MACA Missouri Academic Coaches Association

NOTE: This tournament was rescheduled from 1/30/2010 due to inclement weather.

Missouri State University will be hosting a varsity academic tournament on Saturday, February 20, 2010. This tournament will be a mirror of the Classic City Classic set written by the quiz bowl team at the University of Georgia, and games will consist of twenty tossups worth ten points each and bonuses worth thirty points each. Tentatively, the top two teams in the field will qualify for the PACE NSC. Each team will be guaranteed at least nine matches.

See website for entry form: http://knob.mo.schoolwebpages.com/education/club/club.php?sectionid=218&

This tournament will operate on questions from NAQT, specifically set IS-92. The format will be similar to recent NAQT tournaments held elsewhere in Missouri—pyramidal questions, neg-5’s for incorrect early buzzes, 15 points instead of 10 for correct early answers, and no rebounding on bonuses.

This will be a sixteen team tournament for freshmen and sophomores. Each team may have one junior with little or no varsity experience. Morning will consist of three matches and all teams will advance to the afternoon for three more championship or consolation bracket matches, so there will be lots of competition for younger players. We are still discussing the format but are considering a shortened format, similar but not exactly the same as NAQT. Our varsity players will write the questions.

This tournament will use a modification of the standard Missouri format, in order to allow teams to play more games and face a wider variety of opponents. Each game will still have four quarters, and each quarter will contain eight tossups, for a total of thirty-two. Tossups answered correctly in the second and fourth quarters will be followed by bonuses as normal.

The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance will host the third annual NAQT Missouri Qualifier on March 20, 2010 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. As MOQBA's flagship event, this tournament regularly features a diverse field of teams from throughout Missouri, recognizing the state's top teams for national tournament qualification and creating a championship atmosphere. Matt Chadbourne and Jeffrey Hill will serve as tournament directors of this official NAQT event, which will use untimed NAQT rules.

Lexington High School will once again host the Minuteman Varsity Tournament, this year on March 20, 2010. The tournament will feature two divisions based on school size, with trophies presented to the top four teams in each division (champions also receive medals). All-tournament players in each division will earn medals. This tournament is a great opportunity to tune-up prior to district competition.

Questions will be provided by Questions Galore, the provider for Missouri's district, sectional, and state competitions.

The Missouri Academic Coaches Association (MACA) would like to announce that the annual Missouri State Junior Varsity Quiz Bowl Tournament will be held on the campus of Helias High School on Saturday, April 10, 2010. This is a new central location and Helias has graciously agreed to host the tournament. MACA hopes that this will allow many more schools to compete especially those from the eastern side of the state since travel times will no longer be so long or require an overnight trip.

MSHSAA District tournaments. Winners will advance to Sectionals on April 22.

Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4

Each winner of MSHSAA District tournaments on April 17 will advance to play a best two-of-three sectional against the winner from a neighboring district to determine who advances to the state championships on May 7 (Classes 1 & 2) and May 8 (Classes 3 & 4).

Class 1 & 2 sectional winners will advance to the MSHSAA State Championships, which will be held Friday, May 7 on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Class 3 & 4 sectional winners will advance to the MSHSAA State Championships, which will be held Saturday, May 8 on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.

National tournament. Due to MSHSAA rules, you must qualify at a regular season tournament to be eligible to attend this tournament.

More information about national tournaments can be found here

National tournament. Due to MSHSAA rules, you must qualify at a regular season tournament to be eligible to attend this tournament.

More information about national tournaments can be found here

National tournament. Due to MSHSAA rules, you must qualify at a regular season tournament to be eligible to attend this tournament.

More information about national tournaments can be found here

National tournament. Due to MSHSAA rules, you must qualify at a regular season tournament to be eligible to attend this tournament.

More information about national tournaments can be found here

National tournament. Due to MSHSAA rules, you must qualify at a regular season tournament to be eligible to attend this tournament.

More information about national tournaments can be found here

We will be using an Invitational Series set written by National Academic Quiz Tournaments, and we will use the same game format as last year (20 tossups with 30 point rebounding bonuses, and tossups will have -5 point penalties for an early buzz that is incorrect, and powers, or an extra 5 points for a correct early buzz).

THE LEXINGTON JV TOURNAMENT IS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF SCHEDULING CONFLICTS. For more information, email tournament manager Jim McCrary (jmccrary@lexington.k12.mo.us) or Coach Beth McCrary (bmccrary@lexington.k12.mo.us) .

The Bill Currie Memorial Tournament, named in honor of a recently deceased faculty member, will be held on November 13th, 2010. This tournament will be a mirror of BATE; more information on that tournament can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10426. Each packet will consist of 20 tossups, each with a 3-part non-rebounding bonus, with each part being worth 10 points. This tournament will feature negs--deduction of 5 points for answering incorrectly before the moderator has finished reading the question.

St. Charles Community College will be hosting its first ever high school tournament on November 20th, 2010. We will be using questions from the SCOP set. For more information, please check here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9958&p=198265&hilit...

Games will consist of 20 Tossups and 20 Bonuses. The team that answers a tossup correctly gets to collaborate on a bonus. Players have 5 seconds to answer after buzzing in and 5 seconds after a tossup or bonus is finished being read to answer.

Hancock High School in St. Louis County will be hosting our annual fall tournament on November 20th. This is the 5th year for our tournament and it continues to get bigger and better every year.
We have had a fantastic turnout the past few years and hope for more of the same this year. If you are interested in participating, please respond via e-mail ASAP, as we expect to fill up quickly. I will then send you our information packet via e-mail. Thank you for your time and we hope to see you at Hancock in November.

Steve Kelly
Scholar Bowl Sponsor
Hancock High School

This tournament is for freshman (9th graders) only.

The De Smet J.V. Invitational tournament will be held at De Smet Jesuit High School on Feb 5, 2011. The field will be limited to 24 teams, additional teams per school allowed on first come basis.. J.V. is defined as only Freshmen or Sophomores. Registration begins at 8 a.m., and the coaches meeting will be at 8:30 a.m. Please enter the school by way of the commons door on the Emerson Rd (Highway 270) side of the school. All teams are requested to bring a buzzer system (ten dollar discount). Please make checks payable to De Smet Jesuit High School.