ANNOUNCEMENTS: Tobacco Bowl v1.1

Duke University, located somewhere in the
kudzu-infested regions of Durham, North Carolina, is pleased to
announce that, contrary to popular opinion (and wishful
thinking), they will host Tobacco Bowl v1.1, a Junior Bird
tournament, on Saturday, February 3,
2001.

UNFORTUNATELY NECESSARY AND OBVIOUS DISCLAIMER: Please, no need
to remind any one of last year's fiasco. And, to fix
things, I will attempt to make an announcement at Penn
Bowl, the week before the tournament, and say _with
100% certainty_ if the tournament has enough teams to
be worthwhile. This will be accompanied by a post
here, and one on the other group. (This is on both
Yahoo and qb_at_, so I can't be too specific.) ANYWAY, the
point is that what happned last year has no chance of
happening this year, if only because I'm not dumb enough to
do it. (Before anyone asks, I will *not* go over
"what happened last year" in public; if you have any
questions, I'll discuss it privately.)

Back to the
tournament proper: As mentioned before, it will be held on
2/3/01. No need to submit anything: we have enough
questions that we've been piling up over the year that we
can pull this sucker off on our own. I'm saying it's
a Junior Bird tournament, although that is hardly
set in stone; that's merely a reflection on question
difficulty. If the non-JB-eligible players also express
enough interest, we'll open the field. We're flexible
like that.

With that in mind, here's the pay
schedule (which is the same as our MLK high school
tournament* because, well, we're an equal opportunity
money-grubber):

- $75 for the first team
- $65 for each
additional team
- $10 buzzer discount
- $15 for a
question purchase
- $20 if you simply want the
questions without showing up (you know, postage and
handling and all that)

To sign up for this
tournament, I would recommend emailing one of the resident
Cameron Crazies on the team. The contacts for this
tournament are Darren (dja3_at_...) and myself
(apg_at_...). Both of us will be happy to take your
registration.

Thank you for showing patience, not to mention
forgiveness, and we look forward to seeing you on February
3rd.

Andy Goss
Duke University Quiz Team

* -
Update: We are currently at 13 teams from eight schools
in five states for the Duke Academic Festival number
whatever. It is on 1/13/01, and registration is of course
still open. Details are at
<a href=http://www.duke.edu/~apg/mlkhst.htm target=new>http://www.duke.edu/~apg/mlkhst.htm</a> as far as lodging for both tournaments and stuff.

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