Quizbowl at uToronto on March 3, Provincials in Ottawa on May 5

University of Toronto is hosting their High School Novice tournament on March 3 (Sunday) at their downtown campus. Meghan Torchia will be directing. They're charging $100 for the first team and $50 per extra team from a school. Do not be misled by the word "novice" -- it is for any high school teams, no matter how advanced.…

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Highlights from Carleton Sublunary

I ran Carleton Sublunary Tournament on Saturday, and I got to be in a game room watching the action this time. Full stats are here. My highlights are below: Teams missed all the usual questions about British novelists that the teams miss every year. Round 1 teams gave some confused buzzes where they couldn't remember…

Fall 2018 Tournaments in Ottawa

Lisgar CI is running Lisgar Novice on Saturday, November 10, 2018. This will use the new SCOP Novice set in a Canadian edition. It is a novice tournament, so all players must be in grade 9 or 10 or else playing in their first quizbowl tournament. Lisgar Novice should run from 9:00 to 4:00. It costs $40,…

ONQBA Awards for 2017-18

These are our awards to recognize some top players from the past season. We weighted these awards mostly for quizbowl, but we considered results from all formats.   Best Player -- Gareth Thorlakson (UTS) Gareth led all his quizbowl tournaments in powers this year, without picking up too many negs. His UTS teams finished X-1…

All Results for 2017-18

Quizbowl Results UTS won MacIntro over Westmount. Colonel By's junior team won Lisgar SCOP over teams from Nepean, Lisgar, and Glebe. UTS won Toronto Novice over UTS B. Lisgar won Carleton Supermoon over Lisgar B. UTS won Provincials over Westmount. Lisgar went 4-6 at HSNCT.   All Other Results College quizbowl results for the season…

More Highlights from 2018 Provincials

(Write-ups of three rounds I covered, highlights from staff chat, and an interview with a team from Hamilton.) White Oaks vs Richmond Hill B White Oaks enter the room frustrated because they lost a close game to Lisgar. It turns out they lost by 30 points -- they could have tied it by 30ing the…

Provincials 2018 — Congratulations to UTS

The UTS players above, they went 9-1 and won Provincials last Saturday. The field was pretty well balanced this year, but UTS was the clear best team. Full stats from the tournament. Twitter coverage of the last five rounds. Canada questions used in the tournament. We should have some more coverage to post soon. Peter…

Canada questions from 2017 and before

For most high-school tournaments in Canada, ONQBA edits the question set to add in questions about Canada. For Toronto Novice and Carleton Supermoon in December 2017, we wrote and added these questions to the set -- 18 tossups and 7 bonuses. The writers were Peter Cordeiro and me. I removed around 75 questions from the…

Announced: Ontario Provincials — March 24 at uToronto

There will be an Ontario Provincial Quizbowl Championship on Saturday, March 24, 2018, at the University of Toronto. Meghan Torchia will direct the tournament. Whoever wins will be the high-school champions of Ontario, and by default, of Canada. Details are in my post here. It should be at least 10 rounds, on slightly tougher questions…

Comparing Stats for 2017-18

I looked at the stats from Toronto Novice Tournament and Carleton Supermoon Tournament. Here is my attempt to measure the strongest teams in Canada. (The stats might have errors in them, and lots of teams can always make the claim that they didn't play their full "A" lineup. So this isn't a perfect measurement of strongest…

Recap — Carleton Supermoon Tournament

I was very pleased with the Carleton Supermoon Tournament on Saturday. We had 7 teams and least 25 players, representing 5 different schools. Raw stats are here. Below are some highlights. Lisgar has strong teams Lisgar is a big magnet school that practices a lot of quizbowl. We are never surprised when they have strong…

Announced: December HS Tournaments in Toronto and Ottawa

We have confirmed dates for high school tournaments in December! The Toronto and Ottawa events will take place on the same day and will use Canadian editions of the same NAQT set. Toronto Novice The annual Toronto Novice HS Tournament is back on December 2 and will be hosted at the University of Toronto St.…

Announced: November Novice in Hamilton and Ottawa

High school quizbowl is now beginning for the 2017-18 season! MacIntro III On November 11, McMaster is hosting their third MacIntro tournament. It's intended for new players and teams, but any high-schooler is eligible. The "king of quizzes" Peter Cordeiro will direct the event. Last year's tournament went to the final tossup before ending with a victory…

Fall Schedule 2017

Our events page is finally ready with fall dates and sites. Tournaments are unannounced but are all planned. HS season starts with Novice in November, at UToronto and Lisgar. We'll keep posting as announcements appear.

Call for Members and New Board (Updated)

Update -- August 17, 2017:As of August 2017, the ONQBA board is Peter Cordeiro, Sherry Li, and me. Peter is our acting president for 2017-18. We expect to work together with many members of the university and high-school quizbowl community. We intend to have board meetings every two months, and we intend for ONQBA to…

Top Players for 2016-17

We had a quiet year for quizbowl in Canada, so we aren't doing full awards. We still wish to recognize the best high-school quiz players in Ontario.Sheena Li (Lisgar)Sheena scored 27 powers while leading her team to 22nd place at a US Nationals this year. She wasn't mentioned on the HSQBRank all-world lists, but her…

All Results 2016-17

Quizbowl Tournament Date Champions 2nd Place Results? Recap? Lisgar Novice October 22, 2016 Lisgar Jr Lisgar Jr B results MacIntro II October 22, 2016 Westmount "Central RH" results recap Ottawa QT 12 December 3, 2016 Lisgar Lisgar B results recap Toronto Novice December 3, 2016 "Central RH" White Oaks results Lisgar, Westmount, and "Central Richmond…

Check-in for Spring 2017

News and notes for spring 2017.1. There won't be an Ontario Quizbowl Provincials for 2016-17. We were unable to properly schedule and book this a championship this year -- we apologize for the screw-up. For the teams disappointed, we hope you are making do with other HS quiz activities, and we promise to have some…

Ottawa QT XII Recap

Powerful building full of ringers.We got six teams yesterday, all from Lisgar and Colonel By, so it was a field full of sharks. Every player got a power in this tournament (even the ones who missed some rounds), and 5 of the 6 teams scored over 20 points-per-bonus.Sheena and Colin were the Lisgar A team…

MacIntro II Recap – Stepping Up to the Buzzer

As teams unpack their buzzers and open up their brains, quizbowl season has begun once again. Early tournaments spring up and offer a fun and competitive environment for highschoolers to see what they have learned and maybe to compare themselves to the competition.McMaster Introductory Tournament (MacIntro) IIThe Scene As teams slowly made their way up…

Upcoming High School Quizbowl Schedule

Quizbowl is back for 2016-17 in Ottawa and south Ontario. These tournaments have been arranged and scheduled.DateTournamentLocationContactOct 22, 2016MacIntro II @ McMasterHamilton, ONPeter CordeiroOct 22, 2016Lisgar NoviceOttawa, ONRuth CrabtreeDec 3, 201612th Ottawa QTOttawa, ONBrendan McKendyDec 3, 2016Toronto "Novice"Toronto, ONMeghan TorchiaAll these tournaments will use Canadian editions of the question sets. The three novice tournaments should…

Upcoming University Quizbowl Schedule

ONQBA has a mandate to develop high-school quizbowl. This university schedule is posted purely for the sake of scope creep. There is a pretty full calendar of university tournaments in Ontario this fall. Please attend these tournaments and win them so foreign schools like McGill don't bring us to shame.DateTournamentLocationContactOct 15, 2016EFT @ OttawaOttawa, ONChris JohnstonOct…

Announced: SCOP Novice 7 in Ottawa — Oct. 22

Re-posting Colin's HSQB announcement:Lisgar in Ottawa, ON will be hosting a mirror of the SCOP Novice 7 set on October 22nd, 2016. We are hoping to welcome new players and perhaps even schools into the Ottawa Quizbowl scene, so don't hesitate to sign up! (We promise to be nice.)As this is a novice tournament, there…

Announced: MacIntro II in Hamilton — Oct. 22

The McMaster University Student Centre in Hamilton.Re-posting Raymond's HSQB announcement:McMaster is pleased to announce the return of our high school tournament MacIntro on Oct. 22, 2016.Continuing the tradition of last year, this tournament is intended to be an introduction for new players and teams in the region to the format of Quizbowl. We will be…

ONQBA Awards for 2015-16

Since the season has long since wrapped up and voting has now completed, the following are our awards for 2015-16. We weighted these mostly towards quizbowl, but we did look at results from other competitive formats.Powerful school full of ringers.Best Player -- Sheena Li (Lisgar)Sheena won the national History Bee this year, but she probably…