Novice/JV

Registration form: http://tinyurl.com/OMAR2015Registration/

This tournament will consist of a minimum of eight games for all teams in a modified NAQT/national format:

This tournament has been canceled to a lack of available teams.

The tournament will use 15-point "powers" (reward for an early enough buzz), There will not be any -5 point "negs" (penalty should a player buzz in during the question and answer incorrectly). Bonuses will rebound. There is no computational math in the SCOP Novice Tournament set.

This tournament is usually only for freshman players, but this year we're allowing junior high teams to enter and first-year sophomore (may not have played at all during freshman year) players may fill out a freshman team that is short of four players. No team shall be a majority of sophomores.

Although the format of the game is altered, MSHSAA rules will be followed, excepting the need to have four players. A team may be comprised of fewer than four.

Tuscumbia High School will hosting an academic tournament on Saturday, January 17, 2015 with both JV and middle school divisions. Tentatively, the JV division will be capped at eighteen teams, and the middle school division will be capped at twelve. All students in grades 7 and 8 are eligible to compete in the middle school division; all students in grades 9 and 10 are eligible for the JV division, regardless of previous experience. The limit on team size in both divisions is eight, although teams of six or fewer students are encouraged. Other than the field limit, there is a not a limit on the number of teams that an individual school can bring.

Oakville is using the same question set for their tournament on November 1. If you are planning on attending the Oakville tournament, you may not attend this tournament.

The novice tournament will be a mirror of a set produced by the Scholastic Community Outreach Program (SCOP) of Illinois, which is specially written to appeal to newer or inexperienced players. This tournament is using the same question set as Tuscumbia's Invitational on January 17, 2015, so teams may not register for both tournaments. Each round will consist of 20 tossup questions with 20 3-part bonuses should a team answer a tossup correctly.

This tournament will be using NAQT Invitational Series #138. This tournament was originally assigned IS-140, but swapped sets with the Missouri Fall Academic Tournament.