2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:12 pm
I am delighted to announce that the 2019 iteration of ACF Fall will take place on November 2, 2019.
The tournament will be edited by Ganon Evans, Justin French, Halle Friedman, Katherine Lei, Caroline Mao, Ben Miller, Tracy Mirkin, Clark Smith, and Kevin Yu. I, Rahul Keyal, will be overseeing set production with assistance from Rohin Devanathan and various ACF members.
Registration
Teams may register for ACF Fall by filling out this form.
Fees
The fee structure will be as laid out in ACF’s revised hosting guidelines:
Base fee: $150
New to quizbowl discount: –$100
Shorthanded discount (1-2 players): –$75
Buzzers: –$10 per functional system
Staffers: –$15 per staffer with functional laptop
Travel: –$10 per 200 miles traveled one-way
The "New to quizbowl" discount is intended for schools that did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament (exclusively Novice tournaments do not count) since September 2018, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school.
Host sites will bill teams as soon as possible after the teams register. Teams should pay their host sites by whatever method is convenient for the hosts, who will in turn pay ACF by check, bank transfer, cash, or by PayPal for an additional fee.
The fee structure will likely differ for teams attending sites outside of the United States, and will be determined by ACF and the host sites by August 24.
Packet submission
Any team with at least two people on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament* (either as a college student or as a high school student) prior to September 1, 2018, is required to submit a half-packet, unless it is a high school team attending a high-school-only mirror. If you are unsure whether your team is required to submit a half-packet, please email us at [email protected].
* For these purposes, all ACF tournaments, NAQT SCT (Division I or Division II), NAQT ICT, and typical college-level academic invitationals count as regular collegiate academic tournaments. Pop culture or “hybrid” tournaments, HCASC, and tournaments played on NAQT’s Collegiate Novice series sets do not.
The submission schedule is as follows (your submission must be sent to [email protected] by 11:59 PM PDT):
September 7: –$30
September 21: –$15 (–$30 if optional)
October 5: no penalty (–$15 if optional)
October 12: +$25
October 19: +$50
Packets submitted later than October 20 will receive an additional penalty of +$10 per day starting on October 21.
The submission discounts and penalties – but not the schedule – will likely differ for teams attending sites outside of the United States, and will be determined by ACF and the host sites by August 24.
If your team is obligated to submit a half-packet or wishes to do so, email [email protected] to request a 12/12 distribution. It's never too early to start writing!
Please review ACF's packet submission guidelines.
A few additional submission guidelines (adapted from Jonathan Magin's terrific post):
- Answerlines should generally emphasize playability over creativity - try to aim for creative and interesting clues with straightforward answerlines.
- Late clues / giveaways and easy/medium parts of bonuses should aim to cover high school subject matter.
Hosting
If you are interested in hosting a mirror of ACF Fall, please contact ACF’s Mirror Coordinator, Alex Damisch, at [email protected]. Hosts will be expected to abide by ACF’s Hosting Guidelines, which have been extensively revised for 2019–2020.
ACF intends to mirror ACF Fall in the following regions:
Upstate NY: Rochester Tech
Northeast: Yale
Upper Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
Lower Mid-Atlantic: Duke
Southeast: Georgia Tech (on November 3rd)
Florida: Florida
Great Lakes: Ohio State
Upper Midwest: Chicago
Lower Midwest: Missouri
North: Minnesota
South Central: Texas-Austin
Mountain West: Colorado
Northern California: California-Berkeley
Southern California: California-Los Angeles
Northwest: Washington
Eastern Canada: Carleton University
United Kingdom: Warwick
Asia: Yale-NUS
High-school-only sites:
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Fields for each site can be found here.
High school teams and high-school-only mirrors
In order to encourage growth in small circuits that would benefit from a larger field, ACF will allow high school teams to attend select collegiate mirrors of ACF Fall. Collegiate hosts interested in having high school teams attend their mirror should contact [email protected] to apply for an exemption. If this exemption is granted, hosts will work with the ACF mirror coordinator to assess high school teams’ requests to play the tournament on a case-by-case basis. This policy is not intended to let strong high school teams play against new collegiate teams, but rather to strengthen small collegiate circuits that would benefit from a larger field with local high school teams of comparable strength.
The following sites have been granted this exemption:
Northwest: Washington
Asia: Yale-NUS
ACF is also willing to provide the set for high-school-only tournaments. Those interested in hosting a high-school-only mirror of 2019 ACF Fall should express interest by email to [email protected].
ACF will not delay the discussion or public availability of ACF Fall questions after the weekend of November 2. High school sites are welcome to express interest in holding mirrors on other dates, but they do so at their own question security risk.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please forward them to [email protected].
List of submitted packets:
by September 7th
-$30
Delaware
Lawrence A
McMaster A
NYU A
NYU B
by September 21st
-$15 (-$30 if optional)
Cambridge A
DePaul A
Florida A
Georgia Tech A
Georgia Tech B
Michigan A
MSU A
Purdue C
Rochester A
Rutgers A
Rutgers B
UCSD A
UCSD B
UGA A
Vanderbilt A
Vanderbilt B
Vanderbilt C
Wright State A
by October 5th
+$0 (-$15 if optional)
Boise State A
Bowdoin
Claremont Colleges A
Duke A
Duke B
Grinnell
Iowa
Kansas State A
Liberty A
Liberty B
Millersville
MSU B
Notre Dame A
Penn State A
Purdue B
Rice A
Rice B
UBC A
UNC A
Virginia Tech A
Waterloo A
by October 12th
+$25
Auburn A
Cornell A
MIT A
Oxford A
Penn State C
Wesleyan
by October 19th
+$50
Georgetown A
Miami University A
Miami University B
NMU B
Queen's A
Texas A&M A
Texas A&M B
UCF A
University of Kentucky
VCU A
WUSTL A
WUSTL B
after October 19th
+$90
Amherst A
+110
Swarthmore A
The tournament will be edited by Ganon Evans, Justin French, Halle Friedman, Katherine Lei, Caroline Mao, Ben Miller, Tracy Mirkin, Clark Smith, and Kevin Yu. I, Rahul Keyal, will be overseeing set production with assistance from Rohin Devanathan and various ACF members.
Registration
Teams may register for ACF Fall by filling out this form.
Fees
The fee structure will be as laid out in ACF’s revised hosting guidelines:
Base fee: $150
New to quizbowl discount: –$100
Shorthanded discount (1-2 players): –$75
Buzzers: –$10 per functional system
Staffers: –$15 per staffer with functional laptop
Travel: –$10 per 200 miles traveled one-way
The "New to quizbowl" discount is intended for schools that did not send a team to any regular collegiate academic tournament (exclusively Novice tournaments do not count) since September 2018, and have no one on the team(s) claiming this discount who played those tournaments for another school.
Host sites will bill teams as soon as possible after the teams register. Teams should pay their host sites by whatever method is convenient for the hosts, who will in turn pay ACF by check, bank transfer, cash, or by PayPal for an additional fee.
The fee structure will likely differ for teams attending sites outside of the United States, and will be determined by ACF and the host sites by August 24.
Packet submission
Any team with at least two people on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament* (either as a college student or as a high school student) prior to September 1, 2018, is required to submit a half-packet, unless it is a high school team attending a high-school-only mirror. If you are unsure whether your team is required to submit a half-packet, please email us at [email protected].
* For these purposes, all ACF tournaments, NAQT SCT (Division I or Division II), NAQT ICT, and typical college-level academic invitationals count as regular collegiate academic tournaments. Pop culture or “hybrid” tournaments, HCASC, and tournaments played on NAQT’s Collegiate Novice series sets do not.
The submission schedule is as follows (your submission must be sent to [email protected] by 11:59 PM PDT):
September 7: –$30
September 21: –$15 (–$30 if optional)
October 5: no penalty (–$15 if optional)
October 12: +$25
October 19: +$50
Packets submitted later than October 20 will receive an additional penalty of +$10 per day starting on October 21.
The submission discounts and penalties – but not the schedule – will likely differ for teams attending sites outside of the United States, and will be determined by ACF and the host sites by August 24.
If your team is obligated to submit a half-packet or wishes to do so, email [email protected] to request a 12/12 distribution. It's never too early to start writing!
Please review ACF's packet submission guidelines.
A few additional submission guidelines (adapted from Jonathan Magin's terrific post):
- Answerlines should generally emphasize playability over creativity - try to aim for creative and interesting clues with straightforward answerlines.
- Late clues / giveaways and easy/medium parts of bonuses should aim to cover high school subject matter.
Hosting
If you are interested in hosting a mirror of ACF Fall, please contact ACF’s Mirror Coordinator, Alex Damisch, at [email protected]. Hosts will be expected to abide by ACF’s Hosting Guidelines, which have been extensively revised for 2019–2020.
ACF intends to mirror ACF Fall in the following regions:
Upstate NY: Rochester Tech
Northeast: Yale
Upper Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
Lower Mid-Atlantic: Duke
Southeast: Georgia Tech (on November 3rd)
Florida: Florida
Great Lakes: Ohio State
Upper Midwest: Chicago
Lower Midwest: Missouri
North: Minnesota
South Central: Texas-Austin
Mountain West: Colorado
Northern California: California-Berkeley
Southern California: California-Los Angeles
Northwest: Washington
Eastern Canada: Carleton University
United Kingdom: Warwick
Asia: Yale-NUS
High-school-only sites:
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Fields for each site can be found here.
High school teams and high-school-only mirrors
In order to encourage growth in small circuits that would benefit from a larger field, ACF will allow high school teams to attend select collegiate mirrors of ACF Fall. Collegiate hosts interested in having high school teams attend their mirror should contact [email protected] to apply for an exemption. If this exemption is granted, hosts will work with the ACF mirror coordinator to assess high school teams’ requests to play the tournament on a case-by-case basis. This policy is not intended to let strong high school teams play against new collegiate teams, but rather to strengthen small collegiate circuits that would benefit from a larger field with local high school teams of comparable strength.
The following sites have been granted this exemption:
Northwest: Washington
Asia: Yale-NUS
ACF is also willing to provide the set for high-school-only tournaments. Those interested in hosting a high-school-only mirror of 2019 ACF Fall should express interest by email to [email protected].
ACF will not delay the discussion or public availability of ACF Fall questions after the weekend of November 2. High school sites are welcome to express interest in holding mirrors on other dates, but they do so at their own question security risk.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please forward them to [email protected].
List of submitted packets:
by September 7th
-$30
Delaware
Lawrence A
McMaster A
NYU A
NYU B
by September 21st
-$15 (-$30 if optional)
Cambridge A
DePaul A
Florida A
Georgia Tech A
Georgia Tech B
Michigan A
MSU A
Purdue C
Rochester A
Rutgers A
Rutgers B
UCSD A
UCSD B
UGA A
Vanderbilt A
Vanderbilt B
Vanderbilt C
Wright State A
by October 5th
+$0 (-$15 if optional)
Boise State A
Bowdoin
Claremont Colleges A
Duke A
Duke B
Grinnell
Iowa
Kansas State A
Liberty A
Liberty B
Millersville
MSU B
Notre Dame A
Penn State A
Purdue B
Rice A
Rice B
UBC A
UNC A
Virginia Tech A
Waterloo A
by October 12th
+$25
Auburn A
Cornell A
MIT A
Oxford A
Penn State C
Wesleyan
by October 19th
+$50
Georgetown A
Miami University A
Miami University B
NMU B
Queen's A
Texas A&M A
Texas A&M B
UCF A
University of Kentucky
VCU A
WUSTL A
WUSTL B
after October 19th
+$90
Amherst A
+110
Swarthmore A