DSHIT at Maryland

theblue88s <*Blue_88s_at_theblue88s.yahoo.invalid*> · Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:06:39 -0000

Hey all,
  On April 22, the University of Maryland will host the David Scott
Hamilton Invitational Tournament.

Please note that we are looking to hold separate divisions for DSHIT
this year, in contrast to our traditional Div-II only field, as enough
teams have expressed interest in a late April tournament.  Open teams
may play with permission of the Tournament Director.  I would also
like to apologize for the short notice (things got busy here, but
excuses are excuses).

Fees and whatnot:
First Team from School: $100
Additional Teams: $90
Minimum fee per team: $70
Working Buzzer System: -$5 per system
Full-time Moderator: -$10 per moderator

Packet Submission Infoz:
(all times are 11:59 pm Eastern on the given days)
Packet in by 3/17: -$25
Packet in by 3/24: -$15
Packet in by 3/31: -$5
Packet in by 4/2: $0
Packet in after 4/2: $5
Packet in after 4/7: $15
Packet in after 4/12: $25
Packet not in by 4/12: $40

All teams are expected to submit a packet as per the requirements
listed below.  Not submitting a packet may result in your team being
scratched from the tournament.

DISTRIBUTION: 25 tossups and 25 bonuses per packet.  Vary answers
across time and subject/genre.
Literature: 5/5 (including American, British, European, World,
Ancient, et cetera)
Science 5/5 (including Bio, Chem, Physics, Math, Comp Sci, et cetera)
History: 5/5 (American, Euro, World, Ancient, Modern, et cetera)
RMP: 3/3 (at least 1 part from each Philosophy, Religion and Myth)
Fine arts: 2/2 (visual, audio)
Social Science/Geography: 2/2 
TRASH: 2/2
Your Choice: 1/1

Style/Format: 
Tossups should be 8±2 lines of text 11-pt Times New Roman font.  The
questions ought to be pyramidal.  Please do you best to fact- and
pyramid-check, as our editors are by no means experts in everything
and while we'll try our best, the surest way to make sure that the
questions are good is to write good questions.

Bonuses need to be worth a possible 30 pts.; no single-part
all-or-nothing bonuses. No 15-15's either unless you use the 15/10 or
15/5 format (even then, please use sparingly).  Please try to keep
five and six-part bonuses limited to less than a quarter of all
bonuses.  If and when you do use them, please try to keep them short.
 You can try to write a 30-20-10 bonus if you want to, but odds are
we'll send it back to you and have you rewrite it.  Also, please avoid
writing twenty-five 10-10-10 bonuses.  Please preface each part of
every bonus with how much that particular part is worth in square
brackets on the same line as the bonus (for example, [10])

Please make your questions appropriate to the division in which your
team is playing.
All packets must be blind to all other teams in the tournament,
including other teams from your own school (so don't use them for
practices or whatever else you use questions for).

Packets should be submitted in either the .doc or .rtf format.  11-pt
Times New Roman Font.  Questions should separated by categories.  All
answers should be on the line after the end of the questions proceeded
by "ANSWER: "
Do not use tabs, numbering, or any sort of thing that will trigger
autoformatting.

The editors reserve the right to reject packets that do not meet
difficulty or formatting guidelines.

We'll be in Jimenez this time around.  The usual Maryland logistics
apply (and will be sent out to teams who register).

If you have any questions, are submitting a packet or would like to
register a team, please contact Tournament Director Brad Houston
(bhouston_at_... [bhouston (at) umd (dot) edu]).  You can also email
me with questions (crettere_at_..., [crettere (at) umd (dot) edu]),
but Brad's handling the logistics on this one.

Thanks,
- Casey