ANNOUNCEMENT: Princeton Buzzerfest VII

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Princeton College Bowl will be hosting Buzzerfest VII on Saturday,
April 24, 2004, in the Frist Campus Center.  As in the past, it will
be a standard ACF-style packet submission tournament, and all teams in
the area are strongly encouraged to enter.  I have not yet decided on
whether open teams can register, but if you have any interest in
playing e-mail me: cfrankel (at) princeton.edu

Basic fees are:
First team: $100
Each additional team: $80
Working buzzer discount: -$10/buzzer
Minimum fee per team: $60
Travel discounts are also available at my discretion.


Packets:
All A and B teams are expected to submit a packet in order to play.  B
teams may ask for an exemption if all of the team members are first
year players.  Each packet must be 25/25 (tossups/bonuses) and be
around ACF Regionals-level in difficulty.  It goes without saying that
questions must be balanced and diverse in the subjects they cover
(e.g. don't write all your lit questions on Shakespeare and don't make
every question pertain to Civil War-era culture and events).  Low
quality packets may be returned for revision.  The distribution is:

Lit: 5/5
History: 5/5
Science: 5/5
Religion/Myth/Philosophy: 3/3
Fine Arts: 2/2
Social Science/Geography: 2/2
Trash/Current Events: 1/1
Your Choice: 2/2 (1/1 or more must be on academic subjects)

Tossups must average 6-7 lines in 12 point Times New Roman font. 
Bonuses must have no more than 6 prompts, contain no more than 6 lines
of total clues and have leadins of no more than 2 lines.  The followin
g types of bonuses are not acceptable: all or nothing bonuses,
list/ordering bonuses, binary bonuses, and "physical challenge"
bonuses.  30-20-10 bonuses are strongly discouraged, if you must write
one, the maximum allowed is one.

As for formatting: please write all questions in 12 point T.N.R. font
in Microsoft Word, use single space, and do not use any fancy
formatting, tabs, indents, or numbering.  Acceptable parts of answers
should be emboldened and underlined, and titles and foreign words
should be italicized.  If the formatting isn't reasonably close to
what I'm asking for, I reserve the right to return packets for
revision.

Sample Tossup:
1. Hardest clue, hard clue, medium clue, easier clue, For 10 points,
giveaway clue.
ANSWER: something (underlined and in bold of course)

Sample Bonus:
1. Leadin, For X points each:
(X) Bonus prompt.
ANSWER: something (underlined, bold)
(X) Next prompt.
ANSWER: some other thing
(X) Final Prompt.
ANSWER: someone

Deadlines are as follows:
March 5: -$30
March 19: -$20
March 26: $-10
April 2: no penalty
April 9: +$15
April 16: +$30
After April 16: +$50 and a team may only enter at my discretion.

E-mail me at cfrankel (at) princeton.edu to register or ask any
questions.  

-Chris Frankel
-Princeton College Bowl