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Heart Of Glass vs. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight Radio Radio vs. Burning Love Friend of the Devil vs. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood Roxanne vs. Fooled Around and Fell in Love Lust For Life vs. Baker Street Marquee Moon vs. Let Your Love Flow Highway to Hell vs. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) ...

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What'd I Say

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1/64: June v Sip
32/33: Qiyue v Kisaragi
17/48: December v Eryue
16/49: Kartika v Sotz'
9/56: September v Shimotsuki
24/41: Chaitra v Ashwin
25/40: Kannazuki v K'ank'in
8/57: Minazuki v Mak

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I would strongly prefer a one-day tournament; I think tossups-only will be better for that, but wouldn't particularly mind if we included bonuses.

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Possibly interested, depending on format.

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#1 What'd I Say vs. #12 El Paso
#2 Shout (Parts 1 and 2) vs. #6 Mack the Knife

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#1 What'd I Say vs. #9 Kansas City
#2 Shout (Parts 1 and 2) vs. #7 Money (That’s What I Want)
#14 Memphis, Tennessee vs. #6 Mack the Knife
#13 Back in the U.S.A. vs. #12 El Paso

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I voted for Pop to spite the Midwest

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As someone who writes MS questions a lot, this overall feels like a pretty accessible distribution and one i'd feel good about as an introduction to the game. If anything, I feel like there might be room to expand basic literature just a little bit more. Most myth questions will feel literature-y, ...

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What'd I Say vs. What a Diff’rence a Day Makes Shout (Parts 1 and 2) vs. Love Potion No. 9 - I hadn't heard the latter before, but it's really good, deserved a better matchup There Goes My Baby vs. Memphis, Tennessee I Only Have Eyes For You vs. Back in the U.S.A. - perhaps betraying my rock bias N...

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I'll hopefully get around to a fuller analysis of the set, but I wanted to point out that the clue "people who have undergone this process are called 'children of Abraham and Sarah' in ritual prayers" from the "converting to Judaism" tossup is very misplaced. Knowing that Abraham...

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300 teams know who's gonna dominate HSNCT and that it's not them; a solid 200+ of them still have "fight for 6-4" as a legitimate aspiration, and I think a lot of the kids in the neighborhood that Dylan's quoting are among those 200 teams. There's nothing for those kids in college nats; t...

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Creating subsidiary titles is a very cheap and logistically easy way to give lots of teams something tangible to play for at a nationals. I'm not qualified to weigh in on this thread as a whole (having played little college quiz bowl and never been very serious about it as a player), but I do want ...

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A reminder that teams that initially qualified have until 11:59pm Central on Saturday, February 15th to accept or decline their bids to ACF Nationals. After that deadline, all bids will be automatically declined and released to the waitlist. Additionally, I've added ACF's policy on late drops from A...

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For the purposes of A-value, teams are ranked using all games against teams in their playoff bracket, first by winning percentage and then by PPG. This differs from ACF Nationals standings because the purpose of A-values is to determine team strength for Nationals qualification, whereas the purpose...

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person361 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 5:33 am In that case, Chicago E would be ahead of Northwestern A and Lewis would be ahead of Purdue B. Both pairs would be averaged.

These have been confirmed and fixed. I will take a look at the other issues tonight.

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Jacob Reed
Shan Kothari
Matthew Lehmann

UVA

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I've edited the announcement with a link that teams can use to book hotel rooms in ACF's group block at the Hampton Inn & Suites Minneapolis University Area
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First, it seems like teams with the same record were ranked in Order of Finish by (playoff) PPG. I thought that it was tradition that teams with the same playoff record are officially recorded as having tied for the position (ex. here ). For the purposes of A-value, teams are ranked using all games...

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I ran a few numbers and it seems like a team's strength of schedule was calculated counting opponents' games against the team itself, when the website says that SOS should only be counting opponents' other games. If opponents' games against the team are taken out, it would boost the A-values of str...

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What are the procedures for applying for the waitlist? I don't see any instructions on the waitlist section of the A-value page, although I definitely could be missing something. EDIT: I found that it is under the bid form, my mistake. I've added clearer instructions (as well as instructions for si...

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Any team that wins an ACF Regionals tournament at which at least four total teams from at least two total schools are present will receive an automatic bid. Is there a reason that the winners of the Florida and British Columbia sites are not listed as receiving an invitation to Nationals? Sorry, th...

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Jacob Reed
Shan Kothari
Matthew Lehmann

Stanford A
alt: Nour Hijazi

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DROP Jacob Simmons
ADD Stanford A

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Matthew Lehmann
Shan Kothari
Ben Zhang

Virginia A

alt: Nour Hijazi

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:00 pm Would people be interested in having CO with bouncebacks? If we stick to our planned length caps then I think it will be feasible.

I'm intrigued, but I think this would realistically only work if there's two-part bonuses.

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The editing structure for ACF Nationals has changed slightly; it will now be co-head edited by Ryan Westbrook and Matthew Bollinger.

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Runaway

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha...

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I've updated the first post with a link to the ACF distribution page, which contains the distribution teams should be referencing when writing packets.

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#15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People… #15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magnolia #15 Future - Mask Off vs. Burial - Come Down to Us #16 Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - Ol...

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ryanrosenberg wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 6:53 pm I made a graph of everyone who had more than one top-three (i.e. the first, second, or third correct buzz) buzz in a given category.

Updated:

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:09 pm Minor thing - the statistics seem to be counting tiebreaker games as full games for PPG purposes (i.e. Columbia 2019 is counted as playing 17 games, but it played only 16 games worth of tossups).

This has been fixed.

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I wasn't the biggest fan of using Book of Laughter and Forgetting as a clue for the books tossup: "In a novel titled for one of these objects, Michelle and Gabrielle agree that the title creature of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros was picked for “comic effect.”" I recognized that the clue about The ...

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I made a graph of everyone who had more than one top-three (i.e. the first, second, or third correct buzz) buzz in a given category.

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Finalized tossups for 2020 ACF Nationals will be capped at 8 lines in 10 point Times New Roman. However, this cap does not apply to submissions; submitting teams are allowed and encouraged to submit longer tossups.

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Right now the field appears to be at 15 teams, which is not an ideal number. Is there a possibility of another house team (or another outside team) to avoid byes?

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Jordan Brownstein
Eric Mukherjee
Jacob Reed
alt: Mike Etzkorn

team: Matthew Lehmann (Chicago A)

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The announcement has been updated with details on packet submission and the fee schedule for ACF Nationals 2020.

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The only problem I did notice though was a problem that I think many sets at this difficulty suffer from, which is the tendency for some of the non big 3 categories (most notably fine arts and social science) to become probably a bit hard for this level. With a limited array of askable topics in th...

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DROP John John Groger
ADD Mike Etzkorn

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DROP Jacob Simmons
ADD Joey Goldman

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ryanrosenberg wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:38 pm Ben Zhang
Nour Hijazi
Jacob Simmons
Virginia A

Alt: Jordan Brownstein

edit to
Ben Zhang
John John Groger
Nour Hijazi
Virginia A
alt: Jacob Simmons

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DROP Joey Goldman
ADD John John Groger

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Ben Zhang
Nour Hijazi
Jacob Simmons
Virginia A

Alt: Jordan Brownstein

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DROP Chris Manners
ADD Jacob Simmons

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I'm happy to announce the release of the ACF Statistics Database , a website collecting results from ACF Nationals since 2005. This database collects team and player statistics across multiple tournaments, provides nice box scores for individual games, and even has a record book . What data is in he...

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I'll also take this opportunity to plug the new ACF distribution page, which has the distributions for Fall, Regionals, and Nationals in one place, along with handy explanations of what goes in which category and how categories should be sub-distributed.

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Jacob Reed
Shan Kothari
Chris Manners

Virginia A

alternate: Matthew Lehmann

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DROP Adam Silverman ADD Chris Manners You already dropped Adam Silverman for Grant Li. Edit: Some of this confusion is probably due to me only editing the rosters on the Fantasy Quizbowl Scoreboard. Please check those rosters rather than the draftboard. oof, alright. DROP Grant Li ADD Chris Manners

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