Question Writing Guidelines for Timed Games Written by Doug Bone, David Frazee, and Chris Golde, all associated at the time with Stanford. At invitational tournaments, participants traditionally complain about poor question quality and the need for question improvement and consistency.
Complaints cite misleading, wordy, obscure, grammatically faulty, and factually incorrect questions.
Poor question quality is a persistent problem at invitational tournaments partly because of the lack of guidance for question writers. This guide includes instructions for question formats and packet composition. In addition, some sample questions are attached. Whether you are a novice or experienced question writer, we hope this guide provides useful information and reasonable question expectations. Though editors will attempt to remove all duplicate and problem questions, they cannot verify the accuracy of every questions submitted, nor rewrite entire packets.