[1] The State Meet is held in April at Cragun's Resort in Brainerd.
[2] The first day of the State Knowledge Bowl Meet begins in the evening with a banquet, at which all the teams are introduced.
At the end, the team with the highest total score is the State Champion.
If there is a tie among the top 6 following the fifth and final oral round, it is broken by a 15-question "overtime."
This was done both to help break ties and to recognize that scoring points is harder in top rooms.
Regarding how the State Tournament ended up in the Brainerd resort area, former Metro ECSU Knowledge Bowl coordinator Marilyn McGowan says "It all hinges on a measles outbreak in Thief River Falls the year the tournament was to be held there and the state health department said we would have to cancel our plans to have it there.
The original plan was to have each ECSU region host it with it being held throughout the state.