“[Staffing] this tournament quickly convinced me I'd enjoy playing.” — Jeremy Cummings
“Venetian might well have the best price-to-writing quality ratio of all the quiz competitions out there." — Joel Miles
“I like that I can try to double every bonus with no real life repercussions. And the strategy’s fun.” — Sinecio Morales
It’s the reason why quizbowl has been played in a boat in the Baltic Sea, a tent in Eswatini, and a Roman prison. Good afternoon, and welcome back to Venetian.
Information
This is the announcement post for Venetian IV, a bonus-only format open for individuals of all ages. All information about the tournament can be found on the website here.
The question set for Venetian IV was written by Jason Qin, Shiva Tegulla, Eric Mukherjee, Camden Williams, Andy Yu, Angela Sun, Sophia Wu, Anuj Damle, Pranav Aiyar, Abigail AuYeung, Allie Hoffert, Costas Pavlou, and myself, Owen Riley.
In the Americas, there will be division splits between people over 18 and people at/under 18. There will also be “novice” (high school regular difficulty) and “championship” (EFT difficulty prelims, college regular/2 dot difficulty playoffs) divisions at each age group, for a total of four divisions (in the United States, the high school graduating class of 2024 is considered U18). There will also be European and Asia-Pacific divisions.
All information can be found at the above link. Some further notes and clarifications:
The tournament runs for six weeks, starting the week of February 11. Players play one game between Sunday and Tuesday each week at a time that works for their schedules.
Many of the questions in each version of the set are adapted from the other. Players will not be able to spectate any games in other divisions until their weekly game has been played.
Registration is through the website linked above. Registrations are called “tickets” because the template won’t let me edit the word “ticket,” so we roll with it.
I am running several practice games on packets from the most recent tournament. If that would interest you, let me know and I’ll see what I can put together.
I can be reached by email at “oriley1201 AT icloud DOT com,” or through my website at “owner AT uqcquizbowl DOT org.” Feel free to send me an email if you have any questions.
Open / Senior Championship
Tomás Aguilar-Fraga (South Bend, IN, USA)
San Asplund (Winnebago, IL, USA)
Billy Beyer (Tallahassee, FL, USA)
Lorin Burte (Vernon Hills, IL, USA)
Jeremy Cummings (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Roan Dowling (Chicago, IL, USA)
Brandon Escobedo (Albuquerque, NM, USA)
Truman Fillbrandt (St. Louis Park, MN, USA)
Shourjo Ganguli (Beavercreek, OH, USA)
Jacob Goodson (Columbus, OH, USA)
Jason Hess (Austin, TX, USA)
Neal Joshi (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Towery McNeil (Boston, MA, USA)
Joel Miles (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Sinecio Morales (Baltimore, MD, USA)
Kane Nguyen (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON, CAN)
Anuttam Ramji (Berkeley, CA, USA)
Prahalad Rao (Columbus, OH, USA)
Alex Schmidt (Allentown, PA, USA)
Benny Shtutman (Columbia, SC, USA)
Munir Siddiqui (College Park, MD, USA)
Lexi Terman (Ridgewood, NJ, USA)
Conor Thompson (Ames, IA, USA)
June Yin (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Senior Novice
Ty Bishop (Batesville, AR, USA)
Gilles Bourque (Fredericton, NB, CAN)
Aidan Craner (Rochester, NY, USA)
Thomas Doyle (Barre, MA, USA)
Beck Faletti (Washington, D.C., USA)
Cheyenne Fletcher (Tulsa, OK, USA)
Tim Hagen (Chaska, MN, USA)
Caden Haustein (Springfield, MO, USA)
Akshat Jain (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
Liam Markland (Edmonton, AB, CAN)
Logan Mathis (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Henry Morales (San Diego, CA, USA)
Brian O'Connell (Daytona Beach, FL, USA)
Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury (Plymouth, MI, USA)
Max Saran (New York City, NY, USA)
Fish Tsai (Seattle, WA, USA)
U18 Championship
Shishir Bharadwaj (Lexington, MA, USA)
Dwij Bhatt (Palatine, IL, USA)
Aatreyo Bhattacharyya (Sacramento, CA, USA)
Tanay Bodducherla (Folsom, CA, USA)
Bryce Cruise (Houston, TX, USA)
Rohan Dalal (Johns Creek, GA, USA)
Padraig Finan (Newcastle, WA, USA)
Andrew Gao (Belmont, MA, USA)
Beckett Gilmore (Owensboro, KY, USA)
Fierro Grey (Darien, CT, USA)
Alvin Guo (Potomac, MD, USA)
Deven Hagen (Falls Church, VA, USA)
Charles Heydt (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Alvan Hossain (Lexington, MA, USA)
Yaj Jhajhria (San Diego, CA, USA)
Monit Karmakar (Buffalo Grove, IL, USA)
Sai Kovour (Palatine, IL, USA)
Vayun Krishna (San Jose, CA, USA)
Orion Li Arthur (Chamblee, GA, USA)
Ethan Linn (McLean, VA, USA)
Omkar Marathe (Palatine, IL, USA)
Aaron Marchand (Hudson, WI, USA)
Haughton Neppl (McLean, VA, USA)
Kevin Peng (Potomac, MD, USA)
Andy Petouvis (Excelsior, MN, USA)
Aadi Pudasaini (Lexington, MA, USA)
Brighton Risch (Malvern, PA, USA)
Varun Sathyajeeth (Solon, OH, USA)
Vedanth Srihari (Palatine, IL, USA)
Kevin Wang (Johns Creek, GA, USA).
Robert Wang (Livingston, NJ, USA)
Jeffrey Xu (Alpharetta, GA, USA)
U18 Novice
Yrwin Batan (St. Louis, MO, USA)
Satya Bheemarasetti (Chicago, IL, USA)
Chris Chor (Hanover, NH, USA)
Jonathan DeToro (Clarendon Hills, IL, USA)
Arhith Dharanendra (Johns Creek, GA, USA).
Grant Donovan (Edmond, OK, USA)
Elijah Guenthner (Fair Oaks, CA, USA)
Krikor Hachikian (Belmont, MA, USA)
Julian Halpern-Smith (Belmont, MA, USA)
Wyatt Johnson (Solon, OH, USA)
Arav Kaushik (Livingston, NJ, USA)
Anwen Kelleher (Bethesda, MD, USA)
Samuel Li (McLean, VA, USA)
Michelle Luo (Johns Creek, GA, USA)
Daniel Merida (Guatemala City, GUA)
Eric Morshed (Marlboro, NJ, USA)
Eli Musicar (Palatine, IL, USA)
Aditya Patnaik (Beavercreek, OH, USA)
Hunter Scott (Hallsville, MO, USA)
Max Smith (Edmond, OK, USA)
Himanshu Surukanti (Edmonton, AB, CAN)
Evan Ting (Indianapolis, IN, USA)
Suhas Voolla (Austin, TX, USA)
Zoe Wang (Summerfield, NC, USA)
International Championship
Caspar Chatham (London, ENG)
Rahim Dina (Sunningdale, ENG)
Pat Gibson (Wigan, ENG)
Sarah Henderson (London, ENG)
Parth Jagtap (Edinburgh, SCO)
Richard Kimber (Oxford, ENG)
Andrew Rout (Maidstone, ENG)
Aidan Tee (Coventry, ENG)
Michael Ai (Dongguan, GD, CHN)
Julius Caezar Dizon (Quezon City, PHI)
Aaran Mohann (Perth, WA, AUS)
Subrat Mohanty (Bangalore, KA, IND)
Jessica Smith (Melbourne, VC, AUS)
Vincenzo Tagle (Makati, PHI)
Hrishikesh Varma (Bengaluru, KA, IND)
Aswath Venkataraman (Bengaluru, KN, IND)
International Novice
Dom Carver (Chelmsford, ENG)
Anannya Deb (Mumbai, MH, IND)
Malte Dürr (Sundern, NRW, GER)
Abel Gilsing (Vilnius, LTU)
Atharv Gupta (Chelmsford, ENG)
John McKenzie (Aberdeen, SCO)
Sarah Trevarthen (Manchester, ENG)
Jon Violet (Southampton, ENG)
Suvajit Chakraborty (Mumbai, MH, IND)
Sania Narulkar (Mumbai, MH, IND)
Sanveer Singh (Ahmedabad, GJ, IND)
Huang Yi (Ningbo, ZJ, CHN)
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From the Overview section at the top of the event page:
Each player will play one game per week at times which work for each player’s schedule.
Each game week lasts from 12:00 PM US Central Time on Sunday to 11:59 PM US Central Time on Tuesday.
Games are expected to last about 35 minutes each.
Each player is guaranteed to play six games.
Games will be played starting the week of February 11, through the week of March 17.
The four players in a game schedule that game for a time within the gameweek that works for all of their schedules. A game could theoretically be scheduled for any time within that gameweek, so long as a staffer is available for it. For example, in the first week, if you are not available to play on Sunday the 11th, you could play on Monday the 12th or Tuesday the 13th.