The Publius Open: July 22

• From: edcohn
• Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 08:32:03 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SI837J.000466Q2T.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Hello--

I'd like to take this opportunity
to announce that the Publius Open, a summer masters
tournament, will be held at MIT on Saturday, July 22. The
questions will be written by me and by Josh Miller;
eligibility will be open to all. The registration fee will be
$95 a team, minus $5 for a buzzer system.

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 a level around that 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.

We'll send details about the
format to interested teams at a later date. Josh and I
plan to write 15 packets; we'll come up with a format
that uses most or all of them, probably a round robin
with bracketed playoffs or a double round
robin.

For those of you who don't know us, I'm a 1999
Swarthmore alum who'll begin a Ph.D. program in history at
the University of Chicago this fall; Josh is a senior
at Swarthmore. We're both former presidents of the
Swarthmore team, and between the two of us we've edited
seven tournaments or so.

If you have any
questions, would like to register, or might be interested in
hosting a mirror, email me at edwardcohn_at_... or
Josh at jmiller_at_.... If you'd like to
come but don't have a team, let us know and we'll try
to match you up with some other
players.

Thanks a lot! We hope to hear from you soon, and to see
you on July 22!

--Edward Cohn