Missouri Quizbowl Message Board

Big thanks to the team of Sean, Jacob, and Coaches Degitz-Fries and MacDonald for putting on this event, and to Sean specifically for asking me to staff. In my time in quizbowl, I've staffed events in Missouri, Illinois, and Pennsylvania/New Jersey, and by far my favorite experiences are reading for...

Oh, this is good! Glad they made this change.

I feel like that might be something very tangible we could do to help improve the scene for girls in quizbowl. Has there been any movement or proposals to eliminate the single-sex doubling factor in co-ed activities before? With further talk about improving gender equality in quizbowl, I wonder if ...

Honestly, that's a great question, Kyle...

I feel like that might be something very tangible we could do to help improve the scene for girls in quizbowl. Has there been any movement or proposals to eliminate the single-sex doubling factor in co-ed activities before?

Just wanted to pop in and wish a Happy Teacher Appreciation Day to all the teachers and coaches who make quizbowl in Missouri possible! Even though I am now far away on the east coast, I have many fond memories of working alongside the teachers in Missouri who take many, many hours out of their pers...

This is FANTASTIC! Huge kudos to the team at ECC for their dedication and hard work.

These folks are a perfect model for what I'm trying to get off the ground in the mid-Atlantic, so I will definitely be sharing this article with potential teams up this way.

Go Bulldogs! *proud alum face*

Congratulations to Akshay Govindan and Raj Paul, both of Ladue Horton Watkins High School, for their achieving ranks of 29th and 36th, respectively, on the recently-released player poll on the hsquizbowl forums. Additionally, William Gentry of St. Joseph Central High School received votes in the pol...

Just saw that Mike Etzkorn had posted the official announcement for a side event weekend to be hosted at UIUC this August.

I'm tentatively interested in seeing about making it back for something like this, but I don't know yet.

I pondered this once myself. I don't really speak any other languages fluently, but I always wondered how it might work. I think you'd have to really consider the flexibility of word order in the target language as well as its ability to use pronouns flexibly. But given that the target language coop...

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As a recent resident of Illinois and member of the IHSSBCA, I can't do enough to recommend this event! Especially coaches along the eastern side of Missouri ought to find the drive manageable and the company welcoming.

I was thinking earlier and realized that there really isn't a good list anywhere on this board of currently active Missouri college quizbowl programs. Maybe this thread could be a place to collect information about such programs, including a contact point for interested parties.

I, too, want to thank everyone at SLO this year for making my final tournament as a midwesterner (at least for now) so amazing! For those who haven't heard, I'm moving to Philadelphia later this summer and so I won't be around for these kinds of events on a regular basis. My time competing against f...

Found a couple more buzzers listed on eBay... this one seems like a decent usable set, whereas this one maybe not so much.

Apparently MBS has added a quizbowl competition to their offerings at some point recently. From what I hear, it's basically just a trivia night that they're calling "quizbowl."

Just thought I'd share this fun news.

If anyone's looking for a buzzer, this one on eBay might be worth looking into.

The Fulton Sun had coverage in today's paper of the recent success of the South Callaway high school team, including their upcoming trip to SSNCT. The New Bloomfield team is also attending and gets a brief mention at the end of the article. Speaking as an alumnus of SCHS (Go Bulldogs!) and as the fo...

I'm graduating from U of I with my masters this spring and currently pursuing a number of job opportunities in the Philadelphia area. If I end up getting a job at a university, I would like to perhaps enroll in some classes and possibly play some quizbowl (whatever I'd still be eligible for).

Sadly I don't have much time to read for pleasure or even read things that I choose, thanks to grad school and thesis work. I'm really enjoying reading a book for one of my classes though - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. She explores the use of indigenous ways of knowing the world and h...

Fun fact: this is not the only NAQT state event taking place in a city named Fulton.

Hi Cody, welcome to the forums! We don't have a separate space for elementary/MS discussion, but several of us on the board are heavily involved in working with elementary and middle school teams. Myself, Jason Loy at Tuscumbia, Scott Allen at Hallsville, and David Dennis at Washington are all invol...

PM'd you with more details, Matt!

The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one, and preferably early enough to get help. I'm not in crisis mode yet, but as I'm triaging my workload for the next few weeks it has become clear that I need help producing this year's quizbowl questions for SAGES, more so than I thought. ...

FWIW, Clark County would certainly be welcome at west central Illinois events for which they are eligible. Quickly glancing at the IHSSBCA calendar I see tournaments at Moline (2.5 hrs) and Macomb (1.25 hrs). There's also a November event scheduled in Chariton, IA, also just shy of 2.5 hours away fo...

Mr. Crowder, I'd likely be able to help you with this. I currently write elementary and middle school questions professionally, and they are in fact pyramidal. I'm sending you a message now.

ACE is hosting another year of summer quizbowl camps, including another session in Missouri. Here's a link to the HSQuizbowl post with more information. The Missouri camp is June 14-18 at Missouri Valley College in Marshall. There are also two camps in Illinois, which is still reasonably close for M...

So prestige. Very tournament. Wow.

I also think that, in pursuit of this goal, somebody from Missouri should get in touch with the Illinois equivalent to MACA (called IHSSBCA), and convince them to advertise our tournaments and maybe even attend their convention to try and make face-to-face connections with the kinds of teams we wan...

From afar (OK, not that far, but still), I wish my Missourians a happy and successful 2015-2016 season. Hoping to make it back to see you all a couple of times. Feel free to come to Illinois as well if you'd like.

1. How much does playing experience help with coaching? I think it's a useful, but not necessary, part of understanding how the game works. It helps to know what it feels like to be in the moment of a game. You can't base everything off your own personal experience as a coach though, since each of ...

Mizzou administration, for egregious mistreatment of vital graduate student employees!

scphilli wrote:At this time, I'd like to thank Alex Dzurick for his seven years of work with the organization. It has been a privilege to work with him and I wish him success in Urbana.

Thanks, Sean. It's been a pleasure to work with you as well.

_{P.S. The Education department is located in Champaign.}

As many of you may have heard, I am heading to the University of Illinois in just a couple of days to pursue a masters degree in education policy. I am excited for this new opportunity in my life, but it does mean I'll be leaving the day-to-day operations of MOQBA to others. Jacob O'Rourke will be t...

Congrats to Hickman's Alex Harmata for acing the ACT this spring!

Looks like William's performance earned him a nomination for 9th grade player of the year at the National Quizbowl Awards!

Congratulations, William!

I know that Jared Lockwood has accepted his offer to Princeton for this fall, and from our conversations it sounded like he planned to be peripherally involved with quizbowl while there. Personally, I'm headed to the University of Illinois for grad school (Education Policy) and hope to remain involv...

Hickman won the Pre-Nationals tournament over Hannibal, going into the finals with an advantage after the round-robin prelims. In the post-lunch "Staffers vs Coaches" fundraiser game for Matt's Buzzers , the staffers (Jeffrey Hill, Matt Chadbourne and Alex Dzurick) were up at halftime but ...

Jeff, to answer your question - yes. I have a spreadsheet of all the individual statistics. This year, MACA also decided to award medals ("All-Star") to the top 4 individuals in each class based on the whole day, in addition to the All-State medals based on prelims only. [In order to get a...

MSHSAA All-State (Prelim) Award Winners: Class 1 1. Ross Sparrow, Tuscumbia, 23.33 T2. Noah Dickinson, Thomas Jefferson, 11.00 T2. Christian Atteberry, Thomas Jefferson, 11.00 4. Cameron Albrecht, Green City, 8.67 5. Noah Wells, Thomas Jefferson, 8.00 6. Danielle Bailey, DeKalb, 6.67 T7. Jacob Schwe...

Prelim games at 10, 11, and 12.

Hallsville 460 over Centralia 230 for C3D7.

Semis:
(1) Hallsville def. (4) North Callaway
(3) Centralia 360 def. (2) Montgomery County 330

I guess this fits here: The Show-Me Conference also hosts an elementary knowledge bowl, which this year went pyramidal. Each grade competes separately. Format is double-elimination. Results from said tournament this year, which was on March 17: 3rd Grade: 1st Chamois, 2nd South Callaway, 3rd Eugene ...

I'd probably be in Illinois by this point, but depending on where this tournament is and when I might be interested.

Quick thoughts from this tournament, which I was able to attend today: - Difficulty level seemed to be pretty much on target. Top teams were answering 16-17 out of 20 tossups combined, lower teams around 13 combined. This was a major question style change for many of the teams, so next year I would ...

So, I have officially delivered this question set for the main site! It’s been a blast working on this project and providing what I hope is a good quality set for elementary students. This project would not have been possible without a number of writers and contributors: -David Dennis, who personall...

Consolation brackets are in the middle of Round 10. Not sure what things look like for the championship playoffs.

QUICK UPDATE Round 6 has begun. Rounds 1-5 finished in a combined total of 149 minutes, just shy of 30 minutes average per round. That's not possible without our AWESOME staff. More thanks to come. After lunch, during the presentation of awards, Jared Lockwood was awarded the 2015 MOQBA Award for Ou...

I'm pleased to announce that this year's Show-Me Conference Elementary Knowledge Bowl will feature a pyramidal question set. The Knowledge Bowl will be held on March 17th and will bring together elementary school (3rd-6th grade) teams from the 9 schools in the Show-Me Conference (Chamois, Eugene, Fa...

Yes, it did. I left before finals so I do not know who won.

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