UTC will once again host the Big Lots Clearance Open in Chattanooga on Sun., Oct. 23, 2005. This is a trash tournament, open to all players regardless of collegiate affiliation or lack thereof. We are mirroring the devilishly entertaining FOGHAT tournament, co-edited and mostly written by Jeremy White and Ben Lea. This means packet submission is NOT required. However, teams can still earn discounts by writing academic questions for us to use in either our high school tournament on 10/1 or our collegiate tournament (COTKU) on 10/22. There will also be a K-Tel Hell-style music game included -- now if I could just remember who volunteered to run this one.... TIME & PLACE: To help our long-distance friends, we'll begin registration at 8:30 AM EDT on Sun. 10/23/05, with play starting at 9 AM. Based on typical field sizes, we may finish as early as 5 PM and surely no later than 7:30. Tournament headquarters will probably be Holt 124, and if not we'll post signs at Holt telling you where to meet. If you need directions to Holt -- and by now most of you won't -- e-mail me, or see the COTKU announcement. ELIGIBILITY: This tournament is open to any sentient primates who can muster the fees; players from other orders of mammal will be admitted on a case-by-case basis. But seriously, teams do not have to have any academic affiliation. If you want to play, and you tell me in time, you're in. 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 pass it along. FORMAT: 20 questions per round, untimed. Again, there's no packet submission. 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. FEES: Base fee $90 per team Minimum fee after discounts: $50 per team Discounts: - $10 for an experienced reader for Big Lots itself (*or* said reader can join us for dinner at Provino's after COTKU Sat. night 10/22 if they'd prefer, and who wouldn't?) - $10 for an experienced reader for COTKU Saturday 10/22 (*or* said reader can join us for dinner at Provino's after COTKU Sat. night if they'd prefer, and, again, who wouldn't?) - $10 for each team member who officiates at the Trevor's Trivia: Bob Selcer Memorial HS tournament on Sat., Oct. 1 [unless the same discount was applied to COTKU fees] - $5 for a working buzzer (additional $5 for a second buzzer if it's needed) - $15, *plus* a free set of questions, for each original packet (or equivalent) written for the aforementioned high school tournament (Trevor's Trivia) and sent to me by 9/15/05. If you're interested and need packet specs, e-mail me. - $15, *plus* a free set of questions, for each blind original packet (or equivalent) written for our collegiate tournament (COTKU) and sent to me by 10/14/05. Again, if you're interested and need packet specs, e-mail me. ACCOMMODATIONS: The Clarion Hotel offers a discount rate of $66/night if you tell them you're with the UTC quizbowl tournament. The Clarion's number is (423) 756-5150. WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE: Oh, *him* again. Tournament director will be Charlie Steinhice. Contact me at steinhic [at] bellsouth [dot] net for further details, or call me on my cell phone at (423) 504-8255.
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