Results: Cardinal Classic XVII (2/2/08)
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:12 am
Stanford Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce that Cardinal Classic XVII: The Stanford Quizzin' Experiment will take place on Saturday, February 2, 2008. Note that unlike some of the most recent Cardinal Classics, this tournament will actually take place at Stanford. The team meeting will be at 10 am in room 200 of the Old Union.
This is an academic, packet submission tournament, open to all players, regardless of academic affiliation. The target difficulty is slightly easier than ACF Regionals 2007 was. I (Brian Lindquist) will be the head editor, with the assistance of Kevin Koai, Arnav Moudgil, and Kristiaan De Greve.
If any schools are interested in mirroring Cardinal Classic, they should contact me at blindqui at stanford dot edu. MIT has already expressed interest in hosting a mirror; I assume they will post an announcement soon.
FEE STRUCTURE
Base fee for 1st team from school: $100
Base fee for 2nd and subsequent teams from school: $90
Buzzer Discount: -$10 per fully-functional system (max 2 per team)
PACKET DEADLINES/DISCOUNTS
Packet by December 21: -$40
Packet by December 28: -$20
Packet by January 4: +$0
Packet by January 11: +$20
Packet by January 18: +$40
Teams that wish to play, but do not want to submit a packet, must request a dispensation by January 4, in which case they might be allowed to play for a penalty of +$50. Teams that do not submit a packet will not be allowed to play, unless they have been granted a dispensation by January 4.
If your school is sending multiple teams, make sure that each team keeps its packet completely blind to the other teams prior to the tournament.
PACKET DISTRIBUTION
Each team should write a 24/24 packet, with the following distribution:
Literature [5/5] (3/3 American/British, 2/2 world)
History [5/5] (2/2 American, 2/2 European, 1/1 world)
Science [5/5] (1/1 each of bio, chem, physics. Remaining 2/2 your choice, but no more than 2/2 of any single "big three", and no more than 1/1 of any minor category)
Religion, Myth, Philosophy [3/3] (1/1 each)
Fine Arts [3/3] (Including at least 1/1 each of painting, music. Remaining 1/1 your choice.)
Social Science [1/1]
Geography [1/1]
Your Choice [1/1] (Could be any of the above categories, but could also be trash, current events, other)
FORMATTING:
Packets should be submitted in a format readable by Microsoft Word, preferably either .doc or .rtf. A plain text attachment, although not preferred, is also acceptable.
At the top of your packet, include the team name and the team members or people who contributed to the packet. Questions should be sorted by category: put all history tossups and bonuses under a heading "History", followed by a section labeled "Science", etc. Please do not number your questions.
Questions should be written in 10-point, Times New Roman font, with 1 inch margins. Tossups should be no more than 7 lines long.
Tossups should look like this:
The narrator describes this story’s protagonist as looking “like a wooden doll driven by clock-work,â€
This is an academic, packet submission tournament, open to all players, regardless of academic affiliation. The target difficulty is slightly easier than ACF Regionals 2007 was. I (Brian Lindquist) will be the head editor, with the assistance of Kevin Koai, Arnav Moudgil, and Kristiaan De Greve.
If any schools are interested in mirroring Cardinal Classic, they should contact me at blindqui at stanford dot edu. MIT has already expressed interest in hosting a mirror; I assume they will post an announcement soon.
FEE STRUCTURE
Base fee for 1st team from school: $100
Base fee for 2nd and subsequent teams from school: $90
Buzzer Discount: -$10 per fully-functional system (max 2 per team)
PACKET DEADLINES/DISCOUNTS
Packet by December 21: -$40
Packet by December 28: -$20
Packet by January 4: +$0
Packet by January 11: +$20
Packet by January 18: +$40
Teams that wish to play, but do not want to submit a packet, must request a dispensation by January 4, in which case they might be allowed to play for a penalty of +$50. Teams that do not submit a packet will not be allowed to play, unless they have been granted a dispensation by January 4.
If your school is sending multiple teams, make sure that each team keeps its packet completely blind to the other teams prior to the tournament.
PACKET DISTRIBUTION
Each team should write a 24/24 packet, with the following distribution:
Literature [5/5] (3/3 American/British, 2/2 world)
History [5/5] (2/2 American, 2/2 European, 1/1 world)
Science [5/5] (1/1 each of bio, chem, physics. Remaining 2/2 your choice, but no more than 2/2 of any single "big three", and no more than 1/1 of any minor category)
Religion, Myth, Philosophy [3/3] (1/1 each)
Fine Arts [3/3] (Including at least 1/1 each of painting, music. Remaining 1/1 your choice.)
Social Science [1/1]
Geography [1/1]
Your Choice [1/1] (Could be any of the above categories, but could also be trash, current events, other)
FORMATTING:
Packets should be submitted in a format readable by Microsoft Word, preferably either .doc or .rtf. A plain text attachment, although not preferred, is also acceptable.
At the top of your packet, include the team name and the team members or people who contributed to the packet. Questions should be sorted by category: put all history tossups and bonuses under a heading "History", followed by a section labeled "Science", etc. Please do not number your questions.
Questions should be written in 10-point, Times New Roman font, with 1 inch margins. Tossups should be no more than 7 lines long.
Tossups should look like this:
The narrator describes this story’s protagonist as looking “like a wooden doll driven by clock-work,â€