2023 Chicago Open
| 2023 Chicago Open | |
|---|---|
| Edited by | Alex Fregeau (co-head editor), Henry Atkins (co-head editor), Arya Karthik, David Bass, Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, Gerhardt Hinkle, Dan Ni, Alistair Gray, Davis Everson-Rose, Jacob Egol, Ganon Evans, Victor Pavao, Kevin Thomas, Ryan Rosenberg, Caleb Kendrick, various writers |
| Champion | "'The Plague' (anime) redirected to: 'Oran High School Host Club'" (Jordan Brownstein, Matt Jackson, Will Nediger, Geoffrey Chen) |
| Runner-up | "Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub" (Nick Jensen, Aseem Keyal, Tracy Mirkin, Adam S. Fine) |
| Third | "Curse you, Periplus the Platypus!" (Will Alston, John Lawrence, Eric Mukherjee, Stephen Liu) |
| High scorer | Matt Bollinger |
| Site | Northwestern |
| Field | 20 |
| Stats | Stats |
The 2023 Chicago Open was played on August 5, 2023. After a long period of non-announcement and non-volunteering of editors, an editing team formed under the co-leadership of Alex Fregeau (best known previously for the well-received side events FRENCH I and II) and Henry Atkins (best known for Eminent Victorians), with Young Fenimore Lee serving as logistics coordinator and Em Gunter serving as tournament director. The tournament adhered to a strict field cap of 20, despite initial suggestions it might be expanded [1].
The finals ended at 10:51 p.m., substantially earlier than the previous year, with top bracket rounds for non-finalists ending around 9:30 p.m. The improved runtime was in part due to a shorter schedule (14 rounds instead of 16, with statistical tiebreakers for sorting into playoff brackets).
Trivia
- Atkins is the first CO head editor to have attended university in Canada.
- Fregeau agreed to head edit the main event after the announcement of his side event COLONIAL, leading to the unusual distinction of head editing the main event and a side event for the same CO weekend.
- By winning this CO, Jordan Brownstein became the second person ever to win three COs in a row, from 2021 to 2023. (The first, Matt Weiner, won four consecutive COs from 2007 to 2010, a feat which has not yet been matched. Given that Brownstein has announced his intention to head-edit CO in 2024 [2], it is exceedingly unlikely that he will match Weiner's record any time soon.)
- Simultaneously, Matt Jackson became the person with the longest gap between CO victories (8 years, from 2015 to 2023).
- By placing second, Adam S. Fine became the most recent person to finish in 2nd place at ICT, ACF Nationals, and CO within the same competition year (an achievement last unlocked by Jackson in 2014).
Side Events
- COLONIAL
- EMACS, a computer science (broadly defined) tournament by Anderson Wang
- On Cinema at the Buzzer, a film side event by Will Nediger
- CANONINFLATION, by Kevin Wang