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CO Lit 2010

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This is the formal announcement for Chicago Open Literature Doubles 2010: SuperJha Saves Tournaments. This tournament will be written and edited by Shantanu Jha and myself.

Details

Setting
It will definitely take place in a University of Chicago building on the weekend of CO, exact location, date and time - that is is up to Jerry Vinokurov, who will be handling the scheduling. Stay tuned for more details.

Price and Players
For all people, it will be a flat 15 dollars per a person. You can play on a team with one other person, but there is nothing stopping you from going solo. Sign up by posting in this thread. In a subsequent post, I will keep a running list of teams.

Tournament Format
You can expect a minimum of 7 games, possibly more. In fact, if time permits, a bunch more. For the playoffs, we will try to avoid a single elimination format like there was last year. Currently, Jha and I are working to produce 15 packets of 20 questions, which includes the final rounds somewhere in there. Like what was planned for last year, (but not actually done) we are also producing a special round for the top two scorers to participate also, this will likely be 30 or so tossups.

Question Content
In line with Jerry editing CO, Shantanu and I will be making sure that the obnoxious tropes that have crept into the canon are kept to a minimum. We don’t think it is necessary to spell them out, but I will say, if you are expecting us to tossup something that has a higher probability of coming up in a quizbowl tournament than something that might actually be read or known about, you will be disappointed. Also be forewarned: just because a work by author X or author X has come up in one round, does not preclude his occurrence in subsequent rounds. This is in line with our idea of making this tournament rewarding a certain intellectual activity beloved by litterateurs.

Other Questions odds and ends:
We expect this tournament to be quite hard. Answers will range from an NAQT A set to things you haven’t seen in a packet before. Again, we stress that all answer choices will be made on the assumption that there is a significant potential that you can have real knowledge of the topic. No tossup at this tournament will exceed 8 lines before power-marked.

Another thing that is definitely happening is that Shantanu and I will be trading in a small portion of the world literature distribution for more of the other three areas, as we have agreed that it is infinitely more likely to read something in English (and something translated from a European language) than it is to read a novel, even translated, from another language. That said, with will be making the world lit focus on things people read, which shouldn’t be a surprise if you have read down here. Also, there will be a non-fiction / literary criticism distribution as well, in line with Jerry trying to capture parts of the intellectual tradition that currently isn’t very prevalent due to our current framework.

Any questions? Email me [email protected] Or just post here.
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This will be kept as a running count of teams:

Auroni Gupta and Andrew Hart (Because it is bitter, and because it is Andrew Hart)
Matt Bollinger and Trygve Meade (The Bollinger of Peckham Rye)
Evan Adams and Eric Mukherjee (Mukherjee and Enid)
Mike Sorice and Rob Carson (Sorice Juana de la Cruz)
Surya Sabhapathy and Michael Hausinger (Hausinger Made of Dawn)
Kevin Malis and Dan Donahue (DonaHuego Pludek)
Scot Putzig and Kurits Droge (Bussy D'Andy)
Kevin Koai and John Lawerence (Koai Kenzaburo)
Gautam Kandlikar and Jerry Vinokurov (Empedocles on Vinokurov)
Jonathan Magin (A Magin Killed with Kindness)
Chris Ray and Dallas Simmons (A Chaste Ray in Dallaside)
Lloyd Sy and Nolan Winkler (Winkler and White Tyranny)
Seth Teitler and Selene Koo (Bras Koope)
Ryan Westbrook And Matt Lafer (Not Without Lafer)
Trevor Davis and Stephen of Torey Pines (The Trevorpal Blade)
Richard Mason and Aaron Rosenberg (Der Rosenberg)
Greg Peterson and Charles Hang (The History of the Siege of Peterson)
Ahmad Ragab and Andrew Ullsperger (The Land of Ullro)
Jacob Durst and Brendan Byrne (Byrnese Days)
Marnold and Mike Cheyne (The Marnold's Wives Tale)
Carsten and Mike Bentley (Gehring can Sing)
Ray Luo and Matt Weiner (A Girl in Weinter)
Eric Kwartler and someone who won't cause him to lose
Henry Gorman and Chris Romero (The Gormanghast Trilogy)

People who have not explicitly stated what team they are on:
Jeremy of Rutgers
Graham Moyer, tentative
Charlie Rosenthal
Charles Hang
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I'm definitely interested in playing this with whoever.
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I'm playing this with Andrew Hart
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I will play this. I am okay at lit, quite good as "lit." As an xenophobe, I only read American lit, so don't expect too many points beyond that.
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Count me in for playing this.
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I'm in.
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Sounds like fun.
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I think I'm playing this with Trygve Meade.
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I will play this.

Edit: I'll play this solo, possibly as Team Hamartia.
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I'm in. This should be interesting. :D
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I'd be up for playing this, but that's contingent on which slot it gets. Also, I promise not to neg a teammate out of points, because I'll have no business trying to answer anything.
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If I come to CO, I will absolutely be here. And you owe me an Ngugi tossup Ike
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Yeah, I'm down, but I'm not much special. I can answer tossups on books I've read and stuff.
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definitely would like to play this, pending when it is scheduled for
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I will likely be able to moderate this (if it doesn't conflict with anything else I have to do).
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Cantaloupe (disambiguation) wrote:I think I'm playing this with Trygve Meade.
Confirm.
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I'll also do this if I'm at CO. I'm pretty good at lit but that doesn't mean much at all, considering the field.
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I will moderate this.
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Interested in playing.
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I'll be playing.
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I'm playing this.
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My playing this will depend on whether it's on Saturday or not. If it is, I will. If anyone wants to form a team that will fight for last place in this tournament, let me know.
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I'll play this with Mark Vigil.
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What the hell, I'll play. I don't care who I play with.

EDIT: You can reach me at [email protected] if you want to team up. I can fetch you a tossup or two per game, I think...
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Currently soliciting teammate requests.

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Captain Sinico wrote:Currently soliciting teammate requests.

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Want to play with me?
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IT'S A DATE!

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I can offer witty banter and occasional buzzes, so hopefully someone will be willing to play some quizbowl with me.
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Evan Adams and I are playing this together.
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SnookerUSF wrote:I can offer witty banter and occasional buzzes, so hopefully someone will be willing to play some quizbowl with me.
Want to team up?
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I want to play this.
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I will be playing this event with Ikshu Neithalath.
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I have already provisionally teamed up with someone, assuming they make it to CO to begin with. Sorry to disappoint, Carsten.
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Playing this with Michael Hausinger.
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Kevin Malis and I will play together.
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Playing this with Andy Kravis
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So if you guys do write 15 entire rounds it seems like a bad idea to run this on Saturday night, otherwise this tournament is going to go until like 3 AM.
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Kevin Koai and I will play this as a team.
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Playing this with Jerry.
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So if you guys do write 15 entire rounds it seems like a bad idea to run this on Saturday night, otherwise this tournament is going to go until like 3 AM.
The upper bound on the number of rounds should not be a factor in letting Jerry determine what is most appropriate for the weekend. If the worst comes to worst, we'll use whatever rounds don't get used as a basis for a tournament in the future, or just release them in the hopes that people enjoy good practice material.
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Playing with Ahmad Ragab, still assuming I can find a team for the main event.
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Soliciting teammates for this tournament.
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If this takes place on Saturday night, I will be playing with Mike Bentley.
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I'll play.

EDIT: I think I'll just play solo, so I won't feel nervous about being too aggressive.
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Dallas Simons and I are teaming up for this.
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Looking for a teammate for this
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I'd like to play; preferably with someone I haven't played with before.
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Want to play, Ray?
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Want to play; searching for a teammate.
EDIT: Want to team up, Rich?
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