National championship
A national championship is an event purporting to award a title to the best quizbowl team in a particular country. Over the years a number of national championships have been held for college, high school, and middle school levels of play, with widely varying formats and question quality.
History of national level play
Don Reid developed the College Bowl format for American university students after success with a similar program for American GIs during WWII. By the 1990's, for a variety of reasons, College Bowl's popularity began to diminish. The Academic Competition Federation was established in 1991 and held an alternate national championship out of dissatisfaction over the CBI's handling of quiz bowl.
Corporate sponsorship has also led to formation of several national championship tournaments.
Active titles (scheduled to be awarded in 2014)
Defunct titles
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