Subject: Newsletter III.7
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 07:55:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Gaius Gracchus <gaius@uclink2.berkeley.edu>
To: acf-newsletter@uclink2.berkeley.edu
Hello to all,
This is going to be a short newsletter, mostly because I do not have time
to do a thorough job. This issue contains some results from ACF
Regionals, comments on nationals, and a few announcements for upcoming
events, addditions to the quizbowl Http site, a trivia website, and the
announcement of the Berkeley Academic Club webpage.
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ACF Newsletter III.7 March 97
Gaius Stern
STANFORD WINS WEST COAST ACF REGIONALS
Stanford made a come from behind victory in a very exciting finish to
take the ACF West Coast Championship. In a field of teams including UC
Davis, Berkeley, UCLA, ASU, and UC Santa Barbara, Stanford emerged from a
tight tie-breaker with the #2 record and the right to replay the Berkeley
Donatists. Since the two teams had split their two previous head-to-head
contests, the final game decided it all. Stanford won by 300-175.
Congratulations to Doug, Sherman, Roger, and Brad.
The tournament MVPs included Phil and Partha (Berkleley), Brian
from ASU, Evan from UC-Davis, Pat from UCLA, and Norm from BYU.
In the past four years West Coast ACF were won by BYU in 1994,
Berkeley won 95-96, and Stanford won 97.
CHICAGO WINS MIDWEST ACF REGIONALS
The University of Chicago repeated their victory of the last two
years at ACF Regionals. The University of Illinois was 2nd. The top
individual scorers were James Anderson (Illinois), Robert Hentzel (Iowa
State), John Sheahan (Chicago), Robert Trent (Iowa)--in alphabetical order
Results were not yet available from the TEXAS ACF REGIONAL.
ACF NATIONALS IN CHAMPAGNE-URBANA Apr 11-12
The Universit of Illinois will host ACF Nats this year. All teams
are asked to submit a round. The field is being preliminarilly capped at
32. ACF VP Vishnu has forwarded a list of possible hotels.
The following places in the Urbana-Champaign area are potenital spots to
stay during Nationals.
Illini Union (1401 W. Green, Urbana) 217-333-1241
University Inn (302 E. John, Champaign) 1-800-252-1368 or 1-217-384-2100
Super Eight (202 Marketview Dr, Urbana) 1-800-848-8888 or 1-217-359-2388
Red Roof Inn (212 W. Anthony Dr, Champaign) 1-800-843-7663 or
1-217-352-0101
Courtyard by Marriott (1811 Moreland Blvd, Champaign) 1-217-355-0719
Budgetel (302 W. Anthony Dr, Champaign) 1-800-428-3438 or 217-356-8900
APRIL 4 A DAY OF MANY TOURNAMENTS: UCLA, IOWA STATE, OKLAHOMA
The Iowa State University Academic Quiz Club is proud to co-host the 1997
"Hawkeyes In Exile" tournament. The tournament will be held on 4-5 April
1997 at _Iowa State University_ in Ames, IA but will be staffed and run by
the University of Iowa Academic Quiz Club. ISU will be handling all
matters related to the host site (directions, rooms, etc.) while UI will
be handling those that relate to the tournament (packet collection,
breakdown, etc.)
The full description of the tournament is available at:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~kortbein/quiz-team
UCLA will also host a tournament that weekend for quizbowl teams.
Submissions of questions are strongly encouraged to reduce entry fees.
Immediately following the regular round robin ACF play, UCLA will host a
trash tournament. This is the UCLA's club's first time hosting, and
turnout has been high. Several new teams have expressed interest, such as
Hawaii-Pacific and UC Irvine. For more information, contact Asmin "Oz"
Pathare at avp@thesun.ess.ucla.edu.
The University of Oklahoma will also host a tournament, the "OU Route 66
Classic II: The Wrath of Dan Beshear." OU is looking for volunteer teams
who are not planning to attend the tournament to write playoff packets for
us. Teams who will send us a 30/30 packet of ACF questions, difficulty to
be ACF Regionals or slightly less, will receive a free copy of all of the
packets used in the tournament. The tournament will be April 5, so they
need questions ASAP. For info contact Eric Bell <ebell@ou.edu>
IOWA STATE PLANS ADDITIONS TO THE HTTP SITE
In order to contine the flow of good questions to other teams, the
Iowa State club has announced plans to add many old tournament rounds to
the unofficial college-bowl http archive. If host schools object to their
rounds being posted, Iowa State will not post the games, but this gesture
will help all. Round Iowa State plans to share with all:
Tournament Year
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"The" George Washington University 1994
Harvard 1995
Iron City Inquisition 1994 (?)
Johns Hopkins University 1996
New Hampshire Anti-Primary 1996
Oklahoma 1995
Penn Bowl IV
Philadelphia Experiment II 1996
Penn State 1993
Swarthmore 1994
Terrapin Invitational Tournament 1995
Vanderbilt 1995
Wichita State 1996
MIKE DUPEE'S NEW TRIVIA WEBPAGE
Mike Dupee, former member fo the Emory Quizbowl team (1986-88) and
Jeopardy! 1996 Tournament of Champions Winner has started a trivia
webpage. Mike's experience with quizbowl is bohemoth, stemming from his
days in high school, at Emory, and more recently on Jeopardy.
His add follows below:
Want to make your academic team or yourself better right away, very
cheaply? Try a monthly subscription to TRIVIA MANIA Magazine for only
$4.00/month. Find us at http://trivia.gator.net or email a reply to this
message (tikha@aol.com)
You get around 100 fresh general questions each month plus current events
questions, quick topical outlines and trivia quizzes on stuff that comes
up in whatever academic game your playing. We have high school, college
and pure trivia editions.
BERKELEY ACADEMIC TEAM LAUNCHES WEBSITE
The Berkeley Academic CLub has finally enetered cyber space. The
address is http://www.berkeley.server.quiz-bowl/ Links to other teams'
pages have not yet been established but will be soon. If you would liek
us to build a link to your team's page, please write to gooner@uclink
including teh words Webpage in the subject header.