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{{Panasonic|year = 2008
|champion = [[2008 Illinois Panasonic Team|Illinois All-Stars]]
|second = [[2008 Florida Panasonic Team|Florida All-Stars]]
|third = [[2008 Dorman|Dorman]]
|fourth = [[2008 Kentucky Panasonic Team|Kentucky All-Stars]]
|fifth = [[2008 Ezell-Harding|Ezell-Harding]]
|sixth = [[2008 Torrey Pines|Torrey Pines]]
|allam1 = [[Nick Clusserath]], [[Dorman|Dorman (SC)]]
|allam2 = [[David Crawford]], [[Jackson Hole|Jackson Hole (WY)]]
|allam3 = [[Greg Gauthier]], [[Wheaton North|Wheaton North (IL)]]
|allam4 = [[Dan Humphrey]], [[Garfield Heights|Garfield Heights (OH)]]
|allam5 = [[Andrew Letson]], [[Skyview|Skyview (MT)]]
|allam6 = [[Kevin Quinlan]], [[Indian Hills|Indian Hills (NJ)]]
| }}

The 2008 [[Panasonic Academic Challenge]] was held at the Convention Center of the Contemporary Resort Hotel at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida between Sunday, June 8 and Tuesday, June 10. 27 teams competed representing 26 states and Guam.

==State Representatives==
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
!width="130"|State||width="125"|School||width="20"| ||width="130"|State||width="125"|School
|-
|Alabama||[[Hoover]]|| ||Montana||[[Skyview]]
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
|California||[[Torrey Pines]]|| ||New Hampshire||''All-Stars''
|-
|Colorado||[[Grand Junction]]|| ||New Jersey||[[Indian Hills]]
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
|District of Columbia||''All-Stars''|| ||New Mexico||[[Southwest]]
|-
|Florida||''All-Stars''|| ||Ohio||[[Garfield Heights]]
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
|Guam||[[Our Lady of Guam]]|| ||Oklahoma||''All-Stars''
|-
|Idaho||[[McKay]]|| ||Pennsylvania||[[State College]]
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
|Illinois||''All-Stars''|| ||South Carolina||[[Dorman]]
|-
|Indiana||[[Ben Davis]]|| ||Tennessee||[[Ezell-Harding]]
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
|Iowa||''All-Stars''|| ||Vermont||''All-Stars''
|-
|Kentucky||''All-Stars''|| ||West Virginia||[[St. Marys]]
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
|Louisiana||[[Baton Rouge Magnet]]|| ||Wisconsin||[[Rufus King]]
|-
|Maine||Oak Hill|| ||Wyoming||''All-Stars''
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
|Maryland||''All-Stars''||
|}

==Round 1: 1st Preliminary Round==
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
!width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score
|-style="background: #d0e5f5"
|'''Oklahoma'''||'''263'''||'''1'''||'''Maryland'''||'''510'''
|-style="background: #ff6347"
|Louisiana||164||2||Indiana||102
|-style="background: #90ee90"
|West Virginia||122||3||District of Columbia||96
|-style="background: #ffff00"
|New Jersey||109||4
|-
|}
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
!width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score
|-style="background: #d0e5f5"
|'''Illinois'''||'''381'''||'''1'''||'''South Carolina'''||'''418'''
|-style="background: #ff6347"
|California||173||2||Wyoming||143
|-style="background: #90ee90"
|Colorado||165||3||New Mexico||79
|-
|}

==Round 2: 2nd Preliminary Round==
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
!width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score
|-style="background: #d0e5f5"
|'''Ohio'''||'''289'''||'''1'''||'''Kentucky'''||'''391'''
|-style="background: #ff6347"
|Montana||209||2||Florida||211
|-style="background: #90ee90"
|Idaho||113||3||Alabama||137
|-style="background: #ffff00"
|Wisconsin||63||4||Guam||114
|-
|}
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
!width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score
|-style="background: #d0e5f5"
|'''Pennsylvania'''||'''256'''||'''1'''||'''Vermont'''||'''265'''
|-style="background: #ff6347"
|New Hampshire||184||2||Tennessee||155
|-style="background: #90ee90"
|Maine||105||3||Iowa||123
|-
|}

==Round 3: 1st Consolation Round==
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
!width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score
|-style="background: #d0e5f5"
|'''Wyoming'''||'''307'''||'''1'''||'''Florida'''||'''376'''||'''1'''||'''Iowa'''||'''218'''
|-style="background: #ff6347"
|Idaho||104||2||West Virginia||193||2||Louisiana||212
|-style="background: #90ee90"
|Guam||103||3||District of Columbia||169||3||Maine||116
|-
|}

==Round 4: 2nd Consolation Round==
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
!width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score
|-style="background: #d0e5f5"
|'''Tennessee'''||'''293'''||'''1'''||'''Colorado'''||'''326'''||'''1'''||'''California'''||'''350'''
|-style="background: #ff6347"
|Wisconsin||160||2||New Jersey||167||2||Alabama||213
|-style="background: #90ee90"
|New Hampshire||151||3||Montana||133||3||Indiana||124
|-style="background: #ffff00"
|New Mexico||114||4
|-
|}

==Round 5: Semifinals==
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
!width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish||width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score
|-style="background: #d0e5f5"
|'''South Carolina'''||'''249'''||'''1'''||'''Illinois'''||'''316'''||'''1'''||'''Kentucky'''||'''232'''
|-style="background: #ff6347"
|'''California'''||'''224'''||'''2'''||'''Tennessee'''||'''208'''||'''2'''||'''Florida'''||'''201'''
|-style="background: #90ee90"
|Oklahoma||189||3||Ohio||186||3||Maryland||199
|-style="background: #ffff00"
|Wyoming||180||4||Pennsylvania||173||4||Colorado||171
|-style="background: #ffe4e1"
|Vermont||165||5||Iowa||143
|-
|}

==Round 6: Finals==
{| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"
|-style="background: #e3e3e3;"
!width="125"|Team||width="50"|Score||Finish
|-style="background: #d0e5f5"
|'''Illinois'''||'''186'''||'''1'''
|-style="background: #ff6347"
|Florida||185||2
|-style="background: #90ee90"
|South Carolina||165||3
|-style="background: #ffff00"
|Kentucky||147||4
|-style="background: #ffe4e1"
|Tennessee||110||5
|-style="background: #f5deb3"
|California||75||6
|}

==Notes==
* Illinois became the fourth state (Virginia, Maryland, Florida) to win the tournament at least twice, the third team (Maryland and Virginia) to post consecutive wins, and only the second all-star team (Virginia) to post consecutive wins.
* Dorman finished a great 2008 season by becoming the first team from a single school to place in the top three since [[2000 Dunbar|Dunbar (KY)]] in [[2000 PAC|2000]].
* The 510 points scored by Maryland in round one set a new all-time record for the tournament, breaking a record of 487 set by Illinois in 2006.
* [[Greg Gauthier]] became only the third player in tournament history (Dan Paskowitz in [[1992 PAC|1992]] & [[1993 PAC|1993]] and Lawson Fite in [[1994 PAC|1994]], [[1995 PAC|1995]], & [[1996 PAC|1996]]) to be named to a second "All-American" team.
* Peggy Harrod, the long time tournament director for the PAC, announced before this tournament that she would be retiring after this PAC.
* A year after seeing Virginia's non-attendance, notable other absences included a Missouri team, which could have included a returning [[Charlie Dees]] (who refused to play). Top players from Washington D.C. also noted that they would not be participating.
* The 27 teams marked the first time that fewer than 30 teams had attended the tournament.
* Shortly after the tournament, it was announced that Panasonic would no longer be sponsoring the tournament.

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