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This is an announcement for Bruce Arthur's Wild Kingdom, a novelty subject tournament where all the questions are about animals.

The tournament will adhere to the following per-packet distribution:

3/0 Mammals
2/0 Birds
2/0 Reptiles and Amphibians
2/0 Fish
2/0 Invertebrates
2/0 Natural History (extinct beasts, geologic periods)
2/0 Mythical Animals
2/0 Other Academic (Literature, Social Science, Art, etc.)
1/0 Meta
2/0 Trash

I expect there to be 5 packets of 20 questions each.

The tournament should be complete by November or December of 2010. I am open to mirror it at a single location (such as TIT or IO) or at multiple events (such as one HS tournament and one college tournament). Please contact me if you are interested in hosting this event.

Oh man, I want to play this. Sweet idea.

Oooh, sounds like fun.

MORE DINOSAURS

I want to see noted entomologist (I think?) Mike Laudermith play the 2 insect questions.

Ukonvasara wrote:MOAR DINOSAURS

fixed.

Animal science, the best kind.

I would have preferred Bruce Arthur's Wild RMPFest where the questions are animals, RMP, or even better, both.

Oh man, Bruce, is there any chance this will be ready for Delta Burke?

I hate the idea of this tournament, and yet I want to play it so badly.

Man Jeremy Eaton is going to destroy this.

I echo Mike's sentiment that I am going to enjoy this tournament a whole lot.

I will fly out to California in order to be on Jeremy Eaton's team for this.

The weekend before.

Ronnie the Bear wrote:The weekend before.

I tip my hat off to you, sir.

All the parts of biology I'm terrible at? Sign me up.

Is Bruce's mom going to allow Charlies Dees to visit Bruce's Wild Kingdom?

I love the idea of this tournament, and I want to play it so badly.

Should we arrange some kind of showdown on those 15 bird tossups?

The distribution has been tweaked. There will now be trash, meta, mythology, and an "Other Academic" category, which should make the tournament more accessible to people who don't necessarily spend their free time reading the "tapir" article on Wikipedia.

Also, if you can't or don't want to play this tournament, but are interested in writing tossups about animals from literature or video games, please contact me ASAP.

Morraine Man wrote:The distribution has been tweaked. There will now be trash, meta, mythology, and an "Other Academic" category, which should make the tournament more accessible to people who don't necessarily spend their free time reading the "tapir" article on Wikipedia.

My interest has skyrocketed.

(still needs more dinosaurs though)

This will be happening November 20, 2010, following the conclusion of that afternoon's Minnesota Open.

Assuming I can get there, I'll staff for this.

This is still happening, right? I'd like to show it to my zoology professor after it's done.

This is still happening. Saturday night after MO.

Are there going to be any mirrors of it or not?

It would be mirrored at the UCLA site if interest were to be shown.

You have an infinite amount of interest from me. Please host this.

Will this be shootout or should we begin the Poodle Dee, Poodle Deux process?

I have made scoresheets for both the shootout and quads formats. Barring a travel disaster and/or my death or maiming, I will be the TD for the Minnesota site and am leaning towards a shootout. But hosts can pick the format that works best for their site.

I expect in at least one answer line.

This tournament will be written on time come hell or high water, but if anybody wants to write some tossups on mammals, it would be deeply appreciated.

An update:

93 out of 100 tossups are written; the remaining 7/0 is exclusively in the 2/0 Invertebrate distribution. If people want to send me freelance tossups about invertebrates in the next few hours, that would be wonderful.

I'm leaving for the airport (to fly to MSP) at about 6 PM ET, so it should be finished sometime before then. I'll email it to Chris Ray and Mik Larsen at that time. I will also email a copy to Fred Morlan; his task will be to provide the set to the Minnesota location in the event that I am killed in transit to MO.

This thread is getting really morbid, with Bruce having referred in his last three posts to maiming, hell, and death. Can somebody please make sure that he has some fun in Minnesota? Please take him out and show him a good time.

Kyle wrote:This thread is getting really morbid, with Bruce having referred in his last three posts to maiming, hell, and death. Can somebody please make sure that he has some fun in Minnesota? Please take him out and show him a good time.

No kidding.

I'd write on invertebrates, but unfortunately I'm getting ready to drive to Kentucky right now.

Traveling with Bruce Arthur: UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED

I just spent my lunch period learning how a local firm figured out how the 35W bridge collapsed, so it may be more likely than you think.

Tournament Complete. Chris Ray, Mik Larsen, and Fred Morlan all have copies.

If you are running this tournament and have a tied game, I have written some tiebreaker tossups. Email me to get them.

Stats: http://results.scobo.net/dtaylor4/WildKingdom

dtaylor4 wrote:Stats: http://results.scobo.net/dtaylor4/WildKingdom

For some reason, this link is redirecting me to the main MO stats, though I'm not sure if the problem is with the link or just my computer.

MLWGS-Gir wrote:

dtaylor4 wrote:Stats: http://results.scobo.net/dtaylor4/WildKingdom

For some reason, this link is redirecting me to the main MO stats, though I'm not sure if the problem is with the link or just my computer.

This happens to me as well.

Quizbowl will be tickled to learn that a team named "The Lady" tied with a team named "or the Tiger"

I uploaded the wrong files, it should be fixed now.

This was pretty enjoyable. While it had some quirks that one could suspect seeing its author, every round had a few really neat questions. The vagaries of the distribution resulted in some...questionable...choices at times, but I had a good time.

Please don't discuss the questions until the UCLA and Maryland mirrors have concluded sometime tonight.

http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

That link should work for stats.

So this set got kind of weird at times, but there were a fair number of interesting questions and overall it was great fun.

This was a whimsical and fun bunch of packets. Which, I'm guessing, was kind of the idea.

Scouts bring word that Matt Weiner won the Maryland mirror of this.