List of side events
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- See also: multiple category trash tournaments.
A list of side events and single-subject theme tournaments. Sets marked as "One-off packet" on the archive will not generally be included.
Sets without a format mentioned are 20 tossups, no bonuses.
2024-2025
- Full page: 2024-2025
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute Cinema | Arts | Film | 15 written tossups, 5 visual | 10 | Ani Perumalla | ||
| LITANY | Literature | 21 tossups | 10 | Shourjo Ganguli, Ali Hamzeh, Stan Melkumian, and Clark Smith | |||
| Spec Script | Arts | Film | 22 tossups | 11 | Ani Perumalla | ||
| 2025 RMP Fest | RMP | 22 tossups | 8 | Annabelle Yang, Justine French, Ganon Evans, Hasna Karim, Forrest Weintraub, Jaimie Carlson, Ashish Subramanian, and Vincent Du | |||
| Notes on the Underground | Literature | 10 | Taylor Harvey | ||||
| Untitled Film Set | Arts | Film | 10 written tossups, 10 visual | 11 | Ani Perumalla | ||
| Let's Remember Some Guys VI | Trash | Sports | 11 | packet sub organized by Andrew Hart | |||
| 2025 Spring Purdue Housewrite Catastrophe | 5 | Purdue | five short packets with different themes | ||||
| 2024 Fall Purdue Housewrite Catastrophe | 9 | Purdue | nine short packets with different themes | ||||
| This Set Is Garbo | Trash | English-language film, 1930-70 | 7 | Henry Atkins | Commissioned by Mike Cheyne[1] |
2023-2024
- Full page: 2023-2024
2022-2023
- Full page: 2022-2023
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
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2021-2022
- Full page: 2021-2022
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2022 | DECAF | Arts | Classical music | 22 tossups | 9 | Jeremy Cummings | |
| Announcement | 2022 Ontario Hybrid | All subject, Trash | hybrid tournament | 20/20 | 12 | Erik Christensen, Max Gedajlovic, Michelle Prunier, Brian Luong, Emmett Blanchett, Zachary Bernstein, Benjamin Lohoar, Tony Chen, and Joe Su | |
| September 31, 2021 | Semi-Serious Charity Tournament | All subject | 20/20 | 10 | Kurtis Droge | ||
| December 11, 2021 | TELEOLOGY | Author's Choice | 24 tossups | 11 | Taylor Harvey |
2020-2021
- Full page: 2020-2021
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 14, 2020 | FRENCH II | History | 12 | Alex Fregeau, Erik Christensen, Laurence Li, and Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | |||
| August 22, 2021 | Scattergories 5 | Author's choice | 10 | Will Nediger, JinAh Kim, and Mike Bentley | |||
| August 22, 2021 | MUSES II | The nine Muses | 8 | Brad MacLaine, Mitch McCullar, Iain Carpenter, Ethan Ashbrook, Ben Miller, Tim Cho, Raul Passement, William Golden, and Matthew Lehmann | |||
| August 22, 2021 | Geography Front | Geography | 30 tossups | 17 | Wesley Mathews | ||
| January 24, 2021 | The World As It Is | All subject | 13 | Mike Bentley, Nick Jensen, and Will Alston | topics from 1990 til current day | ||
| June 16, 2021 | JAVA | Arts | 20 visual tossups | 8 | Jaimie Carlson | ||
| August 22, 2021 | JORDU | Arts | Jazz | 6 | Victor Pavao and Will Bordowitz |
2019-2020
- Full page: 2019-2020
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 22, 2020 | Scattergories 4 | Author's choice | 10 | Will Nediger, JinAh Kim | |||
| April 4, 2020 | Internet Charity Tournament ("ICT") | ≈40 | guerrilla vanity (like Festivus) | not a side event; charity | |||
| August 3, 2020 | MARCATo | Arts | Music | 20 audio tossups | John Lawrence, Wonyoung Jang | held on QBlitz | |
| May 24, 2020 | Let's Remember Yet More Guys | Trash | Sports | ≈12 tossups | 14 | packet submission organized by Andrew Hart |
2018-2019
- Full page: 2018-2019
2017-2018
- Full page: 2017-2018
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announcement | Eyes That Do Not See IX | Arts | 10 visual tossups | 10 | Mike Bentley | ||
| ACRONYM 11 | Trash | 20/20 | Play Quiz Bowl | ||||
| April 14, 2018 | Historature | History, Literature | Will Alston, Sameen Belal, Ankit Aggarwal, Eric Mukherjee, Jaimie Carlson | charity | |||
| May 25, 2018 | GMX | Geography | Gabe Brison-Trezise | ||||
| May 26, 2018 | SOUNDTRACK | Trash | 20 audio tossups | 5 | Steven Silverman, Aakash Patel | ||
| May 26, 2018 | PACENSC 2018 | Trash | Pokémon | 20/20 | 6 | Luc Wetherbee, Daniel Xu | |
| July 29, 2018 | RAPTURE | Religion | 5 | Vasa Clarke | |||
| July 22, 2018 | Imaginary Landscape 4 | Arts | Classical music | 20 audio tossups | 8 | John Lawrence, Drew Scheeler | |
| July 28, 2018 | The Human Use of Human Beings | Modern things | 9 | Mike Bentley | |||
| Announcement | "Yo, Pass the AUX Cord, You'd Better Not Read" II | Trash | 21/20 | 4 | Fort Osage | ||
| April 28, 2018 | Words and Objects | Objects | 21 tossups | 6 | Rahul Keyal, James Malouf, Bruce Lou, Will Nediger |
2016-2017
- Full page: 2016-2017
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyes That Do Not See VIII | Arts | Visual art | 10? visual tossups | Mike Bentley | |||
| Let's Remember Some Guys | Trash | Sports | packet sub organized by Andrew Hart | ||||
| There Will Be Stock Clues | Food | John Lawrence, Max Schindler | |||||
| Math Monstrosity | Science | Math | Conor Thompson | ||||
| GRAB BAG | Trash | things Mike Bentley likes | Mike Bentley | ||||
| João | Myth | 1 | Eddie Kim | ||||
| Jordaens Visual Arts | Arts | Visual arts | 9 | Jordan Brownstein, Sarang Yeola | |||
| "Yo, Pass the AUX Cord, You'd Better Not Read" | Trash | 6 | Fort Osage | ||||
| XENOPHON | History, Literature | 5 | Nour Hijazi, Hari Parameswaran | ||||
| RAGU | Arts | Renaissance art | 20/20 | 1 | Hari Parameswaran, Pranav Sivakumar |
2015-2016
- Full page: 2015-2016
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTSEE | Arts | Visual art | Will Alston, Jarret Greene, Athena Kern, and Kai Smith | ||||
| Eyes That Do Not See VII | Arts | Visual art | visual tossups | Mike Bentley | |||
| The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes | Arts | Film | visual tossups | Will Nediger | |||
| Tricon: The 4D IMAX Experience | Subdistribution based on never-ran side events | packet sub organized by George Berry |
2014-2015
- Full page: 2014-2015
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyes That Do Not See VI | Arts | Visual art | visual tossups | Mike Bentley | |||
| Imaginary Landscape 3 | Arts | Classical music | audio tossups | Eddie Kim, Jonathan Magin, Rebecca Maxfield | |||
| Chicago Open History 2015: Quizbowl's New Chains Discovered | History | Doubles | packets | packet sub organized by Jeff Hoppes | |||
| RILKE | Literature | Singles | packets | John Lawrence, Nick Jensen | |||
| Chicago Open Visual Arts | Arts | Visual art | packets | Stephen Liu, Doug Graebner | |||
| Feynman's BONGOS | Science | packets | Will Overman, Farah Kabir |
2013-2014
- Full page: 2013-2014
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lederberg Memorial Science II | Science | Eric Mukherjee | |||||
| Imaginary Landscape 2 | Arts | Classical music | audio tossups | Jonathan Magin, Dave Letzler, Rebecca Maxfield, Jacob Reed | |||
| Triacontakaipentagon 2.5 | Subdistribution based on never-ran side events | audio tossups | packet sub organized by Matt Weiner | ||||
| The Mike Cheyne Memorial Battle Royal | Tribute to Mike Cheyne | audio tossups | packets | packet sub organized by Mike Cheyne | |||
| 3M: Chicago Open History Doubles | History | Doubles | packets | Mike Larsen, Mike Cheyne, Eric Mukherjee |
2012-2013
- Full page: 2012-2013
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago History Doubles | History | Doubles | packet sub | ||||
| Triacontakaipentagon | Subdistribution based on never-ran side events | packet sub organized by Matt Weiner | |||||
| Collin Parks's Byzantine History Tournament | History | Byzantine history | Collin Parks | ||||
| Eyes That Do Not See V | Arts | Visual arts | visual tossups | Mike Bentley | |||
| HUSKY III | Trash | visual tossups | packets could not be found | Mike Bentley, University of Washington | |||
| TAMIL | Trash | visual tossups | packets | Connor Teevens | |||
| Angels in the Architecture | Arts | Architecture | packets | Aidan Mehigan | |||
| Schindler's Lit | Literature | Architecture | packets | Max Schindler | |||
| Geography Monstrosity 5 | Geography | ||||||
| Fernando Arrabal Tournament of the Absurd | Extreme difficulty | Jerry Vinokurov | |||||
| CAHOOTS | Trash | guerilla tournament organized by Carleton |
2011-2012
- Full page: 2011-2012
| Date | Name | Category | Subject or gimmick | Format | Packets | Writers or organizers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago History Doubles | History | Doubles | packets | packet sub | |||
| Dragonball Z Tournament | Trash | Dragon Ball Z | packets | Ryan Dillon, Connor Teevens | |||
| HUSKY | Trash | visual tossups | packets | Mike Bentley, University of Washington | |||
| ANFORTAS | Myth | packets | Ike Jose | ||||
| Film Tournament | Arts | Film | 13 | Mike Cheyne | |||
| WELD | Literature | Doubles | packets | Will Nediger | |||
| YMIR | Myth | packets | Ben Zhang, Joe Brosch, Ankit Aggarwal | ||||
| Eyes That Do Not See IV | Arts | Visual arts | visual tossups | Mike Bentley | |||
| This Tournament Has Eleven Thousand Writers | Trash | packets | Packet sub organized by Mike Bentley | ||||
| Never Say Never | Trash | "Awful trash" | packets | Eliza Grames and Melanie Keating | |||
| TERP | Trash | packets | Maryland | ||||
| CAHFLS | Trash | packets | Loyola | ||||
| Teevens Trash | Trash | packets | Connor Teevens | ||||
| Bayou a Drank | Trash | packets | Tulane | ||||
| The Questions Concerning Technology | Technology | packets | Will Butler | ||||
| Feats of Strength | packets | Matt Weiner |
2010-2011
- Full page: 2010-2011
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Open History Doubles | Guerilla History Doubles | packet sub organized by Bruce Arthur | |
| Geography Monstrosity III | Geography | ||
| GUERILLA | Guerilla | the packet names imply it is the third of its name, but no announcement for it (or any previous iterations) has been found | |
| Imaginary Landscape | Audio Music | Jonathan Magin, Dave Letzler, John Lawrence | |
| Eyes That Do Not See III | Visual Art | Mike Bentley |
2009-2010
- Full page: 2009-2010
2008-2009
- Full page: 2008-2009
2007-2008
- Full page: 2007-2008
2006-2007
- Full page: 2006-2007
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Experiment | Extreme Difficulty | Ryan Westbrook | |
| CO History Doubles: The Guns of August | History Doubles | Bruce Arthur | packets |
| Chicago Open Lit | Literature Singles | Jonathan Magin | packets |
2005-2006
- Full page: 2005-2006
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers |
|---|---|---|
| Seth Teitler Myth Tournament | Seth Teitler | |
| Berkeley Science Monstrosity | ||
| Chris Frankel History Doubles | Chris Frankel |
2004-2005
- Full page: 2004-2005
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers |
|---|---|---|
| Jacopo Pontormo | Art |
2003-2004
- Full page: 2003-2004
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Movies Tournament | ||
| Berkeley Science Monstrosity | ||
| Folly and Glory | Lit Singles |
2002-2003
- Full page: 2002-2003
No recorded side events in this year
2001-2002
- Full page: 2001-2002
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Science Masters | ||
| Anthony de Jesus Singles | ||
| "S.O.B." Singles |
2000-2001
- Full page: 2000-2001
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers |
|---|---|---|
| Herbert Spencer Singles | ||
| Mark Discordia Singles | ||
| "Fleetwood" Mac Singles | ||
| Andy Goss Trash Singles |
1999-2000
- Full page: 1999-2000
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago Open Singles |
1998-1999
- Full page: 1998-1999
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago Open Singles | ||
| Case Western Trash Singles |
1997-1998
- Full page: 1997-1998
| Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago Open Singles |
Other
| Season | Tournament Name | Tournament Subject or Gimmick | Writers | Site(s) held | Winner(s) | Stats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010? | Doug Graebner's Painting Tournament | |||||
| 2010? | Dan Passner's Judaica Bowl | |||||
| 2010? | Gautam Kandlikar's India Tournament | |||||
| 2009? | Zach Foster's Military History Tournament | |||||
| 2011? | High Schooler Produced Japanese/Asian Lit Thing | |||||
| 2012? | Fred Morlan's Music Tournament | |||||
| 2011? | Matt Duchan's Sports Tournament | |||||
| 2013? | Nolan Esser's Rock Music Tournament | |||||
| 2010? | Nathan James's "Chad C. Mulligan Open" Mini-ACF Tournament | |||||
| 2011? | "Krik? Krak! Moo: Electric Blankets are Optional" Short Literature Tournament | |||||
| 2008 | Andy Watkins's "20th Century Side Event" | |||||
| 2011? | Bruce Arthur's "Amazing Planet" Animal Tournament | |||||
| 2011? | Shan Kothari's Music Tournament | |||||
| 2011? | Andrew Hart's Arrested Development Tournament | |||||
| 2011? | Joe Brosch's Anime Tournament | |||||
| 2011? | Michael Hausinger's Engineering Tournament | |||||
| 2010? | Andy Watkins's "Science, Dismal and Gay" Tournament of Science, Economics, and Poetry | |||||
| 2012? | Isaac Hirsch's Hats Tournament | |||||
| 2009 | Matt Weiner's "Henry Darger Tournament of the Unreal" | |||||
| 2007? | Andrew Ullsperger's Science Tournament | |||||
| 2008? | Ryan Westbrook's "Varying Difficulty" Tournament | |||||
| 2008? | Rom Masrour's Movie Tournament | |||||
| 2010? | Andy Watkins and Hannah Kirsch's "Uwe Boll" Common Links Tournament | |||||
| 2011? | "The Eric and Ben Myth Tournament" | |||||
| 2025 | Ted Gioia's "Secret Literature Tournament for Andrew Yaphe" | |||||
| 2011? | Jeff Geringer's "Trastastrophe III" | |||||
| 2010? | Bruce Arthur's "Your Choice Fest" | |||||
| 2008? | Matt Chadbourne's Math Tournament | |||||
| 2011? | Fred Morlan's Movie Tournament | |||||
| 2012? | Aaron dos Remedios's Board Game Tournament | |||||
| 2011 | Ike Jose's "Thought" Tournament |
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