Re: COTKU Packet Distribution

• From: jakea2 <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 05:25:35 -0000
• Message-ID: <an0q4f+6id1_at_...>

This is from the email sent out by Charlie.  

PACKET GUIDELINES:   It's not mandatory, but it'll make life easier on
me if you can e-mail the packet as either an MS Word or RTF file, if 
the
essential parts of the answer are in bold, and if you insert the word
"Answer:" before each answer. To encourage participation by Division 
II
teams, we prefer a degree of difficulty considered easy to moderate by
current invitational standards. While not beginning with giveaway 
clues,
most tossups should be answerable by most teams by the end of the
question. Bonuses should be such that a novice team stands a good 
chance
of
getting at least 10 pts., a good team 20, and the best teams all 30 
pts.

DISTRIBUTION: To make editing easier, we ask for 25 tossups and 25
bonuses per packet, distributed as follows:
 Literature 5
Recommended: at least 2 20th century, at least 2 pre-20th century
   at least 2 U.S./Canadian, at least 2 non-U.S./Canadian
 Sciences 5
Required: at least 1 each of biology, physics, and chemistry
  History 5
Recommended: at least 2 20th century, at least 2 pre-20th century
   at least 2 U.S./Canadian, at least 2 non-U.S./Canadian
The remaining 10 should contain at least 1 each and no more than 3 of:
  Philosophy/religion/myth
  Fine arts
  Social sciences incl. geography
  Popular culture
  General knowledge/interdisciplinary

STYLE:
 Tossups -- average length 3 sentences. We want questions that begin
with lesser-known details and gradually get easier. And please don't
violate the pronoun rule -- e.g.,, if your first pronoun is "He..." 
the
answer should be the person, not a title.
 Bonuses -- all bonuses worth a possible 30 pts.; no single-part
all-or-nothing bonuses. We don't want 6-part boni unless they're very,
very short, and even then use sparingly. Also use the 30-20-10 format
sparingly.




--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "Stephen Webb" <sdwebb91984_at_y...> wrote:
> Does anybody know the packet distribution for COTKU? Can't seem to 
> find it posted and I need to get cracking if I'm gonna make the 
9/29 
> deadline.