Classics Tournament Discussion

[dsimons]

I'm pretty sure most everyone who wanted to hear this set has heard it, so I'll open it up to discussion. If you haven't heard it yet and want a copy, send me an email at dallas.simons at gmail. Also, I ended up taking the unused questions I thought were too hard and wrote some more for a series of five rounds of short speedcheck questions called the "Julius Classicus" tournament. These answers are all extremely obscure and designed for a different audience, but if anyone wants to see those feel free to send me an email as well.

In terms of the questions themselves, they were all written by me. I know some of the Greek questions may have been a weaker than the Roman ones on the whole, and there may have been some issues about things I thought were less/more well-known than they actually were, but I'm pleased with how the tournament turned out altogether.

[Sima Guang Hater]

This set was a delight to play, even if I didn't know what was going on with half of the literature tossups. I especially enjoyed the creative joke tossups.

[Auks Ran Ova]

You may have made my entire day by allowing me to power a tossup on Leucippe and Clitophon. Keep in mind that this is a day during which I'd previously heard somewhere near 400 videogame tossups.

[Gautam]

You may have made my entire day by allowing me to power a tossup on Leucippe and Clitophon. Keep in mind that this is a day during which I'd previously heard somewhere near 400 videogame tossups.

Achilles Tatius FTW.