NAQT Oklahoma State Championship

About the NAQT State Championship

The NAQT Oklahoma State Championship is an annual tournament held to determine the state champion of pyramidal quizbowl in the state of Oklahoma. Held each year in February, the tournament uses the final NAQT Invitational Series question set of the season, a set slightly more difficult than most NAQT regular-season sets.

Beginning in the 2023-24 season, a qualification system was implemented due to the rising number of teams wishing to enter the tournament straining the limited number of available staff and the range of viable tournament formats. The preliminary field cap is 24 teams - this may be expanded at a later date.

Qualification

Teams are required to qualify to participate in the NAQT State Championship based on their performance at prior events during the season. Qualifications can be earned in one of three ways: winning a local regular-season tournament; earning enough qualification points; or submitting an accepted wild card bid. Because the NAQT State Championship is intended to serve as the championship for all of pyramidal quizbowl, all regular-season tournaments which use pyramidal questions in the standard tossup-bonus format will be counted toward qualification, even if those tournaments do not specifically use an NAQT question set.

Tier 1: Winning a Tournament

Any team that wins a local, regular-season tournament using pyramidal tossup-bonus questions will be awarded an automatic qualification to the NAQT State Championship. This only includes tournaments held in the state of Oklahoma - winning a tournament in another state or winning an online national tournament does not count toward qualification.
Tier 2: Qualification Points

All teams that participate in qualifying events will be awarded points based on the percentile of their finishing position. For example, in a field of 20 teams the winning team will be awarded 100 points (and an automatic qualification), the second place team will receive 95 points, the third place team will receive 90 points, and so on. The number of points a team receives at a given tournament can be computed from the formula, 100 * (1 - ^p-1⁄_n) where p is the team's finishing position and n is the number of teams at the event.
Tier 3: Wildcard Bids

Any team that is unable to qualify through one of the above methods may submit an application for a wildcard bid. Teams will be required to submit their prospective roster for the state championship, as well as links to stats which show why their application should be accepted. The application for the 2025 State Championship will be opened near the end of the first semester of the competition year.

Acceptable justifications for a wildcard bid include:
- Your team was not able to attend sufficient tournaments due to scheduling conflicts, but performed well at the tournaments they did attend
- Your team was not able to compete with its best roster at most tournaments, but would reasonably be expected to perform at a higher level with the proposed roster for state
- Your team performed well enough at a non-qualifying tournament (such as an out-of-state or online tournament) that you believe it to warrant an automatic qualification

Current Qualification Standings

Green indicates Tier 1 qualification, Blue indicates Tier 2 qualification

Rank	Team	MAYO	OUEFT	Cougar	Blair Fall	El Reno Fall	Fall Broncho	Aggie	Blair Spring	TOTAL POINTS
1	Yukon A	100	100	88		100	95	100		583
2	El Reno A	58	83	83		78	71	89	100	562
3	Classen	92	96	100			100	96		484
4	Yukon B	75	79	75		94	57	68		448
5	Morris A	42	71	92		22	90	93		410
6	Edmond Memorial A		92	71		67	76	86		392
7	Norman North	67	75	67		89	86			384
8	Classen MS	83	88			83	81			335
9	Edmond North A		63	46		72	48	82		311
10	Stillwater	50		83		61	67	43		304
11	Dickson A		67	58		17	62	71		275
12	Morris B	33	29	63			52	79		256
13	Heartland			25		39	38	61	90	253
14	Edmond Memorial B			50		56	19	75		200
15	Clinton A				100		14		80	194
16	Dickson B		42	54			29	32		157
17	Norman		50	42				64		156
18	Edmond North B		17	29		28	33	46		153
19	Clinton B				80				30	110
20	Academy of Seminole		46					54		100
20	OSSM A			100						100
22	Lawton							39	60	99
23	El Reno B	25		17			5		50	97
24	Blair A				60	6			20	86
25	Savanna A			33				50		83
26	Odyssey		54	21						75
27	Preston						43	29		72
28	Yukon C	25	21				24			70
28	Bridge Creek								70	70
30	Pauls Valley A					33		36		69
31	Noble A		58							58
32	Riverfield Country Day							57		57
33	Plainview					56				56
33	Piedmont					56				56
35	Kiefer		38	4						42
36	Blair B				40					40
36	Burns Flat-Dill City								40	40
38	OSSM B			38						38
39	Morris C		33							33
39	LeFlore A		13	9				11		33
41	Pauls Valley B					11		21		32
42	Savanna B			13				18		31
43	Olustee-Eldorado				20				10	30
44	Edmond Memorial C							25		25
44	El Reno C	25								25
44	Kremlin-Hillsdale		25							25
47	Dickson C						10	14		24
48	Noble B		8							8
49	Dickson D							7		7
50	Enid		4							4
50	Leflore B							4		4