Scheduling hell has befallen the Rice Acabowl. 1) The university has scheduled the spring dance the day of the tournament. This makes it more difficult to acquire staff. Normally this would not be a problem but... 2) The university has also scheduled beer bike on the same day. This makes it impossible to acquire staff. It also makes it impossible to hold the tournament, unless having no places to park and hundreds of drunk students throwing water balloons at you is your idea of a good tournament. These scheduling decisions were just handed down, so there was no way we could have worked around it. So, the tournament has been pushed back one week to March 29th. If you have been planning on going and this change poses a problem, please let us know by sending me an email at saslett at rice dot edu or by posting on this group. If this date conflicts with something major that I'm not aware of, please let me know that as well. Also: It has been brought to my attention that it would be much easier to incorporate our scoring changes without destroying tried and true bonus formats by doubling the points awarded for tossups and leaving the totals for bonuses at 30. 20/30 is comparable to 10/15. This seems to be a better proposal. So as not to screw anybody over who has already written questions for 10/15, we will accept bonuses written for both formats and adjust them ourselves. If you can, just write bonus questions as you normally would from now on. Packet deadlines remain the same, Feb. 15th for early, March 1st for regular. Stephen Aslett Rice Quiz Bowl
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