Academic Competition Newsletter Oct. pt3

• From: etowens
• Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:22:26 -0700
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BERKELEY TO HOST WESTERN INVITATIONAL VII

"The Halley-Hermes Interplanetary Buzzer
Collision"

In honor of recent Berkeley Ph.D. Jeff Newman
(Astronomy), the Berkeley Quiz Bowl Club is
pleased to
announce WIT VII: The Halley-Hermes Interplanetary Buzzer
Collision, an academic
competition to be held on 29-30
Oct. 1999. This
name commemorates the 343rd
anniversary of the birth of Sir Edmund Halley, and the
survival
of the planet Earth, which was nearly struck by the
minor planet Hermes on October 30, 1937. 
Following
WIT VII, we intend to run a trash
tournament,
Unabuzzer 9, which will be formally announced at a later
date.

The tournament (# teams permitting) will be divided
into 2 brackets, open division and jv
division.
Both divisions will play untimed rounds of 20
questions. We request that each team in
the Open division
submit one packet of questions. 
This request is
backed up with financial incentives. JV teams need not
submit a packet (but they
may). Schools are
encouraged to send multiple teams but MUST keep rounds
submitted by
each team blind to one another. 

For
further details please contact Tournament Praetor Mike
Usher
<usher_at_...> or consult the Berkeley Quizbowl webpage.


QUINCY QUACK VIII

Quincy University is hosting
QUACK VIII on October 30, 1999 in Francis hall on the
Quincy
University campus. QUACK VIII will be an NAQT-style untimed
tournament. The tournament is
temporarily limited to 16
teams but we will accept up to 24 if there is enough
interest. The
Quincy University
ScholarHawks reserve
the right to limits the number of teams from any
particular school. Teams
must consist entirely of people
in their first six years of higher education.
"Masters" teams will be
allowed only after student teams
have
registered. Because student teams are preferred, "masters"
teams will not be eligible to win the
tournament
title. The registration deadline is currently set for
October 9 at 11:59 p.m.. We
reserve the right to
extend the deadline to
allow for more teams if need
be. Please direct any questions and registrations to
Brian Dever at
<deverbr_at_...>. 


QUIZ-BOWL MEDIA PAGE

Andy Goss of Duke University
has launched a quiz-bowl media page, designed to
increase
awareness of the game. Those schools with active programs
are requested to submit previews
for their teams.
The present version of the site is available
at
<a href=http://www.duke.edu/~apg/qbmedia/index.html. target=new>http://www.duke.edu/~apg/qbmedia/index.html.</a> 
For more information, or to submit your
teams preview, contact Andy
at
<apg_at_...>.

 HOW TO START A QUIZ-BOWL PROGRAM

Hayden
Hurst of the University of Delaware has a web page that
provides a good deal of useful
advice for those of you
who are interested in establishing quiz-bowl
programs. The link is:

<a href=http://members.tripod.com/~hurstrh/start.htm. target=new>http://members.tripod.com/~hurstrh/start.htm.</a>

Coming next month:

Results of October
tournaments
Invites to: TRASH Regionals
 NAQT Conference
Tournaments
 Washington-St Louis

Until
then,

Eric & Gaius