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We welcome anyone who is interested to attend any practice. For more information contact our coach, Eric Hillemann or any of this year's team officers Andreas Stoehr, Austin Bell, or Carsten Gehring.
Often new players first get interested in playing on the intercollegiate team by participating in the Fall IM tournament. We can generally expect several new players to join us immediately after the IM tournament. But new players should feel very welcome to begin coming to our practices at any time -- as soon as school begins in the Fall, after the IM tournament, or at any other point in the academic year that interest knocks.
If, after trying us out at practice, you decide that you do want to join the team, you will be asked to take, at your convenience, a 500-question short answer diagnostic test. Players decide individually what level of participation makes sense for them, but those who put in the most time and effort--through attending practice, writing questions, or working at systematic self-improvement--will also be those with the opportunity to play the most in tournaments. Players are encouraged to become able quizbowl question-writers, as well as players, and are advised that writing many questions oneself is an extremely effective means of improving one's playing abilities. During a player's first year as a member of the Carleton Academic Quiz Team, there is no question-writing requirement for full participation. For each year beyond the first, however, each player MUST write and submit at least one full packet of original questions--22 tossups and 22 bonuses, subject-balanced as per team guidelines--in order to establish eligibility for participation in any of our "packet-submission" tournaments. (That is, tournaments that require us to submit a team question packet or packets in order to play. Roughly half of the tournaments on our schedule tend to be packet-submission.) If you would like to view sample questions that could be used as a model for your own writing, you might look at the samples available on the NAQT site, or at the online question archive maintained by Stanford University.
