The full details will be posted on the website within the next 72 hours (but will not be significantly more detailed than this). The brief rundown in terms of categories is below; numbers refer to questions required of A teams. From each "area," B teams should remove one tossup and one bonus (if an area has two or more categories, the tossup and bonus should be removed from different categories). Area I Science 4/4 Area II Literature 4/4 Area III History 4/4 Area IV Musical Fine Arts 1/1 Visual Fine Arts 1/1 Sports 1/1 Entertainment 1/1 Area V Religion/Mythology/Philosophy 2/2 Social Science 1/1 Geography 1/1 Area VI Current Events 1/1 Your Choice 3/3 Remember the golden rule of distribution: don't write two questions on a single "topic" (the narrowest category that includes two questions) if you don't expect that topic to come up in at least 50% of packets. [For example, "questions on 20th century British literature" is OK; "tossups on living feminist writers" is not.] Tossups should average about five lines of Times New Roman, 12 point, one inch margins. They should not exceed six lines. Bonus parts should not exceed two lines unless absolutely necessary. 30-20-10s, one-part list boni with three to six answers, and ordering boni are allowed. When writing, remember that the majority of players are sophomores and juniors. If read in a room with eight sophomores and juniors, nearly every tossup should be answerable if read in its entirety. For boni, aim for an overall conversion rate of 50-60% on each bonus (avoid "gift 30s" and impossible boni). Packets should be sent to <pennbowlpackets _at_ yahoo.com>; we will accept any file format that can be opened in WordPerfect 10 (RTF is preferred; regardless of format used, avoid auto-formatting). As always, submission of at least half a packet will result in an automatic 72-hour extension to submit the remainder of the packet without penalty. If you have any questions, please send them to <padt_at_...>. I look forward to seeing teams here in Philadelphia in January. Samer T. Ismail Editor-in-Chief, Penn Bowl 13
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