Announcement: DRAGOON (11/16/13)

[touchpack]

The University of Illinois would like to announce DRAGOON (Dr. Aaron's Grand Overview Of Nonsense), a regular difficulty tournament planned for fall 2013. We would like to run mirrors during the month of November (except for the weekend ACF Fall claims).

Questions:

This tournament will be house-written by the following members of the University of Illinois: Aaron Rosenberg, Billy Busse, Austin Listerud, Andrew Wang, Chinmay Kansara, and Kevin Davis, with some assistance from Ike Jose.

This is a regular difficulty non-open tournament. (Examples of good past tournaments we would classify as "regular difficulty" include MAGNI and ACF Regionals 2010). You must be a current university or high school student to play this tournament.

Questions will be hard-capped at 7 lines of 10-pt Times New Roman before the powermark (there will be powers). There will be 15 packets with the following question distribution:

4/4 Literature
4/4 History
4/4 Science
3/3 RMP (Religion, Mythology, Philosophy)
3/3 Fine Arts (Painting, Music, Other)
1/1 Social Science
1/0 Trash
0/1 Geography/Current Events

Each packet will also contain a tiebreaker tossup, and there will be an extra document consisting of tiebreakers (tossups and bonuses)

Hosting:

We are looking for mirrors anywhere there is quizbowl. The mirror fee will be $35.

Regions:

Midwest: UIUC (11/16/13)
Northeast: Yale (11/16/13)
Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Tech (11/17/13)
Upper Midwest:
Great Plains: Kansas State (11/9/13)
South: Alabama (11/16/13)
West Coast:
Florida:
Texas: Texas A&M (11/16/13)
Canada: Buffalo (11/16/13)
UK:
UW + Skype (11/16/13)

[The King's Flight to the Scots]

Any interest in Mid-Atlantic mirrors for this? Since VCU and UVA have tournaments for the Fall, maybe Maryland?

[touchpack]

I've updated the opening post with all the confirmed mirrors so far. Anyone else interested in mirroring should contact me. (Austin or I will probably get into contact with possible hosts soon)

[fett0001]

Virginia Tech is interested in a mirror. You can contact me at [email protected]

[minusfive]

Canada: Buffalo (11/16/13).

Sorry America, you can't get rid of Buffalo that easily! Maybe if you throw in Detroit (I've heard it's financially attractive...)

[Sima Guang Hater]

Great Plains: Kansas State (11/9/13)

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[Cheynem]

Kansas State has had a team for a little while, dude.

[Sima Guang Hater]

Kansas State has had a team for a little while, dude.

I know that, I'm just glad they're hosting things. Hopefully pyramidal high school tournaments in the future.

[lfarrow]

Looking for info on the ALabama mirror of this event. AUM would be interested in participating. Please email me at [email protected]

[Srijay]

Can we mirror this at the University of Minnesota? Contact me at [email protected]

[Galadedrid Damodred]

Is there going to be a sign-up list for the Illinois site posted in this thread, or will it be split off into its own announcement? (Disclaimer: The following is an unofficial statement made by me, not the UofL quizbowl team) Louisville is planning to register a minimum of one team for that tournament.

[touchpack]

Is there going to be a sign-up list for the Illinois site posted in this thread, or will it be split off into its own announcement? (Disclaimer: The following is an unofficial statement made by me, not the UofL quizbowl team) Louisville is planning to register a minimum of one team for that tournament.

The announcement for the Illinois site is up and can be found here.

[fett0001]

Questions will be hard-capped at 7 lines of 10-pt Times New Roman before the powermark (there will be powers).

Emphasis added.

That's a typo, right?

[Cody]

That simply means "before the powermark is added" (and thus before the bolding increases the question length).

[touchpack]

Questions will be hard-capped at 7 lines of 10-pt Times New Roman before the powermark (there will be powers).

Emphasis added.

That's a typo, right?

No, it isn't. Due to the variable length of powermarks, a question with a longer power will thus be constrained to a shorter length cap if we capped question length after powermarking, since bolded text is larger than not bolded text. Doing it this way ensures a consistent length cap.

[fett0001]

Ok, I read that the other way, as in, power = 7 lines.

[1992 in spaceflight]

Were you guys going to set up a discussion forum for the set?

[touchpack]

Were you guys going to set up a discussion forum for the set?

A discussion forum has been created and you can request access to join in the User Control Panel under Usergroups.

[Steeve Ho You Fat]

I've Emailed Billy but haven't heard back. Since the set isn't clear, may we use it for NASAT tryouts we're hosting next week?