Re: Clemson tournament proposal (something a little different)

naqt99 <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:32:38 -0000

Roger:

Caltech's summer tournament, QuESADILLA*, may be similar to your idea.
 Each team brings several copies of its packet, which it reads during
its bye.  No centralized editing is done.  No fees are charged.  We
like to refer to this system as "guerrilla quizbowl."

Yours is a little different, since it would be done with NAQT
questions and volunteers may have to staff multiple rounds during
which their team is playing.  I disagree with all those that claim no
one would come because they'd have to <gasp> volunteer to staff for a
while.  We're on QuESADILLA 6 now.

The first time we ran QuESADILLA, we had three-person teams.  You
could adopt a similar idea, and have four people from each school come
with only three playing at one time.

Good luck,
-- maribeth

* Quiz Event: Summer Action Down In Lovely Los Angeles

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "clemsonquizbowl" <clemsonquizbowl_at_y...> wrote:
> From what I've heard here this year, budgets seem to be rather
tight 
> in the Southeast.  Virtually all the tournaments I've seen
announced 
> in our travel range are ACF.  We have a different problem at
Clemson: 
> our budget is ample, but we have a young program with very little 
> interest in ACF and a lack of volunteers.  So my proposal is this:
an 
> NAQT tournament at Clemson in the spring with no entry fee but a 
> requirement for each team to provide a volunteer for the day.  (We 
> would eat the financial cost of hosting.)
> 
> To make it more attractive, I'm seriously considering allowing 
> volunteers to play with their teams when they are not volunteering, 
> and allowing teams to change their volunteer during the day. (I 
> envisioned it as something along the line of a team brings 5
players, 
> throughout the day they rotate who sits out a round, and whoever
sits 
> out volunteers to help run a match in a different division.)  
> Obviously, there are ways teams could manipulate this scheme, and
the 
> quality of volunteers would essentially be beyond a TD's control,
so 
> I have my reservations about this.
> 
> My questions to the board are:
> 1.  Has anything like this been tried before?
> 2.  Can the general quiz bowling population be trusted to submit a 
> reasonable field of volunteers and be honest in not manipulating it?
> 3.  How much interest would you have in actually participating?
> 
> Dates under consideration are March and early April.
> 
> This is still in the early preliminary stages and doesn't have
final 
> approval here, but it will help to have some feedback from the quiz 
> bowl population before proceeding with a rather unique tournament.
> 
> Roger Whitehead
> Clemson Quiz Bowl co-chairman