Announcing: Beaver Bonspiel 7--Sweep 'Til You Sleep
Date: Saturday, October 28, 2000
Place: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Format

Our tournament rules will be a modified version of the game rules
of the National Academic Quiz Tournaments company.  We will be running
untimed rounds of 20 tossups (each worth 10 points) with an appropriate
number of bonus questions (each worth 30 points).

Every team which attends must submit a packet of questions,
unless you secure special dispensation from the tournament
committee.

No school may send more than three teams. If we have room
after the final notification deadline, we'll open it up. First dibs on
extra spots go to teams that give us good packets.

Packets will follow our question guidelines (see below).
Depending on the number of teams, we will have some form of round robin
followed by a playoff. We'll try to run on time this year, but we'll
also try to give folks a lot of games.

Who can play

Each team may consist of any number of full-time or part-time students
who are registered at a college or university. Only four (4) team
members may play at the same time. No team may have more than one (1)
graduate student. For our purposes, a student is defined as a player who
is both enrolled in college and progressing toward a degree, and a
graduate student is defined as a student who has already received a
bachelor's degree in any subject but not yet received a terminal
degree.

Deadlines

The early question deadline will be Sunday, September 24, 2000.  The
normal question deadline will be Sunday, October 8, 2000.  The final
deadline for notifying us of your team's participation will be Sunday,
October 8, 2000. If you have told that you are coming but drop out after
October 15, 2000, there will be a $30 late cancellation fee per
team. (Exceptions will be made for emergencies, accidents, alien
abductions, etc.)

Costs

The costs for each team will be:

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BASE RATE $95
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Early questions (before September 24) - $25

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Best packet (as judged by us) - $10
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Working buzzer system for our use - $ 5
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Qualified game official for our use - $10

Secondary, tertiary teams from same school - $ 5

Penalty for late packet (after Oct. 10) + $10

Penalty for flagrantly disobeying our question guidelines + $15

(Significant discounts can be arranged for new circuit teams)

Question Distribution

 Each packet should consist of 25 Tossups and 25
Bonuses of 30 points distributed along the guidelines given below.
Tossups and bonus parts should be no longer than six lines.  Each tossup
should have at least four (4) distinct clues.  Any multiple-choice must
give at least 4 (four) choices.

4 Science, Math, Technology
4 Literature
4 History
2-3 Philosophy, Religion, Mythology
2-3 Fine Arts
2-3 Current Events
1-2 Popular Culture
1-2 Geography
1-2 Sports
1-2 Social Sciences
0-2 General Knowledge
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25 Total

Completed packets should be emailed as plain text (in the body of the
message, not as an attachment) to ronojoy@mit.edu.  The packet should be
sent as a single file, not piecemeal.  For more detailed assistance on
writing a quality packet, go to
http://www.mit.edu/activities/collegebowl/bb5q.html

To register teams or for more information, please contact me.
Ronojoy Chakrabarti Co-Director, BB7 (on behalf of the tournament
committee) ronojoy@mit.edu

bowladmin@mit.edu