VCU Open Mirror at UL Lafayette (8/15)
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:39 am
Greetings!
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Club for Academic Competition is pleased to announce its mirror of VCU Open. This mirror will take place on Saturday, August 15, 2015 at Moody Hall on the UL Lafayette campus. This shall serve as Louisiana Open II: The Archdemon's Humble Request for Camelot and Sega to Put Differences Aside and Make Shining Force IV.
Copied from the original announcement:
VCUO ‘15 will be implementing a Gaddis-style difficulty quota for answerlines, based on a 4-point scale:
1 – ACF Fall
2 – ACF Regionals
3 – ACF Nationals
4 – ++
Each packet will have approximately (4) 1’s, (8) 2’s, (6) 3’s, and (2) 4’s. This is a difficulty ceiling, not floor, so an answerline that might appear at ACF Fall can be categorized as a 1, 2, 3, or 4.
Tossups are hard-capped at 8 lines for 1’s and 7 lines for 2-4’s.
As the name implies, VCUO ‘15 is an open tournament and there are no eligibility restrictions.
Distribution:
VCUO ‘15 will consist of 15 packets. The distribution is modeled on VCUO ‘11 and is as follows:
4/4 Literature (30% American, 30% British, 25% European, 15% World)
4/4 History (25% American, 25% European, 20% World, 15% British, 15% Classical)
4/4 Science (25% Biology, 16.67% Chemistry, 25% Physics, 11.67% Math, 11.67% Earth Science, 5% Astronomy, 5% Computer Science)
3/3 Fine Arts (split evenly between Painting, Music, and Miscellaneous Arts)
2/2 R/M (split evenly between Religion and Myth)
1/1 Trash
1/1 P/SS (split evenly between Philosophy and Social Science)
1/1 G/C/GK (40% Geography, 40% Current Events, 20% Geography, Current Events, or “General Knowledge”)
Field cap:
The soft cap has been removed as of now. Hard cap is 10 teams.
Fee structure:
$90 per team
-$5 buzzer discount (limit 2 functioning buzzers)
-$10 staffer discount (I'll give as many discounts as we need staffers)
-$5 for the first 150 miles travelled according to Google maps, $5 more for every 150 miles after that. Of all players on your team, we'll take the maximum distance travelled by any player on the team and set that as your mileage.
Minimum fee: $65 per team
Side events:
We plan to play the following side events on Sunday. I'm working on getting them confirmed for the event.
CO Visual Arts
We Have Never Been Modern
CO Lit Doubles
Registration:
Emailing me at husbandofsamus at gmail dot com is a sufficient way of registering for this tournament.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Club for Academic Competition is pleased to announce its mirror of VCU Open. This mirror will take place on Saturday, August 15, 2015 at Moody Hall on the UL Lafayette campus. This shall serve as Louisiana Open II: The Archdemon's Humble Request for Camelot and Sega to Put Differences Aside and Make Shining Force IV.
Copied from the original announcement:
VCUO ‘15 will be implementing a Gaddis-style difficulty quota for answerlines, based on a 4-point scale:
1 – ACF Fall
2 – ACF Regionals
3 – ACF Nationals
4 – ++
Each packet will have approximately (4) 1’s, (8) 2’s, (6) 3’s, and (2) 4’s. This is a difficulty ceiling, not floor, so an answerline that might appear at ACF Fall can be categorized as a 1, 2, 3, or 4.
Tossups are hard-capped at 8 lines for 1’s and 7 lines for 2-4’s.
As the name implies, VCUO ‘15 is an open tournament and there are no eligibility restrictions.
Distribution:
VCUO ‘15 will consist of 15 packets. The distribution is modeled on VCUO ‘11 and is as follows:
4/4 Literature (30% American, 30% British, 25% European, 15% World)
4/4 History (25% American, 25% European, 20% World, 15% British, 15% Classical)
4/4 Science (25% Biology, 16.67% Chemistry, 25% Physics, 11.67% Math, 11.67% Earth Science, 5% Astronomy, 5% Computer Science)
3/3 Fine Arts (split evenly between Painting, Music, and Miscellaneous Arts)
2/2 R/M (split evenly between Religion and Myth)
1/1 Trash
1/1 P/SS (split evenly between Philosophy and Social Science)
1/1 G/C/GK (40% Geography, 40% Current Events, 20% Geography, Current Events, or “General Knowledge”)
Field cap:
The soft cap has been removed as of now. Hard cap is 10 teams.
Fee structure:
$90 per team
-$5 buzzer discount (limit 2 functioning buzzers)
-$10 staffer discount (I'll give as many discounts as we need staffers)
-$5 for the first 150 miles travelled according to Google maps, $5 more for every 150 miles after that. Of all players on your team, we'll take the maximum distance travelled by any player on the team and set that as your mileage.
Minimum fee: $65 per team
Side events:
We plan to play the following side events on Sunday. I'm working on getting them confirmed for the event.
CO Visual Arts
We Have Never Been Modern
CO Lit Doubles
Registration:
Emailing me at husbandofsamus at gmail dot com is a sufficient way of registering for this tournament.
