FLopen

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FLopen
Competition season 2020–2021
Head editor(s) Taylor Harvey
Difficulty Nationals-minus
First mirror Online
Announcement link
Packets link
Not to be confused with Fall Open, an earlier Nats-minus set.

FLopen was a Nationals-minus collegiate open tournament produced in fall 2020 primarily by Florida. It was edited by Taylor Harvey and Jonathen Settle, and writers included Leo Law, Tracy Mirkin, William Grossman, Anthony Delgado, William Grossman, Zachary Knecht, Khanh Nguyen, Shawn Jarrard, Mateo Acosta, and Jason Zappulla of Florida, as well as sizable contributions from Ani Perumalla, Grant Peet, Mike Bentley, Lalit Maharjan, Nicholas Dai, and Zach Foster.

The tournament experimented with an larger per packet distribution of 22/22, all of which were intended to be played every round. This manifested through slight expansions to Other Arts, Social Science, and the scrutable "Other" category. Further experimentation occurred via humorous subtitles that changed with every packet, rather than a single one for the whole tournament; examples include "Packet D: ANSWER: embrace momke [reject 'modernity']" and "Packet I: https://imgur.com/a/VWaSRFf".

FLopen was generally well received by the quizbowl community.

FLopen's initial date of availability was planned to coincide with the 189th anniversary of the death of Hegel, although the Southeastern mirror planned for this date was cancelled for lack of interest.

Results

Region Host Date TD Winner Runner-up Individual high scorer Stats
"Main Site" Online November 21, 2020 Will Grossman Suh et. al (Jordan Brownstein, Michael Yue, JinAh Kim, and John Suh) Three-way tie between Messes de Notre Dame (Matt Bollinger, Daniel Hothem, Adam Silverman, and Alex Damisch), BHSU Cheesesteaks (Nick Jensen, Rob Carson, Tejas Raje, and Billy Busse), and Golden et. al (Alston Boyd, Matthew Lehmann, William Golden, and Adam Fine) Jordan Brownstein Stats
Mid-Atlantic and Southeast UVA November 21, 2020 Alana Dickey Virginia (Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, Kenji Shimizu, and Doug Graebner) In My FLopen Era (Vincent Du, Henry Goff, and Jacob Egol) Itamar Naveh-Benjamin Stats
United Kingdom University of Southhampton and Online November 28, 2020 Evan Lynch maybe The All-Neg Squad (Evan Lynch, Vitalijs Brejevs, Dan Arribas, and Edmund Dickinson) Oxford A (Oli Clarke, Jacob Robertson, Alex Hardwick and Alex Peplow) Joseph Krol Stats
New England and Northeast MIT January 9, 2021 Swapnil Garg Harvard (Jason Golfinos, Ricky Li, Thomas Gioia, Kelvin Li, and Mazin Omer) Heine-Boryale Theorem (Stephen Eltinge, Daniel Sheinberg, Hasna Karim, and Daniel Ma) Jason Golfinos Stats
Second Online Site Online January 16, 2021 John Nienajadlo #BuyevermoreOniTunes (Aayush Rajasekaran, Ian Dewan, Jay Misuk, and Erik Christensen) The Curse of Pharaoh Tuts Urine (Justine French, Ned Tagtmeier, Robert Condron, and Felix Wang) Mike Sorice Stats