OK Quiz Bowl Alliance Fall Challenge

• From: ok_quizbowl
• Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:07:38 -0700
• Message-ID: <000TSU32Q.001PRQPNR.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

The Oklahoma Quiz Bowl Alliance is pleased to
invite all high school academic bowl teams to the OQBA
Fall Challenge I, to be held on Saturday, December 1,
2001, on the campus of Redlands Community College in El
Reno OK (about 20 minutes west of Oklahoma City).
Twenty-four teams from Oklahoma and beyond will participate
in this inaugural event. Registration will begin at
8:30 AM, a general meeting will be held at 9:00 AM,
and matches should begin by 9:30.

Each team
will be guaranteed six matches against
randomly-selected opponents before the top sixteen teams will
advance to double-elimination playoffs. Matches will be
played according in tossup-bonus format according to
standard NAQT rules (see <a href=http://www.naqt.com/rules.html target=new>http://www.naqt.com/rules.html</a>),
except that matches will be played as two untimed halves
of 10 tossups each.

The entry fee is $50 per
team if paid by November 10th (postmark date); after
that, it increases to $60 per team. Schools are limited
to two teams per school. Each school is also
requested to bring at least one buzzer system and one
person per team (nonplaying student, team alternate, or
adult) to serve as a scorekeeper. If this will be a
problem, please let us know in advance. The entry deadline
is November 17th. Questions from the tournament will
be available for $25 / complete set and may be paid
in advance or at the tournament.

Entry fees
or purchase orders should be made out to Oklahoma
Quiz Bowl Alliance (tax ID available on request) and
directed to:

OQBA
c/o Eric Bell
1820 Cherry
Stone #22
Norman OK 73072


If you have
additional questions, please contact us at
ok_quizbowl_at_.... We look forward to seeing you in El Reno on
December 1!


Sincerely,

Eric Bell
on
behalf of Oklahoma Quiz Bowl Alliance