2016 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament Global Announcement
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 4:25 am
The Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament will once again be available to run in Spring 2016. Questions will be written by Rob Carson, Mike Cheyne, Shan Kothari, Andrew Hart, Carsten Gehring, Sam Bailey, and Ike Jose, plus a narrowly-defined set of Virginian scientists headed by Cody Voight.
Eligibility: Only undergraduate and high school students can play this tournament. If you are a grad student, you generally may not play. "Undergraduate" in this case does not follow the traditional ACF definition--fifth-year (or greater) undergraduates with no bachelor's-level degree are still eligible to play.
Difficulty: MUT 2016 will look a lot like MUTs 2015 and 2014, which did a good job hitting my difficulty goals. The tournament should sit at a level harder than ACF Fall, especially in the early clues and hard bonus parts, but on the easier side of "regular difficulty".
Distribution:
4/4 Literature (1/1 each American, British, European, and world/ancient/other)
4/4 History (1/1 American, 1/1 Euro, 1/1 world, 1/1 British/ancient/more Euro)
4/4 Science (1/1 each biology, chemistry, physics, and other)
3/3 Fine Arts (1/1 each painting and music, 1 other auditory, 1 other visual)
2/2 Religion/Mythology (1/1 each)
1/1 Philosophy/Geography (11/10 or 10/11 philosophy and 3/4 or 4/3 geography questions over 14 packets)
1/1 Social Science
1/1 Pop Culture/Other
Mirrors: We would like to see this set mirrored across the country (or indeed across the WORLD) from the weekend of March 19th (note: pushed back one week because of no demand for 3/12) into May. The mirror fee will be $35/non-house team. I am endeavoring to delegate mirror management to someone else this year, but early inquiries can still come to me at [email protected]. EDIT: Gautam Kandlikar ([email protected]) will be handling mirrors this year.
Please feel free to post here or send me an email if you have any further questions.
Eligibility: Only undergraduate and high school students can play this tournament. If you are a grad student, you generally may not play. "Undergraduate" in this case does not follow the traditional ACF definition--fifth-year (or greater) undergraduates with no bachelor's-level degree are still eligible to play.
Difficulty: MUT 2016 will look a lot like MUTs 2015 and 2014, which did a good job hitting my difficulty goals. The tournament should sit at a level harder than ACF Fall, especially in the early clues and hard bonus parts, but on the easier side of "regular difficulty".
Distribution:
4/4 Literature (1/1 each American, British, European, and world/ancient/other)
4/4 History (1/1 American, 1/1 Euro, 1/1 world, 1/1 British/ancient/more Euro)
4/4 Science (1/1 each biology, chemistry, physics, and other)
3/3 Fine Arts (1/1 each painting and music, 1 other auditory, 1 other visual)
2/2 Religion/Mythology (1/1 each)
1/1 Philosophy/Geography (11/10 or 10/11 philosophy and 3/4 or 4/3 geography questions over 14 packets)
1/1 Social Science
1/1 Pop Culture/Other
Mirrors: We would like to see this set mirrored across the country (or indeed across the WORLD) from the weekend of March 19th (note: pushed back one week because of no demand for 3/12) into May. The mirror fee will be $35/non-house team. I am endeavoring to delegate mirror management to someone else this year, but early inquiries can still come to me at [email protected]. EDIT: Gautam Kandlikar ([email protected]) will be handling mirrors this year.
Please feel free to post here or send me an email if you have any further questions.