Re: Trash Tournament Following Chicago Open on Sunday, July 3rd

Sean Phillips <*allythin_at_allythin.yahoo.invalid*> · Tue, 24 May 2005 06:42:52 -0000

At the moment I'd like to put out that I'm open to being a free 
agent for anyone who doesn't have a team of four for this weekend as 
I have that whole weekend off work and amtrak btn Chi & STL is SO 
CHEAP right now.  Subash, do you need staff for the Chi Open the day 
before, bc I can adjust my schedule and moderate for that if need be.

Sean Phillips
allythin AT SYMBOL hotmail.com

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, suby10 <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I thought I'd posted an announcement of this tournament to this 
group
> as well as the hsquizbowl board, but seems I did not.
> 
> I just wanted to let people know about the trash tournament that
> Andrew Yaphe and I are writing to be held on Sunday July 3rd, the 
day
> after Chicago Open. 
> 
> Here are some basic details:
> 
> Here are some details:
> 
> - The packets would be 20/20 following this basic distribution: 5/5
> Sports, 5/5 Music, 6/6 Visual (Movies and TV), and 4/4 Other (video
> games, comics, pop lit including sci fi/fantasy and Ian McEwan, 
food
> and drink, games, fashion and fragrances, quizbowl celebrities, 
gossip
> - quizbowl and otherwise, etc.)
> 
> - With the possible exception of 1/1 Visual, 1/1 Music, and a 
minority
> of the sports (a max of 2/1 or 1/2) per packet, the questions will 
be
> on things of the last couple of decades.
> 
> - The questions will be shorter than the standard of today's ACF.
> 
> - The base fee will be $60, with a $10 discount if you played in 
the
> academic team tournament (1 per team), and a $5 buzzer discount (1 
per
> team)
> 
> - Teams will be guaranteed 8 games
> 
> We want to cap the field at 10 teams.  As of now 4 are definite 
with 5
> likely, and I imagine one or two more will coalesce out of people
> interested in playing.
> 
> I can promise you plenty of pop culture goodness, from sugary sweet
> aguilera pop to some lame-ass but amusingly pretentious hardcore 
mike
> jones rap.  The full gamut will be run in all categories of course.
> 
> E-mail me at suby10 at yahoo dot com if you want to register a 
team,
> yourself as a free agent, or have any other questions about the
> tournament or the weekend's events in general.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Subash