2025–2026 season

Last updated on August 31, 2025.

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Fall 2025

Tournament name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	Planetfall III	Scarlet Houseknight	HISTONE	British Novice	NAFTA	ACF Fall	Penn Bowl	ACF Winter	IQBT UG Qualifier	CREEK II
Full name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	Planetfall III	Scarlet Houseknight	Houston’s Interdisciplinary Set made To Output Nats Energy	British Novice: World Tour (Americanized)	Nationals-Advance Fall Tournament for All	ACF Fall	Penn Bowl	ACF Winter	IQBT Undergraduate Championship Qualifier	CREEK II
Slot name	“Early Fall Novice”	“Fall Easy 1”	“Fall Easy 2”	“Fall Easy 3”	“Fall Easy 4”	“Fall Open”	ACF Fall	“Fall Regionals 1”	ACF Winter	“IQBT Undergraduate Qualifier”	“Fall Easy 5”
Difficulty (target audience)	Easy ●	Easy ●	Easy ●◖	Easy ●◖	Easy ●	Nationals ●●●◖	Easy ●	Regionals ●●●	Medium ●●	Medium ●●	Easy ●◖
Eligibility (unless noted)	Closed; scoring limits					Open	Closed; scoring limits; HS-only mirrors	Closed	Closed		HS-only mirrors on HS version of set
Packet submission							Optional		Required half-packet if not new team; opt-out fee
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	Collegiate Novice ICCS VCU Novice EACNT	past ACF Falls other HS upconverts (CREEK+, Saturnalia)	PACE NSC ILLIAC SMH	PACE NSC ILLIAC SMH	PACE NSC ILLIAC SMH	ESPN BHSU FLopen Fall Open PIANO CMST TTIAC “stanford housewrite” George Oppen	past ACF Falls	past Penn Bowls	past ACF Winters	past IQBT Undergraduate Qualifiers	SUN Collegiate Novice ICCS VCU Novice EACNT
Announced on		2/16/25	2/26/25	7/28/25	3/12/25	11/18/24	6/28/25	5/15/25	7/15/25	6/20/25	4/29/25
First mirror	9/20	9/20	9/20	10/25	4/19	9/13	10/18	10/4 (online playtest)	11/15	10/30	12/6
Last mirror	10/25	10/11	11/8	10/25	9/27	1/27	10/18	10/4
Mirrors	6 (see on map)	5 (see on map)	6 (see on map)	1 (see on map)	3 (see on map)	7 (see on map)	17 (see on map)	7 (see 6 on map)	0	0	0
☆ Online playtest								10/4 Online
☆ Online					5/3 ASU cancelled 8/30 Online HS		10/18 Washington
☆ New England			11/8 Brown TBD Lexington HS	10/25 Yale	4/19 Boston University	TBD Harvard	10/18 MIT	TBD Boston University
☆ New York	9/27 RIT						10/18 Cornell
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic		9/27 Columbia	TBD Rutgers			9/27 Maryland 11/8 Columbia	10/18 Rutgers	TBD Penn
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic					9/27 Virginia Tech		10/18 UNC	TBD UNC
☆ Upper South		9/27 Vanderbilt
☆ Deep South							10/18 Georgia Tech
☆ Florida		9/20 Florida Tech					10/18 Florida Tech
☆ Texas/Louisiana			9/20 Texas
☆ Southwest	10/25 Arizona State
☆ S. California							10/18 Claremont Colleges
☆ N. California								TBD Stanford
☆ Pacific Northwest						1/27 UBC
☆ Rocky Mountains
☆ Great Plains	10/4 Murray State	TBD Murray State HS allowed					10/18 Oklahoma
☆ Missouri
☆ Upper Midwest	10/4 Minnesota						10/18 Minnesota
☆ Central Midwest	9/27 Purdue		10/11 Chicago			11/8 Chicago	10/18 Illinois 10/18 Auburn HS HS	TBD Northwestern
☆ Eastern Midwest	9/20 CMU	10/11 OSU					10/18 OSU
☆ Canada						9/13 Toronto	10/18 McGill 10/18 Toronto	TBD Ottawa
☆ UK			11/8 TBD			10/11 Oxford	10/18 Durham 10/18 Cambridge
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least	never
Packets on archive?	never

Spring 2026

Tournament name	ARCADIA V	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Full name	Another Renowned Carolina and Duke Invitational of Academia: the V stands for Virginia Tech	ACF Regionals	NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament	NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament	ACF Nationals
Slot name	“Winter Medium 1”	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Difficulty (target audience)	Medium ●●	Regionals ●●●	Regionals (or Easy in Div II) ●●● (or ● in Div II)	Nationals (or Med. in Div II) ●●●● (or ●● in Div II)	Nationals ●●●●
Eligibility (unless noted)		Closed		Qualify at NAQT SCT	Qualify at ACF Regionals
Packet submission		Required half-packet if not new team; opt-out fee			Optional
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	ARCADIA IKEA 2019 Terrapin MYSTERIUM	past ACF Regionals	past NAQT SCTs	past NAQT ICTs	past ACF Nationals
Announced on	3/26/25	8/28/25			8/17/25
First mirror	around February	1/31	2/7	4/11	4/18
Last mirror					4/18
Mirrors	0	0	0	0	1 (see on map)
☆ 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
☆ Eastern Midwest
☆ Canada
☆ UK
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least			never	never
Packets on archive?			never	never

Summary

Fall 2025

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Aug 30	Sep 6	Sep 13	Sep 20	Sep 27	Oct 4	Oct 11	Oct 18	Oct 25	Nov 1	Nov 8	Nov 15	Nov 22	Nov 29	Dec 6	Dec 13	Dec 20	≥
NAQT Collegiate Novice	●	6					1	2	2			1
Planetfall III	●	4					1	2		1
Scarlet Houseknight	●◖	4					1			1				2
HISTONE	●◖	1										1
British Novice	●	3	1 *	1 º˘				1
NAFTA	●●●◖	6				1		1		1				2							1 ª
ACF Fall	●	17									17 º˘
Penn Bowl	●●●	1							PT º
ACF Winter	●●	0													0
IQBT UG Qualifier	●●	0
CREEK II	●◖	0																0
Total mainstream mirrors		38				1	3	6	2	3	15	2		4							1

Spring 2026

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Jan 10	Jan 17	Jan 24	Jan 31	Feb 7	Feb 14	Feb 21	Feb 28	Mar 7	Mar 14	Mar 21	Mar 28	Apr 4	Apr 11	Apr 18	Apr 25	May 2	May 9	≥
ARCADIA V	●●	0
ACF Regionals	●●●	0					0
NAQT SCT	●●● or ●	0						0
NAQT ICT	●●●● or ●●	0															0
ACF Nationals	●●●●	1																1
Total mainstream mirrors		1																1

Cancelled mirrors this year: 1

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.