MRNA V
Schedule
Sat, 06 Jun, 2026 at 09:30 am
UTC+01:00Location
University of Birmingham Medical School | Birmingham, EN
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University of Birmingham Quiz Society is pleased to announce it is hosting the UK mirror of MRNA V, held at Birmingham Medical School on Saturday 6th June 2026.THE TOURNAMENT
MRNA is a closed (student-only) tournament of medium (2-dot) difficulty. The subject distribution and further details about the set can be found here:
https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29009.
Questions will not be Briticised.
Please note this is the same set being used for Deep Bench on 9th May in Edinburgh. If you have played or moderated Deep Bench, you are not eligible to play MRNA, but you are highly encouraged to come and mod!
Gameplay will use ACF rules and players are asked to familiarise themselves with the UKQB Code of Conduct: https://quizbowl.co.uk/safeguarding/conduct/
LOGISTICS
The tournament will be held at Birmingham Medical School, shown here on the campus map:
https://campusmap.bham.ac.uk/.../5d6f492b1e1f64009327b635... Access to the building is controlled by swipe card and you will need to be let in by reception.
Please aim to arrive promptly at 9.30. There will be a moderator briefing at 9.35 followed by a player briefing at 9.45 in the Leonard Deacon Lecture Theatre. Play will commence promptly at
10.00. Normal rounds should conclude by 19.00 with any required finals proceeding at the conclusion.
The University of Birmingham is easily accessible by public transport. The tournament venue is located less than 2 minutes-walk from University Railway Station which is located on the
CrossCity line with a 7 minute journey time from the well-connected New Street Station.
At weekends, parking is available on site for £3 all day with payments via the Ring Go app, with more info here: https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/student/travelling-to-campus/parking-withringgo.aspx
The AccessAble accessibility guide for the venue is
here: https://www.accessable.co.uk/.../access.../medical-school
Please contact us at [email protected] at the earliest opportunity to discuss any accessibility requirements you may have.
We are pleased to confirm we will endeavour to again provide a Live Statistics Hub for this event.
ENTRY FEES AND SIGN UPS
To register a team, please complete this form: https://forms.gle/gaJW97QtbrcTRpie8
To register to moderate, please complete this form: https://forms.gle/Z2FtcdMcZzr3bvjd8
Moderators will be paid £25, which can be taken as a discount against your society’s entry fee.
Sign-ups will close at 23:59 on Monday 1st June 2026.
The field cap for this tournament is initially 20 teams and teams are encouraged to sign-up early.
We have the option to expand up to an absolute maximum of 28 teams, but we reserve the right to vary this to ensure field sizes that accommodate feasible schedules, and to prioritise A and B
teams to ensure diversity of universities attending.
The base entry fee for the tournament is £90 per team.
We are pleased to offer the following discounts:
Per Moderator attending with fully working laptop: £25
Per buzzer set brought (in full working order): £5 up to a maximum discount of £20, for a maximum of 4 sets.
For teams travelling more than 200 miles one way (per Google Maps): £10
If your society is new to Quizbowl, please contact us to discuss a discounted entry fee.
Please note: a minimum entry fee of £40 per team applies.
QUERIES
Mikey Brown will act as Tournament Director. Kindly direct any questions to [email protected] with “MRNA” in the subject field or message mikeybrown_ on Discord.
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