Regionals

OAC Regionals will be held on a date April 12, 2025.

Registration for 2024 Regionals is due by March 21, 2025.

OAC Regionals Qualification

There are two ways to participate in OAC Regionals; you must either receive an automatic bid or apply for an at-large bid. 

One way to receive an automatic bid, a team must win a league, tournament, or bracket that has at least 6 different high schools. This must be an initial bracketing (it cannot be an afternoon re-bracket). 

**NEW FOR 24-25** Another way to  receive an automatic bid is  by finishing in the top 15% of the total field (including JV) of a tournament OR bracket rounded up to the nearest whole number. For example, a field of 16 teams would qualify 3 teams for regionals (2.4 rounds up to 3)

To receive an at-large bid, a team must submit a resume of their body of work to the OAC Committee for consideration. If the OAC Regionals field is not full (96 teams), the Committee will then review the at-large bids, and select those teams they fill are best suited to participate at Regionals based on the data provided until the field is full.

Qualified Teams:

If you would like to register online, please click here and fill out the form. Upon completion, you will be e-mailed an invoice .

If you would like to see a live updating list of those teams registered for OAC Regionals, please click here.

At-Large Applicants:

If you want to apply as an at-large team, please click here and fill out the form. Upon completion, you will be e-mailed confirming the receipt of your application within the week.

If you would like to see a live updating list of at-large applicants for OAC Regionals, please click here.

OAC Regional Sites

North Coast - Solon

Northwest  - TBD

Northeast  - Copley

Southeast  - Fisher Catholic

Southwest  - Walnut Hills

West Central - Northmont

OAC Regionals Format

Each region will consist of up to 16 teams, and all regions will operate using the same double-elimination bracket (click here to see the bracket for all possible numbers of teams). The morning of Regionals, each  team will be asked to simultaneously complete a written 50 question seeding round in 10 minutes. All 16 teams will be ranked from 1-16 based on their score out of 50, with ties being broken by the following methods: 

•  The first tiebreaker will be based off of how many questions a team answered correctly in questions 46-50.

•  If still tied, questions 41-45 will be used. 

• If still tied, a coin flip will be used to determine the seed.

 Those seeds will determine where teams go in the bracket. Even after being eliminated from the double elimination bracket, some teams will have additional placement games so that all teams will be guaranteed 5 rounds of game  play. Any byes should be played so that data on team questions and alphabet round scores can be gathered

for all teams each round. At the conclusion of each regional, the top two teams (the champion and the  runner-up) will advance to OAC State. All other teams will be eligible for one of the 4 wild card spots.