Maryland Academic Quiz Team

NEWS

FALL 2009 PRACTICE TIMES:
Mondays, 6-9 PM, 3118 Jimenez Hall
Thursdays, 5-8 PM, 3203 Jimenez Hall

We encourage team members to attend as many practices as possible, but members do not need to attend every practice or stay for the entire duration of a practice to be a member of the team.

Any prosepective member with questions about the club should contact club presidents Jeremy Eaton or Chris Ray at jay5006@aol.com and volkov3000@yahoo.com respectively.

Note that this website is currently under renovation. If it seems to break at odd times, email the webmaster at batsteve@umd.edu.

2009-2010 Season:

MAQT sent teams to EFT, Thunder, and ACF Fall so far this year, and plans to host the Terrapin Invitation Tournament on November 14.

2008-2009 Season:

MAQT competed in several tournaments this fall, including:
FEUERBACH (October 4 at CMU)
EFT (October 11 at Wake Forest)
Minnesota Open (October 18 at Minnesota)
And a few more.

2007-2008 Season:

Congratulations to the 2007-2008 Maryland Academic Quiz Team for winning the NAQT Division I National Championship! Jeremy Eaton, Jonathan Magin, Charles Meigs and Chris Ray defeated the Chicago A team in an advantaged final to claim the title. To see the championship match, click here. The A Team also finished 3rd at the 2008 ACF Nationals behind Chicago and Brown.

The 2007-2008 Maryland Academic Quiz Team at a reception with President Mote after winning the 2008 NAQT ICT.

The Maryland Academic Quiz Team has found success at a number of recent tournaments. A team consisting of Jonathan Magin, Charles Meigs, Chris Ray and Mike Bentley took first place against one of the best fields in the nation at the 2008 Cardinal Classic at Stanford University on Saturday, February 2nd. At Penn Bowl on January 26th, 2008, Maryland's A team finished first overall, losing only one match the entire day. The team also finished first in the 2007 Titanomachy tournament held at Maryland, and at Princeton's PARFAIT tournament.

We have hosted a number of recent tournaments, including the 22nd annual Terrapin Invitational Tournament, the 2nd annual Chris McCray Tournament for Academic Excellence, and This Tournament Goes to 11. In the spring, Maryland will be hosting its annual Spring High School Classic Tournament, and a currently unnamed college tournament. There are tentative plans to host a second version of the Atlantic Seaboard Skirmish in the late spring or early summer.

The Maryland team sent to the 2007 Chicago Open finished fifth place, winning the unofficial undergraduate title. The team of Jonathan Magin, Chris Ray, Mike Bentley and Jeremy Eaton went undefeated in the lower bracket of the playoffs to capture the title.

Our Division II team won the 2007 NAQT ICT Division II title earlier this spring with a team consisting of Chris Ray, Jeremy Eaton, Curran Muhlberger and Zach Hommer. The team sent to last year's ACF Nationals in Nashville, TN also fared well. That team, consisting of Jonathan Magin, Chris Ray, Phil Durkos, Michael Bentley and Brittany Clark finished strong amongst a competitive field. Most of the matches from that tournament can be heard on the Quizbowl Cast, which also contains several other tournaments that the team has comepted in during the year.