TELEOLOGY 3: Spring/Summer 2024

[TaylorH]

This is the announcement for TELEOLOGY 3, a challenging hybrid side event coming in spring 2024. The distro is the same as TELEOLOGY 2:

2 Film
4 Literature
2 Non-film visual arts
2 Art music
3 Pop music
2 Video games
1 Other pop culture
1 Belief
2 Thought
5 "Other" (grab bag of history, science, geography, mixed academic, mixed academic and pop culture, and uncategorizable stuff)

There will be 10 packets of 24 powermarked tossups.

It'd be cool if this could be played at CO or at a side event weekend. Once again Anthony Delgado, Mateo Acosta, and Will Grossman will be helping me with this set.

See y'all there.

[TaylorH]

This set is finished and is available for mirrors now. With that said, if you'd like to run a side event at your tournament in the next few months, I'd recommend you mirror TELEOLOGY 2 instead since that has only been heard at the main online site.

I'd like to run this in person somewhere in the summer, most likely at whatever side event weekends materialize. I will run an online mirror of it sometime in the summer as well for folks who can't make in-person sites.

[Adventure Temple Trail]

After the main event of ESPN @ UChicago, a site of TELEOLOGY 3 was hosted. The initial plan was to divide the interested field of about 16 players into two shootout rooms, with ~1-2 people from the bottom room moving up and two from the top moving down after every second packet. However, by the end of round 2, an entire room's worth of people had decided to bail, so the event consolidated into one room for the remaining eight packets. Final scores were as follows:

Matt Jackson: 630 points (24 / 36 / 18)
John Lawrence: 405 points (10 / 27 / 3)
Dylan Minarik: 305 points (3 / 32 / 12)
Nick Jensen: 295 points (10 / 28 / 27)
Ned Tagtmeier: 235 points (4 / 22 / 9)
Ian Baram: 60 points (1 / 8 / 7)
Tomas: 30 points (1 / 2 / 1) [rounds 3-7 only] [+ previous score in lower room]
Adam Fine: 25 points (1 / 1 / 0) [rounds 8-10 only]
Shiv Seshan: 10 points (1 / 0 / 1) [rounds 3-6 only]
Cavan O'Neill: 10 points (0 / 2/ 2) [rounds 3-6 only]
Patrick ?: -5 points (0 / 0 / 1) [first 2 rounds only]

Thanks to Taylor for writing and reading this enthralling content, to Adam Fine for reading the second room while it existed, and to Ned for keeping score.