2015 ACF Fall Global Announcement
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 8:40 pm
This is the official announcement for ACF Fall 2015. The tournament will be happening the weekend of November 7, 2015.
Editors
Richard Yu and Gaurav Kandlikar will be overseeing the production of the set.
This year, we introduced open applications for ACF Fall editorship. The application was found at the open call for editors thread, which is located here.
The set will be edited by Joey Goldman (University of Oxford), Eddie Kim, Dylan Minarik (Northwestern University), Ryan Rosenberg (University of North Carolina), Andrew Wang (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and Nathan Weiser (Stanford University).
Changes in Packet Submission
Last year, teams were given the option of writing half-packets instead of full packets, in order to give more teams the opportunity to have their questions used, and reduce the glut of unused questions sent in past years. This year, the full packet option will be removed, and half-packets will be mandatory for packet-submitting teams. Discounts will also be adjusted accordingly. As before, half-packet distributions will be assigned by the editors to each team. The intent of this change is to further cut down on unused submissions.
Hosting
New England: Yale University
Mid-Atlantic: University of Pennsylvania
South: University of North Carolina
Southeast: University of Florida
Texas: Rice University
Southern California: The Claremont Colleges
Northern California: Stanford University
Upper Midwest: University of Minnesota
Great Lakes: Northwestern University
Lower Midwest: University of Louisville
Great Plains: Kansas State University
Canada: University of Toronto
United Kingdom: University of Warwick
High School Sites
Northern Illinois University
University of Maryland
Bellarmine College Preparatory (Sunday, November 8)
Yale University
Beginning this year, high school teams are not eligible to participate in ACF tournaments, including ACF Fall, that are designated as collegiate mirrors. In regions with enough demand, we are interested in continuing to provide the Fall set for High School-only mirrors.
Packet Submission
Any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2014 is required to submit a packet, unless it is a high school team attending a high school-only mirror. Starting this year, high school players are exempt from this definition and pay fees as determined by their site hosts.
All submitting teams will be assigned a half-packet distribution upon registration, using this form. The assigned distribution is non-negotiable.
Please submit packets to [email protected] and use “ACF Fall 2015: [Team Name]” in the subject line.
Submission schedule
Please refer to the below submission schedule:
11.59 PM PST September 13: -$30
11.59 PM PST September 27: -$15 (-$30 if optional)
11.59 PM PST October 11: no penalty (-$15 if optional)
11.59 PM PST October 18: +$25
11.59 PM PST October 25: +$50
After October 25: +$10/day until October 31; teams who are required to submit a packet and do not submit one by November 1 will not be allowed to play.
Fees
Base fee: $120 for one team from a school, $240 for two teams from a school, etc.
Buzzer systems*: -$5 each
Staffers: -$10 each No maximum.
Laptop: -$5 each Maximum 1 per team.
Travel: -$10 per 200 miles traveled one way
International**: -$20
New to ACF teams***: -$25
New quizbowl teams****: -$75
* No discount for broken buzzers; no maximum.
** For teams representing schools located in a different country than the tournament host.
*** For schools which haven't played an ACF tournament between September 2013 and August 2015, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school.
**** For schools which did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament since September 2013, 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.
Packet Penalties
We have clear guidelines on what your submissions can or cannot be, with information on penalties for flouting the guidelines. Please follow them. We will enforce penalties.
Friendly Reminders
Please follow the processes and guidelines laid out by the editors and ACF.
Don't talk about your submitted questions with anyone else until the editors tell you it's okay.
Please follow past iterations of ACF Fall, e.g. the 2008, 2009, 2012 versions, for an idea of what your submissions should be like.
If you think a particular topic you want to write on is too hard, it probably is. Write on something easier.
If you have any other questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Credit to Gautam Kandlikar for the majority of this announcement.
Editors
Richard Yu and Gaurav Kandlikar will be overseeing the production of the set.
This year, we introduced open applications for ACF Fall editorship. The application was found at the open call for editors thread, which is located here.
The set will be edited by Joey Goldman (University of Oxford), Eddie Kim, Dylan Minarik (Northwestern University), Ryan Rosenberg (University of North Carolina), Andrew Wang (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and Nathan Weiser (Stanford University).
Changes in Packet Submission
Last year, teams were given the option of writing half-packets instead of full packets, in order to give more teams the opportunity to have their questions used, and reduce the glut of unused questions sent in past years. This year, the full packet option will be removed, and half-packets will be mandatory for packet-submitting teams. Discounts will also be adjusted accordingly. As before, half-packet distributions will be assigned by the editors to each team. The intent of this change is to further cut down on unused submissions.
Hosting
New England: Yale University
Mid-Atlantic: University of Pennsylvania
South: University of North Carolina
Southeast: University of Florida
Texas: Rice University
Southern California: The Claremont Colleges
Northern California: Stanford University
Upper Midwest: University of Minnesota
Great Lakes: Northwestern University
Lower Midwest: University of Louisville
Great Plains: Kansas State University
Canada: University of Toronto
United Kingdom: University of Warwick
High School Sites
Northern Illinois University
University of Maryland
Bellarmine College Preparatory (Sunday, November 8)
Yale University
Beginning this year, high school teams are not eligible to participate in ACF tournaments, including ACF Fall, that are designated as collegiate mirrors. In regions with enough demand, we are interested in continuing to provide the Fall set for High School-only mirrors.
Packet Submission
Any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2014 is required to submit a packet, unless it is a high school team attending a high school-only mirror. Starting this year, high school players are exempt from this definition and pay fees as determined by their site hosts.
All submitting teams will be assigned a half-packet distribution upon registration, using this form. The assigned distribution is non-negotiable.
Please submit packets to [email protected] and use “ACF Fall 2015: [Team Name]” in the subject line.
Submission schedule
Please refer to the below submission schedule:
11.59 PM PST September 13: -$30
11.59 PM PST September 27: -$15 (-$30 if optional)
11.59 PM PST October 11: no penalty (-$15 if optional)
11.59 PM PST October 18: +$25
11.59 PM PST October 25: +$50
After October 25: +$10/day until October 31; teams who are required to submit a packet and do not submit one by November 1 will not be allowed to play.
Fees
Base fee: $120 for one team from a school, $240 for two teams from a school, etc.
Buzzer systems*: -$5 each
Staffers: -$10 each No maximum.
Laptop: -$5 each Maximum 1 per team.
Travel: -$10 per 200 miles traveled one way
International**: -$20
New to ACF teams***: -$25
New quizbowl teams****: -$75
* No discount for broken buzzers; no maximum.
** For teams representing schools located in a different country than the tournament host.
*** For schools which haven't played an ACF tournament between September 2013 and August 2015, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school.
**** For schools which did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament since September 2013, 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.
Packet Penalties
We have clear guidelines on what your submissions can or cannot be, with information on penalties for flouting the guidelines. Please follow them. We will enforce penalties.
Friendly Reminders
Please follow the processes and guidelines laid out by the editors and ACF.
Don't talk about your submitted questions with anyone else until the editors tell you it's okay.
Please follow past iterations of ACF Fall, e.g. the 2008, 2009, 2012 versions, for an idea of what your submissions should be like.
If you think a particular topic you want to write on is too hard, it probably is. Write on something easier.
If you have any other questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Credit to Gautam Kandlikar for the majority of this announcement.