(formal) ANNOUNCEMENT: Technophobia Seven

TECHNOPHOBIA SEVEN, the seventh annual Caltech Quiz Bowl college 
invitational tournament, will be held on November 23, 2002.  
Technophobia Seven will be a submitted-packet tournament in the 
traditional Technophobia style: untimed packets of 22 questions.

We will begin Saturday morning (~9:00 AM or so) and continue until 
sometime Saturday evening.  

The basic fee structure is:

Base fee: 		$100 + 1 packet for the first team
           		$85 + 1 packet for each additional team
			(please keep packets blind between teams from 
the same school)

working buzzer system:	-$5
visible clock:		+$10 [its an untimed tournament, you nimrod]
experienced moderator: 	-$10
early packet:		-$15 if received before November 9, 2002
late packet:		+$5/day if received after 12:00 AM November 
17, 2002

Technophobia is open to all adults, whether they are or have ever 
been college students or graduates, but high school teams will not be 
admitted except by special (and unlikely) dispensation by the 
Tournament Director.

There will be a prize for Best Question Packet Submitted. The 
deadline for submitted packets is 12:00 AM November 20, 2002. 

Please write a question packet of 27 toss-ups, 27 boni distributed as 
follows:

Please write a question packet with 27 toss-ups and 27 bonuses, each 
conforming to the following subject distribution: 

 4 Science
 4 History
 4 Literature
 2 Geography
 2 Fine Arts
 2 Pop Culture
 1 Social Science
 1 Religion/Mythology
 1 Current Events
 1 Sports
 ONE MORE Social Science OR Religion/Mythology
 ONE MORE Current Events OR Sports OR Pop Culture
 THREE MORE General Knowledge/Any Category (but no two in the same 
category)


More detailed (and slightly outdated) guidelines are available at 
http://quizbowl.caltech.edu/guidelines3.html .  For more information 
or to register/submit a packet, contact quizbowl_at_... .  

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