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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cheynem wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 20, 2019 6:26 pm
But WHICH one of the Twin Cities????????

Minneapolis, not Chicago.

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ACF Nationals 2020 will be held April 18-19 at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities . I will be reprising my role as TD from last year's tournament. More details (on fees, packet submission schedules, distribution, etc.) will be posted here as soon as they are available. Editing This tournament...

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Is there a possibility of an online mirror of this? I’d be interested in paying to play an online mirror. I'd also love to hear an online mirror and would be happy to support a good cause or the people who have written packets. There will be an online mirror within the next two weeks. I have been b...

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My ballot. Posting this is intended to spur discussion, not to disrespect any particular team. I underranked your team because I have a secret vendetta against you. Projected rosters have a decent chance of being wrong, especially on teams with lots of changeover. TIER I - title favorites 1. Chicago...

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I'm finished at Northwestern and Adam Silverman has retired.

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John Ketzkorn wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 02, 2019 10:55 am

DumbJaques wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:37 am
Please make every effort to pay me at some point tomorrow. I will not be accepting cash.
Given that this is the case, is there anyone willing to do cash -> venmo this year?

Sure, I can.

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I am by no means an elite player, but I have done quite a bit of studying over the years, and have never used nor seen the appeal of flashcards. I take bulleted pencil-and-paper notes on the harder details of everything I study, and I don't understand how flashcards could be more helpful for me. Is...

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Others will send emails to people you work on projects with to gather dirt on you That email had absolutely nothing to do with you at all. You should have asked anybody involved with it in any way before making a wrong accusation in public. Huh, I was not aware that I hadn't talked to people involv...

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I don't have a ton of preference here other than getting to play as much Super ACRONYM as possible.

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I graduated from the University of Maryland and will be starting a PhD in history at Indiana University. I am hoping to get a team going there again. If anyone is going to IU and is interested please email me at [email protected].com. big ten quizbowl status: 12.5/14 come on wisconsin/nebraska Wiscon...

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Looking for CamO, MUSES, and Unanswered Question teammates, especially if we haven't played together before.

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If MUSES is full tossup/bonus I'd rather cut CamO for more zany side event action. All-subject tournaments are overrated. I agree that I'd rather play a fun side event than a slog of an all-subject tournament, but would like to make sure that there's a sufficient supply of side events that will app...

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One more: The field has been updated and is officially at 18 teams (but I've been given the impression more sign-ups may be expected). I'm going to talk with the editors/staffers and confirm we can go up to 24 without losing our minds. In the meantime, if you are a interested in playing this tourna...

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Is there an explanation of how the re-bracketing works somewhere? Seems like it's different from past years. i'm confused as to why, say, Great Valley B isn't playing for 49th despite winning their tier 3 afternoon group. I think they are; they just failed to correctly assign teams to columns. The ...

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I, too, would like to play this at NSC. Hopefully a reader can be procured.

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Are there plans to play CamO again this year? Would that fit on the same day as MUSES?

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Down like the hopes of Mets fans.

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A singles event where players have to write huge packets seems both a) rough on the writing side to have to produce 26/26 solo, and b) unworkably long if there's any decent number of people participating. I'd recommend bumping it up to doubles or triples, if not full teams.

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Is there any chance that individual ballots (perhaps with personal information redacted) will be released? Here's my ballot(s), along with the general tier criteria I used to think about how to rank people. Rankings within tiers are very rough, and there are many people who are in the noteworthy ti...

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Auroni wrote: ↑
Mon May 20, 2019 8:22 pm
7. Shan Kothari, Minnesota (34, 1 first place vote, lowest unranked)

I somehow forgot about Shan, sorry Shan! Everyone should imagine me ranking Shan top 10 and him being in 5th.

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For the record, trophies will be awarded to the top four teams individually by place, three teams tied for 5th place, five teams tied for 8th place, eight teams tied for 13th place, and twelve teams tied for 21st place. (In other words, it probably makes more sense to talk about top seven than top ...

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ArnavS wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:05 pm
Formally, the eligibility criterion is similar to what it was in the poll's first iteration. That is:

Also, Open players are eligible.

Could you clarify this?

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Cheynem wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:19 pm
How many people on your original list actually are still in Chicago?

Everyone except Ike and Adam, I believe. But "living in Chicago" does not automatically qualify one for this ranking.

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New rankings! Instead of ranking players who live in Chicago, I'm instead ranking players who are "Chicagoan" (i.e., play in Chicago tournaments and generally affect an air of "being from Chicago"). Jakob Myers Despite not actually living in or being from Chicago, Jakob gets included because he come...

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Hey everyone, we will be running our online mirror on May 18th (announcement to come). This will be intended for undergrads and other less dominant players. Teams are allowed to be open (as in players need not attend the same institution and may be former college students, high schoolers, middle sc...

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Hey everyone, we will be running our online mirror on May 18th (announcement to come). This will be intended for undergrads and other less dominant players. Teams are allowed to be open (as in players need not attend the same institution and may be former college students, high schoolers, middle sc...

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In particular, a word about Sam Bailey. With so many newer people who deserve to be moved up or receive votes this year, he may drop out of the top 25 overall, but you should really put him high on your "misc" list. First of all, econ and social science fall into that category. I was assuming most ...

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Mike Bentley wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:26 am
I'd personally like to play this tournament, but also recognize that open Discord fields are pretty intimidating to much of the target audience for this tournament.

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If we're praising teammates here, I'll take up for a former teammate and point out that Aidan played at the level of a top 15 player at Nationals. Agreed (as a former open teammate of Aidan's). I'll also offer former teammates Natan Holtzman and Marianna Zhang as players absolutely deserving of you...

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Essentially, this is the classic "pick 2 out of 3" situation: * Large ACF Nationals, with more than 40 teams * Championship bracket with 10+ teams playing a full round-robin * Tournament of a length that writers and editors can produce at a high quality; that moderators can read without losing thei...

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Also, what was the third math question you talked about? I don't remember a third math question in the rounds that most teams heard. Sorry, I miscounted since I didn't know the tournament format exactly. Just to be clear, the math tossups are DAGs, the one in the tiebreaker team packet, Collatz, Pi...

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Where does the estimate of 30-45 minute increase if you played off all rr-playoff tiebreakers come from? I don’t think you’d save much time if, for example, at ICT only the top bracket ties were played off. Unlike ICT, ACF Nationals games are fairly variable in timing due to not being on the clock....

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Also, I think rounds ended at around 8/8:30PM on Saturday, while the e-mailed schedule allocated time until 10PM for games. Ending early was nice, but this leads me to believe that there was time to play off tiebreakers. (Please correct me if I got any of the times wrong, as that would definitely c...

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Benin Rebirth Party wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 13, 2019 12:21 am
On this schedule we have two byes and play both Chicago and WUSTL in the same round.

This has been fixed.

edit: now without making McGill play on their own packet

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The prelims schedule for 2019 ACF Nationals is attached.

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I think that Northwestern was over-seeded as a 1 seed, but given that we were in the bracket with Maryland it evened out. With the benefit of hindsight (specifically, seeing how things played out at ICT) I would agree that Northwestern probably shouldn't have been a 1-seed, but look at what was kno...

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Seems like there's a big group for a July mirror, but I'm assuming if I asked people to settle on one weekend those votes would be split. I'm currently leaning towards August 17th-18th to have a buffer after CO. This has the benefit of giving writers more time to polish their sets and not accidenta...

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At the end of the round robin, only ties that concern title contention (overall, UG, or D2) will will be broken on a tiebreaker packet (Round 9); all other ties will be broken by PPG. Just to clarify, does "title contention" include the top 3 or just the top 1? Just the top 1. The A-value spreadshe...

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I think that Northwestern was over-seeded as a 1 seed, but given that we were in the bracket with Maryland it evened out.

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I think it's a bit strange that in a field where the middle bracket teams are stronger than ever , we're still using a schedules that privilege the best teams in the game. I think it was a really good thing that lower bracket teams got an equal number of games as upper bracket teams as last year, a...

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