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Tracking and managing team qualifications for the PACE National Scholastic Championship (NSC).
For everything about PACE and the NSC itself (the event, dates, registration, format, and history), visit the official PACE website.
Tournaments announced on hsquizbowl.org are picked up automatically: upcoming events appear here as potential qualifiers, and once a tournament has been played and its statistics are posted, the results are collected and reviewed by PACE before qualifications are awarded. Events that can't award NSC bids (novice/JV-only, leagues, pop-culture events, and tournaments guaranteeing fewer than 8 games) are filtered out.
Tournament directors: if your tournament isn't listed, log in and submit it with the Add Tournament button. If something about a listed tournament is wrong (date, field size, results, which teams qualified), log in to correct it, or use the Report an issue link on the tournament's page and PACE will fix it.
Announcing your tournament on hsquizbowl.org is the easiest path: those are picked up automatically, so no separate submission is needed.
Check the Qualification Status page or search for your team to see where you stand. A team qualifies for the NSC by finishing high enough at any listed qualifying tournament, roughly the top 20% of the varsity field earns a bid. The Tournaments page shows both played events and upcoming potential qualifiers, so you can plan which tournaments give your team a chance to qualify.
If you believe a result or qualification is recorded incorrectly, use the Report an issue link on the team's or tournament's page (no login needed) and it will be corrected.
PACE is not affiliated with NAQT (National Academic Quiz Tournaments).