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Our goal is to support the entire collegiate community on several different fronts, including the production of high-quality tournaments for a range of different audiences and the development of resources for the benefit of collegiate quizbowl at large. Is this ACF's goal, or your understanding of ...

I don't foresee any further good coming out of this topic as it is, so I've locked it. I will echo Tejas's encouragement to check out the PACE mentorship program in this and future years.

I think "try to find interesting prizes, when you can" is reasonable advice for TDs, but putting it in such a personally-aggrieved and/or condemnatory context isn't a great way to communicate that. I also agree with Jonathan about Digital Fortress. Thrill as the protagonists struggle to figure out a...

Aw, no FJM :(

Cheynem wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:18 pm
Can a private forum be set up for this?

Can and now has; you can go ahead and request access the normal way.

Agreed; I really enjoyed this, highly recommend playing it, and am looking forward to finishing the finals series

I also thought the linked two-part bonuses were a pretty good compromise to avoid the larger time commitment of a full tossup/bonus format.

This tournament was a ton of fun! I definitely recommend it.

I too am in search of an Unanswered Question teammate.

EDIT: playing with Auroni!

I initially thought this was another video game music tournament and was only mildly enthused, but now that I've read it correctly I'm extremely enthused.

please don't run muses saturday morning!

Edited my form response to make this clear as well, but I would greatly appreciate Super ACRONYM being held Sunday, since circumstances have made it such that I'm likely going to end up getting into Champaign on Saturday.

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This text's prologue mentions a "war-duke" of Thrace named Lorikus, who becomes the foster father of a child born to a man named Munon and a daughter of King Priam named Troan. In its first section, a king gives a wandering woman as much land as four oxen can plow in a day, only for her to plow up ...

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: ↑
Tue May 28, 2019 5:59 pm
If you'd like to request a specific one, feel free to ask! Here are lists of cheats and taunts that you can pick from.

can we be "to smithereens" please

I would recommend using an identifier such as "This unnamed location" if you're going to write a tossup on something that doesn't have a reified name. It feels much less hacky than saying "description acceptable." All else equal I would think a simple tag like "description acceptable" would be much...

Gene Harrogate wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:51 pm
Just a thought: maybe people shouldn't get so bent out of shape over the semantics of a meaningless poll the Canadian circuit does every year.

People discussing quizbowl-related things is what the quizbowl discussion forum is for.

Cheynem wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:01 pm
Looking for teammates in this, especially people who know things I don't like such as fiction, poetry, painting, sculpture, the auditory arts, philosophy, and social science.

Much like TNT, Mike Cheyne knows drama.

This seems like a difficult exercise since there's like a hs level trashtournament a year and maybe a total of 50 tus in the regular season There's also been a more difficult trash tournament every year since 2016 (either CO Trash or Super ACRONYM), though maybe that's less helpful for regional ran...

TheIronLadyOfQuizbowl wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 16, 2019 6:15 pm
What is the rationale between not using head-to-head as a tiebreaker?

Doing so double-counts the game in question.

you, the general you, should play this tournament

AKKOLADE wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:31 pm
Did you know that you can invite Gritty to make a special appearance at your event?

For the sake of completeness: Not only did we already know that, we already invited him and were already turned down. ACF's official position now is that Gritty is canceled.

I too would very much like to come to a UIUC side event weekend again but would very much like it to not be the weekend after CO.

- And not that tournament, but the regional qualifier for it I remember had just the all-time most amazing lead-in to a toss-up that I've ever answered. It went something like "This book, the most famous in Islam..." (because yes, you can start questions on the Quran like that if you're CBI) I beli...

Andrew's post is very good but I'm afraid it gets several Pinocchios, which I will present in Andrew's absolute favorite forum-post style. Our team name, or perhaps it was Rob's, was "Coetzee.cx"; it was my joke either way, ok? It was both my team's name and, I'm willing to swear on a stack of copie...

As the years go by I find myself more and more weirded out by the idea of continuing to take this level of self-righteous glee in what was ultimately a really shitty series of events. In particular, And because of Andy's insane knowledge of Thailand, I personally will be celebrating by eating Thai f...

Again, novel and important content is ok in a hard part, but (a) not all the time and (b) you still want to have some reasonable expectation of someone actually, you know, answering it. If you just want to make people feel humbled, tape-record a monologue instead. I'm looking forward to playing thi...

Sure, that's true; more prompt announcements (even if they're of relatively standard practices, or of practices with precedent) would've ameliorated a lot of the confusion. I also tend to overestimate others' ability to be cavalierly flexible with their schedules!

Mike, you're right that I should have been more prompt in figuring this out -- basically, as someone who doesn't check the forums too often, I wasn't aware that these events existed until Tejas sent me messages about them. I also took too long to publicly announce that Sunday events were a possibil...

hey uh it's been almost a month, any word on this?

In my experience, many (in fact, likely the majority) of buzzes that are "on the first sentence" or "on the first clue" have a buzzpoint somewhere in the second sentence or later, because of parsing time/cautiousness/etc. In addition to the many arguments given elsewhere on these forums for the con...

These instructions are indeed accurate; sometimes it unfortunately takes the admin staff a few days to get to the requests. (The requested forum is now active.)

The thread seems to have accidentally been double posted; if you voted in the other one, make sure to re-vote in this one.

You can book by clicking here . Or, to make reservations over the phone, call 215-387-1400 and ask for the ACF Nationals Attendee Block. The trailing slash in the url takes you to the general reservations page instead of the event-specific one. Here is the link without it. Thanks for catching this;...

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This book seems like a good scholarly introduction to Chinese mythology but, uh, maybe a bit overambitious for a high schooler looking to pick up the stuff that gets asked about in quizbowl (not that anyone should feel a need to limit their learning, of course--if something interests you, go nuts!)....

Would people be open to running something Friday night of ICT, or do teams generally get in too late for that? Eric what do you think about this? ICT Friday night events (GUERRILLA, actual tournament prelim games, etc.) have been run fairly successfully in the past, and the earlier people know abou...

Also there's not a lot of stuff announced for CO this year, so there's certainly room there; however, Seth is also right that we could probably run both events at ICT fairly easily.

Even if this argument about charity giving an event precedence was an agreed-upon thing and not something you just made up:

GOLBEZ announcement wrote:Half of all the money I receive from this "pay what you think it's worth" fee structure will be donated to the Bounceback Foundation.

That is a good question. The UMN team has to pay for Sunday rooms, which means it's often a poor financial decision for us to host Sunday side events. I'll talk it over with our board; perhaps we can find an alternate venue for side events. (To be honest, I'm also out-of-the-loop to the extent that...

Victor Prieto wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:37 pm
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Send an email to both me and the ACF Nationals email address Auroni just gave with the subject line "ACF Nationals staffing".

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1.82 wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:09 pm
"rumpsringa".

a traditional amish rite of assage

I can't help but think it's a little bit selfish for Minnesotans to want to host the tournament themselves, exclusively, even when doing so would prevent several teams from playing the set at all! Similarly, I can't help but think it's a little selfish for various teams to take the position that oc...

Uhm, JHU is still a pretty great distance from Michigan -- I think it'd be over eight hours' drive, and therefore almost ten for MSU. Ten hours is a conservative estimate of the drive time from Minnesota to Michigan and is markedly less than potential drives to Michigan State or, to pick another Mi...

Do not hold two Midwest mirrors, period, full stop. Nobody wants to play in the fractured fields that would result, and I implore the editors to cancel one of them immediately. Agreed. The Midwest can't support substantial fields at two sites for a tournament of this difficulty. Traditionally editi...

Do not hold two Midwest mirrors, period, full stop. Nobody wants to play in the fractured fields that would result, and I implore the editors to cancel one of them immediately. Agreed. The Midwest can't support substantial fields at two sites for a tournament of this difficulty. Traditionally editi...

vinteuil wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:26 pm
Lower Midwest: OSU (date TBD)

wait what

EDIT: to be clear, this will have the same field-decimating problem that the second Midwest mirror of CMST would have had.

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