ACF Nationals Announcement

• From: plitvak_17 <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:35:42 -0000
• Message-ID: <dr18cu+6gr0_at_...>

As previously announced: ACF Nationals will be held on April 1, 2006 
at the University of Michigan. Here's some more information about the 
tournament. First, the fees: 

Base team fee: $135 (same as last year) 
Each additional team: $105 each 
Working buzzer discount: -$5 (maximum of 2 buzzer discounts per 
school) 
Competent moderator discount: -$10 
Packet Formatting Penalty: +$25 

And here is the discount/penalty schedule for ACF Nationals packets: 
February 18 ... -$25 
February 25 ... -$15 
March 4 ... no penalty 
March 11 ... +$15 
March 18 ... +$25 

Packets should follow the distribution guidelines available on the ACF 
website at http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/writers.html 

As you can see from the above fee, if you submit a packet that is 
improperly formatted, your team will be assessed a 25 dollar penalty. 
Please format the packets according to the specifications used for 
this year's ACF Fall and Regional tournaments. In particular, please 
note the following requirements: 

Packets must be submitted as Microsoft Word documents. The text should 
be in size 10 Times New Roman Font. Do not number your questions or 
use tabs or any other mechanism that can trigger auto-formatting in 
word except for smart quotes and apostrophes. Do not put page breaks 
between blocks of questions. Please sort your questions by category. 
The answers to tossups should be preceded by "ANSWER: " and should 
have the required portions in bold and underlined. Please do not use 
bold or underlining in any part of any question that is not the 
answer. Bonus parts should be preceded by [point value] , and answers 
should be treated as specified above for tossups. At the top of the 
packet please write the name of the institution you represent and the 
names of the packet authors in bold. 

Please send all packets and concerns about packets to me at the 
following address: adyaphe at gmail dot com. Also, you can register 
for the tournament by emailing me at the same address. When you 
register, please tell me if you plan to bring working buzzers or 
competent moderators. 

If you have questions about the tournament site (how to get to 
Michigan, where to stay while you're there, etc.) please email David 
Rappaport at dgrap at umich dot edu. 

Thanks, 

Andrew