Re: Announcing Rice's First College Tournament

berkeleykaplan <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:13:34 -0000

If Seth Teitler were dead today he'd be rolling over in his grave.

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., r2aslet <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> Rice University Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce that it will be
> hosting its first college tournament on March 22, 2003.  Called the
> Rice Acabowl, it will be a humanities/social sciences only NAQT style
> packet submission tournament.  (That is, no math or science questions
> whatsoever.)  We felt that Rice's position as a well-known science and
> engineering university would make it the perfect venue to host such an
> event.
> 
> The relevant information is as follows:
> 
> Name: The Rice Acabowl: Because Math and Science Suck!
> Date: March 22, 2003
> Format: Untimed NAQT style, 10 question rounds
> Fee Schedule: $100 base fee per team
>              -$10 per additional team (i.e. 2nd team base fee $90, 3rd
> team base fee $80)
>              -$10 per working buzzer system (max of 2 per school)
>              -$10 per experienced moderator (max of 2 per school)
>             -$30 if packet turned in by Super-Early deadline (December
> 21, 2002)
>              -$15 if packet turned in by Early deadline (January 18,
> 2003)
>              -$0 if packet turned in by Regular deadline (February 1,
> 2003)
>              +$5 per day packet is not submitted after the regular
> deadline
> Minimum Fee: $50 per team 
> 
> Question Distribution:
> 
> History 5/5
> Religion/Myth/Philosophy 4/4
> Social Science (law, economics, anth, sociology, etc.) 4/4
> Fine Arts 4/4
> Literature 4/4
> Your Choice 4/4
> Total: 25/25
> 
> We are initially limiting the field to 15 teams and will reserve spots
> based on whose packets we receive first.  Schools may bring a maximum
> of three teams.  Each team must write a packet which is blind to all
> other teams including those from the same school.  Each team may have
> a maximum of one graduate student.  Currently, we plan on running a
> round robin among all teams.
> 
> For the Your Choice category, we require that the questions you choose
> to write not be science related (unless the scientist you're writing
> the question on had some significant humanities/social scientific
> achievements).  The Your Choice cannot be sports or pop culture
> related and should fall under one of the topics listed above. 
> Questions on current literary, social science, arts, etc. events are
> acceptable.  You may distribute the Your Choice questions however you
> like (9/9 total history questions is fine).  We request that you
> spread your questions across time periods and geographic areas and
> that no more than 25% of your questions have people as answers.
> 
> We are shooting for a NAQT invitational packet level of difficulty. 
> Approximately 80% of tossups and 50% of bonuses should be answerable
> if heard completely.  All bonuses should be worth 30 points.  No
> spelling or FAQTP tossups.  Tossups should not exceed 6 lines, bonuses
> 15.  Creative questions will get you kisses from the packet editor. 
> All rights reserved.  No purchase necessary.  1.5% annual APR.  Void
> where prohibited.
> 
> We encourage out of state teams to attend and will give them
> preference for spots over in-state teams should conflicts occur.
> 
> Interested teams should contact me, el director del torneo, at saslett
> at rice dot edu with the words "Rice College Tournament" in the
> subject line of the e-mail and indicate whether they would prefer
> awards in the form of trophies, cash, or gift certificates.  Completed
> packets should be sent in .rtf format both to me and VP Michael
> Friedman-- mwfriedman at yahoo dot com.
> 
> As we get closer to the tournament date, registrations and additional
> tournament info will be posted to our brand-spanking new website:
> http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~quiz (still very much a work in progress). 
> Unlike those for certain other tournaments <cough cough>, we promise
> it will be promptly updated.
> 
> --Stephen Aslett