Re: Clemson tournament proposal (something a little different)

jakea2 <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:48:32 -0000

Geez, I've played here in the Southeast for 3 years now, and I didn't 
even know you guys had a TEAM.  Where do you usually play?  CBI?  
It's not all ACF, after all, there are plenty of NAQT and ACF-lite 
tournaments around.  And by "around", I mean "mostly in Chattanooga", 
but not always.  There's an indy tournament at GaTech like the second 
week of January, I think.  But anyway, as for the actual tournament 
itself.  I agree that the concept is a little wonky.  I tend to think 
you'd be better off charging a fee (or a larger fee) for teams 
without willing volunteers, plus the usual buzzer discounts and 
whatnot.  But allowing those volunteers to cycle in and out of rounds 
would get weird pretty quickly.  And as for interest, I can't speak 
for my team (Emory), but I imagine that if you scheduled it away from 
major conflicts, we'd be game.

-Jake

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "clemsonquizbowl" <clemsonquizbowl_at_y...> wrote:
> From what I've heard here this year, budgets seem to be rather 
tight 
> in the Southeast.  Virtually all the tournaments I've seen 
announced 
> in our travel range are ACF.  We have a different problem at 
Clemson: 
> our budget is ample, but we have a young program with very little 
> interest in ACF and a lack of volunteers.  So my proposal is this: 
an 
> NAQT tournament at Clemson in the spring with no entry fee but a 
> requirement for each team to provide a volunteer for the day.  (We 
> would eat the financial cost of hosting.)
> 
> To make it more attractive, I'm seriously considering allowing 
> volunteers to play with their teams when they are not volunteering, 
> and allowing teams to change their volunteer during the day. (I 
> envisioned it as something along the line of a team brings 5 
players, 
> throughout the day they rotate who sits out a round, and whoever 
sits 
> out volunteers to help run a match in a different division.)  
> Obviously, there are ways teams could manipulate this scheme, and 
the 
> quality of volunteers would essentially be beyond a TD's control, 
so 
> I have my reservations about this.
> 
> My questions to the board are:
> 1.  Has anything like this been tried before?
> 2.  Can the general quiz bowling population be trusted to submit a 
> reasonable field of volunteers and be honest in not manipulating it?
> 3.  How much interest would you have in actually participating?
> 
> Dates under consideration are March and early April.
> 
> This is still in the early preliminary stages and doesn't have 
final 
> approval here, but it will help to have some feedback from the quiz 
> bowl population before proceeding with a rather unique tournament.
> 
> Roger Whitehead
> Clemson Quiz Bowl co-chairman