2023 ILLIAC II Announcement (Fall 2023, 2 Dot)

[Mitchellaneous]

The Academic Buzzer Team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce ILLIAC II (ILLInois Academic Competition II). The set will be written and edited by current and former members of the ABT. The set will be head edited by me, Mitch McCullar.

The subject editors will be as follows:

Mitch McCullar (Literature, Religion, Mythology, Philosophy, co-editing Social Science, Other Academic)
Justin Wytmar (History, co-editing Fine Arts, Current Events, Geography)
Max Brodsky (co-editing Fine Arts)
Iain Carpenter (Physics, Other Science, co-editing Social Science)
Andrew Wang (Biology, Chemistry)

The set will consist of 14 packets of 20/20 questions targeting the 2 dot difficulty, similar to ACF Winter. Tossups will be capped at 8 lines in TNR 11 pt. before power marking.

Distribution:

4/4 Literature:
1/1 American
1/1 British
1/1 European
1/1 World

4/4 History:
1/1 American
1/1 European, Post-Classical
1/1 World
1/1 Ancient/Other

4/4 Science:
1/1 Biology
1/1 Chemistry
1/1 Physics
1/1 Other Science (Astronomy/Earth Science/Computer Science/Math/Engineering/Misc.)

3/3 Fine Arts:
1/1 Painting and Sculpture
1/1 Classical Music, Opera, and Ballet
1/1 "Other Art" (Film/Architecture/Dance/Photography/Non-Western Music and Art Forms/etc.)

4/4 RMPSS:
1/1 Religion
1/1 Mythology
1/1 Philosophy
1/1 Social Science

1/1 Geography, Current Events, "Modern World," and Other Academic

We have begun writing the set, with a little more than 20% already written. We aim to have the set completed by October. The mirror fee will be $45 per team.

All mirror requests and questions regarding the set should be sent to mitchmc10 AT yahoo.com.

[Mitchellaneous]

This Post Reserved For Mirrors:

Online Open Playtest: Online [October 7, 2023]
Midwest/Main Site: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [October 21, 2023]
Great Lakes:
Northeast: Brown [November 18, 2023]
Upstate NY: Cornell [November 18, 2023]
Upper Mid-Atlantic: Maryland [October 28, 2023]
Lower Mid-Atlantic:
Southeast:
Florida: University of Florida [December 2, 2023]
North:
South Central:
California: UCLA [February 17, 2024]
Northwest:
Canada: Online [January 13, 2024]
UK: Southhampton [March 16, 2024]
Online Closed Mirror: Online (Arizona State as host school) [Mar 16, 2023]

Other:
Reinstein Varsity: Barrington High School [December 16, 2023]

[Mitchellaneous]

A closed online mirror of ILLIAC II hosted by Arizona State University will take place on March 16th. If your school has not yet had the opportunity to play ILLIAC II and would like to, this is the mirror to do so.