Minnesota Open - Revision history

Kevin Wang: /* 2019 (PIANO) */

2020-12-22T15:13:10Z

2019 (PIANO)

Kevin Wang: /* 2010 */

2020-12-22T15:07:14Z

2010

Kevin Wang: /* 2012 */

2020-12-14T21:44:46Z

2012

Kevin Wang: /* 2011 (Minnesota Open/Penn Intergalactic) */

2020-12-14T21:44:39Z

2011 (Minnesota Open/Penn Intergalactic)

Jacob Reed at 17:51, 18 March 2019

2019-03-18T17:51:45Z

Stephen Eltinge: formatting cleanup

2018-08-08T19:10:23Z

formatting cleanup

Rob Carson: /* Results */

2013-03-13T02:38:04Z

Results

Rob Carson at 02:37, 13 March 2013

2013-03-13T02:37:50Z

Rob Carson: sadly, I think stats for the first couple of years got eaten when gautam graduated--maybe he still has them?

2013-03-11T08:08:06Z

sadly, I think stats for the first couple of years got eaten when gautam graduated--maybe he still has them?

Matt Jackson at 06:23, 11 March 2013

2013-03-11T06:23:46Z

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 ==2019 (PIANO)==
-The Minnesota Open brand was partially revived by [[Sam Bailey]] and [[Shan Kothari]] in their collaboration with Jacob Reed on 2019's spring open, [[PIANO]].
+:''See: [[PIANO]]''
 == Results ==

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 The third MO was held on November 17, 2010. It was edited by [[Rob Carson]], [[Mike Cheyne]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]], and [[Bernadette Spencer]] (Andrew was starting law school at the time).
-Side events included a guerrilla tournament on RPG video games, a set of Before-and-After questions by Mike Cheyne, a music listening tournament by Andrew Hart, and [[Bruce Arthur]]'s Wild Kingdom, a set of tossups about animals.
+Side events included a guerrilla tournament on RPG video games, a set of Before-and-After questions by Mike Cheyne, a music listening tournament by Andrew Hart, and [[Bruce Arthur]]'s [[Wild Kingdom]], a set of tossups about animals.
 ==2011 (Minnesota Open/Penn Intergalactic) ==

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 The 2012 incarnation of Minnesota Open, held on November 17, 2012, was edited by [[Andrew Hart]], [[Auroni Gupta]], [[Cody Voight]], and [[Gaurav Kandlikar]].
-The major side events were [[Eyes that Do Not See]] IV, and a vanity trash event written by [[Mike Cheyne]].
+The major side events were [[Eyes That Do Not See]] IV, and a vanity trash event written by [[Mike Cheyne]].
 ==2019 (PIANO)==

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 The 2011 incarnation of Minnesota Open got its second name when [[Rob Carson]], [[Mike Cheyne]], and [[Bernadette Spencer]] added [[Eric Mukherjee]] of [[Penn]] for their science editing. Some editors' packets featured questions from [[Saajid Moyen]] and [[Patrick Liao]]. It was held at two sites on November 19, 2011: a Minnesota site and a Penn site.
-The side event was [[Eyes that Do Not See]] III.
+The side event was [[Eyes That Do Not See]] III.
 ==2012==

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	The major side events were [[Eyes that Do Not See]] IV, and a vanity trash event written by [[Mike Cheyne]].		The major side events were [[Eyes that Do Not See]] IV, and a vanity trash event written by [[Mike Cheyne]].
		+
		+	==2019 (PIANO)==
		+	The Minnesota Open brand was partially revived by [[Sam Bailey]] and [[Shan Kothari]] in their collaboration with Jacob Reed on 2019's spring open, [[PIANO]].

	== Results ==		== Results ==

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-'''Minnesota Open''' (or '''MO''') is an [[mACF]], [[open]], hard collegiate tournament held during the fall. In the years that it has existed, it has grown into the premier (and sometimes only) hard tournament of the fall semester, if not the entire year before Nationals.
+'''Minnesota Open''' (or '''MO''') was an [[mACF]], [[open]], hard collegiate tournament held every fall from 2008 to 2012. In the years that it existed, it served as the premier hard tournament before nationals season every year.
-==2008 Incarnation==
+==2008==
-The first MO was held on the 18th of October at the [[University of Minnesota]]. It was a Regionals+ difficulty packet submission event edited by [[Rob Carson]], [[Andrew Hart]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]], and [[Bernadette Spencer]] with several contributions by [[Charles Meigs]] and other gracious members of the community. Mirrors of the 2008 MO were held at [[UTC]], [[Stanford]] and [[MIT]].
+The first MO was held on October 18, 2008 at the [[University of Minnesota]]. It was a Regionals+ difficulty packet submission event edited by [[Rob Carson]], [[Andrew Hart]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]], and [[Bernadette Spencer]] with several contributions by [[Charles Meigs]] and other gracious members of the community. Mirrors of the 2008 MO were held at [[UTC]], [[Stanford]] and [[MIT]].
 In addition to the main tournament, MO started a tradition of hosting a broader slate of events across the weekend with three side events:
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 The first annual Giacomo Balla basketball tournament was played the Friday night before the tournament, resulting in the delightful spectacle of a sore Rob Carson limping around for the entire ensuing weekend. The always ill-conceived, rarely-executed idea of "Quizbowl Basketball" has haunted the world ever since.
 ==2009==
-The second MO was held on the 17th of October at the [[University of Minnesota]]. It was a difficult packet submission event edited by [[Rob Carson]], [[Andrew Hart]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]], [[Bernadette Spencer]], and [[Brian Lindquist]].
+The second MO was held on October 17, 2009 at the [[University of Minnesota]]. It was a difficult packet submission event edited by [[Rob Carson]], [[Andrew Hart]], [[Gautam Kandlikar]], [[Bernadette Spencer]], and [[Brian Lindquist]].
 Once again, there were some exciting side events:
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 Side events included a guerrilla tournament on RPG video games, a set of Before-and-After questions by Mike Cheyne, a music listening tournament by Andrew Hart, and [[Bruce Arthur]]'s Wild Kingdom, a set of tossups about animals.
-==2011 (Minnesota Open / Penn Intergalactic) ==
+==2011 (Minnesota Open/Penn Intergalactic) ==
 The 2011 incarnation of Minnesota Open got its second name when [[Rob Carson]], [[Mike Cheyne]], and [[Bernadette Spencer]] added [[Eric Mukherjee]] of [[Penn]] for their science editing. Some editors' packets featured questions from [[Saajid Moyen]] and [[Patrick Liao]]. It was held at two sites on November 19, 2011: a Minnesota site and a Penn site.
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 == Results ==
-Main site results:
+===Main site results===
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-Mirror site results
+===Mirror site results===
--2012: A mirror at Columbia was won by [[Penn]] plus [[Ted Gioia]], who defeated [[Yale]] in a terse two-game final riddled with science protests. [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1186/stats/all_games/ Stats]. Some Canadians also played a delayed mirror two months later or something.
+* 2008: The MIT mirror was won by a duo of [[Jerry Vinokurov]] and [[Eric Mukherjee]], whose efforts to replicate the Hoppes-Mikanowski feat of topping 70 ppg each was almost successful. Stats can be found [http://web.mit.edu/graceli/Public/quizbowl/MOStats/MinnOpenStats_standings.html here]. The Stanford Mirror was won by a team of [[Mike Sexton]] and [[Brian Lindquist]]. Stats can be found [http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/tournaments/2008_minnesota_open_mirror/minnesota-open_standings.html here].
 [[Category:mACF events]]
 [[Category:Tournaments]]
 [[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]

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 | 17
 | probably [[Jonathan Magin]] or [[Matt Weiner]]
-| not yet
+| not yet recovered
 |-
 | 2009
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 | 13
 | probably [[Jonathan Magin]]
-| not yet
+| not yet recovered
 |-
 | 2010

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 | 17
 | probably [[Jonathan Magin]] or [[Matt Weiner]]
-| [http://www.tc.umn.edu/~kand0028/quiz_bowl/stats/minnesota_open_2008/2008MO_standings.html]
+| not yet
 |-
 | 2009
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 | 13
 | probably [[Jonathan Magin]]
-| [http://www.tc.umn.edu/~kand0028/quiz_bowl/stats/minnesota_open_2009/MO%202009_standings.html here]
+| not yet
 |-
 | 2010
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 | 8
 | [[Jonathan Magin]]
-| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/488/stats/macf/]
+| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/488/stats/macf/ Yes]
 |-
 | 2011
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 | [[Ike Jose]]
-| http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/165/stats/full_stats/
+| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/165/stats/full_stats/ Yes]
 |-
 | 2012
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 | [[Seth Teitler]]
-| http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1180/stats/mo_v_final_stats/
+| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1180/stats/mo_v_final_stats/ Yes]
 |}