Re: The South needs a Summer Masters

buzz_fan · Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:16:42 -0700

This message is to see if there would be
sufficient interest in a Masters Tourament at Georgia Tech
in Atlanta for the weekend of July 22nd. The
tournament would be a mirror of the Northeast's Publius Open
that same weekend with questions written by Swarthmore
folk and the same rules and fee structure applying. If
you're interested, please email me the
following:

1. Name

2. I would be
playing/moderating

3. I want a Saturday only tourney with start time at
____
/I want a Saturday and Sunday tourney with start
times at ____ and _____

4. I would have
teammates (please list them)/I would like to be hooked up
with teammates

I'll post again with the results
of whether the tournament is a go or not. Below is
the original post for the Publius
Open.

Thanks,
Hing
Chan
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Hello--

I'd like to take this opportunity to announce that
the Publius Open, a summer masters tournament, will
be held at MIT on Saturday, July 22. The questions
will be written by me and by Josh Miller; eligibility
will be open to all. The registration fee will be $95
a team, minus $5 for a buzzer system.

The
tournament will be modified ACF--mostly academic, that is,
but with some current events and pop culture. As to
difficulty, we'll aim for a level around that of ACF
regionals. Our plan is to make sure that almost every tossup
will be answerable in almost every room, though we'll
assume (since this is a masters event) that the average
team will be somewhat better than
the average team
during the year.

We'll send details about the
format to interested teams at a later date. Josh and I
plan to write 15 packets; we'll come up with a format
that uses most or all of them, probably a round robin
with bracketed playoffs or a double round
robin.

For those of you who don't know us, I'm a 1999
Swarthmore alum who'll begin a Ph.D. program in history at
the University of Chicago this fall; Josh is a senior
at Swarthmore. We're both former presidents of the
Swarthmore team, and between the two of us we've edited
seven tournaments or so.

If you have any
questions, would like to register, or might be interested in
hosting a mirror, email me at edwardcohn_at_... or
Josh at jmiller_at_.... If you'd like to
come but don't have a team, let us know and we'll try
to match you up with some other
players.

Thanks a lot! We hope to hear from you soon, and to see
you on July 22!

--Edward Cohn