Antonin Artaud Tournament of Cruelty

• From: plitvak_17
• Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:32:29 -0700
• Message-ID: <000TD6GTD.0001VLGVM.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

This message is to announce the 1st annual
Antonin Artaud Tournament of Cruelty (was the Summer of
Kleist Memorial, a name that has been retired for a
multitude of reasons).

The questions for this
tournament will be written in house by aspiring U of
Michigan players. The format will be straight up ACF. Many
have you have heard that last year's Summer of Kleist
featured the most difficult questions in the history of
people asking each other questions. We can guarantee
that the questions this time around will be more
reasonable (we learned our lesson, we promise). However, let
me note that the tournament will still be Masters
level.

The tournament will be held on August 11th, 2001 at
the University of Michigan. Fees and such will be
forthcoming. We would like to make this preemptive
announcement to see what kind of interest there is in us
running a tournament. We would be amenable to a date
change once we know how many people are actually
interesting in coming. Otherwise, the tournament will be
written and unplayed for reasons of pure
masochism.

Let me also take this opportunity to note that some
of the difficulty of last year's tournament was due
to the inexperience of some of the writers. This has
been somewhat corrected over the course of this
year.

We have also been talking about including a new
format change, namely a 40 point single question to
precede each bonus. (If you answer it correctly, you can
forego the bonus entirely.) Anyway, its just a thought,
and we aren't sure at this time if we are going to
use it.

Thats about it. Email me
(paul_litvak_at_...) with questions/comments/interest etc etc etc