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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 am
I 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...

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
UT-Austin (02/15)
Stanford (02/29)
Georgia (02/29)
Michigan State (02/29)
NYU (05/02)
Minnesota (TBD)

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...

Yikes.

(Any of you who have the means should just come to Illinois. If you can find your way to Chicago, you can probably get a ride. And it's not hard for them to get rooms.)

Aaron's Rod wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:51 am
I'd love for this to not be the first event of the day on Sunday, because of reasons, although that shouldn't be the top scheduling priority.

Will Alston has graciously agreed to put Age of Empires on Sunday morning, so this will be after that.

Looks like 9:30 Central tonight is the winner. Looking forward to it!

Question: if someone attended the all-star game but wanted to "come to" the discord to listen, say, just to see how other people do on the pack and because it was a good time, would that be allowed? As a mod of the QB discord: stuff like this is totally fine! Yeah, as far as I know this is always o...

I would like to do a reading of the NSC 2019 All-Star Game packet on Discord. The All-Star Game was generously sponsored by Ian Drayer. Please vote in the poll for the most optimal time. The poll should be up for 24 hours, so check back tomorrow. I would be happy to read this again on a different da...

While it’s fun to get to see those who you otherwise only see at collegiate nats in a significantly lower pressure environment, (staffing vs playing), I have trouble putting into words how inappropriate I find openly drinking in front of high schoolers at the side events which take place at these n...

Once they select the events, it would be cool if someone from Illinois could set up a doc with a spreadsheet for each event, so people could make themselves available for team forming, free agents, etc.

Who is going to be on the panel?

May I ask why this is happening on May 4th, when May 18/19 (which would not conflict with an NCT) had more votes in the date poll than every other option combined?

By the way, has it been announced yet when on Sunday this will happen? If not, my preference is for it to be the first event on Sunday. I do not believe that we have figured out time slots on Sunday. I've asked Chris to update the CO announcement post to mention which side events have been approved...

I am pleased to announce the "Chicago" Open mirror of Scattergories 3 on Sunday afternoon, August 4, 2019. Much like Chicago Open itself, this will be at Northwestern University. Will Nediger can't make it, so you're all stuck with me instead. There will be whimsy, and there will be humanities, and ...

I don't usually vote in these, I just want to echo/continue to hype up a few people: Science Man here giving my thoughts on Science People: Geoff is #1, and it's not close. Look at his PIANO and ICT stats if you don't believe me--dude is a monster with high potential to become the GOAT in undergrad....

Although I'm not sure I'd be able to make anything other than a May 19th mirror starting at or after noon, I'd love an open mirror where superteams are broken up.

Illinois Admin wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:50 pm
2/2 Polyhymnia - hymns (1/1 Ancient, 1/1 Non-Ancient)
2/2 Terpsichore - dance (1/1 “academic,” 1/1 “other”)

dude

the Sugar Plum Fairy clue was early, yeah, but it was well-written and I think a lot of people got buzzes on it However, “lots” of people getting a good buzz is much less what you want early on in the question (otherwise what’s the point of pyramidality?). Being cautious not to make a set too diffi...

And now, as promised, some responses. I enjoyed the music in this set quite a bit and thought the subdistributing was generally very good both by era and by genre. I think that a tossup on each of Josquin, Tallis and Couperin might have been a bit much, especially considering that Bach didn't come u...

Daedalus wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:59 pm
yeah uh about that

I'll address others' comments in a separate post, but first I get to enjoy typing out a self-serving editor's post. =D As you already know, I did the classical music (minus an Andrew Hart tossup and a Will Nediger bonus) and the non-jazz auditory fine arts (minus an opera tossup from Rob Carson and ...

I am starting a MlIS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I assume I’ll be for two years. I will be starting an two-year MA program at UChicago's Divinity School. I intend to continue to play. I'm starting a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois at ...

The problem with all-bracket entry tiebreakers is that they do significantly delay the tournament because there are far more tiebreaker situations to determine and read -- look no further back than PACE NSC 2018. Having played PACE NSC 2018, I did not notice any delays anywhere significant enough w...

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