Greetings, ACF has chosen the host locations for its 2004 Fall tournament. They will be Cal-Berkeley Tulsa University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) University of Tennessee (Knoxville) Rochester South Florida Iowa State (we are also looking into adding another location somewhere near the North Atlantic). Individual host locations will be putting out announcements giving specifics for their tournaments (inluding contact info, fee schedules, etc.) within the next few days. Also, because of the lateness of this announcement the packet deadlines have changed. They are as follows: Sept 24th: -$15 for full packets, -$10 for "novice" and "Freshmen" packets. Oct 4th: No penalty deadline for all packets Oct 11th: +$20 for full packets, +$10 for "novice" and "freshman" packets. Oct 18th: +$40 for full packets, +$20 for "novice" and "freshman" packets. No packets will be accepted after Oct 18th unless previous arrangements have been made. Packet requirements will be reposted at the bottom of this message. We strongly encourage everyone to try to make the "no penalty" deadline. This will ensure that Subash and I have sufficient time to edit the questions and put out the best tournament possible. If you have any questions feel free to contact us. Matt Cvijanovich Co-Editor, ACF Fall 2004 Packet Requirements: The full packet will now require thirty tossups and thirty bonuses to be distributed in the following way: Literature 6/6 History 6/6 Science 6/6 Religion, Myth, Philosophy 3/3 Fine Arts 3/3 Social Science/Geography 2/2 More "Big Three" (ie Lit, Hist, Sci,) 2/2 Your Choice/Miscellaneous (Can include Trash) 2/2 Total 30/30 More specific requirements in each category are as follows. Literature 6/6: No more than 2/2 on Brit or American lit. At least 2/2 on prose fiction, 1/1 on plays, and 1/1 on poetry. Vary according to nationalities and time periods. History 6/6: No more than 1/1 ancient (pre 4th century CE) and no more than 1/2 or 2/1 pre 1492. No more than 2/2 on any one century including 20th. Science 6/6: At least 1/1 bio, 1/1 phys, 1/1 chem and 1/1 other (i.e. not bio phys or chem). Religion/Myth/Phil: 3/3 If you're up to it please try to make one religion question Christianity and one non-Christianity. Unless working with the Roman-Greco system please use two systems for Myth questions. Fine Arts 3/3: 1/1 painting, 1/1 fine arts music, 1/1 something else (architecture, sculpture, dance etc). Geography/Social Sciences 2/2: Please try to make 1/1 Social Science and 1/1 Geography More Big Three 2/2: Please vary - do not do all of one subject Your Choice/Miscellaneous: 2/2 This can include Trash and would be a good place to put multi-disciplinary questions. Unlike previous years everyone must submit questions to this tournament. However, less experienced teams will not have to write as many questions. These are the requirements for first-year and novice teams. First-year teams: These are teams composed entirely of players who have not played in a tournament before the Spring 2004 semester. Total 10/10 History 2/2 Literature 2/2 Science 2/2 Religion, Myth, Phil 1/1 Fine Arts 1/1 Social Science/Geo 1/1 Your Choice 1/1 Novice Teams: These are teams composed entirely of first or second year players - that is all players must have attended their first collegiate quiz bowl tournament after the Spring semester of 2003. Total 16/16 Literature 3/3 History 3/3 Science 3/3 More "Big Three" 2/2 Religion, Myth Phil 2/2 Fine Arts 1/1 Geography/Social Science 1/1 Your Choice 1/1 A few notes about packets for first year and novice teams: First, any first year and novice team that wants to write a full packet is encouraged to do so and will get the discounts entitled to them for doing so. Second, please vary your question sub-distributions in accordance with the more specific requirements listed above for the full packet. Third, teams that don't have much experience in writing questions are encouraged to contact Subash and I with any questions they might have about writing. All teams who haven't done so already should look at Subash's 10 tips for question writing at the following address: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/subash.html
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