Tiger Bowl
The first annual Tiger Bowl was a high school tournament run by the University of Missouri-Columbia on January 24th, 2009. It was directed by Alex Dzurick and Charles Dees, and was run on the HSAPQ NSC format set #1. A second Tiger Bowl will be run on December 5th, 2009.
Results
The tournament featured 12 teams that played an 11 game round robin (although Lincoln had to leave after round 5). After the pool, Parkway Central cleared the field with an 11-0 record. Helias A placed second with a 9-2 record, and St. Louis University High and Fulton both went 8-3, but SLUH was the winner of the PPG tiebreaker for third. The top scorer was Jason Liang from Parkway Central with 64.71 PPG, and the second scorer was Will Hack, also of Parkway Central, with 43.01 PPG. Both Parkway Central and Helias qualified teams for the 2009 PACE NSC.
Miscellany
This tournament may perhaps be most notorious for an incident the day before where, after receiving the questions on Thursday night, Charlie Dees took them on Friday to the Mizzou copy center to have them use the alotted $30 of copying on the set. After a short argument, Charlie extracted the promise that they would finish the (10 minutes worth of) copying that afternoon and they would call him when that was complete. After waiting until dinner and receiving no calls, Charlie walked over to the copy center only to find it locked up with his only paper copy of the questions. Alex Dzurick was busy eating dinner at the time, so he had to at the last minute take a zip file to a non-24 hours Kinkos that was nearing close time and get just enough copies of the set to run it efficiently. Fortunately, everything worked out in the end, and the tournament was run efficiently the next day.