Juan Carlos Viscerra 7

• From: cooterchekov
• Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:00:20 -0800
• Message-ID: <000T64PU4.000NBKOLL.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

The 7th Annual Juan Carlos Viscerra
Memorial
Tournament

The George Washington University announces the 7th
hosting of its flagship tournament, the JCV Memorial.


Date and location:

JCV7 will occur on Saturday,
February 24th, 2001 on the campus of the George Washington
University. 

Format:

The JCV Invitational will
be a modified-ACF tournament. 20 tossups will be
read in each round. We are requesting
submissions

of 25 tossup questions and 25 bonus questions with a
deadline of Saturday, 10 February 2001. Difficulty level
should be on par
with NAQT sectionals and ACF
regionals. 

Fees & discounts:

Base fee: $100
per team 
Discounts: 
 Discount for 2nd, 3rd
Teams From School: -$10 
 Discount for (Working)
Buzzer System: -$10 
 Discount for (Competent) Game
Official: -$10 
 Travel Discounts: 
 DC, MD, VA, PA,
DE, NJ, WV (none) 
 All other U.S. states, Eastern
Time Zone -$10 
 U.S. outside Eastern Time Zone,
outside U.S. -$25 

New Team Discounts: 
 Team
not at JCV in 1999 or 2000: -$15 

Question
Discounts/Penalties: 
 Questions in on or before 20 Jan, 2001: -$20

 Questions in on or before 3 Feb, 2001: -$10 

Lateness: $n where n is the number of days after 10 Feb,
2001 
 Penalty for flagrant disregard of
guidelines: +$10 

Minimum fee: $45 per team 

To
register, contact trivia_at_... or 202-904-3636. The
tournament director can be reached at ers_at_...
or
202-904-3636. 
 

Question guidelines:

 

Category
 Tossups
 Boni
 Science
 4
 4

History
 4
 4
 Literature
 4
 4
 Fine
Arts
 2-3
 2-3
 Religion/Myth/Philosophy

2-3
 2-3
 Social Sciences
 2-3
 2-3

Current Events
 2-3
 2-3
 Popular Culture

0-2
 0-2
 General Knowledge
 0-2
 0-2

TOTAL
 25
 25