Subject: ACF Newsletter III.5
Welcome to several new subscribers in Texas and the Mountain States. The
ACF Newsletter is a free e-mail service to quizbowl clubs put out by the
ACF. We encourage subscribers to print the newsletter and bring it in to
weekly practices so that the whole club can read it. If someone else at
your school wants to get the newsletter, just have them mail the editor to
be added to the subscriber list. In general, the newsletter carries
information on upcoming events, results from recent events, buzzer
information, etc.
This relatively short issue contains:
ACF Regionals update
Questions about ACF
NAQT Results
Stanford Cardinal Classic announcement
BYU/Witchita State update
UCLA plans
Spring High School plans
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Gaius Stern January 1997
Issue III vol. 5
THE STATUS ACF WEST COAST REGIONALS
ACF apologizes that the West Coast Regionals invitation has been
slow in coming. The exact date of the tournament is still uncertain -
either 28 Feb - 1 Mar. or 7-8 March. The location will be at UC
Berkeley in Barrows Hall (where the WIT4 was held). As before, teams need
not submit a round to participate, but those that do so by 14 Feb to ACF
president Jim Dendy (jd77@prism.gatech.edu) or VP Vishnu Jejjala
(vishnu@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu) will receive a substantial discount.
To the best of our knowledge, ACF will run 6 sites this year -
most of them on 28 Feb. The other sites are:
NE to be announced
Mid Atlantic U-MD
South-East Ga Tech
MidWest Illinois Champagne-Urbana
Southwest Texas A&M
West Coast Berkeley
TYPICALLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT ACF
"What does ACF stand for?"
Academic Competition Foundation. ACF is a group of college clubs
who play academic buzzer competition games. Any school can join.
"Is there a fee to join?"
NO. Any school may join. There are no fees.
"My school usually attends a different Regionals. Do I have to choose
between that company and ACF?"
NO. You may do as many companies' Regionmals as you want.
"How many teams at ACF Regionals qualify for Nationals?"
Usually the top 3 are automatically invited from each site. In
general the top 25% will get invited, so at a site with 13 teams, 1-4 will
get an invitation. The host usually is also invited.
"Is there any other way to get invited to ACF Nationals?"
All ACF registered tournament hosts will get an invitation.
Registration is free and can be granted retroactively over e-mail by ACF
VP Vishnu Jejjala (vishnu@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu). A few wild cards are
also invited every year based on performance on the circuit. For teams
isolated from invitationa play, special wildcard bids may also be offered
until the pool is filled at 39 teams.
CHICAGO WINS NAQT NATIONALS
Congratulationas are due to the University of Chicago for winning
NAQT's first Championship tournament. Harvard came in 2nd and Berkeley
3rd. Owing to the Swiss-pairing format which tries to match teams of even
records and ability, the competition at this tournament prevents teams
from having many "easy" games against weak opponents. For more
information, go to the NAQT website. Congratulations again to Chicago for
the win and also to NAQT's David Frazee for a successful event, despite
some scheduling difficulties at U-Penn.
STANFORD TO HOST 7TH ANNUAL CARDINAL CLASSIC
The quizbowl club at Stanford will put on their 7th tournament on
the weekend of Feb. 7-8 in Palo Alto, CA. In the past, Stanford has
brought in teams from the East and Midwest as well as the CA circuit.
This event is intended as a warm-up for the coming Regionals. For
more information contact Alan Taber (ataber@leland.stanford.edu). The
Cardinal Classic is the oldest invitational tournament in the West. It
typically features a full round-robin.
BYU and WITCHITA STATE put on joint-tournament
On Jan 31/Feb 1, BYU and Witchita State will produce theri annual
tournaments for quizbowl teams. This is BYU's 4th Perpetual Motion Bowl
and Witchita State's first Freeze Your Buzz-Off. BYU runsd the oldest
invitational tournament in the Rocky mountains. Results will be included
in the next issue.
BERKELEY LOOKS FOR HIGH SCHOOL BOWL PARTNER
The UC Berkeley Academic club, in conjunctiuon with Ohio State
University and the University of MD runs a spring high School tournament
(ours is the Cal Classic) in mid April. Participating high schools play
at least 5 games written to mimic ACF college style on a high school
level. Each game ahs 20 questions with appropriate bonuses. If another
school woudl like to use the Classic as a fund raiser or recruitment
tool, please contact Gaius Stern. We may ask new partners to share the
question writing load by producing 2-3 NEW roudns appropriate for high
school level in order to receive the other rounds.
UCLA ANNOUNCES A SPRING TOURNAMENT
The UCAL quizbowl club would liek to run their first ever
invitational tournament sometime this spring. At the moment a date is yet
to be announced. For more information, contact Asmin "Oz" Pathare at
avp@thesun.ess.ucla.edu.