ACF Regionals 2002 Announcement

• From: barhubbard
• Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:25:51 -0800
• Message-ID: <000U0BE6F.0007KKGNJ.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

What follows is the official Announcement for ACF
Regionals 2002 to be held at various sites around the
country on February 23rd (the hosts are posted on the ACF
website and on Jason Paik?s Tournament Central and you
should get in touch with them to arrange to play at the
tourney). 

Question distribution for the tournament
follows below, and once again I encourage question
writers to rely on the general guidelines covered in both
the original ACF question writer?s guide- available
at
www.inform.umd.edu/Student/Campus_Activities/StudentOrg/maqt/acf/acfguide.html - and its supplement, available at
www.inform.umd.edu/Student/Campus_Activities/StudentOrg/maqt/acf/writers.html. Both of these documents should answer most of the
concerns that writers encounter.

Each packet should
contain 25 quality tossups and 25 quality bonuses in case
of repeats and/or overtime. This year each round
will be played on 21 tu and 21 boni because of the
added trash question per round.

First
21/21:
4-4 History
4-4 Science
4-4 Literature
3-2
Religion/Philosophy/Myth
1-2 Visual Arts (including architecture and ?classic?
film)
1-1 Music
1-1Social Science
1-1
Geography
1-1 Trash
1-1 more of the big 3 (ie. Hist/Sci/Lit)
at the discretion of the author
Extra 4/4:
1-1
Hist
1-1 Sci
1-1 Lit
1-1 Art and/or
Music
Needless to say I expect you to vary question content
between and within categories, and specific suggestions
for this may be found once again at:
www.inform.umd.edu/Student/Campus_Activities/StudentOrg/maqt/acf/writers.html

Fees:
Base Fee: $90 per team
Minnimum Fee: $55 (this fee
also automatically applies to any team that has not
played an ACF regionals in the last three
years)

Question Discounts (to get this discount it means that I
will have received a complete, eminently usable,
packet by midnight of the date in question)
	-$25 if
packet received by Dec 21st
	-$20 if packet received
by Dec 29th
	-$15 if packet received by Jan
5th
	-$10 if packet received by Jan 12th

No penalty
if packet is received by Jan 26th (for every week
after the 26th until Feb 9th a +$10 late fee will be
assessed)

On a personal note I will be taking my qualifying
exams in February so when I write that I will not
accept late packets after February 9th I mean it, in
fact I hope to have the tournament ready to send to
the hosts by that week.

*Very Important: Every
A and B team MUST write a packet to play unless
they make prior arrangements with me. If teams can?t
or don?t want to write a packet they will pay the
maximum fee of $110 and an additional $10 penalty (in
other words, write a damn packet).

Hosts may
also give discounts for buzzers and moderators but the
minnimum fee will remain at
$55.

Formatting:
Please follow the directions found at
www.inform.umd.edu/Student/Campus_Activities/StudentOrg/maqt/acf/formatting.html
and send the completed packets to me as one of the
following in descending order of preference: 1. as a Word
attachment 2. as an RTF attachment 3. as text in the body of
an email.

Thanks and if you have any more
questions feel free to contact me at
eberdich_at_....

Ezequiel Berdichevsky
Head Editor, ACF Regionals 2002