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This is the discussion thread for 2023 ACF Fall. In addition to asking for feedback, I’d like to thank everyone who had a hand in producing and playing the set, starting with the many tournament directors and staffers who went out of their way this weekend. Their extra work in implementing MODAQ for...

Confirmed sites for Florida, the Pacific Northwest/Mountain West, and the UK have been added to the announcement, as well as an online overflow mirror hosted by the University of Iowa. Fields for each site can also be found now linked under "Registration." An additional reminder to teams t...

The original post has been updated to include the registration form and a list of confirmed mirrors for 2023 ACF Fall. Also, a reminder for packet submissions that the deadline for the -$40 discount is this coming Sunday!

Reminder for all teams that the first deadline for packet submissions is this coming Sunday. For anyone intending to submit a half packet for this year's Fall, please do request one soon using this form!

This is the official announcement for 2023 ACF Fall, which will take place on October 14th, 2023. The set will be head edited by me, Sean Farrell, and the following subject editors: Eric Chang - Visual Fine Arts, Other Fine Arts Jeffrey Fung - Chemistry, European Literature Shourjo Ganguli - America...

Of the many Florida players worthy of this thread’s appreciation/gratitude/praise/etc., here are some of the ones that stand out in my brain’s highlight reel: The FSU squad ( Robert , Tad , Nick , Sam and others whose names live in the hilly Panhandle part of my mind I haven’t visited in a while) --...

Field (teams/buzzers/staffers):
Florida (2/3/0)

UNF Quiz Bowl will be hosting a closed mirror of 2022 C++ on Saturday, December 3rd, 2022. The tournament will be held at UNF in the Social Sciences building (building 51) and directed by me, Sean Farrell. Gameplay should begin at 9:00 following an opening meeting at 8:45. The set being used is inte...

Can I see the science tossup on dynamo theory and the geo(maybe ss/anthropology?) tossup on pastoralism in Africa? 14. Vaĭnshteĭn and Zel’dovich modeled these systems using cycles of stretching, twisting, and folding. The intensity and shape of a phenomenon (emphasize) generated by one of these sys...

While biographically-inspired literature questions are not a novel idea, I thought that the tossup on Oe’s son and the bonus on Heaney’s brother were especially well done. The latter stands out more to me because the bonus did a surprisingly good job at incorporating a core theme from Death of a Nat...

I negged on the Sistine Madonna tossup in round 2 with Lamentation of Christ, mistaking an article I read on Holbein's Dead Christ with Mantegna's painting. Here's an article that references Dostoyevsky standing on a chair to view Holbein's Dead Christ (I think I first read a different article a whi...

Will this set be open to high school only mirrors? Answered in the OP: “ We will also accept bids for high-school-only mirrors; if you would like to host a mirror for high school teams, please note that in your email. We would like to emphasize that these questions are not harder than regular high ...

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Here’s this. There was a geo thread somewhere, but I couldn’t find it. Pretty sure NAQT geo editor commented on that thread, among other people. I think that was recent, though maybe not.

a hs open duos tournament on TAILS, on Friday, April 23rd, 2021 for experienced high school players. Eligibility: People playing this mirror must not be eligible for other TAILS mirrors or must not be able to play a novice tournament in good faith. These two statements seem to conflict with each ot...

I agree with all of the comments above. I appreciated the rigor of the set, especially considering how difficult it must have been to find pop culture common links for academic answer lines. Overall, it was a fun way to encourage a broad range of knowledge on canonical academic answer lines, just as...

Teams cannot have won 3 or more high school tournaments (at any level) in a school year and cannot have scored 50+ ppg at a novice tournament, 30+ ppg at a regs tournament, or 10+ ppg at a nats tournament. Teams can ask for the tournament director to grant exceptions. Do you mean for the 50/30/10 p...

University Lab A is listed as 2nd place where the stats are posted despite your forums post saying Buffalo Grove A placed 2nd. Which one of these is correct? Also, the stats page has Stevenson B as 4th, not Stevenson A. Edit: Never mind, I was looking at “All Games” which I assumed was a cumulative ...

Smuttynose Island wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:51 pm This is a good time to plug Harry White's excellent searchable statistics database - Database Search

I had no idea this existed—thanks. Searching for team results through the forums is so time-consuming.

So far cheating allegations have been more of an issue at the collegiate level, so that's definitely where the most attention needs to be--I only referred to AQBL because that was an organization that would be conducting a lot of online mirrors that I could name off the top of my head, though perhap...

I'm in general in favor of an approach like this for "serious" tournaments. It's a relatively low barrier to entry and will make a lot of cheating more difficult. Of course, in practice it's going to be hard to get through to people that you need to do this setup and stick with it through...

Presumably Tim Morrison A combination of Tim and (in my opinion) Stanford being underranked in last year's postseason poll. Gotcha. There’s only so much i can ascertain through stats (I usually check on NAQT’s site because I don’t know any convenient alternatives—I’m open to suggestions), but from ...

Out of curiosity, may I ask the voters what caused Stanford to go up 9 spots since the last postseason poll?

crbirdx wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:40 pm You are cordially invited to the 5th annual SHATEYAHRONYA Tournament (DART/TAILS) @ Berlin HS in Delaware, Ohio on Saturday, January 11th, 2019.

There is a Saturday January 11th, 2020, but that has passed. Do you mean to schedule this on the second Saturday of January 2021?

Is this for college or high school teams? I don’t think it was clearly posted on this thread or the original RAFT II thread, but I’m assuming it’s a high school set since there’s a middle school mirror reserved on the main thread for RAFT II. I don’t know how to add a hyperlink on these posts, but ...

Please let me know if you'd like to play, we'd be glad to have you! We definitely plan on having at least one team, I just need a couple more days to determine the exact roster. We're getting going a bit later than I was hoping we would. I know we're cutting it close to the deadline, but I will def...

My comment is more pseudoscience than anything else and you might find that other thread with serious suggestions more helpful, but you could try getting as excited as possible about a question in your speciality. If you’re a generalist then you can get really pumped about quiz bowl in general and t...

1) Good catch. 2) To clarify: do the new to quiz bowl discounts stack? Trying to determine if the base price for a UNF team would be $50 or $60. Edit: reading this back I'm going to assume it's $60--stacking discounts within the "new to quizbowl" category would be needlessly confusing. I'm...