Hi folks! DATE CHANGE: In order to alleviate the crowded tournament situation on Oct. 20, we are taking advantage of the demise of the NAQT IFT to relocate the Illinois Novice Tournament to Saturday November 17, 2001. As such... This is an announcement for the Illinois Novice Tournament, which will be held Saturday, November 17, 2001 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 bonuses. 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 around that of NAQT SCT. To aid in question writing, I will send a copy of last year's round robin questions to each registered school. Each packet submitted should adhere to 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 an rtf or text attachment or as text in the body of the email. 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. 1 $50 Base fee for accepted questions by Oct. 27 $85 Moderator discount -$10 Buzzer (working) discount -$10 Each additional team -$ 5 Packet submitted after Oct. 27 +$20 Packet not submitted/unacceptable +$35 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_.... Additionally, this announcement is located at <a href=http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~dricci/abt/novice01.html target=new>http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~dricci/abt/novice01.html</a> Hope to see you here in November! Dom "A Connecticut Yankee in the Central Time Zone"
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