Illinois Open Sunday Events: Lit.5 and Impossible Speedcheck

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This is the formal announcement for IO side events, which will take place concurrently with TRASH Regionals on Sunday at IO, assuming there is enough interest. Please post in the thread if you're going to play this stuff.

Announcements with rooms and start times and other logistics will follow.

Lit.5

This is the final four rounds that weren't read at MO lit, and two new rounds. The entry fee is $0 for anyone who was affected by the room reservation debacle at MO, and $5 per person for anyone else. The planned format is to do two brackets of six teams each, then a crossover game between teams who are ranked at the same level, in order to determine a final ranking.

The Richard Eberhart Memorial Impossible Speedcheck Shootout (REMISS)

After Lit.5, the REMISS will take place. Rounds will be conducted on twelve packets of 20 two-line tossups, distributed in a normal manner. The format will be dictated by the number of teams who sign up. Entry fee is $5 per person.

There will also be an IMPOSSIBLE UNEDITED ACF FALL SUBMISSIONS packet, to be played by the top eight scorers at this tournament (who are not ACF Fall editors).
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Would it be possible to run any of these events at the Berkeley IO mirror? (There may or may not be interest, but I thought it would be worthwhile to ask...)
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bt_green_warbler wrote:Would it be possible to run any of these events at the Berkeley IO mirror? (There may or may not be interest, but I thought it would be worthwhile to ask...)
For sure.
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When would Berkeley, Maryland, and Brandeis need these packets?

Also, is anyone going to play these things at Illinois?
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EDIT 2: I can't read.

EDIT: I'm confident Sorice will play both.
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theMoMA wrote:When would Berkeley... need these packets?
At some point before people play them. I don't know whether that would be Saturday night or Sunday. It may depend on the level of demand for RMP and TRASH regionals, which is still up in the air.
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I'll play
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I am planning on playing these tournaments.
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We'll play what we have time for (MO-style, I presume) next Saturday.
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theMoMA wrote:This is the formal announcement for IO side events, which will take place concurrently with TRASH Regionals on Sunday at IO, assuming there is enough interest. Please post in the thread if you're going to play this stuff.
If the plan really is to run the lit and impossible speedcheck events on Sunday morning while TRASH Regionals is going on in other rooms, I will almost certainly play both, and I think some other Chicago people who aren't playing TRASH will also sign up. If the plan is to run things after TRASH Regionals finishes, I'm not sure if we'll stay and play or skip it.

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I'm in the same boat as Seth. If it gets played Sunday morning-ish, I'm certainly in. If not, I don't know.
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The plan is to run this concurrently with TRASH. So yeah, Sunday morning.
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I'm hoping to play all three of these (and everything else...) but perhaps I can join my trash team after the other two events finish, so no worries.

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Of course, I support playing as many of these events as possible at the Brandeis mirror.
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I have slightly amended my plans. There will be 60 total lit tossups available, and the plan is to have a 30-question seeding round with two rooms, then a 30-question final. People will play solo.

Basically, between making sure that speedcheck got done and catching up on schoolwork, there was no way for me to get another two packets of lit produced. Apologies if anyone is terribly disappointed.
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School...work?
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I finally discovered this thread, and I had just replied to Billy Beyer, accepting his offer to join his two FSU teammates for the TRASH Regionals. Of course, I would be delighted to compete in Andrew's two scrimmages should they not overlap with the TRASH. With an easy day of work scheduled for me on Monday, I can leave UIUC quite late Sunday if need be.

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Hey, I'm not sure exactly who needs these packets (I'm going to send them to Chris, Hannah, and Jeff, if I can find his email). The Impossible Speedcheck isn't going to be ready for playing today, but anyone who can mirror it tomorrow is welcome to do so.
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theMoMA wrote:Hey, I'm not sure exactly who needs these packets (I'm going to send them to Chris, Hannah, and Jeff, if I can find his email). The Impossible Speedcheck isn't going to be ready for playing today, but anyone who can mirror it tomorrow is welcome to do so.
Hmm... I still don't have questions (but that might be ok, since we're running these after TRASH due to severe shortage of players and staff.

jthoppes {at} berkeley {dot} edu

Edit: got the packets. Thanks, Andrew.
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These tournaments have concluded.

All sixty blind lit tossups were read to a single room. Seth Teitler won running away, and Mike Sorice got second.

The IMPOSSIBLE SPEEDCHECK tournament concluded with Ryan Westbrook, Rob Carson, and Nick Polk a half-game ahead of Brendan Byrne, Shantanu Jha, Billy Beyer, and Joe Hansen.

Stats are here: http://limozeen.googlepages.com/impossi ... dings.html

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theMoMA wrote:The IMPOSSIBLE SPEEDCHECK tournament concluded with Ryan Westbrook, Rob Carson, and Nick Polk a half-game ahead of Brendan Byrne, Shantanu Jha, Billy Beyer, and Joe Hansen.
Lies! 6-4-2 is a full game ahead of 5-5-2.
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In the Impossible Speedcheck Shootout: Berkeley Edition, 14 people sat around in a single room after TRASH and played anywhere between 8 tossups and 7 full rounds (as in, Jeff, Brian and I each heard 7 full rounds and everyone else heard only some of those questions).

Following Andrew's lead, no negs for interrupting a speedcheck will be posted:

Name (School): Tossups Correct
Jeff (Berkeley): 21
Brian (Stanford): 17
Dwight (Irvine): 13
Yogesh (Berkeley): 6
Philippe (Berkeley): 2
Eddie (Stanford): 1
Larissa (Berkeley): 1
Reyu (Berkeley): 1
Michael (Berkeley): 1
Jennifer (Berkeley): 0
Victoria (Berkeley): 0
Akhil (Berkeley): 0
Paul (Stanford): 0
Lauren (Stanford): 0
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