Format Proposal

• From: Durham_Devil
• Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 13:37:02 -0700
• Message-ID: <000RNQ8NE.000ETJNQI.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

For our (theoretical, though becoming slightly
more concrete every day) tournament, I was thinking
that we could revive a format used most prominently by
the PACE opening round and slightly less prominently
by DC area high schools. That format is the RELATED
TOSSUP/BONUS format (RTB for short). Basically, each tossup
has a specific bonus following it that is someway,
somehow, related to the tossup. The link can be:

*
Answer to related answers (Tossup Answer: Wordsworth;
Bonus Topic: British Poets)

* Answer to its
work/creator (Tossup Answer: George Orwell; Bonus Topic:
_Animal Farm_)

* Segue (Tossup Answer: Duke; Bonus
begins: "The Devils set a new record with four players in
the first round of the 1999 NBA Draft. Identify these
other draftees...")

* Clue connection (Tossup
asks for Richard III [the person] and mentions he is
the subject of a Shakespeare play; Bonus Topic:
Shakespeare's Histories)

* Bizarre (Tossup Answer:
butterfly; Bonus Topic: Muhammad Ali [the boxer], based on
his motto, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a
bee!") {NOTE: If you think this is bad, you should've
seen what it was before I made it more
reasonable!}

All those with opinions one way or the other are
encouraged to respond. Responding in this public forum is
encouraged; also, I will accept private e-mails (not at the
Duke address; at my summer email, which I'm not
posting here, but which you can find out if you ask the
right people). I hope there's something resembling
debate on this issue, and I hope people tend to like
it.

NOTE: Don't bother telling me that I'll need to do
extra careful writing/editing, or that I'll probably
need the questions much sooner in advance, or other
logistical nightmares. The PACE directorate informed me of
that.

--Andy Goss
--Duke