As long as there's a q on the classic British show "Do Shut Up," we'll be cool. Sean --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, Rob Linham <rob_linham_at_y...> wrote: > This is a formal pre-annoucement for the Great British Trash Tournament, > scheduled to take place on either Saturday 22 or 29 November 2003 in > Oxford, UK. > > Basically, we're throwing down the gauntlet to the country that invented > trash to send the best trash players you can find to see how much they know > about British popular culture. We can guarantee there will even be > questions about cricket. > > This tournament will not be packet submission, as BuzzerQuiz (the British > quiz organising people) are currently enjoying writing the most subversive, > filthiest trash questions we can lay our hands on. We're currently aiming > at 10 rounds of 20 starters untimed. Of course, teams don't need to have > any academic affiliation whatsoever. > > We are flexible on the date, as with enough advance warning we can get the > venue when we want it. At the moment, if any teams are interested, please > drop me a line with any preferences or known scheduling clashes (I've tried > to keep up with the recent spate of announcements) so we can firm up a date > in the next month or two. > > If there is sufficient interest in doing so from both sides of the pond, we > will also run the following day a short-ish packet submission academic > tournament (also open to all teams), the first that will ever have been run > in the UK (the teams here are lazy sods, they expect us to do all their > questions for them *grumble*). > > Oh, and Oxford's pretty in autumn (yes, autumn, not "fall" :) ). > > Rob, for BuzzerQuiz (rob at buzzerquiz.com) > http://www.buzzerquiz.com/ > > -- > Rob Linham: > E-mail: rob_linham_at_y... > Phone: 07855 079433 > Web: http://www.geocities.com/rob_linham > ICQ: 23064118 MSN: rlinham_at_h... AOL: RJLinham
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