List of current good quizbowl status of all North American states, provinces, and territories

This page is intended to provide a brief overview of how the good quizbowl project is progressing at the high school level in every state, provincial, or territorial-level division of the United States and Canada.

Polity	Status
Alabama	many good tournaments every year
Alaska	no known general quizbowl tournaments have ever been held. Some NHBB events in the past.
Alberta	first-ever tournament held on NAQT at University of Alberta in 2011 and annually since
American Samoa
Arizona	many good tournaments every year
Arkansas	many good tournaments every year
British Columbia	no known high school events have ever been held except Reach for the Top. There used to be college teams at Simon Fraser and UBC but they did not host high school events. Interested high school teams could get to tournaments at the University of Washington fairly easily.
California	many good quizbowl tournaments every year
Colorado	Knowledge Bowl circuit. Some NHBB activity. No good general quizbowl tournaments have ever been held.
Connecticut	longstanding tournaments at Yale, expanding interest in hosting good tournaments by high schools in recent years.
Delaware	a few tournaments every year at UD and Wilmington Charter. Easy access to further events at Penn and in Maryland. Participation by non-Charter schools not as widespread as at the peak in the mid-2000s but on the upswing again.
Florida	very high participation at tournaments in both northern and southern circuits when they are held. Increasing number of NAQT events each year. Still dominated by CAC but major inroads being made.
Georgia	many good tournaments every year.
Guam	NHBB happens here. Major active school still plays Chip when they go to the mainland but may be ready for a change.
Hawaii	NHBB only
Idaho	NHBB and NAQT events organized by Colin McNamara through Boise State and Treasure Valley. Growing.
Illinois	huge number of tournaments, a good event every weekend of the school year, sometimes more than 1 in different areas of the state.
Indiana	increasing number of good events / teams moving to real quizbowl and away from one of the last Chip bastions.
Iowa	sporadic NAQT events. Used to be a slightly more active circuit that was hurt by the fading of the Iowa, ISU, Drake, and Grinnell college clubs. Could possibly be revived if a few people put in the effort, especially since many bordering states are extremely active and could provide tournaments near the Iowa border or teams who wish to attend tournaments in Iowa.
Kansas	KSHSAA is one of the most backwards governing bodies in any state; terrible state championship & restrictions on out-of-state participation are probably not going away anytime soon. However, they do not bar hosting a good quizbowl event in Kansas. So far, a few NAQT sets have been run. Possible that support for a better system will arise at some point.
Kentucky	Many good quizbowl events every year.
Louisiana	Some good quizbowl events organized through Tulane & other colleges; also a parallel universe Chip circuit. Chip lackey Scott Smith tries to co-opt LSU team for Chip nonsense; possible message confusion to new teams.
Maine	no known tournaments of any kind.
Manitoba	no known tournaments of any kind besides Reach for the Top.
Maryland	many good events each year.
Massachusetts	increasing number of events. Overly difficult HFT has killed burgeoning interest from many local schools in the past; NAQT and HSAPQ tournaments at MIT and new HSAPQ state tournament are trying to reverse this.
Michigan	many good events each year.
Minnesota	many good events each year in Twin Cities. Outstate areas still dominated by Knowledge Bowl.
Mississippi	a large, terrible tournament is run at MU every year. occasional NAQT events were hosted by MU and MSU in the past. many MS teams are very close to good tournaments in Tennessee or Alabama and could participate now. Will need a single university club or very driven high school coach to organize a better local circuit.
Missouri	many good events every year.
Montana	a few good events periodically hosted (NAQT). all interest in good quizbowl is student-driven so always at risk of blinking out as graduation occurs. There have never been any college teams in Montana so hard to establish continuity. There is a coach-organized Knowledge Bowl circuit in some parts of the state. Western areas could presumably send teams to Idaho tournaments, but most of this very large state is not near any existing good quizbowl circuit.
Nebraska	some Knowledge Bowl participation, mostly no quizbowl at all. Never had a good tournament.
Nevada	some Knowledge Bowl participation, mostly no quizbowl at all. Never had a good general tournament. NHBB has run successful events in Las Vegas area.
New Brunswick	no known tournaments of any kind besides Reach for the Top.
New Hampshire	some NAQT participation, teams often compete in further NAQT events in Vermont.
New Jersey	many good tournaments each year.
New Mexico	has sporadically had NAQT events and also NHBB. No college teams or other continuity.
New York	many good tournaments each year in both NYC and upstate regions.
Newfoundland and Labrador	no known tournaments of any kind besides Reach for the Top.
North Carolina	many good tournaments each year, but disproportionately concentrated on the area between Winston-Salem and the Triangle; needs to plant more good events in east and west of the state.
North Dakota	NHBB only, no known other tournaments.
Northern Marianas Islands	NHBB only.
Northwest Territories	no known tournaments of any kind.
Nova Scotia	no known tournaments of any kind besides Reach for the Top.
Nunavut	no known tournaments of any kind.
Ohio	many good tournaments each year.
Oklahoma	several NAQT tournaments each year, though the state tournament runs on bizarre bad questions and there is still a large Chip presence. OU, OSU, and Tulsa teams seem to have become far less active in recent years, removing major hosts.
Ontario	several NAQT and HSAPQ tournaments each year. Still working on converting more Reach for the Top teams but making progress.
Oregon	ran first-ever good tournament in 2014. Mostly a Knowledge Bowl state.
Pennsylvania	several good tournaments each year in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Lancaster areas. Sporadic Penn State or State College HS tournaments have existed in central PA. Still a few Chip pockets or places focused on the execrable Pennsylvania State Academic Competition. Could definitely support many more tournaments, and larger field sizes, based on population of state.
Prince Edward Island	no known tournaments of any kind besides Reach for the Top.
Puerto Rico	no known tournaments of any kind. Language barrier will prevent most good sets from being used, though there are some English-speaking schools.
Quebec	Reach for the Top only. Sporadic attempts to run an NAQT or HSAPQ set at McGill for English-speaking schools in the greater Montreal area have not yet succeeded. Currently, no good quizbowl product is available in French.
Rhode Island	no tournaments have been hosted as yet. Teams can easily access several good tournaments in Connecticut or Massachusetts. Only quizbowl entity right now is Brown, who does not currently host a high school event.
Saskatchewan	no known tournaments of any kind besides Reach for the Top.
South Carolina	a few good tournaments are held at USC or Dorman. Formerly a much more active state, could become so again.
South Dakota	no known tournaments of any kind.
Tennessee	several NAQT sets and the NAQT state tournament are run each year, and HSAPQ sets have been run at Vanderbilt in the past. Vanderbilt formerly hosted the largest high school tournament in the country. There are Knowledge Bowl pockets and issues in getting the west and east of the state together, but there is a long tradition of having at least some events and producing nationally contending teams that could be leveraged into creating more depth. TN teams can also go to tournaments in various bordering states.
Texas	many NAQT events run by TQBA each year. TQBA refuses to run non-NAQT sets in most cases. Still some small Chip circuits in Dallas and El Paso, but NAQT sets are also being run in those areas and the entire state ought to be switched over in the near future. Very deep participation in flagship TQBA tournaments with new schools coming in each year, and many national contenders being produced.
Utah	sporadic NAQT events in the past at Juan Diego Catholic. No current presence. Probably no tournaments of any kind, though Utah borders several Knowledge Bowl states so that may exist. BYU was once an extremely active college team but there is currently no college presence in Utah or other potential source of continuity for a regularly scheduled tournament.
Vermont	several NAQT events each year, longstanding good quizbowl tradition.
Virgin Islands	has a long-running Chip state championship and nothing else.
Virginia	many good events each year, usually uses every NAQT, HSAPQ, and decent independent set either in the state or at tournaments in Maryland that many Virginia teams go to. About 290 of the 310 public schools in the state participate in the Scholastic Bowl program, which uses HSAPQ questions.
Washington	several good events hosted at UW every year. Knowledge Bowl predominates in other parts of the state.
Washington, D.C.	a few tournaments in the District every year, high participation in Virginia and Maryland events. Still a lot of IA-only schools. All current participation in invitationals is from private schools. Only 2 public schools (Wilson and Banneker) ever had active teams outside of IA. New HSAPQ state championship seeks to change this.
West Virginia	several good tournaments every year.
Wisconsin	occasional NAQT events hosted by UW-Madison.
Wyoming	Knowledge Bowl only.
Yukon	no known tournaments.