Missouri Quizbowl Message Board
The Missouri Academic Competition Message Board was launched in 2004 by James Patterson. The moquizbowl.com domain was registered in late 2007.
Discussions on the board mostly pertain to high school events held in Missouri, the majority of which are in a format similar to that used by MSHSAA, which has overseen quiz bowl in Missouri since 1996. Because the format features shorter, anti-pyramidal questions, an increasing number of discussions have occurred in recent months highlighting the many downsides to the current Missouri format and encouraging the proliferation of more widely-accepted formats such as the Tossup/Bonus Format, as well as promoting attendance at HSNCT and PACE NSC.
A Java chat applet was previously available on the site, but ultimately disappeared as the free hosting account on which it was maintained was probably deactivated due to inactivity. In April 2009, chat returned to the site in the form of the #moquizbowl channel on SlashNET.
In October 2008, less than a week after Matt Chadbourne and Jeffrey Hill were promoted to board administrators, the board was involuntarily migrated to the ZetaBoards platform, to everyone's dissatisfaction. In November 2009, Jeffrey converted the board to phpBB3 and moved it to his server, resulting in the removal of advertisements, among other improvements.
Boards
- The Tournament Announcements and Discussion board is for tournament announcements, results, and discussion of specific tournaments. It was added in February 2009 to emphasize the concept of announcing tournaments online, as Missouri tournaments often go unannounced online until someone discovers a scheduling conflict that adversely affects one that was prominently announced.
- The General Discussion board is for high school quizbowl topics that don't apply to specific tournaments.
- The Miscellaneous board is for discussion of non-quizbowl related topics.
- The College Quizbowl board was added in early 2007 due to the large number of members who play quiz bowl at the collegiate level.
- A Coaches' Forum is accessible exclusively by coaches.
Frequently Active Members
Board Administrators
- Matt Chadbourne (DeckardCain)
- Jeffrey Hill (U. Lou Sthagaim, previously Scobo1987)
Board Moderators
- Alex Dzurick (socalcaptain)
- Jason Loy (Jason Loy)
Current High School players
- Patrick Creedon (PCreedon)
- Sabrina Fritz (Machina)
- Grant Gates (CherryCokeStain)
- Ikshu Neithalath (logic2718)
- Ammar Zahid (dividebyzero)
- Chris Zhang (ZhangC1459)
High School graduates (class of 2009 or earlier)
- John Ahlfield (johnboy81918)
- Charles Dees (ashkenaziCD)
- Spencer Fish (FishyFreshman)
- Will Hack (WillHack)
- Charles Hang (Charbroil)
- Paul Nelson (PenForPrez)
- Sean Phillips (scphilli)
- Abdullah Shoaib (AShoaib)
High School coaches
- Jeremy Gibbs (FZW Coach) of Fort Zumwalt West, also president of MACA