2003 Chicago Open

suby10 <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Mon, 21 Apr 2003 20:58:02 -0000

Hello All,

First off congrats to Berkeley for their ACF Championship and to 
Michigan for their second place finish.

This is an official announcement for this year's edition of the 
Chicago Open (I thought last year would end my involvement, but since 
a couple of others were unable to take over and I have many ass-hard 
questions left to use . . . ). 

The tournament will be held on the weekend of July 26-27.  It should 
only be on Saturday, but I'm leaving Sunday open for a singles 
tournament or something else perhaps.  The date is subject to change 
if the usual group of attendees and/or new people planning to come 
prefer something else, so please e-mail me if you have other 
preferences.

As in past years, the tournament will be held at the University of 
Chicago and will be open to all teams, i.e. there are no eligibility 
requirements (other than you must have showered within the 12 hours 
prior to the tournament's beginning).  Paul Litvak will be smelling 
all of you at registration to determine if this is the case.  At this 
point I'm capping the field at 14 teams

The questions will be written by me and will follow the distribution 
of previous years - standard ACF with 1/1 trash thrown in each 
round.  Difficulty should be similar to last year, and since I have a 
head start, we should have at least 15 packets to play on.  

I already have some solid teams interested, so if you want to play 
some of the best ACF competition to be had, you have to come check it 
out.

Now for the second part:

I'm willing to write a singles tournament if there is enough interest 
in people playing, i.e. 30 or more.  However, I have no inclination 
anymore to write enough science questions for a singles tournament.  
Therefore, I'm planning on doing a humanities heavy tournament with 
the science distribution being filled out by equal amounts of pop 
culture/sports, social science, and biology (the only science I know 
a little bit about).

I'd like to know if people would still be willing to play with such a 
distribution, if anyone is willing to write the science part of the 
tournament, or if anyone has a better idea.  With regards to the 
former two choices please e-mail me privately, but if you think you 
have a better idea feel free to post it to the group.

So if you want to register for the team tournament or have any 
questions/input regarding the singles tournament, please e-mail me at 
suby10 at yahoo dot com or subash at uchicago dot edu.

One last thing:
I'm open to hosting mirrors in other regions.  In previous years, 
we've done so on the West Coast and in the DC area.  If anyone is 
interested in hosting a mirror of the tournament, please e-mail me. 

Subash