VCU

Virginia Commonwealth University
Location: Richmond, VA
Current President or Coach	Sean Smiley (president), Cody Voight (director of collegiate tournaments), George Berry (director of high school tournaments), Matt Weiner (coach)
National championships	2005 NAQT Undergraduate
NAQT Page	link

VCU's quizbowl team is currently led by Cody Voight, Sean Smiley and George Berry, who are building a perfect society in which the mistakes of the past will be eliminated.

History

A VCU team, about which nothing else is known, attended a 1993 invitational tournament at Virginia as per this Usenet post, and teams from VCU participated in College Bowl at least in 1986 and 1996 according to College Bowl's database (as well as 1991 according to noted villain Tom Michael's page).

More concretely, VCU quizbowl was founded by Matt Weiner in November 2002 by virtue of his attendance at the ACF Fall tournament held by Case Western. Tournaments won by VCU in this time period were the 2003 NAQT Sectionals at Virginia, the 2003 Princeton Buzzerfest, the 2004 Maryland Terrapin, the 2005 NAQT Sectionals, the 2005 Manu Ginobili/Tony Parker at Maryland, the undergraduate title at the 2005 ICT, the 2006 ACF Regionals at Princeton, the 2006 UNC tournament, the 2007 NAQT Sectionals at George Mason, and the 2007 Maryland Terrapin. Evan Adams and Andrew Alexander became team mainstays for the next two years, with George Berry, Cody Voight, and Sean Smiley all joining the team in fall 2009. Sometimes with the aid of dual-enrolled high schooler Tommy Casalaspi, the team went on to finish second to Maryland infinity times, also winning the 2010 ACF Winter tournament at NC Wesleyan and finishing fourth at both Division I and Division II of the 2011 ICT. A VCU team led by Sean Smiley and Cody Voight also won the 2011 ACF Fall site at UVa, and a team containing Smiley, Voight, and Berry finished a strong 14th at ACF Nationals in 2012, losing only to Rice in the second playoff bracket.

Quizbowl at VCU enjoys comparing itself to the VCU basketball team, as both shot to the top tier from relative obscurity in the mid-2000s and had to frequently explain who they were to people from other states (despite being a public research university with 32,000 students, VCU used to be little-known in some places because it does not have a football team). Both teams reached the Final Four of their respective endeavors in 2011, though, with apologies to Coach Smart, the quizbowl team notes that it actually did so twice, in both Division I and Division II of the ICT.

Tournaments Hosted

VCU is an extremely active tournament host at the high school, collegiate, and open levels.

This table lists tournaments organized by the VCU team, even if they were hosted elsewhere. It excludes tournaments organized by others, such as CaTO/TaCO and CULT, even if they were held at VCU, and tournaments organized by people who were affiliated with the VCU team but acting as individuals in hosting the event.

Date	Name	Level	Champion	Runner-up	Stats	Question Set
2/2/13	VCU Closed	Collegiate	UVa A	Chicago	Stats	2013 VCU Closed
12/1/12	VCU Winter Tournament V	High School	Guilford A	Richard Montgomery	Stats	NAQT IS-122
10/13/12	VCU Fall Tournament IV	High School	Maggie Walker A	Montgomery Blair	Stats	NAQT IS-118
4/14/12	Mid-Atlantic MUT Mirror	Collegiate	Maryland B	Penn	Stats	2012 MUT
3/10/12	VCU Spring Tournament IV	High School	HH Academy	St. Anselm's	Nope	2012 VCU-Ohio State Set
12/10/11	VCU Winter Tournament IV	High School	St. Anselm's	Georgetown Day	Stats	NAQT IS-111
8/7/11	Cheyne-Berry Trash Mirror	Open	David Seal, Rob Carson, Bernadette Spencer, Sam Bailey	Carsten Gehring, Evan Nagler, Dan Passner, Jon Pinyan	Stats	Cheyne-Berry Trash
8/6/11	VCU Open 2011	Open	Eric Mukherjee, Ted Gioia, Ike Jose, Chris Ray	Will Butler, Matt Bollinger, Rob Carson, Sarah Angelo	Stats	2011 VCU Open
5/21/11	VCU Season Finale Tournament V	High School	Cave Spring	St. Luke's	Stats	2011 LIST
5/1/11	2011 NAQT Mid-Atlantic Championship	High School	St. Anselm's	Thomas Jefferson	Stats	2011 SCT Division II
4/2/11	2011 NAQT Virginia Championship	High School	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson B	Stats	NAQT IS-105
3/26/11	VCU Spring Tournament III	High School	Maggie Walker A	Thomas Jefferson A	Nope	2011 Prison Bowl
1/23/11	VCU Winter Tournament III	High School	Maggie Walker A	St. Anselm's	Nope	2011 VCU-Vanderbilt Set
11/20/10	VCU Fall Tournament III	High School	Maggie Walker A	Clover Hill	Nope	HSAPQ Tournament 15
8/8/10	VCU Open 2010: Sunday Tournament	Open	Jerry Vinokurov, Will Butler, Ian Eppler	Matt Jackson, Matt Bollinger, Isaac Hirsch, Eric Mukherjee	Stats	2010 VCU Open Sunday
8/7/10	VCU Open 2010: Saturday Tournament	Open	Eric Mukherjee, Chris Ray, Matt Bollinger, Dominic Machado	Jonathan Magin, Will Butler, Doug Graebner, Paul Marchsteiner	Stats	2010 VCU Open Saturday
5/1/10	2010 NAQT Mid-Atlantic Championship	High School	Maggie Walker	St. Anselm's	Stats	2010 SCT Division II
4/24/10	VCU Season Finale Tournament IV	High School	Maggie Walker	Thomas Jefferson A	Stats	2010 Prison Bowl
1/23/10	VCU Spring Tournament II	High School	Maggie Walker	St. Anselm's	Stats	2009 University of Georgia Fall Tournament
12/5/09	VCU Winter Tournament II	High School	Maggie Walker	Georgetown Day	Stats	NAQT IS-90
11/22/09	Mid-Atlantic Delta Burke Mirror	Collegiate	Maryland	UVa	Stats	2009 Delta Burke
11/8/09	TRASH Regionals Mid-Atlantic	Open	Matt Weiner and Sean Smiley	Maryland A	Stats	2009 TRASH Regionals
11/7/09	VCU Fall Tournament II	High School	Maggie Walker A	Maggie Walker B	Stats	2009 HFT
10/31/09	ACF Fall 2009 Mid-Atlantic Site	Collegiate	State College	Maggie Walker	Stats	2009 ACF Fall
8/8/09	VCU Open 2009	Open	Brendan Byrne, Tommy Casalaspi, Shantanu Jha, David Seal	Ike Jose, Eric Mukherjee, Chris Ray, Evan Adams	Stats	2009 VCU Open
5/9/09	2009 NAQT Virginia Championship	High School	Maggie Walker	Collegiate School	Stats	NAQT IS-85
4/18/09	VCU Season Finale Tournament III	High School	State College	Dorman	Stats	HSAPQ Tournament 6
2/21/09	VCU Spring Tournament I	High School	Walter Johnson	Dorman	Stats	HSAPQ Tournament 3
12/13/08	VCU Winter Tournament I	High School	Maggie Walker	Cosby	Stats	HSAPQ Tournament 5
11/16/08	VCU Fall Tournament I	High School	Walter Johnson	Maggie Walker A	Stats	2008 HFT
11/08/08	ACF Fall 2008 Mid-Atlantic Site	Collegiate	Maryland A	Penn	Stats	2008 ACF Fall
8/17/08	VCU Novice Tournament	Open	Brendan Byrne, Andrew Hart, Trevor Davis, Gautam Kandlikar	Chris Ray, Keith Jamison, Rebecca Fischer, Leonard Chang	Stats	ZOT Bowl
8/16/08	VCU Open 2008	Open	Jerry Vinokurov, Ted Gioia, Henry Gorman, Andy Watkins	Brendan Byrne, Andrew Hart, Trevor Davis, Gautam Kandlikar	Stats	2008 VCU Open
5/03/08	VCU Season Finale Tournament II	High School	Dorman A	Thomas Jefferson A	Stats	2008 PACE Regular Season Set
3/22/08	Mid-Atlantic MUT Mirror	Collegiate	Maryland A	Maryland B	Stats	2008 MUT
2/23/08	VCU Last-Minute Tournament	High School	Thomas Jefferson A	Dorman A	Stats	NAQT IS-74
11/3/07	ACF Fall 2007 Mid-Atlantic Site	Collegiate	Maryland A	North Carolina A	Stats	2007 ACF Fall
5/05/07	VCU Season Finale Tournament I	High School	Maggie Walker	Dorman	Stats	2007 PACE Regular Season Set
3/10/07	VCU Open 2007	Open	Maggie Walker	Maryland	Stats	2007 Illinois Novice
11/15/03	Illinois Open East	Open	Maryland	Duke	Stats	2003 Illinois Open

Title Succession

NAQT ICT Division I Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by	Year	Succeeded by
Illinois	2005	Williams