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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.

How many people are interested in playing this potentially after ACF Nationals or ICT? I'm wondering if this might be a better idea because then some of those people could staff at HSNCT/PACE if or when they go there. It'd definitely be possible to speed up production.

If I'm at ICT, I wouldn't mind playing (I find side events post-Nats to be generally impractical, due to the length of the tournament).

Bump! Just wanted to confirm that this definitely should be completed by ICT.

I'd like to play this at ICT.

Jaimie Carlson has joined our writing team

I'm keeping this set private until the end of summer in case people want to use it for some side event weekends. It will be posted sometime late August.

Is this tossup only?

Scipio wrote:Is this tossup only?

Yes

So, would mirroring this be just as easy as getting the packets from you, and sending $15 a head either directly to you, or to the aforementioned charitable organization?

Scipio wrote:So, would mirroring this be just as easy as getting the packets from you, and sending $15 a head either directly to you, or to the aforementioned charitable organization?

Please send the money via to [email protected] via PayPal or to my Venmo account (@walston). But yes, otherwise this is correct.

Some people have expressed interest in using the set at a later date, so I am going to postpone posting this.

I've uploaded the packets to the archive. They should be up soon.