Chicago Open Literature Doubles

[cdcarter]

I need a teammate for this Anybody willing to have me, a somewhat to moderately bad Lit player?

I'll play with you, as long as you don't mind having a not very good teammate.

Cool. See you in Chicago

[Gautam]

Given that a billion things have happened since a list was last posted.

Charlie Dees
Greg Peterson
Trevor Davis and Gautam Kandlikar
Ryan Westbrook and Matt Lafer
Andrew Hart and Ray Luo (?)
Brendan Byrne
Trygve Meade and Matt Weiner
Rob Carson
Rom Masrour
Ted Gioia
Mike Sorice
Billy Beyer and Chris Borglum
Chris Ray
Eric Kwartler
Jerry Vinokurov
Chris Carter and Dan Puma
Guy Tabachnick
Carsten Gehring
Nick Clusserath and Todd Faulkenberry
George Stevens and Freddy DeAngelis
Evan Adams
Paul Drube
Lou Pignatelli (from Notre Dame) (?)
Arnav Moudgil
Jack Glerum

[Auks Ran Ova]

Guy Tabachnick and I are playing together.

[Maxwell Sniffingwell]

I'll be playing with Charlie Dees.

And from what I hear, Sorice is going to play with Yaphe.

[EncyclopediaCDRom]

Tim Hartman and I are definitely confirmed for that Saturday evening.

Cheer for Big Brown tomorrow,
Rom Masrour
CPS/UIC

[Maxwell Sniffingwell]

Field is currently at 36 people.

TEAMS (14):
Billy Beyer/Chris Borglum
Brendan Byrne/Paul Drube
Rob Carson/Guy Tabachnick
Chris Carter/Dan Puma
Nick Clusserath/Todd Faulkenberry
Freddy DeAngelis/George Stevens
Charlie Dees/Greg Peterson
Trevor Davis/Gautam Kandlikar
Ted Gioia/Eric Kwartler
Andrew Hart/Ray Luo(?)
Tim Hartman/Rom Masrour
Matt Lafer/Ryan Westbrook
Trygve Meade/Matt Weiner
Mike Sorice/Andrew Yaphe(?)

Free Agents (8):
Evan Adams
Jacob Durst (that's jdd, right?)
Carsten Gehring(?)
Jack Glerum
Arnav Moudgil
Lou Pignatelli (from Notre Dame)(?)
Chris Ray
Jerry Vinokurov

[Magister Ludi]

I'm playing with Eric Kwartler

[DumbJaques]

Yeah, it appears I'm still looking for a partner for this. Anyone interested can drop me a line.

[OctagonJoe]

Since there are 9 people, I'm still willing to staff instead of play to ensure that no one else has to be the odd man out.

[jdd2007]

I'd like to play if there is room. If not, I would be happy to staff.

[Strongside]

Paul Drube and I have agreed to play in this tournament together.

[Strongside]

My teammate for this had to drop, so I am looking for someone to team up with for this tournament. My e-mail address is [email protected]

[Maxwell Sniffingwell]

The field is currently at 34 people.

TEAMS (14):
Evan Adams/Chris Ray
Billy Beyer/Chris Borglum
Rob Carson/Guy Tabachnick
Chris Carter/Dan Puma
Nick Clusserath/Todd Faulkenberry
Freddy DeAngelis/George Stevens
Charlie Dees/Greg Peterson
Trevor Davis/Gautam Kandlikar
Ted Gioia/Eric Kwartler
Andrew Hart/Ray Luo(?)
Tim Hartman/Rom Masrour
Matt Lafer/Ryan Westbrook
Trygve Meade/Matt Weiner
Mike Sorice/Andrew Yaphe(?)

Free Agents (6):
Brendan Byrne
Jacob Durst (?)
Jack Glerum
Arnav Moudgil
Lou Pignatelli (from Notre Dame)(?)
Jerry Vinokurov

Staffers (8):
Bruce Arthur
Bryce Durgin
Jacob Durst(?)
Jeremy Eaton
Carsten Gehring
Katy [Peters?] of Vanderbilt
Evan Silberman
Donald Taylor

[Skepticism and Animal Feed]

I would like to volunteer to read/staff.

[vcuEvan]

I'm playing with Chris Ray.

[BuzzerZen]

I will staff this tournament.

[OctagonJoe]

I am currently on the list as a free agent and a staffer. Since there is still an odd number of players in the free agent pool, I think it would be best if I were removed from there and kept only in the staff section.

[magin]

Currently, my understanding is that the following teams are playing the lit doubles:

Evan Adams/Chris Ray
Billy Beyer/Chris Borglum
Rob Carson/Guy Tabachnick
Chris Carter/Dan Puma
Nick Clusserath/Todd Faulkenberry
Freddy DeAngelis/George Stevens
Charlie Dees/Greg Peterson
Trevor Davis/Gautam Kandlikar
Ted Gioia/Eric Kwartler
Andrew Hart/Ray Luo
Tim Hartman/Rom Masrour
Matt Lafer/Ryan Westbrook
Trygve Meade/Matt Weiner
Mike Sorice/Andrew Yaphe
Seth Teitler/Selene Koo

There's still room for more teams; post here or email me at jmagin AT umd DOT edu to sign up. Also, for dinner, I'm leaning towards ordering food like last year; it doesn't have to be pizza again, but I don't think there will be time to allow people to go have a leisurely dinner after CO.

The schedule will almost assuredly be a bracketed round robin followed by bracketed playoffs; I believe that I have enough moderators, but if you want to staff and haven't already posted in this thread or emailed me about it, please do so.

[Strongside]

I am still a free agent, and looking for a teammate if anyone else wants to play. I can also just show up to the tournament and see if anyone needs a teammate there, or play solo if there is an odd number. My e-mail is [email protected]

[JackGlerum]

I was on the free agent list, but I cannot attend, so you can take me off.

[magin]

I believe that the team of Jacob Durst and Brendan Byrne has registered, leading me to cap the field at 16 teams. If more people want to play, get in touch with me and I'll see about allowing three-person teams (like the one at the IO Literature tournament). The tournament will be 10 dollars per person; there will be 2 brackets of 8 teams each, and we'll play 7 prelim games before rebracketing into 4 playoff brackets of 4 and playing 3 playoff games. There will then be a final, if necessary; there will also be a packet provided of the 20 hardest tossups that were cut for difficulty reasons.

If people have any questions, please email me or post in this thread.

[Strongside]

Yeah. Jacob Durst and I have agreed to play together for this tournament.

[EncyclopediaCDRom]

To whom should I write my check for the entry fees? I prefer to write personal checks so that I can submit cancelled ones to UIC Campus Programs for hopeful reimbursement. Ironically, ISBE (Illinois State Board of Education) does not accept checks from teachers who are renewing their teaching certificates. Did an Illinois teacher bounce a check once in the 1990s? I can also donate a half dozen new paperback classic novels as prizes to the top scorers/teams.

Read A TALE OF TWO CITIES,
Rom Masrour
CPS/UIC

[theMoMA]

I bet Jerry still wants to play this, but hasn't had computer access.

[grapesmoker]

I bet Jerry still wants to play this, but hasn't had computer access.

I do want to play. I registered way back but don't have a partner.

[Maxwell Sniffingwell]

Set was (of course) excellent. Yaphe/Sorice first, Weiner/Meade second, Teitler/Koo third.

[dtaylor4]

Prelim stats.

Overall stats.

[MLafer]

So Andrew had over 3 times as many powers as any team of two, and almost 4 times as many powers as the next person. As Jim Rome would say, phenomenal

[magin]

Congratulations for Andrew Yaphe and Mike Sorice for winning the 2008 Chicago Open Literature Doubles in impressive fashion. I hope all the teams enjoyed the questions, despite the lateness of the hour. I'd like to thank Bruce Arthur, Katy Peters, Carsten Gehring, Jeremy Eaton, Mike Bentley, Eric Mukherjee, Ahmad Ragab, and Arnav Moudgil for staffing (if I've forgotten anyone, please let me know). Also, I'd like to thank Donald Taylor for doing a wonderful job with the stats. Finally, I'd like to thank my fellow writers Ahmad, Eric, Dave Letzler, Dennis Jang, and Shantanu Jha for their many excellent questions; it was both a delight and an honor to work with them.

I apologize for some rounds not having 20 tossups; that was entirely my fault, and should have been corrected. Hopefully, that didn't dampen anyone's enjoyment of the tournament. I'm going to clean up the packets a little (ensuring that each has the correct number of tossups, removing repeats, etc) before publicly releasing the set in the next couple of days. If anyone wants to give me (or the other writers) feedback on the set, please email me at jonathan.magin AT gmail DOT com. Also, I am very interested in seeing players' reactions to this tournament, so go ahead and post in the discussion thread started by Dave.

Once again, creating this tournament was really fun; thanks everyone involved who made it such a successful event.

- Jonathan