



Science Bowl 2025: Saturday February 22, 2025.
Registration Begins: 8:15 - 8:50 AM
Connecticut Bowl and Promise Bowl Registration: Information Technologies and Engineering (ITE) on first floor near elevators
Northeast Bowl Registration: Monteith Hall (MONT)
Opening Ceremony: 9:00 AM
2025 Day of Agenda: Live Link with updating times
Pre-Event Information
- After reviewing the event overview, encourage your coaches to register for the competition.
- Once you have been registered, read the rules and guidelines for the competition.
- Use the resources in the practice materials section to help you prepare.
- If your team wins the event, every team member must fill out a parental consent form and student medical form. The forms should be turned in (preferably emailed as PDF) promptly after the regional event (forms will be accessible here when they go live).
UPDATE: Coaches only: please opt in for day of text communications https://www.remind.com/join/ucscibowl
- For more information on how to lead a Science Bowl team, please visit the National Science Bowl website.
- To register, please go to the on-line registration website.
- Help your students review the rules of the competition.
- Use the practice resources with your students.
Registration fee is $100 per team and you can
- Option 1: Pay by Card:
https://secure.touchnet.com/C21646_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=3700 - Option 2: Pay by Check (Payable to UConn):
Make the check out to UConn.
Either bring it on competition day or mail in advance to:
Vergnano Institute for Inclusion
RE: Science Bowl
191 Auditorium Road, Unit 3187
Storrs, CT 06269
Parking Information
South Garage (closest option) or North Garage - $15 for day
S Lot (behind South Campus Dorms) - Free on Weekends
Other miscellaneous street parking is available free on weekends on a first come, first serve basis.
Please pay attention to signage on the street to know where to park
Meal Information
Will receive complementary:
- continental breakfast (i.e. poptarts, breakfast bars, coffee)
- lunch (sandwich, chips, and drink)
- snacks (chips, popcorn, fruit snacks)
Breakfast Instructions
We recommend you grab breakfast BEFORE arriving, as we may have a limited supply of breakfast items for students/teams and coaches.
Starbucks in Storrs Center opens at 6 AM
Dunkin Donuts in Storrs Center opens 6 AM
Dunkin Donuts at "Four Corners (Across from Cumberland Farms) opens at 4 AM
Dog Lane Cafe in Storrs Center opens at 8 AM
The UConn Student Union opens at 10 AM
Lunch Instructions
We will have the following options:
- after all coaches and registered teams get lunch, purchase a remaining lunch from our Science Bowl Team for $10 payable by credit/debit card only.
- purchase your own lunch from a local vendor such as:
- Student Union Food Vendors (2 minutes from MCHU): https://studentunion.uconn.edu/dining-retail/
- Downtown Storrs Vendors (10+ minutes from MCHU): https://www.downtownstorrs.org/dine

SCIENCE BOWL ROOM LOCATIONS (Live)
This is for reference during the competition. Kindly do not go to these rooms until you have been instructed.
Please do not enter/leave rooms in the middle of gameplay.
This link also contains locations of:
Lunch
Quiet Rooms
Open Rooms/Unused Rooms
ROOM STATUS (LIVE)
GENERIC FLOOR PLANS (All Buildings)
Game Day Agenda (Live with updating times)
Division Name Inspiration: STEM Heroes
Science Bowl Rules, Scoring and Advancement
NATIONAL SCIENCE BOWL RULES
UCONN House Rules:
1. In toss ups, you have 7 seconds instead of 5 seconds to buzz in
2. In bonus questions, the captain must buzz in to answer
From Nationals:
9. Rules for the End of Round Robin Tournaments at Regional Events
9.1. At regional events at the end of round robin play, teams will be assigned 2 points for each win, 1 point for each tie, and 0 points for each loss to decide which teams advance in the competition. If needed, a tie-breaking procedure in the following order will be used to determine advancing teams:
(i) Head-to-head won/loss record involving all teams tied for the advancing places. If this separates a group of two or more teams from the rest of the tied teams, the head-to-head record will be reapplied in the smaller group. Ties that cannot be resolved in this fashion will be broken using tiebreaker matches (see below). Once tiebreaker matches have begun, head-tohead results will no longer apply.
(ii) If 2 teams are tied, they will play a 5 toss-up question tiebreaker match as per Rule 6-4.
(iii) If more than two teams are tied, each team, in separate rooms, will be given the same series of five toss-up questions (no bonus questions will be used during this segment of the competition). The usual five seconds will be allowed for a competitor to buzz in after the question is completely read. There are no interrupt penalties (but also no reason to interrupt since all five questions will be read completely).
Teams will be scored on the basis of +1 for each correct answer, -1 for each incorrect answer, and 0 for each unanswered question, blurt, or audible verbal communication.
Round Robin Scores (Updated Live After Each Round)
Double Elimination Scores (Updated Live After Each Round)
Wildcard Scores (Updated Live After Each Round)
WILDCARD SCORES & BRACKET
We proudly welcome Promise Bowl participants to our Wildcard Tournament!!
We will host a 30 team wildcard tournament.
18 teams (organized in 3 divisions) will play a competitive tournament with more challenging questions.
12 teams (organized in 2 divisions) will play a friendly tournament with more accessible questions.
Wildcard will be divided in two parts.
Part 1: Round Robin (ish) with 4 rounds of tournament play within divisions
Part 2: Final Four single elimination.
Final four teams will be determined by total points (win record), then by total score.
