{"id":18696,"date":"2020-12-14T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T17:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=18696"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T17:22:01","slug":"mpa-quiz-bowl-secures-spot-in-national-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2020\/12\/14\/mpa-quiz-bowl-secures-spot-in-national-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"MPA Quiz Bowl Secures Spot In National Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18697 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/quizbowlwpstory.jpg\" alt=\"quiz bowl at a 2019 competition\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>This past Saturday, the MPA Upper School Quiz Bowl teams couldn&#8217;t take celebratory \u00a0pictures together quite like the one featured here from 2019, but their smiles were just as big! Three MPA teams competed at the RATRACE tournament (Really Awesome Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event) Quiz Bowl competition, which was held virtually.<\/p>\n<p>The A-Team, comprised of seniors Isak Dai, Ryan Ghose, Hana Miller, Ellen Vergin, and Tanner Gasteazoro, finished in the top 16 teams and secured a spot in the National Tournament this Spring!\u00a0The B-Team, comprised of tenth graders Anthony Troullier\u00a0and Gabe Messner, and ninth graders Zain Ali and Ian Frankel, missed making the top 16 by a very slim margin.\u00a0The C-Team, comprised of ninth graders Ben Murr, Akshay Somayajula, Soumya Raman, Molly Vergin, and Fawzan Aslam, had a great showing with a 3-3 record.<\/p>\n<p>Individually, out of nearly 300 players on 64 teams, Isak Dai finished third and Anthony Troullier finished sixth! Congratulations, Panthers! We can&#8217;t wait to cheer you on at the National Tournament!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday, the MPA Upper School Quiz Bowl teams couldn&#8217;t take celebratory \u00a0pictures together quite like the one featured here from 2019, but their smiles were just as big! Three MPA teams competed at the RATRACE tournament (Really Awesome Thumb-Racing Academic Competition Event) Quiz Bowl competition, which was held virtually. The A-Team, comprised of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,29,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-middle-school","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18699,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions\/18699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}