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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. | 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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Latest revision as of 17:10, 24 February 2021
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 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.
