Where: A specific building for the tournament will be announced in a few weeks, but it's almost certainly going to be held in Jimenez Hall.
Registration: Per new ACF procedure, fill out this form. You MUST sign up using the form if you want to play the tournament. You don't need to email me directly unless you have any questions about our site, etc.
Packet Submission and Deadlines:
Eligibility: All of the usual ACF elligibility restrictions apply. Please note the update to ACF Division II rules (more info here).ACF Regionals 2013 Global Announcement wrote: Every team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2011 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:
December 30, 2012: -$50
January 13, 2013: -$25 (-$50 for optional packets)
January 27, 2013: no penalty (-$25 for optional packets)
February 3, 2013: +$25
February 10, 2013: +$50
After that: My unending wrath, +$100, and a guarantee you will be dropped from the field if you haven't negotiated an extension before then.
Payment Deadline (NEW): February 16, 2013 (your payment must be postmarked by this date).
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 our inbox by 11:59 pm PST on the stated day.
As alluded to above, extensions *may* be granted after the final February 10 deadline, but are at my discretion and will certainly not be granted if the request appears mysteriously at 11:58 pm the night of the deadline.
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.
Please note that in cases of plagiarism in particular, I have now graded many a term paper and edited many a tournament, and I will catch you. This is doubtless because if you have decided to plagiarize from past questions/wikipedia/wherever, you are an idiot; I encourage you to cut your losses with that rather than compounding the situation with plagiarism.
Please email me at [email protected] with any questions (but, again, not with registration). You're welcome to post in the thread to announce your attendance and everything, but remember to use the centralized registration system too. Hope to see you there!
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