Duke High School Tournaments Announcements

etchuck <*etchuck_at_etchuck.yahoo.invalid*> · Tue, 06 Aug 2002 14:34:32 -0000

Just to let you all know the following tournaments
are tentatively being announced for the Duke College
Bowl team:

(1) Sat, October 19, 2002: High School Celebrity Shoot Biography 
Tournament

Currently, the HSCS is restricted to teams from
North Carolina or within 100 miles of the NC state
border; however, teams from outside of the state
may petition to compete and be admitted on a first-come
first-served basis.  If there is a significant number
of out-of-state teams competing, the top North Carolina
school team will be recognized.

NOTE: This competition is scheduled to be mirrored the
following weekend at Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio.

The format involves a written-answer format without the
use of buzzer systems and is specifically designed to
test team knowledge with a series of individual and
team tests.  Students will be asked to identify nationally
or  internationally famous individuals in academic and
non-academic areas.  For more information, go to 
http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/trivia/hsbio/ .

A team consists of exactly four students; there are no
alternates or substitutions made during the course of
the day.  We will recognize top freshman/sophomore students
based on the scores of the individual timed test round. 
Although there is no theoretical limit to the field size
of the tournament, practically, I will set a limit of 30
teams (120 students).  If 25 or more student teams compete,
cash prizes will be awarded to the top four overall individuals 
($100, $75, $50, $25 for 1st to 4th places).

Entry fee is $55 for the first team, with $5 for each
additional competitor (or $20 per additional team).  In
the history of the tournament, every student who has
attended has competed as we have formed ad hoc chimeric
teams (some including coaches, who are ineligible for
prizes).  An entry fee discount of $20 will be applied
if a team registers before September 26 (meaning, your
first team fee would effectively be $35).  A copy of the
2002 questions are included in your registration. 
Furthermore, all coaches committing by the early deadline
date will receive free electronic copies of the 2000 and
2001 HSCS questions to prepare their students.

To register, please send an email to etchuck_at_...
and declare your intent to compete.  Rosters are not frozen
until you submit them on competition day.

On-site registration is scheduled for 8:00 am to 9:00 am,
with the first event scheduled for 9:45 am (the increased
time is needed for confirming ad hoc team assignments).
We anticipate that we will be done with the tournament by
6:00 pm.

TENTATIVE: Sat, February 15, 2002: Duke Academic Festival

The tournament is open to teams from all across the southeast. 

I will give fair warning now, that the room reservations
bureaucracy has changed and policies are in effect
regarding room reservations that may affect our ability
to hold a large tournament.  We will keep teams apprised 
of our decisions, but we wish to make it clear that when
this tournament opens for registration, the number of slots
we will offer is likely to be fewer than 48 teams.