
Re: Mizzou Quizbowl History?
Yeah, Scott Brinker was the guru of the Mizzou team in the late 90's; Scott graduated from Washington HS in '95. He is in St. Louis now; I see him at State usually. He sees nothing wrong with Missouri format and never has.
Those Mizzou HS tournaments in the late '90s were Missouri format; nobody even attempted anything akin to tossup/bonus in Missouri before at least 1997. Rolla ran a couple of interesting tossup/bonus hybrid tournaments in '97 and '98 on very early NAQT sets (the latter won by my Cuba team

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The Mizzou tournaments back then usually ran in early November to my recollection; they attracted around 30+ teams. Cuba won the Mizzou tournament in Nov. '97; we beat Liberty in the final. NKC finished 3rd and Marquette 4th. That was the tournament where we had an individual shootout; I beat Andy Wehrman from NKC in that contest.
For a couple of years around that time, Mizzou hosted a college tournament for Missouri college teams. This was when you had teams at UMKC and other exotic locales.

This was the tournament in '99 where I guessed on all three parts of a soap opera bonus and got 30 points.

I don't think Mizzou ever hosted a serious college tournament during that period, but I may be wrong.
(CBI Regionals hosts: '99: Wichita State. '00: Pittsburg State. '01: Wichita State. '02: WUSTL.)
(NAQT SCT hosts: '99: Wichita State. '00: Oklahoma. '01: Wichita State. '02 WUSTL.)
Scott Brinker played for Mizzou at my first CBI Regionals at Wichita State in 1999. This was the controversial tournament where Brinker got food poisoning at lunch and vomited during the semifinals match against Rolla (which the two of us were in the lead and I was not playing). Mizzou wound up winning because Rolla was literally grossed out.
That's as much as I can remember for the time being, but I'll see if I can come up with anything else.