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	TOTAL POINTS
1	Yukon A	100	100	88		100	95	100	583
2	Classen	92	96	100			100	96	484
3	El Reno A	58	83	83		78	71	89	462
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	Edmond Memorial B			50		56	19	75	200
14	Heartland			25		39	38	61	163
15	Dickson B		42	54			29	32	157
16	Norman		50	42				64	156
17	Edmond North B		17	29		28	33	46	153
18	Clinton A				100		14		114
19	Academy of Seminole		46					54	100
19	OSSM A			100					100
21	Savanna A			33				50	83
22	Clinton B				80				80
23	Odyssey		54	21					75
24	Preston						43	29	72
25	Yukon C	25	21				24		70
26	Pauls Valley A					33		36	69
27	Blair A				60	6			66
28	Noble A		58						58
29	Riverfield Country Day							57	57
30	Plainview					56			56
30	Piedmont					56			56
32	El Reno B	25		17			5		47
33	Kiefer		38	4					42
34	Blair B				40				40
35	Lawton							39	39
36	OSSM B			38					38
37	Morris C		33						33
37	LeFlore A		13	9				11	33
39	Pauls Valley B					11		21	32
40	Savanna B			13				18	31
41	Edmond Memorial C							25	25
41	El Reno C	25							25
41	Kremlin-Hillsdale		25						25
44	Dickson C						10	14	24
45	Olustee-Eldorado				20				20
46	Noble B		8						8
47	Dickson D							7	7
48	Enid		4						4
48	Leflore B							4	4