Traditional Academic Tournament II (TAT II) (Online, National) (4/9/22)

[nicole.]

I am excited to announce the second-ever Traditional Academic Tournament on Saturday, April 9th, 2022. The tournament will take place on Discord and will use the Boilermaker Spring Novice question set. Myself (Nicole Pruitt), will be acting as tournament director. The Tournament will start at 11 AM EST to best accommodate for all North American Time Zones.

Question Set
This tournament will be on the Boilermaker Spring Novice set. This set is college novice difficulty, which transposes to in between regs and regs+ with a greater focus on the college quiz bowl canon and an added amount of whimsy due to more general knowledge content. You can read about its distribution and writers here. We will be using both tossups and bonuses.

Eligibility
This tournament is open to any high school in the United States and Canada, however, this tournament is more aimed towards teams who are nats-qualifying tier.

Payment
The tournament will take place entirely online and have a fee of $80 for the first team with each additional team costing $65. New Teams (teams who have not played since either the 2017-2018 season or not at all, will receive a $30 discount on their first team, and $30 for each additional). Payment Details will be released as we get closer to the tournament, though most likely payment will be done via check, PayPal, and Venmo.

To abide by PACE Guidelines, this tournament will require players to use cameras. This tournament will be using Discord Video.

There will be a maximum of 6 players per team, with 4 players playing at a time. We recommend that teams that have more than 4 players consider splitting into multiple teams.
Due to the large amount of planning and setup for online tournaments, any team canceling after 9:59 PM EST on Monday, April 4th, will be expected to pay full tournament dues.

Registration:
Part of the Traditional Academic Tournament Gimmick is the Invite-Only Window. Therefore, until March 20th, you can only register for this tournament if you get an email invite from yours truly. After that I'll post the link to the registration form.

Staff:
If you want to read for the Traditional Academic Tournament, please email me at [email protected]. Staff will be given a stipend of $30.

Feel free to contact [email protected] for any questions or concerns that you may have. We hope to see you on April 10th!

[nicole.]

Field Updates Will Be Here:
"Team Water Tribe" (IL) (1)
Mira Loma High School (CA) (1)
Brockport High School (NY) (1)

Total: 3/36

[nicole.]

open registration is now in effect: https://forms.gle/14AVPiweAPzeKuHBA

[nicole.]

this is being cancelled due to lack of teams interested, sorry about that, the demand just isn't there for online events