ACF Northeast Regional Announcement

Hi,

MIT Quizbowl is pleased to announce that it will we holding the ACF 
Northeast Regional on Saturday, February 14,2004.

Fee Structure:

Base Fee: $100

(n-1) team: -$5

Buzzer: -$10

200 miles or more travel (as determined by Mapquest): -$10

400 miles or more: -$20

Minimum fee: $50/team

And now the official ACF Packet details:

Every team in attendance will be required to submit a packet except 
for the following:

 
Teams composed entirely of first- and second-year players. 
Teams that have not attended an ACF Regional Tournament in two or 
more years. 
C teams and lower (all A and B teams are required to submit a packet 
unless they meet the exemptions above). 

Each packet should contain 25 toss-up and 25 bonus questions.  The 
distribution is as follows:

 

Literature – 5/5

Science – 5/5

History – 5/5

Religion/Mythology/Philosophy – 3/3

Fine Arts – 3/3

Social Science – 2/2

Miscellaneous (either literature, science, or history) – 2/2

 

In addition to the above categories, teams may opt to submit 1/1 
additional pop culture questions, though there is no guarantee that 
these will be used.  Please make sure your questions are diversified 
within each category (e.g. at least 1 physics, 1 chemistry, and 1 
biology per 5 science questions) and are free from spelling and 
grammatical errors.  Please refer to the ACF Question Writing 
Guidelines and Supplement when putting your packet together.  These 
can be found at http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/columns.html.

 

The packet submission deadlines are as follows:

 

-$30 for packets submitted by December 15, 2003

-$20 for packets submitted by January 4, 2004

-$10 for packets submitted by January 14, 2004

No penalty for packets submitted by February 3, 2004

+$50 for packets submitted after February 3, 2004


So there you have it- come play ACF at MIT on Valentine's Day.  Any 
questions/concerns should be directed to me, Peter Stone at stone 
(at) mit (dot) edu

-Peter Stone
President MIT Quizbowl

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