CO Trash 2024 (Sunday, July 28th at Northwestern)

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CO Trash 2024 (Sunday, July 28th at Northwestern)

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Hot on the heels, or given when I'm posting this possibly the insteps, of Chicago Open Trash 2022, we're announcing the next installment: Chicago Open Trash 2024. As usual, it will once again run for most or all of the Sunday following the Chicago Open.

The set's distribution will likely remain similar to the 2016, 2018, and 2022 events, though we'll be updating some of the date-based cutoffs for various categories due to the inexorable passage of time. We'll have a final announcement of the distro shortly, and obviously will have more relevant logistical information in like 18 months.

We hope to see you there!

UPDATE:

To form teams, announce your availability as a free agent, or indicate interest in staffing, please use this spreadsheet. Please note that signing up on this sheet does not officially register you as a team or staffer; we'll have registration forms for that open shortly, and will edit this post accordingly. We'll also have more logistical details up shortly; to get an idea of what to expect regarding costs, timing, and the like, you can look at the last tournament's thread.

One thing is guaranteed to remain constant: the editors of this tournament hereby denounce the NBA coaching of Randy Wittman (and include a damnatio against "S.B.," for good measure). May the Wizards prosper in the, uh, Brian Keefe era? Yikes.
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Re: CO Trash 2024 (Late summer, Chicago? area)

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Hello friends,

This set is currently a little over 15% written, and I finally remembered that I meant to post an updated distribution. Here it is!

SPORTS
1/1 football
1/1 basketball
1/1 baseball
1/1 other
FILM
1/1 pre-1980
1.5/1.5 1980s-2000s
1.5/1.5 2010s-present
MUSIC
1/1 rock
1/1 pop
.75/.75 hip-hop/R&B/soul
1.25/1.25 other/mixed
TV
.5/.5 pre-1990
1.5/1.5 1990s-2000s
2/2 2010s-present
OTHER
1.5/1.5 video games
.5/.5 "trash lit"
.5/.5 comics/comic strips
1.5/1.5 misc/mixed (i.e. both cross-genre stuff and stuff not categorized elsewhere, like food, fashion, advertising, etc.)

The biggest changes here are, as promised earlier, date cutoffs for film and TV. Also, it's not visible in this somewhat simplified list, but in response to concerns from 2022 we've carved out a specific subdistro section in "comics" for mainstream American comics. Otherwise, our approach towards most distributional areas will remain largely the same: sports will include a mix of college and professional where relevant, and will try to hit a representative range of non-big three stuff in the "other" distribution; subjects with defined genre distros will also be varied across time (and vice versa); "trash lit" will continue to draw from the wide range of culturally-relevant writing that doesn't often fit into academic literature distributions; as always, we strive to entertain.

I'm happy to answer any other questions about the set here too! We will of course have more actual information about the event itself whenever CO finally gets announced.
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Re: CO Trash 2024 (Late summer, Chicago? area)

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I blame these changes on Cory Haala.
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Re: CO Trash 2024 (Late summer, Chicago? area)

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Can we get a team formation sheet set up for this please?
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Re: CO Trash 2024 (Late summer, Chicago? area)

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messed up that american comics gets such a heavy distro as opposed to the comics ppl actually read lul
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Re: CO Trash 2024 (Late summer, Chicago? area)

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Well, judging by last year, you don't have to worry about a lot of American comics.
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Re: CO Trash 2024 (Late summer, Chicago? area)

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Harpie's Feather Duster wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:53 pm Can we get a team formation sheet set up for this please?
Done. More logistical details (like how to officially register) will be added shortly. Please do not attempt to form teams composed of racist internet cranks.
Good Goblin Housekeeping wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:12 pm messed up that american comics gets such a heavy distro as opposed to the comics ppl actually read lul
Cheynem wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:19 pm Well, judging by last year, you don't have to worry about a lot of American comics.
If you kids keep this up we'll have no comics at all!!
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