SAGES
SAGES (Spring Academic Game for Elementary Students) is a question set for elementary and early middle school tournaments, targeted at a 3rd through 6th grade level.
Born out of a writing effort for the 2015 Elementary Knowledge Bowl hosted by the Show-Me Conference in Missouri, SAGES originally consisted of ~450 pyramidal tossups with no bonuses. (The Knowledge Bowl site featured the questions in 9, twenty-tossup packets per grade level with some overlap between grades.) Each tossup question is roughly 3 lines long. During the spring of 2015, the questions were reformatted into a standard tossup-bonus format, with 10 packets of 20/20 and an extra 1/1 per packet for tiebreakers and replacements.
Writers for the inaugural SAGES set in 2015:
- Head editor: Alex Dzurick
- Writers: David Dennis, Charles Hang, Sam Haynes, Ryan Kennedy, Jared Lockwood, Jack Miller, Luke Schuster, and members of the Washington MS & HS teams
- Jason Loy helped to edit the tournament into tossup-bonus format
Tournaments using the 2015 SAGES set:
- March 17, 2015 - Show-Me Conference Elementary Knowledge Bowl (Jefferson City, MO) - 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade competing separately
- June 1, 2015 - Darien Elementary Academic Challenge (Darien, CT) - 5th grade