ECSO

The East Coast Summer Open: Crime on Goat Island, or ECSO, was an open packet sub tournament held on June 24, 2006 at Carnegie Mellon. It was organized by Jerry Vinokurov, who edited half of the set and recruited Eric Kwartler to edit the other half. However, time management issues prevented Eric from editing his half of the set as he was in Italy, resulting in a half-edited set rife with repeats, incorrect clues, and speed-checks.

There was also mirrored at Cardinal Classic XVI.

Controversy

The ensuing discussion was marked by a number of posts by parody accounts, including one by "YourGenialQuizmasterProxy" (a "proxy" of Charlie Steinhice) which highlighted the supposed hypocrisy of the set's lack of editing given Jerry's recent diatribe against Steinhice's consistently poor editing of Sword Bowl.

Nevertheless it was quickly established that, while the set was obviously bad, such comparisons were poorly founded: Jerry had demonstrated an ability to produce high quality sets like BUTT of the previous year, had clearly been put into a difficult situation by the total lack of editing by Eric, and made no excuses for the set's poor state.

Aftermath

The set is largely remembered as being the singular bad tournament produced by Jerry.

In 2010, Bruce Arthur and Doug Yetman ran ECSO 2 at Hunter College; this time around, it was run on a previously-written set (ANGST) instead of being packet-sub.