This set was very much an attempt to replicate the model that succeeded at EFT 2016 and to tone down some of the excesses of the two succeeding iterations of the tournament. We made a few changes from the baseline 2016 model - these mainly being a few distributional tweaks (genre based lit, more geography and other academic), a bit more adventurousness in content, a little more humor, and a reduction the number of impossible world history, social science, and philosophy questions that I write. Beyond this, I think the product speaks for itself.EFT 2016 Discussion wrote:Thanks for playing EFT, everyone! I hope you enjoyed the set. I know it’s not the hardest set in the world, but we put an awful lot of thought and hard work into this tournament and, at the risk of sounding overconfident, I think the end product really reflects this (aside from the phrasing and grammar errors littered throughout the first version).
Our cadre of writers - Aayush Rajakesaran, Matthew Lehmann, Rohith Nagari, Catherine Qian, Julia Zhou, Rebecca Rosenthal, Nick Collins, Ankit Aggarwal, and Ophir Lifshitz - contributed a number of excellent questions to this goal, and our editors (who also doubled as writers) - Jakob Myers, Rahul Keyal, and Eric Mukherjee - did excellent work in refining them. I'd particularly like to recognize Jakob, Rahul, and Matthew, who each wrote over 80 questions, and Ophir for doing about half the music editing work in addition to his usual excellent work on proofreading and prose improvement.
As I've made public, this is the last full-blown collegiate tournament (re: not side event!) I intend to edit, with the possible exception of helping out with ICT in the future and/or editing CO. I'm incredibly happy to go out on this note and hope you all were as happy playing the tournament as I was in seeing it come to its final form.
Discuss away.