The U of O Trivia Club is pleased to announce that we will be hosting NAQT's Eastern Canadian SCT in the wintry wonderland of Ottawa, Ontario. All following information will be available soon on our SCT website: http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/NAQTsct05.html (excuse the Geocities pop-up for Windows users) The contact person for this SCT is Ben Smith, through uotrivia -_at_- yahoo -.- ca (not .com) The tournament will be on Saturday, February 5 on our main campus. I would like to start at 9:00 AM, and our headquarters for the day will be room 121 of Lamoureux Hall (if there is a very large turnout, we will meet in room 122 next door instead). Those who have attended Ontario Bowl in October or CONTAcT in November should be familiar with this place; for visiting teams, I can provide directions and post them on the website. As for the very important fees (all fees are in the currency of the school's country): +$120 for the first team from a school; $100 for each additional team. +If your school is new to a NAQT SCT: $100 for the first team, $90 each for more teams And the equally-important discounts (same rule about the currency): -$15 for a working buzzer system we use; -$5 if we don't end up needing it -$10 for a working countdown clock we use; -$5 if we don't end up needing it **for all equipment, to share the discounts fairly among teams, the first clock/buzzer from each applicable team will be used before we go to 2nd, 3rd, 4th,... materials from more well-equipped schools. **While we don't expect to need to, we reserve the right to limit equipment discounts if we find that a team is making excessive use of the "-$5 backup" discount -$10 for a full-time moderator -$5 if a team agrees to do rotating scorekeeping (ex: 5 or more players on a team) -$15 if your school is outside the circle shown on this map: http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/pics/discountmap.jpg **Toronto and Barrie are inside, Buffalo and the Niagara peninsula are outside **This discount can be used only once per school, regardless of the number of teams Minimum fee: the average fee for all of a school's teams is greater than or equal to $70 If you are not affiliated with a school, but can still provide equipment or staffing assistance, contact us and we'll make arrangements. We'll also entertain offers if your school has services or assistance that would improve our tournament. For the tournament itself, we hope to split the field into Div I and II. There is no shortage of D2 teams in Canada, but D1 is a little sparse. We encourage some American D1 teams to visit to break that 4-team threshold (American D2 teams are welcome as well). We expect to have a single- or double-RR in D2, and a triple- or quadruple-RR in D1. Hotels: I don't have many recommendations, as I have only stayed in an Ottawa hotel once. A good place to start looking is through the City of Ottawa ( http://www.ottawa.ca/visitors/visiting/wheretostay_en.shtml ). Most of the cheaper hotels are in the suburbs, but there are some inexpensive (CDN$60-$100) B&B's downtown, if that's your style. WARNING: Ottawa's major winter festival, Winterlude/Bal de Neige ( http://www.capcan.ca/winterlude/home_e.asp ), begins the same weekend as the SCT. Please don't procrastinate on your accommodation plans ;-) Transportation: If you can make your way to Hwy 417 in Ottawa, driving directions to our recommended parking lot are found here ( http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/pics/directionmap.jpg ). Parking is $5.50 (Canadian change) for the day. If you're cheap and can handle a 10-minute walk in knee-high snow and -40 windchill, I believe there is a free lot just off the bottom-right corner of that map, across Mann St from the Sports Complex. I will investigate this. Ottawa has an international airport, a train station on the Quebec-Windsor corridor, and a bus terminal hub between Ontario, New York, and Quebec. Once in the city, I discourage our taxi system, which has prices fitting of diplomats and foreign dignitaries. Instead, use OC Transpo, which is the best bus system in Canada thanks to loads of government money (I live in the suburbs and have yet to need an intra-city car). I will gladly provide bus directions for anybody who is not driving in. Food: This has been an issue at our previous tournaments, so I promise that before the SCT, I'll go around downtown and find some places to eat. American teams: the drinking age in Ontario is 19, and if you have a grasp of French, we are just across the river from Quebec, where the age is 18. Enough talking for now. I do request, though, that if you have any plans of attending our SCT, please contact me with a slight overestimate of the number of teams you plan to bring. We have a limit to the number of free rooms, so I can't just go and book a whole building in anticipation (but we will accommodate all teams that show interest). Thank you, and I hope to see you in February! Ben Smith, U of O Trivia. uotrivia_at_... http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/NAQTsct05.html ps: Why Ottawa for trivia? We're home to World Trivia Night, we have the most SchoolReach and SmartAsk high school national championships, our bars and restaurants are often in the top 10 on NTN's Showdown, and U of O is Alex Trebek's alma mater... ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
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