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The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance promotes high quality quizbowl tournaments throughout the state of Missouri.

Tournaments sponsored by the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance use well-written pyramidal questions that reward players for their academic knowledge and schedules that fairly recognize the best performing teams while offering all teams many competitive games throughout the day. Learn more about high quality quizbowl formats and MOQBA high school and middle school tournament certification.

Fair Grove wins the 2023 NAQT Missouri Qualifier!

Congratulations to Fair Grove High School for becoming the second school to win both the overall and small school titles at the 2023 NAQT Missouri Qualifier, which was held on March 4 at Columbia College. Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Parkway West High School, and Kickapoo High School rounded out the top 4. Eugene High School won the very small school title for the second consecutive year.

We anticipate scheduling the 2024 Qualifier on its usual first Saturday in March and will post an announcement here when the date and location are confirmed. Read the recap and discuss the tournament.

Fair Grove wins the 2022 MOQBA Fall Championship!

Congratulations to Fair Grove High School for winning the 2022 MOQBA Fall Championship, which was held on December 10 at Columbia College. Fair Grove also repeated as small school champion, becoming the first small school eligible team to win the overall Fall Championship title! Ladue Horton Watkins High School A, Mexico High School, and Parkway West High School rounded out the top 4. Read the recap and discuss the tournament.

MOQBA welcomes two new members

The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance is excited to welcome Jeff Carter and Michelle Wahlquist as new members!

Three Missouri teams excel at all-star tournament

The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance sponsored three teams in the twenty-three team 2022 National All-Star Academic Tournament, held on Zoom on June 18-19. Missouri is one of only four states that have competed in every NASAT.

With a 10-5 overall record, Team Missouri A finished in third place, earning Missouri's second best placement all-time! The team was:

• Gabe Forrest, College Heights Christian School senior (second NASAT)
• Frederick Rivas-Giorgi, (St. Joseph) Central High School senior (third NASAT)
• Max Yang, Ladue Horton Watkins High School junior (first NASAT)
• Yi Zheng, Parkway West High School senior (second NASAT)

With 59.50 points per game in the preliminary rounds, Gabe Forrest was the top individual scorer, becoming the second ever individual from Missouri to lead the NASAT field in scoring.

With an 8-7 overall record, Team Missouri B finished tied for eleventh place, earning Missouri B's best ever placement at NASAT! The team was:

• Christian Allen, Fair Grove High school junior (first NASAT)
• Braden Booth, Fair Grove High School junior (second NASAT)
• Yuvan Chali, Ladue Horton Watkins High School junior (first NASAT)
• Owen Farra, St. Louis Christian Home School Association junior (second NASAT)
• Chase Sponenberg, Kickapoo High School senior (first NASAT)

With 36.00 points per game in the preliminary rounds, Owen Farra finished tenth individually, becoming the first member of Team Missouri B to earn NASAT All-Star honors! This was also only the second year that Missouri had two NASAT All-Stars!

With a 7-8 overall record, Team Missouri C finished in seventeenth place, earning Missouri C's best ever placement and record at NASAT! The team was:

• Owen Arneson, Parkway West High School junior (first NASAT)
• Ty Butler, Clayton High School senior (first NASAT)
• Braxton Davis, College Heights Christian School freshman (first NASAT)
• Samantha Doepker, Washington High School senior (third NASAT)
• Connor Lee, Eldon High School senior (first NASAT)

Sophia Xu, a sophomore from Ladue Horton Watkins High School, was also selected to Team Missouri C but was unable to attend.

MOQBA commends our all-stars for their incredible performances, earning Team Missouri's best placements outside of the 2013 team's national title!

Team Missouri Honorable Mentions and Rising Stars

In addition to the above members of 2022 Team Missouri, MOQBA is pleased to recognize these students as Honorable Mentions:

• Brinda Ambal, Parkway West High School senior
• Lauren Blakemore, Hallsville High School senior
• Eli Bosley, Smithville High School junior
• Michael Brown, Stockton High School senior
• Ben Cook, Houston High School junior
• Anna Csiki-Fejer, Parkway West High School senior
• Andy Durham, Houston High School junior
• Terry Griggs, Sullivan High School junior
• Ryan Happel, Sullivan High School junior
• Cameron Jones, Van-Far High School senior
• Dorian Khoshyomn, Greenwood Laboratory School senior
• Asher Lidsky, Columbia Independent School junior
• Jacob Martin, Galena High School senior
• Finn Meggitt, Rolla High School senior
• Isaac Millians, Clayton High School senior
• Ji Ni, Palmyra High School senior
• Evan Nierman, Palmyra High School senior
• Grace Nuckolls, Washington High School junior
• Alex Rapp, Nixa High School junior
• James Reineke, Orchard Farm High School senior
• Devon Sawyer, Houston High School senior
• Mel Small, North Kansas City High School junior
• Ethan Smith, Troy Buchanan High School junior
• Zane Tolbert, Galena High School senior
• Zach Wang, Clayton High School senior
• CJ Wears, Kickapoo High School senior
• Tim Wellman, Palmyra High School senior
• Angela Yang, Rolla High School senior

MOQBA also recognizes these students as Rising Stars:

• Dhruv Divyakumar, Jefferson City High School freshman
• Charlie Harp, Fair Grove High School sophomore
• Vincent Hoang, Washington High School sophomore
• Luke Ketchum, Hallsville High School sophomore
• Avnith Kumar, Jefferson City High School freshman
• Hayden Ley, Washington High School sophomore
• Meyer Lively, Nixa High School sophomore
• Kevin Tang, Ladue Horton Watkins High School sophomore
• Sasha Tripathi, Parkway West High School freshman
• Camden Williams, Mexico High School freshman

Congratulations to all of these students!

Want to host a tournament?

MOQBA is seeking hosts for more high quality tournaments. Hosting an MOQBA certified tournament is a great way to promote the expansion of high quality quizbowl throughout the state while raising money for your team to attend more tournaments. See the high school tournament certification or middle school tournament certification pages for more information.