Rules CP3 will use the following rules. These rules are subject to change at any moment up to the point when the tournament begins: - All rounds will use 20 tossups in regular play - A correct answer on a tossup question will be worth 20 points; an incorrect interruption will be penalized by 10 points; an incorrect non-interruption will carry no penalty. There are no power tossups. - There will be no clocks - Nonverbal, nonsubstantive conferring is allowed at all points - A correct answer on a tossup entitles the answering team to a bonus question - All boni shall be worth a total of 60 points; detailed rules on boni will come below - Answers will be given after the conclusion of each bonus part - Boni will "bounce back" to the non-answering team; if the team answering the tossup does not correctly answer a given part of a bonus, that bonus part bounces to the other team, who have an opportunity to answer it for a "steal" - "Stolen" bonus points are worth half the point value, rounded down, announced in the question - In each round, each team receives one "lame;" using this lame allows them to skip a bonus and use the next one in the pack. The lame may be invoked at any point up to including when the moderator requests the answer to the first part of the question. - If the answering team lames a bonus, then the non-answering team may ask for that bonus to be theirs the next time they score a tossup. (rule adapted from UPitt's Ironhead Invitational 2001) - The Bag of Chips: In submitting a packet, a team may, at its discretion, include in as many boni as it wants one part above and beyond the point-scoring content of the question. This part shall be unreasonably hard, and begins with the phrase "for all that and a bag of chips"; this section of the question only comes into play if the team has singlehandedly scored all the available points on the bonus; it is itself worth no points, but correctly answering a Bag of Chips is noted on the scoresheet and a running total is kept throughout the tournament. (Adapted from the Bag of Chips rule at Dartmouth's 2001 trash tournament)
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