Illinois Novice Tournament (re-announce)

• From: Dom_of_the_Platypus
• Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 12:32:17 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SPTO61.0000GKMI9.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

I hope all of you have had a nice summer and are
looking forward to the new year of school.

STATUS
UPDATE:

The early question discount deadline of September 2
is approaching. One team has already submitted a
packet, and four to seven others have tentatively signed
up (not counting anything from Illinois). If you
want to get the decently large early discount, you
still have two weeks; the normal deadline for packet
submission is October 7. This deadline can be negotiable -
please contact me if you have questions
(domr_at_...).

REPEATED INFO:

This is a repetition of the
announcement for the Illinois Novice Tournament, which will be
held Saturday, October 21, 2000 at the University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. This will be a
packet-submission event as per the guidelines below.

*Who
Can Play?

The tournament will be open to teams
composed of players from the same school in their first or
second year of college-level competition.


*What's the Format?

Each match will consist of
untimed 10 tossup halves with accompanying boni. The
tournament will consist of some form of round robin followed
by a playoff to decide the tournament
champion.

*What about the questions?

Each team
participating must submit a packet of questions following the
distribution below. Packets submitted by schools sending
multiple teams must be blind. Assistance in writing from
more experienced team members is encouraged. The
question difficulty should lie between NAQT Conferences
and Sectionals (even if some people think they are
the same).

Each packet submitted should follow
the following subject distribution
(Tossup/Bonus):

History 4/4 
Science 4/4 (no science biography - put
that in "other")
Literature 4/4 
Rel/Myth/Phil
3/3 
Fine Arts 3/3 
Geography 1/1 
Social
Sci 1/1 
Other Academic 3/3 
Pop Culture/sports
2/2 (no more than 1 sports question) 
Current
Events 1/1 (please avoid story-of-the-moment
questions)

Total 26/26

N.B.
 - No spelling or
calculation questions.
 - No FAQTP tossups.
 - No
ordering or multiple choice boni.
 - No more than 1/3
of the TU answers should be real people.
 -
Please be diverse within each distribution
category.

All tossups are worth 10 pts and should be no longer
than 6 lines; all boni should be worth a total of 30
pts. 

Packets should be submitted via email to
domr_at_... either as text in the body of the email or as a
text or rtf attachment. Additionally, the entire
packet should be submitted as a whole, not piecemeal,
with questions sorted by category.

*What's the
cost?

Base fee for accepted questions by Sep. 2 $50
Base
fee for accepted questions by Oct. 7
$85

Moderator discount -$10
Buzzer (working) discount
-$10
Each additional team -$ 5

Packet submitted
after Oct. 7 +$15
Packet not submitted
+$30

There is a $30 fee for any team that registers but then
cancels or fails to show for non-emergency reasons
without notifying me via email 2 days in
advance.


*Where can I get more information/register a team/send a
packet?

All of the above should be addressed to Dom Ricci,
domr_at_....

Hope to see you here in
October!


Dom

"A Connecticut Yankee in the Central Time Zone"