This is a preliminary announcement for the Illinois Novice Tournament,which will be held Saturday, October 21, 2000 at the University of Illinois, in that booming metropolis of Urbana-Champaign. This will be a packet submission event as per the guidelines below. *Who Can Play? The tournament will be open to teams composed of players from the same school in their first or second year of college-level competition. *What's the Format? Each match will consist of untimed 10 tossup halves with accompanying boni. The tournament will consist of some form of round robin followed by a playoff to decide the tournament champion. *What about the questions? Each team participating must submit a packet of questions following the distribution below. Packets submitted by schools sending multiple teams must be blind. Assistance in writing from more experienced team members is encouraged. The question difficulty should lie between NAQT Conferences and Sectionals. Each packet submitted should follow the following subject distribution (Tossup/Bonus): History 4/4 Science 4/4 (no science biography - put that in "other") Literature 4/4 Rel/Myth/Phil 3/3 Fine Arts 3/3 Geography 1/1 Social Sci 1/1 Other Academic 3/3 Pop Culture/sports 2/2 (no more than 1 sports question) Current Events 1/1 (please avoid story-of-the-moment questions) Total 26/26 N.B. - No spelling or calculation questions. - No FAQTP tossups. - No ordering or multiple choice boni. - No more than 1/3 of the TU answers should be real people. - Please be diverse within each distribution category. All tossups are worth 10 pts and should be no longer than 6 lines; all boni should be worth a total of 30 pts. *What's the cost? The costs and discount structure will follow in a later announcement. *Where can I get more information/register a team/send a packet? All of the above should be addressed to Dom Ricci, domr_at_.... Hope to see you here in October! Dom
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