2022–2023 season

Last updated on July 19, 2022.

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Fall 2022

Tournament name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	ACF Fall	Winter Closed	Penn Bowl	ACF Winter	2022 ARCADIA	C++	CMST II
Full name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	ACF Fall	Winter Closed	Penn Bowl	ACF Winter	A Regs-minus Carolina and Duke Invitational of Academia	C++	Chicago-Maryland-Spearheaded Tournament
Slot name	“Early Fall Novice”	ACF Fall	“Fall Regionals 1”	“Fall Regionals 2”	ACF Winter	“Winter Medium 1”	“Winter Medium 2”	“Fall Open”
Difficulty (target audience)	Easy ●	Easy ●	Regionals ●●●	Regionals ●●●	Medium ●●	Medium ●●◖	Medium ●●	Nationals ●●●◖
Eligibility (unless noted)	Closed; scoring limits	Closed; scoring limits; HS-only mirrors	Closed	Closed	Closed			Open
Packet submission		Optional			Required half-packet if not new team
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	Collegiate Novice ICCS VCU Novice EACNT	past ACF Falls	past ACF Regionals WAO MLK VCU Closed	past Penn Bowls	past ACF Winters	ARCADIA IKEA 2019 Terrapin MYSTERIUM	ACF Winter EFT SMT	FLopen Fall Open PIANO CMST TTIAC “stanford housewrite” George Oppen
Announced on	7/12/22	7/14/22	3/2/21	3/2/21	7/14/22	4/22/22	4/22/22	9/17/21
First mirror	9/17	10/15	9/24 9/10 (online playtest)	10/22 9/3 (online playtest)	11/5	TBD	TBD	TBD
Last mirror	11/12	10/15	12/3	10/22
Mirrors	4	17	5	2	0	0	0	0
☆ Online playtest			9/10 Online Open	9/3 Online Open
☆ Online		10/15 Columbia
☆ New England		10/15 Harvard
☆ New York	9/17 RIT	10/15 Cornell	9/24 MIT
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic	10/1 Lehigh	10/15 Maryland	9/24 Maryland	10/22 Penn
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic	11/12 Tusculum	10/15 North Carolina
☆ Upper South
☆ Deep South		10/15 Georgia Tech	10/1 Georgia
☆ Florida		10/15 Florida
☆ Texas/Louisiana
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California		10/15 Claremont Colleges
☆ N. California		10/15 Berkeley
☆ Pacific Northwest		10/15 Washington
☆ Rocky Mountains
☆ Great Plains		10/15 Oklahoma
☆ Missouri		10/15 Missouri	12/3 WUSTL
☆ Upper Midwest		10/15 Minnesota 10/15 Northfield HS HS only
☆ Central Midwest		10/15 Auburn HS HS only
☆ Eastern Midwest	9/24 CMU	10/15 Michigan
☆ Canada
☆ UK
☆ Asia		10/15 Asian QB Alliance
Question content is not clear until at least	never
Packets on archive?	never
Participating in EBOL?			yes

Spring 2023

Tournament name	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	MRNA II	BHSU	IQBT UG Championship	Canadian Novice	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Full name	ACF Regionals	NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament	MRNA II	Ball So Hard Open	IQBT UG Championship	Canadian Novice	NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament	ACF Nationals
Slot name	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	“Spring Medium 1”	“Spring Open”	“Spring Regionals 2”	Spring Novice	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Difficulty (target audience)	Regionals ●●●	Regionals (or Easy in Div II) ●●● (or ● in Div II)	Medium ●●	Nationals ●●●◖	Regionals ●●●	Easy ●	Nationals (or Med. in Div II) ●●●● (or ●● in Div II)	Nationals ●●●●
Eligibility (unless noted)	Closed			Open	Closed, undergraduate	Closed; scoring limits	Qualify at NAQT SCT	Qualify at ACF Regionals
Packet submission	Required half-packet if not new team							Optional
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	past ACF Regionals WAO MLK VCU Closed	past NAQT SCTs	MRNA ACF Winter EFT SMT	FLopen Fall Open PIANO CMST TTIAC “stanford housewrite” George Oppen	past ACF Regionals	Spring Novice Boilermaker Spring Novice	past NAQT ICTs	past ACF Nationals
Announced on	7/14/22		2/28/22	9/10/21	4/27/22	7/19/22		7/14/22
First mirror	1/28	likely 2/3	TBD	TBD	3/4	March 2023	4/1	4/22
Last mirror					3/4		4/1
Mirrors	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
☆ Online playtest
☆ Online
☆ New England
☆ New York
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic
☆ Upper South
☆ Deep South
☆ Florida
☆ Texas/Louisiana
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California
☆ N. California
☆ Pacific Northwest
☆ Rocky Mountains
☆ Great Plains
☆ Missouri
☆ Upper Midwest
☆ Central Midwest							4/1 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?

Summary

Fall 2022

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Sep 3	Sep 10	Sep 17	Sep 24	Oct 1	Oct 8	Oct 15	Oct 22	Oct 29	Nov 5	Nov 12	Nov 19	Nov 26	Dec 3	Dec 10	Dec 17	Dec 24	≥
NAQT Collegiate Novice	●	4				1	1	1						1
ACF Fall	●	17								17 º˘²
Winter Closed	●●●	5			1 º˘		2	1									1
Penn Bowl	●●●	2		1 º˘							1
ACF Winter	●●	0											0
2022 ARCADIA	●●◖	0
C++	●●	0
CMST II	●●●◖	0
Total mainstream mirrors		23				1	3	2		14	1			1			1

Spring 2023

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Jan 14	Jan 21	Jan 28	Feb 4	Feb 11	Feb 18	Feb 25	Mar 4	Mar 11	Mar 18	Mar 25	Apr 1	Apr 8	Apr 15	Apr 22	Apr 29	May 6	May 13	≥
ACF Regionals	●●●	0				0
NAQT SCT	●●● or ●	0
MRNA II	●●	0
BHSU	●●●◖	0
IQBT UG Championship	●●●	1									1
Canadian Novice	●	0
NAQT ICT	●●●● or ●●	1													1
ACF Nationals	●●●●	0
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.