Triacontakaipentagon 2.5: August 2014
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:56 pm
This is a revised sequel to the first Triacontakaipentagon.
This will be a totally guerilla (that is, 100% unedited, free of charge, and whatever "casual" may mean) tournament.
This tournament will require you to write a 35-tossup, no-bonus packet, containing 1 question representing each of the 35 subjects below. Significant changes have been made based on what didn't go over well at the original tournament, as well as general input on how to make this event even better than the much-beloved first incarnation. Mostly, the changes were in the direction of replacing "any academic" and "any trash" type categories with topics from IRC packets, but there are other, subtler differences, so please work entirely from this new topic list below and not from the old thread.
Note: Since this is a guerilla event, sites may expect you to staff the tournament on your bye. Thus, teams formed in advance to write should consist of exactly four people and not any more or less than that. Individual hosts can decide what to do about non-writing people on the day of their tournaments.
The mantra here is: "Write on creative and difficult things that are too weird or too hard to include in any other quizbowl tournament, but that you still might expect someone, somewhere to answer." Don't go too far in either the standard-ACF-Nationals canon or in the "let's just write on things that I know the best players in quizbowl can't get to prove I can do it" directions. The Hirsch, Weiner, Adams, Douglass, and Carson packets from the original set are the best examples of the tone we are going for here.
Distribution
Category groupings are provided solely for your convenience and are not meant to bind you to any one interpretation of what these side tournaments might have contained beyond what is specified. E.g., your question on India can be on Indian music or an Indian scientist, it doesn't have to be on Indian history as quizbowl would normally define it just because it's listed under "history". However, a question that says "military history" should be on military history, etc -- the point is to be creative within the bounds of the specific subcategory names.
SCIENCE:
A question related to animals
A question on "engineering," however defined
A science question
A math question
A technology question in the spirit of The Questions Concerning Technology
HISTORY:
A question pertaining to India or Indian culture in some way
A question on military history
A question pertaining to "the 20th century"
A question on any event, historical or fictional, that somehow involved at least one citizen of Japan being injured in some way
A question on Byzantine or medieval Slavic history
A history question involving a famous serial killer or incident of murder, in which all factual details are otherwise accurate but all names of victims are replaced with the name "Kirk Jing"
A question involving the history of barbarians (non-Greeks/non-Romans in Europe before 476 CE)
LITERATURE:
A question on Asian literature
A question pertaining to a novella, short story, or poem
A question on classical (ancient Greek/Roman) literature
A question on post-World War II science fiction, children's, or pulp literature (listed here but it's OK if it's something that would clearly be considered "trash lit")
ARTS:
A question on painting from the years 500 to 1250 CE
A question on academic music
A question on architecture
RMP/SS:
A question on something related to Jews or Judaism
A myth question
A social science or philosophy question
A question that could appear in a putative "all-religion side tournament"
TRASH:
A question on anything from trash music as quizbowl defines it
A question on sports
A question on rock music
A question on a specific episode of a TV show, whose answer is the title of the episode
TWO questions on movies occupying any point on the academic/trash spectrum
OTHER:
A question somehow involving hats
A very difficult question of Gaddis-like level
A question on a fictional place (can be academic or trash)
A mashup question in which the answerline is an academic topic combined with the proper name of something from the Star Wars universe
A "your choice" question
A question using good geography parameters ("Tourism, economic impact of the physical landscape, interactions between humans and the environment, political conflict over resources and boundaries, and the impact of place on culture, history, and current events") but whose answer is the name of a city, town or village in Illinois other than Chicago
Note -- due to overuse at the first Tricon, the following topics are completely banned from this tournament and may not appear in your questions in any way:
*Anime
*The painter Duccio
*The early 90s rap group Arrested Development
*The Salman Rushdie novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Also, you should not write more than 1 tossup in your packet whose answer is the name of an album of music.
Please write and randomize a packet containing precisely 1 of each question above (or two where noted). In categories where the broad category itself occurs (e.g. "a science question" under science) that is 1 distinct question in addition to all the other, more specific question subjects listed.
Be as creative as possible and write on whatever difficulty or particular subject you want within the stated parameters. What constitutes a question "on" or "pertaining to" some thing is totally up to your interpretation within the limits of common sense, good faith, and not trying to be more clever than you are, as specified above. Questions should contain superpowers and powers, and probably be around 7 lines long on average, but do what makes sense for each category.
This tournament costs $0 to play and will be edited by no one. There will be a central collator whose job is solely to collect the packets from each participating team across the various sites and send out the full compilation of packets for use.
Use this thread to form teams and let people know that you are writing or have completed a packet.
This will be a totally guerilla (that is, 100% unedited, free of charge, and whatever "casual" may mean) tournament.
This tournament will require you to write a 35-tossup, no-bonus packet, containing 1 question representing each of the 35 subjects below. Significant changes have been made based on what didn't go over well at the original tournament, as well as general input on how to make this event even better than the much-beloved first incarnation. Mostly, the changes were in the direction of replacing "any academic" and "any trash" type categories with topics from IRC packets, but there are other, subtler differences, so please work entirely from this new topic list below and not from the old thread.
Note: Since this is a guerilla event, sites may expect you to staff the tournament on your bye. Thus, teams formed in advance to write should consist of exactly four people and not any more or less than that. Individual hosts can decide what to do about non-writing people on the day of their tournaments.
The mantra here is: "Write on creative and difficult things that are too weird or too hard to include in any other quizbowl tournament, but that you still might expect someone, somewhere to answer." Don't go too far in either the standard-ACF-Nationals canon or in the "let's just write on things that I know the best players in quizbowl can't get to prove I can do it" directions. The Hirsch, Weiner, Adams, Douglass, and Carson packets from the original set are the best examples of the tone we are going for here.
Distribution
Category groupings are provided solely for your convenience and are not meant to bind you to any one interpretation of what these side tournaments might have contained beyond what is specified. E.g., your question on India can be on Indian music or an Indian scientist, it doesn't have to be on Indian history as quizbowl would normally define it just because it's listed under "history". However, a question that says "military history" should be on military history, etc -- the point is to be creative within the bounds of the specific subcategory names.
SCIENCE:
A question related to animals
A question on "engineering," however defined
A science question
A math question
A technology question in the spirit of The Questions Concerning Technology
HISTORY:
A question pertaining to India or Indian culture in some way
A question on military history
A question pertaining to "the 20th century"
A question on any event, historical or fictional, that somehow involved at least one citizen of Japan being injured in some way
A question on Byzantine or medieval Slavic history
A history question involving a famous serial killer or incident of murder, in which all factual details are otherwise accurate but all names of victims are replaced with the name "Kirk Jing"
A question involving the history of barbarians (non-Greeks/non-Romans in Europe before 476 CE)
LITERATURE:
A question on Asian literature
A question pertaining to a novella, short story, or poem
A question on classical (ancient Greek/Roman) literature
A question on post-World War II science fiction, children's, or pulp literature (listed here but it's OK if it's something that would clearly be considered "trash lit")
ARTS:
A question on painting from the years 500 to 1250 CE
A question on academic music
A question on architecture
RMP/SS:
A question on something related to Jews or Judaism
A myth question
A social science or philosophy question
A question that could appear in a putative "all-religion side tournament"
TRASH:
A question on anything from trash music as quizbowl defines it
A question on sports
A question on rock music
A question on a specific episode of a TV show, whose answer is the title of the episode
TWO questions on movies occupying any point on the academic/trash spectrum
OTHER:
A question somehow involving hats
A very difficult question of Gaddis-like level
A question on a fictional place (can be academic or trash)
A mashup question in which the answerline is an academic topic combined with the proper name of something from the Star Wars universe
A "your choice" question
A question using good geography parameters ("Tourism, economic impact of the physical landscape, interactions between humans and the environment, political conflict over resources and boundaries, and the impact of place on culture, history, and current events") but whose answer is the name of a city, town or village in Illinois other than Chicago
Note -- due to overuse at the first Tricon, the following topics are completely banned from this tournament and may not appear in your questions in any way:
*Anime
*The painter Duccio
*The early 90s rap group Arrested Development
*The Salman Rushdie novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Also, you should not write more than 1 tossup in your packet whose answer is the name of an album of music.
Please write and randomize a packet containing precisely 1 of each question above (or two where noted). In categories where the broad category itself occurs (e.g. "a science question" under science) that is 1 distinct question in addition to all the other, more specific question subjects listed.
Be as creative as possible and write on whatever difficulty or particular subject you want within the stated parameters. What constitutes a question "on" or "pertaining to" some thing is totally up to your interpretation within the limits of common sense, good faith, and not trying to be more clever than you are, as specified above. Questions should contain superpowers and powers, and probably be around 7 lines long on average, but do what makes sense for each category.
This tournament costs $0 to play and will be edited by no one. There will be a central collator whose job is solely to collect the packets from each participating team across the various sites and send out the full compilation of packets for use.
Use this thread to form teams and let people know that you are writing or have completed a packet.