2022 ACF Winter at Yale (11/05/2022)

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2022 ACF Winter at Yale (11/05/2022)

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I am pleased to announce that the Northeast site of 2022 ACF Winter will be held at Yale on Saturday, November 5, 2022.

The tournament will take place in Linsly-Chittenden Hall at 63 High Street, New Haven, CT. The opening meeting will begin at 9:20 and gameplay will begin at 9:30. I (Michał Gerasimiuk) 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 2022–2023 school year are eligible to play 2022 ACF Winter. 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. Rules specifically pertaining to online tournaments have been rendered in blue.

Registration
Fill out the central 2022 ACF Winter registration form with all relevant information. The form is here. The field for each site can be found here.

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 is 12 (with possible expansions, conditioned on our getting more staffers), after which teams will be placed on a waitlist or potentially assigned to another site. Please register by October 31, 2022.
Fees
  • Base fee: $150
  • New to quizbowl discount: −$100
  • Shorthanded discount (1–2 players): −$75
  • Travel discount: −$10 per 200 miles traveled one-way
  • Buzzers: −$10 per functional buzzer system
  • Staffers: −$15 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 have not sent a team to any mainstream collegiate academic tournament (not counting exclusively novice tournaments) since September 2021, and which have no players who competed in non-novice collegiate tournaments during that same period.

Packet Submission
Any team with at least two people on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament* (either as a college student or high school student) prior to September 1, 2021, is required to submit a half-packet. Please email [email protected] if you are unsure whether your team is required to submit a half-packet. A team that is not required to submit a packet may submit an optional packet by the no-penalty deadline for a $50 discount.

* For these purposes, all ACF tournaments, NAQT SCT (Division I or Division II), NAQT ICT, and typical college-level academic invitationals count as regular collegiate academic tournaments. Pop culture or “hybrid” tournaments, HCASC, and tournaments played on NAQT’s Collegiate Novice series sets do not.

Here is the submission schedule:
  • September 4: −$50
  • September 18: −$25
  • October 2: no penalty
  • October 16: +$25
  • October 23: +$50
There is an additional $10/day penalty for each day after October 23rd. If teams required to submit a half-packet have not submitted by October 30th, they will be dropped from the tournament, with no exceptions.

If your team is going to submit a half-packet, whether required or not, email [email protected] to request a distribution. All finished packets must be sent to that email before 11:59 Pacific time on the day listed to receive the discount or penalty. Please format the half-packet in .doc or .docx before sending it. The email subject line should list the name of the school, the team number (if applicable), and the words “half-packet.”
Michał Gerasimiuk, Yale '23, Stanford '(this decade, I hope)

"But people today instead separate knowing and [buzzing] into two distinct tasks to perform and think that one must first know and only then can one [buzz]. They say, 'Now I will perform the task of knowing, by studying and learning. Once I have attained real knowledge, I then will pursue the task of [buzzing].' And so, till the end of their days, they never [buzz], and till the end of their days, they never know." - Wang Yangming
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Re: 2022 ACF Winter at Yale (11/05/2022)

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Thank you to everyone who played at our ACF Winter site! Brown A was leading until the very last round, when the players had to leave mid-game to catch a train back to Providence. Their sudden withdrawal led to Harvard A winning a one-game final by forfeit, with Brown A in second place. Congratulations to Harvard for a strong performance, and I'm looking forward to an uninterrupted Harvard vs. Brown game soon.

By qualifying for the final, Brown A became the top UG team at our site. The second UG team was Columbia A, our overall third-place finisher.

Stats are available here.

Finally, I'd like to thank our excellent staffers for wrapping up this rather long tournament in a solid time. In particular, Matt Siff and Jordan Davidsen deserve credit for essentially being assistant TDs in various ways during and before the tournament. Additional thanks go to external staffers Michael Kearney and Albert Zhang.
Michał Gerasimiuk, Yale '23, Stanford '(this decade, I hope)

"But people today instead separate knowing and [buzzing] into two distinct tasks to perform and think that one must first know and only then can one [buzz]. They say, 'Now I will perform the task of knowing, by studying and learning. Once I have attained real knowledge, I then will pursue the task of [buzzing].' And so, till the end of their days, they never [buzz], and till the end of their days, they never know." - Wang Yangming
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