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- Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:35 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: 2019 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 2 at Columbia College
- Replies: 0
- Views: 746
2019 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 2 at Columbia College
The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance invites all MSHSAA-registered high school Scholar Bowl teams to participate in the twelfth annual NAQT Missouri Qualifier on March 2, 2019 on the main campus of Columbia College in Columbia. As one of MOQBA's flagship events, this tournament regularly features a divers...
- Sun Dec 09, 2018 9:40 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: 2018 MOQBA Fall Championship - Dec. 8, Columbia College (Columbia, MO)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1130
Re: 2018 MOQBA Fall Championship - Dec. 8, Columbia College (Columbia, MO)
After round 10, St. Joseph Central, Hallsville A, and Louisiana each had one loss in a set of evenly matched superplayoff games: Hallsville won by 10 points over Louisiana in round 8, Louisiana won by 5 points over Central in round 9, and Central won by 15 points over Hallsville in round 10. This se...
- Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:01 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: NAQT eligibility changes for 2018-19 (update)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6779
Re: NAQT eligibility changes for 2018-19
MSHSAA: Age - Senior High: A student shall not have reached the age of 19 prior to July 1 preceding the opening of school. If a student reaches the age of 19 on or following July 1, the student may be considered eligible for the upcoming school year. Semesters - Grades 9-12: A student shall not part...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:59 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: 2018 MOQBA Fall Championship - Dec. 8, Columbia College (Columbia, MO)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1130
2018 MOQBA Fall Championship - Dec. 8, Columbia College (Columbia, MO)
The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the MOQBA Fall Championship on December 8, 2018 at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri. As this is one of MOQBA's flagship events, we expect to host a geographically diverse field and encourage high school teams from ev...
- Sun Sep 16, 2018 3:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Old Archived Packets Broken Links
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1955
Re: Old Archived Packets Broken Links
Thanks for reporting this. I have fixed what I can, but I'll need Dan to double check that all of the files are properly readable by the database.
- Sat Apr 14, 2018 11:34 pm
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: 2x Check the HSQBRank Tourney List - '18 edition - Updatedx2
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8482
Re: 2x Check the HSQBRank Tournament List - '18 edition
Note that this tournament has historically used bouncebacks, which NAQT's stats indicate was the case for this year's tournament. If that's true, the linked stats don't have bounceback points separated.
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:51 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 3 at Columbia College
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1745
Re: 2018 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 3 at Columbia Colle
After round 9, Ladue A, Hallsville, Central (St. Joseph), and Hickman A advanced to the superplayoffs, while the remaining championship tier teams played round 10 placement games. Ladue A and Central were both undefeated going into their scheduled round 11 game, effectively setting up a best of thre...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:09 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: 2018 MO Pre-Nationals Tournament - May 12, Columbia College
- Replies: 0
- Views: 943
2018 MO Pre-Nationals Tournament - May 12, Columbia College
The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Pre-Nationals Tournament on Saturday, May 12, 2018 at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri. The Pre-Nationals Tournament will use the 2018 Prison Bowl XI question set written and edited by the Hunter College High Schoo...
- Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 3 at Columbia College
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1745
2018 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 3 at Columbia College
The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance invites all MSHSAA-registered high school Scholar Bowl teams to participate in the eleventh annual NAQT Missouri Qualifier on March 3, 2018 on the main campus of Columbia College in Columbia. As one of MOQBA's flagship events, this tournament regularly features a diver...
- Sun Dec 10, 2017 7:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 MOQBA Fall Championship - Dec. 9 at Columbia College
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1281
Re: 2017 MOQBA Fall Championship - Dec. 9 at Columbia Colleg
After round 9, Central High School from St. Joseph, Hallsville A, Helias Catholic A, and Washington A advanced to the superplayoffs, while the remaining championship tier teams played round 10 placement games. After round 11, Central, Helias A, and Hallsville A each had one loss, setting up a two st...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Louisiana EARly November Tournament (LEARNT) - 12/16/2017
- Replies: 2
- Views: 890
Re: Louisiana EARly November Tournament (LEARNT) - 12/16/201
As this post is mostly directed at out of state teams (I've also posted an announcement on the Missouri quizbowl forums), keep in mind that MSHSAA rules will apply at this tournament; recognition by name, deferral by name on bonuses, etc. Also note that any out of state teams interested in this tou...
- Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 MOQBA Fall Championship - Dec. 9 at Columbia College
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1281
2017 MOQBA Fall Championship - Dec. 9 at Columbia College
The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the MOQBA Fall Championship on December 9, 2017 at Columbia College in Columbia, MO. As this is one of MOQBA's flagship events, we expect to host a geographically diverse field and encourage high school teams from every co...
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:23 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been announce
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9143
Re: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been anno
Yes, please do this! As the president of an organization that had some trouble finding sets for fall tournaments last year (which is never helped by losing access to half of the NAQT sets because of the MSHSAA series), I'm glad to see more sets available in the fall semester compared to last year an...
- Fri May 26, 2017 10:30 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: PACENSC ~ A Pokemon Side Event
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18600
Re: PACENSC ~ A Pokemon Side Event
We are near the scrimmage desk! I'm wearing a white shirt and holding my laptop. Might I suggest people organizing side events consider the magnitude of the cleanup tasks the people at the scrimmage desk are trying to coordinate and pick a better spot that doesn't interfere with official tournament...
- Thu May 18, 2017 12:09 pm
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: Help with HSQBRank & 2x check this tournament list please!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10481
Re: Help with HSQBRank & 2x check this tournament list pleas
MOQBA tournaments I didn't see in the list, although it looks like most may have reasons why they're not in the list: Houston Fall Tournament [IS-160] (not usable because of lack of PPB?) Centralia Autumn [VTACO] (CAAT isn't the same as CATT, right? Not usable without combined stats?) Pilot Grove [G...
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:53 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 4 @ WWU (Fulton)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1283
Re: 2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 4 @ WWU (Fulton)
After round 9, Washington A, Rock Bridge B, Washington B, and St. Joseph Central advanced to the superplayoffs, while the remaining championship tier teams played round 10 placement games. Following round 11, Washington A, Central, and Washington B were tied at 2-1; Rock Bridge B was 0-3 and took ho...
- Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:22 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 4 @ WWU (Fulton)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1283
2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 4 @ WWU (Fulton)
The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance invites all MSHSAA-registered high school Scholar Bowl teams to participate in the 2017 NAQT Missouri Qualifier, which will be held at William Woods University in Fulton on March 4, 2017. Please note that this is a different location from previous Qualifiers. The NAQT ...
- Sat Oct 08, 2016 12:54 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Improving pricing entry on the tournament database
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3044
Improving pricing entry on the tournament database
This has been quite a busy summer for me, so I didn't have any time to make enhancements to the tournament database. I received some feedback earlier this week asking for a moderator discount to be added as a default option for tournaments. Staff discounts as a default has been requested several tim...
- Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Culture of Improvement Skype Mirror - Sunday, 8/14/16
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3071
Re: A Culture of Improvement Skype Mirror - Sunday, 8/14/16
I'm definitely interested. At this point this date works great for me and I'm excited that I might finally get to play one of these sets!
- Mon Mar 07, 2016 12:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 5 at Columbia College
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2258
Re: 2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 5 at Columbia Colle
Thank you once again to the 36 teams that attended the 2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier on Saturday, making it the largest Qualifier to date! We hope that you enjoyed participating in the tournament as much as we enjoyed directing it! After round 9, Hickman A, Washington B, Washington A, and Rock Bridge...
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 2:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 5 at Columbia College
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2258
2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 5 at Columbia College
Cross-posting from the Missouri Quizbowl Message Board . Updates, including the current field, will be updated there more frequently than here. The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance invites all MSHSAA-registered high school Scholar Bowl teams to participate in the 2016 NAQT Missouri Qualifier, which will ...
- Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 NASAT: June 18-19 @ University of Kentucky
- Replies: 56
- Views: 40630
Re: 2016 NASAT: June 18-19 @ University of Kentucky
The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance will once again be sponsoring Team Missouri at the 2016 NASAT. As we have at every NASAT to date, we look forward to rewarding Missouri's All-Stars with a weekend of exceptional quizbowl competition between each state's finest students.
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:57 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Tricon: The Next Generation
- Replies: 50
- Views: 23590
Re: Tricon: The Next Generation
Sorry about this - it looks like I ignored the original notification. They're available here.Cheynem wrote:I have submitted it for approval to quizbowlpackets.com now; I might be doing this wrong though. as I thought I did this last week. It definitely said the packets would appear once approved though.
- Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:06 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: New tournament database for all quizbowl events
- Replies: 14
- Views: 26661
Re: New tournament database for all quizbowl events
Dan and I have finally deployed the latest update to the database. There aren't really any major new public facing features, but here are the primary changes that have been completed: - Admins can now merge duplicate tournament and question set entries. If you find any duplicate entries that need to...
- Sun Sep 13, 2015 10:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: We Have Never Been Modern - VCU Open
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9687
Re: We Have Never Been Modern - VCU Open
The files uploaded to that entry have been approved... sorry for the delayXochiquetzal wrote:This appears not to be true, or if it is I don't see the set on the collegiate section of the packet archive.Mike Bentley wrote:The questions have been posted.
- Fri Sep 04, 2015 7:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: We Have Never Been Modern - VCU Open
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9687
Re: We Have Never Been Modern - VCU Open
I would definitely be interested in playing this set sometime, whether it be at a site closer to me or online. I never got a chance to play Questions Concerning Technology and have specifically avoided looking at it in case I somehow got an opportunity to play it against others who also haven't see...
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 7:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: We Have Never Been Modern - VCU Open
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9687
Re: We Have Never Been Modern - VCU Open
I am definitely interested in playing this online.
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 10:22 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quizbowl Resource Database enhancements and requests
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2451
Quizbowl Resource Database enhancements and requests
After almost two years of slow progress, I think I FINALLY have this entry merging functionality done! There unfortunately won't be many public facing changes in this next release, but at least we'll be able to finally go through and more easily clean up duplicates and other clutter from the databas...
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:57 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Proposal: Quizbowl Team Contact DB and Staffer DB
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2431
Re: Proposal: Quizbowl Team Contact DB and Staffer DB
These are both things I've wanted to add to the Quizbowl Resource Center Database for years. Unfortunately, development on the database has stalled for nearly two years from a combination of not having many free weekends, making tournament/question set entry merging much more complex than it could h...
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 10:39 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 NASAT: June 13-14 @ Ohio State
- Replies: 37
- Views: 32861
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 10:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 NASAT: June 13-14 @ Ohio State
- Replies: 37
- Views: 32861
Re: 2015 NASAT: June 13-14 @ Ohio State
The last three years, thanks to the free Wi-Fi in the Ohio State game rooms, I have kept unofficial score for Team Missouri's games in a Google Spreadsheet. Before last year's NASAT, I added a bunch of fancy formulas that display the current tossup number and score in the top row, track possible poi...
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 10:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 PACE NSC: Question set discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 25761
Re: 2015 PACE NSC: Question set discussion
The set has been posted: http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/1719/
- Tue Apr 21, 2015 11:27 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: On Introducing Good Quizbowl
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4038
Re: On Introducing Good Quizbowl
Everything I was going to suggest is pretty much covered above, but I'll provide some additional perspective from a high school circuit that has transformed from having nearly every tournament run on Questions Galore and similar questions, to one that has 20+ tournaments a year using good questions ...
- Fri Apr 17, 2015 2:18 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Your Lowest Point
- Replies: 64
- Views: 35452
Re: Your Lowest Point
In high school, I played exclusively bad quizbowl under the oversight of MSHSAA, and our team was successful, winning state in 2003 and 2005 and taking second in 2004 within a margin of one tossup/bonus cycle. (All three championship matches were against Parkway Central.) In my junior and senior yea...
- Fri Apr 17, 2015 1:59 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Becoming Part of the Community
- Replies: 43
- Views: 22900
Re: Becoming Part of the Community
I was primarily introduced to quizbowl by my older brother, Kyle. I didn't start playing quizbowl until my sophomore year of high school (fall 2002), since I was heavily involved in Science Olympiad in middle school/junior high - at the time, Liberty had grades 6-7 at the "middle school" and grades ...
- Thu Apr 16, 2015 7:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Feynman's BONGOS: A Side Event (for PACE and maybe HSNCT)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 35037
Re: Feynman's BONGOS: A Side Event (for PACE and maybe HSNCT
I am staffing at HSNCT, but I'm in Jeff Hill's car and I don't think 5-6 boxes of buzzers would be all that welcome. I plan on bringing a set or two even though my team is not competing, so you may have to find alternate plans there. Yes, I can confirm that based on last year's HSNCT drive, cargo s...
- Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th
- Replies: 53
- Views: 28152
Re: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th
I am pretty sure I'm going to be writing a side event for this. I'll announce the full details soon, but it's going to be some combination of technology (and its history) and consumer/business history. It will be somewhat similar to Will's Questions Concerning Technology, but will likely have more ...
- Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:47 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 7 at Mizzou
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1664
Re: 2015 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 7 at Mizzou
Thank you once again to all coaches, students, and spectators for attending the 2015 NAQT Missouri Qualifier on Saturday. We hope that you enjoyed participating in the tournament as much as we enjoyed directing it! After round 10, Hallsville A, Hickman A, Savannah, and Rock Bridge B advanced to the ...
- Sun Feb 22, 2015 3:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST) V
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4244
Re: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST) V
As Ben beat me to mentioning, these two tournaments nearly 200 miles apart in a state with hundreds of high school quizbowl teams were also held on the same date last year (on which yet another tournament was also held). This is normal for Missouri.Hidehiro Anto wrote:This is on the same day as Truman Bowl.
- Sat Jan 03, 2015 4:17 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Split screens in Word for Easy Reading
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2575
Re: Split screens in Word for Easy Reading
I always double-clicked the little horizontal line that appears above the scroll bar to split the screen, although this doesn't appear to exist in Word 2013. Nice to know there is a keyboard shortcut for that. It also helps to hide the whitespace that appears at page breaks in the default "print lay...
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 7 at Mizzou
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1664
2015 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 7 at Mizzou
Cross-posting from this thread on the Missouri Academic Competition Message Board , which will be updated more frequently than this one. The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance would like to invite all MSHSAA-registered high school Scholar Bowl teams to participate in the 2015 NAQT Missouri Qualifier, which...
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Henderson High School Invitational (West Chester, PA) Nov 22
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3879
Re: Henderson High School Invitational (West Chester, PA) No
I can't edit the entry in the tournament database as we put it under coach Sobieck's name, and he sent me a few wrong passwords locking me out. The offical stats I submitted to NAQT were corrected and the stats on their page properly reflect that match. I will get to edit the tournament database as...
- Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:41 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: TDB help thread
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45394
Re: TDB help thread
Would it be possible to institute a 'copy' mechanism for adding new tournaments? A copy mechanism is a great idea and shouldn't be too difficult to implement. I'm working on a large set of changes (mostly behind the scenes and admin functionality) that I'll hopefully get done by the end of the mont...
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013-14 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8333
Re: 2013-14 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
At the NAQT Missouri Qualifier on IS-134, we had a protest on this bonus part that affected who advanced to be the top 4 teams in the tournament: C. Toulouse-Lautrec was a part of a movement named for coming after this other artistic movement, whose representative painters include Monet and Renoir. ...
- Sat Jun 28, 2014 10:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This year's sets missing from archive
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9599
Re: This year's sets missing from archive
You should be able to post individual packets yourself by editing the existing entry and under "Upload to archives", click "Manage packet uploads". If you hit any of the size limits for a regular set, your files are probably bigger than they should be and could probably be saved in a more efficient ...
- Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 31869
Re: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
Team Missouri live scoresheets are here
- Wed Jun 04, 2014 8:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 HSNCT Consolation Rounds Discussion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5670
Re: 2014 HSNCT Consolation Rounds Discussion
Yeah, I think separating responsibilites for staff and teams would be a big help. I read one playoff game on Sunday morning and then made my room available to consolation games. Despite there still being a bunch of people around the consolation desk waiting for something, it still took close to half...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:38 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: All-time all-state teams
- Replies: 61
- Views: 30281
Re: All-time all-state teams
For Missouri, the A team I would probably choose would consist of Charlie Dees and Mike Wehrman (North Kansas City) and Max Schindler and Ben Zhang (Ladue). If we're looking at B, C, etc. teams, some other players to consider, in no particular order: Andy Wehrman (North Kansas City), Charles Hang (...
- Sun May 18, 2014 5:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Modern World Tournament - Post-NSC Mirror
- Replies: 135
- Views: 46515
Re: Modern World Tournament - Post-NSC Mirror
I'm interested in playing, but will only be able to play on Sunday because my return flight leaves Monday morning. If anyone has a spot to offer that would otherwise go unfilled, let me know, but if the tournament extends into Monday, I don't want to take a spot from someone who is able to play the ...
- Wed Apr 30, 2014 1:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Claude Shannon Memorial Tournament
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12450
Re: Claude Shannon Memorial Tournament
If I'm not busy I might play just to see just how close to nothing I remember from the few EE classes I took. (It's been over 5 years now...!)