RMPFest
RMPFest (colloquially known as Brucefest) was a novelty tournament edited by Bruce Arthur. Every question at RMPFest falls under the ACF category of "Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy", commonly abbreviated as RMP. The tournament was run as a side event to Illinois Open.
2008
The inaugural RMP Fest: Apophasis is a False God was edited by Bruce Arthur (RM) and Michael Arnold (P); other writers included William Dix, Seth Kendall, Evan Nagler, Charles Meigs, Chris Chiego, and Grace Li.
2008 RMPFest packets consisted of 20 tossups, with the following distribution:
- 13 Mythology and Religion
- 5 Philosophy
- 2 Other Thought (including political theory, social science, linguistics, etc.)
The Illinois site featured six teams playing a double round-robin. The tournament was won by a team of Seth Teitler, Mike Sorice and Andrew Ullsperger (Stats). The Maryland site was won by a team of Matt Weiner and Jonathan Magin while the Berkeley site ran one room of seven solo players, with Andrew Yaphe answering the most tossups.
2009
RMPFest 2: Hay any Worke for Cooper? was edited by Bruce Arthur (RM) and Shantanu Jha (P); other writers included Dominic Machado (classical mythology).
The 21 tossup packets were split into the following distribution:
- 7 Mythology
- 7 Religion
- 7 Philosophy