Full Announcement: ACF Fall 2007
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Full Announcement: ACF Fall 2007
This is the announcement for ACF Fall 2007. ACF Fall will be held on the weekend of Saturday, November 3, 2007. Hosts have the option to run the tournament on Sunday, November 4 instead of Saturday if football, other tournaments, or other conflicts make doing so preferable. Date announcements from each host will follow once host bids are awarded.
On that note, please mail Eric Kwartler at ekwartler at gmail dot com if you are interested in hosting. As always, we are looking for hosts in every region of the United States and Canada where active quizbowl teams exist. Please get your host bids in ASAP so that we may announce the hosting lineup sooner rather than later.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR WRITING ACF FALL PACKETS
ACF Fall is designed to be a very accessible tournament and an enjoyable introduction to the game for newer players. To help meet this goal, packet writers should keep question difficulty low and question quality high. An ideal packet in terms of question difficulty, question structure, and formatting may be found at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/acf-model.doc . Consult this packet for all your questions about formatting, and feel free to contact Eric Kwartler if any of your questions remain unanswered. For question structure: note the dense, specific, helpful clues packed into each question, the structuring of each bonus to give 10 points to all teams, 20 to many, and 30 to the best, and the selection of widely known tossup answers with many interesting and useful clues available. For this tournament, always err on the side of easier if you are unsure about the difficulty of a particular question.
Another rule that we’re making this year:
There will be a hard cap on question length at 6 lines. This is in 10 pt Times New Roman font with 1 inch margins. Do not write questions longer than this. If you do, they will be cut down to size with a large frown in your general direction from the editing staff.
You may also find it useful to review Subash Maddipotti's Ten Tips For Question Writing, located at http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/subash.php, as well as Jerry’s “How to Write Questions,â€
On that note, please mail Eric Kwartler at ekwartler at gmail dot com if you are interested in hosting. As always, we are looking for hosts in every region of the United States and Canada where active quizbowl teams exist. Please get your host bids in ASAP so that we may announce the hosting lineup sooner rather than later.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR WRITING ACF FALL PACKETS
ACF Fall is designed to be a very accessible tournament and an enjoyable introduction to the game for newer players. To help meet this goal, packet writers should keep question difficulty low and question quality high. An ideal packet in terms of question difficulty, question structure, and formatting may be found at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/acf-model.doc . Consult this packet for all your questions about formatting, and feel free to contact Eric Kwartler if any of your questions remain unanswered. For question structure: note the dense, specific, helpful clues packed into each question, the structuring of each bonus to give 10 points to all teams, 20 to many, and 30 to the best, and the selection of widely known tossup answers with many interesting and useful clues available. For this tournament, always err on the side of easier if you are unsure about the difficulty of a particular question.
Another rule that we’re making this year:
There will be a hard cap on question length at 6 lines. This is in 10 pt Times New Roman font with 1 inch margins. Do not write questions longer than this. If you do, they will be cut down to size with a large frown in your general direction from the editing staff.
You may also find it useful to review Subash Maddipotti's Ten Tips For Question Writing, located at http://acf-quizbowl.com/documents/subash.php, as well as Jerry’s “How to Write Questions,â€
In case anyone's unclear as to what Social Science encompasses, this is from ACF Regionals 2007's announcement:
Andrew Hart,
ACF Fall 2007 category editor
Also, I'll be more than happy to provide editing feedback on questions that I edit. Those will be visual fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and social science. Happy writing!Social science includes but is not limited to psychology, economics, anthropology, sociology, law, linguistics, and archeology.
Andrew Hart,
ACF Fall 2007 category editor
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I'm not an editor, but I'll be updating the formatting guidelines on the ACF webpage soon, so if this is a source of confusion, all your formatting questions will soon be answered.
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I think those are fine. Just avoid the random biographical clues that have no scientific relevance.ToStrikeInfinitely wrote:What about questions about people who have lots of important things named for them? I tend to enjoy those.miamiqb wrote:Also for science questions try to avoid answers that are people; let's not play "Name that scientist".
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There are limits on those, and even then those questions tend to be gimmicky because the answer space reduces quickly to "people who have a lot of things named after them". You can only write on Langerhans, Malpighi, or Cajal a limited number of times =).ToStrikeInfinitely wrote:What about questions about people who have lots of important things named for them? I tend to enjoy those.miamiqb wrote:Also for science questions try to avoid answers that are people; let's not play "Name that scientist".
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Here are the schools that have thusfar committed to hosting ACF Fall 2007:
Northeast: MIT
Mid-Atlantic: VCU
Midwest: UIUC
Southeast: Shorter College
Southwest: Somewhere in Dallas, Chris Romero is in charge.
North: University of Minnesota
We're still waiting on confirmation from our West Coast host. We do not have hosts in the Pacific Northwest or in the Great Lakes/Eastern Canada region, so if there is sufficient demand for sites in those regions (or any others not sufficiently covered by the list above) please post here or let me know by email at ekwartler at gmail dot com. Each individual host will be announcing their site soon.
Northeast: MIT
Mid-Atlantic: VCU
Midwest: UIUC
Southeast: Shorter College
Southwest: Somewhere in Dallas, Chris Romero is in charge.
North: University of Minnesota
We're still waiting on confirmation from our West Coast host. We do not have hosts in the Pacific Northwest or in the Great Lakes/Eastern Canada region, so if there is sufficient demand for sites in those regions (or any others not sufficiently covered by the list above) please post here or let me know by email at ekwartler at gmail dot com. Each individual host will be announcing their site soon.
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Good to see VCU still hosting tournaments after Weiner's departure from the school. Maryland should be bringing two-ish teams to the tournament.
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Yeah William & Mary will bring some number of teams, probably 1-5 depending on how the corral of recruits pans out and how many drivers we can get.Steroid McBlooddoper wrote:Good to see VCU still hosting tournaments after Weiner's departure from the school. Maryland should be bringing two-ish teams to the tournament.
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I look forward to a good showing from W&M E.Wall of Shawarma wrote:Yeah William & Mary will bring some number of teams, probably 1-5 depending on how the corral of recruits pans out and how many drivers we can get.Steroid McBlooddoper wrote:Good to see VCU still hosting tournaments after Weiner's departure from the school. Maryland should be bringing two-ish teams to the tournament.
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Hey -3D Lemmings wrote:Notre Dame would like to bring a team to UIUC. However, November 3rd is the day of the Notre Dame - Navy game. The only way we would be able to attend is if the date was moved to Sunday. Can anyone tell me the probablility of this occurring?
It's great to hear you guys are interested, but I think the chances are pretty much nil that we can change the date. If that changes, I or the TD will let you know by e-mail.
However, if I may, I couldn't help but notice that on October 6, Notre Dame is playing an away game. The Early Fall Tournament, which promises to be excellent this year (and is about that difficulty), is going to be held in Chicago on that date. If you were planning on going to ACF Fall and can't, EFT would be quite an alternative.
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Chicago is planning on sending at least two teams to the UIUC site. Also for the Notre Dame people, if you are interested in EFT please email me at [email protected].
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Still waiting. If you have any immediate questions, you can contact me, but there will be a full announcement with registration instructions from a current team member once they can reserve rooms (which will be about a week from now, due to university procedures).
I guess the most important thing to know right now is that the VCU site will be running the tournament on Saturday, Nov 3.
I guess the most important thing to know right now is that the VCU site will be running the tournament on Saturday, Nov 3.
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Just to let everyone know, I am willing to grant packet amnesty to teams who under the rules are obligated to write a packet. The amnesty fee will be $75. If you don't submit a packet by this weekend or give me a good excuse as to why you haven't, you will not be allowed to play unless you pay this fee.
Edit: You should also know that one of the sites is being delayed by a week due to logistical concerns. This means discussion of specific questions from the ACF Fall set will have to be postponed until the night of November 11th.
Edit: You should also know that one of the sites is being delayed by a week due to logistical concerns. This means discussion of specific questions from the ACF Fall set will have to be postponed until the night of November 11th.
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The tournament has concluded, so feel free to discuss the questions in the Fall discussion thread. We should applaud the editors for a job that I think overall was well done. Special thanks go out to Matt Weiner, who went above and beyond to help us finish the set on time despite not being officially involved with the tournament, Mike Sorice, Andrew Hart, Dennis Jang, and Jonathan Magin, all of whom spent a shitload of time compiling, checking, and preparing the set the few days before it was to be read. Oh, and thanks to Ryan Westbrook for writing the bulk of the geography in the tournament.
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