Wisconsin Tournament (part 3)

• From: coverdude
• Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:26:08 -0800
• Message-ID: <000T259Q0.001OFKHEL.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

(continued from previous
post)

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GENERAL RULES FOR QUESTION WRITING:
 TOSSUPS:
1. No
spelling tossups.
2. No "FAQTP..." tossups.
3.
Tossups must NOT exceed 500 characters, *including*
answers. 
4. In general, nearly all of tossups should
be answerable by at least one
player in any room
if read the tossups are read in their
entirety.

BONI:
1. Four-, five-, or six- part boni should be kept
short. A "part"
refers to a moderator prompt.
2.
No one-part, all-or-nothing boni.
3. No boni with
more than six short answers required in any
combination.
(i.e. FTP name the three.....; FTP name the four....;
and FTP name any five
of the 12.....)
4.
Multiple-choice questions must have at least four possible
answers
(bovine, Russian aircraft manufacturer, both, or
neither).
5. Boni must NOT exceed 900 characters, *including*
answers.
6. Do NOT place all answers at the end of a
question.
7. No more than one 30-20-10 per category.
8. In
general, 20-point boni should be shorter and easier than
30-point
boni.
9. Good teams should convert 50-60% of their bonus
points, and well over
half of all teams hearing any
bonus should earn some points.

TOSSUPS AND
BONI:
1. Use _underscoring_ (rather than capitalization or
underlining) to indicate
minimally-acceptable
answers.
2. Provide pronunciations for difficult/unusual
words. If you use a
formula of some kind in a
question or answer, include a description of how
the
formula should be read out loud.
3. Please randomize
the questions so that all questions of one category
are
not clumped together; also avoid tossup-bonus
pairings on the same category.
4. No self-referential
questions, including ones where the
packet-writer's
school is the answer (i.e., University of Chicago
doesn't get to write about
economists.... ;) ).


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QUESTION SUBMISSION:
A group of UW Quiz Bowl Players
will be editing this years packets, led by me, Joel
Velasco, Brian Ulrich and Tournament Director Emertius
Mark Zimmer.

Questions may be emailed to
watchorn_at_...; you can
either send it as part of an email
message (discouraged) or as an attachment
in (order of
preference) .doc, .wpd or .rtf format. Other formats may be
accommodated by special arrangement. DO NOT USE TABS OR
FORMATTING OF
ANY KIND IN YOUR PACKET SINCE IT JUST
INCREASES THE LABOR AT THE
EXPENSE OF OTHER EDITING!!!
If you use any non-standard characters,
*please*
include a description of what that character should look
like.

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ACCEPTABILITY OF PACKETS:
In order for a packet to be
considered acceptable, at least 24 tossups and
24 boni
must meet the guidelines above. The following will
render a question
unacceptable:
-Questions that
exceed length restrictions.
-Questions that exceed
subject guidelines (e.g., three hockey Qs -> only
one
counts towards the 24/24).
-Poorly-written questions,
or "hose" questions, intentional or
not.
-Questions that contain major factual errors.

Minor
typos and repeats between packets, however, do NOT
count against a
packet. If a packet is returned for
editing, a $10 penalty will be
assessed.

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