Varsity

Regular tournaments open to teams of all experience levels.

Events are now maintained on a Google Calendar, so new events will rarely appear on this page.

Bill Currie Memorial Tournament

Date
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Host
Jefferson City High School
Question Set or Provider
Mirror of BATE
Question Format
20 tossups with non-rebounding bonuses

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.

Missouri Fall Academic Tournament

Date
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Host
University of Missouri
Question Set or Provider
NAQT IS-96
Question Format
NAQT with powers, negs, and rebounding bonuses

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).

PACE NSC

Date
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Host
PACE, at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA
Question Set or Provider
PACE
Question Format
PACE (20 tossups with rebounding bonuses and 20 point powers)

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

MSHSAA Sectionals

Date
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Question Set or Provider
Questions Galore
Question Format
MSHSAA

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).

2011 NAQT Missouri Qualifier

Date
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Host
Missouri Quizbowl Alliance, on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus
Question Set or Provider
NAQT IS-104
Question Format
Untimed NAQT (20 tossups with nonrebounding bonuses, powers, and negs)

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).