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Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:14 am
by theMoMA
This is the first global announcement for ACF Fall 2008, which will take place on the weekend of November 8, 2008.

Editors

Head Editor: Me

Assistant Editors: Rob Carson, Trevor Davis, Ted Gioia, Gautam Kandlikar

Hosting

We are currently seeking ACF Fall hosts. Hosting is an excellent way to cut down on travel costs, raise money for your club, and allow multiple house teams to gain exposure to well-written, accessible questions. If you are interested in hosting, please read through the official ACF Hosting Guide and then email me at [email protected].

Update: As of 26 Sept., the following schools have had their bids to host ACF Fall accepted:

Southwest: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. TD: David John Gagne II.
Midwest: Truman State University, Kirksville, MO. TD: Christopher Stone.
South: Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. TD: Harry Nelson.
North Atlantic: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. TD: Trevor Davis.
West: University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA. TD: Dwight Wynne.
New England: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. TD: Hannah Kirsch.
Florida: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. TD: Justin Byrd.
South Atlantic: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. TD: Matt Weiner.
North: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. TD: Andrew Hart.
Ontario: McMaster University, Hamilton, ON. TD: Jay Misuk
Mid-South: University of Kentucky-Knoxville. TD: Scotti Whitmire.

Packet Submission

As per the new ACF submission rules, any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2007 is required to submit a packet in order to participate in an ACF tournament in 2008-2009. This includes ACF Fall. Teams required to submit packets who do not submit one by the final deadline will be dropped from the tournament.

This year's submission schedule is as follows:

Packet submitted prior to or on:
Sept 14: -$50
Sept 28: -$25 (-$50 for teams not required to submit packets)
Oct 12: No penalty (-$25 for teams not required to submit packets)
Oct 19: +$25
Oct 26: +$50
After Oct. 26: The editors may grant one or more 24-hour extensions to the final deadline at an additional penalty of $10 per day.

For additional discounts, please refer to this document.

Packet penalties

Teams will incur penalties for the following offenses: Formatting issues, plagiarism, and writing specific types of forbidden questions. Please see this document for more info.

Read this before writing or submitting your packet

Refer to the 2008-2009 ACF Packet and Fee Information document for a more detailed explanation of submission- and fee-related information.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:23 pm
by Maxwell Sniffingwell
For clarification purposes, am I North Midwest or Midwest?

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:17 pm
by theMoMA
Ideally, I'd like to have all the host bids by August 24. Since quite a few programs will not be able to have in-house discussions because they're not yet in session on that date, I will not make a final decision about hosting until September 7. However, some regions will have a host accepted on a rolling basis after August 24 but before September 7, which means that some regions will have hosts announced before the final bid entry deadline; if you want to host ACF Fall, it's in your best interests to submit a bid before August 24. Please do so by emailing me at [email protected]. Thanks.

August 24: Preferred bid entry deadline
Aug. 25-Sept. 6: Rolling acceptances start
September 7: Drop-dead bid deadline

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:25 am
by theMoMA
Note to programs: Three days to submit your bids for preferred status. Especially seeking bids in the Boston area and Florida.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:35 pm
by Saiem
I think UF is at least considering hosting ACF Fall, but they are waiting for the semester to start and meet about it.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:06 pm
by theMoMA
I am pleased to announce that we have accepted bids in the following regions:

Southwest: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. TD: David John Gagne II.
Midwest: Truman State University, Kirksville, MO. TD: Christopher Stone.
South: Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. TD: Harry Nelson.
North Atlantic: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. TD: Trevor Davis.
West: University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA. TD: Dwight Wynne.
New England: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. TD: Hannah Kirsch.
Florida: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. TD: Justin Byrd.
South Atlantic: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. TD: Matt Weiner.
North: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. TD: Andrew Hart.

Tournament directors, please post announcements for your individual ACF Fall sites in this forum as soon as possible.

In addition, we are currently working with the following schools to host ACF Fall in Ontario and the upper Southeast:

Ontario: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Southeast: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

For the convenience of teams looking for the closest ACF Fall site, I've compiled a Google map that has markers for all of the tournament sites. Clicking on a marker will bring up a menu that lists the tournament building and will link to the individual site announcements, once they are posted. You can also click the marker and click "Directions to here" in order to get turn-by-turn directions directly to the tournament building.

Thanks to all the teams who bid. I look forward to seeing the biggest and best ACF Fall yet!

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:14 pm
by theMoMA
Also, the first packet deadline is still almost three weeks out. That's plenty of time to band together, write a packet, save $50, and earn the everlasting thankfulness of the ACF Fall editors!

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:56 pm
by Mechanical Beasts
If all goes well, you'll get three or four Harvard packets by that early deadline.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:53 pm
by alkrav112
I think, tentatively, Michigan will have to attend the Pittsburgh site...

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:17 pm
by Auroni
One, maybe two teams at Irvine.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:18 pm
by Pilgrim
alkrav112 wrote:I think, tentatively, Michigan will have to attend the Pittsburgh site...
We'll love you forever if you do.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:45 pm
by Gautam
everyday847 wrote:If all goes well, you'll get three or four Harvard packets by that early deadline.
Please make sure that happens, or you shall face my wrath in the Watkins' personal history packet I am writing.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:13 am
by Mechanical Beasts
gkandlikar wrote:
everyday847 wrote:If all goes well, you'll get three or four Harvard packets by that early deadline.
Please make sure that happens, or you shall face my wrath in the Watkins' personal history packet I am writing.
ohcrap

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:11 pm
by Ondes Martenot
Hopefully a couple of teams from RPI could attend the Brandeis site but this is totally speculative as I'm only in the early stages of forming a team.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:47 pm
by pray for elves
aarcoh wrote:Hopefully a couple of teams from RPI could attend the Brandeis site but this is totally speculative as I'm only in the early stages of forming a team.
There's nothing wrong with driving to Brandeis, but the Carnegie Mellon location is about 100 miles closer.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:55 pm
by Ondes Martenot
I think you have us confused with RIT or something. We're located in Troy, NY (right outside Albany), about 160 miles from Brandeis

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:05 pm
by pray for elves
aarcoh wrote:I think you have us confused with RIT or something. We're located in Troy, NY (right outside Albany), about 160 miles from Brandeis
I must've misread the abbreviation in your signature. You're absolutely right; Rensselaer is much closer to Brandeis than CMU, and I should stop trying to comprehend things while sleep-deprived.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:54 pm
by cchiego
Any update on whether or not the mirror at UTK will work out? All the current sites are about equidistantly 5-6 hours away from us, but Knoxville's an hour or so closer and we've never been to a tournament there before.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:56 pm
by theMoMA
uga_chris wrote:Any update on whether or not the mirror at UTK will work out? All the current sites are about equidistantly 5-6 hours away from us, but Knoxville's an hour or so closer and we've never been to a tournament there before.
I'm optimistic that the Knoxville site is a go, and it will probably be hosted on Sunday. UTK's coordinator Markus Iturriaga is currently waiting to see if he can get rooms. More soon.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:30 am
by theMoMA
Congratulations to the following teams for getting your packets in by the first discount deadline, September 14. Remember, the next deadline is on September 28.
-Illinois X
-Eden Prairie HS
-Harvard B
-Missouri
-Yale A
-Harvard C
-Caltech
-Langston
-Cornell
-UCLA B
-Dartmouth B
-UCLA A
-Dartmouth A
-Harvard A
-UC San Diego

If you don't see your team name here, but you think you emailed me your packet, let me know. I may have neglected to write one down.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:50 pm
by Auks Ran Ova
theMoMA wrote:-Illinois X
-Eden Prairie HS
-Harvard B
-Missouri
-Yale A
-Harvard C
-Caltech
-Langston
-Cornell
-UCLA B
-Dartmouth B
-UCLA A
-Dartmouth A
-Harvard A
-UC San Diego
If you do see your team name here, you are awesome.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:02 pm
by jhn31
I'd like to point out that the TD of the Mississippi State site is not going to be me, since I will be playing. I will still handle contact with teams and everything, but I am going to be playing in the tournament. The TD's name is Matt Kettleman.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:50 pm
by silverleaf22
Just in case anyone didn't see the other thread here, there is a UTK ACF Fall on the Sunday (11/9) of that weekend.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:05 pm
by ihavenoidea
Andrew, if Rancho Bernardo attends ACF Fall, would we have teh $75 dollar discount? We played at Zot Bowl over the summer, but we were playing with Auroni and not really representing our school.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:24 am
by theMoMA
Packet submissions (for discount purposes):

If you do not see your name on here, get into contact with me.

Met the September 14 deadline (-$50):
-Illinois B
-Eden Prairie HS
-Harvard B
-Missouri
-Yale A
-Harvard C
-Caltech
-Langston
-Cornell
-UCLA B
-Dartmouth B
-UCLA A
-Dartmouth A
-Harvard A
-UC San Diego

Met the September 28 deadline (-$25):
-New College, Florida
-JS Reynolds
-Dartmouth C
-Georgia C
-Alabama A
-Alabama B
-Yale B

Met the October 12 deadline (no penalty):
-Shady Side
-Missouri State
-South Carolina
-Georgia B
-Wash U B

Met the October 19 deadline (+$25):
-Michigan
-Florida State A
-Missouri S&T
-Princeton A
-Northwestern
-Ohio State

Met the October 26 deadline (+$50):
-Illinois C
-Pitt B
-Jimmy Dunn
-Louisiana-Lafayette
-MIT
-Brown
-Vanderbilt

Turned in after October 26 deadline (+$10/day: This is added to the +$50 penalty, in case that is not clear):
-Georgia A (1 day)
-Penn A (1 day)
-Pitt A (2 days)
-Wash U A (4 days)
-Wake Forest (4 days)
-Maryland A (5 days)
-Illinois A (5 days)
-Kansas State (11 days)

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:48 am
by Theory Of The Leisure Flask
theMoMA wrote:Packet submissions (for discount purposes):

If you do not see your name on here, get into contact with me.
I'm pretty sure Penn A sent in a packet?

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:52 am
by theMoMA
To my knowledge (and according to a thorough search of my Gmail), I haven't received any packets from Penn. Who would have sent it?

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:04 am
by Theory Of The Leisure Flask
theMoMA wrote:To my knowledge (and according to a thorough search of my Gmail), I haven't received any packets from Penn. Who would have sent it?
Mehdi Razvi told me it got in a few days ago.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:07 am
by Wall of Ham
Thats like.... 42 packets. How many will be used or combined?

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:17 am
by theMoMA
Theory Of The Leisure Flask wrote:
theMoMA wrote:To my knowledge (and according to a thorough search of my Gmail), I haven't received any packets from Penn. Who would have sent it?
Mehdi Razvi told me it got in a few days ago.
Yeah, I don't have it.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:19 am
by theMoMA
Wall of Ham wrote:Thats like.... 42 packets. How many will be used or combined?
Many, if not all. That's not to say they're not good (they're very good, on the whole), it's just that there are inevitably lots of repeats, and add that to stuff that's cut for being too hard or for being poorly written, and you've got a lot of holes in an eighteen-packet set.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:36 am
by Lapego1
theMoMA wrote:
Theory Of The Leisure Flask wrote:
theMoMA wrote:To my knowledge (and according to a thorough search of my Gmail), I haven't received any packets from Penn. Who would have sent it?
Mehdi Razvi told me it got in a few days ago.
Yeah, I don't have it.
So, I sent you an e-mail and you have the copy of the packet I forwarded to Chris, but apparently either hotmail died or I closed without hitting the send button last Sunday night :oops: . In any case, hopefully things are cleared up.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:34 pm
by dtaylor4
I know I sent in my team's packet, and you even gave me confirmation via IM.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:45 pm
by cvdwightw
A September 20 email from Anurag to me wrote:Rancho Bernardo would like to sign up for the West mirror of ACF Fall. We have already confirmed submitting a packet to Andrew.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:56 pm
by theMoMA
cvdwightw wrote:
A September 20 email from Anurag to me wrote:Rancho Bernardo would like to sign up for the West mirror of ACF Fall. We have already confirmed submitting a packet to Andrew.
They contacted me and told me that they could not write a packet, after all.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:57 pm
by cvdwightw
Ah, ok. I did not get wind of this. Thanks for clearing that up.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:23 pm
by ak47
Yeah, my bad Dwight. I should have informed you of that as well. :(

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:02 pm
by ihavenoidea
Andrew, if Rancho Bernardo attends ACF Fall, would we have the $75 dollar discount? We played at Zot Bowl over the summer, but we were playing with Auroni and not really representing our school.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:09 pm
by Auroni
ihavenoidea wrote:Andrew, if Rancho Bernardo attends ACF Fall, would we have the $75 dollar discount? We played at Zot Bowl over the summer, but we were playing with Auroni and not really representing our school.

SURE YOU WERE

also, doesn't the new ACF team count towards programs that have played after 2007? (instead of like, anytime prior to this quizbowl season?)

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:58 pm
by KGeee
Judging by this, it appears the Okla/TX ACF Fall shall not occur, verdad?

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:33 am
by wd4gdz
The packet submitted by Florida State A will feature players who have not played prior to September 1, 2007 so there shouldn't be a $25 penalty, unless you are charging people for submitting optional packets.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:01 am
by DVader
The ACF Southwest Tournament at OU is still being held. We have 4 teams signed up plus two house teams. Only one team is submitting a packet (Langston). The rest are new to ACF. The teams attending are as follows:
Tulsa
Langston
Central Arkansas
Liberal Academy of Arts and Sciences
OU (2 teams)

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:18 am
by jazzerpoet
DVader wrote:The ACF Southwest Tournament at OU is still being held. We have 4 teams signed up plus two house teams. Only one team is submitting a packet (Langston). The rest are new to ACF. The teams attending are as follows:
Tulsa
Langston
Central Arkansas
Liberal Academy of Arts and Sciences
OU (2 teams)
David, did you not get my e-mail earlier this week? Unfortunately, Tulsa will not be able to make it to ACF Fall. I hope this does not create too much of a problem.

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:31 pm
by DVader
jazzerpoet wrote:
DVader wrote:The ACF Southwest Tournament at OU is still being held. We have 4 teams signed up plus two house teams. Only one team is submitting a packet (Langston). The rest are new to ACF. The teams attending are as follows:
Tulsa
Langston
Central Arkansas
Liberal Academy of Arts and Sciences
OU (2 teams)
David, did you not get my e-mail earlier this week? Unfortunately, Tulsa will not be able to make it to ACF Fall. I hope this does not create too much of a problem.
Angelo, I did not get an email from you about none of the Tulsa teams attending. We will still have the tournament since we will have 4-5 teams (depending on how many house teams we field).

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:44 pm
by The Goffman Prophecies
I've started a spreadsheet to calculate PATH for the players at each of the sites. I'll be adding to it as I can.

The spreadsheet is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key= ... k5aQ&hl=en

For an explanation of the PATH statistic, see here: http://www.doc-ent.com/qbwiki/index.php?title=PATH

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:18 pm
by Maxwell Sniffingwell
Are the questions from this posted anywhere?

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:23 pm
by naturalistic phallacy
collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com

Re: Global Announcement: ACF Fall 2008, 11/8

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:33 pm
by grapesmoker
tetragrammatology wrote:collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com
Also the ACF website.