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Congratulations to Western A for a narrow win in a one game final over McGill B! Stats for this tournament can be found here.

I am happy to announce that the McGill University Trivia Club will be holding a mirror of STASH on February 13th, 2021. This tournament will take place on Discord, with a pre-tournament meeting at 9:45am and gameplay beginning at 10:00am sharp. Cameras will be mandatory; if you cannot use a camera, ...

Thanks for putting this together Isaac and writers! I think everyone I know who played agrees that the daily audio format was extremely fun. I hope a lot of people play the second mirror.

As part of ACF Fall preparations, we came up with misconduct guidelines to transparently deal with allegations of cheating and other malfeasance. A few other teams ended up using this as a template for Winter, so I'll share this here. Other clubs may adapt it at their leisure for future tournaments....

This was sick. Clues were excellent and very good looking. Everyone should play this.

I think this set was good and seemed to do its job well, besides the answerline wonkiness that Stephen pointed out. I'll also note that not all the easy parts seemed to be on the same page with what they were trying to accomplish. Were they trying to be trivial box-checks for 10, as in the parts tha...

And we're done! UBC A won the tournament in a tight 340-335 advantaged final over McGill A, winning by getting tossup 20 and 30ing the bonus. Congrats to every team, there were a lot of good performances by all schools. McGill A won the undergrad title, and Western won the d2 title with both making ...

This tournament will be happening tomorrow, with a pre-tournament meeting at 9:45 AM in the discord. The tournament will start at 10 AM sharp. Please have all your players in the discord by 9:45. If you are playing this, you should have received a logistics email from me with the link to the server....

Note: I have moved the start time back to 10:00am in order to accommodate UBC, which has received permission from ACF to play at this site.

EDIT:
The field confirmed as
Western
UBC x2
Queen's x2
McMaster x2
Waterloo x2
McGill x5
Toronto x3
Ottawa

Thank you!

We'll be able to give you our decision within a few weeks, but Ben's answer should give you an idea of what we're trying to achieve: we would like to institute an eligibility regime that allows novice teams to enjoy Fall without having to play former high school stars or college players with a grea...

Fixed.

I am pleased to announce that the Canadian site of 2020 ACF Fall will be held at "McGill University" (our laptops) on Saturday, October 17, 2020. The tournament will take place virtually on Discord. The opening meeting will begin at 9:45 and gameplay will begin at 10:00. I, Henry Atkins, w...

I agree with your post Chris. Derek So recently brought up another reason negs might be a bad gameplay feature: gender bias in punishments for guessing. Research has shown that the SAT's wrong answer penalty disproportionately affects women, as they are on average less willing to put down a guess th...

Thanks for running this Chris. I was especially interested in the Tony-Kevin-Lucas battle for ROTY. I'm happy my teammate won the dedicated poll, but I can see the argument for any of them. I wasn't going to make a trash poll it's so much more difficult to quantify player skill with the tournament-t...

Comment presented at my discretion. Unfortunately, familiarity affects my judgement. There are more players in the circuit I'd like to include than made it. Derek So Rein Otsason Jay Misuk Chris Sims I barely outscored Chris at Penn Bowl and the Terrapin Open mirror, while he barely outscored me at ...

This is cancelled. Sorry to everyone who was planning on attending.

Contrary to the above post, we are in fact cancelling the planned tournament tomorrow. Things change quickly, and while running the tournament this weekend seemed reasonable given the at-the-time current guidelines of the Canadian government, the current climate has changed too much in the past 24 h...

This event has reached its maximum capacity and we will no longer be accepting sign-ups. Given the wave of recent cancellations, I feel obliged to state that this event is still happening . We've talked it over and given that there has been very little person-to-person transmission in Canada so far ...

If you haven't signed up yet please so by Wednesday night. We will be meeting in Southam 313 at 9:30am. Please arrive on time or we will start without you!

I am very happy to announce that there will be a mirror of ACRONYM at Carleton University, Ottawa, Sunday, March 15th , the day after SUN . The field will be completely open. You can register your team (or as a free agent) by contacting me at henrya20 AT gmail or using this spreadsheet . The field i...

Update: we will be mirroring ACRONYM Sunday 3/15. Official announcement to follow shortly.

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I'm happy to announce that there will be a mirror of Spring Undergraduate Novice March 14th, at Carleton University in Ottawa , room locations TBA, 10:00 AM start time. You can register by emailing me at henrya20 AT gmail. This is a closed tournament, written for less-experienced collegiate players....

Just a thought: maybe people shouldn't get so bent out of shape over the semantics of a meaningless poll the Canadian circuit does every year.

To anyone underrating Derek, CO trash has been brought up. I would also submit last years FLOREAT, where Derek put up 21 powers and 97 ppg on middlebrow movie questions (the next highest was 9 powers and 47 ppg). http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4399/stats/floreat/individuals/. At anything above...

I don't really wanna be that guy after your second writeup, but I don't think anyone at McGill would describe Daniel as a history player. In fact, Derek probably gets more history than Daniel does.

This is the first year I feel like I've actually been involved in the circuit enough to even think about ranking you people, and as it stands I'll probably have some gross errors/omissions. Call me out: if you think my rankings are stupid, you're probably right! Most of the people here don't play mu...

I played this tournament with about fifteen other people at Toronto and I can confirm it was a lot of fun. Would recommend.