Ottawa Hybrid Tournament announcement

Ben Smith <*uotrivia_at_uotrivia.yahoo.invalid*> · Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:25:21 -0500 (EST)

The U of O Trivia Club is also announcing its Ottawa
Hybrid Tournament (OHT).  This will be held either
March 12 or 19, depending on interest from teams.  The
tournament will be organized, edited, and written (in
part) by Ben Smith, Tamara Vardomskaya, Shauna
McNally, & Jeff Gordon.  We are also open to offering
mirrors.

The OHT will feature a half-academic, half-trash
distribution within each packet.  Similar events were
held at Brandeis and Georgia last summer, but this
will be the first hybrid tournament in Canada (and
thus will include an undetermined amount of CanCon). 
Packet submission is optional, but strongly encouraged
with significant discounts.

Our preliminary fee list:

Base fee:  $70 per team
--mixing universities or various degree levels is
allowed
--if there are multiple teams of players attending one
school:  $70 for the first team, $60 for each
additional team
Minimum fee:  $5 per team (pretty cheap, no?)

Discounts:
-$35 for an acceptable packet submitted by Saturday,
Feb 19, 11:59 PM
-$25 for an acceptable packet submitted by Saturday,
Feb 26, 11:59 PM
-$15 for a packet submitted after the dealine, but
approved by the tournament director before Thursday,
Feb 24
(no packet = no penalty, just no discounts)
-$10 for a working buzzer system
-$10 for a full-time moderator
-$5 for a team agreeing to do rotating moderating
(usually 5 or more players)
-$10 if all players on a team travelled from outside
the radius on this map:
http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/pics/discountmap.jpg
Prices are in either US or Canadian funds, whichever
you have available.  There will be no currency
exchange at the tournament.

Packet Distribution:

Academic (10/10) 
2/2 Literature.  Spread out the geography, timeframes,
genres, and forms 
2/2 Science.  1 each of biology, chemistry, physics,
and other 
2/2 History.  Spread out the geography and timeframes.
 No more than 1/1 on war. 
2/2 to 3/3 Arts and Humanities.  Use U of O's Faculty
of Arts [link on website] as a guide.  Includes: 
-fine arts, R/M/P, linguistics, geography, etc. 
-not more Literature or History, and math goes with
Science 
1/1 to 2/2 Social Sciences and Law.  Use U of O's
Faculty of Social Sciences [link on website] as a
guide.  Includes: 
-political science, economics, psychology, sociology,
law, etc. 

Pop Culture (10/10) 
2/2 Television.  Spread out the timeframes, networks,
and genres 
2/2 Film/Musicals.  After WWI, please.  Spread out the
timeframes, cast/crew, and genres 
2/2 Music.  After WWII, please.  Spread out
timeframes, artists, and genres 
2/2 Sports.  At least 3 sports represented 
2/2 Other pop culture.  Literature, games, Internet,
shopping, products, etc.  Go easy on the sex, drugs,
and booze. 

Other/Your Choice (4/4) 
Useful for general knowledge, "ambiguous" categories,
or academic/trash hybrids.  Examples: 
-business, current events, high culture 
You may repeat academic or pop culture categories, but
be balanced.

If you wish to register, please let us know if you
prefer a March 12 or March 19 date.  Contact for the
tournament (as well as packet submission) is done
through the club's e-mail ( uotrivia_at_... ).  The
OHT website is found at:
http://ca.geocities.com/uotrivia/OHT05.html

Thank you, and hope to see you in March!

Ben Smith,
U of O Trivia.

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