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I am pleased to announce that the Midwest site of 2020 ACF Winter will be held online on Saturday, November 7, 2020. The tournament will take place virtually on Discord. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 CST and gameplay will begin at 9 AM CST. I will be the tournament director. Please direct a...

Lastly I want to thank the leadership of ACF for doing all of the legwork to make Fall happen. Specifically, Margaret Tebbe worked through the limitations of our online-only world to set up 13 tournament sites in three countries. ACF Editor-in-Chief Matt Bollinger also provided meaningful guidance ...

I'll also speak in favor of bouncebacks, they really do help with engagement, and the field will be very good so I don't think we should worry about it taking too long. Each packet is already 22/22. Adding bouncebacks to what will already be abnormally long rounds seems like a bad idea. I say this ...

(This is not directly related to current discussion going on in other threads and venues about misconduct and harassment, which I am actively reading and moderating and fully support.) In the past, we’ve had community discussions about how to make quizbowl more approachable and inclusive. This is a ...

In the interest of keeping announcement threads tidy, I've split subsequent discussion about cancelling ACF Nationals to this thread.

I've split this thread from the announcement thread for 2020 ACF Nationals.

the offers to edit and write for this seem at odds with the top scorer on the challenged team saying "no"

Please note that there will be an online UK mirror of WORKSHOP on May 23rd, so the set will not be clear until at least that date.

Strongly opposed to using bouncebacks for an online tournament. I do like a good well-run, one-day online event, but at the same time, I do think there's a risk that this could become a bit of a slog. [emphasis mine] Are you saying a two-day event is less likely to be a slog? I would like to play th...

This tournament has been cancelled due to a lack of interest.

It's Drew wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:26 pm Purdue is writing MVP with the intentions of having it ready by ICT. Packet is still heavily under development, but that could be another option.

yes please

I'm glad this is being discussed, and particularly grateful for Jonah's input. I think the bigger factor is, as others have noted, the moderator hesitancy. Negging people after two seconds, especially without the clock, just "seems wrong" to many people. There was at least one instance where I was t...

Are there any plans for a collegiate mirror of this set in the Northeast/upper Mid-Atlantic (the NYU mirror being high-school-only, which one might also regard as a questionable decision but nevermind that)? Brown is interested in hosting in May, but is waiting to confirm until after their Terrapin...

Are there any plans for a collegiate mirror of this set in the Northeast/upper Mid-Atlantic (the NYU mirror being high-school-only, which one might also regard as a questionable decision but nevermind that)? Brown is interested in hosting in May, but is waiting to confirm until after their Terrapin...

Do you anticipate running any side events on Sunday?

Jason Russell has stepped aside as an IAC representative to the misconduct form. We thank him for his time and effort. Today I updated the [email protected] address to change access to the form. We look forward to working with Brad Fischer as an IAC representative to the misconduct form.

Jason Russell has stepped aside as an IAC representative to the misconduct form. We thank him for his time and effort. Today I updated the [email protected] address to change access to the form. We look forward to working with Brad Fischer as an IAC representative to the misconduct form.

Just want to add that if TO announced February 22nd as their preferred date, then they should make every effort to host their (especially flagship) mirrors on that date, given how incredibly crowded the spring schedule is this year.

I just wanted to bump this for people to update their contact information. Please fill in especially new clubs and teams that might have played ACF Fall this year! I am not sure if anyone is willing and able to verify the contact information of teams on this list, but I feel lists like this are ver...

The 2019 ACF Fall Experience Survey was in 5 parts: Background, Logistics, Tournament Experience, Your Team, and Other Tournaments. Participants got to choose what order they took the survey in and how many sections to fill out, so the number of responses per section will vary (and in a couple of ca...

BobGHHS wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 10:57 amI haven't talked to him about a mirror at HF yet

I have. He said he hoped to finalize the details within the next week or so.

Cabrini Green is not in Bronzeville. Probably I'd say it's on the Near North Side; the Latin School of Chicago coach said it was in Old Town.

The bonus clue that mentioned the connection between the words "Adonis" and "Adonai" was super cool!

Some sort of "Welcome to Your First Tournament" guide (that perhaps could be personalized, depending on the tournament) would be great--we could also potentially avoid some of the frustrating ex post facto posts that pop up, both from the new teams and teams aggrieved at their behavior. I would enc...

There are still 9 days until we'd like to have all of our bids in, and while I'd love more bids from any region, I am particularly seeking those from the following regions: Northeast (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut) Lower Mid-Atlantic (Maryland, District of C...

Matthew Siff won the first reading. Reading 1 Matthew Siff 1/0 30 bonus points, 40 Chandler 1/1 30 bonus points, 35 Conor Thompson 1/1 20 bonus points, 25 William Golden 1/1, 20 bonus points, 25 Eric Wolsberg 1/1 20 bonus points, 25 Cody Voight 1/2 20 bonus points, 20 Matt Mitchell 1/0 10 bonus poin...

There will be another reading tonight at 6:30 PM Central in #packet.

Several people have told me that announcing a packet 5 hours before its reading "doesn't work for them" (?), so if you want to hear it sometime this week you can fill this out too. I'm happy to read it multiple times.

Exactly what it says on the tin--I wrote a college/open meta packet over the summer. I read it after CO to quite a lot of people, but not everybody who might like to hear it did. I will be reading it tonight (October 21st) on Discord at 8 PM Central . There are 10 tossups and 9 bonuses. There is a 9...

We've added an additional, required question to the end of the misconduct form: When responding to complaints, we want to make sure that both parties have an opportunity to express their understanding of events. One of the organizations may contact the person in question to notify them that a compla...

We've added an additional, required question to the end of the misconduct form: When responding to complaints, we want to make sure that both parties have an opportunity to express their understanding of events. One of the organizations may contact the person in question to notify them that a compla...

Hoping for early on because I leave town on the 23rd.

I've split the discussion of packet-submission at 2019 ACF Fall to a Collegiate Discussion thread.

Not everyone gets a lot better at quizbowl in college, nor is everyone interested in actively trying to get better or writing questions! Some solid to good high school players, for whom high school tournaments are appropriate, get worse in college. Others stay the same or improve at some areas and ...

Stats for Scattergories 3 are now up . Despite taking two losses in the prelims to teams that did not make the top bracket, Du mußt dein Negging ändern (Jordan Brownstein, Will Alston, Rahul Keyal, JinAh Kim) made the top pool and swept the playoffs to finish the tournament 8-2. In the last round of...

2:15 in your game rooms, please!

Schedules are at https://tinyurl.com/scattergories3. The tacos are in 2415, which is also where we'll be for rebracketing. Please pay! $10 for the tournament, $10 for tacos, which are pre-order only.

In the interest of keeping things moving smoothly this weekend, please fill out this lunch order form if you're attending the tournament and want to have tacos. The goal is to keep lunch as short as reasonable so we can move on to Scattergories quickly and make sure people aren't missing flights. P...

Having contacted a few more teams privately and heard no objections, the format will indeed be 7 RR/7 RR into 4 RR/4 RR/3x3 crossovers. Blessed Be The Tie That Binds.

The field is now closed.

but once you have a team please email me with "Scattergories" in the subject line to actually register. Please do this, if you have not already! There are 10 packets and will be around 14 teams, which makes scheduling tricky. I'm open to commentary on the schedule, depending on peoples' preferences...

Thank you John for the write-up! In addition, according to the Cambridge Open stats , the team 3 Four Men In A Boat (John Lawrence, Andrew Wang, Jakob Myers [4 games played, due to transportation] and Mike Sorice [2 games played, due to injury]) cleared the field, defeating Chandrew Smith (Chris Ra...

Thank you John for the write-up! In addition, according to the Cambridge Open stats , the team 3 Four Men In A Boat (John Lawrence, Andrew Wang, Jakob Myers [4 games played, due to transportation] and Mike Sorice [2 games played, due to injury] ) cleared the field, defeating Chandrew Smith (Chris Ra...

Mike Etzkorn wants to start MUSES at 4, so please be back from lunch before then.

I don't think it would be expensive or a lot of work to just aggregate the social media feeds of various quizbowl organizations, and display the results on a page. As you say, you could find something that would allow you to manually add tags for posts you'd like to feature. But it sounds like you m...

Since we have indeed made further tweaks to the hosting guidelines , we are, as promised, noting them down here. With regard to your question above, we have determined that if a host fails to properly award an Undergraduate or DII title, we will handle bids on a case-by-case basis. Other major chang...

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing! A couple of ideas for extensions or next steps, should you be interested in continuing to work on this project: Note: I ran all the verbs through a stemmer, which for example will reduce playing, plays, and played to just "play." Some of the words have been c...

Thank you to whoever wrote me such a kind citation! (Would love to know who you are, if you want to drop me a line?) However, I was not an active collegiate player in 2018-2019. I guess you can vote for questions from open sets, but in the spirit of the awards, people should vote for someone who was...

Mirrors Stanford (02/22) Southern California (02/23) UT-Austin (02/29) Georgia (02/29) Michigan State (02/29) NCSU (02/29) Cancelled Team Illinois tryouts (HS) (03/01) Toronto (03/07) Online (closed) (03/07) Swarthmore (03/21) Cancelled Minnesota (03/21) Cancelled UCF (03/28) Cancelled NYU (HS) (05...

Is ACF planning on making changes to their Regionals hosting guidelines to spell out more clearly what happens when an error by a Regionals host causes ACF to have to issue extra Nationals bids (for example, by failing to play off a tie between two undergraduate teams)? Great question! There may be...

I'd like to present the following games as potential candidates for upset of the year: Thank you, Kevin, your post is fantastic. ACF Nationals: Stanford A 325 - Columbia A 165 Speaks for itself really - tbh this should probably win. (7-9) vs (14-3). This is almost certainly It, but one more weird A...

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