ACF Nationals 2017 Automatic Bid Applications Open

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ACF Nationals 2017 Automatic Bid Applications Open

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Hello everyone,

ACF is now accepting applications for automatic bids to attend ACF Nationals 2017. The following teams are eligible to submit bids:
  • Teams from clubs hosting ACF Regionals. Each such club will be granted no more than one automatic bid; if it wishes to send more teams, they must qualify as house teams “at the buzzer.”
  • Teams with an ACF Regionals editor that are not hosting an ACF Regionals site.
  • Teams that are more than 400 miles away from the nearest Regionals site.
To apply, please send an email to [email protected] with “automatic bid” in the subject line, containing the following information:
  • A proposed roster representing your likely actual Nationals A team.
  • Links to results for tournaments at which your team competed this semester.
  • Any other information that may be relevant.
Applications should be submitted by Wednesday, January 11. Applications will be evaluated by ACF Nationals head editor Matt Bollinger. We will aim to have all applications evaluated by January 14, 2016.

Clubs that are hosting ACF Regionals may attempt to qualify additional teams for Nationals by playing house teams. However, such a team that is trying to qualify for Nationals (i.e., as the club’s B team or lower) may not contain any of the members of the roster submitted for automatic bid consideration. ACF expects that experienced team members will be staffing the tournament rather than playing.

Note that this process is completely independent from the packet-submission process for both ACF Regionals and ACF Nationals. If a team applies for an automatic bid and is denied, and would be required to write a packet to play ACF Regionals, it must still write the packet in order to play. Teams may submit packets on a contingency basis to take advantage of earlier packet deadlines; if they end up not playing the tournament, these packets will be treated as freelance submissions.

If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected] or post them in this thread.
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Re: ACF Nationals 2017 Automatic Bid Applications Open

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This is a reminder that if teams intend to apply for an automatic bid, they should do so by tonight!
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Re: ACF Nationals 2017 Automatic Bid Applications Open

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ACF has ruled on and responded to all applications that we received. The following teams have received automatic bids to ACF Nationals:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (Naveed Chowdhury, Jake Deerin, Thomas Dellaert, and Justin Htay)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Julian Fuchs, Bryce Hwang, and Oliver Ren)
  • Northwestern University (Dylan Minarik, Greg Peterson, Max Rong, and Adam Silverman)
  • Stanford University (Stephen Liu, Benji Nguyen, Kyle Sutherlin, and Nathan Weiser)
  • University of Central Florida (Daniel Golisch, Cody Johansen, Bradley Kirksey, Cassandra Logan, and Peter Torres)
  • University of Louisville (Nick Conder, Kurtis Droge, and Ramapriya Rangaraju)
  • University of Oklahoma (Dustin Austin, Finn Bender, Maia Karpovich, and Caleb Kendrick)
Stephen Eltinge
Then: TJ, MIT, Yale, PACE, NAQT
Now: ACF
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