This is an announcement for the Illinois Novice Tournament, which will be held on Saturday, December 4, 2004 at the University of Illinois in "lovely" Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. This will be a packet-submission event as per the guidelines below. *Who Can Play? The tournament field is open to teams composed of players in their first or second year of collegiate competition, all of whom attend the same school, as determined by me. These are the only restrictions on competitors, which is to say, there are absolutely no disqualifications on the basis of age or year in school. *What is the Format? Each match will consist of 20 tossups with accompanying bonuses, divided into two un-timed halves. The tournament will consist of some form of round robin (which form, exactly, as dictated by the field size) followed by a playoff to decide the tournament champion. *What of the Questions? Each team participating must submit a packet of questions following the distribution below. Packets submitted by schools sending multiple teams must be blind to the non-author teams. Assistance in writing from more experienced team members is encouraged, but writing on behalf of novices is not, as we would like this event to promote and encourage a new generation of question writers. The question difficulty should lie around that of a competitive non-ACF invitational or NAQT SCT. To aid in question writing, I am willing send a copy of the round robin questions from the most recent incarnation of this event to each registered school at their request. Each packet submitted must follow the following subject distribution (tossups/bonuses): History 4/4 Science 4/4 (no science biography, please - put that in "other academic" if you must write it) Literature 4/4 Religion/Mythology/Philosophy 3/3 Fine Arts 3/3 Geography 1/1 Social Science 1/1 Other Academic 3/3 Pop Culture/sports 2/2 (no more than 1/1 sports) Current Events 1/1 (please avoid "story-of-the-moment" questions) Total 26/26 - Absolutely no spelling, calculation, "FAQTP," or ordering/multiple choice questions. - No more than 1/3 of the TU answers should be real people. - Please be diverse within each distribution category. - All tossups are worth 10 pts and should be no shorter than 3 lines, but longer than 6 lines; all bonuses should be worth a total of 30 pts. - Bonuses potentially requiring six prompts (e.g. "FFPE," 10-5, 15-10-5, etc.) are strictly and expressly forbidden. Bonuses potentially requiring five prompts must be used sparingly, if at all. - Packets disregarding these guidelines will probably be returned as unacceptable. Packets should be submitted via email to msorice_at_... either as an attached standard format Rich Text File (NOTE: no WordPerfect format Rich Text, please); attached Microsoft Word file; attached text file; or, if absolutely necessary, as text in the body of the email, in that order of preference. Additionally, the entire packet must be submitted as a whole, formatted in "Illinois Open" format (please see the "Formatting" section of the announcement for the 2004 Illinois Open, available at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=15524, for more information on Illinois Open format.) *What Does This Cost? Base fee for acceptable questions by Oct. 2 $50 Base fee for acceptable questions by Oct. 16 $85 Moderator (competent) -$10 Buzzer (working) -$10 Each additional team -$5 Packet accepted after Oct. 16 +$25 (assuming you're allowed to play) Packet not submitted/unacceptable +$50 (assuming you're allowed to play) There is a $30 fee for any team that registers but then cancels or fails to show for non-emergency reasons without notifying me via email 2 days in advance. *Where Can I Get More Information, Register a Team, Send a Packet, etc.? All of the above should be addressed to Mike Sorice, msorice_at_.... Hope to see you here in December! Michael Angelo Sorice, Person in Charge of the Illinois Novice Tournament PS: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=15525#15525 contains this and all other announcements germane to the Illinois Novice Tournament in a more elegant and legible format.
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