Ironhead, actually, was my cousin-in-law. Good man. On 1/22/07, zachpozun <[removed]> wrote: > > The University of Pittsburgh Quiz Bowl team is pleased to announce > that it will be hosting the Ironhead Memorial Trash Tournament on > March 24, 2007. This packet-submission tournament will be an > excellent tune-up before Trashionals as well as accessible to players > of all levels. > > DATE: Saturday, 24 March 2007 > > WHERE: Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa > > FEES: $75 for the first team, $65 for additional teams from the same > school. Discounts (-$10) will be given per buzzer set. Each team > must submit a packet. > > PACKETS: The Ironhead Memorial Tournament will be packet submission > with packet distributions given below and packet deadlines as follows: > Before 23 Feb 2007, -$20 > On or before 1 March 2007, $0 > On or before 10 March 2007, +$20 > On or before 17 March 2007, +$40 > Questions that refer to other quiz bowlers +$30/question (we do NOT > like meta-quiz bowl) > > FREE AGENTS: Free agents are welcomed and encouraged to email me ASAP > so that free agent teams can be assembled for packet writing purposes. > > PACKET DISTRIBUTION: 26/26 to be comprised of at least 5/5 of Music, > Movies, TV, Sports and Other as well as an additional 1/1 to be > selected from the above categories with no repeats (ie, 5/6 sports and > 6/5 tv is acceptable, but not 6/6 tv or 6/6 sports) > > CATEGORIES: Music: Vary questions across genre, albums vs songs, > artists vs. work, time period, etc. Please shy away from music labels > or given lyrics name the song type questions. > Movies: Once again vary formats, time period, genre, actor vs. role, > directors, etc. Please do not write more than 1 question on foreign > movies and be sure it is something accessible (ie. Rashomon is > acceptable, a German remake of "The Sandlot" is not) > TV: Vary by format, genre, cable vs. network, actor, time period. > Once again, keep it accessible. Do not write about a show that aired > for 3 episodes more than a decade ago. > Sports: Vary across major sports with more focus on NBA, NFL, MLB, > college football, and college basketball. Do not write more than one > question on hockey, olympics, nascar, women's sports, minor league > sports, etc. Please vary across time periods, athletes vs team and > year, coaches, etc. > Other: At least 1/1 and no more than 2/2 on computer, internet, and > video games. At least 1 question on food/cooking/booze/etc should be > written. No more than 1/1 comic strips (including online), anime, > comic books, etc. Feel free to write a question on trashy lit, but > know it stands a good chance of being cut. Other parts here include > trashy current events, non-computer gaming, weird facts, urban > legends, etc. > > QUESTION WRITING PHILOSOPHY: The emphasis should be on the recent > and/or MEMORABLE. Do not write about an old TV show unless it is > still accessible today (like on Nick at Nite, recently on DVD, etc). > The same guidelines hold across all categories--memorable is the > operative word. It is possible to have a tournament that is > accessible to all age levels. The formats are fairly loose, but > follow the principle of "build evenly". Don't submit 5 sports tossups > all on famous coaches or 5 TV tossups on shows that fox cancelled for > being too awesome. Once again, focus on the recent and memorable. > Please shoot for 90% tossup conversion when read completely and an > average of 17 pts on bonuses (ie, more 30s than 0s); the questions > should be difficult, yet accessible at all levels. > > FORMAT: All power marks will be added during edited, you don't need > to put them in before. No bonus should have more than 4 prompts. No > more than 1 visual bonus. Please vary bonus formats, 40-30-20-10-1, > 15-5 are good, do NOT submit all 10-10-10. Do not use tab settings, > please use 10pt. Times New Roman, submit in .rtf or .doc format, all > answers should be prefaced with "answer:" and follwed by the answer > with the salient parts underlined, and label all bonus parts with [X] > where X is the point value. > > PACKET SUBMISSION: Please send packets as well as all packet-related > questions to Eric Steinhauser at the address e_steinhauser 'at' yahoo > dot com. Thank you. > > TO REGISTER: Email me, Zach Pozun at [removed] > as soon as possible, especially if you are a free agent. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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