BHSAT

The Bulldog High School Academic Tournament, or BHSAT (IPA: [bi.'eɪʧ.sæt]), was an annual spring tournament for high school teams hosted by Yale; it was hosted on a question set of the same name, house-written by the Yale team at a difficulty somewhat higher than regular high school difficulty. Once one of the premier tournaments in the nation, BHSAT attracted teams from across the entire country well into the 2000s; it eventually lost a lot of its national field as fewer teams made the trip to what was perceived as a mediocre set.

For the 2011 edition forward, though, editors Matt Jackson and John Lawrence began to ensure that the questions meet the best standards of modern quizbowl writing each year, and begun re-expanding the field out to a national audience, both by inviting teams to the main site and by establishing multiple mirror sites in other circuits across the nation (such as a partnership with WUHSAC starting in 2013).

A BHSAT set has not been produced since 2021; it is unclear as of yet whether the set will return. In 2023, past BHSAT contributor Daniel Ma produced his own high school set, DMA, which was hosted at Yale in a similar spring timeframe in partnership with AQBL as "the Charter Cup" [1] [2].

Main Site Results

Note: it is presumed from the numbering of the tournament that it has happened for 20 consecutive years; since it emerged in the fog before recorded history, this may not be the case.

Year	# of Teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth
1992?		Need results	Need results	Need results	Need results
1993?		Need results	Need results	Need results	Need results
1994?		Need results	Need results	Need results	Need results
1995?	29	Need results	Need results	Need results	Need results
1996	46	Phillips Academy A	Simsbury A	Need results	Need results
1997	?	Maggie Walker [3]	Need results	Half Hollow Hills West [4]	Need results
1998	?	Need results	Need results	Brookwood [5]	Dorman [6]
1999	54	State College [7]	Simsbury A	Walter Johnson [8]	Harrisburg Academy
2000	68	State College A	Maggie Walker	Brookwood	New Milford A
2001	?	State College [9]	Georgetown Day School [10]	Manheim Township	Walter Johnson
2002	61	Los Alamitos	Thomas Jefferson A	Horace Greeley A	Maggie Walker
2003	?	Dorman	State College A	Kellenberg A	Walt Whitman
2004		Need results	Need results	Need results	Need results
2005	42	State College A	Gonzaga	Walter Johnson	Caddo Magnet
2006	35	State College A	Walter Johnson	Seton Hall Prep A	Dorman
2007	32	Gonzaga	Stuyvesant A	Dorman	Kellenberg A
2008	32	Stuyvesant	State College A	Hunter	Gonzaga
2009	28	Kellenberg A	Stuyvesant	Kellenberg B	Half Hollow Hills West
2010	24	Hunter	Saint Joseph	Kellenberg A	Seton Hall Prep
2011	10	Hunter A	Hunter B	State College A	Hunter C
2012	21	Hunter A	Schindler	Hunter B	Northmont
2013	24	Hunter A	Ridgewood A	Lexington	Hunter B
2014	24	High Tech A	St. Joseph's (NJ)	Hunter	Ridgewood
2015	28	High Tech	Bethlehem Central	Lexington A	AMSA
2016	22	Wilmington Charter	Bethlehem Central A	Lexington A	Hunter A
2017	26	Ithaca	Phillips Academy	Hunter	Dorman
2018	24	Hunter A	Lexington A	Phillips A	Great Neck South
2019	22	Barrington	High Tech A	Belmont	Lexington A
2020	15	Acton-Boxborough	Belmont	Lexington	Mather
2021	24	Belmont A	Hunter A	Phillips Academy	Carmel A

• The editions including and prior to 2009 featured a single-elimination playoff with no third-place game, so the teams listed as third and fourth place would actually be tied for third place.