Invitational Tournaments are tournaments normally organized and hosted by a school. In most cases only some of the 23 events will be run but it will give your team some experience in a competitive setting. At some invitationals your school can enter more than one team so you can also use them as a basis to form your team for your regional tournament. In addition to a small registration fee for an invitational, each team is usually asked to supervise one event. So if your school has three teams, you will need to supervise three events.

Regional Tournaments:

The regional tournaments in Kansas are held in January and February. Currently regional tournaments are held in: Garden City, Hays, Kansas City, Salina and Wichita. At these regional tournaments, medals are given to the top finishers in each event and team trophies are awarded to the top teams. In Kansas the regional tournaments serve as qualifying events for the state tournament.

In each of the five regional tournaments, the top two teams are automatically invited to the state tournament. Invitations to the other 20 spots are issued based on how well the team did in its regional tournament and the number of teams that participated in that regional tournament. For example if a particular regional tournament has twice as many teams participating as another regional, then the first regional will send twice as many teams to the state tournament as the second regional.

Also receiving invitations to the state tournament are students that won an event at their regional tournament, but their team did not qualify for the state tournament. For example if Lincoln High School won the Astronomy event at the Garden City Regional, but the team did not qualify for the state tournament, the two students from Lincoln High School that participated in the astronomy event will receive an invitation to participate in only the astronomy event at the state tournament. These teams are referred to as regional event winners.

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Regional Tournament Information

This page last updated 03/17/2010

Kansas Science Olympiad Invitational and Regional Tournaments

Kansas Science Olympiad
Invitational and Regional
Tournaments