1997 ICT

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1997 DI NAQT ICT
Champion Chicago A
Runner-up Harvard
Third Berkeley
Fourth Cornell
High scorer Robert Margolis
Site University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
Field 64
Stats [1]

The 1997 NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament was the inaugural ICT and was held at Penn on January 24 and 25, 1997. Only a DI champion was crowned; the Undergrad and DII championships were first introduced in the 1998 ICT.

Results

Division I

Chicago came in 1st place in DI and Harvard came in 2nd place.

The top individual scorers in DI were:

Trivia

  • This was the first time ever that a university in the United Kingdom took part in a quizbowl tournament, with Imperial College London competing and placing thirteenth. (This assumes that the various one-off matches between University Challenge and College Bowl champions that occurred prior to 1997 do not count as "a quizbowl tournament.")

Stats

  • Archived stats, including individual stats, can be found here.
  • The tournament program can be found here.
1997 NAQT ICT
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