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Hello all, I am beyond pleased to announce the head editors and dates for ACF’s tournaments in the 2019-2020 season. ACF Fall will be held on November 2, 2019, and will be edited by a team led by Rahul Keyal. ACF Regionals, to be head-edited by JinAh Kim, will take place on January 25, 2020. And the...

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ACF’s officers for the coming year, with roles sometimes redefined as specified in the above post, will be as follows: President of ACF: Billy Busse Mirror Coordinator: Alex Damisch Treasurer: Cody Voight Webmaster: Ryan Rosenberg Communications Officer: Matt Bollinger We are excited by the possibil...

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Hello, ACF would like to announce constitutional changes for the 2019-2020 season and moving forward. Article 3.3.ii, regarding pathways for provisional membership, has been amended to expand the criteria for “substantial aid or logistical assistance to an ACF tournament” to include exceptional dire...

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In the absence of any stats on this, I declare us the champions. Unfortunately it was easy enough for me to put in the stats that I did so, and the winner is the Wolfsberg/O'Rourke/Prieto team in another glorious victory for Rafael Krichevsky. Thanks for playing everyone, I'll think of something to...

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If we're praising teammates here, I'll take up for a former teammate and point out that Aidan played at the level of a top 15 player at Nationals.

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Essentially, this is the classic "pick 2 out of 3" situation: * Large ACF Nationals, with more than 40 teams * Championship bracket with 10+ teams playing a full round-robin * Tournament of a length that writers and editors can produce at a high quality; that moderators can read without l...

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As far as I can remember, this is the only quibble I had with the actual content of a history question, which happened to have a major effect on the outcome of one game and consequently our weekend - the question on Denmark in WW2, specifically the line about the White Buses, which iirc said someth...

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I would say there were many questions with content related to the World Wars, although there was relatively little straight military history and many of them ended up late in packets and in TBs. Specifically, there were tossups on the preparedness movement, occupied Denmark, Crete (second half large...

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I wrote about 85% of the history for the editors' packets and edited half of the history in the submitted packets. Jordan did the other half of the submitted history and submitted several of the best questions in the editors' rounds; I also received significant freelance help, from Jason Zhou, Mike ...

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With the shocking defeat of Rosenberg/Minarik in ICT thanks to the incredible DII firepower of the Myers/Borecki team, our finals matchup is between Myers/Borecki and Wolfsberg/O'Rourke/Prieto. Please post your lineups before the start of this weekend's tournament, since this is surely the most impo...

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Hello, With the last mirrors of Spartan Housewrite and PIANO on the books, we're ready to start the long-awaited playoffs of Fantasy Quizbowl 2018-2019. As stated before, the teams with the top four records enter the playoffs, with the 1 seed playing the 4 seed, the 2 seed playing the 3 seed, and th...

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I'm looking for some teammates with whom to play CO, have unfulfilling conversations, and eat at Medici's afterward, msg me if you're in.

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Hey, Apologies for the late post here - since lineups are usually posted late it hopefully won't matter. Please get your lineups in for PIANO by 9 tomorrow. Results and standings are here . Matchups this week: Wolfsberg/O'Rourke/Prieto vs. Malouf/Wang Myers/Borecki vs. Raje/Chowdhury Hothem/Mitchell...

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Hey folks, The first mirror of Terrapin is this weekend; please get your rosters in by Saturday at 9. The weeks are out of order here because of the vagaries of event scheduling, and because time's arrow points wherever it wants in my beautiful dark twisted fantasy. Matchups this week are: Rosenberg...

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On the advice of Ryan Rosenberg I'm bringing back the DII conversion rate from last time: players and teams in DII will have their stats and wins multiplied by .9 before being included in scoring. Take this into account before you submit final rosters!

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Bumping this thread, make sure to get your rosters in!

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Hello, SCT is this coming Saturday; please post your rosters by Saturday at 9. This week's matchups are: Venkus/Busse vs. Raje/Chowdhury Boyd/Smith vs. West/Laurie Myers/Borecki vs. Rosenberg/Minarik Bunker/Thompson vs. Malouf/Wang Hothem/Mitchell vs. Wolfsberg/O'Rourke/Prieto Stats and rosters can ...

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Hey all, We're picking up again! Please post your rosters by Saturday at 9. This week's matchups are: Boyd/Smith (4-0) vs. Hothem/Mitchell (1-3) Venkus/Busse (1-3) vs. Malouf/Wang (0-4) Bunker/Thompson (1-3) vs. Wolfsberg/O'Rourke/Prieto (3-1) Myers/Borecki (4-0) vs. West/Laurie (2-2) Rosenberg/Mina...

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Smuttynose Island wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:35 pm OSU
Shan
Weijia
Eric

Alt: John

Sorry for the late lineup. I think we got it up before any stats were posted.

(I'm ruling that this is ok because DQs are lame)

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Reminder to post your lineups, folks!

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Hey everyone, After our long winter of discontent, fantasy quizbowl is back. Please post your lineups here; they will lock at 9 AM on Saturday, January 19. This week's matchups are: Myers/Borecki vs. Bunker/Thompson Rosenberg/Minarik vs. Wolfsberg/O'Rourke Prieto Boyd/Smith vs. Venkus/Busse Hothem/M...

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #3: Beach House - 7 #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #4: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimit...

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #8: Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #7: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance #3: Beach House - 7 vs. #6: Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy vs. #5: Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel (IMHO it's not ...

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Hey everyone, Please post your lineups here; they will lock at 9 AM on Saturday. Remember (of course) that the field for this tournament will be very different from other fields and select your teams accordingly. This week's matchups are: Ryan and Dylan vs. Daniel and Matt Morgan and Billy vs. Harri...

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Please post your lineups here; they will lock at 9 AM on Saturday. This week's matchups are:

Alston and Kai vs. James and Kevin
Tejas and Naveed vs. Chandler and Emmett
Jakob and Michael vs. Daniel and Matt M.
Morgan and Billy vs. Eric and Jacob and Victor
Ryan and Dylan vs. Harris and Conor Thompson

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To update: we'll be keeping score using this spreadsheet. Once I get edit access I'll be updating this one to keep rosters up to date.

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Hi all, I'm creating this thread early so that the Skype mirror of Sun God Invitational can count for fantasy purposes. I'm making this decision because we only have one open tournament on the schedule otherwise, because Sun God Invitational should be adequately difficult for these purposes, and bec...

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I edited the first post to include the seed numbers with the teams. We'll be following the round robin schedule below:

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Hey everyone, Please post your lineups here; they will lock at 9 AM on Saturday. This week's matchups are: Jakob Myers and Michael Borecki vs. Eric Wolfsberg and Jacob O'Rourke Ryan Rosenberg and Dylan Minarik vs. Alston Boyd and Kai Smith Tejas Raje and Naveed Chowdhury vs. Harris and Conor Thompso...

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Since I've been asked: Skype tournaments won't count in general but are OK for opens.

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This is an announcement for Fantasy Quizbowl 2018-2019: the Fantasy Impromptu. Teams will each start 3 individual players and 1 team, with the ability to list one alternate. The scoring is as follows, taken from the "gauging interest" thread: Individual Scoring Prelim Points Per Game: 100 ...

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I think the snake draft is the way to go.

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Here's the scoring breakdown, courtesy of Cody Voight: Individual Scoring Prelim Points Per Game: 100 points, scaled by the highest Prelim PPG in the league. 100 * (PPG / Highest PPG) Prelim Win-Loss Percentage: 40 points, scaled by the maximum Prelim W-L% in the league. [40][50] * (W-L% / Highest W...

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Hey,

Once you've formed your teams, please post them here. Thanks!

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21 people have posted or messaged me with interest here - if you could form into 10 teams, which is what we had last time, so that we can have a draft before next Saturday, that would be great. Thanks all!

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Hey all, I would like to bring back fantasy quizbowl for the upcoming season. It would work pretty similarly to its 2014 incarnation, with some scoring changes suggested by Cody and Max Schindler that will be announced later. For now, please post if this is something you would be interested in! Apol...

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I enjoyed the tournament a lot, I enjoyed playing the nonwestern art in the set, I think increasing the representation of literature by women and people of color is good and the Young Jean Lee tossup was fine for a hard tossup at Chicago Open. Still, I am skeptical of the idea that questions like th...

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If it's possible for the editors to do this, it would be convenient for us to know how much cash to withdraw before the opening meeting.

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Its good that Jeff and R. have communicated with us throughout the stress of the recent uproar, and it's definitely the case that it's easier to pound our feet and demand that something should be done than it is to institutionalize that change justly and thoroughly. I do think it remains concerning ...

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Jonathan, I see this: And a potentially high-ranked player who has aggressive tendencies (and a certain amount of aggression towards the buzzer and the score is part of this game’s skill set) would assume that if he is a big enough star, nobody would care if he does and says what he wants. and this:...

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It's definitely important to have norms and procedures to deter people with institutional positions or community prestige from taking advantage of that. I'm much more skeptical that competitiveness is toxic, or that in-game passion is a symptom of an abuser, or that well-known players are more likel...

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Can I agree with both Charlie and Eric? I think that people should know how books are put together, and that the symbolic frontispiece was very much a real thing for early modern printed texts. On the other hand, I think it's so obvious that somebody answering "cover of Leviathan " is fam...

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I like the idea of prioritizing treating each other more respectfully, and I like the suggestions you make in this thread. If you can’t make your point without publicly posting screenshots from private conversations, you can’t make your point. This is kind of where I have misgivings. Harassing someo...

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Connecting the clues you've gathered to the answerline you're asking for, precisely and succinctly, is an underrated challenge in question-writing. I wanted to single out this set for praise because the editors did a great job of selecting the correct verbs and providing illuminating context so that...

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If we can assent to actually producing one schedule with directives that we discuss and agree upon that seems like progress to me, fwiw.

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It seems totally fantastic to think some kind of laissez-faire regime, where the signal "This is a bad tournament" is by your own admission indistinguishable from the signal "My team was kinda tired and/or busy," will actually serve as some invisible hand incentivizing better pr...

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It turned out that even when most of the online community says "You shouldn't write that extra hard tournament," it's very easy for some team to ignore the protest and just write that "Regionals+" event anyway. Since plenty of teams will end up going to whatever tournament is wr...

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I'm happy to back down on the fines point if people think it's beyond the pale, and I agree that Eric and Mike's suggestions would be a positive improvement. To Jacob: I guess I agree that the WAO case might be controversial, but I don't think anyone (including you or the editors) seems to really di...

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But I can think of several penalties a central planning body could impose on offenders, including fines, "suspensions" from one regular season event run by people who support the project, etc. What criteria would you put in place for enforcement? If, say, an editing team is adamant that t...

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I would just say that making sure two tournaments don't occupy the same weekend isn't really the most important application for this committee. As various people have pointed out, the two writing teams involved should be able to sort that out between themselves, and we've never had that specific pro...

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