Eleventh Annual
Texas Regional Ethics Bowl
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Saint Mary's University
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The final regional standings from 2008 are here: http://skipperweb.org/ethicsbowl/2008/results.html The Texas Regional Ethics Bowl (TREB) is a qualifying event for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (the national ethics bowl), sponsored by Illinois Institute of Technology. The national event will take place in late February, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information on the IEB and for names of other regional bowls, follow this link: National Ethics Bowl. The consequences of placing high. As usual, the top four teams of the TREB will receive a trophy. However, the arrangement concerning qualifying for the national event is more complex. Our arrangement with IIT is that our regional event will have a number of places determined by the total number of regional bowls around the country. This year there are ten regional bowls. This means that there are only three guaranteed slots are available for us. The top three schools from our event (not the top three teams) will be given the option of sending one team each to the national event. Schools who have two or more winning teams only receive a single invitation (but, see the note below).* The top three schools will receive an invitation to go on to the national event. If a school with a winning team declines to accept the invitation, it passes down the list again. To make matters even more complex, there may be undistributed places at the national event. That is, after the guaranteed places are distributed, there may be a few left over. Those places will then be filled by runner-up teams from regional events, determined by a complex formula you may examine on this page. Therefore, even if your team does not win one of the top three places, you may still find yourself invited to compete nationally. Cases. The seven cases are selected from a pool of fifteen cases that were written by a committee for use by all regional events: Cases. Fees. The fee is fifty dollars for each school plus twenty-five dollars per team. This should be made payable to St. Mary's University.
* Note: If one school has multiple organizations that each wish to compete, there is a special arrangement that can be made. This might happen (for instance) if there was one team from an extra-curricular philosophy club and one team from a for-credit criminal justice class both entering, but having different coaches, sponsors, and budgets. Two such teams are called "unlinked" and must be declared in advance. Unlinked teams, though actually from the same school, are treated as though they were from different schoolls and must each pay the fifty-dollar national fee. Please see the "Regional IEB Rules" at the IIT website. Please bookmark this page and keep checking back. More information will be posted here as it becomes available. Dr. Robert Boyd Skipper | ||||||||