SINS: A Sports Side Tournament
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:38 pm
As a "minor sports specialist" who's been constantly frustrated by Quizbowl's America-centric sports distribution, I decided to take matters into my own hands and would like to announce the Self-Indulgent Neglected Sports side tournament, or SINS, scheduled for the Toronto ICT Mirror on Saturday, July 29th, following ICT. This will be a guerrilla tournament with optional pack submission. Topics can include any and all sports that aren't the "Big Three" of Quizbowl trash distribution (basketball, baseball, American football). Note that non-American leagues of these sports, such as the Canadian Football League and Nippon Professional Baseball, will also not be featured. This tournament will be played individually, and is free for all participants.
Submitted packets should be 20 questions long and tossups only, with optional powers. Joint pack submissions are welcome. The distribution of answerlines is as follows:
Place (country, city, venue, etc.) - 3
Person/Team - 4
Action (can be specific to a person, such as "Ronaldo scoring a goal") - 2
Event - 3
Media (e.g. films/memes/television about any of the other categories) - 1
Free - 7
Since this is meant to be a self-indulgent affair, you can write about whatever you like and should feel no obligation to do additional research on topics you don't already know well. Similarly, my definition of what constitutes a sport has been pretty expansive so far (including things like chess and professional wrestling). However, since this isn't quite at Vanity-level and packets won't be edited beforehand, please try not to go overboard and exercise some discretion (e.g. no packets with 12 questions on netball or Nordic combined). There isn't a hard deadline for submissions; just have it ready by July 29th.
PM me if you'd like to participate, or if you have any questions. Let me know also if you'd like the packets or want to mirror the tournament elsewhere, since I plan on editing them before posting them online. Thanks!
Submitted packets should be 20 questions long and tossups only, with optional powers. Joint pack submissions are welcome. The distribution of answerlines is as follows:
Place (country, city, venue, etc.) - 3
Person/Team - 4
Action (can be specific to a person, such as "Ronaldo scoring a goal") - 2
Event - 3
Media (e.g. films/memes/television about any of the other categories) - 1
Free - 7
Since this is meant to be a self-indulgent affair, you can write about whatever you like and should feel no obligation to do additional research on topics you don't already know well. Similarly, my definition of what constitutes a sport has been pretty expansive so far (including things like chess and professional wrestling). However, since this isn't quite at Vanity-level and packets won't be edited beforehand, please try not to go overboard and exercise some discretion (e.g. no packets with 12 questions on netball or Nordic combined). There isn't a hard deadline for submissions; just have it ready by July 29th.
PM me if you'd like to participate, or if you have any questions. Let me know also if you'd like the packets or want to mirror the tournament elsewhere, since I plan on editing them before posting them online. Thanks!