> Sometimes colleges have non-organization-related trivia bowls for > other events (e.g. a trivia game on alcohol during an alcohol > awareness week, or a game of UCSD trivia during a Spirit Week kind of > thing), in which case you might be able to borrow a buzzer system > that's already owned by the student union or a campus life board. well, UCSD does rent out buzzers from an unknown source once every year to determine the CBI team. > Otherwise, fundraise, fundraise, fundraise. Sell food, work at the > university concession stands, or, if you get desperate, auction off > dates with the team members (or not). i've considered fund-raising via food, but then a decent buzzer set costs around $500. if i charge membership dues of $2 (i don't want to rip anyone off), and i expect around twenty to fifty members (or maybe a few other people to con $ from?)... that would be $100 at best. $400 from food seems difficult, considering that ucsd actually has (competitive) fast food like wendy's, subway, and jamba juice on campus. and then there are the (equally astronomically priced) competition fees... .... now, the auctioning off a date with team member idea is something i haven't thought about. it might work out. a bit of machination may pull that off. > As already said, you can watch > this messageboard for tournament announcements, or get in touch with > another local team and ask which tournaments they're planning on > attending. For a new team, "junior bird" and "no packet submission" > are probably the words for which you want to be looking. Also, don't > forget to actively recruit for your team with flyers and organization > fairs on campus. posting flyers currently. also spammed the emails of about 2000 students. will look for "junior bird"/"no packet" postings. thanks for the pointers!
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