ACF Fall 2014 at WUSTL (11/8/14)

[armitage]

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 tournament in Eads Hall. edit 11/3/14: We will meet in Eads 103 at 8:00 AM. Rounds will begin at 8:30 AM.

Registration
Registration for this event has two steps:
First, please write to us at [email protected] with team name, number, and buzzer/staffer information.
Second, fill out the central ACF Fall registration form at this site with all relevant information.

Fees
Base fee: $120 for one team from a school, $240 for two teams from a school, etc.
Buzzer systems*: -$5 each
Staffers: -$10 each No maximum.
Laptop: -$5 each Maximum 1 per team.
Travel: -$10 per 200 miles traveled one way
International**: -$20
New to ACF teams***: -$25
New quizbowl teams****: -$75

* No discount for broken buzzers; no maximum.
** For teams representing schools located in a different country than the tournament host.
*** For schools which haven't played an ACF tournament between September 2012 and August 2014, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school.
**** For schools which did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament since September 2012, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school. May be combined with new ACF team discount for a total new-team discount of $100.

Packet Discounts/Penalties
Any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2013 is required to submit a packet. High school players are included in this definition and are subject to the same discounts and penalties as college teams.

Please reference this flowchart for the packet-submission guidelines. The links in the diagram are clickable. If you have questions on the submission guidelines, email them to [email protected] and they'll clarify.

Please submit packets to [email protected] and use “ACF Fall 2014: [Team Name]” in the subject line.

Submission schedule
Please refer to the below submission schedule:


Payment
Payment for ACF Fall will be processed through the ACF treasurer, Jerry Vinokurov. He will get in touch with you about how much your team owes, how to pay for the tournament, etc. Please contact Jerry with any questions regarding payment.

Note Regarding Highschool Teams
High school teams are welcome to play this tournament, though they should keep in mind that while this may be a lower difficulty tournament, it is nevertheless a collegiate event and significantly more difficult than many high school tournaments. There will be no further discounts for things like playing short-handed or being new to ACF or quizbowl, which applies only to new college teams. Furthermore, high school teams must abide by the packet requirements if any of its members played a college tournament prior to the 2013-2014 competition season.

For more information, refer to the Global Announcement of ACF Fall 2014 or email the editors at [email protected].

[armitage]

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 (1)
Harding (2)
Tulsa (2)
Purdue (1)

[armitage]

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. We do have enough rooms reserved to accommodate a maximum of 22 (or 23, I guess) teams, but we'd like to make sure we have enough staff before expanding.

11/5/14: It looks like the final field is 17 teams with K-State registering a B team.

[Jeremy Gibbs Paradox]

Richard will post stats soon but 16 teams played with Illinois having to win two games in an advantaged final over Northwestern (winning the first in a tie break). Both teams were ug eligible. Chicago beat Illinois B for the D II title. Great job to all who played!

[armitage]

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 Mullins, Chris Kirk, Mike Uphoff, Kent Buxton, Alice Liu, and Luke Voyles.

Thanks to all the teams who came out and put up with my incessant update emails! You're fantastic!!


edit: (also someone forgot a black umbrella that Charles Hang is holding onto for now, let us know if it's yours)

edit: combined stats coming soon

edit3: Combined stats.