Minnesota Open

Minnesota Open (or MO) is an mACF, open, hard collegiate tournament held during the fall.

2008 Incarnation

The first MO was held on the 18th of October at the University of Minnesota. It was a Regionals+ difficulty packet submission event edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Gautam Kandlikar, and Bernadette Spencer with several contributions by Charles Meigs and other gracious members of the community. Mirrors of the 2008 MO were held at UTC, Stanford and MIT.

In addition to the main tournament, there were three side events:

• a literature subject doubles headed by Andrew Hart et al and
• a Trash tournament produced by Colin O'Donnell et al.
• JECHT Doubles written by Jeremy Eaton and Jonathan Magin

The first annual Giacomo Balla basketball tournament was played the Friday night before the tournament, resulting in the delightful spectacle of a sore Rob Carson limping around for the entire ensuing weekend.

2009

The second MO was held on the 17th of October at the University of Minnesota. It was a difficult packet submission event edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Gautam Kandlikar, Bernadette Spencer, and Brian Lindquist.

Once again, there were some exciting side events:

• A fine arts tournament by Shantanu Jha, Ted Gioia, Aaron Rosenberg, et al on Saturday night
• A science tournament by Eric Mukherjee on Sunday
• A vanity literature/trash event by Mike Cheyne

2010

The third MO was held on November 17, 2010. It was edited by Rob Carson, Mike Cheyne, Gautam Kandlikar, and Bernadette Spencer (Andrew was starting law school at the time).

2011 (Minnesota Open / Penn Intergalactic)

The 2011 incarnation of Minnesota Open got its second name when Rob Carson, Mike Cheyne, and Bernadette Spencer added Eric Mukherjee of Penn for their science editing. Some editors' packets featured questions from Saajid Moyen and Patrick Liao. It was held at two sites on November 19, 2011: a Minnesota site and a Penn site.

2012

The 2012 incarnation of Minnesota Open, held on November 17, 2012, was edited by Andrew Hart, Auroni Gupta, Cody Voight, and Gaurav Kandlikar.

The major side events were Eyes that Do Not See IV, and a vanity trash event written by Mike Cheyne.

Results

Main site results:

Year Winners Number of Teams High Scorer Stats 2008 Alex Boone, Charlie Dees, Matt Weiner, and Christian Carter ? ? [1] 2009 Jerry Vinokurov, Eric Mukherjee, and Guy Tabachnick ? ? here 2010 Matt Lafer, Ryan Westbrook, Seth Teitler, Jerry Vinokurov 8 Jonathan Magin [2] 2011 Seth Teitler, Selene Koo, Matt Lafer, Ryan Westbrook 9 Ike Jose http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/165/stats/full_stats/ 2012 Seth Teitler, Selene Koo, Jeff Hoppes, Jon Pennington 11 Seth Teitler http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1180/stats/mo_v_final_stats/ Mirror site results -2008: The MIT mirror was won by a duo of Jerry Vinokurov and Eric Mukherjee, whose efforts to replicate the Hoppes-Mikanowski feat of topping 70 ppg each was almost successful. Stats can be found here. The Stanford Mirror was won by a team of Mike Sexton and Brian Lindquist. Stats can be found here. -2009: -2010: A mid-Atlantic mirror at Maryland -2011: Penn Intergalactic was won by Yale, who defeated a team of Bruce Arthur, Jerry Vinokurov, Ted Gioia, and