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Hi everyone,

We'll be meeting in 4-270 at 9:00, and to get the on-time discount, your entire team needs to be in the room at 9:00 :)
Transportation is covered at http://web.mit.edu/graceli/Public/direc ... tions.html. If I've left out anything, be sure to let me know!

Side Tournament: Literature Tournament: An Encounter
When: After the main tournament is over
How much: $15 a person

Fee Structure:
Base fee: $100
Each additional team: +90
Buzzer discount: $10
Staffer discount: ??
On-time discount: $10
New school discount: $20
Travel discount: $15 / 200 miles traveled
Minimum fee: $60

No packet submission required, and as always, to get the on-time discount, your entire team should be in the meeting room by 9:00 so that we can start at 9:30. Email me at graceli [at] mit [dot] edu for registration and let me know how many moderators/buzzers you'll be bringing. Also, if you're interested in any side events, email me soon so I can work things out :) Thanks!

Field Update (10/16)
Brandeis - 2
Brown - 1
Yale - 2
Dartmouth - 2
Columbia - 3
Doug Yetman - 1
Harvard - 3
Cornell - 2
UPenn - 1

Oh man it's real.

Will this event be just the main Minnesota Open Tournament or will the side events be involved as well? I know there was some interest in having an east coast mirror of JECHT -- and well, this would be the most logical place to have it.

Jeaton1 wrote:Will this event be just the main Minnesota Open Tournament or will the side events be involved as well?

If you'll let us run JECHT, we'd be happy to. We'd also be open to (and have permission for) running Andrew Hart's Lit tournament (if there's enough interest).

z9R4C3 wrote:

Jeaton1 wrote:Will this event be just the main Minnesota Open Tournament or will the side events be involved as well?

If you'll let us run JECHT, we'd be happy to. We'd also be open to (and have permission for) running Andrew Hart's Lit tournament (if there's enough interest).

If you're also interested in running MO Trash, let me know.

I'd like to add that if any teams at this site (or any mirror sites) are looking to write a quality half-packet for Minnesota Open, we will give you a $15 discount out of the mirror fee, $30 for a whole packet. This would be due by our no penalty deadline, which is September 25.

Lah lah lah, see above.

We're going to be bringing at least one team. Do you need readers? We can bring at least one of those, too.

We're going to be bringing at least one team. Do you need readers? We can bring at least one of those, too.

At this point, we need buzzers more than readers. When it gets closer to the tournament and I have a better idea of how many teams are coming, I'll let you know :)

Thanks; we'll definitely be bringing a buzzer as well.

We will probably send at least a couple teams to this and we will bring our buzzer set as well.

We'll bring at least one team, maybe more depending on interest.

Just a quick reminder to let me know if you'd like a side tournament to be run.

JECHT please.

I can e-mail who ever is in charge of the MIT mirror the JECHT set when it is finished and edited. If you want to run this event, state it here or drop me an email at [email protected] so we can discuss.

If anyone out there is also interested in the lit side tournament, maybe you could...y'know, post here as well.

I'll say that in the moderate-probability likelihood that I get up to Boston for this, I would be (primarily) interested in playing the lit. tournament.

Just giving this a bump. Remember to email me about the how many teams/buzzers you can bring as well as what side tournaments you'd like :P

In the interest of not making freshmen sad, there's a conservative field cap of 18 teams. However, if the need arises, I'll try and get more rooms.

Some number of Harvard teams will be attending.

Brown will have at least one team, and I think I can speak for that team when I say we'd like to see the lit tournament mirrored.

Alright, I need someone to bring a staffer or two. Now you too can determine (to some degree) the quality of readers at this tournament! :D Staffers of the variety that can both read and score are preferred.

We are probably bringing 2 teams to this as of right now.

z9R4C3 wrote:Alright, I need someone to bring a staffer or two. Now you too can determine (to some degree) the quality of readers at this tournament! :D Staffers of the variety that can both read and score are preferred.

Hey - didn't notice this until tonight, but I can make the trip if a kindly team or tourney sponsor will offer me a place to roll out a sleeping bag. Let me know if I'm needed.

Just a reminder that you should let me know how many buzzers, teams, and staffers you'll be bringing!

Still waiting to hear finalized info from Brown and Yale. Also, we will be holding a mirror of Andrew Hart's Lit Tournament: An Encounter. Fees should be about $10 to $15 a person.

z9R4C3 wrote:Still waiting to hear finalized info from Brown and Yale. Also, we will be holding a mirror of Andrew Hart's Lit Tournament: An Encounter. Fees should be about $10 to $15 a person.

One team from Brown and one buzzer.

Check out the field update above and some directions, which can also be found at http://web.mit.edu/graceli/Public/direc ... tions.html.

Oh, how I hates the html T.T

Hey, sorry if this is going to cause you any trouble, but it looks like we're actually bringing 2 teams. Still one buzzer though.

Sorry for the late notice, but we will only bringing one team to the tournament tomorrow. Hopefully, this does not mess up anything with the brackets.

Hey, this is late, but is the Head of the Charles Regatta going to cause traffic problems for us? Also, where do we park?

grapesmoker wrote:Hey, this is late, but is the Head of the Charles Regatta going to cause traffic problems for us? Also, where do we park?

Parking info is available in that link on the first post.

Brief results:

Brown A (Jerry, me) defeated Dartmouth (Dominic, AJ, Randall, Tiberiu) in the first game of an advantaged final. Top bracket consisted of Brown A, Brown B, Penn A, Dartmouth, Yale A, and Harvard A. Top scorers are currently unknown.

Full stats can be found here.

Thanks to everyone who came, especially Katy Peters.

z9R4C3 wrote:stats

Wow, if it weren't for Doug Yetman's de facto solo effort, Jerry and Eric would have been the clear top 1-2 scorers despite being teammates.

You bastards are sick.

Pat Freeburn wrote:Wow, if it weren't for Doug Yetman's de facto solo effort, Jerry and Eric would have been the clear top 1-2 scorers despite being teammates.

You bastards are sick.

In all fairness, and not to denigrate anyone at this tournament, this was a pretty hard event that allowed both of us to rack up big numbers against weaker teams. I'm sure neither of us would have these numbers if we'd gone to the primary MO site.

Yeah but still.

Not to be repetitive, but I'm interested in how the lit. singles went here, as well, particularly as I'd thought about coming up for it.

yoda4554 wrote:Not to be repetitive, but I'm interested in how the lit. singles went here, as well, particularly as I'd thought about coming up for it.

It didn't happen. I'm trying to drum up interest for this event for next weekend, though.

I'd play the lit tournament.

Also, in light of the fact that I'm (for some malinformed reason) on a fantasy team, should I quibble about stats errors that change my ppg?

Yeah there's some errors in my line too; I'll send you an email, grace.

All in all, I really enjoyed this tournament, and I'd play the lit thing if people are interested. Thanks again, MIT, for hosting another great tournament.

what about the possibility of postponing lit for the weekend of ACF Fall? I'd love to staff it/see it played live, but two weekends in a row in Boston is a bit much. If that only sounds like a good idea to me, though, I'll not mention it again.

fleurdelivre wrote:what about the possibility of postponing lit for the weekend of ACF Fall? I'd love to staff it/see it played live, but two weekends in a row in Boston is a bit much. If that only sounds like a good idea to me, though, I'll not mention it again.

Some of the questions have been unblinded, so that might be a bit of an issue.

Hey, if I am not mistaken, Andrew intends to put on another tournament with the remainder of the blind packets and writing some new packets, which (according to him) will be ready by IO at the earliest. He only mentioned it to me last night so I will let him talk about it here.

--GK

dtaylor4 wrote:

fleurdelivre wrote:what about the possibility of postponing lit for the weekend of ACF Fall? I'd love to staff it/see it played live, but two weekends in a row in Boston is a bit much. If that only sounds like a good idea to me, though, I'll not mention it again.

Some of the questions have been unblinded, so that might be a bit of an issue.

Maybe we should ask to postpone discussion of the set until ACF Fall. I agree with Katy's idea and would love to play this set; I personally have not heard any of the answers and I haven't seen them on this board, so I'd appreciate it if we could hold off on revealing them until others have had a chance to play.

The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:Yeah there's some errors in my line too; I'll send you an email, grace.

Haha, that would make you two the third and fourth people to contact me about errors -.-||| If everyone could get their errors to me by Saturday, I can get them fixed all at once. After that, the stats will probably move to a more permanent place than my public directory, which makes it doubtful that we'll fix anything after that ;)