Hi, MIT Quizbowl is pleased to announce that it will we holding the ACF Northeast Regional on Saturday, February 14,2004. Fee Structure: Base Fee: $100 (n-1) team: -$5 Buzzer: -$10 200 miles or more travel (as determined by Mapquest): -$10 400 miles or more: -$20 Minimum fee: $50/team And now the official ACF Packet details: Every team in attendance will be required to submit a packet except for the following: Teams composed entirely of first- and second-year players. Teams that have not attended an ACF Regional Tournament in two or more years. C teams and lower (all A and B teams are required to submit a packet unless they meet the exemptions above). Each packet should contain 25 toss-up and 25 bonus questions. The distribution is as follows: Literature – 5/5 Science – 5/5 History – 5/5 Religion/Mythology/Philosophy – 3/3 Fine Arts – 3/3 Social Science – 2/2 Miscellaneous (either literature, science, or history) – 2/2 In addition to the above categories, teams may opt to submit 1/1 additional pop culture questions, though there is no guarantee that these will be used. Please make sure your questions are diversified within each category (e.g. at least 1 physics, 1 chemistry, and 1 biology per 5 science questions) and are free from spelling and grammatical errors. Please refer to the ACF Question Writing Guidelines and Supplement when putting your packet together. These can be found at http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/columns.html. The packet submission deadlines are as follows: -$30 for packets submitted by December 15, 2003 -$20 for packets submitted by January 4, 2004 -$10 for packets submitted by January 14, 2004 No penalty for packets submitted by February 3, 2004 +$50 for packets submitted after February 3, 2004 So there you have it- come play ACF at MIT on Valentine's Day. Any questions/concerns should be directed to me, Peter Stone at stone (at) mit (dot) edu -Peter Stone President MIT Quizbowl
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