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In light of recent discussions, we have decided to make these changes to the policy for high school participation in ACF Fall. - High school teams will not be required to submit packets regardless of their history of playing in collegiate tournaments. - Packets submitted by high school teams will no...

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We will make some of the suggested changes regarding entry fees and packet requirement for this year's edition of Fall. We'll announce the details soon.

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High schools have never been eligible for the following discounts: New to ACF (-$25), New to quiz bowl (-$75); or at least they were not given these discounts either last year or in 2013 . The only cost difference this year comes from the lack of a full packet option, which means a difference of $20...

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christino wrote:When can teams start getting half packet assignments? The first deadline is in pretty much exactly a month.

The registration form is now included in the announcement, under "Packet Submission".

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Stats can be found here. Tricon was also briefly played after the tournament.

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As it stands, there are only 3 teams who have emailed me to sign up (or consist of myself). Please sign up soon if you would like to play VCU Open. Thanks.

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Sure, if there's enough interest (say 5 or 6 people or more for a shootout) we could play that or any of the other side events; I don't imagine we'd have demand for more than a shootout on any of them. I'd also be interested in playing SHEIKH, if there's demand for that. Also, I only reserved rooms ...

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2015 ACF Fall will be edited by Joey Goldman, Eddie Kim, Dylan Minarik, Ryan Rosenberg, Andrew Wang, and Nathan Weiser. I believe these folks will do an excellent job, and am pleased to have them on board. We got a decent amount of applicants, all of whom were fairly qualified, and I hope those whom...

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The stats got better (including the team detail tab); you can still find them at the links I posted previously.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Negging wrote:re: Robert the Bruce

Sorry about that ambiguity. Looks like I don't know enough about the Quran; I am sure you would have won a protest on this if there was one.

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This happened and the team of Seth Ebner, Charles Hang, Andrew Nadig and Itamar Naveh-Benjamin won. I'll post stats in a bit. EDIT: Something's very wrong with the Team Detail page that I will probably fix later but here is a link anyway EDIT2: I give you combined stats in which team detail is still...

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I emailed team contacts with logistics a few days ago. If you're attending this tournament and somehow don't know where to go and when, please get in touch with me! See you all this weekend. EDIT: The Kentucky people team has withdrawn, so our hopefully-final field is 8 teams, depending on whether o...

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That bonus on QAPF/feldspar/Na+K was pretty cool; it played out pretty well in our room but I question how many teams would known QAPF. :party: Mega late, and I see there are about as many "list of stuff I wrote" posts as there are actual comments, but here's the meager stuff I wrote if f...

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This is the official announcement for ACF Fall 2015. The tournament will be happening the weekend of November 7 , 2015. Editors Richard Yu and Gaurav Kandlikar will be overseeing the production of the set. This year, we introduced open applications for ACF Fall editorship. The application was found ...

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2015 ACF Fall Subject Editor Application This year, ACF will be soliciting applications for subject editorship of ACF Fall, which will take place the weekend of November 7, 2015 . This change will make our editor selection process more transparent and inclusive of the community, hopefully reveal so...

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WUSTL's club is going to have practices from 7-9pm-ish on Mondays through the summer up to mid August in whatever room is open in Eads Hall. Anyone's welcome to join; we'd love to see any new faces. The time slot's subject to change based on demand (so let me know). Feel free to email me if you want...

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I'd also like to staff this if there's need.

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Washington University in St. Louis will host a mirror of this year's VCU Open on August 8 2015 (the same date as the main site and Michigan site). Information about the set can be found in the main announcement . A Google spreadsheet for team formation exists. Location : Will probably be in Seigle H...

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Washington University in St. Louis will host an OPEN mirror of HSAPQ's 2015 NASAT set on July 11 2015 (the weekend before CO). It will be a really good set, and should be Regionals difficulty. The distribution and main (HS) announcement are here . Location : Seigle Hall ( building #97 ). Meet in roo...

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We'd be interested in a guerrilla event if there's some way to work out rooms, but we'll accept whatever decision the writing team makes.

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I'd like to play this!

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I received Zweig's Chess Story and a book of Daphne Du Maurier stories from Cody Voight. Thanks!

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This is a pretty minor thing; I negged with Brahma on the Indra TU on the clue about Buddhist use of his "net" symbol, since there's a somewhat notable Mahayana "Brahma Net" Sutra. If it's of interest for future mirrors, it probably wouldn't hurt to have a "It's not Brahma, ...

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Name: Richard Yu
Email: [email protected]
Present requests:

1. I'm also partial to Criterion Collection movies
2. stuff published by NYRB
3. Coffee paraphernalia

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It seems like many or most of the questions that skewed difficult were in my categories; I'm sorry for that. There was no particular intention behind the amusingly bad coincidence of a previous Fall's hard part morphing into a tossup answer. I'm quite grateful to John, Matt, and Rob for preventing a...

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The above post is accurate. Congratulations to Illinois and Chicago! Prelim stats can be found here . Playoffs and finals can be found here . This tournament was navigated to a timely finish by Sean Phillips, Charles Hang, Seth Ebner, Tirth Patel, Jacob O'Rourke, Will Mason, Peter Kahn, Marshall Mul...

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I emailed you three weeks ago to sign up for this. Is this tournament happening?

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The field is currently full, but we'll withdraw our house team if another team is interested in registering. If more teams sign up, we should be able to expand the field a bit, so please let us know if you are interested but have yet to register. 10/23/14: Currently room for 1 more team to make 18. ...

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I can do this for Missouri

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Why don't more people vote in the poll? There are certainly more than 17 people who are reasonably knowledgeable about the state of the college game (or are capable of gleaning some info by paying careful attention to the discussion) and it seems like it's in everyone's interest to make things like ...

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The field can be found here . EDIT: We will tentatively have this field capped at 16 teams 18 teams (10/17/14). Field: (As of 11/5/14) Total: 17 teams Illinois (2) Missouri (1) Central Oklahoma (1) Northwestern (1) Northern Illinois (1) Southeast Missouri (1) Kansas State (2) Eureka (2) Knox College...

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Hello, I am pleased to announce the Midwest site of ACF Fall 2014, to be held at Washington University in St. Louis on Saturday, 8 November 2014 . ACF Fall is the year's premier introductory-level collegiate quizbowl tournament, and we do hope that you join us at this event. We will be hosting the t...

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I believe Cornell lose Ian and Tejas, but gain good HS player Sean McBride

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Here comes a random trash packet by #hchsqb! Mehnaj Ahmed, Auroni Gupta, Richard Yu and I have collaborated on a packet affectionately named "69 Buzz Songs and A Neg of Despair". It will feature self-indulgent trash tossups mostly about music near and dear to our hearts, with some TV and ...

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I'll play this wherever it ends up being held.

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Posting to confirm I added myself to the sheet (playing).

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The Yam-Eating I thought was very misleading and thank god I did not buzz on it. It's typically best to avoid phrasing that is overused in tossups for a different thing as the first clue and then have a ton of people neg it. Also, the Chinese performing arts bonus was something I found stupid and a...

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If you need me to fill out forms / send W9s, etc., I can take care of that if you give me reasonably sufficient notice. I emailed you a few days ago about a) registration and b) payment issues as described in the above quote, as well as bringing buzzers and a staffer (Ben Zhang). I'm wondering if w...

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Thanks for making the effort to host your first tournament and help improve our circuit. It looks like my teammates quite enjoyed the event. Hopefully there'll be a SEMO tournament in the future that I can actually make it to.

armitage · Re: Penn Bowl at WUSTL (October 26, 2013) Sorry, we'll fix that soon.

Sorry, we'll fix that soon.

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Nick, please send the details to me at th.richard.yu at gmail. Thanks for your help. Sorry to all those who are waiting on stats.

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Jonathan Xu had to back out, and our team will include Aidan Mehigan in his place.

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I plan on visiting one of these soon. Are there any other high school players going to these practices? I don't know for sure, but some Westchester people were planning on coming, and once I get back from the Balkans in about five weeks, I'll probably be driving me+some unspecified number of people...

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I can staff this if there's still need for more than 3 readers.

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Any idea when IRC will happen?

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I'll be playing this with York Chen.

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Like the MSU field, this field will materialize iff we are able to accommodate a mixed high school team. As such, this tournament will be set once Charles and I get a confirmation from UMD.

edit: okay, my bad

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Congratulations to Truman State A, who cleared the field to win first place. WKU and Tulsa A ended the playoffs tied, and WKU won a one-game tiebreaker to claim 2nd place. All teams in the field were both UG and DII eligible, so those titles also go to the same teams.

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Not sure which interested parties I haven't mentioned this to, but Brian told me a few days ago that teams going to this site have a one week extension on their no penalty deadline (from the original date, i.e. the new deadline for you is 2/23).

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Transferred stats are now available here.

edit: Sorry about that, they should have the correct placement order now.

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