FLopen
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| Competition season |
2020–2021
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| Head editor(s) |
Taylor Harvey
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| Difficulty |
Nationals-minus
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| First mirror |
Online
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| Announcement |
link
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| Packets |
link
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- 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
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Host
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Date
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TD
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Winner
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Runner-up
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Individual high scorer
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Stats
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| "Main Site"
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Online
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November 21, 2020
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Will Grossman
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Suh et. al (Jordan Brownstein, Michael Yue, JinAh Kim, and John Suh)
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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)
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Jordan Brownstein
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Stats
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| Mid-Atlantic and Southeast
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UVA
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November 21, 2020
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Alana Dickey
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Virginia (Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, Kenji Shimizu, and Doug Graebner)
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In My FLopen Era (Vincent Du, Henry Goff, and Jacob Egol)
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Itamar Naveh-Benjamin
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Stats
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| United Kingdom
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University of Southhampton and Online
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November 28, 2020
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Evan Lynch maybe
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The All-Neg Squad (Evan Lynch, Vitalijs Brejevs, Dan Arribas, and Edmund Dickinson)
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Oxford A (Oli Clarke, Jacob Robertson, Alex Hardwick and Alex Peplow)
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Joseph Krol
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Stats
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| New England and Northeast
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MIT
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January 9, 2021
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Swapnil Garg
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Harvard (Jason Golfinos, Ricky Li, Thomas Gioia, Kelvin Li, and Mazin Omer)
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Heine-Boryale Theorem (Stephen Eltinge, Daniel Sheinberg, Hasna Karim, and Daniel Ma)
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Jason Golfinos
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Stats
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| Second Online Site
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Online
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January 16, 2021
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John Nienajadlo
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#BuyevermoreOniTunes (Aayush Rajasekaran, Ian Dewan, Jay Misuk, and Erik Christensen)
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The Curse of Pharaoh Tuts Urine (Justine French, Ned Tagtmeier, Robert Condron, and Felix Wang)
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Mike Sorice
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Stats
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