Early Announcement: Invitational 18 Nov.

• From: rob_linham
• Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 04:50:20 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SKESBS.0015AUVNS.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

[This is a *very* tentative announcement - the
details of this are still being worked on!]

Oxford
University Quiz Society is proud to announce its first
invitational tournament, to be held on 18th November 2000 at
St John's College, Oxford (UK). Play will start at
10:30 am GMT, and finish about 7:00 pm, with a minimum
of either 9 x 25-minute games or 12 x 20-minute
games, followed by a single-match final. Rules will be
NAQT-style, modified to British conventions. Questions will
be reasonably international, with a slight slant
towards Britishness - it is *not* a submission
tournament.

The projected base fee for the competition play only
is around 25 ($35-$40), with small deductions for
buzzers, moderators, etc. It is intended that the
competition should be for less experienced players, though
this is being left largely to the discretion of the
teams. Generally, anyone who has up to about a year of
college quizbowl experience is ok (i.e. players that are
new this academic year, or new next academic year). I
suppose we'd take any High School teams feeling stupidly
brave as well!

As this is an early announcement,
I'm most interested in hearing from any teams who
were not at either of the last 2 British Championships
(i.e. new UK teams, or non-UK teams) who might be
interested in sending a team or teams (the field will be
capped at somewhere between 20 and 30 teams, so too many
multiple entries may not be allowed). Limited
accommodation may be available near the time, otherwise
moderately cheap hotels nearby can be recommended. Oxford is
1.5 hours from London Heathrow by coach.

Also,
I'd like to hear from anyone who has experience of
being in charge of tournaments of this scale for some
advice on organisation (I've written and organised a
32-teamer before, but over 3 weeks within Oxford, which is
a bit different).

All communication to
quiz_at_... please.

Thanks,

Rob
Linham,
Oxford University Quiz Society
(ex-President, eternal
TD, general dogsbody)