Berkeley Western Invitational Tournament Information

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TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Western Invitational Tournament X
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What:
The tournament will consist of untimed rounds of 20 questions.  The
field will be divided into Open and JV divisions if there are a
sufficient number of JV teams that want a separate division.

When:
Saturday October 12, 2002
Breakfast/registration/rules 9-9:30.  Play starts at 9:30. Forfeit
matches may be made up at winning team's discretion during lunch.

Where:
University of California at Berkeley,

Eligibility - Any team consisting of anyone who wants to register.
This
means that you can make alumni teams, corporate teams, college teams,
cross-college teams etc.  The college varsity championship shall be
awarded to the highest placing team from one college.  The open
division championship will be awarded to the highest placing team from
the open division, which may or may not be the college champion.

If there is sufficient demand, we will have a separate JV division for
relatively inexperienced undergraduate players.  Please write to me if
your school is interested in sending JV teams.  Such teams would not
have to submit packets, but are welcome to do so (see below under
packet discounts).

Rules:
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The Berkeley ACF Rules, which may be found at
<http://exuma.cs.berkeley.edu/quiz-bowl/resources/rules.html>, will be
used.

Question Editors:
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Questions will be edited by David Farris and probably some
collaborators.

Prices:
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First Team $120
Second Team $100
Third Team $80
Fourth Team $ 60

Foreign teams: $30 off for each team.

Packet Discounts (only one applies)
Acceptable Packet by Sep 13 -$ 45
Acceptable Packet by Sep 20 -$ 35
Acceptable Packet by Sep 26 -$ 20
Acceptable Packet by Oct 1  +$ 10 penalty
Acceptable Packet by Oct 4  +$ 20 penalty.  This is the absolute
     final deadline unless you have made a prior arrangement with the
     editor.
All deadlines are to be interpreted as "when David Farris first checks
his email the following day".

JV teams are encouraged to submit a packet if they feel prepared to do
so; the above discounts for early submission will apply to JV teams,
but the penalties for late or no submission will not.

Buzzer System Discount
Provide working buzzer system -$ 10/per

Reader/Staff Discount
Provide an experienced full time reader -$ 20/per
Provide an experienced full time statkeeper -$ 10/per

Minimum fee: $40/team.

Packet Acceptability is determined by the tournament director.  If a
substantial part of the packet is rejected and sent back to a team for
rewriting, their discount/penalty will be based on the date of
submission of an acceptable packet.

Question Submission:
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If you don't know or care what LaTeX is:

Please submit as inline text or attached plain text file (NOT Word!)
to farris at-sign math dot berkeley dot edu.  Do the following to mark
answer underlining and italics in the text of questions:

To get an answer line that looks like Washington _Irving_, do:
Washington \underline{Irving}

To get italics, do \textit{text to be italicized} .

If you know how to use LaTeX:
Submit files as .tex files.

For information on getting to or staying in Berkeley and for an
explicit packet distribution, visit the Berkeley quiz-bowl website
<http://exuma.cs.berkeley.edu/quiz-bowl/>.

David Farris
farris at sign math dot berkeley dot edu