Thanks for posting this, Eric. It looks like (at least one) U of T
pack is a go! I just arrived in London this morning for Thanksgiving
weekend, but I can write a couple more questions and offer the
Literature, Philosophy, Fine Arts, and Current Events requirements to
anyone who wants to rounds out the rest of the pack.

Jason

> I've attached a message from Brock Stephenson, who's in charge of
> BC/Ontario Bowl. So far I've only heard from one Toronto player who's
> interested in writing questions. It's not hard, and you don't have to
> write a complete packet. Packet-writing guidelines are at
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qb-canada/message/801>.
>
> Eric
>
>
> Hello,
>
> To begin, thank you to Ottawa, McGill and Queen's for submitting packs
> as Provincial Bowl is a packet submission tournament.
>
> Provincial Bowl being a packet submission tournament is problematic.
> At the moment I believe the following teams are expected:
> - B.C. Bowl (2): SFU A, UBC A
> - Ontario Bowl (9-11): Carleton A, Carleton B, McGill A, McGill B,
> McGill C, McMaster A, McMaster B, McMaster C, McMaster D(?), Ottawa A,
> Queen's A(?)
>
> The reason I created Provincial Bowl as an early fall tournament was
> initially to include first year quiz bowl club members at various
> campuses in a tournament before they lost interest in attending
> practices back in the days when there were no Canadian quiz bowl
> tournaments until November or possibly February. As such, I created a
> tournament that was free and in the first few years wrote the
> tournament set for a small field in B.C.
>
> After the eastern tournaments were added and provided a large field of
> teams, I saw the need to change the format to packet submission. As
> such, the tournaments could still be free to all teams. With a larger,
> more active quiz bowl community in Canada than in the past I was
> expecting the pack to team ratio to be 1:1. As you can see with five
> submitted packs and up to 13 teams so far between the two venues,
> there is clearly a shortage of packs for Ontario Bowl.
>
> As a result, I'm in the process of finding the best way to remedy this
> situation as I still expect everything to fall into place by the end of
> this weekend through some help from other quiz bowlers. If a fee is
> required for the tournaments, I will notify this board as soon as
> possible. It would be on a cost recovery basis only, and teams that
> submitted their packs would play for free.
>
> I'm glad there is a strong interest in teams playing an early season
> tournament in Canada. The increased participation at several campuses is
> a good sign. On the other hand, Provincial Bowl is designed specifically
> as a packet submission tournament that caters submission requirements to
> teams' experience at quiz bowl, allowing newer teams to learn how to write
> tournament questions without having to produce a complete pack.
>
> In conclusion, please remember that submitting a pack to a packet
> submission tournament is among the more important elements of the
> tournament process. (Yes, your packs are still welcome up to Wednesday
> night.)
>
> Brock Stephenson
> Editor-in-Chief, Provincial Bowl
>
>