Building off Mike Etzkorn's throwaway comment in the Illinois Side Open thread, I'm going to announce a guerrilla trash event. This might get played at Illinois. It might just get read online or given to people to read on car rides home. Whatever. It's a guerrilla tournament.
Send the packets to me (e-mail address in profile) by Friday, August 10 (any time).
These are tossup-only.
The distribution is based on what is classified as "popular culture" and "sports" in the NAQT categories.
22 tossups:
1 Advertising
1 Comics
1 Fashion
1 Film
1 Food and Drink
1 Game (atypical sports, board games, not truly video games)
1 Internet Life
3 Miscellaneous/Other (cross distro or any category)
1 Musicals
1 Personalities (i.e. celebrity gossip and the like)
1 Popular Music--Country, Rap, or Rock
1 Popular Music--anything besides above three genres
1 Radio (define this however you want)
1 Sports--Basketball
1 Sports--Baseball
1 Sports--Football
2 Sports--Other (any other sport)
1 Television
1 Video Games
Please shoot for interesting and accessible and don't just throw out dumb tossups on minor sports or food. This is guerrilla, so if you feel more comfortable doing a "food" tossup that is really more of a film tossup, or a "radio" tossup that is really more of a sports tossup, go ahead. I'd rather have that than seeing a minor regional disc jockey tossed up. All tossups can be cross-distributional if that works best for you.
The Herb Voland Memorial Tournament: Gorilla Trash
The Herb Voland Memorial Tournament: Gorilla Trash
Mike Cheyne
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
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Re: The Herb Voland Memorial Tournament: Gorilla Trash
I'll at the very least contribute 1 packet to this (distribution likely to only be vaguely followed)
Michael Etzkorn
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy '16
UIUC '21
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy '16
UIUC '21
Re: The Herb Voland Memorial Tournament: Gorilla Trash
The best part of gorilla tournaments is ignoring the distribution.
Mike Cheyne
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
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Re: The Herb Voland Memorial Tournament: Gorilla Trash
There is an okay chance I'll have a packet for this.
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Re: The Herb Voland Memorial Tournament: Gorilla Trash
I'm currently in the process of preparing a packet for this.
Robbinsdale Cooper - '16
Author of M.E.M.E.I.Q.
Author of M.E.M.E.I.Q.
Re: The Herb Voland Memorial Tournament: Gorilla Trash
There are 4 packets for this (5 counting Mike Etzkorn's which I don't have). If the authors (or whoever) want to read them in Discord next week, that might be mild fun. Otherwise, I'll just post them.
Mike Cheyne
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Re: The Herb Voland Memorial Tournament: Gorilla Trash
I'll post these packets on Friday.
Mike Cheyne
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger