Capitol Punishment III: Delay Not the Whip Part of the GWU Summer Quizbowl Pentathlon Matt Weiner's Singles Tournament Presidential Open Andy Goss's Singles Even Capitol Punishment III Heavy Rotation III To sign up, contact trivia_at_... On Sunday, July 29th, 2001, the George Washington University Academic Competition Club, in conjunction with the George Mason University Academic Competition Club, will host Capitol Punishment III: Delay Not the Whip on the George Washington University campus. Read the rules section below; it deviates markedly from standard quiz bowl procedure! This tournament will require packets from all teams unless an arrangement is made otherwise. The distribution of the packets is: Sports 4/4 (pre-1960 1/1 post-1960 3/3) Television/Video 4/4 (pre-1980 1/1 post-1980 3/3) Film 4/4 (pre-1970 1/1 post-1970 3/3) Music 6/6 (no more than 1/1 from any decade except 80's and 90's which may be 2/2) Geek 3/3 (no more than 1/1 computer games; geek TV goes under TV) Other 4/4 (no more than 2/2 classifiable into any of the above categories) Recall the Gentlemanly Principle of Question Writing: Write questions in such a way that you would not object to playing on similar questions. The target difficulty of this tournament is roughly that of TRASH regionals. Submission Guidelines - Submit your packs with tossups sorted by category, then boni sorted by category; As the first or last page of your packet, include a list, sorted by tossups and boni, then by category, of the subjects of each of your questions. This makes checking for repeats much easier. Thanks to Roger Craig for this idea. - Submit packets in (in order of preferense) MS Word .doc format, Rich Text .rtf format, WordPerfect .wpd format, ASCII .txt format, inline text. - Denote the necessary portions of an answer emboldened and underlined. Don't use capitalization. If you're submitting in ASCII, use _underscoring_around_each_necessary_part_. - Expand acronyms and abbreviations when they're first introduced in a question. Not everybody knows what the PAC-10 is. - Include pronunciation guides on the assumption that the moderators have only a public high school education. Just because you can pronounce "necrotizing fasciitis" without a second glance... - Don't number your questions, and include a boldface header at the beginning of each category - Put breaks only between questions. Don't put a line between a question and its answer, or between a bonus intro and question. - Include the visual portions of visual boni as the last page in the document - If you're using Microsoft Word, DO NOT USE AUTOFORMATTING! Autoformatting is evil. Hint: to get rid of autoformatting, save your .doc file as an .rtf file.
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