Event Policies

Registration 

  • Teams may register via email to romeroc -at- gmail.com
  • A list of currently registered teams will be maintained at the TQBA FaceBook Page.

Fees

  • Tournament Entry fees are set at $95 per team per tournament
  • A $10 discount is availble for bringing a working buzzer system
  • The fee must be received by tournament morning registration period

Times

For every Texas Quiz Bowl event, the following times are customary:

  • Tournament Registration begins promptly at 8:00 a.m.
  • A organizational team meeting will begin at approximately 8:45 a.m.
  • The first match begins at approximately 9:00 a.m.
  • The 7th round will begin exactly 45 minutes after the last match of round 6 ends.

Field

  • The tournament field will be declared final 48 hours before the start of tournament registration.
  • The TQBA director reserves the right to drop teams due to spacing issues.
  • The TQBA director reserves the right to add late teams.
  • Multiple teams from the same school are subject to limitation based on priority registrations for first teams from other schools (see below)

Rosters

  • During morning registration, coaches will be required to submit rosters including students name and grade.
  • A student may play for one and only one team during a particular event. A student does not have to be on the same team for different events.
  • All students included on a roster must have previously completed student data form to allow us to verify a student’s eligibility to participate. Student data forms may be completed on the morning of his or her first event of the year.
  • Texas Quiz Bowl reserves the right to verify the registration and grade status of any participant with the school’s principal.

Behavior 

  • Each school is required to be chaperoned by at least one adult.
  • Ill-behavior by any student will not be tolerated and my result in sanctions possibly including team expulsion from the current event and a ban from future events.

Standard Tournament Format

  • The typical TQBA preliminary shall include 8 rounds. Teams will play 6 matches out of 8 rounds with two byes. A lunch break is typical between rounds 6 and 7.
  • In preliminary matches ties will not be broken.
  • Following the preliminary matches, any team with at least 3 wins will advance into a single elimination playoff.
  • Playoff teams will be seeded based on winning pct, bonus conversion (to 2 decimal places), and ratio (to 2 decimal places).
  • Ties to advance to the playoffs will be determined by the above procedure.
  • Ties in playoff games will be decided with a sudden death tossup.
  • The tournament winner is the team which wins four consecutive playoff matches

Junior Varsity events 

  • Because of inherent difficulties in the definition of junior varsity players, there shall be no official Texas Quiz Bowl Junior Varsity contests.
  • However there may be consolation brackets available for teams who do not make the top playoff bracket at events.

Novice events

  • Any TQBA novice event is open only to players who are in their first or second year in quiz bowl.
  • Any player (regardless of age) who has scored 30 ppg or greater in any TQBA varsity event (regular, state, novice, or new school) is ineligible for novice events.
  • A novice event is by default a varsity event unless specified to be a middle school event.
  • Middle school students may not attend a varsity novice events.

New School events 

  • New school events are open to teams who have not qualified to attend the Texas Quiz Bowl State Championship event in the past four years.

Multiple Teams from the same school

  • The TQBA director may choose to limit the number of participating teams from a given school in any TQBA regular season event.
  • In particular if the number of team spots is limited, the first team from one school will be allowed to play before the second team from another school will be allowed to play and the second team from one school will be allowed before the third school from another school will be allowed to play.

Varsity State Championship

The Texas Quiz Bowl Varsity State Championship is contested among the top 14 teams from each given year. These 14 teams will complete a full round robin. Following the 13-game round robin, any team which is 2 games ahead of the field will be declared champion. If team A has a 1 game advantage over team B, there will be an advantaged final–team B would have to beat team A in two consecutive games to be declared champion. If team A and team B are tied after the round robin the two teams will play a single game for the championship. Ties for all spots (following the roundrobin) will be broken by bonus conversion.

State Qualification for Students 

Participation in at least one TQBA regular season event is necessary (but not sufficient) for participation in the state championship. No student who has not played in at least one TQBA regular season event is eligible to participate in the Varsity State Championship division.

State Qualification for Schools 

The 14 State spots will be determined through the following hierarchal procedure:

  1. Up to six spots will be reserved for the winners of the TQBA regular season events.
  2. All remaining spots will be reserved for previously unqualified schools who have accumulated the most wins (across multiple tournaments) during the regular season. Each win at a regular season event counts as 1 win for qualification purposes. Each win at a novice tournament counts as ½ win for qualification purposes. For any single tournament, a school will be credited with the # of wins of its best performing team. A school with multiple teams in a tournament does not get credited with the sum of their wins.
  3. Under typical circumstances, no school will be allowed more than one team in the State Championship
  4. The exception to previous rule is if two distinct teams (with no common members) from the same school independently qualify by winning different qualifying events. Under no circumstances will more than 2 teams from a single school be allowed to participate in state.
  5. In the event that one school qualifies multiple teams that share common members, only one team will be eligible for the state championship and the school’s coach will determine the team’s roster.
  6. A current ranking of the schools’ qualification be kept on the Texas Quiz Bowl web site.

Photography & Videography

  •  Texas Quiz Bowl reserves the right to photograph, videotape, or audio tape all elements of its events for promotional purposes. 
  • Students, Coaches, and Parents are allowed to photograph at TQBA events.
  • Coaches and parents are urged to be cognizant of the distracting nature of flash photography and use discretion when photographing during matches.
  • Students, coaches, and parents are expressly prohibited from video taping or audio taping any TQBA tournament match or any part of a TQBA tournament match due to the nature of packet security.

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