Online Round: Completed. Results on LinkedIn.
In-Person Championships: January 22-23, 2025, State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA, hosted by the Atlanta Hawks
School admins, professors, or students without a professor/coach, register here.
Professionals: Pros in the fields of sports and entertainment play the buyer and judge roles in professional sales role-plays.
Recruiters and Sponsors register here and/or contact Lane_Wakefield@baylor.edu.
Over 90 organizations were involved in the 2022-23 school year including the Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, Columbus Blue Jackets, Los Angeles Clippers, Legends, New York Mets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Washington Wizards, NASCAR, New York Islanders, Peak Sports, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia Union, Phoenix Suns, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, San Antonio Spurs, Taymar, Tennessee Titans, Washington Commanders, and the Chicago White Sox.
Over 70 colleges and universities from around the country participated last year, including Baylor, Berry, Bethel, Dayton, Florida State, Kansas State, Loras, Massachusetts, Mercer, Miami (OH), Neumann, Northern Illinois, Point Park, Robert Morris, Samford, Trine, Wilmington and more.
There are three championship divisions in the NCSSC:
- Role-Playing Tournaments
- Ticket Sales
- Corporate Partnerships
- Speed Sell
- Quantum Quiz Tournament
- Try our practice quiz or create your own at QuizWhizzer
The number of slots in the role-playing tournaments are given to each school based on virtual round performance and availability.
All students may participate in the Speed Sell.
Up to two students can represent their school in the Quantum Quiz Tournament. Students work together to answer a set number of questions correctly before their opponent.
The Study Guide will be released soon.
See photos from the 2023 Championship in Atlanta.
In Person Championship
All participants in the role-play tournaments must be graduating in the ’24-’25 school year (December ’24, May/Summer ’25). Grad students are welcome if they have no professional selling experience. Freshman-Juniors are welcome to attend the in-person championship to participate in the Speed Sell Challenge and Quantum Quiz. Schools attending may bring 10 people to the In-person Championship.
Seeding in the role-playing tournament depends on the performance of all student competitors from the same school in each division of the virtual round, respectively.
Matchups in Quantum Quiz will be assigned at random.
Students from the virtual round are not required to compete in the in-person round. Another student can take the place of a qualifier if they are in the job market and desiring to work in sports.
Agenda and details can be found here.
Thanks to the Atlanta Hawks for hosting the in-person championship at State Farm Arena. The Hawks go above and beyond to make an excellent experience for students preparing for their career in sports sales. Go Hawks!
