Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships
The Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships (AQC) is the premier team quiz event in the Asia-Pacific region. The 2020 and 2021 event was not held due to COVID. Singapore emerged champions of the most recent 2019 AQC held in Kuala Lumpur. History. The tournament began in 2012 as the ASEAN Quizzing Championships, an annual quiz competition held among quizzers from ASEAN, primarily those living in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. In 2015 the competition expanded to include participants from India and a number of off-site chapters and became the Asian Quizzing Championships (AQC). After teams  from the wider Asia-Pacific region such as Australia (from 2017) and New Zealand (from 2018) began participating, the event was renamed the Asia-Pacific Quiz Championships to reflect this wider geographical participation. The event was founded by Caleb Liu from Singapore and Movin Miranda from India (and a long time resident of Malaysia) with the goal of fostering friendly competition and growing interest in quizzing in the region. The teams are selected by the National Quiz Associations of the respective member countries. Format. Teams of four compete in three separate rounds, with the highest cumulative score being crowned champions . The contribution to the overall team score which will be the cumulative total of the top three individual scores in each of the eight categories (with the lowest score for each category dropped). For example, if the four members of a team scored 15, 15, 15, 7 for Sport, the team score for Sport will be 45. Maximum score = 600 points. The maximum team score is therefore 1010 points though in practice teams do not approach that limit. Results. The current scoring format was adopted in 2017. Up to 2016 there were only 20 questions for each category in  the written paper instead of 25. From 2017 onwards, 4 points were awarded in the Individual Response round instead of 5. From 2018 onwards, teams could be awarded half points (i.e. 2 points) in the team round alongside a full point score of 5 points. Highest Individual Scorers. While a team event, the AQC also acknowledges the highest scorers in the first (individual) round. Records. Results last updated: 12 August 2019