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Mr. Kwalter

Here is the presumably final team list for ACF Nationals: VCU Minnesota Chicago A Chicago B Vanderbilt Brown Maryland A Maryland B Dartmouth A Dartmouth B Harvard UC-Irvine Stanford Rutgers FSU MIT UCLA UIUC Yale Rom and Friends (ineligible for top bracket) Brandeis and Friends (ineligible for top b...

Mr. Kwalter

---QUIZBOWL IN GENERAL SECTION--- Anyway - is it wrong of me to really prefer having a shot at the win? I understand that I'm not going to win all my games (or in a tournament like CO, probably not even 40%) but I really do get a decent amount of satisfaction out of a W. Even if I only wind up winn...

Mr. Kwalter

Funn:

1. Heath Ledger
2. Sweeney Todd
3. "Umbrella"
4. Superdelegates
5. Jeremiah Wright

Mr. Kwalter

Perhaps ACF Nationals should be held at K-Mart in the hope that it will attract teams.

Mr. Kwalter

Congratulations to Chris Sewell, winner of the 2008 Dr. N. Gordon Carper Lifetime Achievement Award. A former player from Texas A&M University, Chris Sewell is the inventor of SQBS. He is also responsible for the Quiz Bowl Culture Guide, which is an excellent source of information on all the sub...

Mr. Kwalter

I want to start out by saying that I greatly admire the TRASH staff for their constructive responses to criticisms levied by the players at the event. Anything else I say here really doesn't apply to your posts thusfar. That being said, Mr. Kearney, I think your post reflects an attitude that has be...

Mr. Kwalter

This has not been "the case" in the past. A few years ago ACF partnered with TRASH to hold the tournaments on the same weekend, and certain trash partisans not speaking officially for TRASH accused ACF, destroyer of worlds, of trying to undermine TRASH, which was, of course, blatantly fals...

Mr. Kwalter

Here is the field I have as of now for ACF nationals. If you're on the list but shouldn't be, or if you're not on the list but should be, let me know. VCU Brandeis Minnesota Chicago Vanderbilt Brown Maryland A Maryland B Dartmouth A Dartmouth B Harvard UC-Irvine USF Stanford Rutgers FSU High School ...

Mr. Kwalter

Mike, we did discuss spreading the 24 hours out over two days. Note: there will still be 24 hours of quizbowl, but it will be in two large chunks of 12 hours each (or something). I'm fine with doing it in NJ, but we no longer need to do it in a hotel. Maryland is a possible site, and if someone want...

Mr. Kwalter

I have received packets from:

Rutgers
VCU
Dartmouth A
Dartmouth B
UCLA
Vandy
Maryland B
Brown A
Chicago A
Harvard A
UC-Irvine

If you believe you've submitted a packet but your team is not on here, say so. I might have made a mistake. Sorry about the lack of confirmation.

Mr. Kwalter

Hey so, the packet deadline is Monday, and I haven't received packets from many teams. If you have to write a packet, it had better be in by 11:59 PM on Monday, or else you're going to pay the packet penalty.

Mr. Kwalter

Of course I'm playing this, and one cannot deny that part of the charm of last year's event was how late it went, so I oppose any shortening of CO.

Mr. Kwalter

There will be no side tournaments.

Mr. Kwalter

So, after some IRC discussion the following ideas have been floated: Location: A hotel somewhere in central New Jersey. It would be proximal to at least four major airports plus after the conclusion of the tournament players could travel to NYC and consume beating cobra hearts. Date: August 2nd, 200...

Mr. Kwalter

Okay, well, it sounds like this is a viable event, and it sounds like Chicago is the best place to do it. The question is now when. To me, it seems like we should do it in the summer. If we do CO in late July, we could do this in June. If we do CO in early July, we could do this in August. Once we s...

Mr. Kwalter

I'm not sure if you've ever been to ACF nationals, Andy, but since I started attending three years ago I have heard of few to no incidents involving violent outbursts and/or unsportsmanlike conduct. We all like to joke about how people like Jerry go crazy and throw chairs and get mad at quizbowl, bu...

Mr. Kwalter

The only major cringe I felt was seeing Bum Phillips in a question about his son. That's something CBI would do. The clue wasn't needed. What? Overall, they're good questions for a novice field. I'd hold on to them. Some extra editing and you can plug them into another packet a few years down the r...

Mr. Kwalter

Notice: Please stop sending packets to Chris Romero. Sending them to me at ekwartler at gmail dot com will be sufficient. Thank you.

Mr. Kwalter

I'm not entirely sure what prompted Jonathan to post this, but I completely agree with him. I can say that when an ACF editor unexpectedly receives a good packet from a relatively unknown player, he certainly makes note of it. There was one ACF Fall packet that I received this year that immediately ...

Mr. Kwalter

So, in the chatroom this morning (yeah, this morning) a few of us were talking about how long quizbowl has been played for at a given time, and mention was made of a 24 hour quizbowl practice once allegedly undergone by Princeton under Jeff Hoppes. Whether this actually happened or not aside (Jeff o...

Mr. Kwalter

While your association of "difficulty" with "prestige" warms my heart, I wouldn't expect a noticeable hike in the difficulty level of Regionals. While we might not pull our punches quite so often, it will still be at least very near "regular" difficulty.

Mr. Kwalter

Hello all, ACF is ready to announce its schedule for the 2008-2009 season, and we've made one very notable change. Next year, there will be four ACF tournaments: ACF Fall, ACF Winter, ACF Regionals, and ACF Nationals. ACF Winter will take place on MLK weekend. The idea was born out of the traditiona...

Mr. Kwalter

I really can't say, dude, since I don't know how many teams are coming, but we have no intention of compromising the number of rounds to get out before 9 PM. There are currently 18 teams that have registered, but I'd like to think we can get some more.

Mr. Kwalter

Yeah, while we plan to run the best and most efficient ACF Nationals EVER, it could still run on until like 9 PM, so leaving at 7 is something only people who murder puppies would do. Please, people, it's a national tournament, and we're not going to bust our asses producing it for you just so you c...

Mr. Kwalter

So, I should start by saying that nobody at ACF is under the delusion that scheduling ACF nationals against CBI nationals is going to be a dagger to the heart of CBI. Hell, "screwing CBI" was far from the only motivation for putting ACF nationals on the 26th. What we wanted to say was, &qu...

Mr. Kwalter

Actually Dwight, Eric Mukherjee was retarded enough to leave Vandy off his ballot. And Jerry, yeah, I got a couple of top ten ballots, but I didn't count those as "rejected" since by rejected I really mean OMFG THE WEST IS THE BEST LET'S RANK UC-DAVIS #4. And yeah, I have gotten that crap ...

Mr. Kwalter

I'm way too lazy to do better than this. Dwight Me Magin Hart Hairboy CHRIS RAY Chiego Dark Eric BB Weiner Meigs Total Chicago 25 23 24 24 24 25 22 23 25 24 23 262 Maryland 24 24 23 23 25 23 25 25 24 25 24 265 Brown 23 25 25 25 23 24 23 24 23 23 25 263 Stanford 22 21 22 22 20 20 24 21 22 21 22 237 I...

Mr. Kwalter

10. More usable ballots than last year. And yeah, Lawrence was conspicuously absent from all of them.

Mr. Kwalter

We have results! All ballots submitted this year were deemed acceptable. Good job. Also, UC-Irvine and Minnesota were tied exactly for 8th. Hopefully that will be resolved in a grudge match at ACF nationals. 1. Maryland 2. Brown 3. Chicago 4. Stanford 5. Illinois 6. Harvard 7. Vanderbilt 8. UC-Irvin...

Mr. Kwalter

I think the major complaint people are having is a valid but in many ways inevitable one: bonus consistency. The fact is that bonus consistency is the hardest thing to modulate, especially when you're facing time constraints (again, nearly inevitable). This brings me to my next point: both editors a...

Mr. Kwalter

So, now that ACF Regionals is over it is time to look forward to Nationals. I'd like to remind everyone that the first packet deadline is coming up in less than two weeks, so get cracking. I want to make it clear that the packet deadlines are absolute; barring the unexpected death of your beast fros...

Mr. Kwalter

If they weren't interested, someone else could set up an independent system that could handle processing for NAQT, ACF, circuit, even high school events. I think the business model would be that a tournament host would sign up their tournament with this service -- let's call it Quizbowl Payment LLC...

Mr. Kwalter

That's right, it's that time again. From this year forth the poll will be conducted under the official auspices of ACF, but its rules won't change. We want ballots outlining the top teams in the nation from 1 to 25. The ballot should reflect your analysis of results from open tournaments, SCT, and A...

Mr. Kwalter

For what it's worth, Matt Weiner has been making a concerted effort to reach out to CBI and Honda teams all over the country. He is currently compiling a list of CBI/Honda contacts and has asked a few of us for help. I'm sure if anyone here were willing to help him out with that, he'd be delighted t...

Mr. Kwalter

We have confirmed that ACF Nationals 2008 will take place on April 26, 2008 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts . It will be staffed by ACF members and a coalition of local schools and individuals. All of the deadlines etc are the same. If you have any questions email me.

Mr. Kwalter

Whether a performance was satisfactory will be determined by discussion then, if necessary, vote, as outlined basically in 3.05. A lot of the stuff in the constitution is really designed to be "if necessary." Very rarely is there going to be actual debate among members as to whose performa...

Mr. Kwalter

In the past, ACF has been an organization with a fairly ambiguous structure. Essentially, people like Andrew, Kelly, Zeke, and Subash just produced sets with the ACF name on them that mostly complied with an increasingly outdated set of guidelines. This worked well for a long time, until it became c...

Mr. Kwalter

There are a few considerations here that need to be taken into account: 1) In ACF, we have the 5 second rule. Many players decide that they do need 5 seconds to figure out where they've heard that clue before etc, so they take it themselves. With that kind of rule I don't think we need to build any ...

Mr. Kwalter

Evan's right, it is Passover. I stupidly thought it was a month earlier. Truthfully, considering that the 19th is right after ICT and it would be kind of hard for us to change the date, overall that weekend is probably not the best. Right now, ACF is considering relocating the tournament for the 26t...

Mr. Kwalter

We're waiting on full confirmation, but for now ACF Nationals has been tentatively rescheduled for April 19th due to the scheduling conflict mentioned by Mike. It will still be held at Maryland. The deadlines will be the same, so please adhere to them all the more strictly, as we the editors will ha...

Mr. Kwalter

Since Sorice, who it is reasonable to assume speaks for the Illinois club, publically absolved Carleton of any affront to that organization, and since Carleton doesn't seem to care about Illinois, I certainly won't presume to continue that fight. In fact, I regret getting into it in the first place....

Mr. Kwalter

Another problem with NAQT's insistence on using IS sets at the college level is that the IS sets become confused. Many of the IS sets end up with questions on topics that may be commonplace in the college game but really don't come up much in high school. This negatively affects their high school pr...

Mr. Kwalter

Also, thank you NAQT for hosting an A-set tournament in Minnesota on the same day as a Titanomachy mirror in Minnesota and targeting it towards novice teams. I especially appreciated the bit where you suggested that more experienced players should go to ACF Fall the next day instead (when, like, th...

Mr. Kwalter

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Mr. Kwalter

On the topic of transparency vs. deep knowledge ACF figure it out, I think this thread http://www.hsquizbowl.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2192 is worth mentioning. In the course of expounding on question length Andrew does a pretty good job of outlining how ACF and mACF questions do and should include...

Mr. Kwalter

Another question I had, and this is something I've wondered about before, is the example of "A, B, and C manuscripts". If the question writer knows a lot about the work he's writing about, but maybe doesn't know anything about Piers Plowman , how can he determine that the clue isn't uniqu...

Mr. Kwalter

I heard something somewhere about Tulsa possibly hosting SCT...any truth to that?

Mr. Kwalter

Also yeah, the date is set.

Mr. Kwalter

Kent B wrote:so this tourney is happening on my 21st birthday.....decisions.....

Clearly you have never been to ACF nationals.

Mr. Kwalter

Jesus fucking christ Charlie why can't you do stats like a civilized person?

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