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Podcasts and videos for the 2026 MSNCT are now here for your listening and viewing pleasure!

www.naqt.com/game-recordi...

and

www.youtube.com/@naqtqb/videos

to listen or watch along!

#naqt #quizbowl #msnct

September 17, 2026 at 4:31 AM

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Oklahoma,
Where the [tossup] comes [buzzin'] down the plain...

Meet the Oklahoma circuit!

Tracey Hickman of the Oklahoma Association for Academic Competition (OAAC) gives us some insight on the Sooner State.

#naqt #quizbowl #thecircuitseries #oaac

September 16, 2026 at 12:04 PM

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NAQT Presents...

The Circuit Series!

Join us as we drop in on different quiz bowl circuits around the United States to hear about what makes their leagues special, some up-and-coming teams we should watch for, and more!

Starting today through October!

#naqt #quizbowl #thecircuitseries

September 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM

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The 2026 ICT Podcasts are here!

To listen, visit www.naqt.com/game-recordi...

To watch, visit www.youtube.com/@naqtqb/videos

Enjoy!

#naqt #quizbowl #ict #podcasts

September 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM

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The Rising Freshmen List for 2026 is here!

NAQT member Dwight Kidder collects information on quiz bowl players’ college plans to help college teams identify potential members.

📸: JM Sullivan

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www.naqt.com/college/risi...

August 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM

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Podcasts and videos for the 2026 HSNCT are now here for your listening and viewing pleasure!

www.naqt.com/game-recordi...

and

www.youtube.com/@naqtqb/videos

to listen or watch along!

#naqt #quizbowl #hsnct

📸: @jm_sullivan

August 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM

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Go up up down down left right your way to this month's You Gotta Know topic:

Iconic Video Game Characters!

naqt.com/go/ygk

#naqt #quizbowl #YouGottaKnow

August 1, 2026 at 1:26 PM

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Reminder: just a week left to become a question writer for NAQT for the 2026-2027 year!

For more information, visit naqt.com/jobs

#naqt #quizbowl #questionwriter #WritingJobs

July 23, 2026 at 12:08 PM

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Goooooool!!

Just in time for the championship final on Sunday, NAQT and Yu Oughta Know present World Cup Soccer, a Buzzword quiz game that will test your knowledge of World Cups past and present!

The game is available to play now-July 21, and costs $4.

naqt.com/buzzword

#naqt #quizbowl #worldcup

July 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM

NAQT

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Podcasts and videos for the 2026 CCCT and IPNCT are now here for your viewing and listening pleasure!

www.naqt.com/game-recordi...

and

www.youtube.com/@naqtqb/videos

to listen or watch along!

#naqt #quizbowl #ccct #ipnct

📸: Jon-Michael Sullivan Photography

July 9, 2026 at 11:57 AM

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Hear ye, hear ye! July's You Gotta Know is about Pre-Lancastrian Kings of England!

Find out more at naqt.com/go/ygk

#naqt #quizbowl #YouGottaKnow

July 1, 2026 at 12:05 PM

Reposted by NAQT

The Dallas Morning News

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A group of middle school students at St. Mark’s School of Texas became national quiz bowl champions last month, bringing home the school’s sixth national crown in nine years.

Dallas middle schoolers win national quiz tournament

Middle school students at St. Mark's School of Texas became national quiz bowl champions in May, beating out 191 other teams.

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June 12, 2026 at 3:42 AM

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Can't get enough quiz bowl in your life? Become a question writer for NAQT!

To learn more, visit naqt.com/jobs

#naqt #quizbowl #jobs

June 3, 2026 at 12:02 PM

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In a way, Stevenson’s victory at HSNCT was not that much of a surprise. We went into all of the things that bring a team to the finals stage and put the 6'er in their hands.

Visit our youtube page www.youtube.com/@naqtqb to watch the full video.

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The quiz bowl team from Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL holds the National Champions Placard.

June 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM

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Photos from the 2026 NAQT HSNCT are here!

We have more photos from the tournament than can be shared here. If we took a photo of you & you would like it, please contact [email protected].

📸: Jon-Michael Sullivan, Sara Stawarz, Jon Vaysman

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May 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM

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Congratulations to the 2026 High School National Championship Tournament winner, Stevenson A!

#naqt #hsnct #quizbowl Congratulations to the 2026 High School National Championship Tournament winner, Stevenson A!

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May 25, 2026 at 2:16 AM

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Live stream up now! Watch at naqt.com/go/live

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May 25, 2026 at 12:56 AM

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This event is unlike any quizbowl championship, anywhere.

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✏️: Chuck Pearson

📸: Sara Stawarz

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There are plenty of events that will send up very good teams to go into a preliminary group with elite teams, and allow them to get pummeled. The event exists to identify the best of the best, after all. The experience is about identifying a champion. Any teams that fail to make it to be the champion are just collateral damage along the way.

HSNCT is not about that. That doesn’t diminish the importance of the champion, and it doesn’t diminish the teams that have been identified as elite in this field.

But HSNCT is a 320-team tournament that aims to serve all 320. The experience of the team that goes 1-9 in preliminaries is every bit as important as the experience of the team that goes 9-1 – and we say that with delight, because the fact that no teams went winless in this field was cause for celebration in the media room as the final results went up.

The genius of the card system is it doesn’t just allow teams to find their level, it allows players to find their people. As the game day goes on, teams of the same level of quality find one another, and find ways to build bridges over their joy in the game. The top teams absolutely bond over their shared passion, their shared knowledge, and their shared chase for the fastest buzz possible. But the middle teams bond over their fight for the playoffs, their path to find just one more win to propel them forward. And on the other side of the field, there is another kind of wonder – the wonder of so much more of the game to master, so much more knowledge to gain.

Every station along that path is important. If this was your school’s first HSNCT or your 25th, your first tossup gained in this tournament as a player or your 250th, you are absolutely critical to who we are and what we seek to become going forward.

When we say we hope everybody had a great time at this event, we mean it. EVERYBODY in this organization, from the members to first-time mods, is interested in EVERYBODY who plays this game at this tournament.

May 24, 2026 at 11:40 PM

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And then there were...the Super Seven!

Lexington A
Mission San Jose A
Montgomery Blair A
Park Tudor A
Stevenson A
Strake Jesuit A
TJHSST A

Who's your pick??

📸: Sara Stawarz

#naqt #hsnct #quizbowl

May 24, 2026 at 10:41 PM

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My coverage this afternoon comes from Room 1103 at the Marriott - this is the lead room of Consolation Bracket A.

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📸 and ✏️: Chuck Pearson

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We've got 32 teams in this bracket who didn't make the playoffs of the big tournament who are going to have a little playoff of their own - five games in a single-elimination tournament to determine the most serious of The Rest Of The Field.

Those of us who staff consolations year to year are reminded, repeatedly, that CONSOLATIONS ARE FUN. The queen of consolations, Sarah Mauldin, tells us that there are teams who care about quiz bowl so much that they console themselves over not making playoffs in the only way they know how - by playing more quiz bowl. These teams are the teams who wanted to get as much quiz bowl in as they could, even for a silly little non-existent trophy, before they left Atlanta. We're going to do our best to do right by them.

Blake Andert and Iain Carpenter are the moderators in 1103, far and away the most professional game room in Atlanta this afternoon. I'll be your guide to each round as it plays out. We're doing to tell some stories. More to come.

May 24, 2026 at 6:44 PM

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Who made it to playoffs??

Swipe to see!!

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May 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM

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The Cedar Crest A-Team from PA’s biggest victory of the 2026 HSNCT came in round 15, when they beat Georgia’s Villa Rica 265-85.

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Coming out of that match, one player expressed how the team aims had shifted since the start of the weekend’s action. “We really wanted to make playoffs, our goal was always to make playoffs. Unfortunately, with some close games yesterday, that reality was closed off. Ending .500 is the goal now,” said Chris, a returner to nationals as are all but one teammate.

An even win-loss balance wasn’t ultimately in the cards for the group, which went on to end the rounds with a three and seven record to close the second morning session. Chris, a junior who hopes to come back stronger in 2027, said the performance was “not a disappointment, but there’s always work for next year.” Keeping that kind of perspective is a role Chris often fills for his program, as his teammate Devin commends Chris for being the one who keeps everyone from blurting bonus answers too early and reins in over-eager play.

The value of finding the optimal level of aggression was a key takeaway for the Falcons, with sophomore standout Matthew saying “yesterday [we had] a really low neg ratio, so we were like we should just be more aggressive; get those negs, because that also comes with more powers.” Sure enough, Cedar Crest picked up five negs (their most in any round) en route to beating Villa Rica, including on two of the last four tossups. How did Cedar Crest come into Sunday morning so hot? Matthew says, “we usually start off slow, but I think we made sure today to really start off strong – got some good sleep last night, made sure we were ready.”

Though they may not have made a run at the playoffs, Cedar Crest has achieved much here, with their captain Nathan saying, “I’m very proud of our team and how we’ve handled this immense pressure.” On the eve of competition, Nathan had noted after a scrimmage that his team has a perfect record in the most valuable test the game can give us; “we would never have met each other before quiz bowl…"

May 24, 2026 at 4:43 PM

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We care about remote quizbowl circuits, but we are hard-pressed to find any more remote than the eight teams that play in Guam.

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📸 and ✏️: Chuck Pearson

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Among them are St. John’s School of Tamuning, John F. Kennedy HS across town, the Academy of Our Lady of Guam, Okkodo HS, and the team that won the Guam state tournament.

The Guam champions is the farthest afield team at HSNCT, Fr. Dueñas Memorial School of Chalan-Pago.

Brandon of Fr. Dueñas reports “St. John’s and JFK gave us a run for our money. We had to play a 2-OT match to beat St. John’s to win state.”

So that intense competition made Fr. Dueñas far more prepared to compete at HSNCT than you might expect, and even though they took a 615-25 loss to Bella Vista (CA) in their opening match, they were not fazed in the slightest.

Coach Jovie Manzanilla, said “the first round was quite a shock, but even scoring against a team so strong gave us confidence that we can do this.”

That “never-give-up” attitude defined the Fr. Dueñas experience at HSNCT, where the finished 4-6. Rylan is a vocal leader of the team; he insists “we’ve got a lot of heart. We’ve give you our best game every time, no matter how big you are.” Jovie praises the resilient captain of the team, Mikhel; he says that “NAQT competition brought the team’s brotherhood closer and stronger.”

There is a hope for more presence at HSNCT in the coming years. “Guam is coming,” the team says in unison. Even though the team is senior-dominated, Marc is an 11th grader and Brayden is a 10th; brother Taga, one of the co-captains of the team, expresses confidence that “my teammate here Brayden is going to give it all in two years.”

Rylan thinks more broadly. “This is motivation for all the teams in the state. We'll study harder and prepare more to make sure we’re all equipped. Iron sharpens iron, and we want the competition in Guam to be the best it can be.”

It’s completely appropriate that this team didn’t want to take a picture with a mascot or icon from their school, but with the Guam flag. They have aspirations bigger than their team, aspirations for their place, and aspirations to develop qb broadly.

May 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM

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June Buchanan School is a very important school to me – it is the college prep K-12 school on the campus of one of the Appalachian College Association campuses, Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky.

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📸 and ✏️: Chuck Pearson

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The NAQT small-school standard is less than 500 students in the top three grades, up to Grade 12. June Buchanan has 27.

This means that there’s a little bit more that goes into the assembly of a quizbowl team. The coach, Trey Moore, is the older brother of captain Austin, who is an 11th grader. Their father, Bradley, is a physician at the infirmary for the Alice Lloyd and June Buchanan campuses, and is deeply invested in the community of both.

“It is hard to get people,” fellow 11th grader Brody says, “but we get people in by showing how fun it is. In our state competition, we have a full team”, instead of the three who are representing June Buchanan this weekend.
The tight-knit community between the school and the college also means that both Austin and Brody are as much college students as high school students. Austin says “I took Russian History and American Revolutionary History at the college this year, and it’s really helped with my preparation.”

Preparation of that sort has helped June Buchanan hold their own against HSNCT-caliber competition in their first Atlanta event. “We might not have a ton of people”, Trey says, “but you won’t find more dedicated students than these.” Mason adds that, playing his first HSNCT as an 8th grader, “this is a big adjustment, but the rewards and the confidence I gain by scoring here are tremendous.”

Austin says “I want to work harder next year, and we are hoping to do better. We realize now how hard the competition is. We are gaining experience and hoping for the best in the years to come.”

The talent that the mountains June Buchanan come from is frequently underrated. It shouldn’t be. The connection and graft that define the place will drive this group of people to accomplish things that go far beyond the imagination.

May 24, 2026 at 1:18 PM

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We're with bright and early this morning with a wardrobe update! Samuel (right) from Burnsville HS, MN has dutifully worn the same shirt to HSNCT since 2024–today, his teammates Emery, Charlie, and Xavier join him.

#naqt #hsnct #quizbowl

May 24, 2026 at 1:11 PM

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