2024 PLAYTIME!: Announcement

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Hello everyone! I am excited to announce PLAYTIME! (Production Licensed for the Academic Year Tendered In a Mental Endeavor!), a 2-dot difficulty set - aiming to be similar to the difficulty of 2022 C++ and 2023 ACF Winter - playable in the 2024-25 season that will be ready for mirrors beginning in October. Set production is already underway, with about 33% written as of the publication of this post.

The set will have 14 packets of 20/20, as well as extras/tiebreakers, and will be head edited by myself and Kevin Park of Pomona. Our category editors and distribution are listed here:

4/4 History: Aiden Dartley
1/1 American History (AD)
1/1 European History (AD)
1/1 World History (AD)
1/1 Ancient/Other History (AD)
4/4 Science: Jeremy Cummings, Kevin Park
1/1 Biology (KP)
1/1 Chemistry + Biochemistry (KP)
1/1 Physics + Astrophysics (JC)
1/1 Other Science with 0.5/0.5 math (JC)
4/4 Literature: Rachel Ezrielev, Anuttam Ramji
1.25/1.25 Long Fiction (AR)
1/1 Short Fiction (AR)
1/1 Poetry (AR)
0.75/0.75 Drama (RE)
3.5/3.5 Fine Arts: Jeremy Cummings, Young Fenimore Lee, Kevin Park
1/1 Painting/Sculpture/Photography (KP)
1/1 Classical Music (JC)
1.5/1.5 Other Fine Arts (YFL) with 0.5/0.5 film (KP)
3.5/3.5 Belief & Thought: Brynn Jones, Young Fenimore Lee, Sinecio Morales
1/1 Religion (SM)
0.5/0.5 Mythology (BJ)
1/1 Philosophy (YFL)
1/1 Social Science (SM)
1/1 Other: Sinecio Morales, Kevin Park
0.5/0.5 Geography (SM)
0.5/0.5 Other Academic (KP)

Other writers: Marc Calza, Dan Ni, James Orefice, Coby Tran

The mirror fee for this set will be $45/team, with 1 house team playing free at each mirror (if desired). A request to mirror our set indicates an agreement to post stats within 2 weeks of the tournament date, and any advanced stats (via MODAQ, TJsheets, etc.) are highly encouraged. Mirror requests should be sent to qbplaytime [at] gmail [dot] com.

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Mirrors:

PLAYTEST! (Online Open playtest mirror - 9/28/2024)
PLAYTIME! @ WUSTL (St. Louis, MO - 10/12/2024)
PLAYTIME! @ Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD - 10/26/2024)

HS mirror: Reinstein Varsity @ Barrington High School (Barrington, IL - 12/14/2024)

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Hi everyone, wanted to give a quick update.

As of now, PLAYTIME! is on track to be ready for mirrors beginning in October. Our writing team is working towards getting a playtest mirror near the end of September, with more information to follow!