2018 IHSA State Championship Tournament

The 2018 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Championship Tournaments will end the thirty-second State Championship Series conducted in Scholastic Bowl by the IHSA. It will be the twenty-seventh season in which there were separate State Championship Tournaments held for small schools (Class A) and large schools (Class AA). For the twenty-second year, both tournaments were held at the Peoria Civic Center. The tournaments will be held on a Friday, March 16.

This state series was the first to be written under the guidance of new head question editor Brad Fischer.

Advancement

Teams were assigned to one of eight sectionals within each class. Coaches then seeded the top 8 teams in their sectional. The IHSA then assigned the seeded teams to one of four regionals (1 with 8, 2 with 7, etc), with the remainder of the teams assigned to a regional geographically. The winners of the regionals would advance to their respective sectional tournaments, where they would play a three match round robin to determine a winner. The determination of the geographic boundaries of the Sectional was arbitrarily decided by the IHSA Office. Regional tournaments were held on Monday March 5, and Sectional tournaments were held on Saturday March 10.

Tournament Format

Each round was comprised of 24 toss-ups and accompanying bonus questions.

In the State Championship Tournament, teams were randomly assigned to pools of four, and played a three match round robin. The winners of each pool advanced to the Championship Match, and the runners-up in each pool advanced to play for third place. Ties were broken by head-to-head results or total points scored among tied teams (in the event of a three-way tie).

The top four teams earned trophies and medals for team members, coaches, principals, and activities directors.

CLASS A

2014 Class A IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: Williamsville

Runner-Up: Byron

Third Place Southwestern

Fourth Place Maroa-Forsyth

POOL #1

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Byron	260	Riverdale	130
	Maroa-Forsyth	450	Robinson	120
2	Robinson	280	Riverdale	160
	Byron	340	Maroa-Forsyth	190
3	Maroa-Forsyth	350	Riverdale	90
	Byron	290	Robinson	220

POOL #2

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Beacon Academy	390	Johnston City	220
	Williamsville	420	Southwestern	290
2	Southwestern	370	Beacon Academy	290
	Williamsville	590	Johnston City	140
3	Williamsville	420	Beacon Academy	150
	Southwestern	430	Johnston City	140

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Southwestern	420	Maroa-Forsyth	210

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Williamsville	500	Byron	120

CLASS AA

2014 Class AA IHSA State Championship Tournament

State Champion: Stevenson

Runner-Up: Auburn

Third Place IMSA

Fourth Place Sandburg

POOL #1

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Auburn	520	Sandburg	330
	Latin	520	Mater Dei	190
2	Auburn	620	Mater Dei	130
	Sandburg	410	Latin	230
3	Auburn	570	Latin	230
	Sandburg	500	Mater Dei	180

POOL #2

Round	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
1	Stevenson	700	Macomb	100
	IMSA	530	UIUC Lab	370
2	Stevenson	460	IMSA	340
	UIUC Lab	550	Macomb	280
3	Stevenson	570	UIUC Lab	270
	IMSA	610	Macomb	200

Third Place

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
IMSA	600	Sandburg	180

Finals

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Score
Stevenson	430	Auburn	390

Notes

• The 2018 State Series was the first to feature questions edited by Brad Fischer. The result was record scoring at the regional and sectional levels.
• Stevenson became the fourth team to place in the top 4 in at least 10 IHSA tournaments.
• Sandburg became the first Class AA team from the South Suburbs of Chicago to place in the state tournament.

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