ANNOUNCEMENT: Ironhead Invitational at University of Pittsburgh

• From: fluidmosaic6 <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:55:14 -0000
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Hi everyone,

The University of Pittsburgh Quiz Bowl would like to announce that 
it'll be hosting Ironhead Invitational III on Saturday, March 29, 
2003. This event is a Trash tournament that will mirror the other 
Ironhead events. It will be held in the Cathedral of Learning, the 
tallest educational building not located on the Vorobyevy hills, and 
home to the vending machine that is one of only two known sources of 
Snyder's of Hanover "Coney Island Hot Dog and Mustard" ruffled 
potato chips (the other being a rest stop on Interstate 79 in West 
Virginia).

Individual prizes will be largely drawn from our collection of 
useless and undesirable books. Prizes in the past have included a 
guide to learning Esperanto written in Lithuanian; "Classrooms in 
the Military" by Harold F. Clark and Harold S. Sloan; the complete 
statistics of Sweden's merchant marine fleet from 1953; a pulp novel 
from the 1950's entitled "The Restless Passion"; and a biography of 
Bill Cosby written in Estonian.

PACKET SUBMISSION
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
All packets should be submitted to ironhead_quiz at yahoo dot com.

Packet requirements can be found at 
http://www.geocities.com/ironhead_quiz/2003req.html

Please note: these requirements are quite specific so please read 
and follow them carefully because they will be strictly enforced.

Early Bird Special (-$15) March 3
Nominal Deadline (-$0) March 10
Procrastinator Fee (+$20) March 14
Frustratingly Late (+$10/day beyond March 14)


WHO SUBMITS PACKETS?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Every team that will play in the Ironhead Invitational "must" submit 
a packet, with the following exceptions:

- Third and additional teams from a school
- Schools which have not attended a formal TRASH or trash/pop 
culture tournament in the past two years. 
- Teams composed entirely of players in their first year of formal, 
collegiate-level competition. 

If a team feels it meets the spirit, if not the exact letter of 
these exemptions, it may petition IQP for a packet waiver.


TOURNAMENT FEES
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

TEAM BASE FEE: $100
ADDITIONAL TEAM: $90 for 2nd, $80 for 3rd, etc.
WORKING BUZZERS: -$10 per system, limit 1 per team
MODERATOR/VOLUNTEER: -$10 each
TRAVEL DISCOUNT (500+ miles) -$10

Minimum Fee per team $60


REGISTRATION
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Interested teams can register for the event by contacting Michael 
Davies at mld6 at email dot com. 

I look forward to hearing from you soon,

Michael Davies
Pitt Quiz Bowl