Help needed

virginia_scholastic_bowl · Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:02:25 -0700

I am, as you remember, Commissioner of the VHSL
Scholastic Bowl competition. This is an advertisement for
the following positions:

Question writers for
Math and Science
virginiascholasticbowl.org
Webmaster
Group Directors for State Competition 
Quizmasters
for State Competition 

For all positions,
quizbowl experience, technical competence (for the
webmaster position), professionalism, past experience with
VHSL competitions and past working experience with me
will be the primary considerations for being hired. Of
course this assumes there will be competition for these
positions :)

My profits come from the following
sources:
1. Sale of questions at the Intramural, Varsity and
Regional levels to individual schools, districts and
regions of the VHSL
2. Sale of out-of-state rights to
the questions to Champions Quiz Preparation after the
conclusion of the state tournament
3. A contract I have
with the VHSL to organise and run the State
competition and to write the questions used for that
competition.

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Question writers for Math and Science

I am at best
an adequate Science question writer and am at best a
fair Math question writer. Therefore, I will need
question writers in those areas. 

The questions are
to be written for the Intramural, Varsity, Regional
and State levels. 

At least 80 matches of 55
questions each will be written. 22 of those 55 questions
are math and science, thus at least 1,210 questions
will need to be written. This assumes no districts or
regions order "unique" questions for their district or
region. In that case, more questions will be needed,
possibly on very short notice.

Difficulty will be
varied throughout all levels, but will generally get
harder at the higher levels. Questions should be split
between one-sentence questions and 1-4 sentence,
pyramidally structured tossups. 

Pay for this position
will be by the question. People who live in the DC
area will also be wanted to read over these questions
before they are shipped. Dinner and other bribes will be
considered on an ad hoc basis.

I will split 45% of
all profits between the people who write the
questions (this will, of course, include me.) This will be
a minimum of 31 cents a question (I have the state
contract sewn up and compete for business on the district
and regional levels.) Using last year's profit, I
anticipate pay will be in the neighborhood of $1.97 per
question. 

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virginiascholasticbowl.org
Webmaster

I have that domain registered. However it's sitting
dormant, as a result of my lack of specialised knowledge.

I want message boards, regularly updated scores
from all levels and resources for
coaches/players/officials on this site. 

I will handle the obtaining
of webspace and can assist in moderating the message
boards. 

Pay for this position will be 20% of
total Scholastic Bowl profits. This will be $500
guaranteed. Using last year's profit as a guideline, I
anticipate the pay will be in the neighbourhood of
$1,800.

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Group Directors for State Competition 
Quizmasters
for State Competition 

The State Competition
will be on Saturday 23 February 2002 at William &
Mary. I will need 3 Group Directors (bracketmeisters)
and 3 Quizmasters for this endeavour. Also, these
people will be responsible for a Friday night reading of
the questions. 

The tournament is seven
rounds, double-elimination with eight schools.

Pay will be:

$75 for the day ($50 from VHSL,
$25 from me)
Free lunch on Saturday
Free dinner
on the night before
Free hotel room (3-4 to a
room)

You must, however, provide your own transportation to
Williamsburg. I can provide transportation for 1 other person
from the DC area, possibly 3 other
people.

Shawn Pickrell
VHSL Scholastic Bowl Commissioner