Side event

See also: List of side events

A side event is a small tournament ran in conjunction with a quiz bowl tournament, usually after that "main" tournament is completed. Typically, a "side event" is partnered with an academic tournament so that it can draw in more players.

Subject tournaments are an example of a side event.

Trash tournaments sometimes have certain attributes of side events (running in the evening or on Sunday after a larger academic tournament, providing 10 or fewer rounds, being unabashedly reflective of the authors' vanity interests) but are rarely categorized as "side events" unless they are further specialized to some subdistribution of trash. Similarly, official History Bowl events are not considered "side events."

The phenomenon of side events being announced without any real plan to actually write or hold them was satirized by the holding of Tricontakaipentagon in 2013.

Side event weekends

The difficulty of attaching side events to any given tournament has spawned side event weekends, in which primarily side events are played. Side event weekends are held routinely in the Midwest, and the NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl has been held since 2016.

List of side events

Excluding regular trash tournaments.

Date or announced date Tournament Name Tournament Subject or Gimmick Writers Site(s) held Winner(s) Stats 2002 Summer Berkeley Science Masters 2000 Summer Chicago Open Singles 2001 Summer Herbert Spencer Singles 2001 Fall Mark Discordia Singles 2001 ? "Fleetwood" Mac Singles 2001 Summer Andy Goss Trash Singles 1998 Summer Chicago Open Singles 1999 Summer Chicago Open Singles 2012 Mike Cheyne's Disney Packet 2012 Drew Scheeler's Community Packet 2007 Fall The Experiment I 2009 Spring The Experiment II 2002 Spring Anthony de Jesus Singles 1999 Spring Case Western Trash Singles 2004 Summer Berkeley Movies Tournament 2004 Summer Berkeley Science Monstrosity 2004 Summer "Folly and Glory" Lit Singles 2005 Summer "Jacopo Pontormo" Art Tournament 2006 Fall Seth Teitler Myth Tournament 2006 Summer Berkeley Science Monstrosity 2006 Summer Chris Frankel History Doubles 2007 Summer Bruce Arthur History Doubles 2002 Spring "S.O.B." Singles 2008 Summer Mike Bentley Gumpei Yokoi Memorial Tournament 2008 Fall RMPFest I 2008 Summer Chicago History Doubles 2008 Summer Chicago Literature Doubles 2008 Summer Chicago Movies Tournament 2008 Summer Gaddis I 2008 Fall Minnesota Impossible Speedcheck 2008 Fall Minnesota Literature Doubles 2009 Summer Bruce Arthur Eurofest 2009 Fall RMPFest II 2009 Fall Cheyne-Berry Comics Tournament 2009 Summer Tommy Casalaspi Lit Tournament 2009 Fall Mike Cheyne Fake Lit Tournament 2009 Summer Chicago Literature Doubles 2009 Summer Geography Monstrosity I 2009 Spring Ike Jose Lit Singles 2009 Summer Gaddis II 2009 Fall Minnesota Guerilla Sports Tournament 2009 Fall "KLEE" Arts Tournament 2009 Fall Eric Mukherjee "Lederberg" Science Tournament 2009 Summer Science Nonstrosity 2010 Summer Bruce Arthur "Wild Kingdom" Animals Tournament 2010 Spring "Spring Offensive" History Tournament 2010 Summer "BELFAST" Arts Tournament 2010 Mike Bentley Eyes That Do Not See II 2010 Mike Bentley "VAIN" Video Games Tournament 2010 Mike Bentley Eyes That Do Not See I 2010 "Lully" Arts Tournament 2010 Summer Ike Jose Lit Doubles 2010 Spring Paul Kelson Lit Tournament 2010 Spring Jeremy Eaton "TIDUS" Video Games Tournament 2010 Summer Geography Monstrosity II 2010 Spring GUERILLA I 2010 Saul Hankin Harry Potter Tournament 2010 Nathaniel Kane Game Show Tournament 2010 Fall Maryland "PERV" Visual Trash Tournament 2010 Fall Minnesota RPG Tournament 2010 Spring Will Nediger "MELD" Literature Doubles 2010 Summer Dallas Simons Classics Tournament 2011 Summer Chicago History Doubles 2011 Summer Geography Monstrosity III 2011 Summer GUERILLA II 2009 Spring "Dream Tournament" 2012 Summer Chicago History Doubles 2012 Summer Dragonball Z Tournament 2012 HUSKY Visual Trash 2012 Summer Ike Jose "ANFORTAS" Myth Tournament 2012 Summer Mike Cheyne Film Tournament 2012 Summer Will Nediger "WELD" Literature Doubles 2012 Summer "YMIR" Myth Tournament 2013 Summer Chicago History Doubles 2013 Summer Triacontakaipentagon 2010? Doug Graebner's Painting Tournament 2010? Dan Passner's Judaica Bowl 2010? Gautam Kandlikar's India Tournament 2009? Zach Foster's Military History Tournament 2011? High Schooler Produced Japanese/Asian Lit Thing 2012? Fred Morlan's Music Tournament 2011? Matt Duchan's Sports Tournament 2013? Nolan Esser's Rock Music Tournament 2010? Nathan James's "Chad C. Mulligan Open" Mini-ACF Tournament 2011? "Krik? Krak! Moo: Electric Blankets are Optional" Short Literature Tournament 2008 Andy Watkins's "20th Century Side Event" 2011? Bruce Arthur's "Amazing Planet" Animal Tournament 2011? Shan Kothari's Music Tournament 2011? Andrew Hart's Arrested Development Tournament 2011? Joe Brosch's Anime Tournament 2013 Summer Aidan Mehigan's Architecture Tournament 2011? Michael Hausinger's Engineering Tournament 2010? Andy Watkins's "Science, Dismal and Gay" Tournament of Science, Economics, and Poetry 2012? Isaac Hirsch's Hats Tournament 2009 Matt Weiner's "Henry Darger Tournament of the Unreal" 2007? Andrew Ullsperger's Science Tournament 2008? Ryan Westbrook's "Varying Difficulty" Tournament 2008? Rom Masrour's Movie Tournament 2010? Andy Watkins and Hannah Kirsch's "Uwe Boll" Common Links Tournament 2011? "The Eric and Ben Myth Tournament" 2025 Ted Gioia's "Secret Literature Tournament for Andrew Yaphe" 2011? Jeff Geringer's "Trastastrophe III" 2010? Bruce Arthur's "Your Choice Fest" 2008? Matt Chadbourne's Math Tournament 2011? Fred Morlan's Movie Tournament 2012? Aaron dos Remedios's Board Game Tournament 2011 Ike Jose's "Thought" Tournament 2013 Collin Parks's Byzantine History Tournament 2014 Lederberg Memorial Science II