Historature - A Charity Side Event
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:21 am
I'm extremely pleased to announce Historature, a charity side event intended to be run at this year's high school nationals, NASAT, late regular-season tournaments, and summer side events of various sorts. One hundred percent of proceeds from this tournament will be donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, a charity whose cause is very dear to my heart. Questions will be written by Sameen Belal, Ankit Aggarwal, Eric Mukherjee, Jaimie Carlson, and myself.
As the the title suggests, this tournament's distribution is inspired by other "listory" type events, such as XENOPHON. There will be at least eight packets with 24 questions per packet, according to the following distribution:
3 Long Fiction (novels and novellas)
1 Short Fiction
2 Poetry
1 Drama
1 Drama or Misc
1 Essays and Crit
1 Lit about Historical Events / People
1 Writers in History / Bios
1 Impact of Literary Works
1 Historical Sources
1 Historiography
1 Philosophy / SS (History)
1 Archaeology
2 US History
2 Continental Euro
2 World
1 Ancient
1 British and Other
Participation will be $15 per player. The difficulty will be equivalent to WAO (and similar to XENOPHON and Listory) to provide an engaging experience for both interested college players and strong high school players who want to try their hand at some tougher content. At least two-thirds of answerlines will be accessible at the PACE/HSNCT level, meaning they could conceivably show up as tossup answers in those tournaments, in order to better accommodate the latter audience.
As the the title suggests, this tournament's distribution is inspired by other "listory" type events, such as XENOPHON. There will be at least eight packets with 24 questions per packet, according to the following distribution:
3 Long Fiction (novels and novellas)
1 Short Fiction
2 Poetry
1 Drama
1 Drama or Misc
1 Essays and Crit
1 Lit about Historical Events / People
1 Writers in History / Bios
1 Impact of Literary Works
1 Historical Sources
1 Historiography
1 Philosophy / SS (History)
1 Archaeology
2 US History
2 Continental Euro
2 World
1 Ancient
1 British and Other
Participation will be $15 per player. The difficulty will be equivalent to WAO (and similar to XENOPHON and Listory) to provide an engaging experience for both interested college players and strong high school players who want to try their hand at some tougher content. At least two-thirds of answerlines will be accessible at the PACE/HSNCT level, meaning they could conceivably show up as tossup answers in those tournaments, in order to better accommodate the latter audience.