FLopen 2020
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:15 am
I am pleased to announce FLopen (“flow-pen”), an open level quiz bowl tournament to be played in the late fall of 2020 or winter 2021. The set will be head edited by me, Taylor Harvey, with Jonathen Settle co-editing. The set will be written by members of the University of Florida quiz bowl team.
The target difficulty is 3.5 dots the quiz bowl calendar scale, meaning it is similar in difficulty to recent opens like 2019 Fall Open and 2019 PIANO/MO.
The set will consist of 14 power-marked packets of 22/22 (to be played as such, rather than stopping at 20/20). Toss ups will be capped at 8 lines, TNR, 10 pt font.
The slightly experimental distribution is as follows:
Literature (4/4)
1 Poetry
1 Long Fiction
0.5 Drama
0.5 Short Fiction
1 Non-fiction, Criticism, Mixed Genre, or more of the above
History (4/4)
1 United States
1 British and European
1 World
1 Other, Mixed, and Ancient
Science (4/4)
1 Biology
0.75 Chemistry
1 Physics
1.25 Other Science (Math, Astronomy, Computer Science, Earth Science, Engineering, etc)
Fine Arts (3.5/3.5)
1 Painting and Sculpture
1 Western Classical Music
1.5 Other Arts (Film, Jazz, Opera, Design, Architecture, Photography, World Music, etc)
RMPSS (4/4)
0.5 Mythology
1 Religion
1 Philosophy
1.5 Social Science
Other (2.5/2.5)
0.75 Geography
0.5 Current Events and the Zeitgeist
0.75 Mixed Academic and General Knowledge
0.5 Popular Culture
Total (22/22)
In honor of the 189th anniversary of Hegel's death, the tournament will be available beginning on November 14th, 2020, and will stay available into winter of 2021. Mirror fees will be $50 per non-house team.
If you would like to mirror the set, please email me at [email protected] or PM me on the forums.
Current mirrors (host, date, announcement):
"Main Site": Set editing/writing team, 11/21/20, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24378
{CANCELLED} Southeast: UF, 11/14/20, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24377
Mid Atlantic + Southeast: UVA, 11/21/20, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24552
UK: Southampton, 11/28/20
Northeast: MIT, 1/9/2021, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24707
Second "Main Site": Set editing/writing team, 1/16/21, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24658
The target difficulty is 3.5 dots the quiz bowl calendar scale, meaning it is similar in difficulty to recent opens like 2019 Fall Open and 2019 PIANO/MO.
The set will consist of 14 power-marked packets of 22/22 (to be played as such, rather than stopping at 20/20). Toss ups will be capped at 8 lines, TNR, 10 pt font.
The slightly experimental distribution is as follows:
Literature (4/4)
1 Poetry
1 Long Fiction
0.5 Drama
0.5 Short Fiction
1 Non-fiction, Criticism, Mixed Genre, or more of the above
History (4/4)
1 United States
1 British and European
1 World
1 Other, Mixed, and Ancient
Science (4/4)
1 Biology
0.75 Chemistry
1 Physics
1.25 Other Science (Math, Astronomy, Computer Science, Earth Science, Engineering, etc)
Fine Arts (3.5/3.5)
1 Painting and Sculpture
1 Western Classical Music
1.5 Other Arts (Film, Jazz, Opera, Design, Architecture, Photography, World Music, etc)
RMPSS (4/4)
0.5 Mythology
1 Religion
1 Philosophy
1.5 Social Science
Other (2.5/2.5)
0.75 Geography
0.5 Current Events and the Zeitgeist
0.75 Mixed Academic and General Knowledge
0.5 Popular Culture
Total (22/22)
In honor of the 189th anniversary of Hegel's death, the tournament will be available beginning on November 14th, 2020, and will stay available into winter of 2021. Mirror fees will be $50 per non-house team.
If you would like to mirror the set, please email me at [email protected] or PM me on the forums.
Current mirrors (host, date, announcement):
"Main Site": Set editing/writing team, 11/21/20, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24378
{CANCELLED} Southeast: UF, 11/14/20, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24377
Mid Atlantic + Southeast: UVA, 11/21/20, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24552
UK: Southampton, 11/28/20
Northeast: MIT, 1/9/2021, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24707
Second "Main Site": Set editing/writing team, 1/16/21, viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24658