Mort Walker Invitational @ Mizzou -- February 13, 2010
Dear Coaches,
The University of Missouri Quizbowl Club is pleased to announce a third tournament on our high school schedule this year. The Mort Walker Invitational, named in honor of the Mizzou graduate and creator of Beetle Bailey, will be held on February 13, 2010. With all of our success in the past, we are prepared to offer your team another great day of quizbowl. We will be mirroring a set of questions written for high schoolers elsewhere in the country. Our game format will be played on ACF rules, which means there will be 20 tossups, each with a 30-point nonrebounding bonus. There will be no powers, but there will be negs.
Our tournament has been certified by the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance, a statewide group promoting high quality quizbowl. Criteria for certification include pyramidal questions, a guarantee of six rounds minimum per team, and other factors that MOQBA considers valuable for high quality quizbowl. Details on MOQBA and its certification procedures can be found online at
http://www.moqba.org.
This tournament will be using a rule where each team can have a maximum of 6 players. If you have more than that, do not feel hesitant signing up an extra team so that every player gets more opportunities to participate in games.
The field will be capped at 18 teams, although if there is demand and space we will consider expansion of the field. Spaces will be allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis. We will form a waitlist, and if teams drop, we will proceed down the list in order. Please do not hesitate to contact us even if the field is full, as we have traditionally called teams from far down the waitlist. The top teams at this event will qualify for the 2010 PACE National Scholastics Championship.
Entry Fees:
First team from a school: $70
Additional teams from the same school: $60
Buzzer system discount: -$5 per system per team, up to $15. In order to receive the buzzer system discount, the system must be
fully functional for 8 players.
Staffer discount: -$5 per team that brings a scorekeeper the morning of the tournament. This can be a coach, parent, or any other person attending who isn’t playing. If finances allow, we will try to provide scorekeepers something for their assistance.
To register, please email
mizzouquizbowl@gmail.com with the name of your school, how many teams you wish to enter, and the best way to contact you with any questions. We ask that for payment, you pay us either in cash or check by the day of the tournament unless you arrange otherwise with us. Please make checks out to “The University of Missouri Quizbowl Club”. In particular, we would ask that you avoid giving us purchase orders unless mandated by your school, and do not make checks out to the University of Missouri, because we will not be able to cash those. If you need other financial information, please let us know upon registration or as soon as possible so that we can begin filling out the necessary paperwork.
Don't hesitate to respond early! We will work with you every step of the way, allay your concerns, and answer any questions you may have. In addition, we would like to note that we will also be the location of the Missouri NAQT Qualifier tournament on March 20th hosted by MOQBA. Missouriquizbowl.com has an updated list of upcoming tournaments at MU and other locations statewide.
We hope to see you in Columbia in February!
Joey Spicer
Co-Tournament Director
Alex Dzurick
Co-Tournament Director
Mizzou Quizbowl President/Treasurer
P.S. We would like to recommend that if you are interested in finding
more practice material to prepare for our events, you check out
quizbowlpackets.com, which is an archive of hundreds of high school
packets.
