At the moment, Penn Bowl 12 (subtitle coming) will most likely be held on Friday and Saturday, 24-25 January 2003. There are some things that will definitely be changed from last year, and some that may or may not change. I will start with the more minor, and hence more definite changes, in this post. [1] Post-RR trash round. Last year, even despite some major snafus (such as losing an entire bracket's worth of stats around lunch on Saturday), we still managed to have all the prelim stats--team *and* individual--done less than an hour after the prelims ended. I am hoping to come as close to real-time as a tournament this large can run. Even if things are running perfectly, there will almost inevitably be at least a 30-minute delay between the end of the round robin and the start of the playoffs. Therefore, my goal is to have an optional trash round available for immediately after the RR for those people who are interested in playing another game rather than sitting around and waiting for stats. [2] No submissions of 5-10-15s. Last year, we received over *one hundred* 5-10-15s (including one packet that had 10 of 36); we used no more than 30 or so. The vast majority of the submitted 5-10-15s, moreover, tended to be of the easy 5/medium 10/hard-to-impossible 15 variety; the net result of this is lower scores and an artificial raising of difficulty. Therefore, given that the difficulty is still somewhat higher than we have aimed for, all three-answer boni for PB12 must be submitted as 3x10s. The decision as to which boni merit being converted into 5-10-15s (there *will* be some 5-10-15s, but no more than one or two per packet) will be made during editing. --STI
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