2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT

[ryanrosenberg]

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 Literature, Philosophy, Social Science), William Golden (European Literature, Other Fine Arts), Grant Peet (American and World History), Michael Kearney (European and Other History), Hasna Karim (Biology, Religion), Adam Silverman (Chemistry), Jonathen Settle (Physics, Other Science), Sameer Apte (Music), Taylor Harvey (Religion, Mythology, Painting and Sculpture), and Ganon Evans (Other) are subject editing. I, Ryan Rosenberg, am the tournament director.

Eligibility
Information on who is eligible to play ACF tournaments can be found here.

Qualification
Information on qualification for ACF Nationals can be found here.

Fees and Discounts
Base fee: $350
Buzzer discount: -$10 per functioning buzzer system (with eight functioning buzzers).
Staffer discount: -$150 for each staffer capable of reading a round in ca. 35 minutes.
Packet discounts are listed below.

Teams will owe half the registration fee if they drop from the field with less than four weeks to go before the tournament and the full registration fee if they drop from the field with less than two weeks to go before the tournament.

Packet Submission
The editors of ACF Nationals are planning on writing 13 packets this year, with 11 packets being produced from team submissions.

Unlike recent years, packet submission for 2023 ACF Nationals will be mandatory. However, teams will only be required to submit half-packets. Teams should request a half-packet distribution by emailing [email protected].

Finalized tossups for 2022 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.

The packet deadlines are:

• -$100 packet submission discount (-$150 for a full packet): packet submitted by Sunday, November 27.

• -$50 packet submission discount (-$100 for a full packet): packet submitted by Sunday, January 1.

• -$25 packet submission discount (-$50 for a full packet): packet submitted by Sunday, January 22.

• -$0 packet submission deadline (-$25 for a full packet): packet submitted by Sunday, February 12.

• +$25 packet submission deadline: packet submitted by Sunday, March 5.

• +$50 packet submission deadline: packet submitted by Sunday, March 26.

• Later packet submissions will be charged $10/day late.

Additionally, if you submit a packet before registering for the tournament and subsequently do not attend ACF Nationals, whether because you do not qualify or because you choose not to attend, that packet can still be used for ACF Nationals. The discount the packet would have earned will roll over to the next ACF tournament that the school sends a team to. If the discount is greater than $70 (ACF's share of tournament fees), it can be spread among multiple teams from the same school, or the difference between $70 and the amount of the discount can be rolled over to a further tournament. Rolling over a discount does not preclude submitting a packet for the next ACF tournament, should that be required.

All packet submission deadlines are at 11:59 P.M. Central Time on the given day to [email protected]. We will continue to offer an additional $50 dollar discount to any team that submits a packet with almost all questions usable with little to no editing.

More details about field size and staffing will be available in the coming months.

[ryanrosenberg]

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

[ryanrosenberg]

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 the Boston area.

[ryanrosenberg]

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 -- it will be broadly the same as last year.

[ryanrosenberg]

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 at Regionals.

[ryanrosenberg]

The A-Values from 2023 ACF Regionals, and which teams have currently qualified for ACF Nationals, are available here. Games involving Imperial A and Texas A were not counted in the calculation of A-Values, since players on those teams had already received a bid to ACF Nationals through the host bid process. Due to emergency circumstances, Texas A was counted as a team for the purpose of meeting the four-team requirement for a site.

Teams may accept their bid for ACF Nationals, or sign up for the waitlist, by filling out this form. Teams have until Tuesday, February 14th at 11:59pm Pacific to accept their bid, after which bids will be given to teams on the waitlist in order of A-Value.

[ryanrosenberg]

A note that the ACF Nationals field cap this year is 48 teams and will not be expanding.

[ryanrosenberg]

A reminder that today is the last day for teams to accept outstanding bids to ACF Nationals. After today, bids will be released to teams on the waitlist in order of A-value. The teams that have not yet accepted bids are: Oxford A+B, Cambridge A, Washington B, and Houston.

[ryanrosenberg]

Teams that have accepted their bids should fill out this form to register for ACF Nationals: https://forms.gle/ibABJF5Kz6X63RLe7.

Teams that drop from ACF Nationals after April 1st will be required to pay 50% of the registration fee. Teams that drop from ACF Nationals after April 8th will be required to pay the full registration fee.