BHSU (Available for mirrors starting 2/25/23)

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BHSU (Available for mirrors starting 2/25/23)

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We are excited to announce BHSU (Ball So Hard Open), a nationals-minus level open tournament produced by the BHSU team and to be mirrored in the spring of 2023.

The tournament will be jointly head-edited by Matthew Bollinger and Rob Carson, and will be subject edited as follows:

Matthew Bollinger (Euro Lit, Euro/Brit History, Music, Philosophy)
Billy Busse (Science)
Rob Carson (US/Brit Lit, Painting/Sculpture, Myth)
Auroni Gupta (World Lit, Other Fine Arts (Visual), Other Academic)
Dylan Minarik (Mixed/Other History, Other Fine Arts (Auditory), Computer Science)
Tejas Raje (US/World History, Current Events)
Ryan Rosenberg (Social Science, Geography)
Morgan Venkus (Religion, Pop Culture)

Alex Damisch and Andrew Wang will also be contributing as writers.

The set will consist of 14 packets of 22/22 regulation questions, adhering to the following distribution:

4/4 Literature
  • 1/1 US/Canada
  • 1/1 UK/Aus/NZ
  • 1/1 Euro (includes ancient)
  • 1/1 World
4/4 History
  • 1/1 American
  • 1/1 Pure European/British
  • 1/1 World
  • 1/1 Mixed/Other
4/4 Science
  • 1/1 Biology
  • .85/.85 Chemistry
  • .85/.85 Physics
  • 1.3/1.3 Other
3/3 Fine Arts
  • 1/1 Painting/Sculpture
  • 1/1 Music
  • 1/1 Other Fine Arts (.5/.5 visual, .5/.5 auditory)
2/2 Thought
  • 1/1 Social Science
  • 1/1 Philosophy
2/2 Religion and Mythology
  • 1/1 Religion
  • 1/1 Mythology
1/1 Other Academic/Mixed/Etc.
.5/.5 Geography
.5/.5 Current Events
1/1 Pop Culture

Set Vision:
Matt Bollinger wrote:The past few tournaments I’ve worked on have been ACF Nationals. Nats is meant to feel imposing, grand, and serious. While that tournament model has its place in deciding a national champion, I’d like this tournament to feel less severe. Where it’s zany and difficult, it should be zany and difficult in the service of being fun.

The tournaments I have in mind as models are 2010-2011 Minnesota Open and 2010/2015 VCU Open. Although the Minnesota and VCU Opens were written in very different styles, they both give out early buzzes and 30s much more liberally than Nationals. They also both have lots of questions that Nationals editors are sometimes hesitant to write. Minnesota Open often pitches you straight-down-the-middle tossups on upper-canon topics that have come up recently. VCU Open has lots of unthemed, generously-powermarked tossups on ACF Fall level answerlines.

I think especially for older writers, worrying too much about what’s come up in the past can be counterproductive and exhausting. I am hopeful that emulating the approaches above will make this more fun for both us and the players.
Rob Carson wrote:I heartily endorse this event or product.
Ultimately, we aim to create a set where anything is possible, and look forward to seeing it played!

List of mirorrs:

Main Site: 2/25/23 at Northwestern
Mid-Atlantic: 3/11/23 at Maryland
Northeast: 4/08/23 at Yale
West Coast: 3/18/23 at Berkeley
Online: 4/15/23 at Zoom
Last edited by touchpack on Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:22 pm, edited 7 times in total.
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Re: BHSU (Spring 2023)

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22/22
1/1 Other Academic/Mixed/Etc.
:party: :party: :party: :party: :party:

I look forward to playing this set and am excited that the trend of 22/22 sets with lots of creative other academic content is continuing.
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Re: BHSU (Available for mirrors starting 2/25/23)

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The main site (midwest) of this tournament will be on 2/25/23. The set will be available for mirrors starting on that date.
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Re: BHSU (Available for mirrors starting 2/25/23)

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Oh boy! I can't wait to play staff noted set CANONINFLATION BHSAT BHSU on date laid out in tournament database February 25, 2023. I'm so excited! :grin:
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Re: BHSU (Available for mirrors starting 2/25/23)

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As Billy mentioned earlier, BHSU will be available for mirrors beginning on 2/25/23; this is an open call for such mirrors.

Midwest: Main Site @Northwestern (2/25/23)

Northeast: Yale
Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
Southeast:
Texas:
California:
Canada:
UK:

If you are interested in hosting a mirror in one of these regions or another I have not listed, please reach out to me at morgan venkus at gmail dot com. Thank you!
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Re: BHSU (Available for mirrors starting 2/25/23)

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Hey quizbowl fans:

As of about 20 minutes ago, we have completed writing for this set, leaving us roughly two months to edit (and/or devote more attention to projects coming due before this one...). I for one am very proud of how the questions look, am excited to be able to give them the polish they deserve, and hope you all enjoy playing them!
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Re: BHSU (Available for mirrors starting 2/25/23)

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I'm excited to announce that we'll have a mirror at UC Berkeley on March 18th! We're still looking for a Southeast host -- if you're interested in hosting, please email me at [email protected]
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