Rico,
Since it looks like I am being assigned to the team
with you, please, give me your e-mail, so that we
could communicate about the questions outside the
list.

Lev

--- j_dickson5 <jason.dickson@...> wrote:

> 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
>
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