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The final round came down to Beverly Fu, Ophir Lifshitz, Michael Li, Karan Gurazada, Sameer Apte, Jasper Lee, David Dennis, and Saul Hankin. Sameer won with 105 points, Michael came second with 70, and Jasper third with 45. I'll have full results here within a few days. In total, 28 people attended....

Yup--I will do so after the mirror tonight. Here is the logistics email I sent to all players last night: Hi everyone, Imaginary Landscape No. 5 at HSNCT will take place on Saturday, 25 May, at 8:30 PM. We will be meeting in front of Rooms A701, A702, A703, and A708 on the Atrium level. Please plan ...

Thanks to more gracious volunteers, the field cap is now 32 players. With under a week left, there are still ten slots open, so now is the time if you’ve been waiting.

Keep an eye out for a logistics email on Friday evening—I will send it after I’ve had a chance to scope out the rooms.

I'm playing the afternoon prelim session that's scheduled to end at 7:30pm, so we'll aim for a start time of 8:30pm to account for delays and give people some time for dinner.

I'll send out an email (and make a post) closer to the event to confirm room locations and other logistics.

Since William Wang has graciously volunteered his time, the field is now expanded to 24 players. There is no fee for this event.

EDIT: Thanks to more gracious volunteers, the field is now capped at 32 players.

Here is a link to the signup sheet

The HSNCT mirror is now open for registration. It will take place on Saturday evening as a singles tournament using the ladder system, 8 players per room. There will be an initial seeding round of 20 questions, 5 rounds of ladder play of 20 questions each, and a finals round of 40 questions. The fie...

A quick update: we still plan to run this set at HSNCT, probably on Saturday evening in rooms whose use NAQT has graciously permitted. I hope to get logistics and registration information up here soon (by the end of this month). I also plan to run an online playtest session before HSNCT. I've heard ...

Hello all, I’m pleased to announce Imaginary Landscape No. 5, an audio music tournament written by myself (Kevin Wang), Benjamin Xu, and Michael Yue. This tournament will be played at the 2019 High School National Championship Tournament (HSNCT). FORMAT: This tournament will comprise 8 rounds of 20 ...

This has been slightly edited since the MIT mirror, but the parts are the same. This symphony’s first movement parodies a theme from Hitler’s favorite operetta, Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow. For 10 points each: [10] Name this symphony which features a 22-bar snare drum “invasion theme” and is nickn...

One composer from this country included a toccata nicknamed “The Devil’s Staircase” in a collection of notoriously difficult etudes. That composer’s piece Atmospheres, which exemplifies his pioneering “micropolyphonic” style, appears in the score for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Another composer from thi...

vrohan wrote:Same, but for the MIT mirror. Also, I would suggest that future mirrors specify this in their stat reports, if that isn't too much work.

The order of the packets at MIT should have been the same as at QuBIT.

As requested, the complete list of Fine Arts answer lines: Auditory TUs: the sea, Beethoven PCs, Hungary, flute, violin, requiem mass, Carnival of the Animals, Elgar, Italy, Mahler symphonies, Dvorak, clarinet, Bach. Auditory Bonuses: Grieg / Tchaikovsky / Rachmaninov, Leningrad Symphony / Shosty 10...

I attended today's Hopkins mirror as well and had a pretty good time. I think this set hits its target difficulty well--for me as a high schooler at least, the questions were challenging but still accessible. I would second Julia's criticism about the prompt instructions for "water on Mars"...

Much thanks to Eric for hosting & making this convenient for teams attending States. I would be interested in trying out and am also curious about the precise nature of the tryouts/team selection criteria.

Given that Eddie has just ceded his spot at CO 2018 and that there were two other audio tournaments vying for spots at NSC and HSNCT, I would like to move the main site of Imaginary Landscape to CO 2018, with the possibility of running additional post-CO mirrors either on Discord, or at one or more...

Benjamin Xu (also of TJ) and I had planned to run a Landscape-style audio event this spring at HSNCT and NSC. After reading this thread and having other conversations, we have decided to reschedule to 2019. Given the concerns expressed here, I wanted to make it known that another audio tournament is...