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The most common group name in collegiate a cappella today is The Sirens, with 12 groups from The University of Southern California to Johns Hopkins University sharing that name.

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It has been well-documented that the Yale Whiffenpoofs, who took shape in 1909, was the first collegiate a cappella group. Given that the group was an offshoot of the Men’s Glee Club and, more specifically an elite quartet derived from it, the exact history of when, how, and under what terms it officially formed are difficult to define. Nonetheless, the group seems to have taken shape most clearly through performances at Mory’s Temple Bar, an establishment local to New Haven where the group took to performing on a weekly basis. It can, therefore, reasonably stated that Mory’s Temple Bar was the site of the first collegiate a cappella performance.

Sources: yale.edu/whiffenpoofs

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In 2009, there were approximately 140 collegiate a cappella groups that competed on stage in the ICCA tournament. The largest region turned out to be the Midwest with 35 groups, though it was the West region’s winners who ultimately won the championship.

Source: varsityvocals.com

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Since the competition’s inception in 1996, there have been only four mixed groups to win the ICCA/NCCA championship. Those groups are Stanford University Talisman A Cappella (1997), The University of Michigan Compulsive Lyres (2002), Millikin University One Voice (2004) and The University of Southern California SoCal VoCals (2008).

Source: varsityvocals.com, google.com

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On selected Fridays, The A Cappella Blog publishes a fact, statistic or piece of history from collegiate a cappella. We welcome readers to share their own bits of uncommon knowledge, or to pose questions if there’s a Friday Factoid they’d like to see.

No region has won more ICCA championships than the west, which has taken home an impressive seven out of thirteen championships. The champs coming out of the west are Stanford Talisman A Cappella, UC Berkeley Men’s Octet (two times), Brigham Young University Vocal Point, Brigham Young University Noteworthy, The USC SoCal VoCals, and, most recently Mt. San Antonio College Fermata Nowhere. The next closest region is the Midwest, with three, followed by the Northeast with two and the Mason-Dixon (South) region with one.

Source: varsityvocals.com