Jacob O'Rourke

Noted subjects	History, Sports, Theater Lit, Visual Arts
Current college	None
Past colleges	Truman State (2010-2014)
High school	Pacific (2009-2010); Kirksville (2012-2014) [Assistant Coach]; Washington (Missouri High School) (2014-Present) [Assistant Coach]
Stats	HDWhite • NAQT

Jacob O'Rourke is the current Secretary of the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance and an assistant coach at Washington (Missouri High School). He formerly played quiz bowl at Truman State and wrote for and served as the Host Contact for HSAPQ until the company's dissolution in the fall of 2017. Jacob either moderates or runs the control room at several events throughout the state.

Playing History

High School

Only playing for his senior year of high school in the MSHSAA format, Jacob did not encounter good quiz bowl until his first practice at Truman State University.

College

2010-2011

Early Autumn Collegiate Novice at WUSTL [1]
2010 ACF Fall at Truman State [2]
2011 SCT at Missouri State, where he placed 5th individually in D-II [3]
2011 ACF Regionals at WUSTL [4]
2011 MUT at Rock Bridge High School [5]

2011-2012

Missiles of October at Rock Bridge [6]
2012 SCT at Oklahoma State [7]
2012 ICT in Chicago, IL [8]

Notable Finishes

Third at SCT; qualified the team for ICT.

2012-2013

Notable Finishes

First Place at 2013 ACF Regionals

2013-2014

Notable Finishes

First Place at the Kansas State Mirror of DRAGOON.
Division II Champion at the Missouri mirror of 2014 ACF Regionals.

Post-College Opens

2014 St. Louis Open-with Ben Zhang, Jeffrey Wang and Patrick Naughton [21]
Mirror of Ottawa Hybrid 2014 at WUSTL-with David Dennis [22]
2014 Missouri Mirror of DISCO-with Ben Zhang [23]
2015 Oxford Open North America Open Mirror-with Jake Sundberg, Ramapriya Rangaraju and Eric Douglass [24]
2015 VCU Open Mirror at WUSTL-with Jason Loy, David Dennis and Eric King [25].
Historature at 2018 ICT-with Mike Sorice, Nathan Weiser and Jason Zhou [26]
2018 St. Louis Open-with William Bordowitz, Sophia Johnson and Matt Chadbourne [27]
2018 St. Louis Open Trash-with Ryan Rosenberg and Tamara Vardomskaya [28]
2018 Chicago Open Trash-with Andy Walz, David Dennis and Tyler Ritchie [29]
2018 Cambridge Open at UIUC-with Brad McLain, Mike Etzkorn and Mitch McCullar [30]
WORLDSTAR (part of Side Event Open at UIUC)-with Ramapriya Rangaraju, Halle Friedman and Michael Coates
Cambridge Open 2019 at UIUC-with Chinmay Kansara, Harris Bunker and Yogesh Raut [31]
Super ACRONYM at UIUC-with Chinmay Kansara, Ramapriya Rangaraju and Tyler Ritchie [32]

Writing/Editing

2012 Early Autumn Collegiate Novice (Writer)
2012 and 2013 CMST sets (served as bid coordinator in 2013)
HSAPQ: Freelance Writer (2012-2014); Full Writer (2014-2017)
Missouri Open 2013 History Writer/Editor
PADAWAN writer training tournament (Wrote History, Literature, Mythology Tossups)
WHAQ (High School level)-Head Editor
Eisenhower Memorial Tournament-wrote History, 1 Trash Tossup
WHAQ II-Head Editor
Don DeLillo Presents WAO II-American history, American literature, logistics
Stevenson Memorial Tournament-writer
WHAQ III-Head Editor
CAST-History (American, European, Ancient/Other), Literature (American, British, Other)
LOGIC-Head Editor
Michigan Winter Tournament-Literature (British, European, World/Other)
MOQBA Novice-Head Editor
Matt Civijanovich Memorial Tournament-Co-Head Editor/Oversight (with Ganon Evans)
CATT-Head Editor
NEWT-Head Editor
MRNA VACCINE-European and Classical Literature

Directing

Jacob O'Rourke

Contents

Playing History

High School

College

2010-2011

2011-2012

Notable Finishes

2012-2013

Notable Finishes

2013-2014

Notable Finishes

Post-College Opens

Writing/Editing

Directing

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