SuMO Trash at Pellissippi State, Knoxville (07/09/2023)
Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 3:39 pm
This is the formal announcement of and invitation of registrations for SuMO Trash: ALL HAIL SUNSPHERE.
The stress of SuMO Academic can tax even the hardiest buzzer-presser, and we have taken great delight in breaking that stress with a playable trash tournament that rewards players of all levels. We hope you’ll join us for fun and games on the campus of Pellissippi State’s Hardin Valley campus in Knoxville, TN for a fast-paced mixed-partnerships trash competition on Sunday, July 9th. Again, we thank Natural and Behavioral Sciences for their partnership in making a Knoxville site for the tournament happen.
Details below, or you can just go ahead and bypass the details and sign your partnership up.
<https://forms.gle/k2xjK3X41gpmoYXd7>
FORMAT
You still register as a partnership of two, not as a team of four. On the morning of the tournament, you and your teammate will still be paired with another partnership, roughly based on your experience and skill level. You will still play the tournament with that other partnership, two partnerships paired as a four-player team. We still do this to try to build the most evenly-paired field possible; we want every game to be as competitive as possible.
We’ll establish a schedule when it’s clear how many partnerships will register; in the past, we’ve been able to guarantee nine games before playoffs.
SET
SuMO Trash once again is a mirror of Play Quiz Bowl’s ACRONYM set, this time the venerable ACRONYM 16. We know ACRONYM 16 has already been played extensively in person and online throughout the Southeast; unfortunately, the dearth of trash sets available limits our options. (If you’ve already played ACRONYM 16, please consider staffing!)
We extend our gratitude to Erik Nelson for the quality work he and his team at Play Quiz Bowl puts into the ACRONYM sets year in and year out .
FEE
The registration fee is $50 per partnership. If at all possible, we need the registration fee in cash, because…
PRIZES
…SuMO remains a cash game, and the prizes for the top teams are cash. There’s roughly a 50/30/20 split of the tournament prize pool among the top three teams. Again, the final prize pool will be established when we get picture of the field.
The initial field cap is 20 partnerships. Our recent past has seen the equivalent of 28 partnerships/14 teams in the tournament field, so we’re quite able to extend the cap with sufficient staffing support.
ACADEMIC
You know you want to prove your worth in the serious game before you goof off on Sunday. Find out more about SuMO VIII: Follow the Winding Waters here.
STAFF, BUZZERS
We benefit from the good quizbowl community in this region to help make this tournament work! We historically haven’t given a staff or buzzer discount for the tournament to keep the division of the funds clean, but we do want the best staff possible, and we have confidence in readers of the region to provide support.
We’ve got a short registration for staffers to make sure you’re placed where you need to be <https://forms.gle/DJYgbWrtQTuKQA7T7>.
CONTACT
This is an East Tennessee Quizbowl event, and all questions and concerns should be shuttled through the East Tennessee Quizbowl email address ([email protected]). The tournament direction team is Dren Rollins (lead reader, chief of the treasury, head of protest committee) and Chuck Pearson (logistics director, stats-book wrangler).
We’re running this event in a new partnership with Natural and Behavioral Sciences at Pellissippi State; our host contact is NBS’ dean, Kane Barker (email available?).
REGISTER NOW
<https://forms.gle/k2xjK3X41gpmoYXd7>
DISCLAIMERS
Some information is subject to change; if changes occur, they will be posted on this thread.
And, as always, in the words of the genial quizmaster, all decisions of the tournament director are arbitrary, capricious, and final.
Come join us at our new home at Pellissippi State on July 9th.
The stress of SuMO Academic can tax even the hardiest buzzer-presser, and we have taken great delight in breaking that stress with a playable trash tournament that rewards players of all levels. We hope you’ll join us for fun and games on the campus of Pellissippi State’s Hardin Valley campus in Knoxville, TN for a fast-paced mixed-partnerships trash competition on Sunday, July 9th. Again, we thank Natural and Behavioral Sciences for their partnership in making a Knoxville site for the tournament happen.
Details below, or you can just go ahead and bypass the details and sign your partnership up.
<https://forms.gle/k2xjK3X41gpmoYXd7>
FORMAT
You still register as a partnership of two, not as a team of four. On the morning of the tournament, you and your teammate will still be paired with another partnership, roughly based on your experience and skill level. You will still play the tournament with that other partnership, two partnerships paired as a four-player team. We still do this to try to build the most evenly-paired field possible; we want every game to be as competitive as possible.
We’ll establish a schedule when it’s clear how many partnerships will register; in the past, we’ve been able to guarantee nine games before playoffs.
SET
SuMO Trash once again is a mirror of Play Quiz Bowl’s ACRONYM set, this time the venerable ACRONYM 16. We know ACRONYM 16 has already been played extensively in person and online throughout the Southeast; unfortunately, the dearth of trash sets available limits our options. (If you’ve already played ACRONYM 16, please consider staffing!)
We extend our gratitude to Erik Nelson for the quality work he and his team at Play Quiz Bowl puts into the ACRONYM sets year in and year out .
FEE
The registration fee is $50 per partnership. If at all possible, we need the registration fee in cash, because…
PRIZES
…SuMO remains a cash game, and the prizes for the top teams are cash. There’s roughly a 50/30/20 split of the tournament prize pool among the top three teams. Again, the final prize pool will be established when we get picture of the field.
The initial field cap is 20 partnerships. Our recent past has seen the equivalent of 28 partnerships/14 teams in the tournament field, so we’re quite able to extend the cap with sufficient staffing support.
ACADEMIC
You know you want to prove your worth in the serious game before you goof off on Sunday. Find out more about SuMO VIII: Follow the Winding Waters here.
STAFF, BUZZERS
We benefit from the good quizbowl community in this region to help make this tournament work! We historically haven’t given a staff or buzzer discount for the tournament to keep the division of the funds clean, but we do want the best staff possible, and we have confidence in readers of the region to provide support.
We’ve got a short registration for staffers to make sure you’re placed where you need to be <https://forms.gle/DJYgbWrtQTuKQA7T7>.
CONTACT
This is an East Tennessee Quizbowl event, and all questions and concerns should be shuttled through the East Tennessee Quizbowl email address ([email protected]). The tournament direction team is Dren Rollins (lead reader, chief of the treasury, head of protest committee) and Chuck Pearson (logistics director, stats-book wrangler).
We’re running this event in a new partnership with Natural and Behavioral Sciences at Pellissippi State; our host contact is NBS’ dean, Kane Barker (email available?).
REGISTER NOW
<https://forms.gle/k2xjK3X41gpmoYXd7>
DISCLAIMERS
Some information is subject to change; if changes occur, they will be posted on this thread.
And, as always, in the words of the genial quizmaster, all decisions of the tournament director are arbitrary, capricious, and final.
Come join us at our new home at Pellissippi State on July 9th.