Mizzou Open Japanese Literature Singles

[Auroni]

I'm writing a Japanese Literature Singles side-tournament for the Mizzou Open weekend along with Joe Hansen from Minnesota. The idea is to scrounge the ends of the canon and then some. The plan is to have six rounds of fifteen tossups each, and if I end up needing to write more than that, then six full rounds. I'll probably make the cost like $5 per team. Who's tentatively interested?

[Auks Ran Ova]

I will play.

[No Rules Westbrook]

Tentatively interested, you say? Why, that's precisely how I'd describe myself!

[DumbJaques]

Seriously? At least make it like, all Asian lit or something. I love Japanese lit but getting 90 tossups would just get absurd, so absurd that I really can't tell if this thread is serious or not. I'm all for a bit of absurdity in side events, but I don't think that should be the focus.

Also, I find 15 tossup rounds just underwhelming (I know Ted and I were discussing this at MO lit). Perhaps you might consider making this all Asian literature (surely Kyle could chip in 5 tossups on Palestinian poetry) with 20 tossup rounds?

[Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)]

Yeah, I generally agree with the expansion of the answer set possible for this event. I think having a short all asian lit event would be more interesting (or maybe perhaps some expansion could go on that lets you increase it to 20 tossup packets). There's plenty of cool things like national epics, middle eastern writing, India, and some of those other crazy places out there that a very entertaining tournament could be produced.

[Mike Bentley]

I'm interested in playing in this event if I go to the Mizzou Open.

[Auks Ran Ova]

Yeah, I generally agree with the expansion of the answer set possible for this event. I think having a short all asian lit event would be more interesting (or maybe perhaps some expansion could go on that lets you increase it to 20 tossup packets). There's plenty of cool things like national epics, middle eastern writing, India, and some of those other crazy places out there that a very entertaining tournament could be produced.

Yeah, I will add my support to this suggestion. Pan-Asian would be more enjoyable for everyone and would cut down on the unanswerably hard tossups that will inevitably needed to fill out 90.

[Auroni]

Okay, so the following changes have been made. The tournament is pan-Asian with Japanese focus (as in, 60% of tossups will be Japanese lit). We'll have six full rounds of tossups as well as a packet of completely fucking impossible tossups. I won't grade each packet by increasing difficulty, but there will be familiar things and things that have only come up as clues (but should be fair game). I'll be scrounging the ends of the canon, but not any further.

[grapesmoker]

this is gonna rock so hard

[aestheteboy]

I'm sorry that I won't be able to help you in any major way, but I will definitely send you some tossups if contributions are welcome.

[Auroni]

I'm sorry that I won't be able to help you in any major way, but I will definitely send you some tossups if contributions are welcome.

I'll add you to the google doc.

[Auroni]

This set won't be finished by 6/6, the date of most Mizzou Open sites, because at this point of time I have realized that we'll be writing many more editor's packets than we had imagined. I'm planning to finish this set, however, and perhaps have even more rounds of it done and ready for hosting at somepoint next season. We'll see.