The University of Chicago will be hosting the ACF Midwest Regional Tournament on Saturday, February 14, 2004. The tournament will be held in an as-yet-undetermined location on campus, most likely in either Cobb Hall (home of the Chicago Open) or the Biological Sciences Learning Center (home of every other tournament we hosted in 2002-2003). Fee structure: $100 - base fee -$10 per functional buzzer system as determined by me (please bring buzzer systems. please.) -$10 per functional moderator as determined by me (plus all packet-related discounts--see below) If you have any financial problems that may prevent you from attending the tournament (especially pertaining to new programs or long-distance travel) please contact me and we'll work something out. If teams who are interested in attending could email me and give me approximate numbers of teams, buzzer systems, and moderators they plan to bring, that would be immensely helpful. My email address is srferrar at uchicago dot edu. If you have any questions about the tournament, please email me. PACKET INFORMATION: All packets should be sent to Raj at rsbhan _at_ hotmail.com. Every team in attendance will be required to submit a packet except for the following: 1. Teams composed entirely of first- and second-year players. 2. Teams that have not attended an ACF Regional Tournament in two or more years. 3. 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 Susan Ferrari University of Chicago College Bowl
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