MACA - Revision history

Jacob O'Rourke at 16:51, 31 May 2025

2025-05-31T16:51:54Z

Jacob O'Rourke at 16:51, 31 May 2025

2025-05-31T16:51:18Z

Jeffrey Hill: Updates to better reflect evolution of MSHSAA Scholar Bowl over the last decade

2022-05-08T05:49:18Z

Updates to better reflect evolution of MSHSAA Scholar Bowl over the last decade

Kevin Wang at 16:10, 6 January 2022

2022-01-06T16:10:50Z

June Yin: /* Examples of scheduling conflicts */

2021-11-16T06:48:37Z

Examples of scheduling conflicts

June Yin: /* MACA and Pyramidal Quizbowl */

2021-11-16T06:48:01Z

MACA and Pyramidal Quizbowl

June Yin: /* Current Role */

2021-09-24T07:49:03Z

Current Role

Alex Dzurick: /* 2016-2017 Officers */

2019-01-17T02:39:37Z

2016-2017 Officers

Jeffrey Hill: /* Officers */

2016-12-17T18:02:19Z

Officers

Jeffrey Hill: /* State Championship Results */ So that's what MICDS is...

2014-03-10T00:52:27Z

State Championship Results: So that's what MICDS is...

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 MACA sponsors a [[MACA JV State|Junior Varsity State]] tournament held in the spring.
-MACA recognizes exceptional players with All-District and All-State medals during the MSHSAA districts/state series (the organization stopped recognizing an All-State Team from 2020-2024).
+MACA recognizes exceptional players with All-District and All-State medals during the MSHSAA districts/state series (the organization didn't recognize an All-State Team from 2020-2024).
 ==MACA and Pyramidal Quizbowl==

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 ==Current Role==
-MACA runs an annual coaches conference in late September or early October, where MSHSAA provides rules updates, veteran coaches and other experienced people offer informational sessions on topics such as how to improve your team, how to run tournaments, etc., and the membership elects new officers as necessary. The conference was not held in 2020 or 2021.
+MACA runs an annual coaches conference in late September or early October, where MSHSAA provides rules updates, veteran coaches and other experienced people offer informational sessions on topics such as how to improve your team, how to run tournaments, etc., and the membership elects new officers as necessary. The conference was not held in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but has been held every year since.
 MACA sponsors a [[MACA JV State|Junior Varsity State]] tournament held in the spring.
-MACA recognizes exceptional players with All-District and, until 2019, All-State medals during the MSHSAA districts/state series.
+MACA recognizes exceptional players with All-District and All-State medals during the MSHSAA districts/state series (the organization stopped recognizing an All-State Team from 2020-2024).
 ==MACA and Pyramidal Quizbowl==

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 ==Current Role==
-MACA runs an annual coaches conference in late September or early October, where MSHSAA provides rules updates, veteran coaches and other experienced people offer informational sessions on topics such as how to improve your team, how to run tournaments, etc., and the membership elects new officers as necessary.
+MACA runs an annual coaches conference in late September or early October, where MSHSAA provides rules updates, veteran coaches and other experienced people offer informational sessions on topics such as how to improve your team, how to run tournaments, etc., and the membership elects new officers as necessary. The conference was not held in 2020 or 2021.
 MACA sponsors a [[MACA JV State|Junior Varsity State]] tournament held in the spring.
-MACA recognizes exceptional players with All-District and All-State medals during the MSHSAA districts/state series.
+MACA recognizes exceptional players with All-District and, until 2019, All-State medals during the MSHSAA districts/state series.
 ==MACA and Pyramidal Quizbowl==
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 As pyramidal quizbowl began to expand throughout Missouri around [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance|2008]], MACA continued to do many things to to discourage the growth of quizbowl in Missouri. Some of its members endorsed a state championship which uses [[Questions Galore]] packets and is 20% arithmetic questions, host and attend publicly unannounced tournaments that compete with "[[good quizbowl|good]]" tournaments in Missouri, and actively promote bad questions, bad game formats, and bad rules in Missouri quizbowl.
-Pyramidal quizbowl has become more popular since NAQT started providing the questions for MSHSAA districts and state in 2011, and three of the four current officers of MACA are actively involved in hosting and attending pyramidal tournaments that follow the principles of "[[good quizbowl]]". Even so, many coaches still resist the improvements brought by the increasing prevalence of "good quizbowl" practices and prefer tournaments to be run the [[bad quizbowl|way they always have been]].
+Pyramidal quizbowl has become more popular since NAQT started providing the questions for MSHSAA districts and state in 2011, and all of the current officers of MACA are actively involved in hosting and attending pyramidal tournaments that follow the principles of "[[good quizbowl]]". Some coaches still resist the improvements brought by the increasing prevalence of "good quizbowl" practices and prefer tournaments to be run the [[bad quizbowl|way they always have been]], but the prevalence of this sentiment significantly faded over the first decade of the NAQT era.
 ==Tournament Calendar==
-Since the 2004-2005 season, MACA's website has hosted an upcoming tournaments list.  Even 5 years later, many tournaments in Missouri are not announced on either the MACA list or on the [[Missouri Academic Competition Message Board]], which inevitably leads to unnecessary animosity between competing tournament hosts when the existence of an upcoming tournament becomes known months after another tournament on the same day has been publicly announced.  This typically affects tournaments hosted by colleges like the [[Missouri|University of Missouri-Columbia]] and [[Missouri S&T]] [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1697] who aren't usually included on tournament announcements sent by mass email.  This has been detrimental to quizbowl in Missouri, particularly in the 2008-2009 season because all known tournament dates for that season were compiled at the MACA Convention in Fall 2008, yet this list was never made available publicly, leading to several conflicts with [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] certified tournaments. [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=35652#p35652]
+Since the 2004-2005 season, MACA's website has hosted an upcoming tournaments list, but it has never been used consistently. Around 2009, many tournaments in Missouri were not announced on either the MACA list or on the [[Missouri Quizbowl Message Board]], which inevitably led to unnecessary animosity between competing tournament hosts when the existence of an upcoming tournament became known months after another tournament on the same day had been publicly announced.  This typically affected tournaments hosted by colleges like the [[Missouri|University of Missouri-Columbia]] and [[Missouri S&T]] [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1697] who weren't usually included on tournament announcements sent by mass email.  This was detrimental to quizbowl in Missouri, particularly in the 2008-2009 season because all known tournament dates for that season were compiled at the MACA Convention in Fall 2008, yet this list was never made available publicly, leading to several conflicts with [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance]] certified tournaments. [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=35652#p35652]
 ===Examples of scheduling conflicts===
 * January 24, 2009: The [[Washington (Missouri High School)|Washington HS]] tournament was not known until after Missouri had already scheduled the Tiger Bowl for that date (distance of separation: 93 miles) [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1697]
-* February 21, 2009: The [[Warrenton|Warrenton HS]] tournament was not publicly known until February 11, even though the date for the [[2009 NAQT Missouri Qualifier]] was tentatively announced on July 3 and officially announced no later than November 7, explaining why so few St. Louis teams had signed up for the legitimate state championship when Warrenton's existence was posted to the Missouri forum.  (distance of separation: 99 miles) [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1740#new]
+* February 21, 2009: The [[Warrenton|Warrenton HS]] tournament was not publicly known until February 11, even though the date for the [[2009 NAQT Missouri Qualifier]] was tentatively announced on July 3 and officially announced no later than November 7, explaining why so few St. Louis teams had signed up for the tournament analogous to a state championship in other states when Warrenton's existence was posted to the Missouri forum.  (distance of separation: 99 miles) [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1740#new]
 * March 7, 2009: The [[Missouri S&T Spring Tournament]] has been held on the first or second weekend of March since 2005, and was officially announced no later than November 7, yet two other tournaments within 100 miles were scheduled on the same day:
 **[[Rock Bridge]] High School in Columbia hosted its unannounced tournament on March 7 (distance of separation: 93 miles) [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=34957#p34957]
 ** [[Waynesville]], who has even attended the Spring Tournament in the past, scheduled its tournament on the same day.  [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=35642#p35642]  This was particularly notorious because Waynesville is 35 miles away from Rolla.  Even more surprising is Waynesville posted its tournament to the MACA calendar, which probably already had the Missouri S&T tournament listed when it was posted.  The scheduling conflict appears to be the result of a first-year coach apparently not being aware of the other nearby tournaments.  Due to the proximity of the more established S&T and Rock Bridge tournaments, the Waynesville tournament was canceled due to low registration.
-** Both Rock Bridge and Waynesville have since become regular hosts of "[[good quizbowl]]" tournaments.
+** Both Rock Bridge and Waynesville have since hosted multiple "[[good quizbowl]]" tournaments.
-Because of the numerous problems with scheduling conflicts in the 2008-2009 season, Missouri-Columbia announced its 2009-2010 tournament dates on February 23, 2009 [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1757]; Missouri S&T followed suit on March 2 [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1766].  Additionally, a list of all known tournaments in Missouri for each season has been maintained on the Missouri Academic Competition Message Board since the 2009-2010 season, to increase the visibility of tournaments that have been announced and to better expose scheduling conflicts.
+Because of the numerous problems with scheduling conflicts in the 2008-2009 season, Missouri-Columbia announced its 2009-2010 tournament dates on February 23, 2009 [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1757]; Missouri S&T followed suit on March 2 [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1766].  Additionally, a list of all known tournaments in Missouri for each season was maintained on the Missouri Quizbowl Message Board for several of the following seasons, to increase the visibility of tournaments that have been announced and to better expose scheduling conflicts.
 Even with a revamped MACA website, tournaments are rarely added to the website calendar. The existence of tournaments not hosted on NAQT questions and not announced on the [[Missouri Quizbowl Message Board]] is typically only known by coaches included on email invitations or if they are well-established tournaments held around the same time every year. Fortunately, with the continued use of NAQT questions at MSHSAA districts/state and increasing popularity of pyramidal tournaments, higher-quality tournaments have much less trouble fielding enough teams, and in some cases even have lengthy waitlists. Many Saturdays now feature numerous tournaments throughout the state without severely impacting each other's fields.

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 ==MACA and Pyramidal Quizbowl==
-As pyramidal quizbowl began to expand throughout Missouri around [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance|2008]], MACA continued to do many things to to discourage the growth of quizbowl in Missouri. Some of its members endorsed a state championship which uses [[Questions Galore]] packets and is 20% arithmetic questions, host and attend publicly unannounced tournaments that compete with good tournaments in Missouri, and actively promote bad questions, bad game formats, and bad rules in Missouri quizbowl.
+As pyramidal quizbowl began to expand throughout Missouri around [[Missouri Quizbowl Alliance|2008]], MACA continued to do many things to to discourage the growth of quizbowl in Missouri. Some of its members endorsed a state championship which uses [[Questions Galore]] packets and is 20% arithmetic questions, host and attend publicly unannounced tournaments that compete with "[[good quizbowl|good]]" tournaments in Missouri, and actively promote bad questions, bad game formats, and bad rules in Missouri quizbowl.
-Pyramidal quizbowl has become more popular since NAQT started providing the questions for MSHSAA districts and state in 2011, and three of the four current officers of MACA are actively involved in hosting and attending pyramidal tournaments that follow the principles of [[good quizbowl]]. Even so, many coaches still resist the improvements brought by the increasing prevalence of good quizbowl practices and prefer tournaments to be run the [[bad quizbowl|way they always have been]].
+Pyramidal quizbowl has become more popular since NAQT started providing the questions for MSHSAA districts and state in 2011, and three of the four current officers of MACA are actively involved in hosting and attending pyramidal tournaments that follow the principles of "[[good quizbowl]]". Even so, many coaches still resist the improvements brought by the increasing prevalence of "good quizbowl" practices and prefer tournaments to be run the [[bad quizbowl|way they always have been]].
 ==Tournament Calendar==
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 **[[Rock Bridge]] High School in Columbia hosted its unannounced tournament on March 7 (distance of separation: 93 miles) [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=34957#p34957]
 ** [[Waynesville]], who has even attended the Spring Tournament in the past, scheduled its tournament on the same day.  [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?p=35642#p35642]  This was particularly notorious because Waynesville is 35 miles away from Rolla.  Even more surprising is Waynesville posted its tournament to the MACA calendar, which probably already had the Missouri S&T tournament listed when it was posted.  The scheduling conflict appears to be the result of a first-year coach apparently not being aware of the other nearby tournaments.  Due to the proximity of the more established S&T and Rock Bridge tournaments, the Waynesville tournament was canceled due to low registration.
-** Both Rock Bridge and Waynesville have since become regular hosts of [[good quizbowl]] tournaments.
+** Both Rock Bridge and Waynesville have since become regular hosts of "[[good quizbowl]]" tournaments.
 Because of the numerous problems with scheduling conflicts in the 2008-2009 season, Missouri-Columbia announced its 2009-2010 tournament dates on February 23, 2009 [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1757]; Missouri S&T followed suit on March 2 [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1766].  Additionally, a list of all known tournaments in Missouri for each season has been maintained on the Missouri Academic Competition Message Board since the 2009-2010 season, to increase the visibility of tournaments that have been announced and to better expose scheduling conflicts.

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 Because of the numerous problems with scheduling conflicts in the 2008-2009 season, Missouri-Columbia announced its 2009-2010 tournament dates on February 23, 2009 [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1757]; Missouri S&T followed suit on March 2 [http://www.moquizbowl.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1766].  Additionally, a list of all known tournaments in Missouri for each season has been maintained on the Missouri Academic Competition Message Board since the 2009-2010 season, to increase the visibility of tournaments that have been announced and to better expose scheduling conflicts.
-Even with a revamped MACA website, tournaments are rarely added to the website calendar. The existence of tournaments not hosted on NAQT questions and not announced on the [[Missouri Academic Competition Message Board]] is typically only known by coaches included on email invitations or if they are well-established tournaments held around the same time every year. Fortunately, with the continued use of NAQT questions at MSHSAA districts/state and increasing popularity of pyramidal tournaments, higher-quality tournaments have much less trouble fielding enough teams, and in some cases even have lengthy waitlists. Many Saturdays now feature numerous tournaments throughout the state without severely impacting each other's fields.
+Even with a revamped MACA website, tournaments are rarely added to the website calendar. The existence of tournaments not hosted on NAQT questions and not announced on the [[Missouri Quizbowl Message Board]] is typically only known by coaches included on email invitations or if they are well-established tournaments held around the same time every year. Fortunately, with the continued use of NAQT questions at MSHSAA districts/state and increasing popularity of pyramidal tournaments, higher-quality tournaments have much less trouble fielding enough teams, and in some cases even have lengthy waitlists. Many Saturdays now feature numerous tournaments throughout the state without severely impacting each other's fields.
 ==Officers==

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 ===Influence===
-Perhaps unfortunately for Missouri Quiz Bowl, the influence of MACA on Missouri Quiz Bowl has historically been fairly limited. MACA's Advisory Committee does have input on the selection of a question vendor for MSHSAA's state tournament, but because the various choices available often all have some features of [[bad quizbowl|bad Quiz Bowl]] to varying degrees, this choice is often between equally negative options. Similarly, while MACA does serve as the Missouri Quiz Bowl community's collective voice, that voice is often ignored by MSHSAA, an example of which being MACA's suggestion to allow the top two teams from each district to advance to state and to drop the idea of sectionals at its 2007-2008 meeting. In contrast, MSHSAA simply decided to split districts in two and impose sectionals.
+Perhaps unfortunately for Missouri quizbowl, the influence of MACA on Missouri quizbowl has historically been fairly limited. MACA's Advisory Committee does have input on the selection of a question vendor for MSHSAA's state tournament, but because the various choices available often all have some features of [[bad quizbowl]] to varying degrees, this choice is often between equally negative options. Similarly, while MACA does serve as the Missouri quizbowl community's collective voice, that voice is often ignored by MSHSAA, an example of which being MACA's suggestion to allow the top two teams from each district to advance to state and to drop the idea of sectionals at its 2007-2008 meeting. In contrast, MSHSAA simply decided to split districts in two and impose sectionals.
 ==MACA and Pyramidal Quizbowl==

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 Even with a revamped MACA website, tournaments are rarely added to the website calendar. The existence of tournaments not hosted on NAQT questions and not announced on the [[Missouri Academic Competition Message Board]] is typically only known by coaches included on email invitations or if they are well-established tournaments held around the same time every year. Fortunately, with the continued use of NAQT questions at MSHSAA districts/state and increasing popularity of pyramidal tournaments, higher-quality tournaments have much less trouble fielding enough teams, and in some cases even have lengthy waitlists. Many Saturdays now feature numerous tournaments throughout the state without severely impacting each other's fields.
-==2016-2017 Officers==
+==Officers==
-* President: [[Scott Allen]] ([[Hallsville]])
+{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" align="center"
-* Vice-President: [[Kevin Stockman]] ([[Orchard Farm]])
+|-
-* Treasurer: [[Nick White]] ([[West Nodaway]])
+!Position
-* Secretary: [[Jason Loy]] ([[Tuscumbia]])
+!2018-19
 ==Website==

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 |[[Liberty (MO)|Liberty]]
 |[[Fort Zumwalt South]]
-|[[Mary's Institute/St. Louis Country Day]]
+|[[Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day|MICDS]]
 |[[St. James]]
 |[[Bernie]]