11) Aside from buying questions from CBI, how can I get more questions to use in practice? (College Bowl)
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This article is from the College Bowl FAQ, by George Atendido aten0001@tc.umn.edu with numerous contributions by others.
11) Aside from buying questions from CBI, how can I get more questions to use in practice? (College Bowl)
The first answer is: write them on your own (see question 11a). Getting your
players to write questions is a very good way to both develop playing
skills and to expose the team to new knowledge, as well as generate more
practice material. For example, if you have a 15-member club (14 players
and one coach) and each person wrote one packet per month, that would be a
total of 180 new packets for the year. If these questions are used in
practice, the team may learn many things they did not know before. Also,
writing questions and using them in practice is an excellent way to keep
the club up-to-date with current events and other happenings. In addition,
becoming a good question writer can be helpful to playing skills. While
playing, a good question writer often has a better sense of where a
question is leading, and thus may be better able to anticipate the answer.
The second answer: trade with other schools. Many schools maintain question
libraries, and are willing to trade, sell, and sometimes give away
questions. Be careful, however: questions from CBI may not be transferred
or duplicated without company permission! Also, be careful about question
sales in general: the host school of a tournament is held to be the owner
of all questions submitted for that tournament, and they have final say on
how those questions are distributed.
The third answer: download them from the CB/ACF web site. Here's
how:
[original by Peter Freeman, additions by Paul Harm, changes by George]
An site is now available for the deposit and withdrawal of
old CB/ACF tournament sets. I have set up this site so that schools
may utilize the network to get question sets for their practices. Please
do not utilize this resource as a last-minute measure to create question
sets for tournaments; if I hear any complaints about questions being re-used
or mis-used, I will pull the plug immediately.
This site will start with a limited selection; the idea is for those of
you who have held tournaments and who have old sets on a mainframe or on
disk to contribute them. Some schools charge for their sets, though; in
anticipation of this, I have worked out an agreement with BU and Penn to
hold any sets for at least one year (e.g., the site has the 1992 Terrier
Tussle, but not the 1993). I would like to make that a general rule, if
others are willing, i.e. if you charge for your sets, do not send anything
less than a year old.
The archive is currently at the web site:
<http://www.papyrus-inc.com/college_bowl>
This supercedes all other addresses for the archive.
If there are any problems or comments, or if you would like information on
how to submit old sets, please send e-mail to: dionysos@papyrus-inc.com
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