/6/18	12/8/18	5/8/18	9/4/18	8/23/18	8/6/18	12/5/18	8/16/18
First mirror	1/19 12/22 (online playtest)	1/26	2/9	3/2 2/23 (online playtest)	3/2	3/9	3/23	4/6	4/13
Last mirror	5/4	1/26	2/10	5/4	5/18	3/30	8/3	4/6	4/13
Mirrors	9 (see 8 on map)	13 (see on map)	15 (see on map)	13 (see 12 on map)	12 (see on map)	9 (see on map)	10 (see on map)	1 (see on map)	1 (see on map)
☆ Online playtest	12/22 Online Open			2/23 Online Open
☆ Online	3/30 Online				4/21 Online HS only 5/4 Online Open 5/18 Online Open	3/10 Online	6/15 Online Open
☆ New England		1/26 MIT/Harvard	2/9 Brown cancelled 2/9 Harvard	3/2 MIT	4/20 Brown cancelled	3/30 Yale	4/27 Amherst
☆ New York			2/9 Colgate
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic	2/16 NYU	1/26 Swarthmore	2/9 Rutgers	3/2 UMD 4/20 UMD HS only cancelled	3/31 Johns Hopkins HS allowed 4/27 Princeton HS allowed	3/9 Johns Hopkins	4/28 Princeton 3/30 Penn State HS only		4/13 Penn
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic	2/16 Virginia cancelled 5/4 TJHSST HS only cancelled	1/26 Duke	2/9 Virginia Tech	3/23 Virginia HS NASAT	5/18 Bard High School Early College HS only		3/23 VCU
☆ Upper South
☆ Deep South		1/26 Georgia Tech	2/9 Auburn	3/2 Georgia Tech cancelled 3/2 Auburn	4/6 Georgia cancelled 4/6 Georgia HS only cancelled	3/30 Georgia Tech
☆ Florida	1/19 Florida	1/26 UCF	2/9 Florida		3/16 Florida		3/23 Florida
☆ Texas/Louisiana		1/26 UT-Austin	2/9 Rice	3/24 Texas Invitational HS only	3/24 Texas Invitational HS only		8/3 UL-Lafayette Open
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California			2/9 UCSD	4/20 UCSB
☆ N. California		1/26 Stanford	2/10 Berkeley	3/2 Stanford	4/27 Stanford HS allowed	3/9 Stanford
☆ Pacific Northwest				4/20 Washington			4/27 Washington
☆ Rocky Mountains			2/9 Colorado		3/2 BYU HS allowed		TBD Colorado cancelled
☆ Great Plains		1/26 Kansas State
☆ Missouri			2/9 Missouri	4/20 WUSTL TBD Missouri HS NASAT cancelled
☆ Upper Midwest	3/2 Iowa	1/26 Minnesota	2/9 Minnesota			3/30 Minnesota
☆ Central Midwest		1/26 UIUC	2/9 Northwestern	5/4 Illinois HS NASAT	3/23 UIUC 4/6 Stevenson HS only		5/11 Chicago	4/6 Chicago, IL
☆ Eastern Midwest	1/19 Michigan State 3/30 Wright State	1/26 CMU	2/9 Michigan	3/16 Michigan State		3/24 OSU
☆ Canada	2/23 McMaster Semi-open	1/26 Toronto	2/9 Queen’s	3/9 Toronto		3/9 Toronto	3/23 Carleton
☆ UK	1/19 Warwick	1/26 Oxford-Brookes				3/30 Oxford
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least	6/3confirmed clear	1/27confirmed clear	never	5/14confirmed clear	7/9confirmed clear	4/1confirmed clear	8/15confirmed clear	never	4/16confirmed clear
Packets on archive?	2019 SHW packets	2019 ACF Regionals packets	never	2019 Terrapin packets	2019 ILLIAC packets	2019 PIANO packets	2019 FST packets	never	2019 ACF Nationals packets

Summary

Fall 2018

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Sep 15	Sep 22	Sep 29	Oct 6	Oct 13	Oct 20	Oct 27	Nov 3	Nov 10	Nov 17	Nov 24	Dec 1	Dec 8	Dec 15	Dec 22	Dec 29	≥
NAQT Collegiate Novice	●	15		1	5	1	3	1		2					1					1
EFT	●●	18			PT º˘	2	2	6 ˘	2	*		2	*		2 ˘					1 ª˘†
Penn Bowl	●●●	12							4 *˘	6					1 ˘	1 ªº˘†
ACF Fall	●	16									16 ª*˘²†
Delta Burke	●	2									1									1 †
SGI	●●◖	13				PT º˘						4	2	1	3		1 ˘		1 º†
Total mainstream mirrors		67		1	5	3	5	7	6	8	15	6	2	1	6					2

Spring 2019

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Jan 19	Jan 26	Feb 2	Feb 9	Feb 16	Feb 23	Mar 2	Mar 9	Mar 16	Mar 23	Mar 30	Apr 6	Apr 13	Apr 20	Apr 27	May 4	May 11	May 18	≥
SHW	●●◖	9	PT º˘	3				1 *	1 ˘	1				2 º					*			†
ACF Regionals	●●●	13			13 †
NAQT SCT	●●● or ●	15					15 ª*
Terrapin	●●	13							PT º˘	4 *	1	1	2 ª˘²				3 *		1 ˘	†
ILLIAC	●◖	12								1 ˘		1	2 ª˘	1 ª˘	1 *²˘		1 ªº*˘	2 ˘²	1 º˘		2 º˘²	†
PIANO	●●●◖	9									4 ªº		1 ª	4 †
FST	●	10											3	1 ˘				3 ª		1		2 º˘²†
NAQT ICT	●●●● or ●●	1													1
ACF Nationals	●●●●	1														1 †
Total mainstream mirrors		64		3	13		15	1	1	5	4	2	5	5	1	1	3	3		1		1

Cancelled mirrors this year: 14

The usual numbers of mainstream mirrors per week are conveyed in this plot of all such mirrors since Fall 2017 (as of November 2021).

Key

• Difficulty is rated on the following four-level scale. Read more about the difficulty scale here.

  Dots	Difficulty	Difficulty is most comfortable for			Example (non-definitional)
  		Beginners	Intermediates	Experts
  ●	Easy	✓︎	✓︎		2017 ACF Fall
  ●●	Medium	✓︎	✓︎	✓︎	2020 ACF Winter or 2017 EFT
  ●●●	Regionals	︎	✓	✓︎	2018 ACF Regionals
  ●●●●	Nationals	︎	︎	✓︎	2018 ACF Nationals and above

• Question marks (as in “NAQT Collegiate Novice??”) indicate degree of guesswork/uncertainty because no information/announcement has been posted yet.

• Summary displays all of the season’s known tournaments at a glance, binned by week. All information is subject to change. Symbols: º = at least one online mirror; ª = at least one mirror not on Saturday; * = at least one cancelled mirror; ˘ = at least one mirror with exceptional eligibility; † = set content is not confirmed clear until at least this week; active mirror period; ideal mirror period (or “preferred mirroring window”); PT = early online playtest mirror; bold = at least 5 mirrors during this week; date = date is N weeks after the first mirror. Totals do not count cancelled or TBD mirrors, and “mainstream mirrors” of college quizbowl do not count high school or online mirrors.