Jacob O'Rourke

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 a former quiz bowl player for Truman State. Jacob wrote for and served as the Host Contact for HSAPQ until the company's dissolution in the fall of 2017. In August 2015, Jacob succeeded Alex Dzurick as the second Secretary of the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance. Jacob also serves as a volunteer assistant coach at Washington (Missouri High School) and generally staffs tournaments all 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

Tournaments Played

• 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

Tournaments Played

• 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

Tournaments Played

• Penn-ance at WUSTL [9]
• 2012 ACF Fall at Wisconsin[10]
• 2013 ACF Regionals at WUSTL [11]
• 2013 ICT in Chicago, IL [12]
• 2013 MUT at Illinois [13]

Notable Finishes

• First Place at 2013 ACF Regionals

2013-2014

Tournaments Played

• Michigan Fall Tournament at WUSTL [14]
• 2013 Penn Bowl at Wash U [15]
• DRAGOON at Kansas State [16]
• SUBMIT at SEMO [17]
• 2014 ACF Regionals at Missouri [18]
• 2014 ACF Nationals at Columbia [19]
• 2014 MUT at Illinois [20]

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

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)

Directing

• 2012 Kirksville Tournament
• QUARK with Jared McNett
• 2013 MOQBA Winter Invitational-Kirksville
• 2013 Region 11 SCT with Jared McNett
• 2013 Western Invitational
• 2013 ACF Fall
• 2014 MOQBA Winter Invitational-Kirksville
• 2014 Central SCT with Houston Roberts
• Truman Bowl V with Houston Roberts
• Washington University Fall Academic Tournament with Richard Yu
• Eureka Kickoff Tournament with Michael McDonald
• Washington University Fall Academic Tournament II with Sean Phillips
• 2017 St. Louis Open-NASAT Mirror
• Eureka Kickoff Tournament II with Michael McDonald
• Washington University Fall Academic Tournament III with Sean Phillips
• Penn Bowl at Truman State with William Bordowitz
• Washington University Fall Academic Tournament IV with Vishal Puppala and Sean Phillips
• WUHSAC XXI with Erik Tomasic