It starts (at least in theory) at 9 AM. As far as I know, Eric, Chris, Anirudh,
and myself will
be there (we have formed a team already), Rico, Jessica, Lev and you look posed
to make a
second. Have you heard from Steve Lalonde?


--- In qb-utoronto@yahoogroups.com, "Jonathan English" <jon.english@...> wrote:
>
> I'd like to go as well. What time does it start on June 30th, since I'll be
> out of town the day before. I've also started writing a question pack over
> the past few months, so I should be able to provide.
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: qb-utoronto@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qb-utoronto@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Jessica Pilkington
> Sent: June 7, 2007 3:58 PM
> To: qb-utoronto@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [qb-utoronto] Re: June tourney
>
>
>
> Well, I'm going to be in Toronto, so I was planning on going. Who else is
> here?
>
>
> _____
>
>
> From: "Eric J. M. Smith" <eric@...>
> Reply-To: qb-utoronto@yahoogroups.com
> To: qb-utoronto@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [qb-utoronto] Re: June tourney
> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:44:11 -0400
>
>
> On 1-Jun-07, at 6:05 PM, Anirudh Dani wrote:
> > Any news about the tournament in June?
> Yes, it's on for June 30th. I've attached the announcement from the
> qb-canada Yahoo group.
>
> So if any of you out there are interested in forming teams, now's the
> time to discuss it. Note that teams are expected to write questions
> (which is good experience for quiz bowl players). It might be an
> idea for players who have never written questions to form a team with
> someone who has done so. I would suggest Bobby Hsu, Zhan Zhou, Rico,
> and myself as grizzled veterans you might want to recruit for your team.
>
> Note that the entry fee in Toronto (which works out to $5/player if
> you write a question pack) is to help build up our club's funds so
> that we don't have to repeat the situation where the club went into
> deficit to send a team to the NAQT championships.
>
> E.
>
> NINTH ANNUAL VANCOUVER ESTIVAL TRIVIA OPEN
> plus FIFTH ANNUAL VETO'S EASTERN TRIVIA OPEN in TORONTO
> SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2007
>
> The Vancouver Estival Trivia Open (VETO) is the nation's longest-
> running annual quiz bowl tournament. Again, there will be a mirror in
> Toronto, and we're also hoping to have a championship match between
> the site winners. For up-to-date information, check the web page
> http://caql. <http://caql.org/events/veto07.html> org/events/veto07.html
> and the weblog
> http://veto. <http://veto.caql.org/> caql.org
>
> VETO will be run "guerrilla" style, meaning:
> * each team must bring an original packet of questions, which will
> not be edited by anyone else associated with the tournament;
> * participants must moderate and keep score during rounds when they
> aren't playing.
>
> This event is FREE for those playing in Vancouver.
> In Toronto, it will cost $20 per team with a packet of questions,
> or $40 without a packet.
>
> Links to detailed reports of VETO in previous years can be found here:
> http://caql. <http://caql.org/results.html> org/results.html
>
> === WHO CAN PLAY ===
>
> VETO is an "open" tournament in the sense that we don't exclude anyone
> because of age, student status, degrees obtained or not obtained,
> nationality, etc. However, recognizing that people come to VETO with
> vastly different levels of experience, we'd like to give priority to
> those who have a history of providing good questions in the
> tossup/bonus format.
>
> So instead of accepting teams on a "first come, first served" basis
> until space fills up, this is what we'll do:
> * Any team that has won VETO in a previous year (in Vancouver or
> in Ontario) has an automatic invitation to play this year.
> * Any other team must apply to the VETO Invitation Committee.
> * Applications are simple: just e-mail two OLD full-length quiz bowl
> packets (at least 20 tossups and 20 bonuses in each), such that the
> majority of the questions in both packets were written by members of
> your prospective team.
> * If some of your team members have written a lot of questions
> separately but you don't actually have two packets to which you've
> together contributed a majority of the questions, then just send us 20
> old tossups and 20 old bonuses that were all written by your members.
> * Within a few days of receiving your application, the Invitation
> Committee will inform you of its decision either to accept or to defer
> your application. If your application is not accepted, you may appeal
> by sending us more old questions that you've written.
> * Teams whose applications are deferred, either because they didn't
> have enough questions to show us or because their questions didn't
> meet our standards, will have another chance. After June 16, deferred
> teams will be allowed to play if there is still room. The Invitation
> Committee will decide whether each deferred team should write
> questions.
>
> Don't feel intimidated by this application/invitation procedure. The
> point is to make sure that the people who will be writing the
> questions for VETO have experience writing questions. This is
> important because it's a guerrilla tournament, and nobody else will be
> editing. As for how high our standards are: the vast majority of the
> packets in the Stanford Archive would meet our criteria for
> acceptance.
>
> Even if your team doesn't write questions, we expect you to have
> enough familiarity with the quiz bowl format to be able to staff games
> during your bye rounds.
>
> A team can have any number of players, but no more than four can play
> at a time. If you don't have a full team of four, we can match you up
> with other players. Solo teams are OK, too: we'll set the schedule so
> that other teams will have byes and you won't have to staff more than
> one room by yourself.
>
> The size of the field in Toronto is capped at 12 teams.
> The cap in Vancouver is 8 teams. There may be room for a 9th team if
> it rotates players in and out so that it can supply people to moderate
> games in every round.
>
> === WHEN ===
>
> Saturday, June 30, 2007, from about 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time.
>
> VETO will be on the same day as the unrelated Sun n' Fun VIII and a
> 1/2 tournament at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and also
> the NAQT HSNCT mirror at the University of Maryland in College Park.
> But if you are interested in either of those events, you can play in
> mirrors in other locations on June 23: a mirror of Sun n' Fun VIII and
> 1/2 at the University of Maryland in College Park, and a mirror of
> NAQT HSNCT at both the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-
> St. Paul, and the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga.
>
> If you would like to participate in VETO, please notify us by June 16,
> 2007.
>
> === TORONTO LOCATION ===
>
> VETO's Eastern Trivia Open will be held in Sidney Smith Hall (100
> St. George St.) at the University of Toronto's downtown St. George
> campus. Named after the Secretary of State for External Affairs under
> Diefenbaker, Sidney Smith Hall is a 7-floor, fully air-conditioned
> facility, whose modern design showcases (aside from the Quiz Bowl
> team), U of T's Faculty of Arts and Science. It is easily accessible
> from West of the city (Gardiner Expressway, exit at Spadina) or
> East/West on the 401 (exit at Avenue Road). On-campus parking is
> available either at the Rotman Building (second driveway north of
> Harbord St.) or along St. George, though many off-campus and nearby
> alternatives are possible. Located in the downtown core of Canada's
> largest city, Sidney Smith is surrounded by Bloor, Spadina, and
> College Streets, all of which offer food and shopping for every taste
> and a wealth of other attractions. A quick drive to either Yonge or
> Queen St. W will yield more popular stops and diverse cuisine. For any
> additional directions or details contact the site coordinator.
>
> === FORMAT ===
>
> VETO 2007 will be run "guerrilla" style, without central editing and
> will be staffed by players. We'll play at least a full round-robin, as
> many rounds as packets from the two sites, likely ending in a site
> final (which some may consider an unfair format).
>
> Games will be conducted according to NAQT rules, except that matches
> will be untimed, with 20 tossups per round, and there will be no
> 15-point "power" tossups.
>
> === QUESTION PACKETS ===
>
> Detailed question guidelines are on a separate web page:
> http://caql. <http://caql.org/events/veto07q.html> org/events/veto07q.html
> which includes a section with many, many useful reference links
> categorized by subject.
>
> Rounds will be untimed, with 20 tossups played in each. But you will
> have to write more than 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, because you may
> need tie-breaking questions, or you may end up having to throw out
> some questions because of game errors or because they ask for
> information that already came up in somebody else's packet.
>
> So your packet should include (at least):
> * 24 tossups, each worth 10 points -- no 15-point "powers";
> * 22 bonuses, each worth 30 points -- but no single-part,
> single-answer questions.
>
> Use the following subject distribution for both tossups and bonuses:
>
> Science, Math, Technology 3 -- 4
> History 3 -- 4
> Literature 3 -- 4
> Geography 2 -- 3
> Current Events 2 -- 3
> Fine Arts 1 -- 2
> Religion, Philosophy, Mythology 1 -- 2
> Social Science 1 -- 2
> Popular Culture, Games, Sports 1 -- 2
> General Knowledge 0 -- 3
>
> Canadian content quota:
> Of the first 20 tossups, at least 4 must refer to Canadian people,
> places, things, events, and created works. The same goes for the first
> 20 bonuses. But overall, don't exceed 50% Canadian content in your
> packet. Your Canadian questions should also cover diverse subject
> areas and not be clustered in Geography or Literature, etc.
>
> Tossups should include at least two separate clues, preferably at
> least four. Multiple-choice bonuses should be used sparingly, if at
> all, and should provide at least four choices.
>
> In order that we can keep to a reasonable schedule, questions must not
> be too long:
> * No tossup question, and no part of a bonus question, should exceed
> 6 lines if using a fixed-width font with 79 characters per line.
> * No bonus question should ever require more than four separate team
> conferrals.
>
> To promote fun and variety, teams are encouraged to bring multimedia
> questions (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory). These
> tend to work better as bonuses than as tossups. Let us know if you
> plan to have any audio questions, so that we can arrange enough of the
> proper equipment to play them.
> Every packet must contain at least one multimedia question: It can be
> as simple as presenting a printout of a picture you found through
> http://images. <http://images.google.com/> google.com and asking a few
> questions about the picture.
>
> For our further amusement, we encourage rounds with hidden themes.
> Last year, for example, in one round, every tossup answer was also the
> name of a school that had participated in the SmartAsk TV game show;
> in another round, every answer contained the name of an animal.
>
> Aim for a difficulty level approximating that of NAQT sectionals.
>
> === PRIZES ===
>
> The leading individual scorer at VETO in Vancouver will take over the
> title of West Coast Dominatrix of Relevant Knowledge (WC-DORK).
> The leading individual scorer at VETO in Toronto will take over the
> title of Nerd Of The East (NOTE).
>
> Anyone may sponsor a prize and select a winner according to any
> criteria. Last year, there were at least seven prizes awarded to
> individuals and teams in Vancouver.
>
> === CONTACT ===
>
> If you are interested in participating, please contact the appropriate
> site coordinator by June 16, 2007.
> Vancouver: Peter at pmcc@ (pmcc at alumni.sfu.ca)
> Toronto: Jason at j_dickson5@ (j_dickson5 at yahoo.ca)
> Toronto16, 2007, at
>
> Updates will be posted on the web page
> http://caql. <http://caql.org/events/veto07.html> org/events/veto07.html
> Also check the weblog
> http://veto. <http://veto.caql.org/> caql.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _____
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