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Some protests that I noted were: -Should an early buzz of "induction [the problem of induction]" be acceptable for the tossup on "falsification"? -What about alternate answers for "cake"? The first clue seems to be referring to a meringue, to be specific. Please post t...

Hunter College and Rutgers, can you please register? I'll add that anyone else seeking to play should register soon, as there are 28 spots already claimed, two teams who have submitted packets but not yet registered, and a 33-team field cap. Note that you do NOT need to have settled on your lineup t...

One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet that is going to impact if Kentucky hosts is the availability of staff. We hopefully will continue to grow in size, but as is, we probably wouldn't have enough in-house staff to host ACF Fall, ad we don't want to get a reputation for hosting disasters. I think...

I've thought a bit more about partial packet waivers as a host incentive, and this is what I've come up with: I'd propose offering hosts one half-packet off their total packet-writing load for the next ACF tournament (i.e., half-packet off Regionals if you host Fall, half-packet off Nats if you host...

Fond du lac operon wrote:So, um, is this private forum active at all? Because I requested to join it on like Monday and still haven't.

I've just added you.

One outreachy thing someone should do is come up with a list of ex-players and other well-wishers who can be called upon for staffing. Programs have their own networks, but it would be nice to have something more broadly available, especially for new teams without a big alumni pool.

Fall did not have as much trouble finding hosts as Regionals did, but it still wasn't completely straightforward. Also, discounts wouldn't necessarily be taking money out of the host school's pocket; if, say, you received $50 off the admission fee for two Regionals teams from hosting Fall, that cou...

I'm not sure it would work at Fall or Regionals since that would be taking money out of the host school's pocket, but it might work at Nationals--a $120 (or so?) discount on your entry fee for hosting Regionals [does Fall have trouble finding hosts?]. It's a significant discount (but not too signif...

I agree that packet reductions sound like a potentially cool idea. Would this be something people would be interested in?

Tanay wrote:
Tees-Exe Line wrote:I'd request any discussion of WIT whatsoever to be in private.
Yeah, that's reasonable. Can this be made private?

I've set up a private forum with you, Auroni, Jarret, and Jasper as group leaders (sorry, I couldn't quickly find Ankit or Sam's usernames). Discuss away!

If Regionals were a qualifying tournament for Nationals, would that impact host behavior at all? I don't want to open a huge can of worms, but it does seem like host bids play a role in NAQT's ability to find enough SCT hosts year after year. My sense is that NAQT still had a really hard time getti...

Now that Regionals and SCT are behind us, I was hoping we could talk about...Regionals (and, to a lesser extent, SCT). Specifically, the dearth of bids to host Regionals. We received a total of five bids: two bids for the Northeast site, two bids for the West site, and Chris had Maryland hosting the...

If you're interested in doing singles and not having it take forever and require infinite staff, you could do Eric Hillemann's format (players qualify out of pools and the the top n play a double-elim bracket. You'd have to write the whole thing if you did that, though--I'm pretty sure there's no (n...

Yes, RPI B and Dartmouth C have dropped.

Let this be a reminder that you must email [email protected] if you're planning on changing how many teams you have signed up.

Anyone interested in Andy Goss' ridiculous recap of the 1999 Philly Experiment? Also, does anyone know what John Edwards is up to nowadays? He was the only person I've ever met with whom I could unironically discuss my love of Mama's Family without judgment. Working in Philly at the Mazzoni Center,...

Mewto55555 wrote:So for ACF Nationals, are high schoolers not eligible for Division II?

ACF has just ruled that high schoolers are not eligible for Division II at any ACF tournaments henceforth.

To register for ACF Nationals, please fill out this web form. If you need to change any of your info after you've entered it, please email me at [email protected] or PM me. The registered field for the tournament may be viewed here.

We got Yale A's packet.

tgaddy wrote:Wow, yea please ignore my stupidity that was made abundantly clear in my last post. This is great news. We will definitely still be coming to this. Sorry about that.

Great--glad you can make it!

Hey so I wrote an email to both Chris Ray and Jerry Vinokurov saying that Montgomery Blair wouldnt be able to make it to this since LOCKOUT was rescheduled to the same day. I noticed we were still listed under the registered field for this site. I just wanted to confirm that we will unfortunately b...

setht wrote:
rpirrie wrote:What was your favorite top scorer award that you've seen?
A waffle iron. I think it was initially meant as a neg prize, but Selene or I grabbed it as a scoring prize.

Waffles are delicious.

-Seth

You're welcome!

The registered field for this tournament can be found here. Teams, please email [email protected] or PM me if you need to change any information.

No one has registered yet; I'll post a spreadsheet as soon as someone does (I mean, as soon as I can after someone does; let's all be reasonable people here).

The registered field for this tournament can be found here. Teams, please email me (at [email protected]) or PM me if you need to change any of your info.

The registered field for this tournament may be found here. Teams, please email me at [email protected] if you'd like to change any of the information in the spreadsheet.

The registered field for this tournament may be found here. Teams--if you need to update any of the information in this spreadsheet, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!

dtaylor4 wrote:
Susan wrote:
fett0001 wrote:That set isn't clear.
I've changed the examples.
Should Bruce's post be edited to reflect this?

Indeed! Thanks for catching that.

fett0001 wrote:That set isn't clear.

I've changed the examples.

Here's a link showing the (registered) field for this tournament. Teams, if you need to change anything (more or fewer buzzers, removing teams, etc.) please email me at acfregionals2013@gmail.com . The link doesn't seem to be working at this time. Okay, I figured out what the problem was and this w...

Here's a link showing the (registered) field for this tournament. Teams, if you need to change anything (more or fewer buzzers, removing teams, etc.) please email me at acfregionals2013@gmail.com . The link doesn't seem to be working at this time. Okay, I figured out what the problem was and this w...

Here's a link to the (registered) field for this site. If you need to update any of your information, please email me at [email protected] .

Hi--please note that if you're playing the second day of the Texas Invitational (i.e., ACF Regionals at Rice), we will need you to register using this form . You can view all registrations for this site here (with a few fields removed for privacy); please let me know if you need to update any of you...

Here's a link to the (registered) field for this tournament. Teams, if you need to update any of this info (more or fewer buzzers, dropping a team, etc.), please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!

Here's a link to the (registered) field. Teams, if you need to change anything here (more or fewer buzzers, unregistering a team, etc.), email me at [email protected]. Thanks!

Here's a link showing the (registered) field for this tournament. Teams, if you need to change anything (more or fewer buzzers, removing teams, etc.) please email me at [email protected] .

Here's a link to the (registered) field for this tournament. Teams, please let me know if you need to change your info (more or fewer buzzers, removing a team, etc.) by emailing [email protected] .

Ethnic history of the Vilnius region wrote:Greetings, is there any way the ACF Regionals registration form could be update to include the University of South Carolina site? This would help reduce confusion. Thanks!

I just updated the form to include both USC and our final host, the University of Toronto. Please register your teams!

Considering that a Southeast mirror doesn't appear to be materializing, we may head to this site. I'll have something more official once we figure out what exactly is going on with other sites. Hi, Nick--we're working on the Southeast mirror and do anticipate having one, but WUStL will almost certa...

You may now register for ACF Regionals using this web form. We will be working with hosts to get the individual site announcements up shortly (hosts: you will be hearing from us soon!). Please note that our confirmed sites have been edited into the first post in this thread.

Thanks Matt, that was my thought too. As I was reading through these, my other thought was, I know ACF Nats has no trash but what about regionals? (I was pretty sure Fall did) Just thinking about it because you could basically untag any of the ACF Nats packets from the "trash" tag. We do ...

Ondes Martenot wrote:Can someone (via email, post, etc...) confirm that our packet was in fact received?

Your packet was received.

Now that NAQT has put out its list of sites, is there an update from ACF for Regionals sites? In particular, what became of the submitted Northeast site bid? We will have a list of sites, as well as a registration email, up over the next few days. We're still looking for or finalizing sites for som...

They would be "exhibitionists." I hope not. Hey, I don't know about you, but I fondly (?) recall the results page for the 2001 iteration of Terrapin that stated, "Note: Dave H[amilton] and Dave B[ykowski] of Maryland House B played as an exhibitionist [sic] team and their stats were ...

How much of the original set has been written?

I realize this is coming late to the party, but: would an ACF PayPal account maybe make payment that much quicker/easier for both payor and payee? Hi, Jordan--we're definitely interested in moving to an online payment system in the future, but there are several things we need to do before we can ge...

When I was at Chicago, we usually had people start writing pretty early (obviously, there are some freebies early in the year for newer players, like ACF Fall and such). One thing I usually did that seemed to help was to be very specific in telling new players what to write--like, instead of saying ...

Hey, so I know it's a little early, but since I'm writing questions for VCU Closed and WIT right now anyway, do we know what the packet submission deadlines for Regionals are going to be? We do indeed--they are on the website here . We're having a logistical meeting about Regionals tonight and hope...

The main concern I had as host was that I had to rely on e-mail communication with ACF to find out who had registered -- which has got to become a hassle for ACF's coordinators after a while. Is there a way to automate the "someone has registered for your site" information to hosts just f...

Wish to register complaint about doing full-packet tiebreak rounds when half-packet was permitted. (Edit: Does ACF rule I1 encourage this?) Left most of the teams sitting around for a long time. Everything else was good. When it won't leave the tournament in a dire packet situation or run up agains...

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