2018 IHSA State Championship Tournament

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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:

TBD

Runner-Up:

TBD

Third Place

TBD

Fourth Place

TBD

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 TBD XXX TBD XXX
TBD XXX TBD XXX
2 TBD XXX TBD XXX
TBD XXX TBD XXX
3 TBD XXX TBD XXX
TBD XXX TBD XXX

Third Place

Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
TBD XXX TBD XXX

Finals

Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
TBD XXX TBD XXX

CLASS AA

2014 Class AA IHSA State Championship Tournament
State Champion:

TBD

Runner-Up:

TBD

Third Place

TBD

Fourth Place

TBD

POOL #1

Round Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
1 TBD XXX TBD XXX
TBD XXX TBD XXX
2 TBD XXX TBD XXX
TBD XXX TBD XXX
3 TBD XXX TBD XXX
TBD XXX TBD XXX

POOL #2

Round Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
1 TBD XXX TBD XXX
TBD XXX TBD XXX
2 TBD XXX TBD XXX
TBD XXX TBD XXX
3 TBD XXX TBD XXX
TBD XXX TBD XXX

Third Place

Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
TBD XXX TBD XXX

Finals

Winning Team Score Losing Team Score
TBD XXX TBD XXX

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.