preliminary tournament announcement

edcohn · Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:19:58 -0700

Hello--

This summer, Josh Miller and I
plan to write the questions for an mACF masters
tournament. We're currently looking into the possibility of
hosting it in Boston, probably somewhere in the mid-July
to early-August range; if other teams are
interested, we'd be happy to consider holding mirrors
elsewhere in the country the same weekend. This is a very
preliminary announcement to make sure people would be
interested in attending and to find out whether any other
sites would like to run a mirror.

The tournament
will be modified ACF--mostly academic, that is, but
with some current events and pop culture. As to
difficulty, we'll aim for the level of ACF Regionals. Our
plan is to make sure that almost every tossup will be
answerable in almost every room, though we'll assume (since
this is a masters event) that the average team will be
somewhat better than the average team during the
year.

For those of you who don't know us, Josh is a senior
at Swarthmore and I'm a 1999 Swarthmore grad.
Between the two of us, I believe we've edited seven
tournaments or so; assuming (as seems very likely) that we do
go ahead with the tournament, we'll make available a
sample of our past questions so you'll have a better
idea of what to expect. At this point, we already have
a couple packets written and we're looking forward
to going ahead with the tournament.

So, if
you think you'd be interested in attending a masters
tournament in Boston this summer, please let me know. We'd
like a preliminary idea of how much interest there is,
so if you think there's a good chance that you'd
come, please tell us. 

Likewise, if you might be
interested in hosting a tournament using our questions,
please let us know that, too. We'd be interested in
alternate sites if our Boston plans don't work out, and it
would be nice to have a mirror or two in any case.
Again, we're not looking for an ironclad commitment, but
let us know if you're interested and there's a good
chance we can work something out.

Thanks a lot!
We hope to hear from you soon, and to see you this
summer!

Edward Cohn
edwardcohn_at_...