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
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Regionals
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Easy
Easy
Medium (“Regular”)
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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
First mirror
(online playtest)

(online playtest)
Last mirror
Mirrors 15 18 12 16 2 13
Online playtest
Online
New England
New York
N. Mid-Atlantic
S. Mid-Atlantic
Upper South
Deep South
Florida
Texas/Louisiana
  • Rice cancelled
Southwest
S. California
N. California
Pacific Northwest
Rocky Mountains
Great Plains
Missouri
Upper Midwest
Central Midwest
Eastern Midwest
Canada
UK
  • Oxford Open
  • Oxford
  • Edinburgh
  • Cambridge
Asia
Question content is not clear until at least never confirmed clear confirmed clear confirmed clear confirmed clear confirmed clear
Packets on archive? never 2018 EFT packets 2018 Penn Bowl packets 2018 ACF Fall packets 2018 Delta Burke packets 2018 SGI packets
Participating in EBOL? yes yes no no yes

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”)
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Regionals
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Regionals (or Easy in Div II)
●●● (or in Div II)
Medium
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Easy
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Nationals
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Easy
Nationals (or Med. in Div II)
●●●● (or ●● in Div II)
Nationals
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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
First mirror
(online playtest)

(online playtest)
Last mirror
Mirrors 9 13 15 13 12 9 10 1 1
Online playtest
Online
New England
New York
N. Mid-Atlantic
S. Mid-Atlantic
  • Virginia HS NASAT
Upper South
Deep South
Florida
Texas/Louisiana
  • Texas Invitational HS only
  • Texas Invitational HS only
Southwest
S. California
N. California
Pacific Northwest
Rocky Mountains
  • Colorado cancelled
Great Plains
Missouri
Upper Midwest
Central Midwest
  • Illinois HS NASAT
Eastern Midwest
Canada
UK
Asia
Question content is not clear until at least confirmed clear confirmed clear never confirmed clear confirmed clear confirmed clear confirmed clear never confirmed 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
Participating in EBOL? no yes yes no no no no


Summary

Fall 2018

Tournament name Difficulty Known mirrors
NAQT Collegiate Novice 15 1 5 1 3 1 2 1 1
EFT ●● 18 1 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 1 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
SHW ●●◖ 9 1 º˘ 3 1 * 1 ˘ 1 2 º *
ACF Regionals ●●● 13 13
NAQT SCT ●●● or 15 15 ª*
Terrapin ●● 13 1 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”); early online playtest mirror; bold = at least 5 mirrors during this week. Totals do not count cancelled or TBD mirrors, and “mainstream mirrors” of college quizbowl do not count high school or online mirrors.

  • EBOL is an inchoate idea for a “detailed stats league” for college quizbowl. The idea for EBOL is that participating sets will cooperate with Ophir and conform to a relatively consistent direction (such as distribution, difficulty, eligibility, rules, and format). At the end of the regular season, detailed stats from all tournaments will be compared and outstanding achievements will be recognized. Please email Ophir if you want to help organize EBOL.