Princeton College Tournament

• From: jane_princeton
• Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 06:14:03 -0800
• Message-ID: <000T82M1B.0000JTUVF.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

To all College Bowlers,

Princeton
University College Bowl is proud to announce the return
of
Buzzerfest: _PUBfest Resurrection, Episode IV: A New
Hope._

PUBfest IV will be held Saturday, April 21, 2001. The
format will be
modified ACF and the field will be
limited to sixteen teams. Additional
teams will be put
on a waiting list. The day will be a full
round-robin
with a single round playoff if there is a
tie.

The fee structure is as follows:

Base fee:
$100
Additional Teams: $80

Discounts:
Working buzzer
system: -$10
Competent moderator: -$20
Packet
submitted by:
March 5 -$30
March 12 -$20
March 19
-$10
March 26 -$0
April 2 + $10
April 11 +
$20

**Important note: Schools that registered teams for last
year's aborted
Buzzerfest will be entitled to a
discount of fifty percent off their total,
not
including penalties for packets submitted after March
26.**

Packet Distribution:
**Every team is required to
submit a packet.**

(Tossup/Bonus) Subject
Area:
4/4 History
4/4 Science
4/4 Literature
2/2
Current Events
2/2 Social Science
2/2
Geography
3/3 Religion/Myth/Philosophy
2/2 Fine Arts
2/2
Pop Culture
Total: 25/25

Notes on packet
writing:

1) Please vary your questions within the
distribution areas. Don't write all
of your history tossups
about seventh-century Britain even if you
would
enjoy playing such a theme packet.

2) No
spelling questions or FAQTP tossups.

3) All bonuses
will be worth 30 points. Single-part bonuses will not
be
accepted. Very long multipart bonus questions (i.e., six
paragraph-length
prompts) will be summarily shortened. No more than one
30-20-10 per
category. Please keep ordering bonuses and
"bovine, Russian aircraft
manufacturer, both, or
neither" bonuses to an absolute minimum.

To
register or for questions regarding logistics (ie. travel
to Princeton),
please contact
bjslote_at_.... For questions regarding packet
submission,
tournament rules, or for information on Zulu ceremonial
customs
and North American birds, please contact
jthoppes_at_.... If you're
not comfortable with labeling your
question within any one category because
you find that
labels unfairly force questions to fit a stereotype or
mold
that may not actually be appropriate or may even
hinder the question from
reaching its full potential
as a question, please
contact
cbowl_at_....

See you in April!

Jeff Hoppes, Prez
Barbara
Slote, Vice-Prez
Princeton University College
Bowl
PUBfest Resurrection, Episode IV: A New Hope