2021–2022 season

Last updated on November 27, 2021.

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Fall 2021

Tournament name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	ACF Fall	Penn Bowl	HARI	ARCADIA	ACF Winter	Illinois Open
Full name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	ACF Fall	Penn Bowl	Hari’s Academic Regular(-minus) Invitational	A Regs-minus Carolina and Duke Invitational of Academia	ACF Winter	Illinois Open
Slot name	“Early Fall Novice”	ACF Fall	“Fall Medium 2”	“Fall Medium 1”	“Fall Medium 3”	ACF Winter	“Fall Open”
Difficulty (target audience)	Easy ●	Easy ●	Regionals ●●●	Medium ●●	Medium ●●◖	Medium ●●	Nationals ●●●◖
Eligibility (unless noted)		Closed; scoring limits; HS-only mirrors				Closed; HS-only mirrors	Open
Packet submission		Optional				Required if not new team
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	Collegiate Novice ICCS VCU Novice EACNT	past ACF Falls	past Penn Bowls Terrapin DRAGOON QUARK	LIT EFT 2019 EFT 2018 EFT 2017 EFT 2016 MFT PADAWAN IFT	IKEA Terrapin 2019 SMT EMT MYSTERIUM	past ACF Winters EFT 2019 EFT 2018 EFT 2017 EFT 2016 MFT PADAWAN IFT	FLopen Fall Open PIANO CMST TTIAC “stanford housewrite” George Oppen
Announced on		8/13/21	11/12/20	3/12/21	3/17/21	8/13/21	1/15/20
First mirror	9/25	10/16	10/23 8/28 (online playtest)	10/30 10/2 (online playtest)	10/30 10/9 (online playtest)	11/6	11/13
Last mirror	10/30	10/16	10/30	1/16	1/15	11/7	11/13
Mirrors	8	15	10	10	10	14	4
☆ Online playtest			8/28 Online Open	10/2 Online Open	10/9 Online Open
☆ Online		10/16 National HS only		1/16 Online HS only		11/7 National HS only	TBD Online
☆ New England		10/16 MIT	10/30 Harvard	11/20 Brown	11/13 Harvard	11/6 Brown 11/6 Yale	TBD MIT
☆ New York	9/25 RIT	10/16 RIT		12/4 RIT
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic	10/9 Johns Hopkins	10/16 NYU 10/16 UMD	10/23 Penn	12/4 Maryland		11/6 Haverford 11/6 NYU
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic		10/16 Duke 10/16 Georgia Tech	10/30 Virginia Tech		11/13 UNC	11/6 Virginia
☆ Upper South	10/30 Tennessee
☆ Deep South	9/25 Georgia Tech			10/30 Georgia Tech	11/20 Georgia		11/13 Georgia Tech
☆ Florida			10/23 Florida			11/6 Florida
☆ Texas/Louisiana		10/16 UT-Austin	10/30 UT-Austin
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California						11/6 UCSD
☆ N. California		10/16 Berkeley 10/16 California and Georgia HS only		12/4 Stanford	12/4 Berkeley
☆ Pacific Northwest
☆ Rocky Mountains
☆ Great Plains						11/6 Oklahoma
☆ Missouri						11/6 Missouri
☆ Upper Midwest	10/2 Minnesota	10/16 Minnesota				11/6 Minnesota
☆ Central Midwest	10/30 Purdue	10/16 UIUC	10/30 Chicago	12/4 UIUC	11/20 Northwestern 12/18 Reinstein Varsity Tournament HS only		11/13 UIUC
☆ Eastern Midwest	9/25 CMU	10/16 Case Western	10/23 Pitt Online		1/15 OSU	11/6 OSU
☆ Canada	9/25 Toronto	10/16 McGill	10/23 Queen’s	12/4 McGill	11/20 McMaster	11/6 Toronto
☆ UK		10/16 Warwick	10/23 Cambridge	11/27 Manchester	12/11 Imperial	11/6 Strathclyde and Oxford Brookes
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least	never	10/17confirmed clear	11/25confirmed clear			11/8confirmed clear
Packets on archive?	never	2021 ACF Fall packets	2021 Penn Bowl packets			2021 ACF Winter packets
Participating in EBOL?

Spring 2022

Tournament name	Winter Closed	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	MRNA	WORKSHOP	Boilermaker Spring Novice	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Full name	Winter Closed	ACF Regionals	NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament	MRNA	WORKSHOP	Boilermaker Spring Novice	NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament	ACF Nationals
Slot name	“Winter Regionals 1”	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	“Spring Medium 1”	“Spring Medium 2”	“Spring Novice”	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Difficulty (target audience)	Regionals ●●●	Regionals ●●●	Regionals (or Easy in Div II) ●●● (or ● in Div II)	Medium ●●	Regionals ●●●	Easy ●	Nationals (or Med. in Div II) ●●●● (or ●● in Div II)	Nationals ●●●●
Eligibility (unless noted)	Closed	Closed				Novices only	Qualify at NAQT SCT	Qualify at ACF Regionals
Packet submission		Required half-packet						Optional
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	past ACF Regionals WAO MLK VCU Closed	past ACF Regionals WAO MLK VCU Closed	past NAQT SCTs	SMH LIT Terrapin 2019 SMT EMT	PADAWAN WORKSHOP	Spring Novice FST SUN MUT EMT SMT	past NAQT ICTs	past ACF Nationals
Announced on	3/2/21	10/11/21	11/13/21	2/12/21	4/22/21	10/27/21		9/22/21
First mirror	1/15 TBD (online playtest)	1/29	2/5	2/12 1/15 (online playtest)			4/2	4/9
Last mirror				2/19			4/2	4/9
Mirrors	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	1
☆ Online playtest				1/15 Online Open
☆ Online				2/19 Online HS only
☆ New England
☆ New York
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic
☆ Upper South				TBD Vanderbilt
☆ Deep South
☆ Florida
☆ Texas/Louisiana
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California
☆ N. California
☆ Pacific Northwest
☆ Rocky Mountains
☆ Great Plains
☆ Missouri
☆ Upper Midwest				TBD Iowa
☆ Central Midwest						TBD Purdue	4/2 Chicago, IL
☆ Eastern Midwest
☆ Canada
☆ UK
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least			never				never
Packets on archive?			never				never
Participating in EBOL?						no		no

Summary

Fall 2021

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Sep 4	Sep 11	Sep 18	Sep 25	Oct 2	Oct 9	Oct 16	Oct 23	Oct 30	Nov 6	Nov 13	Nov 20	Nov 27	Dec 4	Dec 11	Dec 18	Dec 25	≥
NAQT Collegiate Novice	●	8					4	1	1			2
ACF Fall	●	15								15 º˘²†
Penn Bowl	●●●	10	1 º˘								5	4			†
HARI	●●	10						1 º˘				1			1	1	5				1 ªº˘
ARCADIA	●●◖	10							1 º˘			0		2	3		1	1	1 ˘		1
ACF Winter	●●	14											14 ªº˘†
Illinois Open	●●●◖	2												2
Total mainstream mirrors		61					4	1	1	13	5	7	13	4	4	1	6	1			1

Spring 2022

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Jan 15	Jan 22	Jan 29	Feb 5	Feb 12	Feb 19	Feb 26	Mar 5	Mar 12	Mar 19	Mar 26	Apr 2	Apr 9	Apr 16	Apr 23	Apr 30	May 7	May 14	≥
Winter Closed	●●●	0		0
ACF Regionals	●●●	0				0
NAQT SCT	●●● or ●	0					0
MRNA	●●	2		1 º˘				0	1 º˘
WORKSHOP	●●●	0
Boilermaker Spring Novice	●	0
NAQT ICT	●●●● or ●●	1													1
ACF Nationals	●●●●	1														1
Total mainstream mirrors		2													1	1

Cancelled mirrors this year: 0

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.