Texas Quiz Bowl Alliance

Beginning Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. and ending Sunday at noon, 10 of the nation’s best quiz bowl teams played a total of 30 matches over 24 hours of game play at Houston’s St. John’s School. The matches were played as part of TQBA’s Texas Invitational III. Above is a picture of the students from all 10 teams in front of SJS.

1. Bellarmine College Prep (CA)  28-1-1 (BC: 19.48)
2. Hunter College High School (NY) 24-6 (BC:18.46)
3. Centennial High School (GA) 21-9 (BC:15.87)
4. Dorman High School (SC) 20-9-1 (BC:16.07 )
5. Seven Lakes High School (TX) 20-10 (BC:17.57)
6. Detroit Catholic Central (MI) 19-11 (BC:16.06)
7. Liberal Arts & Sciences Academy A (TX) 16-13 (BC:15.91)
8. Loyola Academy (IL) 15-15 (BC:14.33)
9. Liberal Arts & Sciences Academy B (TX) 13-17 (BC:12.59)
10. St. John’s School (TX) 7-22-1 (BC:10.91 )

Bellarmine finished a perfect 14-0 to win the Houston edition of ACF Regionals.

Full Stats are available here.

ACF Regionals Stats (Through Round 9)
Texas Invitational Final Stats

During 19 rounds of play today, 17 high school teams and 4 college teams took part in the final 10 rounds of the TI NAQT Event and the first 9 rounds of the Houston section of ACF Regionals.

Hunter College High School (NY) defeated Bellarmine College Prep (CA) twice in the final two rounds to claim the Texas Invitational Championship.

Through 9 rounds of ACF Regionals, Rice A and Bellarmine are undefeated heading into the 6 cross-over rounds to be played Sunday starting at 8 a.m.

The 2012 edition of Texas Invitational featured participating teams from 7 states (CA, GA, IL, MI, NY, SC, TX) and the District of Columbia playing matches at St. John’s School in Houston. Six of the nation’s top 10 teams (#1, #2, #3, #4, #7, #10) took part in the three day event that offered 30 matches in 24 hours of match play. Texas Invitational IV will take place February 15-17, 2013.

GDS 310, Kealing 105
Centennial 285, Seven Lakes 255
Loyola 245, SJS A 165
LASA A 275, Bellaire 190
Dorman 340, SJS B 140
DCC 375, Kinkaid 25
Cistercian 270, Chatta 115
Hunter 335, Bellarmine 275

Hunter 15-1
Bellarmine 14-1-1
DCC 13-3
Dorman 12-3-1
LASA A 10-5-1
Centennial 10-6
GDS 9-6-1
7L 9-7
LASA B 8-8
Loyola 8-8
Cist 8-8
Chatt 6-10
Bellaire 4-12
SJS A 3-12-1
Keal 3-13
SJS B 1-14-1
Kink 0-16

St. Mark’s School (Dallas) won the Texas Quiz Bowl Maverick Challenge this past weekend. St. Mark’s defeat St. John’s in the final. In the middle school division, Kealing Middle (Austin) defeated Beck Junior High (Katy) in the final. Full Stats are available. With this victory St. Mark’s earned an automatic bid to the 13th Annual Texas Quiz Bowl Championship and climbed  to 4th place in the Race for State points rankings.

Texas Quiz Bowl is proud to announce that on February 17-19, 2012 we will be hosting our third annual Texas Invitational at St. John’s School. Teams from across the country (including 11 of the current top 20) will be participating. The participanting schools include: #1 Centennial (GA), #2 Hunter (NY), #3 Bellarmine (CA), #5 Seven Lakes (TX), #6 Dorman (SC), #7 IMSA (IL), #9 Detroit Catholic Central (MI), #10 Loyola (IL), #13 LASA (TX), #15 Cistercian (TX), #18 Georgetown Day (DC). The preliminary schedule of events is available. In total teams from 8 states and and a college squad from Canada will be coming to Houston for the contest.

TQBA is currently looking for middle school and junior varsity student volunteers for this event. If you are currently in grades 7-10, enjoy quiz bowl, and would like to watch some of the best teams in the nation duke it out, please email me at romeroc-at-gmail-dot-com. In particular we are looking for scorekeepers on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Limited spectator seating is available at this event. All requests for tickets and press inquiries should be emailed to romeroc-at-gmail-dot-com.

Texas Quiz Bowl invites all Texas middle schools and junior highs to participate in two upcoming events. The first will be the Maverick Challenge on February 11th at St. John’s in Houston. Full details for this event are available here.

The second event is the upcoming 3rd Annual Texas Middle School Championship that will be held at Beck Junior High on March 10th. 

This year’s edition of the Maverick Challenge will be in held at St. John’s School in Houston on February 11, 2012 and will feature both varsity and middle school divisions. Registration is now open. Full tournament details are available here. We hope to see many teams in February.

For the 2nd straight year Cistercian defeated Seven Lakes in the finals of TQBA Winter Rodeo. LASA made a strong showing placing 4 teams into the quarter finals. The other two quarterfinalists were Bellaire & St. Marks. Full Stats are available here.

With 9 victories Seven Lakes claimed the lead in TQBA’s Race for State. Teams have just 4 more opportunities to earn points towards State Qualification: Maverick (Feb 11), St. Mark’s (Mar 3), Bluebonnet (Mar 31), and Bexar (Apr 14).