Listory: Summer Side Event
Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 10:48 am
I am happy to announce Listory, a history and literature side event designed to be played during the second summer open weekend. The writing team for the set includes myself, Jason Cheng, Vasa Clarke, and Jason Golfinos.
The format (which is a bit wacky, but should be fun) will be packets of 20 tossups with two-part, related bonuses. Tossups will be powermarked, and bonus parts will be worth ten points each. Our goal is for the set to have 12 packets upon completion. Bonus part length will be a bit shorter on average than for a normal set, in the interest of time. Our forecast is to have 1/3 of the set complete by the end of this month, 2/3 by the end of June, and be finished with the writing by the end of July. The set is currently 210/240 complete (as of 6/30).
The intended difficulty of the set will be regular plus, in accordance with the tradition of the second summer open and normal collegiate side events. We are planning to have 2/3 of tossup answer lines be plausible regular difficulty answer lines- not counting bell-curve harder stuff as regular difficulty, and noting that the tossups in this set may be clued a bit harder than regular difficulty, given the setting and the expected field. Of the remaining 1/3 of answer lines, at least half will be "regular plus" and not "CO or CO plus" level. Bonuses will have an "easy" and a "hard" part, with the easy part being no harder than a middle part at regular difficulty. The overall goal difficulty-wise is to create a tournament that someone who enjoys playing either literature or history questions at regular difficulty or above can enjoy. Obviously, there will be a few very tough answer lines, but that will not be the norm.
The distribution being used, per packet, is approximately:
10 Literature:
2.5 American
2.5 British
2.5 European
1.25 World
1.25 Other / Any / Grab Bag / Trash / More of the Above
10 History:
2.25 American
4.25 European
2.25 World
1.25 Other / Any / Grab Bag / Trash / More of the Above
Basically, this resembles the ACF distribution except that there's a bit more allowance for mixed and hybrid questions. There are also reasonable subdistribution requirements; for example, the American literature questions won't contain zero poetry or drama tossups. A final note is that the trash in this tournament will be connected to literature or history, and will be on at least somewhat culturally relevant topics.
The format (which is a bit wacky, but should be fun) will be packets of 20 tossups with two-part, related bonuses. Tossups will be powermarked, and bonus parts will be worth ten points each. Our goal is for the set to have 12 packets upon completion. Bonus part length will be a bit shorter on average than for a normal set, in the interest of time. Our forecast is to have 1/3 of the set complete by the end of this month, 2/3 by the end of June, and be finished with the writing by the end of July. The set is currently 210/240 complete (as of 6/30).
The intended difficulty of the set will be regular plus, in accordance with the tradition of the second summer open and normal collegiate side events. We are planning to have 2/3 of tossup answer lines be plausible regular difficulty answer lines- not counting bell-curve harder stuff as regular difficulty, and noting that the tossups in this set may be clued a bit harder than regular difficulty, given the setting and the expected field. Of the remaining 1/3 of answer lines, at least half will be "regular plus" and not "CO or CO plus" level. Bonuses will have an "easy" and a "hard" part, with the easy part being no harder than a middle part at regular difficulty. The overall goal difficulty-wise is to create a tournament that someone who enjoys playing either literature or history questions at regular difficulty or above can enjoy. Obviously, there will be a few very tough answer lines, but that will not be the norm.
The distribution being used, per packet, is approximately:
10 Literature:
2.5 American
2.5 British
2.5 European
1.25 World
1.25 Other / Any / Grab Bag / Trash / More of the Above
10 History:
2.25 American
4.25 European
2.25 World
1.25 Other / Any / Grab Bag / Trash / More of the Above
Basically, this resembles the ACF distribution except that there's a bit more allowance for mixed and hybrid questions. There are also reasonable subdistribution requirements; for example, the American literature questions won't contain zero poetry or drama tossups. A final note is that the trash in this tournament will be connected to literature or history, and will be on at least somewhat culturally relevant topics.