The 13th annual Texas State Championship Quiz Bowl Tournament will be hosted on May 5, 2012. This tournament will be open to the top 14 schools from the state of Texas.
Format
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:
- Up to six spots will be reserved for the winners of the TQBA regular season events.
- 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.
- Under typical circumstances, no school will be allowed more than one team in the State Championship
- 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.
- 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.
- A current ranking of the schools’ qualification be kept on the Texas Quiz Bowl web site.
Previous Winners of the Texas Championship
12th (2011): Liberal Arts and Science Academy (Austin)
11th (2010): Liberal Arts and Science Academy (Austin)
10th (2009): Bellaire (Houston)
9th (2008): Liberal Arts and Science Academy (Austin)
8th (2007): St. Johns (Houston)
7th (2006): St. Johns (Houston)
6th (2005): Bellaire (Houston)
5th (2004): Bellaire (Houston)
4th (2003): St. Johns (Houston)
3rd (2002): St. Johns (Houston)
2nd (2001): Huntsville
1st (2000): Cistercian Prep (Irving)
