This time I'm sure I have the date right. UTC will hold its 2nd annual Muck Masters, a one-day trash tournament, on Saturday, August 3. (My apologies to the Burns for taking the same weekend, but my schedule constraints pretty much had us boxed in for that weekend.) Since we have the full day, we will include more rounds and/or an interlude for a musical trivia competiton. Packet submission is expected. TIME & PLACE: Start time is Sat. 8/3/02 with registration beginning at 9:00 AM, announcements at 9:45, and play beginning at 10. When will we finish? Best guess is around 8-9 PM. Tournament headquarters will probably be Holt 124 on the UTC campus; if not, we'll post signs on the doors to Holt. ELIGIBILITY: This is a purely open tourney. Anyone with an opposable thumb who tells me in time and pays the appropriate fees gets to play. FORMAT: The usual. 20 questions per round, untimed. Teams up to 4 players each, with alternates OK as long as there are no substitutions in mid-match. FREE AGENTS: If you want to attend but don't have teammates, let me know. Or if you have a partial team and are looking for reinforcements, do the same. Any folks like this, I'll put you in touch with each other and let you sort it out. FEES: Base fee $90 per team Discounts: - $10 for an experienced reader, for either Muck Masters or Moc Masters on Sun. 8/4 - $5 for each empty chair on the team (i.e., a one-person team without a buzzer would be charged $75) -$5 for a working buzzer (1 discount per team) - $10 for submitting full packet (25 and 25) by midnight Sun., July 7 [For packet submitted between midnight Sun., July 7, and midnight Sun., July 14, there is no discount or penalty.] Minimum fee after discounts: $50 Penalties: + $5 for packet received between midnight Sun., July 14, and midnight Sun., July 21. + $15 for packet received between midnight Sun., July 21, and midnight Sun., July 28. + $30 for no packet submitted PACKET GUIDELINES: Preferred format is MS Word; 2nd favorite is RTF format. In a pinch I'll take a text file. It makes me very happy if the word "Answer:" is in front of each answer, and if each answer is on a separate line from the question. To simplify editing of the inevitable numerous duplicates, each packet submitted needs to contain at least 25 tossup and 25 boni. Visual boni will be accepted if possible; physical challenges and audio questions won't. While we do not wish to constrain the creative bounds of a trash round, here are loose distribution guidelines, cribbed directly from TrashMasters: 2 - 4 each from: Movies TV Sports Music Trashy "literature" Trashy current events No more than 2 each from: Computer games & other computer stuff, Gadgets, Comics, Food, Potent potables, Board games, Other trashy merchandise (e.g., the Metamucil tossup), etc. Anything else you think of is fine as long as there are no more than two questions per as-yet-unnamed category. As for the style, remember that trashy material does not mean sloppily written questions. Just follow the guidelines below from our academic tournaments and you'll do fine: Tossups -- average length 3 sentences. We want questions that begin with lesser-known details and gradually get easier. And please don't violate the pronoun rule -- e.g.,, if your first pronoun is "He..." the answer should be the person, not a title. Bonuses -- all bonuses worth a possible 30 pts.; no single-part all-or-nothing bonuses. Bonuses should be such that a novice team stands a good chance of getting at least 10 pts., a good team 20, and the best teams all 30 pts. DIRECTIONS: By now most of you know the way by heart, but just in case... >From Atlanta or Knoxville -- take I-75 to Chattanooga, then I-24 west towards downtown. Once in town follow the freeway splitoff for U.S. 27 N./Downtown. From 27 N. take the 4th St. exit, within sight of the Tennessee Aquarium. Go right on 4th St. (you have no choice) and follow it for ca. 1 mile. When you reach the UTC Arena, turn right on Mabel St. Mabel St. goes around a curve and becomes E. 5th St. Shortly thereafter, across from a cemetery, you'll reach Holt Hall. Just past Holt Hall turn right to enter the parking lot. * From Nashville and points west/north: Take I-24 east to Chattanooga. As you round Moccasin Bend (freeway goes alongside river) watch for two exit lanes on the right; take the less rightward of the two, which will have signs above it for U.S. 27 N. Rest of directions are the same as above. * From Birmingham and points southwest: Take I-59 to the outskirts of Chattanooga, where it dead-ends into I-24. Get on I-24 East and follow the Nashville directions from there. CONTACT: Tournament director is of course Charlie Steinhice, coach of UTC's quizbowl team. I can be reached by e-mail at steinhic_at_.... I can also be reached by phone at 423-763-7147 (office) / 423-877-2706 (home), or by mail at 1185 Mtn. Creek Rd. #1801, Chattanooga, TN 37405.
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