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Hello!

This is the announcement for the Pete Rose Reinstatement Scholarship Tournament, a baseball based trash “tournament” written by yours truly. There will be 100 tossups that will be broken into 5 packets of 20. There won't be a specific distribution by packet but the tossups will be made up of

40 players (30 from the last 20 years, 10 from prior to that )
10 Managers
10 Teams (Not just franchises, but memorable teams, for example "The 2012 Tigers.")
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5 Parks
5 STATTTS (UZR, WRC+, SIERA, etc)
10 "Positions" (This will be much more general than you'd think)
10 "other" (GM's, strategies, etc, basically anything related to baseball that I don't think fits in the previous categories)
5 Huge Dingers (For those who don't know baseball, this is a term for homerun)

Clues will be anything that I find to be related to the topic, including non-baseball clues.

Since a lot of these things have never been and never will be tossed up again, it's hard to qualify what the difficulty will be, although I will be aiming to make them comparable to baseball tossups at near-regular difficulty tournaments.

There will be dingers and super dingers.

The fee to play will be five dollars.

This set will be done by March, although I most likely will run it personally at HSNCT or during the downtime during one of the college nationals. If you wish to mirror it, e-mail me at [email protected]

The top scorer will be rewarded with a signed Jose Valverde baseball so you can always feel good about your life due to not being nicknamed Papa Grande.

Half of the profits will be donated to a scholarship of the winning teams choice (this will be a rule for all potential mirrors of the set as well)

Feel free to ask any questions regarding this set. And to answer a question that many probably asked after Ryan Leaf, yes, I will actually be randomizing these packets.
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The top scorer will be rewarded with a signed Jose Valverde baseball
I may have to participate for this alone. The shape of his midsection when he was pitching was always fascinating to me.
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I welcome such a tournament, but yes, just in case the critiques after Ryan Leaf weren't clear:

-randomize the packets
-playtest stuff so you can be aware of problematic lead-ins/clues
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I would be interested in playing this
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If I'm there, this sounds like a blast. I echo Mike's suggestions above.
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I have only become a baseball fan over the last 3 or 4 years and still watch very casually, so I will likely not do well at this tournament, but I would still like to play.
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Cheynem wrote:I welcome such a tournament, but yes, just in case the critiques after Ryan Leaf weren't clear:

-randomize the packets
-playtest stuff so you can be aware of problematic lead-ins/clues
Packets will be more randomized this year.

I'll ask around for playtesters when the time comes.
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Maybe I just missed this in the original post, but when will this be played? I would be interested in playing this set.
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Sounds like it's intended to be run at HSNCT, but could be mirrored other places (I would really like to play it but I don't know if I'll be at HSNCT, so hopefully it gets mirrored).
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Cheynem wrote:I would really like to play it but I don't know if I'll be at HSNCT, so hopefully it gets mirrored.
Agreed.

(Appropriately enough, if I'm not at HSNCT, it'll be because I'll be watching baseball at Wrigley Field).
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You are correct! I intend to run it at HSNCT but plan on having it done around Marchish early April, where it will be available for mirroring under the rules of charity that I previously mentioned.
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I would definitely like to play and redeem myself for my poor performance in the finals of your NFL tournament last year. I would suggest, though, to have slightly fewer Detroit questions than you did in the NFL set because the Lions distribution was like 2/2 and I was the only player from Michigan so that was pretty nice. I think I already have a Valverde card, but it's awesome that you giving money to a scholarship fund--so hopefully I will get you to give the money to MSU's scholarship fund.
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Heh, there were multiple people from Michigan (including me) at that tournament, which made for some fun buzzer races.
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I make my answerlines on a merit based system and since Detroit sports are the best sports, they get the most tossups.
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Kilroy Was Here wrote:I make my answerlines on a merit based system and since Detroit sports are the best sports, they get the most tossups.
I see the Lions spent the rest of the night disproving this assertion.
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jonpin wrote:
Kilroy Was Here wrote:I make my answerlines on a merit based system and since Detroit sports are the best sports, they get the most tossups.
I see the Lions spent the rest of the night disproving this assertion.
In Africa, lion kills zebra. In United States, zebra kills lion.
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Kilroy Was Here wrote:
jonpin wrote:
Kilroy Was Here wrote:I make my answerlines on a merit based system and since Detroit sports are the best sports, they get the most tossups.
I see the Lions spent the rest of the night disproving this assertion.
In Africa, lion kills zebra. In United States, zebra kills lion.
Yeah I forgot how there was a lot of Michigan people there. I apologize Mike Cheyne. Austin Foos and his father also played on a team and they are from Michigan. I must have made an error because of my bias towards Detroit sports. Once again, my apologies. I will not try to jump to rash conclusions as often.
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To further assure concerns people may have after Ryan Leaf, I, due to my utter lack of baseball knowledge, will be focusing exclusively on packetizing and editing. This means a much more coherent set overall and a distinct lack of five stadium toss ups in row. As an additional benefit, this means that there will be a 2nd pair of eyes to watch how much Detroit content goes into the set.
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To say that I am interested in playing this at HSNCT, either solo or with teammates, is an understatement along the lines of saying that Bert Blyleven had a "fair-to-middling" curveball. Count me in right now.

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Kilroy Was Here wrote:
This set will be done by March, although I most likely will run it personally at HSNCT or during the downtime during one of the college nationals.
As it turns out, this was a little ambitious. It looks like the updated timetable is that the set will, likely, be finished around the time of VCU Open.
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TylerV wrote:
Kilroy Was Here wrote:
This set will be done by March, although I most likely will run it personally at HSNCT or during the downtime during one of the college nationals.
As it turns out, this was a little ambitious. It looks like the updated timetable is that the set will, likely, be finished around the time of VCU Open.
As far as I know, there will be no VCU Open this year (though there obviously may be another open tournament in August).
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As Mike Bentley has alluded to in another thread, this might be the year of the SIDE EVENT OPEN.
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Because of unforeseen circumstances that sapped my free time, I have to delay this set until the summer. I still want to produce and play this set as a whole, so my current goal is to get it done by Chicago Open
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Hopefully it can be played at whatever the other summer open/weekend is (unless you meant NEXT summer?).
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Cheynem wrote:Hopefully it can be played at whatever the other summer open/weekend is (unless you meant NEXT summer?).
If there is some sort of VCU Open replacement like KABO from a few years back I'll make it available for that
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It sounds like at the very least there's Side Event Fest...

I want to team with Ryan Westbrook for this.
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Any updates? I'd like to hear this any way I can.
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I won't be at Side Event Fest, but I'd love to help playtest this when it's time for that.
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Collin has informed me that this set is being postponed until next year.

Apologies to those were anticipating it this summer.
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Any update on this? I would love to play
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connorkpierce wrote:Any update on this? I would love to play
Seconded.
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If this set isn't going to get finished, would it be possible to release whatever amount has been written? I would still be massively interested in playing even a small amount of baseball tossups.
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If there's even a packet or two, the bevy of summer events this year would most-likely have a lunch-time audience for this.
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