2010-11 Rules Changes

As Approved by the KAAC Board

Quick Recall

1)           Before a Quick Recall forfeit can be declared in any KAAC event, Contest Managers must make an attempt to contact the coach of the team that is in jeopardy. All coaches shall list their contact number on the event’s Entry Form.

2)           In Quick Recall at the High School level, the following format changes shall be enacted:

a)                 District and Regional: 15-minute and 40-question halves

b)                 State, Sunday Pool Play: 12-minute and 40-question halves

c)                  State, Monday Single Elimination: 15-minute and 50-question halves

3)           Quick Recall coaches shall have two “regular” timeouts and one “substitution” timeout. All timeouts are one minute.

a)                 Coaches may confer with students during either type of timeout.

b)                 The coach is responsible for designating the type of timeout called.

c)                  If “substitution timeout” is called, the coach MUST substitute at least one player.

d)                 If a coach has exhausted his or her “regular timeouts” and calls “timeout”, the judge shall inform the coach that a substitution is mandatory.

4)           At his or her discretion, the judge may declare an extended delay during an officials timeout. If this occurs, coaches may confer with students. When play is ready to resume, the coach must return to his or her seat immediately upon the request of the moderator. Failure to do so shall result in the next tossup being offered solely to the other team.

5)           Coaches may confer with students while officials are waiting for inquiry results to return to the competition room at the end of a match.

JV Challenge/Kentucky Colonels Sixth Grade Academic Showcase

6)           Composition shall be added as a seventh event in Sixth Grade Showcase and JV Challenge. Each school may enter up to three students in Composition.

a)                 Composition is scheduled for the Tuesday of competition week (Nov. 9 for JV and Nov. 30 for Sixth Grade Showcase in 2010).

b)                 Showcase students shall have one hour to complete their booklets; JV Challenge students shall have 90 minutes.

c)                  Schools shall have the option to conduct Composition at their own school rather than at the host school, using a procedure similar to the one that exists for Junior Division Future Problem Solving. If a school chooses this option:

                i)              KAAC will email Composition prompts just before the designated start time.

                ii)             Neither parents of Composition students, nor coaches, may serve as proctors.

                iii)            Coaches immediately fax completed booklets to KAAC, then as soon as possible scan and email completed booklets to both KAAC and the host school. Originals must be mailed or driven to the host site in time for the agreed-upon evaluation schedule. These details are to be determined in the Planning Meeting.

d)                 Regardless of where students compete, all schools within a section must set the same start time on Tuesday.

e)                 Composition evaluation must be completed before noon on Saturday.

7)           The following format changes have been approved for JV Challenge and Sixth Grade Showcase Quick Recall:

a)                 JV Challenge: 35-question halves

b)                 Sixth Grade Showcase: 30-question halves

c)                  Sections with fewer than eight teams shall continue to play double elimination.

d)                 Eight-team sections shall play two 4-team round robin pools, for the purpose of seeding all teams in an eight-team, single elimination bracket to determine final placements.

8)           Several changes were made to the Sixth Grade Showcase Language Arts and Arts and Humanities curriculum. Refer to the KAAC web site for more information.

FPS and Composition

9)           FPS evaluator certification numbers shall be added to the results pages coaches print off of ASAP following each competition.

10)       At the Governor’s Cup State Finals, if a school is required to provide both an FPS evaluator and a Composition reader, one person may not fulfill both requirements. Scoring for these two events occurs simultaneously at State Finals.

11)       At Regional Governor’s Cup, if the same person is designated to serve as both FPS evaluator and Composition reader, that person is prohibited from scoring both events in the same day.

Written Assessment

12)       Tiebreakers for State Written Assessment exams shall now consist of one set of 20 questions.