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As a former member of a 9 time Colorado state champion academic team and veteran of the National Academic Championship and the Panasonic Academic Challenge, I have some suggestions in regards to improving the format.
First, I'd suggest dropping any sort of TV inspired gimmicks, which seem to only serve to slow the pace of the game and make understanding the format more confusing. What I think everyone wants is a fast paced game where knowledge is rewarded with boobs and ignorance is punished with drinking.
I've played at least a dozen formats in tournaments and my favorite one is still the following:
Insert any arbitrary rules you want thereafter. I'd suggest "If you answer incorrectly, you drink". You could also have toss ups for bonus questions, where any team may answer the toss up but the team that answers it correctly gets to answer the bonus question alone. The prize for a correctly answered bonus question could be, oh, one of the hostesses removes a piece of clothing.
That's the basic jist of it. Let me know what you think.
There's also quite a bit of software out there for managing question lists and printing out question pools for tournaments. We used the Knowledge Master software developed by "The Great Auk" in Durango, CO.
First, I'd suggest dropping any sort of TV inspired gimmicks, which seem to only serve to slow the pace of the game and make understanding the format more confusing. What I think everyone wants is a fast paced game where knowledge is rewarded with boobs and ignorance is punished with drinking.
I've played at least a dozen formats in tournaments and my favorite one is still the following:
- Teams (of four, usually) compete in a series of rounds. Each round may have 2 or more teams competing; typically three at the same time.
- When a team member buzzes, anyone on that team, not just the person who buzzed, may answer the question if they so desire.
- Teams may only discuss who will answer. Talking about the question itself is prohibited. Typically a team will have a captain who will decide which team member will answer.
- After buzzing, teams have a fixed amount of time (10 secs) to decide who will answer and answer the question.
- There is no penalty for buzzing early, however the reader should stop immediately after hearing the buzzer.
- If the question has been read to completion and no one buzzes, the teams (or remaining team if the other team has already answered incorrectly) may ask for the question to be repeated.
- Every question should start with a topic. Teams have the opportunity to buzz in immediately after the topic has been read.
Insert any arbitrary rules you want thereafter. I'd suggest "If you answer incorrectly, you drink". You could also have toss ups for bonus questions, where any team may answer the toss up but the team that answers it correctly gets to answer the bonus question alone. The prize for a correctly answered bonus question could be, oh, one of the hostesses removes a piece of clothing.
That's the basic jist of it. Let me know what you think.
There's also quite a bit of software out there for managing question lists and printing out question pools for tournaments. We used the Knowledge Master software developed by "The Great Auk" in Durango, CO.
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