Centennial's ATTACK looking for mirrors
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 4:26 pm
Centennial’s housewritten tournament ATTACK is seeking national mirrors during the second semester. The tournament consists of 12 20/20 power-marked rounds, as well as tiebreakers and emergency tossups. Tossups are 5-6 lines of TNR font, and no bonus part will exceed two lines in that font.
This is the distribution:
4/4 Literature (1/1 World, 1/1 American, 1/1 European, 1/1 British/Other)
4/4 Science (1/1 Biology, 1/1 Chemistry, 1/1 Physics, 1/1 Earth Science/Astronomy/Miscellaneous)
4/4 History (1/1 World, 1/1 American, 2/2 European)
2/2 Fine Arts (1/1 Visual, 1/1 Music)
2/2 Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy
1/1 Social Science
1/1 Geography
1/1 Non-computational Math and Computer Science
1/1 Trash
The set is intended to appeal to all teams. It strives for high answerability for tossups, with the intent to avoid topics that high schoolers are likely only to have encountered through quizbowl. At the same time, it is designed to reward real knowledge of topics from experience in the classroom, not with a buzzer. For example, while easy parts of bonuses and giveaways should be very answerable for most teams, the hard parts and tossup lead-ins are designed to challenge even top-nationally schools.
I will shrug off the regular-difficulty label, instead pointing out that given play-testing of the entire set with my team, their performance is comparable to that on the 2011 BHSAT or the 2010 VcuBilt. Make of that what you will.
The cost of mirroring the set is $10 per team; email me at adsilverman AT bellsouth DOT net if you are interested. Thanks!
This is the distribution:
4/4 Literature (1/1 World, 1/1 American, 1/1 European, 1/1 British/Other)
4/4 Science (1/1 Biology, 1/1 Chemistry, 1/1 Physics, 1/1 Earth Science/Astronomy/Miscellaneous)
4/4 History (1/1 World, 1/1 American, 2/2 European)
2/2 Fine Arts (1/1 Visual, 1/1 Music)
2/2 Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy
1/1 Social Science
1/1 Geography
1/1 Non-computational Math and Computer Science
1/1 Trash
The set is intended to appeal to all teams. It strives for high answerability for tossups, with the intent to avoid topics that high schoolers are likely only to have encountered through quizbowl. At the same time, it is designed to reward real knowledge of topics from experience in the classroom, not with a buzzer. For example, while easy parts of bonuses and giveaways should be very answerable for most teams, the hard parts and tossup lead-ins are designed to challenge even top-nationally schools.
I will shrug off the regular-difficulty label, instead pointing out that given play-testing of the entire set with my team, their performance is comparable to that on the 2011 BHSAT or the 2010 VcuBilt. Make of that what you will.
The cost of mirroring the set is $10 per team; email me at adsilverman AT bellsouth DOT net if you are interested. Thanks!