2025 Chicago Open
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| 2025 Chicago Open | |
|---|---|
| Edited by | Ryan Rosenberg (head editor), Delia Cropper, Vincent Du, Jacob Egol, Taylor Harvey, Caroline Mao, Grant Peet, Adam Silverman, Chris Sims, Kevin Thomas, Forrest Weintraub, various writers |
| Champion | "BHSU B" (Matt Bollinger, Billy Busse, Tim Morrison, Tejas Raje) |
| Runner-up | "I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalb" (Jordan Brownstein, Naveed Chowdhury, Ophir Lifshitz, Kevin Wang |
| High scorer | Jordan Brownstein |
| Site | Northwestern |
| Field | 24 |
| Stats | Stats |
The 2025 Chicago Open was played on August 9, 2025. Somehow, Young Fenimore Lee returned.
At the end of the playoffs, four teams in the six-team top bracket all had playoff records of 3-2; in a finish reminiscent of the 2016 ICT, those four teams were seeded for a single-elimination mini-bracket with semifinals and then finals.
Trivia
- This was the first CO title officially claimed by the BHSU conglomerate, which was the runner-up in the previous year.
- This event completed a Career Triple Crown for Tim Morrison, who had won ICT in 2022 and ACF Nationals earlier in the year.
- By securing a 7th win at this event, Matt Bollinger became the undisputed winningest CO player of all time, breaking a previous tie with Matt Weiner attained in 2021.
- A 3-person team assembled just weeks before the tournament, "Floridovician" (Tracy Mirkin, Eric Mukherjee, Wesley Matthews), made it into the semifinals series, in which they lost to BHSU B. This is the best showing for a shorthanded team at CO in many years, perhaps since a 3-person team won 2002 Chicago Open.
Side Events
- RMP Fest 3
- City Limits, an "urban geography" side event by Mike Bentley
- Absolute Cinema, a film tournament by Ani Perumalla