We haven't had house moderators before. You're right, with an 8-team
field (which is what we had last year), we needed two teams taking
byes each round, but that worked out well because then there were two
teams from which to draw staff. In 2001, we had 7 teams, with a lot
of inexperienced players, and we actually had three teams with byes in
each round except one. At VETO we also pull off stunts like having
more experienced teams help novice teams with their packets, and then
make sure that both teams have byes during the novice team's round.
--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, grapesmoker <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> > The size of the field is capped at 8 teams. There may be room
> for a
> > 9th team if it rotates players in and out so that it can supply
> people
> > to moderate games in every round.
>
> Will there be any house moderators? I ask this because an 8-team
> field seems inefficient since it would have two teams taking byes
> each round. Considering that a 9-team field would have 4 games each
> round, and since most of teams tend to have 4 people, it seems that
> there should be enough moderators and fewer byes with 9 teams.
>
> Just wondering.
>
> Jerry