Quizbowl at VCU announces VCU Summer Open 2004: You Are Neither Cute Nor Clever, to be held Saturday, July 31 on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in sunny Richmond. This will be a packet-submission tournament. The field size is capped at thirteen teams, but the tournament will occur as long as seven teams register by June 1. The format is ACF, and the desired difficulty level is ACF Regionals or slightly below. This being a summer tournament, team composition is entirely open. Play with people from other schools, people not in school, or whatever. Creatively/insultingly named teams are encouraged. To register, submit a packet, or ask a question, mail me at mattweiner at hsquizbowl.org . Pricing: Base team fee: $80 Buzzer discount: -$10 for each set with eight working activators, +$25 for attempting to claim a discount on a non-working buzzer Packet discount: -$20 for a packet submitted by July 1, no penalty for a packet submitted by July 17, +$30 for a packet submitted after July 17. If you don't submit a packet by July 24 you don't get to play. Discount for traveling a long distance, playing solo, death of your seven grandmothers, etc: Talk to me. Packet requirements: Tossups should generally be 6-9 lines long and bonus parts 1-2 lines long. Don't use autoformatting. Use bolding and underlining for the required parts of answers, and please don't use tabs or all-caps. Submit questions sorted by subject. The distribution is below. Literature 5/5 with at least 1/1 each of American, British, other European, and non-Western, and substantial variation in time period and answer type (author, novel, short story, poem, character, etc) History 5/5 with at least 1/1 each of American and non-Western and at least 2/2 of European. No more than 4 of your 10 questions should primarily have people's names as the answer, and no more than 2 should be about wars/battles. There should be variation in time period within each geographic area; as a flexible rule of thumb, answers from American history should be separated by at least 50 years, answers from European and World history by at least 200. Science 5/5 with at least 1/1 each of biology and physics/chemistry and 1 question each of astronomy, earth science, math, and computer science. Questions on elements, subatomic particles, and diseases are strongly discouraged; don't write them unless they are exceedingly original. Biography of scientists will not be used, nor will it even count as a question in your packet; you will be asked to write another science question before your packet is counted as complete. You may write 1 good, original, non-biographical science history question if you wish. Religion 1/1 The two questions should be from different religions. Mythology 1/1 The two questions should be from different mythologies. Philosophy 1/1 One question on post-Enlightenment European or American philosophy, and one question on something else. Arts 3/3 At least 1/1 on painting/sculpture and 1/1 on academic music (excluding jazz and opera, which are perfectly legitimate arts but should be counted in your other 1/1 if you write them). Social science 2/2 1 each on economics, psychology, and law. The fourth question can be on another social science, or it can be a second question from one of the previous categories. Trash 1/1 Maximum 1 sports. Current events or general knowledge 1 question This is not an extra trash question, but a question on something academic which does not fit the other categories, or a question on an important recent political event. Geography 1 question This should be a tossup if your CE/GK question was a bonus, and vice versa.
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