MUSES II (Summer 2021)
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MUSES II (Summer 2021)
Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce MUSES II, the sequel to last years MUSES. This set will have a similar distro to last year's version, with somewhat major tweaks to improve playability. The set will still consist of 10-12 packets of 20 tossups with paired 1 part bonuses. This single paired bonus part will be aiming to be the same difficulty as a CO 2019 middle part, or slightly harder. The set will also have powers, but unlike last year's version, there will not be superpowers. The set will still be open level and will still be very whimsical. We will be charging $10 per player for mirrors of this event. If you are interested in mirroring this set, please email me at bamclai2 AT utexas.edu
The writing team for this set will consist of Mitch McCullar, Iain Carpenter, Bradley McLain, Jaskaran Singh, Tyler Vaughan, Evan Suttell, Ethan Ashbrook, Raul Passement and Tim Cho. We are aiming to have the set done by Summer of 2021 (with a more specific date TBD).
This year's distribution will be as such:
2 Calliope
-.66 Ancient Epics
-.66 Modern Epics
-.66 Epic Film
2 Clio
-1 Ancient Greco-Roman History
-1 Ancient non-Greco-Roman History
2 Euterpe
-1 Classical Music
-.5 "Other" Art Music
-.5 Pop Music
2 Urania
-1 Science
-.5 Ancient Astronomy
-.5 Pop Culture/Cultural Depictions of Astronomy
2 Polyhymnia
-1 Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals
-1 Non-Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals
2 Thalia
-.8 pre-1900 Comedy Literature (including drama, novels, and short stories)
-.8 post-1900 Comedy Literature (including drama, novels, and short stories)
-.4 Other Comedy (including stand up, sketch, and film)
2 Melpomene
-.8 pre-1900 Tragic Literature (including drama, novels, and short stories)
-.8 post-1900 Tragic Literature (including drama, novels, and short stories)
-.4 Other Tragedy (primarily film)
2 Erato
-1 Love Poetry
-1 "Other Emotion" Poetry
2 Terpsichore
-1 Western Art Dance
-.5 "World" Dance
-.5 Pop Culture
2 Mythology
-1 Greco-Roman
-1 Other Near-East/Greater Mediteranean Mythology (may include religious narrative content and a small amount of other mythologies)
Additionally each category may contain "thought" type content as appropriate (eg literary criticism, philosophy, social science, historiography, and mythography). Like last year's version, categories will be interpreted as loosely as needed to keep the set playable and fun.
We will be incorporating the feedback we received on the previous edition of MUSES and will aim at leveling out the bonus difficulty more and will do more playtesting to ensure that confusing wording and answerlines get caught.
EDIT: a few updates to distro, namely fixing ratio in epics and reverting myth distro back to the previous MUSES distro
EDIT: changes to bonus configuration
The writing team for this set will consist of Mitch McCullar, Iain Carpenter, Bradley McLain, Jaskaran Singh, Tyler Vaughan, Evan Suttell, Ethan Ashbrook, Raul Passement and Tim Cho. We are aiming to have the set done by Summer of 2021 (with a more specific date TBD).
This year's distribution will be as such:
2 Calliope
-.66 Ancient Epics
-.66 Modern Epics
-.66 Epic Film
2 Clio
-1 Ancient Greco-Roman History
-1 Ancient non-Greco-Roman History
2 Euterpe
-1 Classical Music
-.5 "Other" Art Music
-.5 Pop Music
2 Urania
-1 Science
-.5 Ancient Astronomy
-.5 Pop Culture/Cultural Depictions of Astronomy
2 Polyhymnia
-1 Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals
-1 Non-Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals
2 Thalia
-.8 pre-1900 Comedy Literature (including drama, novels, and short stories)
-.8 post-1900 Comedy Literature (including drama, novels, and short stories)
-.4 Other Comedy (including stand up, sketch, and film)
2 Melpomene
-.8 pre-1900 Tragic Literature (including drama, novels, and short stories)
-.8 post-1900 Tragic Literature (including drama, novels, and short stories)
-.4 Other Tragedy (primarily film)
2 Erato
-1 Love Poetry
-1 "Other Emotion" Poetry
2 Terpsichore
-1 Western Art Dance
-.5 "World" Dance
-.5 Pop Culture
2 Mythology
-1 Greco-Roman
-1 Other Near-East/Greater Mediteranean Mythology (may include religious narrative content and a small amount of other mythologies)
Additionally each category may contain "thought" type content as appropriate (eg literary criticism, philosophy, social science, historiography, and mythography). Like last year's version, categories will be interpreted as loosely as needed to keep the set playable and fun.
We will be incorporating the feedback we received on the previous edition of MUSES and will aim at leveling out the bonus difficulty more and will do more playtesting to ensure that confusing wording and answerlines get caught.
EDIT: a few updates to distro, namely fixing ratio in epics and reverting myth distro back to the previous MUSES distro
EDIT: changes to bonus configuration
Last edited by Illinois Admin on Tue Oct 06, 2020 11:13 am, edited 10 times in total.
Bradley McLain
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)
Are there really enough hymns for a second set with this many hymns?Illinois Admin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:30 pm 2 Polyhymnia
-1 Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals
-1 Non-Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals
Justine French
UCLA
UCLA
Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)
Aside from the unwelcome introduction of "novels," this looks very enjoyable.
Mike Cheyne
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
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Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)
We are expanding our hymns to include more prayers, sacred texts, and chants than we did the first time in order to maintain playability. There will still be plenty of true hymn content so for those of you who enjoyed the hymns the first time around, do not despair!justinfrench1728 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:45 pmAre there really enough hymns for a second set with this many hymns?Illinois Admin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:30 pm 2 Polyhymnia
-1 Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals
-1 Non-Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals
Fear not, the focus of the tragedy and comedy will still be drama! The novels and short stories have been added to give a bit of flexibility to include some of our personal favorite comedic/tragic literature as well as to increase the amount of creative common links we can (reasonably) do.
Bradley McLain
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
- Mike Bentley
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Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)
Looking forward to this, although I wonder if you're wasting a lot of effort by producing 12 packets with bonuses. That's an awful lot for something most likely to be run as a summer side event. I suspect most of your mirrors will do no more than 8 packets, with others closer to 6.
Mike Bentley
VP of Editing, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
VP of Editing, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)
MORE PACKETS, MO MONEY
Mike Cheyne
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
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Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)
We will be writing at least 10 packets in order to ensure that UIUC can run a full tournament with finals at the 2020 iteration of Side Event Weekend. Once we have more written and have a better idea of when we will be finishing I will update with how many packets we are going to have for sure.
Bradley McLain
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
- Mike Bentley
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Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)
Actually what I strongly suspect will happen is that a lot of mirrors will just ignore the bonuses and play more packets.Mike Bentley wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:55 pm Looking forward to this, although I wonder if you're wasting a lot of effort by producing 12 packets with bonuses. That's an awful lot for something most likely to be run as a summer side event. I suspect most of your mirrors will do no more than 8 packets, with others closer to 6.
Mike Bentley
VP of Editing, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
VP of Editing, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
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Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)
Just an update, we are setting the completion deadline as no later than July 18th. We are also no longer reserving the set for the Illinois Side Event Weekend (although it may still end up being mirrored there) and are opening it to be mirrored any side event weekend type events, Chicago Open, and/or any other events I am forgetting.
Bradley McLain
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
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Re: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
Due to the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic, we are electing to postpone this set until summer of 2021. If things make a sudden turnaround we may have this set available for any Summer side events this summer.
Bradley McLain
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
- Illinois Admin
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Re: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
There has been a change to the bonus structure of this set, which is now reflected in the OP
Bradley McLain
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin
2015- Rockford Auburn High School
2019 - BS in Psychology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 - MS in Social Work - University of Texas at Austin