2020 ACF Fall at UIUC (10/17/2020)

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2020 ACF Fall at UIUC (10/17/2020)

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I am pleased to announce that the Midwest site of 2020 ACF Fall will be held at UIUC on Saturday, October 17, 2020.

The tournament will take place virtually on Discord. The opening meeting will begin at 8:30 AM and gameplay will begin at 9 AM. I, Iain Carpenter will be the tournament director. Please direct any questions about this site to me at [email protected]

Eligibility
In general, teams where players are all attending the same school and all taking at least one class for credit during the 2019–2020 school year are eligible to play 2020 ACF Fall. ACF’s full eligibility rules are available here. Questions about eligibility should be directed to [email protected].

Rules
This tournament will follow ACF’s official gameplay rules. There will be some modifications to the standard ruleset to account for the differences between online and in-person gameplay which will be published at a later date.

Registration
Fill out the central 2020 ACF Fall registration form with all relevant information. The form is here. The field for each site can be found here. Please email me when you register as well.

If possible, teams should register for the site that is geographically closest to them and/or is in the region they would normally attend. The field cap for all sites is 18, after which teams will be placed on a waitlist or potentially assigned to another site. Please register by October 12, 2020.
Fees
  • Base fee: $120
  • New to quizbowl discount: –$80
  • Shorthanded discount (1–2 players): –$60
  • Staffers: –$25 per staffer with a functional laptop. Staffers must register with ACF in advance by filling out this form.
The new to quizbowl discount is intended for schools that did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament (exclusively Novice tournaments do not count) since September 2019, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school.

Packet Submission
Unlike past iterations of the set, no teams are required to submit questions in order to play the tournament. However, ACF still needs high-quality, half-packet submissions from teams to complete the set.

Below is the submission schedule for ACF Fall. All deadlines are at 11:59 p.m. PDT. The maximum packet discounts have increased since last year; furthermore, all submitting teams are eligible for an additional −$20 quality discount if their questions are particularly polished and usable, up to a maximum discount of −$60. Teams may submit a maximum of one half-packet.
  • August 23, 2020: –$50
  • August 30, 2020: –$40
  • September 6, 2020: –$30
  • September 13, 2020: -$20
  • September 20, 2020: -$10
If you would like to submit a half-packet, fill out this form. ACF will respond with a half-packet template specifying which categories you are assigned to write.

Each submission consists of 12 tossups and 12 bonuses. Before writing, please review ACF's packet submission guidelines and stick to the format provided. Answers should generally emphasize playability over creativity – aim for creative and interesting clues with straightforward answerlines. These 5 model tossups reflect the difficulty and style to aim for. When finished, submit your half-packet by emailing it to [email protected].

In another change from last year, your assigned half-packet will ask for questions from more specific categories within the distribution. For instance, instead of being assigned an “American Literature” tossup, you might be asked to write a question on a 20th-century American poem, or an Economics bonus instead of “Social Science/Philosophy.” This should reduce redundancy in submissions and maximize the number of submitted questions we can use, without being too constraining. The submission form offers space to indicate your writing interests in each category, which we will do our best to accommodate.
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Mahomet-Seymour High School (2013-2017)
UIUC (2017-2021)
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Re: 2020 ACF Fall at UIUC (10/17/2020)

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Thank you to everyone who played and staffed for helping things run so smoothly this weekend. I would especially like to thank Karthik Prasad, Mitch McCullar, and Dylan Bowman for their help with all of the logistics needed to run this tournament.

Congratulations to Chicago B for winning the tournament on a final against Kentucky A. I'd also like to congratulate Kentucky B and Lehigh for taking 3rd and 4th place. Additionally, congratulations to Will Yaeger of Lehigh, Aryaman Jaiswal from WUSTL B, Andrew Kelley from Kentucky B, and Logan Mathis from Lake Land College for being our top 4 D2 players by PPG! Filling out our top 8 players, (and hence top 8 undergraduates) were Wonyoung Jang from Chicago B (who had the third highest PPG), Manu Sundaresan of Chicago C, Em Powers from WUSTL A, and Minh-Khanh Phung from Purdue C. Congratulations everyone!

Here are the final stats for the tournament!
Iain Carpenter
Mahomet-Seymour High School (2013-2017)
UIUC (2017-2021)
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