SAGES
SAGES Quizbowl Questions is a question writing company, based in Champaign, Illinois, for elementary and middle school level tournaments. SAGES may also refer to the elementary-level set produced by the company.
History
As a set, SAGES was born out of a writing effort for the March 2015 Elementary Knowledge Bowl hosted by the Show-Me Conference in Missouri. Alex Dzurick was approached to write new questions for this event and titled the question set SAGES (Spring Academic Game for Elementary Students). The Knowledge Bowl is a tossup-only competition which featured the questions in 9, twenty-tossup packets per grade level with some overlap between grades. During the spring of 2015, the questions were reformatted into a standard tossup-bonus format. This effort led to several other uses of the set across the country. In the fall of 2015, Alex was asked if he would consider writing a middle school set as well, and given the expansion of effort, SAGES was founded as a company based in Champaign in December of 2015. The MS tournament was dubbed PLATO.
SAGES I (2015)
Writers for the inaugural SAGES I 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 SAGES I 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
- September 27, 2015 - Bay Area Elementary School Tournament (Santa Clara, CA) - 6th grade and under
- November 14, 2015 - Quizzing in the Hills Tournament (Chillicothe, OH) - MS teams
- February 20, 2016 - Buffalo Tournament (Buffalo, MO) - MS teams
SAGES II & PLATO (2016)
Writers for the SAGES II and PLATO sets:
- Head editor: Alex Dzurick
- Writers: Kathy Brandon, Luke Chval, Lucia Geng, William Golden, Trent Kannegieter, Nathan Kempf, Young Fenimore Lee, Brandon Moore, Parth Parikh, Wenzer Qin, Ashwin Ramaswami, Kate Ray, Sara Roncero-Menendez, Doug Wheeler, and Chris Zheng
Tournaments using the SAGES II set:
- March 2016 - Show-Me Conference Elementary Knowledge Bowl (Jefferson City, MO) - 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade competing separately
Tournaments using the PLATO set:
- December 2015-March 2016 - Hallsville Middle School Quads (Hallsville, MO) - MS teams
- March 19, 2016 - St. Patty's Day MS Academic Team Classic (Stow, OH) - MS teams