Cancel Bowl

• From: mcoen_bu
• Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:40:31 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SIOMIV.000T6NLJH.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

You were offered trash in Las Vegas and Atlantic
City. The idea crapped out.

You were offered
trash in Iowa. They built it, and apparently no one
came.

Here we go again.

Announcing:

CANCEL
BOWL: THE THIRD TIME BETTER DAMN WELL BE THE
CHARM

June 24, 2000, on the campus of Boston
University

I. WHAT IS IT?

Cancel Bowl is a
quasi-guerilla style trash tournament. The "quasi" part meaning
that if people want to submit packs, or if people have
packs they'd be willing to let me use for trade or
whatnot, we'll use 'em. Otherwise, teams are on their best
behavior to write a pack, make enough
copies for
everyone, and bring 'em the day of the event.

We'll
play two 10 question halves, standings using a
modified CBA/TRASH point system of 1 point for winning a
half, 3 for winning the game, 5 points total. We will
not break half ties, but will break game ties using a
1 on 1 shootout format. Winning team gets 2 points,
loser 1 (kind of like the shootout point system Hockey
East used 5 or 6 years ago, for the one or two people
out there who'll understand the
reference).

II. WHO CAN PLAY?

Teams can be from 1-4
people, with or without academic affiliation. You want to
play but not alone? Let me know, and we'll try to hook
people up.

III. WHAT SHOULD OUR PACK LOOK
LIKE?

Given that a guerrila-style event will probably
engender repeats, I'm asking that you write 25/25 (I'll
have extra TUs on hand for shootouts).
They should
look something like the following:

TV
3-4
Movies 3-4
Music 3-4
Sports 3-4
Lit 1-2
Toys
and Games 1-2
Food and Drink 1-2
Live
Entertainment 1-2
Compu-Web 0-1
Stuff 1-2

Note the
following:

* In the four major categories, you should not have
more than one question about a sport at a certain
level in the set of TUs or bonuses. Thus, you
can
have an NBA TU and bonus, but not 2 NBA TUs or
bonuses.

* At least one lit question must be on a work of
general fiction, hopefully of recent and trashy
nature.

* "Live Entertainment" covers such things as:
amusement parks, Las Vegas style games and attractions,
legitimate theater, dinner theater, tourist attractions, and
anything else you'd have to go see in person that doesn't
naturally fall under another category.

* Compu-Web
should be about the world of computers other than
video/computer games. Web sites, events, worldwide virus panics,
and the like should go here. Questions on Quake 9,
Zork 3.44^23, and the like go under toys and games. A
Web-based game, like You Don't Know Jack the Netshow or the
like, would be OK here I suppose.

* Stuff is
everything else. Wacky current events, consumer goods and
products, the odd and unusual in everyday life past and
present, anything I've forgotten to enumerate above. Knock
yourselves out.

IV. SO HOW IS THIS GOING TO
WORK?

We'll meet on Saturday morning, at which point you'll
get a schedule. We'll play some sort of round-robin,
after which there may or may not be
playoffs (I'll
probably write a final round, but we'll see how it goes).
This will be clearer as we get closer to the
event.

(But wait, there's more- see part 2)