MACA Missouri Academic Coaches Association

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.

Unfortunately, the tournament has been cancelled for this year.

The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance would like to invite you to the fourth annual NAQT Missouri Qualifier, to be held on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia on March 5, 2011.

This tournament will be run in the twenty tossup/bonus format on NAQT IS-104. Games consist of twenty tossups worth ten points each followed by non-rebounding bonuses worth up to thirty points. Tossups will feature "powers" (additional points awarded for correct buzzes very early in the question) and "negs" (five point deductions for incorrect answers before the question is finished).

Format: Missouri state format with only three quarters to speed
up the games. A Swiss pairing format will be used for
the four games played. The questions are written by myself
and have lots of current events and trivial knowledge. Math
questions will not go above algebra II level.

Participants: Freshmen and sophomores. Teams made up of any
combination.

Cost: $25.00 per team.

Awards: Team plaques for top four teams.
Top eight individuals receive medals.

Contact:

Branson High School

Lexington High School will host its annual varsity academic tournament on Saturday, March 26, 2011. If sufficient teams enter, the field will be divided into two divisions. The top four finishers in each division will receive trophies, and members of champion teams will receive medals. All-Tournament teams for both divisions will be named, and those players will receive medals. We will use Missouri format, and NAQT -- the district and state provider -- will supply the questions. The tournament will also serve as a NAQT national championship qualifying tournament.

Email registration information to: Susan Sheeley ssheeley@salem.k12.mo.us The tournament is open to junior varsity players only. No seniors and no underclassmen who have played mostly as a varsity player or who played varsity in previous district or state competitions.

We will have these basic eligibility rules:
* All freshmen can play.
* All sophomores who did not attend a quizbowl national championship in the past can play.
* All juniors who never played a tournament before their junior year can play.
* No seniors can play.

More information about the SCOP 2 set

For our Junior Varsity Tournament, we will be using the following eligibility rules:

• All freshmen can play.
• All sophomores who have not played in a national championship can play.
• All juniors who never played a tournament their freshman or sophomore years can play.
• No seniors can play.