TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT Western Invitational Tournament X --------------------------------------------------------- What: The tournament will consist of untimed rounds of 20 questions. The field will be divided into Open and JV divisions if there are a sufficient number of JV teams that want a separate division. When: Saturday October 12, 2002 Breakfast/registration/rules 9-9:30. Play starts at 9:30. Forfeit matches may be made up at winning team's discretion during lunch Where: University of California at Berkeley, Tournament director: David Farris (farrisNOSPAM@mathNOSPAM.berkeleyNOSPAM.edu). Send all inquiries and packets to him (remove the NOSPAMs first). Eligibility - Any team consisting of anyone who wants to register. This means that you can make alumni teams, corporate teams, college teams, cross-college teams etc. The college varsity championship shall be awarded to the highest placing team from one college. The open division championship will be awarded to the highest placing team from the open division, which may or may not be the college champion. If there is sufficient demand, we will have a separate JV division for relatively inexperienced undergraduate players. Please write to me if your school is interested in sending JV teams. Such teams would not need to submit packets but are collegiate academic competitions. College Bowl and Trash tournament play does not count towards this. The college junior varsity championship shall be awarded to the highest placing JV team from one college if there is no separate division. Such teams would not have to submit packets, but are welcome to do so (see below under packet discounts). Rules: ----- The Berkeley ACF Rules will be used. Question Editors: ---------------- Questions will be edited by David Farris and probably some collaborators. Prices: ------- First Team $120 Second Team $100 Third Team $80 Fourth Team $ 60 Foreign teams: $30 off for each team. Packet Discounts (only one applies) Acceptable Packet by Sep 20 -$ 35 Acceptable Packet by Sep 26 -$ 20 Acceptable Packet by Oct 1 +$ 10 penalty Acceptable Packet by Oct 4 +$ 20 penalty. This is the absolute final deadline unless you have made a prior arrangement with the editor. All deadlines are to be interpreted as "when David Farris first checks his email the following day". JV teams are encouraged to submit a packet if they feel prepared to do so; the above discounts for early submission will apply to JV teams, but the penalties for late or no submission will not. Buzzer System Discount Provide working buzzer system -$ 10/per Reader/Staff Discount Provide an experienced full time reader -$ 20/per Provide an experienced full time statkeeper -$ 10/per Minimum fee: $40/team. Packet Acceptability is determined by the tournament director. If a substantial part of the packet is rejected and sent back to a team for rewriting, their discount/penalty will be based on the date of submission of an acceptable packet. Question Submission: ----------------------- If you don't know or care what LaTeX is: Please submit as inline text or attached plain text file (NOT Word!) to farris at-sign math dot berkeley dot edu. Do the following to mark answer underlining and italics in the text of questions: To get an answer line that looks like Washington _Irving_, do: Washington \underline{Irving} To get italics, do \textit{text to be italicized} . If you know how to use LaTeX: Submit files as .tex files. Question Distribution --------------------- Each submitted packet shall consist of 25 tossups and 25 bonuses using the following category distribution History/Politics/Government 6 TU/6 B (1 TU/1 B each from) World History before 1492 C.E. European History 1492 C.E. - 1945 African/Asian/Latin American/Australian/Oceania History 1492 C.E. - 1945 North American History 1492 C.E. - 1945 Non-US 1946+ US 1946+ Literature 5/5 American Literature 2/2 Literature in the English Language (not American) Literature not in the English Language (not the same language) 1/1 of your choice, not both in the same subcategory as listed above. They should be well-distributed with respect to time period, geography, and genre. At least 1/1 should be poetry, 1/1 should be drama, and 2/2 prose fiction. Criticism, other genres, or more of the same can make up the rest. Fine Arts (2/2) 2/2 from Visual art/architecture, music, film, and either something from another form of art or a different sort of work in one of the previous categories (e.g. an architecture or sculpture question if you already included one on painting) Humanities and Social Science 4 TU/4 B: Philosophy/Religion/Mythology (2/1 or 1/2) Social Science (1/2 or 2/1) (e.g. econ, psych, linguistics, sociology, anthro, archaeology when it's not really history, various hifalutin critical theories. no more than one question from any one area). Geography (1/1) Science 5 TU/5 B (1 TU/1 B each from): Physics/Astronomy Biology Chemistry Mathematics/Computer Science Other areas of science & engineering No more than half of the total of chemistry and biology questions should be bio/organic chem. Other stuff 3/3 Pop culture 1/1 Current Events (non-pop culture) 1/1 Whatever you want, including general knowledge. Question Difficulty ------------------- These shouldn't be too hard. While it's open eligibility, it's not a master's tournament. Reasonable teams that without aging quiz superstars should recognize most of the answers and should expect to get at least 10 (and hopefully more) on most bonuses. For information on getting to or staying in Berkeley, visit the Berkeley quiz-bowl website. Current registration: School #Teams Chicago 1 Texas A&M 1 Stanford >= 1 Caltech 1 Hybrid (UO/UCSC?) 1 UCLA 1 Berkeley > 1