Parkland Challenge
Parkland Challenge is an local high school quiz bowl tournament hosted at Parkland College in Champaign, IL. It consist of 17 high schools in Champaign County, IL and its surrounding areas. The schools are separated into 4 brackets. Mike Coulter, the instructional technology specialist at Parkland College moderates the games. Single-elim on mostly one-clue tossups are used and there are no bonuses. There's conferring on tossups for a team when the other team guesses wrong. At certain points of the match, each team is given a video question answer. There is a lighting round in the middle of the match. When a question is answered incorrectly, the team that answered incorrectly loses 10 points and the toss-up becomes dead. Questions packets used are questionable as a result of its quality and choice of topics. The tournament is considered a example of bad quizbowl as a result, which resulted in University Lab boycotting and prominent players from Centennial to decline to attend.
Past Results
Tournaments
| Year | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | Top Individual Scorer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Bloomington | Mahomet-Seymour | Centennial | Blue Ridge | David Fischer Centennial |
| 2015 | Bloomington | St. Joseph Ogden | Monticello | Judah Christian | Alston Boyd Bloomington |
| 2016 | Mahomet-Seymour | Prairie Central | Centennial | St. Thomas More | Nathan Somers Prairie Central |
| 2017 | Mahomet-Seymour | Danville | Prairie Central | Blue Ridge | Iain Carpenter Mahomet-Seymour |
| 2018 | Mahomet-Seymour | Blue Ridge | Centennial | Prairie Central | Parker Otto Blue Ridge |
| 2019 | Villa Grove | Centennial | Rantoul | Central | Jackson Wiessing Villa Grove |
| 2020 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| 2021 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| 2022 | Villa Grove | St. Thomas More | Fisher | Oakwood | Caleb Wiessing Villa Grove |