MRNA IV: Herd Immunity

[ErikC]

I am very excited to announce MRNA IV: Herd Immunity. The set will be head edited by me, Erik Christensen. The set will be subject edited by the following team:

Erik Christensen - Philosophy, World History, "Other" History, Film
Noah Sheidlower - Social Science, World Literature, American History
Tony Chen - American, British, and European Literature
Lia Rathburn - European History, Mythology, and "Other"
Kane Nguyen - Biology, Visual Fine Arts
Aidan Fein - Auditory Fine Arts, Other Fine Arts
James Wang - Chemistry
Andrew McCowan - Religion
Eric Mukherjee - Physics
Ganon Evans - Other Science
Gareth Thorlakson - Vibes

Also writing for the set are Chandler West, Gerhardt Hinkle, Jacob O'Rourke, Adrian Wong, Aum Mundhe, Lalit Maharjan, Veer Rami, Alan Wu, Michael Du, Jared He, Jason Zhang, Russell Nip, Joey Sun, Max Gedajlovic, Maude-Sophie Lockman, and Mica Oestreich.

The set will consist of 14 packets of 20/20 targeting 2 dot difficulty, similar to ACF winter and aiming for a similar difficulty to Booster Shot, which is retroactively being deemed MRNA III. Tossups will be soft capped at 7 lines before bolding for power in an effort to control length, and bonus length will be closely monitored.

The set’s distribution is below.

4/4 Literature:
1/1 World lit - broken down into:
-10/10 “pure” world lit
-4/4 mixed lit
1/1 American lit
1/1 European + western classical lit
1/1 British + Can/Aus/NZ lit

4/4 Science:
1/1 Biology
1/1 Chemistry
1/1 Physics
1/1 "Other" science

4/4 History:
1/1 North American History (US + Canada)
1/1 World History
1/1 European History
1/1 "Other" History

3.5/3.5 Fine Arts:
1/1 Painting + Sculpture
1/1 Classical music + Opera
0.5/0.5 Film
1/1 Other Fine Arts (split evenly between audio and visual)

1.5/1.5 Religion and Mythology:
1/1 Religion
0.5/0.5 Mythology

2/2 Thought
1/1 Social Science
1/1 Philosophy

1/1 "other" (Geo, CE, Other ACA)

We are currently aiming for mirrors to be available in all regions by the start of March 2025, with an open playtest mirror to run shortly before this date. Logistics, costs, and exact dates are TBD.