ACF Regionals 2014 Northeast @ Yale (New Haven, CT, 2/22/14)
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 10:50 pm
I'm pleased to announce that Yale Student Academic Competitions will be hosting the Northeast site of ACF Regionals 2014 on Saturday, February 22. Barring anything highly unusual, I (Matt Jackson) will be serving as tournament director.
Location and Transportation
Final room reservations are pending, but we expect this tournament will be in William L. Harkness Hall (WLH) on Cross Campus, located at 100 Wall Street, New Haven, CT.
Many Yale parking lots within two to three blocks of WLH are open to the public on weekends for free, including Lots 51, 77, 78, and 78W, shown here. Street parking is also available, as is garage parking in the Grove Street and Audubon Court garages, shown here.
Those arriving at New Haven Union Station can take a taxi (costs about $8; call 203-777-7777 if there are no cabs in sight), walk just over a mile to campus, or ride the Yale Shuttle (departs Union Station roughly every twenty to thirty minutes). Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] for further information about transportation logistics.
We plan to start the tournament at 9:30 A.M sharp. For those who are unfamiliar with what this means, it means "tossup 1 will be read at 9:30 so as to accommodate train schedules," not "we sit around dragging our feet for a team that decided to show up at 10 by car, as we've been forced to do at the last two college tournaments we ran". If you are not arriving by train, please plan to arrive at least 30 minutes early (at 9:00 sharp) so that we can start the opening announcement and run the tournament on time. Let me know if any traffic or transportation problems arise the day of.
Fees:
(copied from the Fall '13 global announcement, assuming no changes have been instituted since then)
Base fee: $120 for one team from a school, $240 for two teams from a school, etc.
Buzzer systems: -$5 each No discount for broken buzzers; no maximum.
Staffers: -$10 each No maximum.
Laptop: -$5 each Maximum 1 per team.
Travel: -$10 per 200 miles traveled one way
International: -$20
For teams representing schools located in a different country than the tournament host.
New ACF teams: -$25
For schools who did not send a team to ACF Fall, Regionals, or Nationals between September 2011 and August 2013, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school.
New quizbowl teams: -$75
For schools who did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament since September 2011, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school. May be combined with new ACF team discount for a total new-team discount of $100.
In keeping with ACF's new central payment system, checks will be paid directly to ACF by mail. ACF Treasurer Jerry Vinokoruv will contact each registered team, presenting them an invoice with the required payment amount. Teams should plan to mail a check to ACF a week before the tournament (by February 15) at the latest. Yale will not be accepting cash or checks in person.
Packet Submission
Every team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2012 is required to submit a packet in order to play in Regionals. Please note that, like last year, this requirement also applies to eligible high school teams. Further information can be found at the ACF Packet Submission Guidelines.
The submission schedule for this tournament is: (note that these are Saturdays, not Sundays)
December 21, 2013: -$50
January 4, 2014: -$25 (-$50 for optional packets)
January 18, 2014: no penalty (-$25 for optional packets)
February 1, 2014: +$25
February 8, 2014: +$50
After that: +$10 for each additional day you're late. Teams that are required to submit a packet and do not won't be allowed to play.
Please submit your packet to [email protected]; the actual email with attached packet should include the phrase "[name of school + A/B/etc. if applicable) PACKET" in the subject line. In order to meet any particular deadline, your packet must be in the acfregionals2014 inbox by 11:59 pm PST on the stated day.
Distribution: The distribution for this tournament varies slightly from the required 24/24 distribution on the ACF website.
Literature 5/5
History 5/5
Science 5/5
Religion, Mythology and Philosophy 3/3
Fine Arts 3/3
Social Science 1/1
Geography/Current Events: 1/1
Pop Culture: 1/0 or 0/1
Any Academic Category: 1/0 or 0/1
Packet Penalties: Be sure to fully read the information contained in the Packet Guidelines. Any cases of incorrect formatting, plagiarism, or prohibited question types will result in hefty fees. The editors also reserve the right to send back any egregious cases to be fixed by the team in question, so be sure to do it right the first time.
Registration
Official registrations for ACF Regionals 2014 must be made by filling out this form, which is centrally administered by ACF. IMPORTANT: No other form of registration - posting in this thread, emailing me, texting, carrier pigeon, etc. - will counted in any way.
Unofficial Field List (teams, buzzers, staffers)
Dartmouth (2, 1, 1)
MIT (2, 1)
Northeastern (1, 0)
Penn (3, 1)
Harvard (1, 4)
RPI (2, 1)
Cornell (3, 1)
Columbia (3, 1)
Rutgers (1, 1)
Williams (1, 0)
Princeton (1, 0)
Yale House (1, 2, oodles)
Total: 21/21 teams, 11 buzzers
Wait list:
Note: The official ACF spreadsheet posted below is the official field listing; if any discrepancies arise between the above listing and the spreadsheet, defer to the spreadsheet.
Due to expected limitations on rooms and staff, this tournament will have an initial field cap of 18 teams. Further field expansions will be announced when I determine that they can feasibly occur.
Please don't hesitate to contact me with any additional questions or concerns about this site, or the [email protected] email account with questions regarding Regionals at large. We hope to see you at Yale on the 22nd!
Location and Transportation
Final room reservations are pending, but we expect this tournament will be in William L. Harkness Hall (WLH) on Cross Campus, located at 100 Wall Street, New Haven, CT.
Many Yale parking lots within two to three blocks of WLH are open to the public on weekends for free, including Lots 51, 77, 78, and 78W, shown here. Street parking is also available, as is garage parking in the Grove Street and Audubon Court garages, shown here.
Those arriving at New Haven Union Station can take a taxi (costs about $8; call 203-777-7777 if there are no cabs in sight), walk just over a mile to campus, or ride the Yale Shuttle (departs Union Station roughly every twenty to thirty minutes). Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] for further information about transportation logistics.
We plan to start the tournament at 9:30 A.M sharp. For those who are unfamiliar with what this means, it means "tossup 1 will be read at 9:30 so as to accommodate train schedules," not "we sit around dragging our feet for a team that decided to show up at 10 by car, as we've been forced to do at the last two college tournaments we ran". If you are not arriving by train, please plan to arrive at least 30 minutes early (at 9:00 sharp) so that we can start the opening announcement and run the tournament on time. Let me know if any traffic or transportation problems arise the day of.
Fees:
(copied from the Fall '13 global announcement, assuming no changes have been instituted since then)
Base fee: $120 for one team from a school, $240 for two teams from a school, etc.
Buzzer systems: -$5 each No discount for broken buzzers; no maximum.
Staffers: -$10 each No maximum.
Laptop: -$5 each Maximum 1 per team.
Travel: -$10 per 200 miles traveled one way
International: -$20
For teams representing schools located in a different country than the tournament host.
New ACF teams: -$25
For schools who did not send a team to ACF Fall, Regionals, or Nationals between September 2011 and August 2013, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school.
New quizbowl teams: -$75
For schools who did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament since September 2011, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school. May be combined with new ACF team discount for a total new-team discount of $100.
In keeping with ACF's new central payment system, checks will be paid directly to ACF by mail. ACF Treasurer Jerry Vinokoruv will contact each registered team, presenting them an invoice with the required payment amount. Teams should plan to mail a check to ACF a week before the tournament (by February 15) at the latest. Yale will not be accepting cash or checks in person.
Packet Submission
Every team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2012 is required to submit a packet in order to play in Regionals. Please note that, like last year, this requirement also applies to eligible high school teams. Further information can be found at the ACF Packet Submission Guidelines.
The submission schedule for this tournament is: (note that these are Saturdays, not Sundays)
December 21, 2013: -$50
January 4, 2014: -$25 (-$50 for optional packets)
January 18, 2014: no penalty (-$25 for optional packets)
February 1, 2014: +$25
February 8, 2014: +$50
After that: +$10 for each additional day you're late. Teams that are required to submit a packet and do not won't be allowed to play.
Please submit your packet to [email protected]; the actual email with attached packet should include the phrase "[name of school + A/B/etc. if applicable) PACKET" in the subject line. In order to meet any particular deadline, your packet must be in the acfregionals2014 inbox by 11:59 pm PST on the stated day.
Distribution: The distribution for this tournament varies slightly from the required 24/24 distribution on the ACF website.
Literature 5/5
History 5/5
Science 5/5
Religion, Mythology and Philosophy 3/3
Fine Arts 3/3
Social Science 1/1
Geography/Current Events: 1/1
Pop Culture: 1/0 or 0/1
Any Academic Category: 1/0 or 0/1
Packet Penalties: Be sure to fully read the information contained in the Packet Guidelines. Any cases of incorrect formatting, plagiarism, or prohibited question types will result in hefty fees. The editors also reserve the right to send back any egregious cases to be fixed by the team in question, so be sure to do it right the first time.
Registration
Official registrations for ACF Regionals 2014 must be made by filling out this form, which is centrally administered by ACF. IMPORTANT: No other form of registration - posting in this thread, emailing me, texting, carrier pigeon, etc. - will counted in any way.
Unofficial Field List (teams, buzzers, staffers)
Dartmouth (2, 1, 1)
MIT (2, 1)
Northeastern (1, 0)
Penn (3, 1)
Harvard (1, 4)
RPI (2, 1)
Cornell (3, 1)
Columbia (3, 1)
Rutgers (1, 1)
Williams (1, 0)
Princeton (1, 0)
Yale House (1, 2, oodles)
Total: 21/21 teams, 11 buzzers
Wait list:
Note: The official ACF spreadsheet posted below is the official field listing; if any discrepancies arise between the above listing and the spreadsheet, defer to the spreadsheet.
Due to expected limitations on rooms and staff, this tournament will have an initial field cap of 18 teams. Further field expansions will be announced when I determine that they can feasibly occur.
Please don't hesitate to contact me with any additional questions or concerns about this site, or the [email protected] email account with questions regarding Regionals at large. We hope to see you at Yale on the 22nd!