--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Webb" <sdwebb91984_at_y...>
wrote:
> Due to time constraints, the tournament will be guerilla editted. As
> such, a CAREFULLY WRITTEN tournament packet following the text
> formatting of the packets labeled "Round #" here http://
> cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/quizbowl/ under the "archives" link from NATSSO
> 2003. The emphasis is on carefully written; if you write a packet
and
> we end up having to swap it out for a house packet in the middle of
> the tournament, you will incur a $20 penalty. Get it right the first
> time so we do not have to fix it for you.
I'm just curious how a swap-out (if it must happen) would work. I
assume "guerrilla edited" means that nobody but the team that wrote
the packet will have edited or even seen it before the tournament
starts. Do the NATSSO organizers plan to skim over the next packet
right before each round begins, and then decide then and there whether
the packet meets the appropriate standards? Has this been done before
at a guerrilla tournament, or did this idea arise because of some bad
experiences with guerrilla editing?