ACF Newsletter III.4 Dec. 96
Gaius Stern editor
Welcome to the final issue of 1996. This issue will contain several
tournament results and announcements . In order the articles are
Comments on NAQT Invites: Univ. of Texas at Austin
NAQT Nationals Brigham Young University
? on Stanford Cardinal Classic Witchita State
Berk seeks parner for HS Bowl Wisconsin
The BYU migration East Illinois
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COMMENTS ON NAQT ROUNDS AND REGIONALS
For new clubs just starting, NAQT is a good source for quizbowl.
It is especially good for campus IMs. Several schools have said NAQT
served their campus IMs as well or better than previous years. For
die-hard ACF teams, some for the bonuses are a bit easy, but for new
players, the range is probably just right.
It was somewhat beyond the control of NAQT, but at some Regionals,
there were not enough staffers. This caused a small number of problems,
and could easily lead to disaster. Host responsibilities should always
include providing enough staff. That might mean the The host would have
to scratch a team in order to ensure quality.
The questions were, on the whole, decently good, however the
general knowledge questions have got to go. ("Chicken soup"? You can't
be serious.) In future it would be prudent to ensure enough staff is
always available.
NAQT NATIONALS
The NAQT Nationals will be held in Philadelphia the weekend of 24
January. Sixty-four teams from all over the nation will compete,
including non-East coast teams like Berkeley, BYU, UT-Dallas, Stanford,
and Illinois. The University of Pennsylvania will host this year. NAQT
would like to hear from teams interested in hosting next yearUs NAQT
sectionals and nationals. If you would like to consider this, please
contact David Frazee at dfrazee@umich.edu.
STANFORD'S CARDINAL CLASSIC
Final word has not been settled, but the Stanford club hopes to
run Cardinal Classic the weekend of Feb 7, 1997. Part of the complication
is that the Cardinal has always been PresidentUs Day Weekend. This has
been frustrated by CBI Regionals who took over the weekend this year.
Please contact rogerlee@leland.stanford.edu with questions or comments .
BERKELEY IS LOOKING FOR A HS LATIN BOWL PARTNER
Berkeley ran a very successful Certamen (Latin quizbowl) this
December and is thinking of running another event like this next year. If
we could find a partner school willing to write half of the questions, it
would be easier for us to produce the event. The events could be run on
the same weekend, but need not be. If another team is interested in
raising such an event, please contact gaius@uclink2.berkeley.edu before
thsi yera ends. We had 30 teams and raised $500.00.
BYU MIGRATION EAST
BYU has experienced a major turnover in the last two years,
sending many players East. Jon G. is at Illinois, Darren R. is at
Michigan, Bill A. is at Columbia, Bryce I. is at Duke, and Jen and Jeff S.
are both at Princeton. Each of them has had a strong influence on the
success of their newly adopted program. Bill has put the new Columbia
team on the map, while Jeff and Jen (and child) are the mainstays of
Princeton ACF. While they are missed out West, the BYU team has not
slowed down in theri absence. This year BYU won Caltech Technophobia, the
BYU A team (without Norm) defeated both of the Berkeley H teams at WIT 4,
and BYU A also slapped a graduate student Berkeley B team around at NAQT
sectionals.
We look forward to Perpetual Motion IV and hope that the alums
will each write a few questions to maintain the high level of past years.
UT AUSTIN POTLUCK BOWL
The University of Texas at Austin is hosting its annual invitational
tournament, Potluck Bowl (yes, after four years we finally named it) on
Jan 18-19. There is *no charge* associated with this tournament
(well, we may need about five bucks per team to cover room reservation
costs).
There will be two different days of play this year. Schools can opt to
attend either day of competition. Saturday will be CB-style play
(although visual bonuses will be permitted) to give schools a chance to
prepare for regionals. Sunday will be ACF-style (with audio and video
bonuses permitted). Each day is round robin. Play starts at noon
each day.
Wade Riddick riddick@jeeves.la.utexas.edu
512/443-2075
WITCHITA STATE
The Wichita State University Academic Challenge Club would like to
announce that it will be holding its first annual Freeze Your Buzz Off
Tournament, January 31 - February 1, 1997. Format will be according to
ACF guidelines, with a full round-robin guaranteed, possibly a double.
(Depends on the number of teams.) There will also be competition for the
"Thumbs on Ice Buzzer Revue," an individual lightning round, with everyone
participating. More information can be found at
http://www.feist.com/~briareus/wsuacc/freeze.html
- John Roushkolb briareus@feist.com
BYU PERPETUAL MOTION IV
The BYU team is pleased to announce the fourth annual BYU
Perpetual Motion Bowl on Jan 31- Feb 1. BYU hosts the oldest tournament
in the Rockies and past participants have included some local and some
distant teams. We encourage all participants to come and play. Format
will be ACF, but we encourage teams to use this tournament as a
preparation for up coming Regionals events.
This year play will be both Friday and Saturday if turnout is
sufficiently high. We encourage teams to submit a round, but a final
decision has yet to be made if this will be required.
For more information, please contact Craig Harmon at
paris@byu.edu.
ILLINOIS OBZ
The Academic Team at the University of Illinois would like to
announce the ON BEYOND ZEBRA tournament. The tournament will be held on
the campus here in Champaign-Urbana on Feb 21-22, 1997. The tournament
dictators(ie directors) will be Vishnu Jejjala and Alex Corlett. The
tournament will require no packet submission from you as we will be
writing all the packets. The tournament will be ACF with question
difficulty lying between regionals and nationals. At this point we look
at doing a full round robin, this may change depending on the number of
teams that join us but we will do our best to give you as many games as
possible.
Martin Stroup m-stroup@students.uiuc.edu
WISCONSIN 10th ANNUAL ELVIS A. PRESLEY MEMORIAL
Elvis is ALIVE!
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is pleased to announce the
10th(!) annual Elvis Aaron Presley Memorial Invitational to take place in
Union South on the UW Campus Feb 7th and 8th, 1997.
The Elvis is one of the oldest invitationals in the country, with
a history of strange goings-on (Elvis has never competed, however).
Here are the details:
The Elvis will follow a modified ACF format with each round
consisting of 24 tossups and their associated bonus questions. The field
is limited to 23 teams. Format will be a modified round robin, including
both a semi-final and final match.
Questions? Call Jeremy Smith at (608)252-0350 or jeremy@doit.wisc.edu