Re: 2003 Chicago Open

• From: sdrossboss <no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:39:36 -0000
• Message-ID: <b81vfo+vnhj_at_...>

Regarding the singles bit I think that distribution would work for 
most and suck for some. I think most west coasters wouldn't have that 
big of a problem with it.

-Ross


--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, suby10 <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> 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