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This is the announcement for the Maryland site of SUBMIT, a collaboration between writing teams from Berkeley and UMD. More info on the tournament itself can be found in this thread. It's a packet submission tournament; take a look at the thread for full details. It will be taking place on February 1st at 9 AM in, presumably, Jimenez Hall-- we'll update this thread if anything changes.

PRICING:
+$100 - Base Fee

-$50 - Packet submitted by Saturday, November 30.
-$25 - Packet submitted by Saturday, December 14.
+$0 - Packet submitted by Saturday, December 21.
+$25 - Packet submitted by Saturday, December 28.
+$50 - Packet submitted by Saturday, January 4.
+$100 - Packet submitted after that, with an additional $10/day

PENALTIES:
+$10 - For egregiously bad formatting; teams should stick as closely to the ACF formatting as possible:
http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/2012- ... formatting

DISCOUNTS:
-$5 - Working buzzer discount, unlimited
-$10 - Competent moderator discount

Minimum fee per team: $40.

This post will have a running field update at the bottom. To register for this tournament, email me, Isaac Hirsch, at IB[NOSPACE]Hirsch@gmail.com. Thanks.

Field Update Post:
Penn, 3 teams
George Washington, 2 teams
William and Mary, 1 team
UVA, 2-3 teams
VCU, 1 team

After this tournament, this site will run an event based on difficult 3-5 line questions Maryland players have written for practice over the past year. The distribution will be roughly even with the normal distro, though the difficulty will range from "regular" to "basically impossible." This exciting side event will ONLY be run at the Maryland site, so hey, don't miss it.

Emily Krok wrote:After this tournament, this site will run an event based on difficult 3-5 line questions Maryland players have written for practice over the past year. The distribution will be roughly even with the normal distro, though the difficulty will range from "regular" to "basically impossible." This exciting side event will ONLY be run at the Maryland site, so hey, don't miss it.

To provide some more info on this: This will be five dollars for anyone who wants to play, but FREE to any outside staffers who moderate for this tournament. Some significant portion of the proceeds will go to Matt's Buzzers.

Is there any field update?

GW and Penn are the only teams I've received registrations from. If you want to register, email me!

Hey, if anyone is sticking around on the Sunday after this/lives in the area, our tournament could use some help with readers. PM/email me if interested.

Hey, this tournament is in, like, a week! Have you signed up yet? Why not?

To clarify, games will start at 9, which means teams should be in Jimenez by 8:45 at the latest.

I don't know what other areas are expected to get large amounts of snow over the next few days, but is there any contingency plan in the event that the weather causes a substantial hardship for traveling teams?

Virginia A won the tournament after a one game final against Penn A.

Stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... _games%29/