The Birth of a Nation: Slapdash Michigan Shootout Day (July 6)
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:22 am
WHAT: A day of playing various trash events, almost certainly all shootout-style.
WHERE: Barring any last-minute location changes, this will be at the University of Michigan. We will meet in Mason Hall and attempt to find a classroom that is unlocked and not being used. Since we are doing shootouts, we will only need one room, which historically we have managed to find. For those familiar with U of M tournaments, this is the same building in which they are almost always in.
WHEN: Saturday, July 6. Plan on arriving between 9:30 and 10, so we can start promptly at 10:00. I am giving a slightly later start time, to allow for traveling and for attempts at room wrangling. I plan on getting there at least by 9 and can hopefully find a room ASAP. I will then post the room number to HSQB. We'd play some stuff, take a quick lunch break, and then play until probably early evening.
WHAT EVENTS: This is up in the air, depending on what we wish to play. We will try to play, depending on what the owners of these sets will allow:
-Mixtape (guerrilla music)
-STAR BOWL (science fiction)
-assuming speakers and projectors of some kind, Look at This Photograph (visual trash), TUPAC (music listening) and BUMPY II (visual film).
-We may play the tossups-only or some other format of the trash set No Banter, Please.
-I encourage all participants to write a packet of whatever length and theme they wish to read.
-Let me know if there's anything else you wish to play. We could also inquire about the tossups only of the sets Fogey and the Fort Osage trash set.
FORMAT: This is going to be most likely shootouts due to only having one room. If we really wanted to, we could do some format in which we make teams and play a packet as teams and then keep changing the teams (this seems silly for anything but a full trash packet). We would require people to assuredly read several times during the day--plan on at least once per packet set, for sure.
COST: Each set will have a specific cost per person. I will try and haggle down a pro-rated cost because we are doing shootouts/tossups only, but I cannot make guarantees. Costs that I know of:
Mixtape: Free if packet submitted, $15 otherwise (proceeds go to charity)
Star Bowl: $10 (confirmed)
BUMPY II: $5 (confirmed)
Photograph: $5 (confirmed)
No Banter: $8 (confirmed)
Plan on each event costing somewhere between $5 to $15 a person, aside from guerrilla packets of course. You don't have to play everything, of course.
OTHER NOTES:
-Since we cannot 100% guarantee a room, I would advise participants to take that into account when planning things. I'm confident we can find a room or at the very least find a study area or something, but we might have to move, cut things short, or (gulp) not start.
-Please bring a buzzer set. We will probably only need one, but it's good to have backups. If possible, I'll try and cover $5 of an entrance fee for people who bring workable buzzers.
-You're free to come and go whenever, but the schedule of day's events is going be in flux and dependent on what people at the time want to do.
-Feel free to spread the word. I would say going beyond twelve people is going to get sticky due to the room and buzzer constraints, but we can always try to work something out.
Potential Field
-Mike Cheyne
-Woody
-Connor Teevens
-Kenji Shimizu
-Harris Bunker (?)
-MATH LASER?
-I've heard possibly Austin Foos and Mark Karabajakian
WHERE: Barring any last-minute location changes, this will be at the University of Michigan. We will meet in Mason Hall and attempt to find a classroom that is unlocked and not being used. Since we are doing shootouts, we will only need one room, which historically we have managed to find. For those familiar with U of M tournaments, this is the same building in which they are almost always in.
WHEN: Saturday, July 6. Plan on arriving between 9:30 and 10, so we can start promptly at 10:00. I am giving a slightly later start time, to allow for traveling and for attempts at room wrangling. I plan on getting there at least by 9 and can hopefully find a room ASAP. I will then post the room number to HSQB. We'd play some stuff, take a quick lunch break, and then play until probably early evening.
WHAT EVENTS: This is up in the air, depending on what we wish to play. We will try to play, depending on what the owners of these sets will allow:
-Mixtape (guerrilla music)
-STAR BOWL (science fiction)
-assuming speakers and projectors of some kind, Look at This Photograph (visual trash), TUPAC (music listening) and BUMPY II (visual film).
-We may play the tossups-only or some other format of the trash set No Banter, Please.
-I encourage all participants to write a packet of whatever length and theme they wish to read.
-Let me know if there's anything else you wish to play. We could also inquire about the tossups only of the sets Fogey and the Fort Osage trash set.
FORMAT: This is going to be most likely shootouts due to only having one room. If we really wanted to, we could do some format in which we make teams and play a packet as teams and then keep changing the teams (this seems silly for anything but a full trash packet). We would require people to assuredly read several times during the day--plan on at least once per packet set, for sure.
COST: Each set will have a specific cost per person. I will try and haggle down a pro-rated cost because we are doing shootouts/tossups only, but I cannot make guarantees. Costs that I know of:
Mixtape: Free if packet submitted, $15 otherwise (proceeds go to charity)
Star Bowl: $10 (confirmed)
BUMPY II: $5 (confirmed)
Photograph: $5 (confirmed)
No Banter: $8 (confirmed)
Plan on each event costing somewhere between $5 to $15 a person, aside from guerrilla packets of course. You don't have to play everything, of course.
OTHER NOTES:
-Since we cannot 100% guarantee a room, I would advise participants to take that into account when planning things. I'm confident we can find a room or at the very least find a study area or something, but we might have to move, cut things short, or (gulp) not start.
-Please bring a buzzer set. We will probably only need one, but it's good to have backups. If possible, I'll try and cover $5 of an entrance fee for people who bring workable buzzers.
-You're free to come and go whenever, but the schedule of day's events is going be in flux and dependent on what people at the time want to do.
-Feel free to spread the word. I would say going beyond twelve people is going to get sticky due to the room and buzzer constraints, but we can always try to work something out.
Potential Field
-Mike Cheyne
-Woody
-Connor Teevens
-Kenji Shimizu
-Harris Bunker (?)
-MATH LASER?
-I've heard possibly Austin Foos and Mark Karabajakian