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(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… Continue reading More Highlights from 2018 Provincials
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… Continue reading Provincials 2018 — Congratulations to UTS
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… Continue reading Canada questions from 2017 and before
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… Continue reading Announced: Ontario Provincials — March 24 at uToronto
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… Continue reading Comparing Stats for 2017-18
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… Continue reading Recap — Carleton Supermoon Tournament
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.… Continue reading Announced: December HS Tournaments in Toronto 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… Continue reading Announced: November Novice in Hamilton and Ottawa
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.
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… Continue reading Call for Members and New Board (Updated)
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… Continue reading Top Players for 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… Continue reading All Results 2016-17
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… Continue reading Check-in for Spring 2017
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… Continue reading Ottawa QT XII Recap
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… Continue reading MacIntro II Recap – Stepping Up to the Buzzer
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… Continue reading Upcoming High School 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… Continue reading Upcoming University Quizbowl Schedule
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… Continue reading Announced: SCOP Novice 7 in Ottawa — 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… Continue reading Announced: MacIntro II in Hamilton — Oct. 22
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… Continue reading ONQBA Awards for 2015-16
Quizbowl Tournament Date Champions 2nd Place Results? Recap? Lisgar Novice October 17, 2015 Lisgar Colin Colonel By results recap MacIntro October 24, 2015 Woburn Waterloo CI results Ottawa QT 11 November 21, 2015 Lisgar Lisgar B results recap Toronto Novice December 5, 2015 Woburn White Oaks results Stegosaurus Bowl December 5, 2015 Lisgar Dragons ambiguous… Continue reading All Results 2015-16
IHBB and Reach for the Top aren't quizbowl, but they're still pretty competitive. Here are some results from their spring 2016 events.International History Bowl Canadian ChampionshipVarsity (up to grade 12)1. Lisgar2. Bayview3. UTS4. WestmountJV (up to grade 10)1. UTS2. Royal St. George3. LisgarInternational History Bee Canadian ChampionshipVarsity1. Sheena from Lisgar2. Josh from Lisgar3. Alec from… Continue reading Results from IHBB Nats and Reach Provs
A famous person.Here's what I saw at quizbowl Provincials last week.Lit Is ImpossibleTeams did worse on lit than every other category. The low point was the two tossups on the same difficult British novelist. The best it got was with the one Canadian Lit question -- Patrick's common-link question on snow, which someone buzzed on… Continue reading Highlights from 2016 Provincials
The Ontario Quizbowl Association would like to remind everyone that in just over a month, we plan to host the 2016 ONQBA Provincial Championship. It will take place at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus in Sidney Smith Hall (100 George Street, Toronto, ON) on Saturday, March 26th, 2016. Teams that participate in this… Continue reading ONQBA Provincials Reminder
For the first time this season, we saw two high-school tournaments placed on the same weekend. After the awards were handed out and buzzers packed up, I created the following general summary of the events.University of Toronto Novice TournamentThere was a sense of novelty and uniqueness felt by this tournament, given that it was the… Continue reading December 5th: Quizbowl Night in Ontario
