Illinois Novice Tmt. (Official Announc.)

• From: Dom_of_the_Platypus
• Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:29:05 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SK2HC1.000FNELDF.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

This is an announcement for the Illinois Novice
Tournament, which will be held Saturday, October 21, 2000 at
the University of Illinois in 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 (even if some people think they
are the same).

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.


Packets should be submitted via email to
domr_at_... either as text in the body of the email or as a
text, rtf, or word attachment. Additionally, the entire
packet should be submitted as a whole, not piecemeal,
with questions sorted by category.

*What's the
cost?

Base fee for accepted questions by Sep. 2 $50
Base
fee for accepted questions by Oct. 7
$85

Moderator discount -$10
Buzzer (working) discount
-$10
Each additional team -$ 5

Packet submitted
after Oct. 7 +$15
Packet not submitted
+$30

There is a $30 fee for any team that registers but then
cancels or fails to show for non-emergency reasons
without notifying me via email 2 days in
advance.


*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!


P.S.
Please note that we will NOT be having Mike Angel, Chris
Vicich, or Vishnu perform halftime entertainment at this
tournament, as I prefer not to scar the novices
emotionally.

Dom

"A Connecticut Yankee in the Central Time Zone"