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The field cap for 2023 ACF Nationals has been set at 48 teams . 12 hosting/editing bids have been awarded to British Columbia, Claremont, Cornell, Florida, Imperial, McGill, Minnesota, Northwestern, Rutgers, Texas, Vanderbilt, and Yale; thus, there will be 36 spots available for teams to qualify for...

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I think that Mike's point about demystifying CO is a good one -- this last year is a great example of a team that didn't have much experience editing open-level tournaments and they produced a very good set. Limiting the number of editors' packets is also a good idea. I'd be interested in subject ed...

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ACF is pleased to announce that room reservations at MIT have been confirmed! We are excited to see you all in Cambridge in April. Regionals hosts and teams with a Regionals editor should be on the lookout for an email from me with details on how applying for hosting/editing bids will work this year...

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I've uploaded the stats from the top room, I can't find the other stats but I'll upload them if I get them.

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Apologies for the lateness, but I've put together an app displaying detailed stats for NASAT and (all but two lost games of) Logomachy.

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As quizbowl begins to regularly collect detailed statistics (e.g. category stats, buzzpoint stats, question-level stats) at tournaments, I wanted to discuss the level of privacy that should be maintained about these more detailed statistics, and if they need be embargoed until the set is clear. All ...

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theMoMA wrote: ↑Mon Nov 14, 2022 2:49 am I'd like to hold this over the holidays via Zoom. Would New Year's Day (or the Monday after that, which most people will have off) work for people?

Sure

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If anyone else coming in from out of town would be interested in splitting a hotel room, let me know.

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ACF Nationals will be held the weekend of April 22-23 at MIT, pending the confirmation of room reservations. ACF expects to be able to confirm room reservations by the end of December; until the rooms are confirmed, we strongly suggest teams hold off on booking non-refundable travel to or lodging in...

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Reminder that bids close tonight!

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A reminder that bids are due this Sunday! Please email me at [email protected] if you have any questions.

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The above post has been updated to reflect additional discounts for writing a full packet, as well as a deadline for hosting bids.

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ACF is seeking a host for 2023 ACF Nationals , to be held either April 15-16 or April 22-23, 2023. Potential hosts will have the ability to choose which weekend to host on. Factors that make a strong bid include: a central location that is drivable for many teams and staff; a large airport that make...

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I am pleased to announce 2023 ACF Nationals, to be held the weekend of April 22-23, 2023 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in scenic Cambridge, Massachusetts. The head editor of 2023 ACF Nationals is Taylor Harvey; Caroline Mao (American and World Literature), Will Nediger (British Litera...

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Thank you everyone for coming out to Palo Alto this weekend! Congratulations to our winners of the Sunday tournaments: Pluma Piluma (Naveed Chowdhury, Taylor Harvey, Mike Bentley, Tim Morrison) won Logomachy; Team 2 (Benji Nguyen, Stephen Liu, Aseem Keyal, Taylor Harvey) won MUSES; and the assassina...

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27 rounds of quizbowl were played today. Tejas Raje, Weijia Cheng, Vivian Malouf, and Eric Wolfsberg won NASAT, and Stephen Liu won both JAVASCRIPT and Eyes. Stats are up for NASAT; full stats for the visual tournaments and detailed stats for NASAT will be available this week. On to more quizbowl to...

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The logistics email that was just sent out: Hi everyone, Thanks for signing up for the NorCal side event weekend! If you're receiving this email, you're a contact for one of the teams this weekend; please send the email to your teammates since this contains important logistical information for the w...

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JAVASCRIPT and Eyes, which will be multi-room shootouts. Do you guys have a sense of what the format will be for these? Assuming not too many people are playing just Javascript or just Eyes, the field's shaping up to be pretty strong. If logistically feasible, I'd suggest having three rooms with th...

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Finally, my impression is that being a well-connected and/or "TOP PLAYER" allows one to avoid accountability for misconduct more easily, though as with all misconduct issues it's hard to tell for certain given the lack of a complete picture. It's not clear if new institutions would by the...

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I also think that requiring teams on bye to staff would have been the right move. That would have ensured full double-staffing (since 3 teams on bye, those 3 staffers can pair with the remaining single staffers).

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Per Stanford policy, minors will be allowed to play these tournaments if they are chaperoned by an adult at all times.

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I don't feel super strongly about this, but I think a 90% conversion target on tossups is actually non-ideal at CO. Ramping down the difficulty to reach that level of conversion is bound to cause buzzer races during the giveaway, and secondarily it lengthens the tournament. Why do you object to a 9...

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Now that CO is over, do the folks organizing this have an idea of when what sets are being played will be finalized? The plan will be to run NASAT, JAVASCRIPT, and Eyes on Saturday, and Logomachy, MUSES, and Eminent Victorians on Sunday. NASAT will be run tossup-only to allow time for JAVASCRIPT an...

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I agree with the seeming consensus that the set was good and the day was long. A couple of more detailed points: - I think the editors should be particularly commended for putting together a quality CO when this group had significantly less experience writing tournaments of this difficulty than your...

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Bernadette Spencer and I have resigned as PACE representatives to the misconduct reporting form and have been replaced by Mia McGill and Sadie Britton.

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I've added a video game audio set by Anthony DiCarlo to the signup sheet.

Exact number of tournaments will depend on format/length, but I imagine we'll probably do 2-3 events per day.

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Any chance you can nail down the events earlier than August 5th? I'm theoretically interested in attending this but it's heavily dependent on what events get scheduled and when they're run. Two weeks isn't a ton of runway for booking a flight. We've gotten a quick response so far in terms of intere...

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Hello! I am excited to announce the return of the NorCal summer side event weekend, to be held at Stanford on August 20 and 21. The last NorCal side event weekend, I was visiting from Chicago, we played sets like Unanswered Question and RULFO, and no one had ever heard of the novel coronavirus, so i...

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When will this set be available for mirrors?

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When should we expect to hear back in regards to this? The form submission page seems to be copied over from the previous application, and says we will be contacted no later than March 5th, which I’m guessing is incorrect. Sorry about that! Applicants should expect to hear back no later than July 2...

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ACF welcomes applications for 2023 ACF Nationals assistant Tournament Director (aTD) positions. In a break from previous years, I plan to spread ACF Nationals planning out as much as possible between now and the tournament; my goal is for this role to require a minimal amount of commitment at any pa...

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I've compiled stats for NSC from the scoresheets, including category data: tossup stats and bonus stats . Will possibly replicate some of the analysis I did for ACF Nationals on this data, pending time over the next few weeks. Let me know of any discrepancies between these stats and the scoresheets...

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I've compiled stats for NSC from the scoresheets, including category data: tossup stats and bonus stats . Will possibly replicate some of the analysis I did for ACF Nationals on this data, pending time over the next few weeks. Let me know of any discrepancies between these stats and the scoresheets ...

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I can't help but wonder if the very high correlation between lit subcategories would hold if you distributed by genre instead. Seems unlikely. This was my intuition too, but it's actually not true: https://i.imgur.com/X0yHpzT.png I've updated the above tossup files with the genre tagging. I'll like...

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I've made some plots of correlations in scoring between different categories (i.e. how much does being good at category X indicate someone is good at category Y?). I haven't seen this analysis done before but I found the results pretty interesting. https://i.imgur.com/vbBqNVM.png https://i.imgur.com...

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I've compiled conversion stats for ACF Nationals, as well as tables of all buzzes and bonus parts (complete with category and intended bonus part difficulty). These use the Nats scoresheets that Harry White shared . (linking because the boards won't let me attach CSVs for some reason) Tossup convers...

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I've put together an app reporting on detailed stats for the two seasons of QB League, an online quizbowl competition that used MODAQ as a question reader and kept stats using QBJ , a stats format that supports detailed stats like buzzpoints and individual bonus part conversion. My hope is that this...

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What would be the schedule for a 25-team CO?

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I'll note, though, that "Iroquois supporting the British" is incorrect for the Haldimand Proclamation clue; the Iroquois were guaranteed land purchase rights by the Haldimand Proclamation, not the other way around.

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I'm confused, "Torah" is promptable -- would you not then say Oral Torah? If not, what is your understanding of the difference between the oral and written Torah? I wouldn't immediately go to "Oral Torah" if I was told "what set of beliefs is that collected in?" Becaus...

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I'm confused, "Torah" is promptable -- would you not then say Oral Torah? If not, what is your understanding of the difference between the oral and written Torah?

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Note: The initial post has been adjusted to account for some suggested changes in the discord. This is a stupid rule and people should ignore it. EDIT: To be more specific: I find it extremely problematic to have a rule carved out for exactly one person. There is at least one other player besides I...

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The 2022 ACF Nationals program, produced by Caroline Mao, may be viewed at this link. To purchase a physical copy ($20), please find Ganon Evans at team check-in or elsewhere this weekend.

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A quick note that I've updated the post with some examples of upsets at different levels of difference in team strength, as well as a link to the data I'm using. I've also added a graph at the end looking at Mike's question about round order -- I don't have data on prelims vs. playoffs, but upsets d...

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I've published a new blog post about upsets in quizbowl here: https://www.rrosenb.org/an-analysis-of- ... -quizbowl/. Interesting, I did not find any sort of variation in upset rates by difficulty, or between ACF Nationals and DI ICT.

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This seems like more than enough for two weekends of events.

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I have a blog post up about using community clustering algorithms to look at what the structure of tournament attendance reveals about college quizbowl circuits. This is the first in a series of posts I have planned about quizbowl using the new college quizbowl stats database . Currently, team names...

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I agree with Eric; I thought this was a good, fun set that needs maybe a little more than the standard post-playtesting polishing but should be a good experience for teams.

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Substitute vs. complement goods is one of the few things I learned in my (bad, rushed) Econ 101 class, I think it's reasonable for an easy part.

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All ARCADIA mirrors have been finished and the set is now clear for discussion. I'll be uploading final packets tonight.

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