2019 Bentley Videogame Packet - 12/26/19 10 PM EST

[Mike Bentley]

Hi, I have another 40 or so tossups on videogames. These are similar to my previous packets in that they're often on some combination of:

1. Dumb common links (e.g. games set in the human mouth)
2. Old
3. Disproportionately on Nintendo
4. With clues that are much more likely to be about the technology and development of the game than, say, the plot

I'll read them on Discord this December. Fill out the poll by Monday.

There will be super powers and regular powers. It's possible there will be a speedcheck round.

Previous year's packets are here: https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/2255/

[Mike Bentley]

This will be on Thursday, 12/26 at 10 PM EST.

[Mike Bentley]

Updating the date again to 12/26 on the assumption that a non-trivial amount of people will be at Star Wars on the earlier announced date.

FYI there are 40 regular tossups and 20 tossups closer to NAQT length.

[Mike Bentley]

I'm pushing this up to now for Festivus but will re-read if there's interest on 12/26.

[Mike Bentley]

Here's the scores for the Festivus reading:

AlexSchmidtTheRussianItalian
235
DrMik
85
EricWolfsberg
60
Aaron Dos Remedios
45
kenji.shimizu
30
Erik Christensen
25
Sam Brochin (Pitt)
20
Lalit Maharjan [Purdue]
10
Kevin Wang
10
TDB (ex-Oxford Brookes)
10

[Valefor]

I'd definitely still be down to play this tonight.

[Mike Bentley]

Alright, I'm going to do another reading of this tonight at 10 PM eastern.

[Mike Bentley]

Jason won the second reading of this:

composer_jason
305
Eric Mukherjee, MD PhD
205
jlheureux
65
Jackson Painter [Columbia '19]
15
Emily Gunter [Salem, VA]
10
kai smith [ex-UChicago]
10
Walter [Brown]
5
(TAMU)Deepak Muthy
-5
James H [Rutgers, 2021]
-15

The packet ("Player Poll") can be found here: https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/2255/