VCU Open - Revision history

Matt Weiner at 13:23, 23 January 2021

2021-01-23T13:23:05Z

2021-01-22T23:16:45Z

2015-08-11T19:08:56Z

2015-06-16T18:58:24Z

2014: reception

2015-02-19T05:16:17Z

2014

2014-04-21T06:09:14Z

2009

2014-04-21T06:08:28Z

2008

2014-04-21T06:08:16Z

2008

2013-10-01T02:24:05Z

2013-05-31T00:39:03Z

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 ===2016===
-VCU stepped in to host a summer tournament weekend containing NASAT mirror and several side events following the last-minute cancellation of Virginia's announced tournament weekend.
+VCU stepped in to host a summer tournament weekend containing a NASAT mirror and several side events following the last-minute cancellation of Virginia's announced tournament weekend.
 ===2017===

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 ===2015===
-VCU Open 2015 was written by [[Will Nediger]], [[Cody Voight]], [[Evan Adams]], [[Kenji Golimlim]], [[Matt Bollinger]], and [[Akhil Garg]].
+VCU Open 2015 was written by [[Will Nediger]], [[Cody Voight]], [[Evan Adams]], [[Kenji Golimlim]], [[Matt Bollinger]], and [[Akhil Garg]].  It was the final edition of the question set thusfar.
 [[Category: Tournaments]]
 [[Category: Open Tournaments]]
 [[Category: VCU]]

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 ===2011===
-VCU Open 2011 consisted of an academic tournament, on Saturday, and a trash tournament, on Sunday, both hosted at [[Maryland]]. The academic tournament was written by [[Evan Adams]] (all non-science except social science and philosophy tossups), [[Cody Voight]] (all science) and [[Matt Weiner]] (social science and philosophy tossups) and the trash tournament was written by [[Mike Cheyne]] and [[George Berry]].
+VCU Open 2011 consisted of an academic tournament, on Saturday, and a trash tournament, on Sunday, both hosted at [[Maryland]]. The academic tournament was written by [[Evan Adams]] (all non-science except social science and philosophy tossups), [[Cody Voight]] (all science) and [[Matt Weiner]] (social science and philosophy tossups) and the trash tournament was written by [[Mike Cheyne]] and [[George Berry]]. [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11885 It was the subject of a notoriously terrible tournament discussion].
 ===2012===
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 VCU Open 2014 was written by [[Matt Weiner]], [[Mike Bentley]], [[Sinan Ulusoy]], [[Shan Kothari]], [[Dan Puma]], and [[Jordan Brownstein]]. It was somewhat coolly received, in part because many of the questions were written the night before the tournament.
 [[Category: Tournaments]]
 [[Category: Open Tournaments]]
 [[Category: VCU]]

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 ===2014===
-VCU Open 2014 was written by [[Matt Weiner]], [[Mike Bentley]], [[Sinan Ulusoy]], [[Shan Kothari]], [[Dan Puma]], and [[Jordan Brownstein]].
+VCU Open 2014 was written by [[Matt Weiner]], [[Mike Bentley]], [[Sinan Ulusoy]], [[Shan Kothari]], [[Dan Puma]], and [[Jordan Brownstein]]. It was somewhat coolly received, in part because many of the questions were written the night before the tournament.
 [[Category: Tournaments]]
 [[Category: Open Tournaments]]
 [[Category: VCU]]

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 VCU Open 2013 was written by [[Cody Voight]] (science, music, film, geography), [[Matt Weiner]] (non-American literature, religion, philosophy, social science), [[Daniel Hothem]] (all history), and [[George Berry]] (painting, non-film misc. arts, trash, current events), with freelance contributions from [[Auroni Gupta]] (American literature, other mythology) and [[Sarah Angelo]] (Greco-Roman mythology).
 [[Category: Tournaments]]
 [[Category: Open Tournaments]]
 [[Category: VCU]]

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 ===2009===
-The difficulty of VCU Open was toned down somewhat, and it involved some impromptu submissions from people such as [[Aaron Cohen]].
+The difficulty of VCU Open was toned down somewhat, and it involved some semi-impromptu packet submissions due to fears that the set would not be otherwise completed.
 ===2010===

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 ===2008===
-The tournament moved to the summer to signal its true open difficulty level. It was written by Matt Weiner with science by Billy Beyer. The tournament was paused during Round 9 so Mike Bentley could run [[Gunpei Yukoi]], allowing for the last playoff round's writing to be finished.
+The tournament moved to the summer to signal its true open difficulty level. It was written by Matt Weiner with science by Billy Beyer. The tournament was paused during Round 9 so Mike Bentley could run [[Gunpei Yokoi]], allowing for the last playoff round's writing to be finished.
 ===2009===