Twelfth Annual Texas Regional Ethics Bowl
Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Texas Regional Ethics Bowl (TREB) serves as 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, 2010 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. Our arrangement with IIT works this way. Our regional event will have a number of places determined by the total number of teams competing in regional bowls around the country. Ten regional bowls mean that we may get to send four teams or we may only get to send three. We won't know for sure until after the completion of all the separate bowls. The top three (or four) schools from our event (not the top three teams) will receive an invitation to send 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).* If a school with a winning team declines to accept the invitation, it passes down the list again. To make matters even more complex, teams may receive "undistributed places" at the national event. That is, after the national organizers distribute the guaranteed places, they sometimes endu up with a few left over. They then fill those places with 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. I will select seven cases from a pool of fifteen, written by a committee for use by all regional events.

Fees. The fee is fifty dollars for each school plus twenty-five dollars per team. If your school sends one team, the fee comes to $75; two teams would cost $100; and so forth. Make all checks payable to St. Mary's University.