2022 ACF Regionals at Chicago (01/29/2022)

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2022 ACF Regionals at Chicago (01/29/2022)

Post by rdc20 »

I am pleased to announce that the Midwests site of 2022 ACF Regionals will be held at the University of Chicago on Saturday, January 29, 2022.

The tournament will take place in Stuart Hall. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 and gameplay will begin at 9:00. I (Robert Condron) will be the tournament director. Please direct any questions about this site to me at [email protected].

Eligibility
In general, teams where players are all attending the same school and all taking at least one class for credit during the 2021–2022 school year are eligible to play 2022 ACF Regionals. ACF’s full eligibility rules are available here. Questions about eligibility should be directed to [email protected].

Rules
This tournament will follow ACF’s official gameplay rules. Rules specifically pertaining to online tournaments have been rendered in blue.

Registration
Fill out the central 2022 ACF Regionals registration form with all relevant information. The form is here. The field for each site can be found here.

If possible, teams should register for the site that is geographically closest to them and/or is in the region they would normally attend. Our initial field cap is 12, after which teams will be placed on a waitlist or potentially assigned to another site. If we are able to raise the field cap, we will post again in this thread and contact any teams on the waitlist. Please register by January 24, 2022.
Fees
  • Base fee: $150
  • New to quizbowl discount: −$100
  • Shorthanded discount (1–2 players): −$75
  • Travel discount: −$10 per 200 miles traveled one-way
  • Buzzers: −$10 per functional buzzer system
  • Staffers: −$15 per staffer with a functional laptop. Staffers must register with ACF in advance by filling out this form.
The new to quizbowl discount is intended for schools that have not sent a team to any mainstream collegiate academic tournament (not counting exclusively novice tournaments) since September 2020, and which have no players who competed in non-novice collegiate tournaments during that same period.

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 high school student) prior to September 1, 2020, is required to submit a half-packet. Please email [email protected] if you are unsure whether your team is required to submit a half-packet. A team that is not required to submit a packet may submit an optional packet by the no-penalty deadline for a $50 discount.

* 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.

Here is the submission schedule:
  • November 16, 2021: −$50
  • November 28, 2021: −$25
  • December 12, 2021: no penalty
  • January 2, 2022: +$25
  • January 9, 2022: +$50
After January 9, 2022, teams will be required to pay an additional $10 per day their packet is late. Teams that have not submitted a packet by January 16, 2022 will be dropped from the tournament, with no exceptions.

If your team is going to submit a half-packet, whether required or not, email [email protected] to request a distribution. All finished packets must be sent to that email before 11:59 Pacific time on the day listed to receive the discount or penalty. Please format the half-packet in .doc or .docx before sending it. The email subject line should list the name of the school, the team number (if applicable), and the words “half-packet.”
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Re: 2022 ACF Regionals at Chicago (01/29/2022)

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Thank you to everyone who played and staffed this weekend. I'd like to thank Matthew Lehmann for generously handling stats for the tournament and Ian Baram for his work handling day-of TD responsibilities.

Ohio State A claimed the overall title by beating Chicago A in a one-game final. Chicago C and Illinois A were the first and second place undergraduate teams.

Stats can be found here.

I apologize for the tournament's delays, especially for rebracketing, and I realize that many of the tournament's issues could have been avoided if I had prioritized having additional staffers and made tournament-directing responsibilities the sole focus of one or more people in the control room. Thank you to all of the teams and staff for remaining gracious throughout the day despite the delays and confusion.
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Re: 2022 ACF Regionals at Chicago (01/29/2022)

Post by cwasims »

Would it be possible to clarify what exactly the finish order of teams at this tournament was? I'm not sure the order on SQBS is accurate since (I imagine) only the games among common opponents should be counted for win-loss record within a single bracket.
rdc20 wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:10 am I apologize for the tournament's delays, especially for rebracketing, and I realize that many of the tournament's issues could have been avoided if I had prioritized having additional staffers and made tournament-directing responsibilities the sole focus of one or more people in the control room. Thank you to all of the teams and staff for remaining gracious throughout the day despite the delays and confusion.
I'm glad to hear this apology, although I really don't think it was acceptable for Chicago to field 6 teams at this tournament while often only single-staffing rooms with moderators who weren't very experienced and had to read for the entire day. This was doubly frustrating since there are good tournament formats for 14 or 15 teams at a pack-submission tournament like ACF Regs.
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Re: 2022 ACF Regionals at Chicago (01/29/2022)

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cwasims wrote: Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:47 pm Would it be possible to clarify what exactly the finish order of teams at this tournament was? I'm not sure the order on SQBS is accurate since (I imagine) only the games among common opponents should be counted for win-loss record within a single bracket.
Stats with final placement order indicated have been uploaded now. They can be found here.
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