Chicago Open 2015 - announcement and date poll

[grapesmoker]

'sup, quizbowl.

I'm pleased to announce that Chicago Open 2015 will be taking place this summer as usual. The tournament will be edited by the crack team of Eric Mukherjee, Aaron Rosenberg, and myself, with possible cameos by guests as yet to be determined. Before I get to the gritty details of packet guidelines, I would like to get some community feedback regarding preferred dates. Most years, CO has run near the end of July; this year, those weekends would be the 18th and 19th, or the 25th and 26th. My preference is for one of those two dates, but two other options will be included in the poll for the sake of completeness, and if a majority of people would like one of those dates, we'll do that. The poll, as you will see, allows you to select all the choices, so please mark all the dates that you can actually make. If you have a strong preference against a date, don't select it.

[grapesmoker]

Just a reminder to vote if you haven't already. I'll let this run for another week or so and then make the formal announcement with the most popular date.

[Good Goblin Housekeeping]

Any updates on this?

[grapesmoker]

Composing announcement now. Will be up shortly.