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Revision as of 19:01, 8 March 2013

Virginia Commonwealth University
VCUlogo.PNG
Location:
Richmond, VA
Current President or Coach Sean Smiley (president), Cody Voight (director of collegiate tournaments), George Berry (director of high school tournaments), Matt Weiner (coach)
National championships 2005 NAQT Undergraduate
NAQT Page link

VCU's quizbowl team is currently led by Cody Voight, Sean Smiley and George Berry, who are building a perfect society in which the mistakes of the past will be eliminated.

History

A VCU team, about which nothing else is known, attended a 1993 invitational tournament at Virginia as per this Usenet post, and teams from VCU participated in College Bowl at least in 1986 and 1996 according to College Bowl's database (as well as 1991 according to noted villain Tom Michael's page).

More concretely, VCU quizbowl was founded by Matt Weiner in November 2002 by virtue of his attendance at the ACF Fall tournament held by Case Western. Tournaments won by VCU in this time period were the 2003 NAQT Sectionals at Virginia, the 2003 Princeton Buzzerfest, the 2004 Maryland Terrapin, the 2005 NAQT Sectionals, the 2005 Manu Ginobili/Tony Parker at Maryland, the undergraduate title at the 2005 ICT, the 2006 ACF Regionals at Princeton, the 2006 UNC tournament, the 2007 NAQT Sectionals at George Mason, and the 2007 Maryland Terrapin. Evan Adams and Andrew Alexander became team mainstays for the next two years, with George Berry, Cody Voight, and Sean Smiley all joining the team in fall 2009. Sometimes with the aid of dual-enrolled high schooler Tommy Casalaspi, the team went on to finish second to Maryland infinity times, also winning the 2010 ACF Winter tournament at NC Wesleyan and finishing fourth at both Division I and Division II of the 2011 ICT. A VCU team led by Sean Smiley and Cody Voight also won the 2011 ACF Fall site at UVa, and a team containing Smiley, Voight, and Berry finished a strong 14th at ACF Nationals in 2012, losing only to Rice in the second playoff bracket.

Quizbowl at VCU enjoys comparing itself to the VCU basketball team, as both shot to the top tier from relative obscurity in the mid-2000s and had to frequently explain who they were to people from other states (despite being a public research university with 32,000 students, VCU used to be little-known in some places because it does not have a football team). Both teams reached the Final Four of their respective endeavors in 2011, though, with apologies to Coach Smart, the quizbowl team notes that it actually did so twice, in both Division I and Division II of the ICT.

Tournaments Hosted

VCU is an extremely active tournament host at the high school, collegiate, and open levels.

This table lists tournaments organized by the VCU team, even if they were hosted elsewhere. It excludes tournaments organized by others, such as CaTO/TaCO and CULT, even if they were held at VCU, and tournaments organized by people who were affiliated with the VCU team but acting as individuals in hosting the event.

Date Name Level Champion Runner-up Stats Question Set
2/2/13 VCU Closed Collegiate UVa A Chicago Stats 2013 VCU Closed
12/1/12 VCU Winter Tournament V High School Guilford A Richard Montgomery Stats NAQT IS-122
10/13/12 VCU Fall Tournament IV High School Maggie Walker A Montgomery Blair Stats NAQT IS-118
4/14/12 Mid-Atlantic MUT Mirror Collegiate Maryland B Penn Stats 2012 MUT
3/10/12 VCU Spring Tournament IV High School HH Academy St. Anselm's Nope 2012 VCU-Ohio State Set
12/10/11 VCU Winter Tournament IV High School St. Anselm's Georgetown Day Stats NAQT IS-111
8/7/11 Cheyne-Berry Trash Mirror Open David Seal, Rob Carson, Bernadette Spencer, Sam Bailey Carsten Gehring, Evan Nagler, Dan Passner, Jon Pinyan Stats Cheyne-Berry Trash
8/6/11 VCU Open 2011 Open Eric Mukherjee, Ted Gioia, Ike Jose, Chris Ray Will Butler, Matt Bollinger, Rob Carson, Sarah Angelo Stats 2011 VCU Open
5/21/11 VCU Season Finale Tournament V High School Cave Spring St. Luke's Stats 2011 LIST
5/1/11 2011 NAQT Mid-Atlantic Championship High School St. Anselm's Thomas Jefferson Stats 2011 SCT Division II
4/2/11 2011 NAQT Virginia Championship High School Maggie Walker A Thomas Jefferson B Stats NAQT IS-105
3/26/11 VCU Spring Tournament III High School Maggie Walker A Thomas Jefferson A Nope 2011 Prison Bowl
1/23/11 VCU Winter Tournament III High School Maggie Walker A St. Anselm's Nope 2011 VCU-Vanderbilt Set
11/20/10 VCU Fall Tournament III High School Maggie Walker A Clover Hill Nope HSAPQ Tournament 15
8/8/10 VCU Open 2010: Sunday Tournament Open Jerry Vinokurov, Will Butler, Ian Eppler Matt Jackson, Matt Bollinger, Isaac Hirsch, Eric Mukherjee Stats 2010 VCU Open Sunday
8/7/10 VCU Open 2010: Saturday Tournament Open Eric Mukherjee, Chris Ray, Matt Bollinger, Dominic Machado Jonathan Magin, Will Butler, Doug Graebner, Paul Marchsteiner Stats 2010 VCU Open Saturday
5/1/10 2010 NAQT Mid-Atlantic Championship High School Maggie Walker St. Anselm's Stats 2010 SCT Division II
4/24/10 VCU Season Finale Tournament IV High School Maggie Walker Thomas Jefferson A Stats 2010 Prison Bowl
1/23/10 VCU Spring Tournament II High School Maggie Walker St. Anselm's Stats 2009 University of Georgia Fall Tournament
12/5/09 VCU Winter Tournament II High School Maggie Walker Georgetown Day Stats NAQT IS-90
11/22/09 Mid-Atlantic Delta Burke Mirror Collegiate Maryland UVa Stats 2009 Delta Burke
11/8/09 TRASH Regionals Mid-Atlantic Open Matt Weiner and Sean Smiley Maryland A Stats 2009 TRASH Regionals
11/7/09 VCU Fall Tournament II High School Maggie Walker A Maggie Walker B Stats 2009 HFT
10/31/09 ACF Fall 2009 Mid-Atlantic Site Collegiate State College Maggie Walker Stats 2009 ACF Fall
8/8/09 VCU Open 2009 Open Brendan Byrne, Tommy Casalaspi, Shantanu Jha, David Seal Ike Jose, Eric Mukherjee, Chris Ray, Evan Adams Stats 2009 VCU Open
5/9/09 2009 NAQT Virginia Championship High School Maggie Walker Collegiate School Stats NAQT IS-85
4/18/09 VCU Season Finale Tournament III High School State College Dorman Stats HSAPQ Tournament 6
2/21/09 VCU Spring Tournament I High School Walter Johnson Dorman Stats HSAPQ Tournament 3
12/13/08 VCU Winter Tournament I High School Maggie Walker Cosby Stats HSAPQ Tournament 5
11/16/08 VCU Fall Tournament I High School Walter Johnson Maggie Walker A Stats 2008 HFT
11/08/08 ACF Fall 2008 Mid-Atlantic Site Collegiate Maryland A Penn Stats 2008 ACF Fall
8/17/08 VCU Novice Tournament Open Brendan Byrne, Andrew Hart, Trevor Davis, Gautam Kandlikar Chris Ray, Keith Jamison, Rebecca Fischer, Leonard Chang Stats ZOT Bowl
8/16/08 VCU Open 2008 Open Jerry Vinokurov, Ted Gioia, Henry Gorman, Andy Watkins Brendan Byrne, Andrew Hart, Trevor Davis, Gautam Kandlikar Stats 2008 VCU Open
5/03/08 VCU Season Finale Tournament II High School Dorman A Thomas Jefferson A Stats 2008 PACE Regular Season Set
3/22/08 Mid-Atlantic MUT Mirror Collegiate Maryland A Maryland B Stats 2008 MUT
2/23/08 VCU Last-Minute Tournament High School Thomas Jefferson A Dorman A Stats NAQT IS-74
11/3/07 ACF Fall 2007 Mid-Atlantic Site Collegiate Maryland A North Carolina A Stats 2007 ACF Fall
5/05/07 VCU Season Finale Tournament I High School Maggie Walker Dorman Stats 2007 PACE Regular Season Set
3/10/07 VCU Open 2007 Open Maggie Walker Maryland Stats 2007 Illinois Novice
11/15/03 Illinois Open East Open Maryland Duke Stats 2003 Illinois Open

Title Succession

NAQT ICT Division I Undergraduate Champion
Preceded by
Year
Succeeded by
Illinois
2005
Williams

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