ARTSEE (Summer/Fall 2016 Arts Side Event)
Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 5:35 pm
Only a few hours after its conception, I am excited to announce the Artistic Reification Tournament - Summer Edification Edition, or ARTSEE for short. If you are so inclined, you may call this the Fine Arts Reification Tournament - Summer Edification Edition and call it by the resulting acronym instead.
This tournament's target difficulty is equivalent to recent side events that I've produced (SHEIKH, Christmas Present) - roughly Nats or Nats-minus level. Like Christmas Present, this tournament will use a three-tiered quota system of answerline difficulty - Category 1 answers would be bonus middle parts (or easier) at Regionals, Category 2 answers are tougher but "canonical" answers, and Category 3 answers are challenging or extra-canonical answers that haven't come up a ton. A minimum of 50% of answerlines will be Category 1, and a maximum of 25% of answerlines will be category 3. Tossups will be between seven and nine lines long in ten-point Times New Roman, including powermarks.
As of right now, I'll say there will be at least nine powermarked packets. The distribution will be as follows, with 20 tossups per packet:
2x Painting pre-1850
2x Painting post-1850
2x Mixed / Any Painting (common links, more of the above, "pure" art history)
1x Sculpture
1x Architecture
2x Film
1x Photography + Performance + Other Visual
1x Ballet + Other Music
1x Jazz
1x Opera
1x Early Music + Theory
1x Baroque Music + History & Conductors
1x Classical era + Performers
1x Romantic Music
1x Modern Music
1x Any Music (common links and more of the above) Music History, etc.
This tournament will be written by myself, Jarret Greene, Kai Smith, and Athena Kern; I'll be serving as head editor. I'm open to taking on one additional writer who's interested in contributing sculpture and/or architecture questions.
This tournament's target difficulty is equivalent to recent side events that I've produced (SHEIKH, Christmas Present) - roughly Nats or Nats-minus level. Like Christmas Present, this tournament will use a three-tiered quota system of answerline difficulty - Category 1 answers would be bonus middle parts (or easier) at Regionals, Category 2 answers are tougher but "canonical" answers, and Category 3 answers are challenging or extra-canonical answers that haven't come up a ton. A minimum of 50% of answerlines will be Category 1, and a maximum of 25% of answerlines will be category 3. Tossups will be between seven and nine lines long in ten-point Times New Roman, including powermarks.
As of right now, I'll say there will be at least nine powermarked packets. The distribution will be as follows, with 20 tossups per packet:
2x Painting pre-1850
2x Painting post-1850
2x Mixed / Any Painting (common links, more of the above, "pure" art history)
1x Sculpture
1x Architecture
2x Film
1x Photography + Performance + Other Visual
1x Ballet + Other Music
1x Jazz
1x Opera
1x Early Music + Theory
1x Baroque Music + History & Conductors
1x Classical era + Performers
1x Romantic Music
1x Modern Music
1x Any Music (common links and more of the above) Music History, etc.
This tournament will be written by myself, Jarret Greene, Kai Smith, and Athena Kern; I'll be serving as head editor. I'm open to taking on one additional writer who's interested in contributing sculpture and/or architecture questions.