2026–2027 season

Last updated on July 27, 2026.

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Fall 2026

Tournament name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	MONSTER	Terrapin Open	IQBT Novice	Planetfall IV	ACF Fall	Penn Bowl	IQBT UG Qualifier	British Novice	ACF Winter	MRNA VI
Full name	NAQT Collegiate Novice Series	2026 MONSTER	Terrapin XXXII	IQBT University Novice	Planetfall IV: Dysnomia	2026 ACF Fall	2026 Penn Bowl	IQBT Undergraduate Championship Qualifier	2026 British Novice	2026 ACF Winter	Medium Range Academic VI
Slot name	“Early Fall Novice 1”	“Fall Easy 1”	“Fall Open”	“Early Fall Novice 2”	“Fall Easy 2”	ACF Fall	“Fall Regionals”	“IQBT Undergraduate Qualifier”	“Winter Easy”	ACF Winter	“Winter Medium 1”
Difficulty (target audience)	Easy ●	Easy ●◖	Regionals ●●●	Easy ●	Easy ●	Easy ●	Regionals ●●●	Medium ●●	Easy ●	Medium ●●	Medium ●●
Eligibility (unless noted)	Closed; scoring limits	HS-only mirrors	Open	Closed; scoring limits	HS-only mirrors	Closed; scoring limits; HS-only mirrors		Closed; all undergraduate-only mirrors		Closed
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	DART IV past NAQT HSNCTs	past ACF Regionals		past Planetfalls past ACF Falls	past ACF Falls	past Penn Bowls past ACF Regionals	past IQBT UG Qualifiers	past British Novices	past ACF Winters	past MRNAs past ACF Winters
Announced on		2/7/26	10/30/25	7/25/26	7/15/26	6/15/26	4/12/26	7/23/26	5/1/26	6/23/26	2/2/26
First mirror		9/5	9/12	10/3	10/3	10/17		10/29	sometime in November	11/14	December 2026
Last mirror			9/26	10/3
Mirrors	0	3 (see on map)	5 (see on map)	1 (see on map)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
☆ Online playtest
☆ Online		TBD Online Closed TBD Online Open	TBD Online	10/3 Online
☆ New England			9/12 Boston
☆ New York
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic			9/12 Maryland
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic
☆ Upper South
☆ Deep South			9/26 Georgia Tech
☆ Florida
☆ Texas/Louisiana
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California
☆ N. California
☆ Pacific Northwest		TBD Alberta
☆ Rocky Mountains
☆ Great Plains
☆ Missouri
☆ Upper Midwest
☆ Central Midwest			TBD Chicago
☆ Eastern Midwest
☆ Canada
☆ UK
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least	never
Packets on archive?	never

Spring 2027

Tournament name	CLAREMONT Housewrite	WORKSHOP	SOBA	ACF Regionals	CLOPEN	MaShBowl	ARCADIA VI	NAQT SCT	IQBT UG Championship	COOT	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Full name	Claremont Losing Appetite, Reassigning Endeavor Mostly On Non-Teammates	WORKSHOP	Semi-Open British Academic	2027 ACF Regionals	CoLumbia clOPEN	MaShBowl	Another Renowned Carolina and Duke Invitational of Academia: the V stands for Virginia Tech	NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament	IQBT Undergraduate Championship	2027 Cambridge and Oxford Open Tournament	NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament	ACF Nationals
Slot name	“Winter Regionals 1”	“Winter Regionals 2”	“Winter Medium 2”	ACF Regionals	“Winter Open”	“Winter Medium 3”	“Winter Medium 4”	NAQT SCT	IQBT UG Championship	“Spring Open”	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Difficulty (target audience)	Regionals ●●●	Regionals ●●●	Medium ●●◖	Regionals ●●●	Regionals ●●●	Medium ●●	Medium ●●	Regionals (or Easy in Div II) ●●● (or ● in Div II)	Regionals ●●●	Regionals ●●●	Nationals (or Med. in Div II) ●●●● (or ●● in Div II)	Nationals ●●●●
Eligibility (unless noted)				Closed				Closed	Qualify at IQBT UG Qualifier	Open	Qualify at NAQT SCT	Qualify at ACF Regionals
Packet submission				Required half-packet if not new team; opt-out fee								Required half-packet; full packet optional
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	past ACF Regionals	past WORKSHOPs past ACF Regionals	IKEA 2021–2024 ARCADIAs	past ACF Regionals	past ACF Regionals	past ACF Winters	ARCADIA V past ACF Winters	past NAQT SCTs	past IQBT UG Championships	past COOTs	past NAQT ICTs	past ACF Nationals
Announced on	12/7/25	1/29/26	4/4/26		1/27/26	5/2/26	4/21/26			3/26/26
First mirror	January 2027	January 2027	start of 2027	late January 2027		early 2027	February 2027	2/6	potentially 2/20 or 2/27	early 2027	4/3
Last mirror
Mirrors	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
☆ Online playtest							TBD Online
☆ 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

Summary

Fall 2026

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Aug 29	Sep 5	Sep 12	Sep 19	Sep 26	Oct 3	Oct 10	Oct 17	Oct 24	Oct 31	Nov 7	Nov 14	Nov 21	Nov 28	Dec 5	Dec 12	Dec 19	≥
NAQT Collegiate Novice	●	0
MONSTER	●◖	0			0
Terrapin Open	●●●	3				2		1
IQBT Novice	●	1							1 º
Planetfall IV	●	0							0
ACF Fall	●	0									0
Penn Bowl	●●●	0
IQBT UG Qualifier	●●	0
British Novice	●	0
ACF Winter	●●	0													0
MRNA VI	●●	0
Total mainstream mirrors		3				2		1

Spring 2027

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Jan 16	Jan 23	Jan 30	Feb 6	Feb 13	Feb 20	Feb 27	Mar 6	Mar 13	Mar 20	Mar 27	Apr 3	Apr 10	Apr 17	Apr 24	May 1	May 8	May 15	≥
CLAREMONT Housewrite	●●●	0
WORKSHOP	●●●	0
SOBA	●●◖	0
ACF Regionals	●●●	0
CLOPEN	●●●	0
MaShBowl	●●	0
ARCADIA VI	●●	0
NAQT SCT	●●● or ●	0					0
IQBT UG Championship	●●●	0
COOT	●●●	0
NAQT ICT	●●●● or ●●	0
ACF Nationals	●●●●	0
Total mainstream mirrors

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”); 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.