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MOQBA Event Calendar
Saturday, February 17, 2024
- Clever Novice and Spring Middle School
- Clever High School
- Novice Division
- Middle School Division
- Questions: MOQBA Novice II
- The tournaments will be in the 20 Tossup/20 Bonus format and we will be utilizing Powers for early buzzing. We will NOT be using bouncebacks on bonus questions or negative points for wrong answers (negs).
For the Novice tournament, all Freshmen and Sophomore players (regardless of placement on your regular teams) are eligible to play. No Juniors or Seniors may play. The goal is that your younger students get an idea of who will be their competition in the next few years of competition. I do ask that, should you have a superstar player (Someone who is dominating regular HS Sets) to consider that it would be a waste of their time to beat up on novice players and easier questions.
For the MS tournament, all 7th and 8th graders are eligible to play. 6th graders are allowed if your school allows 6th graders to participate and are on your MSHSAA rosters. This set will be more challenging for MS players, but at this point in the season this is a good preview of what future quiz bowl will look like as players prepare to promote to High School.
Novice Results | Middle School Results
- Contact: Scott Walker
- Announcement
- moquizbowl.com discussion
Saturday, February 10, 2024
- (RESCHEDULED) MACA JV State
- Parkway West High School
- Novice Tournament
- Questions: SCOP Novice 13
- This tournament was postponed from the original date due to winter weather and has moved to a different location.
This tournament is open to ALL freshmen and sophomore players (NO juniors or seniors).
Games will consist of 20 tossups worth ten points each, followed by three-part non-rebounding bonuses worth up to thirty points. Tossups will include powers but will not include negs.
Plaques will be awarded to the top two overall finishers and the top two small schools (under 500 enrollment in grades 10-12, public, non-selective). Large and small schools will play in the same division.
- Contact: Jason Loy and Kevin Stockman
- Announcement
- Results
- moquizbowl.com discussion
Saturday, October 21, 2023
- Bulldog Fall Fiesta
- Mexico High School
- Varsity Division
- Novice Division
- PACE NSC Qualifier
- Questions: SHOW-ME More (Varsity) and MOQBA Novice II
- BFF will consist of a minimum of eight games for all teams in the standard 20/20 match format.
Correct tossup answers are ten points each. Tossups are powermarked, and correct responses given before the mark will receive an additional five points. We will not assess a five-point penalty for interrupting the moderator during the tossup with an incorrect answer. Each incorrect bonus part will immediately rebound.
We will offer a varsity and novice division.
We anticipate the varsity division serving as a qualifier for the PACE National Scholastic Championship in Reston, Virginia. The novice division will not serve as a qualifying division for national bids, as the following roster restrictions are in place:
All freshmen are eligible to compete in the novice division.
All sophomores are eligible to compete in the novice division, with the exception of players who averaged at least 20 points per game at HSNCT, SSNCT, or NSC.
Juniors and seniors may compete in the novice division if they have not competed at a quiz bowl contest at the high school level prior to October 1st, 2023.
Varsity Results | Novice Results
- Contact: Dale Schenewerk and Kyle Hill
- Announcement
- moquizbowl.com discussion
- Greyhound Invitational Novice Tournament
- Clayton High School
- Novice Tournament
- Questions: MOQBA Novice II
- Each game will consist of twenty tossups and up to twenty bonuses. We will use fifteen point powers, no penalties for incorrect tossup answers, and bonuses will not rebound. Each team will be guaranteed at least eight games. Player eligibility is as follows: all freshmen and sophomores are allowed as well as juniors provided they have not competed at an HSNCT, PACE NSC, or NASAT.
We will begin with a cap of 12 entries. We will look to enlarge the event as staff and demand allows.
- Contact: Sean Phillips and Adam Bergeron
- Announcement
- Results
- moquizbowl.com discussion
Saturday, October 14, 2023
- Titan Novice Tournament
- Lee's Summit West High School
- Novice Tournament
- Questions: NAQT MS-47
- This tournament defines novices as first- or second-year Scholar Bowl students who have not attended a national tournament. This does include the possibility of juniors and seniors. Team rosters may have up to six players for the day, with four players playing simultaneously.
Games will consist of twenty tossups worth ten points each and three bonuses worth up to thirty points. Bonuses will rebound. This tournament will use 15-point "powers" for early correct buzzes on tossups. No -5 point "negs" will be assigned for early incorrect buzzes. In the event of a tied game after twenty tossup/bonus cycles, teams will hear tossups until the score changes (a correct answer ends the game immediately).
We are setting a preliminary cap of 24 teams for this event, but we may expand the field should there be enough interest and enough staff to meet the needs of an expanded field.
Update: This tournament is no longer supporting middle school play. We are intending to host a middle school tournament this Spring. Please email Seth if you are interested in this.
- Contact: Seth Brummond
- Announcement
- Results
- moquizbowl.com discussion