2019 Chicago Open

2019 Chicago Open
Edited by	Chris Ray and Jacob Reed, with Alston Boyd, Will Holub-Moorman, Wonyoung Jang, Michael Kearney, Jonathan Magin, and Sriram Pendyala
Champion	Zazu in the Petco (Adam S. Fine, Auroni Gupta, Jakob Myers, and Clark Smith),
Runner-up	Fianna Failsons (Mike Bentley, Matt Bollinger, Mike Cheyne, and Shan Kothari)
Third	Hackers and Slackers (Jordan Brownstein, Jaimie Carlson, Ophir Lifshitz, and Eric Mukherjee)
High scorer	Jordan Brownstein, Hackers and Slackers
Site	Northwestern
Field	20
Stats	stats

The 2019 Chicago Open was won by Zazu in the Petco (Adam S. Fine, Auroni Gupta, Jakob Myers, and Clark Smith), who defeated Fianna Failsons (Mike Bentley, Matt Bollinger, Mike Cheyne, and Shan Kothari) in the first game of an advantaged final. Hackers and Slackers (Jordan Brownstein, Jaimie Carlson, Ophir Lifshitz, and Eric Mukherjee) took third place.

As usual, Jordan Brownstein led the field in scoring and powers. Somewhat unusually, the winning team featured two undergraduates (Myers and Smith) and three players who had never won a CO before.

The tournament was edited by Chris Ray and Jacob Reed, with Alston Boyd, Will Holub-Moorman, Wonyoung Jang, Michael Kearney, Jonathan Magin, and Sriram Pendyala.

Like the previous iteration, the tournament was held in Evanston.

Question Reception

The set was generally well-received, in particular for its substantially lower difficulty than in previous years. The experiment with a "Modern World" distribution was particularly praised, while some of the science history questions (another experiment) had a more mixed reception.

Side Events

• Scattegories 3, written by Will Nediger. Announcement and Stats
• Age of Empires, written by Will Alston. Announcement and Stats.

External Links

• Tournament announcement
• Stats
• Discussion thread