List of national tournaments that ended without a championship final

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This page lists national championship tournaments that ended with a team "clearing" the field (winning without the need for any final).

Tournaments which used the ACF finals format

  • PACE NSC: From 2010 through 2019. Formats used from 1998 to 2009 guaranteed a final of exactly one game. When the tournament resumed in 2021 after a one-year cancellation due to COVID, the format ended with a double-elimination bracket that guaranteed some sort of final. The 2022 format has not yet been announced.
  • NASAT: From the tournament's inception in 2010 through 2019. When the tournament resumed in 2021 after a one-year cancellation due to COVID, the format ended with a double-elimination bracket that guaranteed some sort of final. The 2022 format has not yet been announced.
  • NAQT ICT (Division I and Division II): From 2016 through 2019 and in 2021 after a one-year cancellation due to COVID
  • ACF Nationals: From 1994 through 2019 and in 2021 after a one-year cancellation due to COVID. In 1991 and 1993 (the tournament was not held in 1992) the champion was able to win without a final after clearing the field by one game (i.e., the second-place team lost only to the champion and was not entitled to a final.) It is not known whether a final would have been played if the tournament ended in an outright tie in the standings, or if the tie would have been broken based on a metric such as PPG or head-to-head. Tournaments run as a full round-robin without any additional rounds were a common format in the Southeast at this time.

Tournaments which have never used the ACF finals format

  • NAQT CCCT: Used the old NAQT finals format through 2020. In 2021 and 2022, only an outright tie for first would be played off, and otherwise the top team after the playoffs won the tournament outright. In both years, a team went undefeated to win the tournament without a final.
  • NAQT HSNCT: Has used a double-elimination playoff every year it was held except 1999 and 2002, when a round-robin championship pool and the old NAQT finals format were used.
  • NAQT SSNCT: Has used a double-elimination playoff every year it was held.
  • NAQT MSNCT: Has used a double-elimination playoff every year it was held.
  • History Bowl national championship tournaments: Playoff format has always ended with a single-elimination bracket.
  • NAC and other bad quizbowl nationals: Some years of the NAC used a double-elimination system for the last few teams remaining; all other known NAC years and all defunct bad quizbowl nationals used a straight single-elimination playoff bracket.
  • NTAE: Used a modified single-elimination playoff every year it was held (more than 2 teams played at once and more than 1 team could be eliminated in a given game, but playoff teams progressed through an elimination bracket until a single final game was held, with the winner of that game being the tournament champion; often the elimination bracket consisted solely of two semifinals followed by a final).

List of teams who won without a final at nationals using an ACF finals format

No team has yet won DI or DII ICT without a final since it became possible to do so in 2016.

List of teams who won without a final at nationals using a non-ACF finals format

(Winners of playoff formats which were simply single- or double- elimination brackets are not individually listed here)

List of teams who lost only 1 game at a national tournament but did not win the tournament

The single-elimination "final four" format used at PACE NSC from 1998 to 2008 presented up to three chances per year for a team to be knocked out of contention by its first loss (there could be a maximum of two undefeated teams after the playoffs in that format, either of which could lose in the semifinals or finals of the final four). Despite this possibility, the only team to enter the final four undefeated without going on to win the event was 2004 Thomas Jefferson.

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