Chicago Open Literature Tournament
The Chicago Open Literature Tournament is an all-literature tournament played as a side event at the University of Chicago on the same weekend as Chicago Open.
2007 Edition
The tournament was written by Jonathan Magin, Dave Letzler, Dennis Jang, Chris Borglum, Ahmad Ragab, and Phil Durkos, and edited by Jonathan Magin. It featured 13 rounds of 20 tossups, and resulted in a team of Mike Sorice and Jerry Vinokurov defeating a team of Selene Koo and Seth Teitler in the finals. Though intended to be a singles event, a shortage of moderators forced it to be played as a doubles tournament. It was widely praised for being the most well-written event at that year's Chicago Open.
2008 Edition
The 2008 edition of the CO Lit tournament was written by Jonathan Magin, Dave Letzler, Dennis Jang, Ahmad Ragab, Eric Mukherjee, and Shantanu Jha. A team of Andrew Yaphe and Mike Sorice went undefeated to win the title. Andrew Yaphe was also the top scorer, with an impressive statline of 55-66-22.
2009 Edition
The 2009 edition of the CO Lit tournament was produced by Matt Weiner, with the assistance of Dave Letzler, Trygve Meade, Rob Carson, Gautam Kandlikar, Jack Glerum, and Shantanu Jha. [1] The tournament was won by Jonathan Magin and Joe Hansen. [2] Though the tournament was criticized for only guaranteeing six games but costing twenty dollars to play, it was well received overall. [3]
2010 Edition
The 2010 edition of the CO Lit tournament was produced by Ike Jose and Shantanu Jha, with help from Ted Gioia. Though the tournament contained fifteen rounds, a scheduling mixup by Trygve Meade's team and the early departure of Jonathan Magin and Matt Weiner's teams resulted in only six rounds being played before the tournament ended early. The remaining rounds of the tournament were played at various mirrors of VCU Open. [4][5]
The event was not continued for 2011 Chicago Open.