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The Very Intense Conceptual Open ('''VICO'''/The New SCIENCE) was a "thought"-based, tossups-only subject tournament, written by [[Will Holub-Moorman]] and [[Jacob Reed]] as a side event for the 2015 [[VCU Open]]. The tournament [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=17230 mirrored the standard quizbowl distribution] by including not only social science and philosophy questions (roughly 1/2 of the tournament), but also questions on "literature," "history," "science," "arts" and "trash" thought (broadly conceived). Several of these more nontraditional "-thought" categories were integrated into the distribution of 2016's [[MYSTERIUM]], also edited by Reed.

The tournament was mostly well-received, with [[Marshall Steinbaum]] declaring it "the future of quizbowl" and [[Chris Ray]] claiming that it was "fairly widely recognized as finding rich new material to fold into the canon"; most complaints focused on the high difficulty, length, and some poor/unclear wording. 

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