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Geography Monstrosity 4 (June 8th, St. Louis)

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:05 am
by Important Bird Area
This is the announcement for Geography Monstrosity 4: Shotgun shell loaded with Tajik place names.

This fourth annual all-geography-tossup tournament will be held at 10 pm on Friday, May 25th, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. (This is, as usual, after the conclusion of HSNCT scrimmages.)

The submission deadline is midnight on Sunday, May 20th; before that I will be busy editing HSNCT itself. Please don't use this as an excuse to put off writing until the last minute.

Format: I will write an editor's packet of 24 tossups. If 10 or fewer people wish to play, we will have a single-room shootout format like last year's. If 20 or more people with to play, we'll form teams and have a normal tournament format. If 11-19 people wish to play, I will make up some kind of ad hoc format.

The style will be similar to the previous 3 sets, to include 20-point superpowers, 15-point powers, and the absence of minus-fives. The distribution will be somewhat different from last year's (to encourage people to sign up first and deal with team-formation drama later).

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:14 am
by Important Bird Area
Distribution:

Each player should submit six tossups.

Please select six subcategories from the following list:

-United States and Canada
-Latin America and the Caribbean
-Europe
-Africa
-Asia
-Australia and Oceania
-Other (including but not limited to: Antarctica, minor islands, and astrogeography that would make Seth Teitler shed a single tear)

and six subcategories from the following list:

-cities
-countries
-sub-national regions (eg, states, provinces, territories, autonomous okrugs)
-islands
-mountains
-bodies of water
-other (including all features not listed in previous categories, common-link tossups, fictional geography, earth science, cartography, and basically whatever else you think people might be interested in hearing tossups about)

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:15 am
by Important Bird Area
Submitted questions (8):
Andrew Chrzanowski
Raynell Cooper
Sam Donow
Ron Enson
Andrew Hart
Jasper Lee
Jonathan Meckler
Jacob Wasserman

Expressed interest (6):
Aaron Cohen
Steve Fontenot
Daniel Galitsky
Charles Hang
Vimal Konduri
Colin McNamara

Updated 5/25 -JTH

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:36 am
by Angry Babies in Love
I can probably help write for this but I'm not sure I can make it down to ATL.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:51 pm
by Ondes Martenot
I'll attend if I help staff HSNCT

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:13 am
by Great Bustard
All over this. Will start writing packet on the Magical History Tour. Look for some NHBB team to show up. That includes you, Raynell. No lame excuses like you're stranded on Rockall.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:47 pm
by Important Bird Area
David, you're ruining question security for the Rockall mirror of this tournament.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:01 pm
by RealMadrid314
I may be able to write, but I'm not sure about making it to Atlanta

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:46 pm
by RealMadrid314
also, just to be clear, it's 6/6 per player, regardless of whether we have teammates, are currently lone wolf, or not even participating, correct?

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:55 pm
by Important Bird Area
6 per player, no bonuses. I'll organize the lone wolves in Atlanta.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:33 pm
by Great Bustard
Can the 2011 packets be posted to quizbowlpackets.com?

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:41 pm
by Important Bird Area
You'll have to ask George.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:41 pm
by tiwonge
I'll play, pending attending the HSNCT.

I'll write (something), even if I don't play.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:15 am
by Frater Taciturnus
bt_green_warbler wrote:You'll have to ask George.
http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/archive/GM3.zip

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:51 am
by madviking
I'll be staffing and I would like to participate in this.

-RE

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:50 am
by Down and out in Quintana Roo
I'm interested in this, if that's okay. I'd like to write questions, and i might play. Can i decide later if i'd like to participate? I can start writing tossups though.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:50 am
by Important Bird Area
List of villages in West Virginia wrote:Can i decide later if i'd like to participate?
Sure, that's fine.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:55 pm
by Adventure Temple Trail
Hereby expressing interest. Out of curiosity, is anything happening Saturday at all?

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:09 pm
by Mike Bentley
RyuAqua wrote:Hereby expressing interest. Out of curiosity, is anything happening Saturday at all?
Wasn't Ryan planning that tournament with variable difficulty?

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:52 pm
by 1992 in spaceflight
I could certainly staff this if you need readers for it.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:08 pm
by Gautam
I'll play this dealio.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:39 pm
by Down and out in Quintana Roo
What's the goal for the length of these questions? I don't want to get out of control here. But in 10-pt. TNR font... like, around 7 lines at most?

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:54 pm
by Important Bird Area
List of villages in West Virginia wrote:What's the goal for the length of these questions? I don't want to get out of control here. But in 10-pt. TNR font... like, around 7 lines at most?
That sounds fine; I've usually been writing around eight lines of 11-pt. TNR for the editors' packets.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:38 pm
by Unicolored Jay
I might play this.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 7:13 pm
by Down and out in Quintana Roo
I'm still not sure if i will/can play this, but we'll be in Atlanta so there's a chance. I will, however, write those 6 tossups. I'm about halfway there so i'll try to do the rest this weekend.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 10:17 pm
by pleasewalkforward
I'm definitely interested in playing.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 10:23 pm
by Down and out in Quintana Roo
Okay, i decided that i'd like to play, unless you definitely need help moderating or something. Otherwise, playing and trying to beat some of these other guys will be fun.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 10:38 pm
by the return of AHAN
I'm far too late to write any questions, but I could help staff or something.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 3:21 am
by Great Bustard
So, I actually won't be at this, but would be keenly interested in playing via skype from halfway around the world. Is that possible? Also, what's the format, and if I were to play, do I need a team? How many packets are there for this? I presume, Jeff, you can enlighten me at my nuptuals on Saturday, but thought I'd throw the general queries out there.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 10:57 am
by Yeah, that's a thing
nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:So, I actually won't be at this, but would be keenly interested in playing via skype from halfway around the world. Is that possible?
You'd lose all your buzzer races due to delay

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 4:04 pm
by sir negsalot
I express interest

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:23 pm
by Great Bustard
Yeah, that's a thing wrote:
nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:So, I actually won't be at this, but would be keenly interested in playing via skype from halfway around the world. Is that possible?
You'd lose all your buzzer races due to delay
Not if I'm second lining Anticosti Island as I did in 2009. Want to take me on, Teevens?

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 12:33 am
by Black-throated Antshrike
nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:
Yeah, that's a thing wrote:
nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:So, I actually won't be at this, but would be keenly interested in playing via skype from halfway around the world. Is that possible?
You'd lose all your buzzer races due to delay
Not if I'm second lining Anticosti Island as I did in 2009. Want to take me on, Teevens?
It's not fine arts so he'll lose no matter what

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 2:04 am
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sorry to say I'll have to back out of this, since there wasn't a way to write good enough questions on time.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 2:40 am
by Yeah, that's a thing
Black-throated Antshrike wrote:It's not fine arts so he'll lose no matter what
Yup.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:01 pm
by Angry Babies in Love
HA just noticed the submission deadline. I can try to get some done but have other priorities on the question front. Will do my best to get some written.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:26 pm
by Gautam
I haven't had the opportunity to write questions for this. Hereby withdrawing from this tournament.

--GK

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:38 am
by Angry Babies in Love
Any chance you still want questions past the deadline?

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:39 am
by Important Bird Area
Welcome and encouraged.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:49 am
by theMoMA
I will have questions for you tomorrow.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:09 pm
by Angry Babies in Love
theMoMA wrote:I will have questions for you tomorrow.
As will I. Maybe today even!

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 10:25 pm
by Important Bird Area
Meet outside Lenox at 10 pm tomorrow. People who didn't submit questions can still come play, but might be turned away if we don't have enough staff to run multiple rooms at a time.

Right now the plan is to have 3 packets; if people are interested in writing more questions, I would welcome guerrilla-style submissions.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 10:44 pm
by mhayes
I'll staff if I can catch an earlier flight.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 5:10 pm
by Important Bird Area
Stats.

If there's interest, I could read this set at NSC.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 5:29 pm
by Tees-Exe Line
I'm interested.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 8:42 pm
by madviking
Thanks to Jeff for hosting/editing.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 10:08 pm
by Down and out in Quintana Roo
This was really hard, and i did terribly, but it was still mostly fun. The favorite part was just having my questions read. I know i'm not a good question writer, and Jeff did edit them, but it made me feel a little more legitimate compared to all the real players and quizbowl elite surrounding me in that room.

If i do it again, i probably won't play, but i'd be happy to write questions next time.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 10:39 pm
by Unicolored Jay
Yeah, this was fun, even though I didn't do well in my first side event ever (!!!???). I hope everyone enjoyed the questions I wrote. Thanks to Jeff for doing this, and I hope it comes around again next year.

(also what/who was "Thunk")

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 10:44 pm
by Important Bird Area
Alliance in the Alps wrote: (also what/who was "Thunk")
Anton from IMSA B.

Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:07 am
by Yeah, that's a thing
Has this been posted yet?