National Academic Quiz Tournaments

National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC is a question-writing and quiz bowl tournament-organizing company founded by former players in 1996. It is unique among U.S. quiz organizations for supplying questions and hosting championships at the middle school, high school, and college levels. NAQT operates out of Shawnee, Kansas and Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
The company mostly writes practice questions and questions for high school and middle school invitational tournaments, as well as for some game shows. Its involvement in college quiz bowl is mostly restricted to sectional tournaments and the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament.

Rules

NAQT's rules are similar to those of other quiz bowl tournaments. These are about qualification, packets, and gameplay.

Qualification

To qualify for the MSNCT or HSNCT, a team from a school must place in the top 20% of a tournament, rounded up. SSNCT has the same requirement, however only Small Schools are considered. A school can get more teams also depending on pool size. The events which you must qualify at must be organized and accepted and using NAQT packets. Qualifying once in multiple tournaments does not yield multiple invitations. To receive multiple invitations, a school must meet the requirements on multiple teams at the same tournament

Packets

NAQT creates their own packets for tournaments along for studying, such as specific subject, lightning rounds, Thumbs Up! and more. They consist of 24 tossups and 24 bonuses. For certain packets, tossups and bonuses are on the same page, but for HSNCT, MSNCT, and SSNCT, the tossups and bonuses are on separate pages. They consist of clues that become easier and end in 'For 10 points'. They will also provide pronunciation on certain words and provide what to accept, prompt, or say is incorrect.

Gameplay

The rules about negs and powers are that negs give -5, but if another team interrupts and gets it wrong, it is a 0. Correct answers before the power mark, or, give 15 points. Protests can be made at timeouts, halftime, or the end of the game. If a player answers incorrectly, their team is locked for the tossup. Bounce-backs are not allowed in NAQT tournaments, but may be used in tournaments using NAQT questions. Timeouts can be called at the very beginning of any tossup, but a team is limited to 1 tossup per match. A score-check is allowed during the timeouts and halftime.

At the college level

The ICT is divided into divisions, unlike ACF Nationals, so that a clear undergraduate champion is determined.

Collegiate divisions

Division I Overall

NAQT's eligibility rules state that any student taking at least three credit hours towards a degree at a university may compete on that university's team, and indeed may not compete independently if such a team exists. If no program exists at their university's campus, they may compete on the team for another campus of the same university, with the provision that they must leave that team should their home campus organize a program.
If any member of the team has an undergraduate degree, the team competes in the Division I competition, and is only eligible for the open championship.

Division I Undergraduate

At Sectional Championship Tournaments and the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament, teams that do not meet the Division II requirements play together. However, awards are given, including bids to the ICT, for the top undergraduate team. A team is eligible for the undergraduate championship if all members of the team are undergraduate students, and none of them have played in four years of NAQT collegiate competition prior to the current year. The undergraduate championship was first awarded in 1998.

Division II

Also introduced in 1998, Division II is intended to give first- and second-year students an opportunity to compete against other players and teams of the same level of experience. The rules of Division II eligibility are that one must be eligible for DI Undergraduate, and in no year prior qualified for or participated in ICT.
Exceptions to the eligibility rules have been granted to deal with special circumstances in past years; however, as they are controversial when they occur, they do not occur often.

Community colleges

Two-year colleges usually compete in separate SCTs each February. Eight teams qualify for the Division II ICT, where they compete alongside other DII teams in a manner analogous to that of DI Undergraduate teams. However, students at two-year colleges are exempt from the DII eligibility restrictions. In fact, they have three years of eligibility at the DII level.

Winners of NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament

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At the high school level

Teams qualify to the High School National Championship Tournament through a variety of methods. Most commonly, a team qualifies by finishing in the top 15% of the field at a tournament that uses NAQT questions. If a school wants to send more than one team to nationals, the school must qualify all said teams at the same time during a single tournament.
The small school award is given to a public school with a non-selective admissions policy and less than 500 students in grades 10 through 12. Up until and including 2013, the small school champion was decided on a playoff between top finishing teams at the High School National Championship Tournament. Since 2014, a separate national championship tournament has been held for small schools.

Winners of NAQT High School National Championship Tournament

The winners of the NAQT High School National Championship Tournament:

Year	Location	Champion	2nd	3rd	Small school
1999	Norman, Oklahoma	Detroit Catholic Central	Walton	Brookwood A
2000	Atlanta, Georgia	State College A	Maggie Walker A	Eleanor Roosevelt
2001	Ann Arbor, Michigan	Detroit Catholic Central	Detroit Country Day	State College A
2002	Austin, Texas	St. John's School	Irmo	Detroit Catholic Central	Kent City
2003	Myrtle Beach, South Carolina	Thomas Jefferson A	Dorman A	St. John's	Cutter–Morning Star
2004	Houston, Texas	Thomas Jefferson A	Maggie Walker	St. John's A	Cutter–Morning Star
2005	Chicago, Illinois	Thomas Jefferson A	Lakeside	State College A	Danville
2006	Chicago, Illinois	Richard Montgomery	State College A	Maggie Walker A	Danville
2007	Chicago, Illinois	Maggie Walker A	State College A	Thomas Jefferson A	Danville
2008	Chicago, Illinois	Thomas Jefferson A	Charter School of Wilmington A	Walt Whitman A	Russell
2009	Chicago, Illinois	Charter School of Wilmington A	Dorman A	State College A	Ottawa Hills
2010	Chicago, Illinois	Maggie Walker	State College A	LASA A	South Range
2011	Atlanta, Georgia	State College A	LASA A	Bellarmine	George Mason
2012	Atlanta, Georgia	Bellarmine A	Detroit Catholic Central A	LASA A	Beachwood
2013	Atlanta, Georgia	LASA A	Ladue A	Loyola	Macomb
2014	Chicago, Illinois	LASA A	St. John's A	LASA B	Hallsville
2015	Chicago, Illinois	Arcadia A	LASA A	Detroit Catholic Central A	Harmony Science North Austin
2016	Dallas, Texas	Hunter A	Thomas Jefferson A	Detroit Catholic Central A	Advanced Math & Science
2017	Atlanta, Georgia	Hunter A	Detroit Catholic Central A	Naperville North	Glasgow and St. Mark's
2018	Atlanta, Georgia	Plano West A	Hunter A	LASA A	Glasgow and Early College at Guilford
2019	Atlanta, Georgia	Beavercreek	University Lab	Chattahoochee A	Glasgow and Miami Valley
2020	Canceled	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2021	Online	Barrington	University Lab	Detroit Country Day	Westmont and St. Mark's
2022	Atlanta, Georgia	Detroit Catholic Central A	Hunter A	East Chapel Hill A	Glasgow and St. Mark's
2023	Atlanta, Georgia	Barrington A	Buffalo Grove	Detroit Country Day A	Fair Grove and BASIS McLean
2024	Atlanta, Georgia	Barrington A	St. Mark's	Livingston A	Hastings and St. Mark's
2025	Atlanta, Georgia	Livingston A	Northview	Wade Hampton	West Point and St. Mark's

At the middle school level

For the 2010–2011 academic year, NAQT has introduced a program for middle school. A corresponding middle school national championship, called the MSNCT, was held in 2011 in Chicago.
MSNCT is mostly held at the O'Hare Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Chicago. More information can be found at https://qbwiki.com/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_O'Hare.

Winners of NAQT Middle School National Championship Tournament

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