St. Louis Open II

• From: RSBhan
• Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:53:19 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SKQV8F.0003ON2FH.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Hi, all.

This is a formal announcement for
the ST. LOUIS OPEN II: THE BHAN-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE
to be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday, October 28, 2000
CE on the lovely campus of Washington University in
(you guessed it) St. Louis.
 
This will be an
ACF-style tournament open to all teams (masters, bastard,
collegiate, whatever) with a separate division for 1st- and
2nd-year players (with separate awards, as well). No
packet submission is required, as yours truly will be
writing all the questions once again. The difficulty will
fall somewhere between ACF Regionals and Nationals
(probably closer to Regionals), resembling SLO I and Wash.
U.'s KICK: ASS held last April. I am willing to play
matchmaker for those without teams interested in
playing.

Base Fee: $100
-$5 per buzzer system
-$10 per
competent game official (determined by me)
-$15 for
traveling over 400 miles one way (determined by
Yahoo!)
+$20 for questions
+$50 for insolence
Minimum
Fee: $55

As further enticement to participate
in this gala event, there will also be a SINGLES
TOURNAMENT held that weekend, written entirely by Wash. U.
Academic Team members Marc Einstein and company (hence the
catchy subtitle for the tournament). The singles
tournament will be held either Friday night before SLO II,
Saturday night after SLO II, or on Sunday, depending on
what the majority of participants would prefer. The
entry fee for the singles tournament will be $10 per
person, or $5 per person if also playing in SLO II. The
singles tournament should be much easier in terms of
difficulty than the SLO II questions.

So if you'd
like more information about these events, or you'd
like to register for one or both of them, please reply
to this address (rsbhan_at_...). Please be sure
to specify when you'd most like to have the singles
tourney held if it has some bearing on your travel plans.
Hope everyone's having a great summer and I look
forward to seeing you all in St. Louis in
October!

Roger S. Bhan
Captain
Washington University
Academic Team

"Because I do not hope to know
again
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do
not think
Because I know I shall not know
The
one veritable transitory power
Because I cannot
drink
There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there
is
nothing again"

--T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"