Masonic tournament

The Masonic tournament is a high school quiz bowl tournament in Illinois that some people think is a state championship. It used approximately the IHSA format through 2009, then switched to an even weirder format for 2010.

It is often criticized for subpar questions. It used Answers Plus for a very long time, eventually switched to Academic Hallmarks for (at least) 2006 and 2007, used Aegis Questions questions in 2008 and 2009, used Questions Galore in 2010 and 2011, and hired David Reinstein to write the questions for 2012.

Format

This tournament basically used an IHSA format until 2009, then switched to a new format that is all its own. The current format consists of 16 tossups worth 15 points each (no powers or negs) and 16 three-part questions (10 points per part) in which team collaboration is permitted. The three-part questions are not bonuses because each team gets 8 of them regardless of how many tossups it answered. Team questions bounce back, and they are read all at once like IHSA bonuses. The distribution is vaguely similar to the IHSA distribution.

Results

Date	Location	Champion	Runner-up	3rd Place	4th Place	Consolation
1983	Winnebago	Stillman Valley	Winnebago	unknown	unknown
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990	Illinois Wesleyan University	Rockridge	Sullivan	unknown	unknown	unknown
1991	Eureka
1992	Eureka
1993	Eureka
1994	Eureka
1995	Eureka College
4 May 1996	Eureka College	MacArthur	Belvidere	Princeton	Dixon	Niantic-Harristown
10 May 1997		Woodruff	Streator	Princeton	MacArthur	Edwards County
4 Apr 1998		MacArthur	Sterling	Streator	Centralia	Auburn
8 May 1999		Moline	New Trier	Carlinville	PORTA	IMSA
18 Mar 2000		Stevenson	Streator	New Trier	Eureka	Auburn
2 Mar 2001		Salem	Fenwick	Moline	Stillman Valley	unknown
2 Mar 2002		Springfield Southeast	Limestone	Guilford	Auburn	Danville
8 Mar 2003	Springfield Southeast	Wheaton North	Sterling	Stillman Valley	Pleasant Plains	Auburn
6 Mar 2004	Springfield Southeast	Wheaton North	Morton	Auburn	Galena	Bradley-Bourbonnais
5 Mar 2005	Springfield Southeast	Fremd	Auburn	Morton	Pittsfield	IMSA
4 Mar 2006	Springfield Southeast	Fremd	Peoria Heights	Bloomington	Elmwood	Auburn
3 Mar 2007	Springfield Southeast	Maine South	New Trier	Springfield	Moline	Auburn
1 Mar 2008	Glenwood	Auburn	Carbondale	Sterling	PORTA	Springfield
28 Feb 2009	Glenwood	Carbondale	Auburn	Peoria Christian	Warrensburg-Latham	New Trier
6 Mar 2010 Class A	Riverton	Litchfield	The Latin School	Macomb	St. Joseph-Ogden
Class AA		St. Ignatius	Stevenson	Auburn	IMSA
5 Mar 2011 Class A	Riverton	Lisle	Macomb	PORTA	Peoria Christian
Class AA		Stevenson	Carbondale	IMSA	Fremd
3 Mar 2012 Class A	Springfield	Peoria Christian	Peoria Heights	Carlinville	Keith Country Day
Class AA		IMSA	Auburn	Carbondale	The Latin School
2 Mar 2013 Class A	Springfield	Litchfield	Peoria Christian	Cumberland	Elmwood
Class AA		Loyola Academy	Macomb	IMSA	Carbondale