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2024 Team Missouri

The Missouri Quizbowl Alliance sponsored two teams in the virtual National All-Star Academic Tournament (NASAT) on June 15-16, 2024. Team Missouri A brought home Missouri's second NASAT championship and Team Missouri B earned its best finish ever by tying for fourth place. Yrwin Batan and Camden Williams were the top two individual scorers, making this the first time the top two scorers at NASAT were from the same state.

Team Missouri A

Roster

• Braxton Davis, College Heights Christian School junior (third NASAT)
• Vidur Kothur, Lindbergh High School junior (first NASAT)
• Camden Williams, Mexico High School junior (second NASAT)
• Sophia Xu, Ladue Horton Watkins High School senior (second NASAT)

Round Robin

Table of Team Missouri A game results in the 2024 NASAT

Round	Opponent	Result	Score
1	Kentucky	Loss	230–240
2	Liberia	Win	435–5
3	Indiana	Win	470–30
4	Illinois Cyan	Loss	130–240
5	Minnesota	Win	400–70
6	Illinois Cobalt	Win	270–255
7	Oklahoma Crimson	Win	345–125
8	Maryland	Win	230–220
9	Missouri B	Win	295–190
10	Bye
11	Virginia A	Win	265–170
12	Oklahoma Orange	Win	310–185
13	Asia	Win	425–70
14	Virginia B	Win	310–170
15	Illinois Cerulean	Win	350–125

Team Missouri A finished first in the round robin with a 12-2 record. With four teams finishing at 11-3, Maryland won two tiebreaker games to earn a spot in the final. Maryland won the first game 215-210 in overtime to force a second winner-take-all game. Missouri A won the second game 290-205 to bring home Team Missouri's second NASAT title!

With 57.50 points per game in the round robin, Camden Williams was named a tournament all-star as the #2 individual scorer!

Team Missouri B

Roster

• Yrwin Batan, St. Louis Priory School senior (first NASAT)
• Jacob Harl, Winfield High School senior (first NASAT)
• Soham Ray, Parkway West High School sophomore (first NASAT)
• Sasha Tripathi, Parkway West High School junior (first NASAT)
• Alec West, Lindbergh High School senior (first NASAT)

Round Robin

Table of Team Missouri B game results in the 2024 NASAT

Round	Opponent	Result	Score
1	Virginia A	Win	230–190
2	Oklahoma Crimson	Win	270–155
3	Bye
4	Minnesota	Win	335–40
5	Illinois Cerulean	Win	460–25
6	Asia	Win	335–150
7	Illinois Cyan	Win	360–110
8	Liberia	Win	365–20
9	Missouri A	Loss	190–295
10	Oklahoma Orange	Win	390–55
11	Virginia B	Win	250–145
12	Kentucky	Win	300–240
13	Indiana	Win	280–155
14	Illinois Cobalt	Loss	185–215
15	Maryland	Loss	210–315

Team Missouri B finished the round robin in a four way tie for second with a 11-3 record, seeded #2 in the four-way tiebreaker. Missouri B lost the first game against Illinois Cyan 325-150 to finish tied for fourth.

With 70.36 points per game in the round robin, Yrwin Batan was named a tournament all-star as the leading individual scorer!

Statistics

Tournament statistics are available on the Quizbowl Resource Center Database.

Unofficial scoresheets for Team Missouri are available on Google Docs.

Additional All-Star Selections

These students were also selected for 2024 Team Missouri, but were unable to attend the tournament:

• Lucia Li, Ladue Horton Watkins High School senior
• Patrick Rivas-Giorgi, (St. Joseph) Central High School senior

Honorable Mentions

In addition to the above members of 2024 Team Missouri, MOQBA is pleased to recognize these students as Honorable Mentions:

• Lucas Barnes, North County High School junior
• Braden Cantrell, Lee's Summit West High School sophomore
• Xander Cummins, Clever High School senior
• Charlie Harp, Fair Grove High School senior
• Karli Hedge, Clever High School senior
• Jack Herr, (Springfield) Central High School freshman
• Maxwell Jennings, Clever High School junior
• Luke Ketchum, Hallsville High School senior
• Tommy Nance, Weaubleau High School junior
• Jeff Newton, Nevada High School senior
• Aristuto Paul, Parkway West High School senior
• Thomas Thatcher, Kirksville High School senior

Rising Stars

MOQBA also recognizes these students as Rising Stars:

• Flint Barker, Skyline High School sophomore
• Kolten Gilmartin, Hillcrest High School sophomore
• Elmedin Karamovic, Bayless High School sophomore
• Edison Kimmel, (St. Joseph) Central High School sophomore
• Nolan Kopp, Hermann High School sophomore
• Hunter Odom, Glendale High School sophomore
• Nathan Oreskovic, Washington High School sophomore
• Aidyn Owings, Fair Grove High School sophomore
• Johanna Simon, Kickapoo High School sophomore
• Molly West, Weaubleau High School sophomore