Re: Doing things differently

etchuck · Sun, 08 Aug 1999 07:24:57 -0700

"Any call for a different sort of
tournament..."

The only unconventional competitions that I'm aware
of are Hilleman/Dorman's Deep Bench tournament at
Minnesota and the Celebrity Shoot Biography Tournament that
I run. Deep Bench consists of team play (8 players
per team) similar to Ryder/Solheim Cup with singles,
doubles, and quad matches, with points awarded for various
victories over other opponents in similar classification
(Singles A, Singles B, Singles C?, Doubles A, Doubles B,
Doubles C?, Quad A, Quad B... I think; more points are
awarded for A victories than B victories than C
victories, thereby "assuring" that no one tries to submarine
their best player into a different
classification).

Celebrity Shoot is more like regular conventional "golf
play" with a team scoring component involved. No buzzer
systems are used, and all questions will focus on
identification of a person of reputation. Teams consist of
exactly four people with no substitutions during the
course of the competition; we do allow for makeshift
teams to get foursomes. Team events consist of a
30-minute individual written test, a series of
"bonus"-style questions (foursomes can consult) worth 10, 20,
or 30 points, a category relay (in which one player
from the foursome answers any one set of questions
given a topic), and "tandem masters" round (not done
for HS competition: the foursomes split themselves
into two-person teams for another series of
questions). There is an individual championship also
determined, though at the HS competition, the format is
single elimination of the top 64 highest scoring
students. The format for the college-level individual
finals will be determined on the size of the field that
shows up. We also have awarded prizes to the highest
scoring freshman/sophomore at college (4 for high school)
and best blooper.

Our team also wishes to
espouse the "ass-saver" for trash tournaments, and
perhaps even regular competitions, but that's a
completely different topic altogether: instead of "getting
out of negs" cards, a member of a team can yell
"ass-saver" and immediately "correct" his/her teammate's
mistake... at the risk of getting another neg; note, you
cannot save your own ass... and yes, you can potentially
go -20 on a tossup. :)