Southeastern/Early Bird _at_ Berry College 11/15/08

berrycollegebowl <*BerryCollegeBowl_at_berrycollegebowl.yahoo.invalid*> · Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:16:58 -0000

The Berry College College Bowl Team would like to announce that its
annual Southeastern/(Not so) Early Bird tournament will be held on our
beautiful Mount Berry, GA campus on November 15, 2008.

The tournament is open to 2 and 4 year institutions. While we would
prefer to remain undergrad/JC only, we will entertain a Graduate
division if the demand is sufficient to warrant it.

The details are as follows:

Base Fee: $100 (-$10 per additional team - max 3)
Buzzer: -$5 per system. At least partially functional, please. :smile:
Distance Discount (<200 miles) -- $20
If full packet is received by 10/1: -$20
If full packet is received by 10/15: -$10
No packet discount after midnight 11/1/08
Teams who wish to compete sans packet: +$40. Must be arranged prior to
11/1
Minimum Fee: $60

PACKET GUIDELINES (Credit Charlie Steinhice) :

DIFFICULTY:
-- Please keep the level of difficulty on par with NAQT Div II
(sectionals) questions as this
will primarily be a 2-4 year school competition.

FORMAT:
-- Please arrange questions separately by category. If you want to
make life easier for us, separate tossups and boni, and use the order
of categories below.
-- Please e-mail the packet as either an MS Word or RTF file, with
the essential parts of the answer in bold and underlined.
-- Make sure the words "for ten points" or abbreviation "FTP" appear
in each tossup shortly before the final clue.
-- Please insert the word "Answer:" followed by a single tab before
each answer.
-- Ideally, titles of books, plays, periodicals, films, TV series,
and works of art should be italicized, while titles of songs, short
stories, and TV series episodes should be placed in quotes. But we're
not going to penalize you if you don't.

DISTRIBUTION: For a full packet, we ask for 25 tossups and 25 bonuses
per packet, distributed as follows.

A) Literature: 5 tossups and 5 boni -- at least 2 20th century, at
least 2 pre- 20th century; at least 2 U.S./Canadian, at least 2 non-
U.S./Canadian
B) Sciences (including math): 5/5 -- at least 1 each of biology,
physics, and chemistry. If you have a second question from any of
these categories, try to make them from a different subcategory (e.g.
two physics boni would be OK, but two on thermodynamics would be
overkill.)
C) History: 5/5 -- at least 2 20th/21st century, at least 2 pre-20th
c.; at least 2 U.S./Canadian, at least 2 non-U.S./Canadian
D) Philosophy/religion/myth: 2/2 -- prefer no more than 1/1 of each
E) Fine arts: 2/2 -- no more than 1/1 each on visual arts and
classical music
F) Social sciences, including geography: 2/2
G) Popular culture: minimum 1/1, maximum 2/2. (While it's an academic
tournament, all knowledge is power.)

The remaining questions may include:
* General knowledge/interdisciplinary questions -- these are
especially helpful as spare tossups, since they make good Tossup
21's.
* Current events other than pop culture
* Additional questions from any of the above categories (no more than
one extra per category). Since it seems like we get more duplication
on sciences, a 6th science question is especially welcomed.

Final deadline for packets is midnight 11/8/08.
If you express interest in coming and we do not receive a packet from
your team by the final deadline we will assume that your team has
withdrawn unless other arrangements have been made.

If you have any other questions or would like to reserve a spot in the
field, please contact our coach, Dr. Wade Carpenter, _at_
wcarpenter_at_...

We look forward to hearing from you!!

Regards,

BCB