ACF REGIONALS INFORMATION (Courtesy Andrew Yaphe) ACF regionals will be held on the weekend of February 26 at Harvard, Maryland, Tennessee-Chattanooga, Chicago, Oklahoma, and Cal Tech. To register teams for one of these tournaments, please contact the host school, not Andrew. All packets for ACF regionals, however, should be sent to Andrew at <adyaphe_at_...>. Please indicate which team the packet is by. Questions should be formatted in accordance with the guidelines posted on the ACF website (accessible from the University of Maryland's web page). Note that each packet should contain 30 tossups and 30 boni. If you do not follow these guidelines, the packet will be returned to you, so you might as well save the hassle and do it right the first time. Please note that teams that have not attended ACF regionals within the last three years are not required to write packets (though they may if they want to), and will be charged a reduced fee. Also, only the A and B teams from a school have to write packets. Base fee ... $75 Packet discounts and penalties: Packet received by December 12 ... -$30 Packet received by January 9 ... -$15 Packet received by January 23 ... No penalty Packet received by January 30 ... +$10 Packet received by February 6 ... +$15 Packet received by February 13 ... +$25 For more information, contact Andrew Yaphe at <adyaphe_at_...>. CREATIVE ELECTRONICS CONTINUES TO DISCOUNT BUZZERS The Creative Electronics company in Ohio manufactures the Quiz-Wizard II buzzer which is a 12 or 16 player unit for quizbowl. Actually the unit is designed for certamen (Latin bowl) and tells who signals first, second and third. Through a special deal arranged with Gaius Stern, they will sell this unit at a discounted rate to any Quizteam that needs a system. The price for a 12 player unit is about $490 and for 16 players it is $540. This price includes shipping. So far two or three college teams and about 4 high Schools have bought a system, so the company has extended the offer (deadline not specified). If you want to order a system, either call the company to say you read about the unit in the newsletter, or contact Gaius <gaius_at_...> to have him call them for you. ----------------------------------------------- A combined December/January issue will go out in mid-December. Until then, Gaius & Eric
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