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. Matt Chadbourne and Jeffrey Hill have served as board administrators since October 2008.
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. While this dominant format features shorter, anti-pyramidal questions, the board's focus has largely shifted, especially following the formation of the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance in late 2008, to discussing and promoting good quizbowl tournaments, including encouraging increased 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 and Jeffrey 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.