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Illinois
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Location:
Champaign-Urbana, IL
Current President or Coach Dylan Bowman
National championships 2000 NAQT Division I, 2004 NAQT Undergraduate, 2012 ACF Undergraduate, 2013 ACF Overall
NAQT Page link

This article describes the Academic Buzzer Team at the University of Illinois. For high school Scholastic Bowl in the state of Illinois, see Illinois Scholastic Bowl.

The University of Illinois ("Illinois" or "UIUC") is a large public university located in Champaign, Illinois and Urbana, Illinois. Illinois is represented in quizbowl by the Academic Buzzer Team (ABT), which was founded by Chris Goheen and others circa 1979 and is by some accounts the oldest continuously active registered student organization (RSO) at Illinois.

Tournaments

In the late 2000's and early 2010's, Illinois traditionally hosted two collegiate tournaments: the Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Novice Tournament (MCMNT) and Illinois Open ("IO"). The MCMNT was almost always open only to first- and second-year players. Some iterations required packet submission, while some other iterations were paired with the Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament (MUT) or Brown’s Early Fall Tournament (EFT). In 2021, Illinois Open was revived, head edited by Auroni Gupta and written by past and current Illinois players.

The ABT also hosts an annual high school tournament: the Earlybird. The Earlybird was originally housewritten, but shifted to using HSAPQ question sets. After the dissolution of HSAPQ, Earlybird used various regular-difficulty housewrites or NAQT Invitational Series sets. In the past, the ABT historically produced and hosted the ABT Solo, a one-on-one tournament with short ACF-style questions usually produced by Donald Taylor. The ABT has provided facilities for IHSSBCA's annual meeting and for its Team Illinois tryouts. In 2011, the IHSSBCA recognized the ABT as the Friend of Scholastic Bowl. Additionally, the ABT hosted the Illinois NAQT State tournament in 2008 and from 2014 to the present.

Several other high school quizbowl or quizbowl-like events have been held at Illinois, including the long-running Illinois Phi Scholars Tournament, though the ABT is not generally involved in these other tournaments.

Notable Performances

  • In 2010, Illinois placed 5th (tied with Brown A and Penn) at ACF Nationals, 4th (tied with Minnesota A) in Division I at NAQT ICT, and 31st in Division II at ICT.
  • In 2011, Illinois placed 3rd at ACF Nationals and 3rd in Division I at NAQT ICT.
  • In 2012, Illinois finished 2nd in Division I at NAQT ICT. They finished 6th overall and won the undergraduate championship at the ACF Nationals.
  • In 2013, Illinois finished 4th in Division I at ICT and Illinois A won ACF Nationals; a one-person Illinois B team won the Division II award at Nationals as well, which Matt Weiner incorrectly claimed was the first solo victory of Division II ACF Nationals despite Ike Jose being in the room.
  • In 2017, Illinois finished 2nd in Division II at ICT, losing in the final to Berkeley.
  • In 2021, Illinois finished 2nd in Division I at ICT, losing in the final to Columbia.

Current Members

Loosely Affiliated

Former Members

2007-2008 Season

Tournament Host Date Finish Individual
ACF Regionals University of Chicago February 16, 2008
Illinois A - 2nd
Illinois B - 6th
Illinois C - 11th
Mike Sorice - 3rd
Jeff Crean - 8th
NAQT SCT University of Chicago February 9, 2008
Illinois A (Div I) - 1st
Illinois B (Div I) - 3rd
Illinois (Div II) - 6th
Mike Sorice (Div I) - 1st
Steven Canning (Div I) - 6th
Greg Baboukis (Div I) - 7th
Sulee Cao (Div I) - 8th
Trygve Meade (Div II) - 3rd
Cardinal Classic Stanford University February 2, 2008
Illinois A - 6th
Illinois B - 10th
Mike Sorice - 2nd
Penn Bowl Truman State University January 26, 2008 Illinois - 3rd Mike Sorice - 1st
MLK University of Michigan January 19, 2008 Illinois A - 2nd Mike Sorice - 1st
TTGT11 University of Iowa December 1, 2007 Illinois - 1st N/A
Brainal Leakage Truman State University November 17, 2007
Illinois A - 1st
Illinois B - 5th
Mike Sorice - 1st
Trygve Meade - 5th
Steven Canning - 8th
Deep Bench University of Minnesota October 20, 2007 Illinois - 1st Mike Sorice - 1st
EFT2 University of Chicago October 6, 2007
Illinois A - 2nd
Illinois D - 7th
Illinois B - 22nd
Illinois C - 23rd
Donald Taylor - 3rd
Trygve Meade - 10th

2006-2007 Season

Tournament Host Date Finish Individual
NAQT ICT University of Minnesota April 13-14, 2007
Illinois (Div I) - 2nd
Illinois (Div II) - 11th
Mike Sorice (Div I) - 3rd

(NAQT has 5th due to a scoring error in round 5)

ACF Nationals Vanderbilt University March 31, 2007
Illinois A - 5th
Illinois B - ?
Mike Sorice - 1st
Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Novice University of Illinois March 10, 2007 Illinois A - 5th Greg Baboukis - 4th
ACF Regionals University of Chicago February 17, 2007
Illinois A - 2nd
Illinois B - 12th
Mike Sorice - 2nd
NAQT SCT University of Michigan February 10, 2007 Illinois (Div I) - 3rd
Mike Sorice - 1st
Kelly Tourdot - 8th
NAQT SCT University of Iowa February 10, 2007
Illinois A (Div II) - 2nd
Illinois B (Div II) - 5th
Donald Taylor - 3rd
Greg Baboukis - 7th
Anne B. Davis University of Michigan January 14, 2007
Illinois A - 4th
Illinois B - 10th
N/A
MLK University of Michigan January 13, 2007
Illinois A - 3rd
Illinois B - 9th
Mike Sorice - 5th
ACF Fall University of Chicago November 4, 2006
Illinois C - 1st
Illinois A - 5th
Illinois B - 8th
Mike Sorice - 1st
Kelly Tourdot - 3rd
Donald Taylor - 7th
Rollapalooza University of Missouri-Rolla October 21, 2006 Illinois - 1st
Mike Sorice - 1st
Kelly Tourdot - 3rd

Title Succession

ACF Nationals Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Yale
2013
Virginia
ACF Nationals Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Haverford
2013
North Carolina
NAQT ICT Division I Overall Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Chicago
2000
Chicago
NAQT ICT Division I Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Harvard
2004
VCU

Unofficial title succession

ACF Nationals Division II Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Chicago
2007
Minnesota

External Links

Official Website