UTC will host its 4th annual Muck Masters trash tournament on Sat., August 7, 2004. This is a one-day open trash tournament, which will be held in cooperation with the J. Montgomery Burns trash tournament at Michigan and in tandem with our open academic tournament, Moc Masters, on Sunday 8/8. (You should get a separate announcement on that here shortly.) TIME & PLACE: Registration will begin at 9:30 AM EDT on Sat. 8/7/04, with announcements at 9:45 and play starting at 10 AM. How long we'll run depends on field size and packet availability, but 8 PM or so is a reasonable guess. Tournament headquarters will be Holt 124 on the UTC campus. (That's right, folks -- we're back in Holt for the summer tournaments.) ELIGIBILITY: This tournament is open to all interested players, assuming they fulfill three basic tasks (let me know you're coming, pay fees, and arrange for a packet as described below.) Current or former academic affiliation, or lack thereof, doesn't matter. If you want to play, then form a team, tell me in time, and submit a packet or make arrangements otherwise (see below.) If you want to make yourself available as a free agent to join a team -- or if you have a partial team in need of free agent help -- let me know and I'll spread the word. FORMAT: 20 questions per round, untimed. Packet submission is expected unless other arrangements are made in advance (see guidelines and timetables below.) Teams will be four players each, with alternates OK as long as there are no substitutions in mid- match. Depending on the number of teams, the format will be round robin or bracketed round robin. This of course means I need to know the number of teams in advance. So if you're coming, TELL ME!!! Getting me your clever team names in advance will also help. MUSIC ROUND: We hope to provide a competitive musical interlude for your competitive pleasure. If you're interested in running the music game, let me know. FEES: Fees assume packet submission and offer generous discounts for services rendered: Base fee $80 per team. This assumes a usable packet of 25 tossups and 25 boni, blind to all other teams and meeting the guidelines below, is submitted by midnight Sun., July 25. Also note that we will be exchanging questions with Michigan's Burns tournament that same weekend, so if for some reason your questions aren't blind to one or more Burns participants, PLEASE tell me. Minimum fee after discounts: $40 per team if it involves blind questions for other tournaments; otherwise $50. Discounts: - $10 for an experienced reader, either for this tournament or the Moc Masters open academic tournament at UTC Sun. 8/8/04 (*or* said reader can join us for dinner at Provino's after Muck Masters if they'd prefer, and who wouldn't?) - $5 for a working buzzer, one discount per team Penalties: + $10 for packet received after Sun. July 25, but before midnight Sun., Aug. 1 + $20 for no packet at all (please arrange with me in advance!) PACKETS: First, some format preferences: If at all possible, please send me packets in MS Word or RTF format. Please place the required parts of each answer in bold, please put answers on a separate line from the question, and please precede them with the word "Answer:". If you want to save me some more time, make the font 11 pt Times New Roman and the margins 1/2" all around. To allow for bonus laming and to simplify editing of the inevitable numerous duplicates, each packet submitted needs to contain at least 25 tossup and 25 boni. Visual, tactile, and even gustatory boni will be accepted if possible; audio questions won't. We will consider physical challenge questions, provided they do not conflict with giving every team a fair shot regardless of individual members' physical limitations. While we do not wish to constrain the creative bounds of a trash round, here are loose distribution guidelines based on TrashMasters: Number Category 3 - 4 Movies 3 - 4 TV 3 - 4 Sports 3 - 4 Music 1 - 2 Trashy "literature" 1 - 2 Trashy current events No more than 2 each: Computer games & other computer stuff Comics Food Beverages Games Gadgets Consumerama Anything else you think of is fine as long as there are no more than two questions per as-yet-unnamed category. LODGINGS: We haven't arranged for a discount anywhere, but if you want one, let me know and I'll see what I can do. DIRECTIONS: Note that the entrance to the Holt Hall lot has changed.... >From Atlanta and points south -- take I-75 to Chattanooga, then I-24 west towards downtown, then follow the freeway splitoff for U.S. 27 North, downtown Chattanooga. From 27 North take the 4th Street exit, within sight of the Tennessee Aquarium. Go right on 4th St. (you have no choice) and follow it for ca. 1 mile. Go past the UTC Arena, after which E. 4th St. becomes part of E. 3rd St. After that, take the second right on Palmetto St. Go two blocks and turn right on Vine St. (just past the EMCS Building.) Just before the place where Vine St. is blocked off, the parking lot for Holt is on the right. * From Knoxville and points north -- take I-75 to Chattanooga, then I- 24 West; directions from there same as above. * From Nashville and points west/north: Take I-24 east to Chattanooga. As you round Moccasin Bend (freeway goes alongside river) watch for two exit lanes on the right; take the less rightward of the two, which will have signs above it for U.S. 27 N. Rest of directions are the same as above. * From Birmingham and points southwest: Take I-59 to the outskirts of Chattanooga, where it dead-ends into I-24. Get on I-24 East and follow the Nashville directions from there. TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR: Surprise, surprise. It's Charlie Steinhice (steinhic at bellsouth dot net.)
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