https://www.qbwiki.com/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Kevin+Wang&feedformat=atomQBWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T13:42:00ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.1https://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Money&diff=63444Money2024-02-27T00:32:17Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div>{{Money money money}}<br />
Playing quizbowl costs '''money'''. This money is used to pay [[writer]]s, [[editor]]s, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money can be raised by acting in this role or come from outside the community.<br />
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==Making money==<br />
Quizbowl is a game with that provides players with competitive depth and writers with space for both rigor and creativity. As a direct consequence of this, it is a ''terrible way'' for the average person to make money. Let's see the numbers.<br />
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===Set pricing===<br />
A typical high school [[housewrite]] has a [[mirror fee]] of $15-20 a team. Sets intended for lower [[difficulties]] tend to be cheaper, while those with harder questions can be up to double the cost. Discounts are often provided for sites which provide complete statistics.<br />
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A typical [[set]] has roughly 13 [[packet]]s of [[20/20]], plus extra questions.<br />
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===Crunching the numbers===<br />
[[QBWiki:Data|the raw data]].<br />
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===Case study: OQL===<br />
The existence and continued popularity of other [[trivia formats]] is a useful point of comparison for the quizbowl community. This example will focus on [[OQL]] US (the American branch of the Online Quiz League), which is one of the more popular competitions in the space.<br />
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Some important differences which makes OQL significantly more profitable than quizbowl:<br />
*The main audience is adults, whose income allows them to pay significantly more for their hobbies (like trivia).<br />
*Questions categorically do not aim to be [[pyramidal]], which has the effect of making them shorter. The closest comparison in most cases would be a single bonus part.<br />
*The total number of questions is lower, even before accounting for differences in format - 8 directed questions for every member of two teams of four plus four extras is 68 questions a round. Across 11 rounds a season, that makes a total of 748 answers.<br />
*The games are played as asynchronous rounds in online rooms using volunteer [[reader]]s and [[scorekeeper]]s; this removes the costs of both hosting and staffing.<br />
*There is a single organization producing questions, meaning that it can take advantage of economies of scale and also concentrate the profits.<br />
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The aggregate of these factors is that the writers are writing a smaller number of shorter questions for more money and less overhead.<br />
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Some numbers:<br />
*The 11th season of OQL US had 120 teams in 9 divisions. This is on par with a set getting 9 mirrors with 12 teams a piece, which would be quite good for a median housewrite, especially at the college level.<br />
*Week 6 of season 11 of OQL US had an average of about 181 characters per question (12,258 total). For comparison, questions that [[NAQT]] intends for middle schoolers are over twice as long and have additional requirements like being pyramidal.<br />
*The base entry fee for OQL is $100 for returning teams - that means the gross take for season 11 was roughly $12,000. The fact that there are no costs associated with hosting means that all of this money also goes to the production team, rather than just the mirror fees.<br />
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This boils down to a unsplit rate of $8.90/100 characters, which will ultimately be divided between the writing team and logistics arm of the organization.<br />
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===The importance of the volunteer ethos===<br />
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==Spending money==</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=QBWiki:Data/Tournament_sizes/College&diff=63442QBWiki:Data/Tournament sizes/College2024-02-27T00:30:35Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div><onlyinclude>{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Number of mirrors<br />
! Total number of teams<br />
! Average mirror size<br />
|-<br />
| [[ACF Fall]]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|6}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2023-acf-fall 15]<br />
| 220<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:220/15}}}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCT]] DII<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|7}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2024-dii-sct 13]<br />
| 154<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:154/13}}}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCT]] DI<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|8}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2024-di-sct 8]<br />
| 46<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:46/8}}}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[2024 ACF Regionals]]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|8}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2024-acf-regionals 14]<br />
| 147<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:147/14}}}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[ARCADIA]] III<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|7}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2023-arcadia 13]<br />
| 88<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| {{Money|{{#expr:88/13}}}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[2023 ACF Winter]]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|7}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2023-acf-winter 14]<br />
| 182<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:182/14}}}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| 2023 [[Penn Bowl]]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|8}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2023-penn-bowl 9]<br />
| 68<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| {{Money|{{#expr:68/9}}}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[2022 ACF Fall]]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|6}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2022-acf-fall 16]<br />
| 218<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:218/16}}}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[ARCADIA]] II<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|7}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2022-arcadia 7]<br />
| 57<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| {{Money|{{#expr:57/7}}}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[Winter Closed]]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|8}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/winter-closed 10]<br />
| 74<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| {{Money|{{#expr:74/10}}}}<br />
|}<br />
{{Housewrite legend}}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</onlyinclude></div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=QBWiki:Data/Tournament_sizes/College&diff=63441QBWiki:Data/Tournament sizes/College2024-02-27T00:21:00Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div><onlyinclude>{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Number of mirrors<br />
! Total number of teams<br />
! Average mirror size<br />
|-<br />
| [[ACF Fall]]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|6}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2023-acf-fall 15]<br />
| 220<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:220/15}}}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCT]] DII<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|7}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2024-dii-sct 13]<br />
| 154<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:154/13}}}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCT]] DI<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|8}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2024-di-sct 8]<br />
| 46<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:46/8}}}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[2024 ACF Regionals]]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|8}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2024-acf-regionals 14]<br />
| 147<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:147/14}}}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[ARCADIA]] III<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|7}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2023-arcadia 13]<br />
| 88<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:88/13}}}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| 2023 [[Penn Bowl]]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|8}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2023-penn-bowl 9]<br />
| 68<br />
| {{Money|{{#expr:68/9}}}}<br />
|}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</onlyinclude></div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=QBWiki:Data/Tournament_costs/HS&diff=63440QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS2024-02-27T00:16:53Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div><onlyinclude>{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Base fee<br />
! Per team<br />
! Cost for a 12 team tournament<br />
|-<br />
| [[IS]] sets [https://www.naqt.com/hs/hosting.html]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| 50<br />
| 20<br />
| 290<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[SWAMP]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27247]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| 30<br />
| 12<br />
| 174<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[SCURVY]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26817]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 10<br />
| 120<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[DMA]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26536]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}/Nats-minus<sup>†</sup><br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[IQBT]] Regular Season [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27187]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[Planetfall]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26864]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 17<br />
| 204<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCOP Novice]] 13 [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27037]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
|<br />
| 12<br />
| 144<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[CREEK]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26951]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[SANDS]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26088]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| 180<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| 2022 [[KICKOFF]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25755]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 17<br />
| {{#expr:17*12}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[Brooklyn Bridge Battle]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27011]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[CARD]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27057]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[QUAOAR]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27054]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 12<br />
| {{#expr:12*12}}<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=#d8ecf3| [[HFT]] XV [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26689]<br />
| [[2022-2023]], [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
| <br />
| 20<br />
| {{#expr:20*12}}<br />
|}<br />
{{Housewrite legend}}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</onlyinclude></div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Housewrite_legend&diff=63439Template:Housewrite legend2024-02-27T00:16:27Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div><div style="display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px;"><div style="height: 16px; width: 16px; background-color: #d8ecf3"></div><span> - [[Housewrite]]</span></div></div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Housewrite_legend&diff=63438Template:Housewrite legend2024-02-27T00:15:24Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div><div style="display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px;"><div style="height: 16px; width: 16px; background-color: lightblue"></div><span> - [[Housewrite]]</span></div></div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Housewrite_legend&diff=63437Template:Housewrite legend2024-02-27T00:14:41Z<p>Kevin Wang: Created page with "<div style="display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px;"><div style="height: 16px; width: 16px; background-color: tan"></div><span> - Housewrite</span></div>"</p>
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<div><div style="display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px;"><div style="height: 16px; width: 16px; background-color: tan"></div><span> - [[Housewrite]]</span></div></div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=QBWiki:Data/Tournament_sizes/College&diff=63436QBWiki:Data/Tournament sizes/College2024-02-27T00:12:05Z<p>Kevin Wang: Created page with "<onlyinclude>{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Set ! Season ! Difficulty ! Number of mirrors ! Total number of teams |- | ACF Fall | 2023-2024 | {{Difficulty cell|6}} |..."</p>
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<div><onlyinclude>{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Number of mirrors<br />
! Total number of teams<br />
|-<br />
| [[ACF Fall]]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|6}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2023-acf-fall 15]<br />
| 220<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCT]] DII<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|7}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2024-dii-sct 13]<br />
| 154<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCT]] DI<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|8}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2024-di-sct 8]<br />
| 46<br />
|-<br />
| [[2024 ACF Regionals]]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|8}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2024-acf-regionals 14]<br />
| 147<br />
|-<br />
| [[ARCADIA]] III<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|7}}<br />
| [https://quizbowlstats.com/sets/2023-arcadia 13]<br />
| 88<br />
|}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</onlyinclude></div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Difficulty_color&diff=63435Template:Difficulty color2024-02-27T00:09:53Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div><includeonly>{{#vardefine:val|{{{1|3}}}}}{{#vardefine:decimal|0.{{#expr:{{#sub:{{#var:val}}|0|1}}-1}}{{#ifexpr:{{#len:{{#var:val}}}}=2<br />
|{{#ifeq:{{#sub:{{#var:val}}|1|1}}|-|2|8}}<br />
|5}}}}style="background: #{{Hex interpolate|aa0000|ddffdd|fraction={{#var:decimal}}}}; color: {{#ifexpr:{{#var:decimal}}>0.5|white|black}}" data-sort-value={{#var:decimal}}</includeonly><noinclude>The idea here is to have a consistent color for difficulties on the [[QBReader]] numerical scale. Just randomly chose to [[Template:Hex interpolate|interpolate]] between #fff and #800 (a sort of dark red).<br />
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|{{Difficulty color|2-}}|2-<br />
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|{{Difficulty color|6-}}|6-<br />
|{{Difficulty color|6}}|6<br />
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|{{Difficulty color|7-}}|7-<br />
|{{Difficulty color|7}}|7<br />
|{{Difficulty color|7+}}|7+<br />
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|{{Difficulty color|8-}}|8-<br />
|{{Difficulty color|8}}|8<br />
|{{Difficulty color|8+}}|8+<br />
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|{{Difficulty color|9-}}|9-<br />
|{{Difficulty color|9}}|9<br />
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</noinclude></div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=QBWiki:Data&diff=63434QBWiki:Data2024-02-27T00:02:42Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div>A page to aggregate datasets for reference in pages.<br />
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==Tournament costs==<br />
===HS===<br />
:''Main page: [[QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS]]''<br />
{{:QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS}}<br />
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==Tournament sizes==<br />
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===College===<br />
:''Main page: [[QBWiki:Data/Tournament sizes/College]]''<br />
{{:QBWiki:Data/Tournament sizes/College}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=QBWiki:Data&diff=63433QBWiki:Data2024-02-27T00:02:20Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* HS */</p>
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<div>A page to aggregate datasets for reference in pages.<br />
<br />
==Tournament costs==<br />
===HS===<br />
:''Main page: [[QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS]]''<br />
{{:QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Money&diff=63432Money2024-02-27T00:01:40Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Set pricing */</p>
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<div>{{Money money money}}<br />
Playing quizbowl costs '''money'''. This money is used to pay [[writer]]s, [[editor]]s, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money can be raised by acting in this role or come from outside the community.<br />
<br />
==Making money==<br />
Quizbowl is a game with that provides players with competitive depth and writers with space for both rigor and creativity. As a direct consequence of this, it is a ''terrible way'' for the average person to make money. Let's see the numbers.<br />
<br />
===Set pricing===<br />
A typical high school [[housewrite]] has a [[mirror fee]] of $15-20 a team. Sets intended for lower [[difficulties]] tend to be cheaper, while those with harder questions can be up to double the cost. Discounts are often provided for sites which provide complete statistics.<br />
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
{{:QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS}}<br />
</div><br />
A typical [[set]] has roughly 13 [[packet]]s of [[20/20]], plus extra questions.<br />
<!--<br />
===Crunching the numbers===<br />
To cement this point, here are two case studies demonstrating the terrible value provided per unit time.<br />
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===Case study: OQL===<br />
The existence and continued popularity of other [[trivia formats]] is a useful point of comparison for the quizbowl community. This example will focus on [[OQL]] US (the American branch of the Online Quiz League), which is one of the more popular competitions in the space.<br />
<br />
Some important differences which makes OQL significantly more profitable than quizbowl:<br />
*The main audience is adults, whose income allows them to pay significantly more for their hobbies (like trivia).<br />
*Questions categorically do not aim to be [[pyramidal]], which has the effect of making them shorter. The closest comparison in most cases would be a single bonus part.<br />
*The total number of questions is lower, even before accounting for differences in format - 8 directed questions for every member of two teams of four plus four extras is 68 questions a round. Across 11 rounds a season, that makes a total of 748 answers.<br />
*The games are played as asynchronous rounds in online rooms using volunteer [[reader]]s and [[scorekeeper]]s; this removes the costs of both hosting and staffing.<br />
*There is a single organization producing questions, meaning that it can take advantage of economies of scale and also concentrate the profits.<br />
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The aggregate of these factors is that the writers are writing a smaller number of shorter questions for more money and less overhead.<br />
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Some numbers:<br />
*The 11th season of OQL US had 120 teams in 9 divisions. This is on par with a set getting 9 mirrors with 12 teams a piece, which would be quite good for a median housewrite, especially at the college level.<br />
*Week 6 of season 11 of OQL US had an average of about 181 characters per question (12,258 total). For comparison, questions that [[NAQT]] intends for middle schoolers are over twice as long and have additional requirements like being pyramidal.<br />
*The base entry fee for OQL is $100 for returning teams - that means the gross take for season 11 was roughly $12,000. The fact that there are no costs associated with hosting means that all of this money also goes to the production team, rather than just the mirror fees.<br />
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This boils down to a unsplit rate of $8.90/100 characters, which will ultimately be divided between the writing team and logistics arm of the organization.<br />
<!--<br />
===The importance of the volunteer ethos===<br />
--><br />
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==Spending money==</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=QBWiki:Data&diff=63431QBWiki:Data2024-02-27T00:01:17Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Tournament costs */</p>
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<div>A page to aggregate datasets for reference in pages.<br />
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==Tournament costs==<br />
===HS===<br />
{{:QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=QBWiki:Data/Tournament_costs/HS&diff=63430QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS2024-02-27T00:01:00Z<p>Kevin Wang: Created page with "<onlyinclude>{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Set ! Season ! Difficulty ! Base fee ! Per team ! Cost for a 12 team tournament |- | IS sets [https://www.naqt.com/hs/hosting...."</p>
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<div><onlyinclude>{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Base fee<br />
! Per team<br />
! Cost for a 12 team tournament<br />
|-<br />
| [[IS]] sets [https://www.naqt.com/hs/hosting.html]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| 50<br />
| 20<br />
| 290<br />
|-<br />
| [[SWAMP]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27247]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| 30<br />
| 12<br />
| 174<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCURVY]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26817]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 10<br />
| 120<br />
|-<br />
| [[DMA]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26536]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}/Nats-minus<sup>†</sup><br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[IQBT]] Regular Season [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27187]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[Planetfall]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26864]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 17<br />
| 204<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCOP Novice]] 13 [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27037]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
|<br />
| 12<br />
| 144<br />
|-<br />
| [[CREEK]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26951]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[SANDS]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26088]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| 180<br />
|-<br />
| 2022 [[KICKOFF]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25755]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 17<br />
| {{#expr:17*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brooklyn Bridge Battle]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27011]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[CARD]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27057]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[QUAOAR]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27054]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 12<br />
| {{#expr:12*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[HFT]] XV [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26689]<br />
| [[2022-2023]], [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
| <br />
| 20<br />
| {{#expr:20*12}}<br />
|}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</onlyinclude></div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=QBWiki:Data&diff=63429QBWiki:Data2024-02-27T00:00:33Z<p>Kevin Wang: Created page with "A page to aggregate datasets for reference in pages. ===Tournament costs=== {{:QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS}}"</p>
<hr />
<div>A page to aggregate datasets for reference in pages.<br />
<br />
===Tournament costs===<br />
{{:QBWiki:Data/Tournament costs/HS}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Money&diff=63428Money2024-02-26T23:58:34Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Making money */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Money money money}}<br />
Playing quizbowl costs '''money'''. This money is used to pay [[writer]]s, [[editor]]s, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money can be raised by acting in this role or come from outside the community.<br />
<br />
==Making money==<br />
Quizbowl is a game with that provides players with competitive depth and writers with space for both rigor and creativity. As a direct consequence of this, it is a ''terrible way'' for the average person to make money. Let's see the numbers.<br />
<br />
===Set pricing===<br />
A typical high school [[housewrite]] has a [[mirror fee]] of $15-20 a team. Sets intended for lower [[difficulties]] tend to be cheaper, while those with harder questions can be up to double the cost. Discounts are often provided for sites which provide complete statistics.<br />
<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Base fee<br />
! Per team<br />
! Cost for a 12 team tournament<br />
|-<br />
| [[IS]] sets [https://www.naqt.com/hs/hosting.html]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| 50<br />
| 20<br />
| 290<br />
|-<br />
| [[SWAMP]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27247]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| 30<br />
| 12<br />
| 174<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCURVY]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26817]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 10<br />
| 120<br />
|-<br />
| [[DMA]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26536]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}/Nats-minus<sup>†</sup><br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[IQBT]] Regular Season [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27187]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[Planetfall]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26864]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 17<br />
| 204<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCOP Novice]] 13 [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27037]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
|<br />
| 12<br />
| 144<br />
|-<br />
| [[CREEK]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26951]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[SANDS]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26088]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| 180<br />
|-<br />
| 2022 [[KICKOFF]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25755]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 17<br />
| {{#expr:17*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brooklyn Bridge Battle]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27011]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[CARD]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27057]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[QUAOAR]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27054]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 12<br />
| {{#expr:12*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[HFT]] XV [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26689]<br />
| [[2022-2023]], [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
| <br />
| 20<br />
| {{#expr:20*12}}<br />
|}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</div><br />
<br />
A typical [[set]] has roughly 13 [[packet]]s of [[20/20]], plus extra questions.<br />
<!--<br />
===Crunching the numbers===<br />
To cement this point, here are two case studies demonstrating the terrible value provided per unit time.<br />
--><br />
===Case study: OQL===<br />
The existence and continued popularity of other [[trivia formats]] is a useful point of comparison for the quizbowl community. This example will focus on [[OQL]] US (the American branch of the Online Quiz League), which is one of the more popular competitions in the space.<br />
<br />
Some important differences which makes OQL significantly more profitable than quizbowl:<br />
*The main audience is adults, whose income allows them to pay significantly more for their hobbies (like trivia).<br />
*Questions categorically do not aim to be [[pyramidal]], which has the effect of making them shorter. The closest comparison in most cases would be a single bonus part.<br />
*The total number of questions is lower, even before accounting for differences in format - 8 directed questions for every member of two teams of four plus four extras is 68 questions a round. Across 11 rounds a season, that makes a total of 748 answers.<br />
*The games are played as asynchronous rounds in online rooms using volunteer [[reader]]s and [[scorekeeper]]s; this removes the costs of both hosting and staffing.<br />
*There is a single organization producing questions, meaning that it can take advantage of economies of scale and also concentrate the profits.<br />
<br />
The aggregate of these factors is that the writers are writing a smaller number of shorter questions for more money and less overhead.<br />
<br />
Some numbers:<br />
*The 11th season of OQL US had 120 teams in 9 divisions. This is on par with a set getting 9 mirrors with 12 teams a piece, which would be quite good for a median housewrite, especially at the college level.<br />
*Week 6 of season 11 of OQL US had an average of about 181 characters per question (12,258 total). For comparison, questions that [[NAQT]] intends for middle schoolers are over twice as long and have additional requirements like being pyramidal.<br />
*The base entry fee for OQL is $100 for returning teams - that means the gross take for season 11 was roughly $12,000. The fact that there are no costs associated with hosting means that all of this money also goes to the production team, rather than just the mirror fees.<br />
<br />
This boils down to a unsplit rate of $8.90/100 characters, which will ultimately be divided between the writing team and logistics arm of the organization.<br />
<!--<br />
===The importance of the volunteer ethos===<br />
--><br />
<br />
==Spending money==</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Money&diff=63427Money2024-02-26T23:55:57Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Case study: OQL */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Money money money}}<br />
Playing quizbowl costs '''money'''. This money is used to pay [[writer]]s, [[editor]]s, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money can be raised by acting in this role or come from outside the community.<br />
<br />
==Making money==<br />
Quizbowl is a game with that provides players with competitive depth and writers with space for both rigor and creativity. As a direct consequence of this, it is a ''terrible way'' for the average person to make money. Let's see the numbers.<br />
<br />
===Set pricing===<br />
A typical high school [[housewrite]] has a [[mirror fee]] of $15-20 a team. Sets intended for lower [[difficulties]] tend to be cheaper, while those with harder questions can be up to double the cost. Discounts are often provided for sites which provide complete statistics.<br />
<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Base fee<br />
! Per team<br />
! Cost for a 12 team tournament<br />
|-<br />
| [[IS]] sets [https://www.naqt.com/hs/hosting.html]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| 50<br />
| 20<br />
| 290<br />
|-<br />
| [[SWAMP]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27247]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| 30<br />
| 12<br />
| 174<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCURVY]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26817]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 10<br />
| 120<br />
|-<br />
| [[DMA]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26536]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}/Nats-minus<sup>†</sup><br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[IQBT]] Regular Season [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27187]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[Planetfall]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26864]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 17<br />
| 204<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCOP Novice]] 13 [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27037]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
|<br />
| 12<br />
| 144<br />
|-<br />
| [[CREEK]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26951]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[SANDS]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26088]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| 180<br />
|-<br />
| 2022 [[KICKOFF]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25755]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 17<br />
| {{#expr:17*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brooklyn Bridge Battle]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27011]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[CARD]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27057]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[QUAOAR]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27054]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 12<br />
| {{#expr:12*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[HFT]] XV [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26689]<br />
| [[2022-2023]], [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
| <br />
| 20<br />
| {{#expr:20*12}}<br />
|}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</div><br />
<br />
A typical [[set]] has roughly 13 [[packet]]s of [[20/20]], plus extra questions.<br />
<!--<br />
===Crunching the numbers===<br />
To cement this point, here are two case studies demonstrating the terrible value provided per unit time.<br />
--><br />
===Case study: OQL===<br />
The existence and continued popularity of other [[trivia formats]] is a useful point of comparison for the quizbowl community. This example will focus on [[OQL]] US (the American branch of the Online Quiz League), which is one of the more popular competitions in the space.<br />
<br />
Some important differences which makes OQL significantly more profitable than quizbowl:<br />
*The main audience is adults, whose income allows them to pay significantly more for their hobbies (like trivia).<br />
*Questions categorically do not aim to be [[pyramidal]], which has the effect of making them shorter. The closest comparison in most cases would be a single bonus part.<br />
*The total number of questions is lower, even before accounting for differences in format - 8 directed questions for every member of two teams of four plus four extras is 68 questions a round. Across 11 rounds a season, that makes a total of 748 answers.<br />
*The games are played as asynchronous rounds in online rooms using volunteer [[reader]]s and [[scorekeeper]]s; this removes the costs of both hosting and staffing.<br />
*There is a single organization producing questions, meaning that it can take advantage of economies of scale and also concentrate the profits.<br />
<br />
The aggregate of these factors is that the writers are writing a smaller number of shorter questions for more money and less overhead.<br />
<br />
Some numbers:<br />
*The 11th season of OQL US had 120 teams in 9 divisions. This is on par with a set getting 9 mirrors with 12 teams a piece, which would be quite good for a median housewrite, especially at the college level.<br />
*Week 6 of season 11 of OQL US had an average of about 181 characters per question (12,258 total). For comparison, questions that [[NAQT]] intends for middle schoolers are over twice as long and have additional requirements like being pyramidal.<br />
*The entry fee for OQL is $100 for returning teams. However, the fact that there are no costs associated with hosting means that all of this money goes to the writers, rather than just the mirror fee.<br />
<br />
This boils down to a unsplit rate of $8.90/100 characters, which will ultimately be divided between the writing team and logistics arm of the organization.<br />
<!--<br />
===The importance of the volunteer ethos===<br />
--><br />
<br />
==Spending money==</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=STASH&diff=63426STASH2024-02-26T23:52:02Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* College */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Infobox question set<br />
| Name = STASH<br />
| Season = 2019–2020<br />
| HeadEd = [[Will Alston]]<br />
| Difficulty = High school nationals<br />
| First = December 19, 2020 (originally March 29, 2020)<br />
| Announcement = https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=24491<br />
| Packets = https://quizbowlpackets.com/2331/<br />
}}<br />
'''STASH''' ('''Spring TJ Advanced Scholastic Housewrite''') was a high school tournament played during the [[2019-2020]] and [[2020-2021]] seasons. It is memorable for targeting [[high school nationals difficulty]] and for being a spring tournament interrupted by the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<br />
<br />
==Distribution==<br />
The set had 15 packets (1 tiebreaker) of [[20/20]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Category<br />
! Subcategory<br />
! Editor<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| Head<br />
| [[Will Alston]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=3 bgcolor=lightgray|<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 4/4 [[Literature]]<br />
| [[Grant Li]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 4/4 [[History]]<br />
| [[Vivian Malouf]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 4/4 [[Science]]<br />
| [[Michael Yue]]<br/><br />
[[Dan Ni]]<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan=2| 3/3 [[Fine Arts]]<br />
|1/1 Visual Fine Arts<br />
| [[Grant Li]]<br />
|-<br />
|1/1 [[Auditory Fine Arts]]<br/><br />
1/1 [[Other Fine Arts]]<br />
| [[Michael Yue]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 2/2 [[Beliefs]]<br />
| [[Ankit Aggarwal]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 1.5/1.5 [[Thought]]<br />
| [[Jack Mehr]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 1.5/1.5 [[Modern World]]<br />
| [[Will Alston]]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Writers for this set came from the [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]] team: [[Stefan Calin]], [[Justin Chen]], [[Sathya Gnanakumar]], [[Pratyush Jaishanker]], [[Elliot Lee]], [[Anuraag Kaashyap]], [[Vishal Kanigicherla]], [[Vance Kreider]], [[Joshua Lian]], [[Prithvi Nathan]], [[Sohom Paul]], [[Karthik Prasad]], [[William Wang]], [[Ryan Xu]], and [[Kevin Zhang]].<br />
<br />
==Mirrors==<br />
===High school===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Site<br />
! Date<br />
! Tournament Director<br />
! 1st<br />
! Field Size<br />
! Stats<br />
|-<br />
| [[Texas Invitational]] XI @ [[Strake Jesuit]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23744 March 29, 2020]<br />
|colspan=4 style="text-align: center;"| Site cancelled<br />
|-<br />
| [[TJIAT]] @ [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=365115#p365115 April 18th, 2020]<br />
|colspan=4 style="text-align: center;"| Site cancelled<br />
|-<br />
| STASH Closed @ [[Online]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23827 May 5th, 2020]<br />
|colspan=4 style="text-align: center;"| Site cancelled<br />
|-<br />
| [[TJSAT]] @ [[Online]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24594 December 19th, 2020]<br />
| [[Will Alston]]<ref>[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=382207#p382207 Re: TJSAT (STASH Mid-Atlantic) Online - 12/19 (HS Closed) by [[naan/steak-holding toll]] » Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:28 pm]</ref><br />
| "[[Montgomery Blair|MB]]"<br />
| 12<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6651/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| [[QuBIT]] VII @ [[Online]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24790 December 19th, 2020]<br />
| [[Max Brodsky]]<br />
| [[Belmont]]<br />
| 16<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6784/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| West Coast Championship<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24911 March 27, 2021]<br />
| [[Nick Karas]]<br />
| [[Arcadia]]<br />
| 22<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6933/stats/competitive_-_combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| Southeast Mirror <br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24881 April 3rd, 2021]<br />
| [[Arjun Panickssery]]<br />
| [[Stanton]] and [[Kinkaid]]<br />
| 10<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6849/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Auburn]] Mirror<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24881 April 17th, 2021]<br />
| [[Arjun Panickssery]]<br />
| [[Wayzata]] A<br />
| 24<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6961/stats/complete/]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===College===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Site<br />
! Date<br />
! Tournament Director<br />
! 1st<br />
! Field Size<br />
! Stats<br />
|-<br />
| [[MIT]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24897 March 13, 2021]<br />
| [[Doug Simons]]<br />
| [[MIT]] A<br />
| 5<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6868/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| UK<br />
| March 20, 2021<br />
| [[Seoan Webb]]<br />
| [[Oxford]] A<br />
| 16<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6927/stats/all_games/]<br />
|-<br />
| Mid-Atlantic/Southeast<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24882 April 24th, 2021]<br />
| [[Arjun Panickssery]]<br />
| [[West Virginia]]<br />
| 14<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6848/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| [[SuMO]] VI @ [[Tusculum]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24882 July 10th, 2021]<br />
| [[Arjun Panickssery]]<br />
| [[Anthony Delgado]], [[Tracy Mirkin]], [[Jonce Culbertson]], [[Joey Simmons]]<br />
| 14<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6987/stats/all_games_including_crossovers/]<br />
|}<br />
If not specified, a mirror was held online.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Sets]][[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
{{c|2020 Tournaments}}<br />
{{c|2021 Tournaments}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=STASH&diff=63425STASH2024-02-26T23:51:13Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Mirrors */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Infobox question set<br />
| Name = STASH<br />
| Season = 2019–2020<br />
| HeadEd = [[Will Alston]]<br />
| Difficulty = High school nationals<br />
| First = December 19, 2020 (originally March 29, 2020)<br />
| Announcement = https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=24491<br />
| Packets = https://quizbowlpackets.com/2331/<br />
}}<br />
'''STASH''' ('''Spring TJ Advanced Scholastic Housewrite''') was a high school tournament played during the [[2019-2020]] and [[2020-2021]] seasons. It is memorable for targeting [[high school nationals difficulty]] and for being a spring tournament interrupted by the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<br />
<br />
==Distribution==<br />
The set had 15 packets (1 tiebreaker) of [[20/20]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Category<br />
! Subcategory<br />
! Editor<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| Head<br />
| [[Will Alston]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=3 bgcolor=lightgray|<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 4/4 [[Literature]]<br />
| [[Grant Li]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 4/4 [[History]]<br />
| [[Vivian Malouf]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 4/4 [[Science]]<br />
| [[Michael Yue]]<br/><br />
[[Dan Ni]]<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan=2| 3/3 [[Fine Arts]]<br />
|1/1 Visual Fine Arts<br />
| [[Grant Li]]<br />
|-<br />
|1/1 [[Auditory Fine Arts]]<br/><br />
1/1 [[Other Fine Arts]]<br />
| [[Michael Yue]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 2/2 [[Beliefs]]<br />
| [[Ankit Aggarwal]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 1.5/1.5 [[Thought]]<br />
| [[Jack Mehr]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 1.5/1.5 [[Modern World]]<br />
| [[Will Alston]]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Writers for this set came from the [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]] team: [[Stefan Calin]], [[Justin Chen]], [[Sathya Gnanakumar]], [[Pratyush Jaishanker]], [[Elliot Lee]], [[Anuraag Kaashyap]], [[Vishal Kanigicherla]], [[Vance Kreider]], [[Joshua Lian]], [[Prithvi Nathan]], [[Sohom Paul]], [[Karthik Prasad]], [[William Wang]], [[Ryan Xu]], and [[Kevin Zhang]].<br />
<br />
==Mirrors==<br />
===High school===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Site<br />
! Date<br />
! Tournament Director<br />
! 1st<br />
! Field Size<br />
! Stats<br />
|-<br />
| [[Texas Invitational]] XI @ [[Strake Jesuit]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23744 March 29, 2020]<br />
|colspan=4 style="text-align: center;"| Site cancelled<br />
|-<br />
| [[TJIAT]] @ [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=365115#p365115 April 18th, 2020]<br />
|colspan=4 style="text-align: center;"| Site cancelled<br />
|-<br />
| STASH Closed @ [[Online]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23827 May 5th, 2020]<br />
|colspan=4 style="text-align: center;"| Site cancelled<br />
|-<br />
| [[TJSAT]] @ [[Online]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24594 December 19th, 2020]<br />
| [[Will Alston]]<ref>[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=382207#p382207 Re: TJSAT (STASH Mid-Atlantic) Online - 12/19 (HS Closed) by [[naan/steak-holding toll]] » Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:28 pm]</ref><br />
| "[[Montgomery Blair|MB]]"<br />
| 12<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6651/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| [[QuBIT]] VII @ [[Online]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24790 December 19th, 2020]<br />
| [[Max Brodsky]]<br />
| [[Belmont]]<br />
| 16<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6784/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| West Coast Championship<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24911 March 27, 2021]<br />
| [[Nick Karas]]<br />
| [[Arcadia]]<br />
| 22<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6933/stats/competitive_-_combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| Southeast Mirror <br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24881 April 3rd, 2021]<br />
| [[Arjun Panickssery]]<br />
| [[Stanton]] and [[Kinkaid]]<br />
| 10<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6849/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Auburn]] Mirror<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24881 April 17th, 2021]<br />
| [[Arjun Panickssery]]<br />
| [[Wayzata]] A<br />
| 24<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6961/stats/complete/]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===College===<br />
Almost all collegiate mirrors at this stage were online due to the ongoing pandemic.<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Site<br />
! Date<br />
! Tournament Director<br />
! 1st<br />
! Field Size<br />
! Stats<br />
|-<br />
| [[MIT]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24897 March 13, 2021]<br />
| [[Doug Simons]]<br />
| [[MIT]] A<br />
| 5<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6868/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| UK<br />
| March 20, 2021<br />
| [[Seoan Webb]]<br />
| [[Oxford]] A<br />
| 16<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6927/stats/all_games/]<br />
|-<br />
| Mid-Atlantic/Southeast<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24882 April 24th, 2021]<br />
| [[Arjun Panickssery]]<br />
| [[West Virginia]]<br />
| 14<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6848/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| [[SuMO]] VI @ [[Tusculum]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24882 July 10th, 2021]<br />
| [[Arjun Panickssery]]<br />
| [[Anthony Delgado]], [[Tracy Mirkin]], [[Jonce Culbertson]], [[Joey Simmons]]<br />
| 14<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6987/stats/all_games_including_crossovers/]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Sets]][[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
{{c|2020 Tournaments}}<br />
{{c|2021 Tournaments}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=STASH&diff=63424STASH2024-02-26T23:35:02Z<p>Kevin Wang: Created page with "{{Infobox question set | Name = STASH | Season = 2019–2020 | HeadEd = Will Alston | Difficulty = High school nationals | First = December 19..."</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Infobox question set<br />
| Name = STASH<br />
| Season = 2019–2020<br />
| HeadEd = [[Will Alston]]<br />
| Difficulty = High school nationals<br />
| First = December 19, 2020 (originally March 29, 2020)<br />
| Announcement = https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=24491<br />
| Packets = https://quizbowlpackets.com/2331/<br />
}}<br />
'''STASH''' ('''Spring TJ Advanced Scholastic Housewrite''') was a high school tournament played during the [[2019-2020]] and [[2020-2021]] seasons. It is memorable for targeting [[high school nationals difficulty]] and for being a spring tournament interrupted by the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<br />
<br />
==Distribution==<br />
The set had 15 packets (1 tiebreaker) of [[20/20]].<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Category<br />
! Subcategory<br />
! Editor<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| Head<br />
| [[Will Alston]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=3 bgcolor=lightgray|<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 4/4 [[Literature]]<br />
| [[Grant Li]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 4/4 [[History]]<br />
| [[Vivian Malouf]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 4/4 [[Science]]<br />
| [[Michael Yue]]<br/><br />
[[Dan Ni]]<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan=2| 3/3 [[Fine Arts]]<br />
|1/1 Visual Fine Arts<br />
| [[Grant Li]]<br />
|-<br />
|1/1 [[Auditory Fine Arts]]<br/><br />
1/1 [[Other Fine Arts]]<br />
| [[Michael Yue]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 2/2 [[Beliefs]]<br />
| [[Ankit Aggarwal]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 1.5/1.5 [[Thought]]<br />
| [[Jack Mehr]]<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2| 1.5/1.5 [[Modern World]]<br />
| [[Will Alston]]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Writers for this set came from the [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]] team: [[Stefan Calin]], [[Justin Chen]], [[Sathya Gnanakumar]], [[Pratyush Jaishanker]], [[Elliot Lee]], [[Anuraag Kaashyap]], [[Vishal Kanigicherla]], [[Vance Kreider]], [[Joshua Lian]], [[Prithvi Nathan]], [[Sohom Paul]], [[Karthik Prasad]], [[William Wang]], [[Ryan Xu]], and [[Kevin Zhang]].<br />
<br />
==Mirrors==<br />
===High school===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Site<br />
! Date<br />
! Tournament Director<br />
! 1st<br />
! Field Size<br />
! Stats<br />
|-<br />
| [[Texas Invitational]] XI @ [[Strake Jesuit]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23744 March 29, 2020]<br />
|colspan=4 style="text-align: center;"| Site cancelled<br />
|-<br />
| [[TJIAT]] @ [[Thomas Jefferson (VA)]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=365115#p365115 April 18th, 2020]<br />
|colspan=4 style="text-align: center;"| Site cancelled<br />
|-<br />
| STASH Closed @ [[Online]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23827 May 5th, 2020]<br />
|colspan=4 style="text-align: center;"| Site cancelled<br />
|-<br />
| [[TJSAT]] @ [[Online]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24594 December 19th, 2020]<br />
| [[Will Alston]]<ref>[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=382207#p382207 Re: TJSAT (STASH Mid-Atlantic) Online - 12/19 (HS Closed) by [[naan/steak-holding toll]] » Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:28 pm]</ref><br />
| "[[Montgomery Blair|MB]]"<br />
| 12<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6651/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| [[QuBIT]] VII @ [[Online]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24790 December 19th, 2020]<br />
| [[Max Brodsky]]<br />
| [[Belmont]]<br />
| 16<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6784/stats/combined/]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===College===<br />
All collegiate mirrors at this stage were online due to the ongoing pandemic.<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Site<br />
! Date<br />
! Tournament Director<br />
! 1st<br />
! Field Size<br />
! Stats<br />
|-<br />
| [[MIT]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24897 March 13, 2021]<br />
| [[Doug Simons]]<br />
| [[MIT]] A<br />
| 5<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6868/stats/combined/]<br />
|-<br />
| UK<br />
| March 20, 2021<br />
| [[Seoan Webb]]<br />
| [[Oxford]] A<br />
| 16<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6927/stats/all_games/]<br />
|-<br />
| West Coast Championship<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24911 March 27, 2021]<br />
| [[Nick Karas]]<br />
| [[Arcadia]]<br />
| 22<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6933/stats/competitive_-_combined/]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Sets]][[Category:Tournaments]]<br />
{{c|2020 Tournaments}}<br />
{{c|2021 Tournaments}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=DART_Mainsite&diff=63423DART Mainsite2024-02-26T23:07:16Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''DART Mainsite''' is a tournament hosted by the [[Detroit Country Day School]]. It uses the [[housewritten]] question set of the [[DART|same name]].<br />
<br />
==Results==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Tournament<br />
! Date<br />
! Champion<br />
! Second<br />
! Third<br />
! Field size<br />
! Question set<br />
! Results<br />
|- <br />
| 2021<br />
| January 16th<br />
| [[Detroit Catholic Central|Detroit Catholic Central A]]<br />
| [[Imperial College of Engineering]]<br />
| [[Troy (MI)|Troy A]]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[DART]]<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6721/]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
{{c|Tournaments}}{{c|High school tournaments}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Money&diff=63413Money2024-02-26T03:23:02Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Making money */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Money money money}}<br />
Playing quizbowl costs '''money'''. This money is used to pay [[writer]]s, [[editor]]s, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money can be raised by acting in this role or come from outside the community.<br />
<br />
==Making money==<br />
Quizbowl is a game with that provides players with competitive depth and writers with space for both rigor and creativity. As a direct consequence of this, it is a ''terrible way'' for the average person to make money. Let's see the numbers.<br />
<br />
===Set pricing===<br />
A typical high school [[housewrite]] has a [[mirror fee]] of $15-20 a team. Sets intended for lower [[difficulties]] tend to be cheaper, while those with harder questions can be up to double the cost. Discounts are often provided for sites which provide complete statistics.<br />
<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Base fee<br />
! Per team<br />
! Cost for a 12 team tournament<br />
|-<br />
| [[IS]] sets [https://www.naqt.com/hs/hosting.html]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| 50<br />
| 20<br />
| 290<br />
|-<br />
| [[SWAMP]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27247]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| 30<br />
| 12<br />
| 174<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCURVY]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26817]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 10<br />
| 120<br />
|-<br />
| [[DMA]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26536]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}/Nats-minus<sup>†</sup><br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[IQBT]] Regular Season [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27187]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[Planetfall]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26864]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 17<br />
| 204<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCOP Novice]] 13 [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27037]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
|<br />
| 12<br />
| 144<br />
|-<br />
| [[CREEK]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26951]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[SANDS]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26088]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| 180<br />
|-<br />
| 2022 [[KICKOFF]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25755]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 17<br />
| {{#expr:17*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brooklyn Bridge Battle]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27011]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[CARD]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27057]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[QUAOAR]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27054]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 12<br />
| {{#expr:12*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[HFT]] XV [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26689]<br />
| [[2022-2023]], [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
| <br />
| 20<br />
| {{#expr:20*12}}<br />
|}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</div><br />
<br />
A typical [[set]] has roughly 13 [[packet]]s of [[20/20]], plus extra questions.<br />
<!--<br />
===Crunching the numbers===<br />
To cement this point, here are two case studies demonstrating the terrible value provided per unit time.<br />
--><br />
===Case study: OQL===<br />
The existence and continued popularity of other [[trivia formats]] is a useful point of comparison for the quizbowl community. This example will focus on [[OQL]] US (the American branch of the Online Quiz League), which is one of the more popular competitions in the space.<br />
<br />
Some important differences which makes OQL significantly more profitable than quizbowl:<br />
*The main audience is adults, whose income allows them to pay significantly more for their hobbies (like trivia).<br />
*Questions categorically do not aim to be [[pyramidal]], which has the effect of making them shorter. The closest comparison in most cases would be a single bonus part.<br />
*The total number of questions is lower, even before accounting for differences in format - 8 directed questions for every member of two teams of four plus four extras is 68 questions a round. Across 11 rounds a season, that makes a total of 748 answers.<br />
*The games are played as asynchronous rounds in online rooms using volunteer [[reader]]s and [[scorekeeper]]s; this removes the costs of both hosting and staffing.<br />
*There is a single organization producing questions, meaning that it can take advantage of economies of scale and also concentrate the profits.<br />
<br />
The aggregate of these factors is that the writers are writing a smaller number of shorter questions for more money and less overhead.<br />
<br />
Some numbers:<br />
*The 11th season of OQL US had 120 teams in 9 divisions. This is on par with a set getting 9 with 12 teams a piece, which would be quite good for a median housewrite, especially at the college level.<br />
*Week 6 of season 11 of OQL US had an average of about 181 characters per question (12,258 total). For comparison, questions that [[NAQT]] intends for middle schoolers are over twice as long and have additional requirements like being pyramidal.<br />
*The entry fee for OQL is $100 for returning teams. However, the fact that there are no costs associated with hosting means that all of this money goes to the writers, rather than just the mirror fee.<br />
<br />
This boils down to a unsplit rate of $8.90/100 characters, which will ultimately be divided between the writing team and logistics arm of the organization.<br />
<!--<br />
===The importance of the volunteer ethos===<br />
--><br />
<br />
==Spending money==</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Money&diff=63412Money2024-02-26T03:22:10Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Making money */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Money money money}}<br />
Playing quizbowl costs '''money'''. This money is used to pay [[writer]]s, [[editor]]s, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money can be raised by acting in this role or come from outside the community.<br />
<br />
==Making money==<br />
Quizbowl is a game with that provides players with competitive depth and writers with space for both rigor and creativity. As a direct consequence of this, it is a ''terrible way'' for the average person to make money. Let's see the numbers.<br />
<br />
===Set pricing===<br />
A typical high school [[housewrite]] has a [[mirror fee]] of $15-20 a team. Sets intended for lower [[difficulties]] tend to be cheaper, while those with harder questions can be up to double the cost. Discounts are often provided for sites which provide complete statistics.<br />
<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Base fee<br />
! Per team<br />
! Cost for a 12 team tournament<br />
|-<br />
| [[IS]] sets [https://www.naqt.com/hs/hosting.html]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| 50<br />
| 20<br />
| 290<br />
|-<br />
| [[SWAMP]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27247]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| 30<br />
| 12<br />
| 174<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCURVY]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26817]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 10<br />
| 120<br />
|-<br />
| [[DMA]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26536]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}/Nats-minus<sup>†</sup><br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[IQBT]] Regular Season [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27187]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[Planetfall]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26864]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 17<br />
| 204<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCOP Novice]] 13 [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27037]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
|<br />
| 12<br />
| 144<br />
|-<br />
| [[CREEK]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26951]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[SANDS]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26088]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| 180<br />
|-<br />
| 2022 [[KICKOFF]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25755]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 17<br />
| {{#expr:17*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brooklyn Bridge Battle]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27011]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[CARD]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27057]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[QUAOAR]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27054]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 12<br />
| {{#expr:12*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[HFT]] XV [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26689]<br />
| [[2022-2023]], [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
| <br />
| 20<br />
| {{#expr:20*12}}<br />
|}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</div><br />
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A typical [[set]] has roughly 13 [[packet]]s of [[20/20]], plus extra questions.<br />
<!--<br />
===Crunching the numbers===<br />
To cement this point, here are two case studies demonstrating the terrible value provided per unit time.<br />
--><br />
===Case study: OQL===<br />
The existence and continued popularity of other [[trivia formats]] is a useful point of comparison for the quizbowl community. This example will focus on [[OQL]] US (the American branch of the Online Quiz League), which is one of the more popular competitions in the space.<br />
<br />
Some important differences which makes OQL significantly more profitable than quizbowl:<br />
*The main audience is adults, whose income allows them to pay significantly more for their hobbies (like trivia).<br />
*Questions categorically do not aim to be [[pyramidal]], which has the effect of making them shorter. The closest comparison in most cases would be a single bonus part.<br />
*The total number of questions is lower, even before accounting for differences in format - 8 directed questions for every member of two teams of four plus four extras is 68 questions a round. Across 11 rounds a season, that makes a total of 748 answers.<br />
*The games are played as asynchronous rounds in online rooms using volunteer [[reader]]s and [[scorekeeper]]s; this removes the costs of both hosting and staffing.<br />
*There is a single organization producing questions, meaning that it can take advantage of economies of scale and also concentrate the profits.<br />
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The aggregate of these factors is that the writers are writing a smaller number of shorter questions for more money and less overhead.<br />
<br />
Some numbers:<br />
*The 11th season of OQL US had 120 teams in 9 divisions. This is on par with a set getting 9 with 12 teams a piece, which would be quite good for a median housewrite, especially at the college level.<br />
*Week 6 of season 11 of OQL US had an average of about 181 characters per question (12,258 total). For comparison, questions that [[NAQT]] intends for middle schoolers are over twice as long and have additional requirements like being pyramidal.<br />
*The entry fee for OQL is $100 for returning teams. However, the fact that there are no costs associated with hosting means that all of this money goes to the writers, rather than just the mirror fee.<br />
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This boils down to a unsplit rate of $8.90/100 characters, which will ultimately be divided between the writing team and logistics arm of the organization.<br />
<--<br />
===The importance of the volunteer ethos===<br />
--><br />
<br />
==Spending money==</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=OQL&diff=63411OQL2024-02-26T00:10:39Z<p>Kevin Wang: Redirected page to Trivia formats#Online Quiz League</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT[[Trivia formats#Online Quiz League]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Trivia_formats&diff=63410Trivia formats2024-02-26T00:10:08Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Quiz League */</p>
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<div>'''Trivia formats''' are various competitions played within the trivia community, which is separate from but often parallel to the quizbowl community. These span a variety of very different formats broadly within the category of "[[not quizbowl]]", with the unifying thread being a focus on "[[trivia]]" topics and [[pop culture]]. They are typically not [[buzzer]]-based and include both individual- and team-based events.<br />
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In the United Kingdom, trivia formats are much more popular and are typically called '''quizzes''' or simply '''quiz''', with the act of playing either trivia or quizbowl events termed '''quizzing'''.<br />
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[[Matt Jackson]] authored a post which covers many of the same topics as this article: [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25751 Quizbowl-"Trivia" Community Relations: What Are They? What Should They Be?]<br />
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==Differences from quizbowl==<br />
The tenets of "[[good quizbowl]]" are that questions should be [[pyramidal]] and that they should [[fairly]] reward players who have more [[knowledge]]. Additionally, quizbowl explicitly avoids rewarding knowledge of "trivia", which is often held to encompass things that are not "important".<br />
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As its name suggests, the various formats and competitions that fall under the umbrella of the trivia have no problems with asking questions about and rewarding things that would be considered unacceptable in quizbowl. This does not necessarily mean that questions are [[question quality#bad|bad]], but it does mean that they are very different and are aimed at a very different audience. The relative paucity of buzzer-based competitions also means that pyramidality is not frequently a concern.<br />
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Because the competitions are not directly tied to schools, there is less of an emphasis on academic content in favor of more pop culture. This separation from schools also means that the average player of trivia formats is significantly older than the average quizbowl player. This can be easily seen in the pop culture that comes up: while there are typically attempts to produce an equitable distribution, there is much more emphasis on predominantly older media like musical theater, baseball, and network television, as well as more questions on content that is explicitly much older (such as music and sports from the 1970's), at the expense of questions on media aimed towards younger people like video games and Internet/online content.<br />
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Almost every trivia format has significantly more permissive standards of [[acceptability]]. In quizbowl, titles of works are typically required to be exact, barring slight differences in things like [[leading articles]], a policy sometimes called "[[things have names]]"; by contrast, many other formats will often take answers if they're "close enough". There are few, if any, written standards for what constitutes "close enough", but they typically approximate the [[vowel rule]]. Answers which differ in major ways, like the placement of consonants or entirely wrong "small words", have been known to be accepted as well.<br />
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==Overlap with quizbowl==<br />
===Player base===<br />
Many trivia players are former participants in quizbowl and quizbowl-adjacent competitions like [[College Bowl]]. The game which these players migrated from was much closer to modern trivia formats than modern quizbowl; in particular, quizbowl of that era was much more willing to give pop culture a berth in the [[distro]] and even its own [[TRASHionals|dedicated events]]. These factors, combined with the fact that quizbowl requires either enrollment in college or the skill to compete in high-difficulty [[open]] tournaments, made the transition to trivia a natural choice for many players.<br />
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Despite the differences in format and content, many modern quizbowl players also participate in the myriad of trivia formats. Part of the appeal is that there is much more pop culture, which is obviously very popular, and also that the academic content that does appear is almost invariably much, much easier than in quizbowl. As a result, strong quizbowl players with comparably good pop culture knowledge like [[Matt Jackson]], [[Jakob Myers]], [[Dylan Minarik]], [[Mike Sorice]], [[Yogesh Raut]], and [[Kenji Shimizu]] have successfully become top competitors in various trivia formats.<br />
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It is rarer, though certainly not unheard of, for people to make the jump the other way, and the recent preponderance on online events like [[Dede Allen]], [[ACRODEMIA]], and [[Buzzword]] has made this more common than ever. However, the difference in how academic content is handled in trivia formats means that many trivia players can make strong appearances at lower difficulty academic tournaments but struggle disproportionately at harder tournaments. There are, of course, exceptions, with the top trivia players being good enough to be competitive in the open circuit.<br />
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===Staffing===<br />
Large national tournaments like [[HSNCT]] and [[NHBB]] have long relied on members of the trivia community to form part of its staffer core, with former ''Jeopardy!'' contestants in particular being a staple of the tournaments. Many of the pop culture [[side event]]s which accompany these tournaments (e.g. [[ACRONYM]], the "Sports and Entertainment Bee") serve a dual purpose as incentives for staff who otherwise only have tangential investment in the community.<br />
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==Formats==<br />
===Learned League===<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LearnedLeague Learned League] is an invite-only trivia competition operated by the pseudonymous "Thorsten A. Integrity" with over 20,000 members. In each day of a given twenty-five day season, players will answer six questions and assign a point value for each (termed "defense") - if their opponent answers a question correctly, they receive the points assigned.<br />
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Between each season, various player-submitted one-days (1Ds) on specific subjects are held, in which players must answer twelve questions and assign "moneys" to questions they believe will be poorly converted - correctly answering a monied question will earn them additional points each to the percentage of players who did not get it, on top of a base fifteen points.<br />
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{{Trivia format box|name=Learned League<br />
|time=9<br />
|timeblurb=24 hours<br />
|academic=5<br />
|diff=046<br />
|pop=3<br />
|popdiff=067}}<br />
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===World Quizzing Championship===<br />
The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Quizzing_Championship World Quizzing Championship] (WQC) is an annual written quiz with 240 questions, considered to be the premiere event in its format. Quizbowl players Daoud Jackson, Yogesh Raut, and Jakob Myers have distinguished themselves as some of the best Brits and Americans in the event - in 2018, Jakob was the best first time player in the world (echoing their earlier title of Junior NAC champion).<br />
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===Online Quiz League===<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiz_league Quiz leagues] are a staple of British quiz and involves alternating reading questions to individual players on two teams of four - each person has an opportunity to answer for two points or pass to their team for one, with the other team getting a stab if they fail. Some of the biggest and best-known in-person quiz leagues in the United Kingdom are the Merseyside Quiz League (MQL), which developed the format, and the Quiz League of London (QLL).<br />
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{{Right quote box|And yet: Dylan Minarik was at it again.<br/><br/>-''Shane Ryan, writing for Defector''}}<br />
After the start of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the [http://www.onlinequizleague.com/ Online Quiz League (UK)] was started to run competitions using the quiz league format online using [[Zoom]]. This quickly crossed the Atlantic and the [https://quizcentral.net/league/oqlusa Online Quiz League (USA)] was started by Steve Bahnaman. A 2021 Defector article about Online Quiz League<ref>[https://defector.com/online-quiz-league-is-the-future-of-competitive-trivia/ Online Quiz League Is The Future Of Competitive Trivia]</ref> focused on team "4 Out Of 5 Cats", featuring [[Dylan Minarik]].<br />
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{{Trivia format box|name=OQL<br />
|time=4<br />
|timeblurb=15 seconds<br />
|academic=45<br />
|diff=248<br />
|pop=45<br />
|popdiff=268}}<br />
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===Mimir===<br />
{{Pic|Mimirs well.png|Logo of Mimir's Well}}<br />
The MIMIR format is the individual counterpart to the MQL format. Four individuals are read questions in sequence - if they answer incorrectly, each other player is given a chance to steal the point, with the order based on the number of steal attempts they have made thus far.<br />
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[[Mimir's Well]] is a MIMIR format competition written primarily by former players [[Joey Goldman]] and [[Daoud Jackson]].<br />
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While distributions typically have a distribution that includes both academic and pop culture content, there have been both "High Brow" and "Low Brow" Mimir competitions which focus on only one or the other.<br />
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{{Trivia format box|name=Mimir's<br />
|time=3<br />
|academic=45<br />
|diff=259<br />
|pop=45<br />
|popdiff=259}}<br />
{{-}}<br />
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==Edge cases==<br />
===University Challenge===<br />
:''Main page: [[University Challenge]]''<br />
One of the premiere quiz television shows in the United Kingdom, University Challenge (which draws from various colleges and universities around the country) can scarcely be compared to other trivia formats, where applicants need merely pay the entry fee to participate, and its question content is ostensibly significantly more academic than trivia competitions. Nevertheless, its non-quizbowl format and lead role in popularising quiz competitions in the UK makes it similar in more ways than one. Its unofficial spinoff [[Schools Challenge]] follows a similar format but lacks the national influence of its inspiration amongst other organisational differences, making it far less related to trivia than it is to quizbowl. <br />
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===''Jeopardy!''===<br />
:''Main page: [[Jeopardy!]]''<br />
''Jeopardy!'' is the game show whose format and content is closest to quizbowl, with players using a buzzer to answer pseudo-academic questions. There is a long and storied history of quizbowl players participating in ''Jeopardy!'' - various top all-time earners like [[Ken Jennings]], [[Matt Jackson]], [[David Madden]], and [[Larissa Kelly]] were involved to various degrees in quizbowl.<br />
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===QB League===<br />
:''Main page: [[QB League]]''<br />
The QB League (started by [[Kevin Wang]], [[Ryan Rosenberg]], [[Joey Goldman]], and [[Daoud Jackson]]) is not really a trivia format - it uses standard quizbowl questions and the [[ACF]] ruleset - but borrows the rare-in-college-quizbowl league format and has a distribution which was chosen specifically to appeal to those who were more familiar with trivia formats. As such, it exists between these two worlds.<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
{{c|Games other than quizbowl}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Money&diff=63408Money2024-02-25T23:23:07Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div>{{Money money money}}<br />
Playing quizbowl costs '''money'''. This money is used to pay [[writer]]s, [[editor]]s, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money can be raised by acting in this role or come from outside the community.<br />
<br />
==Making money==<br />
Quizbowl is a game with that provides players with competitive depth and writers with space for both rigor and creativity. As a direct consequence of this, it is a ''terrible way'' for the average person to make money. Let's see the numbers.<br />
<br />
===Set pricing===<br />
A typical high school [[housewrite]] has a [[mirror fee]] of roughly $15 a team. Sets intended for lower [[difficulties]] tend to be cheaper, while those with harder questions can be up to double the cost. Discounts are often provided for sites which provide complete statistics.<br />
<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Base fee<br />
! Per team<br />
! Cost for a 12 team tournament<br />
|-<br />
| [[SWAMP]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27247]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| 30<br />
| 12<br />
| 174<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCURVY]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26817]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 10<br />
| 120<br />
|-<br />
| [[DMA]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26536]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}/Nats-minus<sup>†</sup><br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[IQBT]] Regular Season [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27187]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[Planetfall]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26864]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 17<br />
| 204<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCOP Novice]] 13 [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27037]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
|<br />
| 12<br />
| 144<br />
|-<br />
| [[CREEK]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26951]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[SANDS]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26088]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| 180<br />
|-<br />
| 2022 [[KICKOFF]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25755]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 17<br />
| {{#expr:17*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brooklyn Bridge Battle]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27011]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[CARD]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27057]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[QUAOAR]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27054]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 12<br />
| {{#expr:12*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[HFT]] XV [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26689]<br />
| [[2022-2023]], [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
| <br />
| 20<br />
| {{#expr:20*12}}<br />
|}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
</div><br />
<br />
A typical [[set]] has roughly 13 [[packet]]s of [[20/20]], plus extra questions.<br />
<br />
===Crunching the numbers===<br />
<br />
To cement this point, here are two case studies demonstrating the terrible value provided per unit time.<br />
<br />
<br />
===The caveat===<br />
<br />
==Spending money==</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Money&diff=63407Money2024-02-25T23:20:56Z<p>Kevin Wang: Created page with "{{Money money money}} Playing quizbowl costs '''money'''. This money is used to pay writers, editors, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money..."</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Money money money}}<br />
Playing quizbowl costs '''money'''. This money is used to pay [[writer]]s, [[editor]]s, and tournament staff, as well as to cover other costs. This money can be raised by acting in this role or come from outside the community.<br />
<br />
Because quizbowl is a game largely played by students, the monetary aspects can be. This page is meant to <br />
<br />
==Making money==<br />
Quizbowl is a game with that provides players with competitive depth and writers with space for both rigor and creativity. As a direct consequence of this, it is a ''terrible way'' for the average person to make money. Let's see the numbers.<br />
<br />
===Set pricing===<br />
A typical high school [[housewrite]] has a [[mirror fee]] of roughly $15 a team. Sets intended for lower [[difficulties]] tend to be cheaper, while those with harder questions can be up to double the cost. Discounts are often provided for sites which provide complete statistics.<br />
<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Set<br />
! Season<br />
! Difficulty<br />
! Base fee<br />
! Per team<br />
! Cost for a 12 team tournament<br />
|-<br />
| [[SWAMP]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27247]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| 30<br />
| 12<br />
| 174<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCURVY]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26817]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 10<br />
| 120<br />
|-<br />
| [[DMA]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26536]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}/Nats-minus<sup>†</sup><br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[IQBT]] Regular Season [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27187]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[Planetfall]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26864]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
|<br />
| 17<br />
| 204<br />
|-<br />
| [[SCOP Novice]] 13 [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27037]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
|<br />
| 12<br />
| 144<br />
|-<br />
| [[CREEK]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26951]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
|<br />
| 20<br />
| 240<br />
|-<br />
| [[SANDS]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26088]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| 180<br />
|-<br />
| 2022 [[KICKOFF]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25755]<br />
| [[2022-2023]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 17<br />
| {{#expr:17*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brooklyn Bridge Battle]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27011]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3-}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[CARD]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27057]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3}}<br />
| <br />
| 15<br />
| {{#expr:15*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[QUAOAR]] [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27054]<br />
| [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|2}}<br />
| <br />
| 12<br />
| {{#expr:12*12}}<br />
|-<br />
| [[HFT]] XV [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26689]<br />
| [[2022-2023]], [[2023-2024]]<br />
| {{Difficulty cell|3+}}<br />
| <br />
| 20<br />
| {{#expr:20*12}}<br />
|}<br />
<nowiki>†</nowiki> - intended for both high school and college mirrors<br />
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A typical [[set]] has roughly 13 [[packet]]s of [[20/20]], plus extra questions.<br />
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===Crunching the numbers===<br />
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To cement this point, here are two case studies demonstrating the terrible value provided per unit time.<br />
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===The caveat===<br />
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==Spending money==</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Difficulty_cell&diff=63406Template:Difficulty cell2024-02-25T23:12:18Z<p>Kevin Wang: Created page with "<includeonly>{{Difficulty color|{{{1}}}}}{{!}}{{Difficulty name|{{{1}}}|abbrev={{{abbrev|}}}}}</includeonly><noinclude> {| class="wikitable" ! Cell ! Abbreviated |- |{{Difficu..."</p>
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<div>'''ACF Nationals''' is an annual event held by [[ACF]]. Along with the NAQT [[ICT]], ACF Nationals is one of the two tournaments which determine a national champion each year in collegiate quizbowl.<br />
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Beginning in 2008, ACF Nationals crowned Undergraduate and Division II champions in addition to overall champions. Unlike at NAQT ICT, the Division II title is awarded to the highest-finishing Division II team in the overall field, rather than being played in a separate tournament. Unofficial winners by the current criteria are noted for pre-2008 tournaments, when known.<br />
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For most of its existence, ACF Nationals was smaller than ICT, and was open to any collegiate team, provided that most of those teams [[Packet submission|submitted a packet]] (unlike ICT, which had a strict system of invitations and was written entirely by NAQT personnel). In 2015, in part due to exploding interest in nationals attendance, ACF instituted the [[A-Value]], a measure which generated a list of Nationals invitees based on teams' performance at the preceding [[ACF Regionals]]. As of now, the Nationals field is capped, and teams are invited by having a large enough A-value for the year, or by being issued autobids for hosting or editing Regionals.<br />
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Some additional kinds of information on editors and circumstances of ACF Nationals can be found at the [[ACF]] page.<br />
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==Pedigree==<br />
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There are three ways of looking at when ACF Nationals began:<br />
*Most commonly, the national tournaments run by the [[Academic Competition Foundation]] from 1991 to 1997 are considered as part of the same series of events as those run by the [[Academic Competition Federation]] from 1998 onwards. While the two organizations are technically distinct, one picked up directly from the other with the exact same philosophy about tournament structure and question content, and many of the same personnel. Under this definition, by far the generally accepted one, ACF Nationals first ran in 1991 and the 2022 tournament was the 30th instance of the event (accounting for no tournament in 1992 and 2020).<br />
*If only the present "ACF" entity is counted, then ACF Nationals began in 1998 and the 2022 tournament was the 24th instance. This distinction is almost never made, particularly because the Federation version of ACF was not incorporated as a legal entity until later in the 2010s, meaning that the 1991-1997 version is technically just as valid as anything that happened from 1998 until quite recently.<br />
*The 1991 version of ACF was the direct successor, in ideology and personnel, to prior events such as the [[National Invitation Tournament]] (1979-1985) and [[All-American Invitational]] (1988-1989). Considering the three events as one chain of "ACF-style" national championships, the tournament is 43 years old as of 2022 and has run 38 times. There is no information about the 1979 and 1980 NITs other than that they occurred. The NIT/AAI series did not run a championship in 1982, 1986, 1987, or 1990.<br />
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== ACF Nationals Master Info Table==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"<br />
|-<br />
! Year<br />
! Overall National Champion<br />
! Undergraduate Champion<br />
! Division II Champion<br />
! Host City<br />
! Field Size<br />
! Head Editor(s)<br />
|-<br />
| [[2024 ACF Nationals|2024]]<br />
|colspan=3|To be determined<br />
| [[Duke|Durham, NC]]<br />
| 48<br />
| [[Nick Jensen]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2023 ACF Nationals|2023]]<br />
| [[2023 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[2023 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2023 WUSTL|WUSTL]]<br />
| [[MIT|Cambridge, MA]]<br />
| 48<br />
| [[Taylor Harvey]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2022 ACF Nationals|2022]]<br />
| [[2022 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[2022 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2022 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[Minnesota|Minneapolis, MN]]<br />
| 51<br />
| [[John Lawrence]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2021 ACF Nationals|2021]]<br />
| [[2021 Florida|Florida]]<br />
| [[2021 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[2021 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[Northwestern|Evanston, IL]]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Ryan Westbrook]] & [[Matt Bollinger]]<br />
|-<br />
| 2020<br />
|colspan=6|Cancelled due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2019 ACF Nationals|2019]]<br />
| [[2019 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[2019 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2019 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[Penn|Philadelphia, PA]]<br />
| 48<br />
| [[Auroni Gupta]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2018 ACF Nationals|2018]]<br />
| [[2018 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2018 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2018 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[MIT|Cambridge, MA]]<br />
| 47<br />
| [[Andrew Hart]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2017 ACF Nationals|2017]]<br />
| [[2017 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2017 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2017 MIT|MIT]]<br />
| [[Columbia|New York, NY]]<br />
| 38<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2016 ACF Nationals|2016]]<br />
| [[2016 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2016 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2016 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]<br />
| [[Michigan|Ann Arbor, MI]]<br />
| 44<br />
| [[Rob Carson]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2015 ACF Nationals|2015]]<br />
| [[2015 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[2015 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2015 Northwestern|Northwestern]]<br />
| [[Michigan|Ann Arbor, MI]]<br />
| 48<br />
| [[Ryan Westbrook]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2014 ACF Nationals|2014]]<br />
| [[2014 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[2014 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2014 North Carolina|North Carolina]]<br />
| [[Columbia|New York, NY]]<br />
| 34<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2013 ACF Nationals|2013]]<br />
| [[2013 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[2013 Chicago|Chicago]] <br />
| [[2013 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Columbia|New York, NY]]<br />
| 36<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2012 ACF Nationals|2012]]<br />
| [[2012 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2012 Illinois|Illinois]] <br />
| [[2012 Haverford|Haverford]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2011 ACF Nationals|2011]]<br />
| [[2011 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2011 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2011 State College| State College]]<br />
| [[Pitt|Pittsburgh, PA]]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2010 ACF Nationals|2010]]<br />
| [[2010 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2010 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2010 State College|State College]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2009 ACF Nationals|2009]]<br />
| [[2009 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2009 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2009 Stow Munroe Falls|Stow Munroe Falls]]<br />
| [[WUSTL|St Louis, MO]]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2008 ACF Nationals|2008]]<br />
| [[2008 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2008 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2008 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[Brandeis|Waltham, MA]]<br />
| 17 (+4 [[exhibition]])<br />
| [[Eric Kwartler]] & [[Ryan Westbrook]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2007 ACF Nationals|2007]]<br />
| [[2007 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2007 Carleton College|Carleton College]]<br />
| [[2007 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Vanderbilt|Nashville, TN]]<br />
| 27<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]] & [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2006 ACF Nationals|2006]]<br />
| [[2006 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[2006 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| None<br />
| [[Michigan|Ann Arbor, MI]]<br />
| 19 (+2 [[exhibition]])<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2005 ACF Nationals|2005]]<br />
| [[2005 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2005 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[2005 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[Northwestern|Evanston, IL]]<br />
| 21<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2004 ACF Nationals|2004]]<br />
| [[2004 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2004 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[2004 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 22<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2003 ACF Nationals|2003]]<br />
| [[2003 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2003 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[2003 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[Georgia Tech|Atlanta, GA]]<br />
| 22<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2002 ACF Nationals|2002]]<br />
| [[2002 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2002 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[2002 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 27<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2001 ACF Nationals|2001]]<br />
| [[2001 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2001 Berry|Berry]]<br />
| [[2001 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[Michigan|Ann Arbor, MI]]<br />
| 16<br />
| [[David Hamilton]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2000 ACF Nationals|2000]]<br />
| [[2000 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2000 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[2000 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 22 (+2 [[exhibition]])<br />
| [[David Hamilton]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1999 ACF Nationals|1999]]<br />
| [[1999 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[1999 Texas|Texas]]<br />
| [[1999 Arkansas|Arkansas]]<br />
| [[Chicago|Chicago, IL]]<br />
| 22<br />
| [[David Hamilton]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1998 ACF Nationals|1998]]<br />
| [[1998 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1998 South Carolina|South Carolina]]<br />
| [[1998 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 21<br />
| [[John Sheahan]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1997 ACF Nationals|1997]]<br />
| [[1997 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1997 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1997 Carleton College|Carleton College]]<br />
| [[Illinois|Urbana, IL]]<br />
| 23<br />
| [[Vishnu Jejjala]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1996 ACF Nationals|1996]]<br />
| [[1996 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[1996 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Tennessee|Knoxville, TN]]<br />
| 39<br />
| [[Jim Dendy]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1995 ACF Nationals|1995]]<br />
| [[1995 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[1995 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Tennessee|Knoxville, TN]]<br />
| 39<br />
| [[Jim Dendy]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1994 ACF Nationals|1994]]<br />
| [[1994 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[1994 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Jim Dendy]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1993 ACF Nationals|1993]]<br />
| [[1993 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 12<br />
| [[John Nam]] (?)<br />
|- <br />
| 1992<br />
|colspan=6| Tournament not held<br />
|-<br />
| [[1991 ACF Nationals|1991]]<br />
| [[1991 Tennessee|Tennessee]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Tennessee|Knoxville, TN]]<br />
| 12<br />
| [[Carol Guthrie]] (?)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Expanded Top Finishers Table==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" <br />
|- <br />
! style="width: 5%" | Year <br />
! style="width: 9%" | Champion <br />
! style="width: 9%" | Second Place <br />
! style="width: 9%" | Third Place <br />
! style="width: 9%" | Fourth Place <br />
! style="width: 10%" | Top Individual Scorer <br />
! style="width: 55%" | Other All-Stars <br />
! style="width: 5%" | Stats <br />
|- <br />
| [[1991 ACF Nationals|1991]]<br />
| '''[[1991 Tennessee|Tennessee]]'''<br />
| [[1991 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[1991 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1991 NC State|NC State]]<br />
| <br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| [[1993 ACF Nationals|1993]]<br />
| '''[[1993 Chicago|Chicago]]'''<br />
| [[1993 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1993 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[1993 Harvard|Harvard B]]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| [[1994 ACF Nationals|1994]]<br />
| [[1994 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[1994 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1994 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]<br />
| [[1994 Maryland|Maryland B]]<br />
| [[Bill Crew]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Central Florida]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[John Saluda]] ([[North Carolina]]) &bull; [[Josh Boorstin]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[John Harris]] ([[Virginia]])<br />
| [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.college.college-bowl/nox69ZqvWiE/AKsyhTaIiikJ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1995 ACF Nationals|1995]]<br />
| [[1995 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[1995 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[1995 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[1995 South Carolina|South Carolina]]<br />
| [[Tom Waters]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[South Carolina]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jeff Johnson]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[John Sheahan]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Marc Swisdak]] ([[Colorado]]) &bull; [[Eric Tentarelli]] ([[Cornell]])<br>[[Christine Moritz]] ([[Emory]]) &bull; [[Mike Mahurin]] ([[Midwestern State]]) &bull; [[Tim Pulju]] ([[Rice]])<br />
| [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/94-95/acfnats95_final.txt Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1996 ACF Nationals|1996]]<br />
| '''[[1996 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]'''<br />
| [[1996 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1996 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1996 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jeff Johnson]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[R. Hentzel]] ([[Iowa State]]) &bull; [[Jason King]] ([[Georgia Tech]]) &bull; [[Eric Tentarelli]] ([[Cornell]])<br>[[Robert Trent]] ([[Iowa]]) &bull; [[Christine Moritz]] ([[Emory]]) &bull; [[Mike Musgrove]] ([[Georgia Tech]])<br />
| [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/95-96/acfnatl96_jubjub.txt Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1997 ACF Nationals|1997]]<br />
| [[1997 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1997 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[1997 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1997 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[John Sheahan]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Chicago]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Mike Starsinic]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Andrew Yaphe]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[James Anderson]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Jason King]] ([[Georgia Tech]])<br>[[Peter McCorquodale]] ([[MIT]]) &bull; [[R. Hentzel]] ([[Iowa State]]) &bull; [[Dave Hamilton]] ([[Maryland]])<br />
| [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/96-97/97res.htm Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1998 ACF Nationals|1998]]<br />
| [[1998 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1998 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[1998 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1998 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jeff Johnson]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[Eric Bell]] ([[Oklahoma]]) &bull; [[Long Nguyen]] ([[Georgia Tech]]) &bull; [[Jeff Stewart]] ([[Princeton]])<br>[[T.C. Ford]] ([[South Carolina]]) &bull; [[Ravin Garg]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Gautam Mukunda]] ([[Harvard]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20050427231101/http://members.aol.com/Geertgen22/98natstats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1999 ACF Nationals|1999]]<br />
| '''[[1999 Chicago|Chicago]]'''<br />
| [[1999 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1999 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[1999 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Chicago]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Robert Trent]] ([[Iowa]]) &bull; [[Mike Wehrman]] ([[Arkansas]]) &bull; [[Subash Maddipoti]] ([[Quincy]]) &bull; [[Dave Hamilton]] ([[Maryland]])<br>[[Dave Goodman]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Jason Hong]] ([[Berkeley]]) &bull; [[Seth Kendall]] ([[Kentucky]])<br />
| [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/98-99/acfnatnls99.txt Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2000 ACF Nationals|2000]]<br />
| [[2000 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2000 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[2000 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[2000 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Chicago]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[John Kenney]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Jeff Hoppes]] ([[Princeton]]) &bull; [[Raj Bhan]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull; [[Joon Pahk]] ([[Harvard]])<br>[[Mike Wehrman]] ([[Arkansas]]) &bull; [[Patrick Friel]] ([[UCLA]]) &bull; [[Shaun Hayeslip]] ([[Maryland]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20030507185947/http://www.inform.umd.edu/StudentOrg/maqt/acf/results/00nats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2001 ACF Nationals|2001]]<br />
| [[2001 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2001 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[2001 Michigan|Michigan B]]<br />
| [[2001 Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
| [[John Kenney]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%">[[Kelly McKenzie]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Steve Watchorn]] ([[Wisconsin]]) &bull; [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Eric Smith]] ([[Texas]])<br> [[Chris Vichich]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Robert Trent]] ([[Vanderbilt]]) &bull; [[Ed Cohn]] ([[Chicago]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/468/stats/acf/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2002 ACF Nationals|2002]]<br />
| '''[[2002 Michigan|Michigan]]'''<br />
| [[2002 Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
| [[2002 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[2002 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[John Kenney]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Matt Weiner]] ([[Pitt]]) &bull; [[Raj Dhuwalia]] ([[Florida Atlantic]]) &bull; [[Kelly McKenzie]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Vik Vaz]] ([[Harvard]])<br>[[David Hayes]] ([[Rutgers]]) &bull; [[Nathan Freeburg]] ([[Florida State]]) &bull; [[Jeff Hoppes]] ([[Princeton]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20020705062324/http://www.gwu.edu/~trivia/acfnatsstats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2003 ACF Nationals|2003]]<br />
| [[2003 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2003 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2003 Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
| [[2003 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[Wesley Mathews]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Indiana]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Kelly McKenzie]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Raj Dhuwalia]] ([[Florida]]) &bull; [[Robert Trent]] ([[Vanderbilt]]) &bull; [[Vernon Davenport]] ([[South Carolina]])<br>[[Nathan Freeburg]] ([[Florida State]]) &bull; [[Seth Teitler]] ([[Berkeley]]) &bull; [[Vik Vaz]] ([[Harvard]])<br />
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20060913065413/www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/03nats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2004 ACF Nationals|2004]]<br />
| [[2004 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2004 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2004 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[2004 Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
| [[Wesley Mathews]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Indiana]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Kelly McKenzie]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Adam Kemezis]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Matt Cvijanovich]] ([[Iowa State]]) &bull; [[Chris Frankel]] ([[Princeton]])<br>[[Jason Keller]] ([[Rutgers]]) &bull; [[Andrew Yaphe]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Nathan Freeburg]] ([[CUNY]])<br />
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20060913065423/www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/04nats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2005 ACF Nationals|2005]]<br />
| [[2005 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2005 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2005 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2005 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[VCU]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Subash Maddipoti]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Seth Kendall]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Fred Bush]] ([[Rochester]]) &bull; [[Jason Keller]] ([[Rutgers]])<br>[[Chris Frankel]] ([[Princeton]]) &bull; [[Ryan Westbrook]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Berkeley]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150409034013/http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hart0789/acfnats05/Playoff_standings.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2006 ACF Nationals|2006]]<br />
| [[2006 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[2006 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2006 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2006 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Matt Lafer]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Matt Lafer]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Matt Weiner]] ([[VCU]]) &bull; [[Chris Frankel]] ([[Princeton]]) &bull; [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Brown]]) &bull; [[Jason Keller]] ([[Rutgers]])<br>[[Paul Litvak]] ([[Carnegie Mellon]]) &bull; [[Leo Wolpert]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Chris Romero]] ([[Texas A&M]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071218103100/http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hart0789/acfnats06/ACF2006_standings.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2007 ACF Nationals|2007]]<br />
| '''[[2007 Chicago|Chicago]]'''<br />
| [[2007 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[2007 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[2007 VCU|VCU]]<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[VCU]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Seth Kendall]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Ryan Westbrook]] ([[Wayne State]]) &bull; [[Mike Sorice]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Brown]])<br>[[Seth Teitler]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Patrick Hope]] ([[Carleton College]]) &bull; [[Will Turner]] ([[Michigan]])<br />
| [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5557/stats/combined/standings/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2008 ACF Nationals|2008]]<br />
| [[2008 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2008 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[2008 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2008 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Mike Sorice]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Illinois]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Matt Keller]] ([[Vanderbilt]]) &bull; [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Brown]]) &bull; [[Jonathan Magin]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Ray Luo]] ([[UCLA]])<br>[[Seth Teitler]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Jason Keller]] ([[Rutgers]]) &bull; [[Billy Beyer]] ([[Florida State]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/acfstats/total_standings.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2009 ACF Nationals|2009]]<br />
| [[2009 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2009 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[2009 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2009 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Stanford]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Brown]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Ike Jose]] ([[Stow Munroe Falls]]) &bull; [[Mike Sorice]] ([[Illinois]])<br>[[Auroni Gupta]] ([[UCSD]]) &bull; [[Evan Adams]] ([[VCU]]) &bull; [[Charlie Dees]] ([[Missouri]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1457 Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2010 ACF Nationals|2010]]<br />
| [[2010 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2010 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2010 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2010 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Stanford]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Seth Teitler]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Brendan Byrne]] ([[Minnesota]]) &bull; [[Dallas Simons]] ([[Harvard]])<br>[[Auroni Gupta]] ([[UCSD]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland|Maryland A]]) &bull; [[Mike Sorice]] ([[Illinois]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1455/stats/overall/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2011 ACF Nationals|2011]]<br />
| [[2011 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2011 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2011 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[2011 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Auroni Gupta]] ([[UCSD]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland|Maryland A]]) &bull; [[Mike Sorice]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Henry Gorman]] ([[Rice]])<br>[[Robert Harden]] ([[South Carolina]]) &bull; [[Evan Adams]] ([[VCU]]) &bull; [[Trevor Davis]] ([[Carnegie Mellon]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1456/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2012 ACF Nationals|2012]]<br />
| [[2012 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2012 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[2012 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2012 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[Ike Jose]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Illinois]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Matt Bollinger]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Henry Gorman]] ([[Rice]])<br>[[Matt Jackson]] ([[Yale]]) &bull; [[Andrew Hart]] ([[Minnesota]]) &bull; [[Sean Smiley]] ([[VCU]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/977/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2013 ACF Nationals|2013]]<br />
| [[2013 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[2013 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2013 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2013 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[John Lawrence]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[London]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Andrew Hart]] ([[Minnesota]]) &bull; [[Matt Bollinger]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Ike Jose]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Matt Jackson]] ([[Yale]])<br>[[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Henry Gorman]] ([[Rice]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1397/stats/combined_w_tiebreakers_%26_final/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2014 ACF Nationals|2014]]<br />
| '''[[2014 Virginia|Virginia]]'''<br />
| [[2014 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2014 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[2014 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Will Nediger]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Richard Yu]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull; [[Matt Jackson]] ([[Yale]])<br>[[John Lawrence]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Aaron Rosenberg]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Stephen Liu]] ([[Harvard]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1641/stats/overall/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2015 ACF Nationals|2015]]<br />
| [[2015 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[2015 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2015 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2015 Stanford|Stanford]]<br>[[2015 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[Auroni Gupta]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[UCSD]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Dylan Minarik]] ([[Northwestern]]) &bull; [[Matthew Bollinger]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Will Nediger]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Neil Gurram]] ([[MIT]])<br>[[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Andrew Wang]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Jordan Brownstein]] ([[Maryland]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2976/stats/combined/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2016 ACF Nationals|2016]]<br />
| [[2016 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2016 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2016 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2016 Maryland|Maryland]]<br>[[2016 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[Jordan Brownstein]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Maryland]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Kurtis Droge]] ([[Louisville]]) &bull; [[Neil Gurram]] ([[MIT]]) &bull; [[Will Alston]] ([[Dartmouth]]) &bull; [[Kenji Golimlim]] (Michigan)<br>[[Andrew Wang]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Jason Golfinos]] ([[Princeton]]) &bull; [[Caleb Kendrick]] ([[Oklahoma]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3507/stats/combined/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2017 ACF Nationals|2017]]<br />
| [[2017 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2017 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2017 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2017 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[Jordan Brownstein]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Maryland]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Eric Mukherjee]] (Penn) [[Jacob Reed]] (Yale) &bull; [[John Lawrence]] (Chicago) &bull; [[Jason Golfinos]] (Princeton)<br>[[Rafael Krichevsky]] (Columbia) &bull; [[Stephen Liu]] (Stanford) &bull; [[Jasper Lee]] (Tennessee)<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4389/stats/combined/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2018 ACF Nationals|2018]]<br />
| [[2018 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2018 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[2018 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2018 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[Itamar Naveh-Benjamin]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Missouri]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jacob Reed]] (Yale) &bull; [[Rafael Krichevsky]] (Columbia) &bull; [[Caleb Kendrick]] (Oklahoma) &bull; [[Aseem Keyal]] (Berkeley)<br>[[Kenji Shimizu]] (Michigan) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] (Ohio State) &bull; [[Charles Hang]] (WUSTL)<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5076/stats/all_games_%28w_packet_names%29/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2019 ACF Nationals|2019]]<br />
| [[2019 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[2019 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2019 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2019 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[Jakob Myers]] <br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Michigan State]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Chris Ray]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Charles Hang]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull; [[Derek So]] ([[McGill]]) &bull; [[Natan Holtzman]] ([[Stanford]])<br>[[Caleb Kendrick]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Eric Xu]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Justine French]] ([[UCLA]])<br />
| [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5750/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2021 ACF Nationals|2021]]<br />
| [[2021 Florida|Florida]]<br />
| [[2021 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[2021 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2021 Ohio State|Ohio State]]<br />
| [[Will Alston]] <br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Columbia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jason Golfinos]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Auroni Gupta]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Tracy Mirkin]] ([[Florida]])<br>[[Hari Parameswaran]] ([[Georgia Tech]]) &bull; [[Tim Morrison]] ([[Stanford]]) &bull; [[William Golden]] ([[Texas]])<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7030/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2022 ACF Nationals|2022]]<br />
| [[2022 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[2022 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2022 Ohio State|Ohio State]]<br />
| [[2022 WUSTL|WUSTL]]<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]] <br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Georgia Tech]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Tracy Mirkin]] ([[Florida]]) &bull; [[Matthew Lehmann]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull; [[Jason Golfinos]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[Daniel Sheinberg]] ([[Yale]])<br>[[Vincent Du]] ([[North Carolina]]) &bull; [[Caleb Kendrick]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Ohio State]])<br>[[William Golden]] ([[Texas]]) &bull; [[Eric Bobrow]] ([[Johns Hopkins]]) &bull; [[Clark Smith]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Justin Hawkins]] ([[Indiana]])<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7511/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2023 ACF Nationals|2023]]<br />
| [[2023 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[2023 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2023 Cornell|Cornell]]<br />
| [[2023 WUSTL|WUSTL]]<br />
| [[Matt Jackson]] <br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Chicago]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%">[[Tracy Mirkin]] ([[Florida]]) &bull; [[Caleb Kendrick]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Clark Smith]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Matthew Lehmann]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull;<br>[[Amogh Kulkarni]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Arya Karthik]] ([[Georgia Tech]]) <br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8188/ Stats]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Champions whose names are in '''bold''' were undefeated.<br />
<br />
===Medal count===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"<br />
|-<br />
! Team<br />
! Championships<br />
! Total Top 2 Finishes<br />
! Total Top 3 Finishes<br />
! Total Top 4 Finishes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Berkeley]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
| 5<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brigham Young]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brown]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 3<br />
| 3<br />
| 3<br />
|-<br />
| [[Chicago]]<br />
| 9<br />
| 15<br />
| 17<br />
| 19<br />
|-<br />
| [[Columbia]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
|-<br />
| [[Cornell]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Florida]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Georgia Tech]]<br />
| 3<br />
| 5<br />
| 5<br />
| 6<br />
|-<br />
| [[Harvard]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
| 5<br />
|-<br />
| [[Illinois]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
| 7<br />
|-<br />
| [[Kentucky]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
|-<br />
| [[Maryland]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 5<br />
| 10<br />
| 14<br />
|-<br />
| [[Michigan]]<br />
| 4<br />
| 7<br />
| 10<br />
| 10<br />
|-<br />
| [[Minnesota]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 2<br />
| 3<br />
| 4<br />
|-<br />
| [[NC State]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ohio State]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
|-<br />
| [[Oklahoma]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Penn]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 3<br />
| 5<br />
|-<br />
| [[Princeton]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
|-<br />
| [[South Carolina]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Stanford]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 5<br />
| 6<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tennessee]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Texas A&M]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 3<br />
| 4<br />
|-<br />
| [[VCU]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Virginia]]<br />
| 3<br />
| 5<br />
| 6<br />
| 9<br />
|-<br />
| [[WUSTL]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 2<br />
|-<br />
| [[Yale]]<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
| 6<br />
| 7<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<br />
*The tournament was not held in 1992 or 2020.<br />
*There are no surviving stats from 1991 or 1993; as such, the all-stars are unknown. 1994 stats do not contain full individual information and only contain team stats + the names of the top four all-stars.<br />
*Undergraduate and Division II titles prior to 2008 are retroactive. In years listed as N/A, the stats do not contain enough information to retroactively determine Undergraduate and Division II eligibility.<br />
*No DII-eligible teams participated in 2006.<br />
*The 2002 tournament was originally announced as "hosted by George Washington University;" however, it had to be moved to Maryland due to room access issues at GWU, and most of the staff was recruited by Maryland. GWU assisted in running the tournament.<br />
*ACF Nationals had champion teams from ten distinct schools in the ten years from 2013 to 2022.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[National Invitation Tournament]]<br />
*[[All-American Invitational]]<br />
*[[List of college quizbowl national champion teams]]<br />
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{{ACF tournaments}}<br />
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[[Category:ACF events]]<br />
[[Category:National championships]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=ACF_Nationals&diff=63397ACF Nationals2024-02-25T19:48:18Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* ACF Nationals Master Info Table */ flip the order so newer years are first - crazy that this has to be done manually</p>
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<div>'''ACF Nationals''' is an annual event held by [[ACF]]. Along with the NAQT [[ICT]], ACF Nationals is one of the two tournaments which determine a national champion each year in collegiate quizbowl.<br />
<br />
Beginning in 2008, ACF Nationals crowned Undergraduate and Division II champions in addition to overall champions. Unlike at NAQT ICT, the Division II title is awarded to the highest-finishing Division II team in the overall field, rather than being played in a separate tournament. Unofficial winners by the current criteria are noted for pre-2008 tournaments, when known.<br />
<br />
For most of its existence, ACF Nationals was smaller than ICT, and was open to any collegiate team, provided that most of those teams [[Packet submission|submitted a packet]] (unlike ICT, which had a strict system of invitations and was written entirely by NAQT personnel). In 2015, in part due to exploding interest in nationals attendance, ACF instituted the [[A-Value]], a measure which generated a list of Nationals invitees based on teams' performance at the preceding [[ACF Regionals]]. As of now, the Nationals field is capped, and teams are invited by having a large enough A-value for the year, or by being issued autobids for hosting or editing Regionals.<br />
<br />
Some additional kinds of information on editors and circumstances of ACF Nationals can be found at the [[ACF]] page.<br />
<br />
==Pedigree==<br />
<br />
There are three ways of looking at when ACF Nationals began:<br />
*Most commonly, the national tournaments run by the [[Academic Competition Foundation]] from 1991 to 1997 are considered as part of the same series of events as those run by the [[Academic Competition Federation]] from 1998 onwards. While the two organizations are technically distinct, one picked up directly from the other with the exact same philosophy about tournament structure and question content, and many of the same personnel. Under this definition, by far the generally accepted one, ACF Nationals first ran in 1991 and the 2022 tournament was the 30th instance of the event (accounting for no tournament in 1992 and 2020).<br />
*If only the present "ACF" entity is counted, then ACF Nationals began in 1998 and the 2022 tournament was the 24th instance. This distinction is almost never made, particularly because the Federation version of ACF was not incorporated as a legal entity until later in the 2010s, meaning that the 1991-1997 version is technically just as valid as anything that happened from 1998 until quite recently.<br />
*The 1991 version of ACF was the direct successor, in ideology and personnel, to prior events such as the [[National Invitation Tournament]] (1979-1985) and [[All-American Invitational]] (1988-1989). Considering the three events as one chain of "ACF-style" national championships, the tournament is 43 years old as of 2022 and has run 38 times. There is no information about the 1979 and 1980 NITs other than that they occurred. The NIT/AAI series did not run a championship in 1982, 1986, 1987, or 1990.<br />
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== ACF Nationals Master Info Table==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"<br />
|-<br />
! Year<br />
! Overall National Champion<br />
! Undergraduate Champion<br />
! Division II Champion<br />
! Host City<br />
! Field Size<br />
! Head Editor(s)<br />
|-<br />
| [[2023 ACF Nationals|2023]]<br />
| [[2023 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[2023 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2023 WUSTL|WUSTL]]<br />
| [[MIT|Cambridge, MA]]<br />
| 48<br />
| [[Taylor Harvey]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2022 ACF Nationals|2022]]<br />
| [[2022 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[2022 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2022 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[Minnesota|Minneapolis, MN]]<br />
| 51<br />
| [[John Lawrence]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2021 ACF Nationals|2021]]<br />
| [[2021 Florida|Florida]]<br />
| [[2021 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[2021 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[Northwestern|Evanston, IL]]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Ryan Westbrook]] & [[Matt Bollinger]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2019 ACF Nationals|2019]]<br />
| [[2019 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[2019 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2019 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[Penn|Philadelphia, PA]]<br />
| 48<br />
| [[Auroni Gupta]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2018 ACF Nationals|2018]]<br />
| [[2018 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2018 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2018 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[MIT|Cambridge, MA]]<br />
| 47<br />
| [[Andrew Hart]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2017 ACF Nationals|2017]]<br />
| [[2017 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2017 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2017 MIT|MIT]]<br />
| [[Columbia|New York, NY]]<br />
| 38<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2016 ACF Nationals|2016]]<br />
| [[2016 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2016 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2016 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]<br />
| [[Michigan|Ann Arbor, MI]]<br />
| 44<br />
| [[Rob Carson]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2015 ACF Nationals|2015]]<br />
| [[2015 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[2015 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2015 Northwestern|Northwestern]]<br />
| [[Michigan|Ann Arbor, MI]]<br />
| 48<br />
| [[Ryan Westbrook]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2014 ACF Nationals|2014]]<br />
| [[2014 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[2014 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2014 North Carolina|North Carolina]]<br />
| [[Columbia|New York, NY]]<br />
| 34<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2013 ACF Nationals|2013]]<br />
| [[2013 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[2013 Chicago|Chicago]] <br />
| [[2013 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Columbia|New York, NY]]<br />
| 36<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2012 ACF Nationals|2012]]<br />
| [[2012 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2012 Illinois|Illinois]] <br />
| [[2012 Haverford|Haverford]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[Jonathan Magin]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2011 ACF Nationals|2011]]<br />
| [[2011 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2011 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2011 State College| State College]]<br />
| [[Pitt|Pittsburgh, PA]]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2010 ACF Nationals|2010]]<br />
| [[2010 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2010 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2010 State College|State College]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 28<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2009 ACF Nationals|2009]]<br />
| [[2009 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2009 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2009 Stow Munroe Falls|Stow Munroe Falls]]<br />
| [[WUSTL|St Louis, MO]]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2008 ACF Nationals|2008]]<br />
| [[2008 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2008 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2008 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[Brandeis|Waltham, MA]]<br />
| 17 (+4 [[exhibition]])<br />
| [[Eric Kwartler]] & [[Ryan Westbrook]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2007 ACF Nationals|2007]]<br />
| [[2007 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2007 Carleton College|Carleton College]]<br />
| [[2007 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Vanderbilt|Nashville, TN]]<br />
| 27<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]] & [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2006 ACF Nationals|2006]]<br />
| [[2006 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[2006 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| None<br />
| [[Michigan|Ann Arbor, MI]]<br />
| 19 (+2 [[exhibition]])<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2005 ACF Nationals|2005]]<br />
| [[2005 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2005 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[2005 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[Northwestern|Evanston, IL]]<br />
| 21<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2004 ACF Nationals|2004]]<br />
| [[2004 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2004 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[2004 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 22<br />
| [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2003 ACF Nationals|2003]]<br />
| [[2003 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2003 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[2003 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[Georgia Tech|Atlanta, GA]]<br />
| 22<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2002 ACF Nationals|2002]]<br />
| [[2002 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2002 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[2002 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 27<br />
| [[Raj Bhan]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2001 ACF Nationals|2001]]<br />
| [[2001 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2001 Berry|Berry]]<br />
| [[2001 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[Michigan|Ann Arbor, MI]]<br />
| 16<br />
| [[David Hamilton]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2000 ACF Nationals|2000]]<br />
| [[2000 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2000 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[2000 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 22 (+2 [[exhibition]])<br />
| [[David Hamilton]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1999 ACF Nationals|1999]]<br />
| [[1999 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[1999 Texas|Texas]]<br />
| [[1999 Arkansas|Arkansas]]<br />
| [[Chicago|Chicago, IL]]<br />
| 22<br />
| [[David Hamilton]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1998 ACF Nationals|1998]]<br />
| [[1998 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1998 South Carolina|South Carolina]]<br />
| [[1998 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 21<br />
| [[John Sheahan]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1997 ACF Nationals|1997]]<br />
| [[1997 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1997 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1997 Carleton College|Carleton College]]<br />
| [[Illinois|Urbana, IL]]<br />
| 23<br />
| [[Vishnu Jejjala]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1996 ACF Nationals|1996]]<br />
| [[1996 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[1996 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Tennessee|Knoxville, TN]]<br />
| 39<br />
| [[Jim Dendy]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1995 ACF Nationals|1995]]<br />
| [[1995 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[1995 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Tennessee|Knoxville, TN]]<br />
| 39<br />
| [[Jim Dendy]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1994 ACF Nationals|1994]]<br />
| [[1994 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[1994 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 24<br />
| [[Jim Dendy]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1993 ACF Nationals|1993]]<br />
| [[1993 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Maryland|College Park, MD]]<br />
| 12<br />
| [[John Nam]] (?)<br />
|- <br />
| [[1991 ACF Nationals|1991]]<br />
| [[1991 Tennessee|Tennessee]]<br />
| N/A<br />
| N/A<br />
| [[Tennessee|Knoxville, TN]]<br />
| 12<br />
| [[Carol Guthrie]] (?)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Expanded Top Finishers Table==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" <br />
|- <br />
! style="width: 5%" | Year <br />
! style="width: 9%" | Champion <br />
! style="width: 9%" | Second Place <br />
! style="width: 9%" | Third Place <br />
! style="width: 9%" | Fourth Place <br />
! style="width: 10%" | Top Individual Scorer <br />
! style="width: 55%" | Other All-Stars <br />
! style="width: 5%" | Stats <br />
|- <br />
| [[1991 ACF Nationals|1991]]<br />
| '''[[1991 Tennessee|Tennessee]]'''<br />
| [[1991 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[1991 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1991 NC State|NC State]]<br />
| <br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| [[1993 ACF Nationals|1993]]<br />
| '''[[1993 Chicago|Chicago]]'''<br />
| [[1993 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1993 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[1993 Harvard|Harvard B]]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| [[1994 ACF Nationals|1994]]<br />
| [[1994 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[1994 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1994 Brigham Young|Brigham Young]]<br />
| [[1994 Maryland|Maryland B]]<br />
| [[Bill Crew]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Central Florida]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[John Saluda]] ([[North Carolina]]) &bull; [[Josh Boorstin]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[John Harris]] ([[Virginia]])<br />
| [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.college.college-bowl/nox69ZqvWiE/AKsyhTaIiikJ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1995 ACF Nationals|1995]]<br />
| [[1995 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[1995 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[1995 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[1995 South Carolina|South Carolina]]<br />
| [[Tom Waters]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[South Carolina]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jeff Johnson]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[John Sheahan]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Marc Swisdak]] ([[Colorado]]) &bull; [[Eric Tentarelli]] ([[Cornell]])<br>[[Christine Moritz]] ([[Emory]]) &bull; [[Mike Mahurin]] ([[Midwestern State]]) &bull; [[Tim Pulju]] ([[Rice]])<br />
| [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/94-95/acfnats95_final.txt Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1996 ACF Nationals|1996]]<br />
| '''[[1996 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]'''<br />
| [[1996 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1996 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1996 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jeff Johnson]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[R. Hentzel]] ([[Iowa State]]) &bull; [[Jason King]] ([[Georgia Tech]]) &bull; [[Eric Tentarelli]] ([[Cornell]])<br>[[Robert Trent]] ([[Iowa]]) &bull; [[Christine Moritz]] ([[Emory]]) &bull; [[Mike Musgrove]] ([[Georgia Tech]])<br />
| [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/95-96/acfnatl96_jubjub.txt Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1997 ACF Nationals|1997]]<br />
| [[1997 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1997 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[1997 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1997 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[John Sheahan]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Chicago]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Mike Starsinic]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Andrew Yaphe]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[James Anderson]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Jason King]] ([[Georgia Tech]])<br>[[Peter McCorquodale]] ([[MIT]]) &bull; [[R. Hentzel]] ([[Iowa State]]) &bull; [[Dave Hamilton]] ([[Maryland]])<br />
| [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/96-97/97res.htm Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1998 ACF Nationals|1998]]<br />
| [[1998 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[1998 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[1998 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1998 Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jeff Johnson]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[Eric Bell]] ([[Oklahoma]]) &bull; [[Long Nguyen]] ([[Georgia Tech]]) &bull; [[Jeff Stewart]] ([[Princeton]])<br>[[T.C. Ford]] ([[South Carolina]]) &bull; [[Ravin Garg]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Gautam Mukunda]] ([[Harvard]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20050427231101/http://members.aol.com/Geertgen22/98natstats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[1999 ACF Nationals|1999]]<br />
| '''[[1999 Chicago|Chicago]]'''<br />
| [[1999 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[1999 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[1999 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Chicago]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Robert Trent]] ([[Iowa]]) &bull; [[Mike Wehrman]] ([[Arkansas]]) &bull; [[Subash Maddipoti]] ([[Quincy]]) &bull; [[Dave Hamilton]] ([[Maryland]])<br>[[Dave Goodman]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Jason Hong]] ([[Berkeley]]) &bull; [[Seth Kendall]] ([[Kentucky]])<br />
| [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tournaments/Old/98-99/acfnatnls99.txt Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2000 ACF Nationals|2000]]<br />
| [[2000 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2000 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[2000 Harvard|Harvard]]<br />
| [[2000 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Chicago]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[John Kenney]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Jeff Hoppes]] ([[Princeton]]) &bull; [[Raj Bhan]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull; [[Joon Pahk]] ([[Harvard]])<br>[[Mike Wehrman]] ([[Arkansas]]) &bull; [[Patrick Friel]] ([[UCLA]]) &bull; [[Shaun Hayeslip]] ([[Maryland]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20030507185947/http://www.inform.umd.edu/StudentOrg/maqt/acf/results/00nats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2001 ACF Nationals|2001]]<br />
| [[2001 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2001 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[2001 Michigan|Michigan B]]<br />
| [[2001 Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
| [[John Kenney]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%">[[Kelly McKenzie]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Steve Watchorn]] ([[Wisconsin]]) &bull; [[Ezequiel Berdichevsky]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Eric Smith]] ([[Texas]])<br> [[Chris Vichich]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Robert Trent]] ([[Vanderbilt]]) &bull; [[Ed Cohn]] ([[Chicago]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/468/stats/acf/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2002 ACF Nationals|2002]]<br />
| '''[[2002 Michigan|Michigan]]'''<br />
| [[2002 Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
| [[2002 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[2002 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[John Kenney]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Matt Weiner]] ([[Pitt]]) &bull; [[Raj Dhuwalia]] ([[Florida Atlantic]]) &bull; [[Kelly McKenzie]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Vik Vaz]] ([[Harvard]])<br>[[David Hayes]] ([[Rutgers]]) &bull; [[Nathan Freeburg]] ([[Florida State]]) &bull; [[Jeff Hoppes]] ([[Princeton]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20020705062324/http://www.gwu.edu/~trivia/acfnatsstats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2003 ACF Nationals|2003]]<br />
| [[2003 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2003 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2003 Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
| [[2003 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[Wesley Mathews]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Indiana]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Kelly McKenzie]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Raj Dhuwalia]] ([[Florida]]) &bull; [[Robert Trent]] ([[Vanderbilt]]) &bull; [[Vernon Davenport]] ([[South Carolina]])<br>[[Nathan Freeburg]] ([[Florida State]]) &bull; [[Seth Teitler]] ([[Berkeley]]) &bull; [[Vik Vaz]] ([[Harvard]])<br />
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20060913065413/www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/03nats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2004 ACF Nationals|2004]]<br />
| [[2004 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2004 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2004 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[2004 Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
| [[Wesley Mathews]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Indiana]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Kelly McKenzie]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Adam Kemezis]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Matt Cvijanovich]] ([[Iowa State]]) &bull; [[Chris Frankel]] ([[Princeton]])<br>[[Jason Keller]] ([[Rutgers]]) &bull; [[Andrew Yaphe]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Nathan Freeburg]] ([[CUNY]])<br />
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20060913065423/www.dpo.uab.edu/~paik/acf/04nats.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2005 ACF Nationals|2005]]<br />
| [[2005 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2005 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2005 Berkeley|Berkeley]]<br />
| [[2005 Princeton|Princeton]]<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[VCU]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Subash Maddipoti]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Seth Kendall]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Fred Bush]] ([[Rochester]]) &bull; [[Jason Keller]] ([[Rutgers]])<br>[[Chris Frankel]] ([[Princeton]]) &bull; [[Ryan Westbrook]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Berkeley]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150409034013/http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hart0789/acfnats05/Playoff_standings.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2006 ACF Nationals|2006]]<br />
| [[2006 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[2006 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2006 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2006 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Matt Lafer]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Matt Lafer]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Matt Weiner]] ([[VCU]]) &bull; [[Chris Frankel]] ([[Princeton]]) &bull; [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Brown]]) &bull; [[Jason Keller]] ([[Rutgers]])<br>[[Paul Litvak]] ([[Carnegie Mellon]]) &bull; [[Leo Wolpert]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Chris Romero]] ([[Texas A&M]])<br />
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071218103100/http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hart0789/acfnats06/ACF2006_standings.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2007 ACF Nationals|2007]]<br />
| '''[[2007 Chicago|Chicago]]'''<br />
| [[2007 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[2007 Texas A&M|Texas A&M]]<br />
| [[2007 VCU|VCU]]<br />
| [[Matt Weiner]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[VCU]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Seth Kendall]] ([[Kentucky]]) &bull; [[Ryan Westbrook]] ([[Wayne State]]) &bull; [[Mike Sorice]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Brown]])<br>[[Seth Teitler]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Patrick Hope]] ([[Carleton College]]) &bull; [[Will Turner]] ([[Michigan]])<br />
| [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5557/stats/combined/standings/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2008 ACF Nationals|2008]]<br />
| [[2008 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2008 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[2008 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2008 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[Mike Sorice]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Illinois]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Matt Keller]] ([[Vanderbilt]]) &bull; [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Brown]]) &bull; [[Jonathan Magin]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Ray Luo]] ([[UCLA]])<br>[[Seth Teitler]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Jason Keller]] ([[Rutgers]]) &bull; [[Billy Beyer]] ([[Florida State]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/acfstats/total_standings.html Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2009 ACF Nationals|2009]]<br />
| [[2009 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2009 Brown|Brown]]<br />
| [[2009 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2009 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Stanford]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jerry Vinokurov]] ([[Brown]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Ike Jose]] ([[Stow Munroe Falls]]) &bull; [[Mike Sorice]] ([[Illinois]])<br>[[Auroni Gupta]] ([[UCSD]]) &bull; [[Evan Adams]] ([[VCU]]) &bull; [[Charlie Dees]] ([[Missouri]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1457 Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2010 ACF Nationals|2010]]<br />
| [[2010 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2010 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2010 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2010 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[Andrew Yaphe]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Stanford]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Seth Teitler]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Brendan Byrne]] ([[Minnesota]]) &bull; [[Dallas Simons]] ([[Harvard]])<br>[[Auroni Gupta]] ([[UCSD]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland|Maryland A]]) &bull; [[Mike Sorice]] ([[Illinois]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1455/stats/overall/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2011 ACF Nationals|2011]]<br />
| [[2011 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2011 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2011 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[2011 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Auroni Gupta]] ([[UCSD]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland|Maryland A]]) &bull; [[Mike Sorice]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Henry Gorman]] ([[Rice]])<br>[[Robert Harden]] ([[South Carolina]]) &bull; [[Evan Adams]] ([[VCU]]) &bull; [[Trevor Davis]] ([[Carnegie Mellon]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1456/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2012 ACF Nationals|2012]]<br />
| [[2012 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2012 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[2012 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2012 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[Ike Jose]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Illinois]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Matt Bollinger]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Henry Gorman]] ([[Rice]])<br>[[Matt Jackson]] ([[Yale]]) &bull; [[Andrew Hart]] ([[Minnesota]]) &bull; [[Sean Smiley]] ([[VCU]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/977/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2013 ACF Nationals|2013]]<br />
| [[2013 Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
| [[2013 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2013 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2013 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[John Lawrence]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[London]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Andrew Hart]] ([[Minnesota]]) &bull; [[Matt Bollinger]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Ike Jose]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Matt Jackson]] ([[Yale]])<br>[[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Henry Gorman]] ([[Rice]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Maryland]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1397/stats/combined_w_tiebreakers_%26_final/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2014 ACF Nationals|2014]]<br />
| '''[[2014 Virginia|Virginia]]'''<br />
| [[2014 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2014 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[2014 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Virginia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Will Nediger]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Richard Yu]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull; [[Matt Jackson]] ([[Yale]])<br>[[John Lawrence]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Aaron Rosenberg]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Stephen Liu]] ([[Harvard]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1641/stats/overall/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2015 ACF Nationals|2015]]<br />
| [[2015 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[2015 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2015 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2015 Stanford|Stanford]]<br>[[2015 Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
| [[Auroni Gupta]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[UCSD]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Dylan Minarik]] ([[Northwestern]]) &bull; [[Matthew Bollinger]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Will Nediger]] ([[Michigan]]) &bull; [[Neil Gurram]] ([[MIT]])<br>[[Eric Mukherjee]] ([[Penn]]) &bull; [[Andrew Wang]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Jordan Brownstein]] ([[Maryland]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2976/stats/combined/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2016 ACF Nationals|2016]]<br />
| [[2016 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2016 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2016 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2016 Maryland|Maryland]]<br>[[2016 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[Jordan Brownstein]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Maryland]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Kurtis Droge]] ([[Louisville]]) &bull; [[Neil Gurram]] ([[MIT]]) &bull; [[Will Alston]] ([[Dartmouth]]) &bull; [[Kenji Golimlim]] (Michigan)<br>[[Andrew Wang]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Jason Golfinos]] ([[Princeton]]) &bull; [[Caleb Kendrick]] ([[Oklahoma]])<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3507/stats/combined/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2017 ACF Nationals|2017]]<br />
| [[2017 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[2017 Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
| [[2017 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2017 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[Jordan Brownstein]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Maryland]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Eric Mukherjee]] (Penn) [[Jacob Reed]] (Yale) &bull; [[John Lawrence]] (Chicago) &bull; [[Jason Golfinos]] (Princeton)<br>[[Rafael Krichevsky]] (Columbia) &bull; [[Stephen Liu]] (Stanford) &bull; [[Jasper Lee]] (Tennessee)<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4389/stats/combined/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2018 ACF Nationals|2018]]<br />
| [[2018 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2018 Penn|Penn]]<br />
| [[2018 Yale|Yale]]<br />
| [[2018 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[Itamar Naveh-Benjamin]]<br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Missouri]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jacob Reed]] (Yale) &bull; [[Rafael Krichevsky]] (Columbia) &bull; [[Caleb Kendrick]] (Oklahoma) &bull; [[Aseem Keyal]] (Berkeley)<br>[[Kenji Shimizu]] (Michigan) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] (Ohio State) &bull; [[Charles Hang]] (WUSTL)<br />
| [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5076/stats/all_games_%28w_packet_names%29/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2019 ACF Nationals|2019]]<br />
| [[2019 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[2019 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2019 Minnesota|Minnesota]]<br />
| [[2019 Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
| [[Jakob Myers]] <br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Michigan State]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Chris Ray]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Charles Hang]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull; [[Derek So]] ([[McGill]]) &bull; [[Natan Holtzman]] ([[Stanford]])<br>[[Caleb Kendrick]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Eric Xu]] ([[Virginia]]) &bull; [[Justine French]] ([[UCLA]])<br />
| [http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5750/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2021 ACF Nationals|2021]]<br />
| [[2021 Florida|Florida]]<br />
| [[2021 Columbia|Columbia]]<br />
| [[2021 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2021 Ohio State|Ohio State]]<br />
| [[Will Alston]] <br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Columbia]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Jason Golfinos]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Auroni Gupta]] ([[Illinois]]) &bull; [[Tracy Mirkin]] ([[Florida]])<br>[[Hari Parameswaran]] ([[Georgia Tech]]) &bull; [[Tim Morrison]] ([[Stanford]]) &bull; [[William Golden]] ([[Texas]])<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7030/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2022 ACF Nationals|2022]]<br />
| [[2022 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[2022 Stanford|Stanford]]<br />
| [[2022 Ohio State|Ohio State]]<br />
| [[2022 WUSTL|WUSTL]]<br />
| [[Matt Bollinger]] <br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Georgia Tech]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%"> [[Tracy Mirkin]] ([[Florida]]) &bull; [[Matthew Lehmann]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull; [[Jason Golfinos]] ([[Harvard]]) &bull; [[Daniel Sheinberg]] ([[Yale]])<br>[[Vincent Du]] ([[North Carolina]]) &bull; [[Caleb Kendrick]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Ohio State]])<br>[[William Golden]] ([[Texas]]) &bull; [[Eric Bobrow]] ([[Johns Hopkins]]) &bull; [[Clark Smith]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Justin Hawkins]] ([[Indiana]])<br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7511/ Stats]<br />
|-<br />
| [[2023 ACF Nationals|2023]]<br />
| [[2023 Georgia Tech|Georgia Tech]]<br />
| [[2023 Chicago|Chicago]]<br />
| [[2023 Cornell|Cornell]]<br />
| [[2023 WUSTL|WUSTL]]<br />
| [[Matt Jackson]] <br><span style="font-size:80%">[[Chicago]]<br />
|<span style="font-size:80%">[[Tracy Mirkin]] ([[Florida]]) &bull; [[Caleb Kendrick]] ([[Maryland]]) &bull; [[Clark Smith]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Matthew Lehmann]] ([[WUSTL]]) &bull;<br>[[Amogh Kulkarni]] ([[Chicago]]) &bull; [[Chris Ray]] ([[Ohio State]]) &bull; [[Arya Karthik]] ([[Georgia Tech]]) <br />
| [https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8188/ Stats]<br />
|}<br />
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Champions whose names are in '''bold''' were undefeated.<br />
<br />
===Medal count===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"<br />
|-<br />
! Team<br />
! Championships<br />
! Total Top 2 Finishes<br />
! Total Top 3 Finishes<br />
! Total Top 4 Finishes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Berkeley]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
| 5<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brigham Young]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brown]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 3<br />
| 3<br />
| 3<br />
|-<br />
| [[Chicago]]<br />
| 9<br />
| 15<br />
| 17<br />
| 19<br />
|-<br />
| [[Columbia]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
|-<br />
| [[Cornell]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Florida]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Georgia Tech]]<br />
| 3<br />
| 5<br />
| 5<br />
| 6<br />
|-<br />
| [[Harvard]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
| 5<br />
|-<br />
| [[Illinois]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
| 7<br />
|-<br />
| [[Kentucky]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
|-<br />
| [[Maryland]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 5<br />
| 10<br />
| 14<br />
|-<br />
| [[Michigan]]<br />
| 4<br />
| 7<br />
| 10<br />
| 10<br />
|-<br />
| [[Minnesota]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 2<br />
| 3<br />
| 4<br />
|-<br />
| [[NC State]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Ohio State]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
|-<br />
| [[Oklahoma]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Penn]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 3<br />
| 5<br />
|-<br />
| [[Princeton]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
|-<br />
| [[South Carolina]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Stanford]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 5<br />
| 6<br />
|-<br />
| [[Tennessee]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Texas A&M]]<br />
| 1<br />
| 1<br />
| 3<br />
| 4<br />
|-<br />
| [[VCU]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 1<br />
|-<br />
| [[Virginia]]<br />
| 3<br />
| 5<br />
| 6<br />
| 9<br />
|-<br />
| [[WUSTL]]<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 0<br />
| 2<br />
|-<br />
| [[Yale]]<br />
| 2<br />
| 4<br />
| 6<br />
| 7<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<br />
*The tournament was not held in 1992 or 2020.<br />
*There are no surviving stats from 1991 or 1993; as such, the all-stars are unknown. 1994 stats do not contain full individual information and only contain team stats + the names of the top four all-stars.<br />
*Undergraduate and Division II titles prior to 2008 are retroactive. In years listed as N/A, the stats do not contain enough information to retroactively determine Undergraduate and Division II eligibility.<br />
*No DII-eligible teams participated in 2006.<br />
*The 2002 tournament was originally announced as "hosted by George Washington University;" however, it had to be moved to Maryland due to room access issues at GWU, and most of the staff was recruited by Maryland. GWU assisted in running the tournament.<br />
*ACF Nationals had champion teams from ten distinct schools in the ten years from 2013 to 2022.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
*[[National Invitation Tournament]]<br />
*[[All-American Invitational]]<br />
*[[List of college quizbowl national champion teams]]<br />
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[[Category:ACF events]]<br />
[[Category:National championships]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Online_buzzer&diff=63320Online buzzer2024-02-15T17:46:47Z<p>Kevin Wang: Created page with "<onlyinclude>'''Online buzzers''' are websites which offer lockout functionality online. Their use became very popular during the pandemic as one of the technological..."</p>
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<div><onlyinclude>'''Online buzzers''' are websites which offer [[lockout]] functionality online. Their use became very popular during [[the pandemic]] as one of the technological improvements spurred by frequent online tournaments.</onlyinclude><br />
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The use of online buzzers superceded the practice of buzzing directly into the chat of whatever video software the tournament was being run on ([[Skype]], [[Discord]], or [[Zoom]]).<br />
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==Buzz''In''.live==<br />
:''Main article: [[Buzzin.live]]''<br />
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==Buzzman==<br />
:''Main article: [[Buzzman]]''<br />
{{:Buzzman}}<br />
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{{c|Buzzers}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Buzzin.live&diff=63319Buzzin.live2024-02-15T17:27:19Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div><onlyinclude>'''Buzzin.live''' is an online [[buzzer]] site. The site gained popularity with the rise of [[online quizbowl]] as the first replacement for a physical buzzer system.</onlyinclude><br />
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[[File:Buzzin.png|thumb|A screenshot of a buzzin.live game]]<br />
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==Format==<br />
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One can either create a game or join a game on buzzin.live. Creating a game generates a six-digit code for players to enter. The lobby’s creator has the ability to clear buzzes, lock and unlock buzzers, use a timer, and kick or rename players. Joining a lobby displays a colored circle, which can either be green (unlocked), yellow (locked), or red (indicating a player has buzzed in); one can buzz in by either clicking the button or pressing the spacebar.<br />
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While the free version is enough to conduct a standard game of [[quizbowl]], keys to host premium games can be bought for a few dollars. Premium games open lobbies to more than eight [[players]], allow [[Moderator|moderators]] to keep score and create teams, and unlock several other customizable settings.<br />
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==Uses==<br />
<br />
While buzzin.live has become most associated with online quizbowl after the 2020-21 season, the site has been used in in-person environments as well, often as an alternative to [[slapbowl]]. Examples include practices with little place or time to set up a buzzer system, games exceeding the normal 8-10 players most buzzers support, or games where a buzzer system is not readily available.<br />
<br />
Buzzin.live's distinctive buzzer sound can be heard in Season 3 of the Dropout show "Game Changer", which was filmed during [[the pandemic]];<ref>https://www.dropout.tv/game-changer/season:3/videos/sell-outs</ref> the site can also be seen on several participant's phones.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://buzzin.live/ Buzzin.live]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Buzzers]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Buzzin.live&diff=63318Buzzin.live2024-02-15T17:26:12Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Uses */</p>
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<div>'''Buzzin.live''' is an online [[buzzer]] site. The site gained popularity with the rise of [[online quizbowl]] as a replacement for a physical buzzer system.<br />
<br />
[[File:Buzzin.png|thumb|A screenshot of a buzzin.live game]]<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
One can either create a game or join a game on buzzin.live. Creating a game generates a six-digit code for players to enter. The lobby’s creator has the ability to clear buzzes, lock and unlock buzzers, use a timer, and kick or rename players. Joining a lobby displays a colored circle, which can either be green (unlocked), yellow (locked), or red (indicating a player has buzzed in); one can buzz in by either clicking the button or pressing the spacebar.<br />
<br />
While the free version is enough to conduct a standard game of [[quizbowl]], keys to host premium games can be bought for a few dollars. Premium games open lobbies to more than eight [[players]], allow [[Moderator|moderators]] to keep score and create teams, and unlock several other customizable settings.<br />
<br />
==Uses==<br />
<br />
While buzzin.live has become most associated with online quizbowl after the 2020-21 season, the site has been used in in-person environments as well, often as an alternative to [[slapbowl]]. Examples include practices with little place or time to set up a buzzer system, games exceeding the normal 8-10 players most buzzers support, or games where a buzzer system is not readily available.<br />
<br />
Buzzin.live's distinctive buzzer sound can be heard in Season 3 of the Dropout show "Game Changer", which was filmed during [[the pandemic]];<ref>https://www.dropout.tv/game-changer/season:3/videos/sell-outs</ref> the site can also be seen on several participant's phones.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://buzzin.live/ Buzzin.live]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Buzzers]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Buzzin.live&diff=63317Buzzin.live2024-02-15T17:20:18Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div>'''Buzzin.live''' is an online [[buzzer]] site. The site gained popularity with the rise of [[online quizbowl]] as a replacement for a physical buzzer system.<br />
<br />
[[File:Buzzin.png|thumb|A screenshot of a buzzin.live game]]<br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
One can either create a game or join a game on buzzin.live. Creating a game generates a six-digit code for players to enter. The lobby’s creator has the ability to clear buzzes, lock and unlock buzzers, use a timer, and kick or rename players. Joining a lobby displays a colored circle, which can either be green (unlocked), yellow (locked), or red (indicating a player has buzzed in); one can buzz in by either clicking the button or pressing the spacebar.<br />
<br />
While the free version is enough to conduct a standard game of [[quizbowl]], keys to host premium games can be bought for a few dollars. Premium games open lobbies to more than eight [[players]], allow [[Moderator|moderators]] to keep score and create teams, and unlock several other customizable settings.<br />
<br />
==Uses==<br />
<br />
While buzzin.live has become most associated with online quizbowl after the 2020-21 season, the site has been used in in-person environments as well, often as an alternative to [[slapbowl]]. Examples include practices with little place or time to set up a buzzer system, games exceeding the normal 8-10 players most buzzers support, or games where a buzzer system is not readily available.<br />
<br />
Buzzin.live can be heard being used in Season 3 of the Dropout show "Game Changer", which was filmed during [[the pandemic]].<ref>https://www.dropout.tv/game-changer/season:3/videos/sell-outs</ref><br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://buzzin.live/ Buzzin.live]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Buzzers]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbowl_software&diff=63316Quizbowl software2024-02-15T17:15:47Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Buzzer software */</p>
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<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
*[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
*[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2]<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on QEMS2 include [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder] and [https://github.com/hbunker/gamayun Gamayun].<br />
*[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]<br />
*[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament automation and management===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16642 qams] and [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27254 qams²] (set completion, contribution tracking, packet templates)<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26177 Wordcounter] (character/word counting)<br />
*[https://github.com/aseem-keyal/autoPG autoPG] (pronunciation guides) <br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/qpd qpd] (pronunciation guides)<br />
*Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)<br />
<br />
:;Superseded<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> <br />
*[https://gitlab.com/alistairgray42/packet-skels Packet Skeletons]<br />
*NSC Sudoku, a manual template for NSC packetization from QEMS2 (used for 2018 and some other number of NSCs)<br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/Packet%20Templates Packet Template Generator] (used for 2021 Illinois Open)<br />
*[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
*[[Qblitz]]<br />
*[https://www.quizbowlreader.com/demo.html Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)] [https://github.com/alopezlago/MODAQ (source code)]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
:;[[SQBS]]<br />
:*[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]<br />
:*[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:*[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
:;QBSQL<br />
:*[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:*Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:*Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
*[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
*See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
:''Main page: [[scoresheets]]''<br />
:;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:*[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:*https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
:;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:*https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
:;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:*[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:*[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:*Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
:;Excel score sheets<br />
:*[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:*Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:*Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
:;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:*Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:*Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
:;SQBS<br />
:*[[SQBS data file]]<br />
:;Tournament schema<br />
:*[https://schema.quizbowl.technology/ Website with technical specification]<br />
:*[https://github.com/quizbowl/schema GitHub repository]<br />
:;Tournakit<br />
:*Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
:;Livestat<br />
:*[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
:;QBTPS<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
:;JAGUARS<br />
:*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
:;Tournament Central<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
:;Taft<br />
:*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:*Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:*Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:*Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:*Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:*Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
:;[[BEeS]]<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:*Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:*Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
:''Main page: [[question databases]]''<br />
:;[[Hsquizbowl.org|Quizbowl Resource Database]]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
:;[[packet archive|HS QB Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[packet archive|Collegiate Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:*[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
:;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
:;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:*[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
:*deprecated in favor of the [[packet archive]]'s [https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/ Trash section]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
:;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:*[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:*[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
:*use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it<br />
:;QuizBug 2<br />
:*[http://quizbug2.karangurazada.com/ Web page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
:;Geoffrey's [[QBReader]]<br />
:*[https://qbreader.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25289 discussion]<br />
:;[[Power QB]]<br />
:*[https://powerqb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=392954#p392954 discussion]<br />
<br />
===Buzzer software===<br />
:''Main article: [[Online buzzer]]''<br />
:;[[Buzzman]]<br />
:*[https://www.buzzman.live/ link]<br />
:;[[Buzzin.live]]<br />
:*[https://buzzin.live/ link]<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
:;QB Toolbox<br />
:*http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
:;[[QBML]]<br />
:*Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:*Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:*May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
:;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:*Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
:;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:*Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
:;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
:;Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)<br />
:*[https://github.com/alopezlago/YetAnotherPacketParser/releases/ Download]<br />
:*Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
:;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
:*Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
*[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing or Maintained===<br />
*For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 ItALX]<br />
*For tournament direction: Taft<br />
*Packet readers: Abacus<br />
*Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
*Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
*Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
*Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, [[Quinterest]], Gyaankosh<br />
*Practice tools: [http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ QB reader] (and [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 forum post]), TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
*For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
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[[Category:Internet]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Buzzer&diff=63315Buzzer2024-02-15T17:14:47Z<p>Kevin Wang: </p>
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<div>{{Intro}}<br />
<br />
[[File:JudgeBuzzer.jpeg|thumb|The Judge]]<br />
<br />
'''Buzzer system''', '''buzzer''', and '''lockout system''' are the common names for the device used to indicate which player has signaled their desire to answer a question first. Such systems are necessary for all standard quizbowl games because they make it clear which player was the first to attempt to answer a question.<br />
<br />
While using a buzzer system, players '''buzz''' to answer a question. Other players are prevented from buzzing ("locked out") after one player has buzzed until the system is [[cleared|reset]].<br />
<br />
A buzzer system consists of a control unit that sits near the moderator, which connects to individual buttons or paddles held by each player. When a player buzzes in, the system produces a sound and activates a light indicating which player buzzed. Many more expensive systems have individual lights next to each player, while most lower-priced systems have smaller lights or light only on the control unit.<br />
<br />
Almost all [[tournament]]s require some number of teams to bring buzzers in order to have enough to run the tournament properly; for this reason, [[Tournament director]]s usually offer a discount to teams that bring a buzzer. When too few buzzers are present, teams must play [[slapbowl]], where buzzing is indicated by slapping the desk or saying something like "buzz." This is no longer common in the vast majority of modern quizbowl tournaments.<br />
<br />
Online tournaments typically use an [[online buzzer]] system like [[Buzzin.live]], which functions for players in much the same way as an in-person buzzer. It is possible to use USB buzzers attached to players' computers as the activator for online buzzers, though this is not necessary and generally either a mouse or a phone touchscreen is used. While physical buzzers may use pure electronic hardware logic to determine who has buzzed first, online systems used in serious tournament play must account for varying Internet speed/lag through various approaches, in order to actually determine who has buzzed first in real time rather than who has the best connection to the server.<br />
<br />
==History of Quizbowl Buzzers==<br />
The earliest quizbowl-style competitions appeared to use either a system of hand-raising (sometimes with other officials activating a buzzer after seeing a hand raised) or shouting the answer before the other team. The [[College Bowl]] TV show implemented a buzzer system as part of its studio set, but [https://web.archive.org/web/20120531092825/https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/newsletters/ACF_Newsletter_9-3.txt portable buzzers took longer to emerge]. The [[Berry]] College team in 1971 created a home-made portable buzzer system while a patent for a portable buzzer system was filed in 1972. Previous "lockout" buzzer systems had been used by [[Bible Bowl]] as early as the 1950s, but they were apparently not very portable. [[John P. Reynolds]] of Dayton, OH, who was likely affiliated with Bible Bowl, is the inventor of the buzzer system under the most straightforward interpretation of the concepts of "inventor" and "buzzer system."<br />
<br />
To be usable in quizbowl, buzzer systems now have some kind of light that indicates who buzzed in first, as well as a sound that alerts the reader to stop reading the question and look for the light. Some older buzzer systems used a mechanical bell or other physical device instead of making a "buzz" sound. All currently manufactured systems play an electronically synthesized tone of some kind, with the QuikPro being closest to an onomatopoeiac "buzz" sound. Most current systems use two or more tones of different pitches and/or lengths, so that which of the teams has buzzed can be determined by sound alone before searching for the individual player using the lights.<br />
<br />
[[File:Bible bowl schematic.png|200px|thumb|center|Schematic for an electromechanical buzzer used in Bible Bowl]] [[File:Bible bowl schematic 2.png|200px|thumb|center|Schematic for an electromechanical buzzer used in Bible Bowl (back)]]<br />
<br />
Instructions on building a modern computerized buzzer set using a printed circuit board may be found [https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1719&context=physics_facpub here.] This document is from 1996 but presumably all fully electronic buzzers work basically the same way.<br />
<br />
==Choosing a buzzer system (2019 Em Gunter post)==<br />
<br />
There are many things to take into consideration when deciding which buzzer system to purchase including price, durability, portability, and other factors. Below is a brief overview of [[Em Gunter]]'s [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=22829 guide to choosing a buzzer system] on the [[hsquizbowl.org forums]]. This covers 4 of the most commonly seen systems that can still be purchased as of March 2020 (thus leaving out [[The Judge]], which appears to be unavailable for purchase anymore, but which due to its near-indestructibility remains present on many circuits).<br />
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===[http://www.andersonbuzzersystems.com/ Anderson Buzzers]: [$265-$290]===<br />
<br />
Anderson buzzers come in two versions: daisy-chained boxes and individual hand-held indicators. purchasing the daisy-chained version is suggested due to their ease of use and high durability. When disassembled these buzzers only have 4 parts making it nearly impossible to accidentally leave part of the system lying around. The control unit is a simple box and each strip of buzzers connects on either side of the unit. These buzzers are extremely durable and are only known to fail in cases of extreme negligence. Andersons are the cheapest and most reliable buzzers that can be purchased and are often recommended over any other system. In general, it is a much better idea to purchase two sets of Andersons rather than a single set of QuikPros or Zeecrafts due to the far superior build of the Andersons. The one downside, however, to Andersons is that the AC adapter for the system is extremely short so purchasing an extension cord is highly suggested.<br />
<br />
===[http://www.buzzersystems.com/ BuzzerSystems.com Buzzers]: [~$299]===<br />
<br />
The buzzers from BuzzerSystems.com feature a control unit with individual activators contained within boxes that connect to the control unit by audio cables. The control unit features a reset button and 16 ports to allow the support of up to 16 players which is higher than any other commonly found system. Set up of this system is slightly more complicated than the Andersons because you have to plug a cable into each individual activator and a port on the control unit. Players who enjoy holding their activator but are seeking a higher quality or cheaper set will most likely prefer this set over Andersons. The main downside to this system is the quality of the cables that come with the set when you purchase it. When purchasing this system it is recommended that you additionally invest in a set of replacement cables that can be found at Amazon or a local electronics retailer.<br />
<br />
===[http://www.quikprosystems.com/ QuikPro Buzzers]: [$289-$489]===<br />
<br />
QuikPro buzzers come in two general types. You either have hand-held activators directly connected to the control unit from a single connection or individual lights with hand-held activators attached. The version with hand-held activators but not lights are generally far more reliable than the version with individual lights. QuikPro buzzers use cables similar to those used for home telephones and the connectors are often prone to snapping. The reset button on QuikPro buzzers can often fail due to poor wiring and may require the splicing of new wire in for continued functionality. The set up of this system is fairly simple but there are many cords that can easily get tangled or damaged which can increase set up and tear down time significantly compared to other systems. <br />
<br />
===[http://www.zeecraft.com/ Zeecraft Buzzers]: [$465-$730]===<br />
<br />
These are by far the most expensive buzzers you can buy and while they look extremely nice they don't hold up very well. Many people have experience with these sets as they commonly show up at various national championship tournaments. Zeecraft systems have 8 individual lights with individual hand-held activators. The individual lights themselves are extremely fragile and will crack or pop off if they fall on the ground or jostle inside the case. The buzzers connect to the control unit using telephone cables and the clips on these tend to snap off quite easily. The craftmanship of Zeecraft buzzers is inferior to that of other systems. The soldering is often messy and these systems fail significantly sooner than other systems available for purchase. Additionally, Zeecrafts are incredibly time-consuming to set up and take even longer to put away due to the barely-big-enough case designed for the system. Taking into account the very high cost and lack of durability it is suggested that you stay away from Zeecraft buzzers for individual team use.<br />
<br />
==Model-specific information==<br />
<br />
This table is intended to aggregate information about all models of buzzer that are usable for ordinary NAQT/ACF-style quizbowl, including those that are no longer manufactured. Systems that may be suitable only for Knowledge Bowl or other peripheral formats will be added in the future.<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left;"<br />
|-<br />
! Manufacturer<br />
! Model<br />
! Still being made as of 2022?<br />
! Lowest cost for usable system<ref>Lowest possible cost, excluding shipping and carrying case, for a new system in the model line that can currently be ordered from the manufacturer's website and meets [https://www.naqt.com/nationals/buzzer-discount-policy.html NAQT's definition] of an acceptable buzzer. Higher-priced variants with more features (e.g. additional player activators or a different style of activator), or lower-priced systems that are not usable for ordinary quizbowl (e.g. because they have fewer than eight activators), or usable lower-priced models that are no longer offered as new products and can only be acquired secondhand, may also be available. Information was researched and current as of 12/20/22.</ref><br />
! Advantages<br />
! Disadvantages<br />
|-<br />
|[http://www.quikprosystems.com/ 4 D Designs]<br />
|Combo Quik Pro<br />
|Yes<br />
|$395<br />
|This newer system is a good balance of the Quik Pro's benefits with innovations to make it more compact and less fragile. The individual activators have a button set in the middle of a light and are permanently hardwired together; the only thing to plug in is one connector per team. The whole system fits in a shoebox and is only a few inches larger than the miniaturized Anderson system so it's one of the most portable. All Quik Pro models except the Basic have a small timer mounted to the system - this can be used for various game timing functions though it is not visible to the players like the Zeecraft timers are.<br />
| Because each team side is permanently hardwired, the individual activators are not modular; if you have an 8-player system and one activator fails then there is no way to "switch it out" and the whole thing has to be sent in for repair. However, the system seems to be fairly durable and may not have this issue often. The only connector in the system is the unusual Quik Pro data port, so there's no off-the-shelf extension available like there is for phone/Ethernet/RCA style cords; conversely, when the connectors are long enough to accommodate a medium-sized classroom, it's recommended to tape them down to the floor to avoid tripping hazards. Repairs for Quik Pro systems tend to be expensive in comparison to other manufacturers.<br />
|-<br />
|[http://www.quikprosystems.com/ 4 D Designs]<br />
|Quik Pro Basic<br />
|Yes<br />
|$289<br />
|Good loud buzzing sound, affordable cost, extremely compact and easy to set up (just plug it into the wall and you're done).<br />
|Lights on control unit only (no light physically in front of each player).<br />
|-<br />
|[http://www.quikprosystems.com/ 4 D Designs]<br />
|Quik Pro Deluxe<br />
|Yes<br />
|$489<br />
|"Siren" style lights are the most visible available and are good for larger rooms or for formats that require recognizing by buzzer color. They are easily recognized as a "buzzer system" even when not plugged in and are a good eye-catching aid in recruitment environments such as activities fairs. Timer included.<br />
|Plastic on sirens cracks fairly easily, especially if you're trying to balance the whole system on a classroom desk where it will inevitably fall off. Recommend using some velcro/tape to secure the components to the desk surface to try to avoid this happening too often. RJ11 connectors have the usual issues (perhaps even more so since unlike the Zeecraft the connector end goes into the individual buzzer rather than the control unit and will be moving around constantly) so be prepared to perform maintenance.<br />
|-<br />
|[http://www.quikprosystems.com/ 4 D Designs]<br />
|Quik Pro Deluxe Strobe<br />
|Yes<br />
|$518<br />
|Strobe may be a good solution for improving visibility in very large rooms. Timer included.<br />
|Same as the Deluxe.<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.andersonbuzzersystems.com/ Anderson Enterprises]<br />
|Officiator Elite<br />
|Yes<br />
|$448<br />
|By far the simplest and most compact system for accommodating more than 10 players, e.g. at large practices or in certain "Bee" formats. Variable volume control.<br />
|Lights on control unit only (no light physically in front of each player).<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.andersonbuzzersystems.com/ Anderson Enterprises]<br />
|Officiator Handheld/Handpad<br />
|Yes<br />
|$320<br />
|Probably the best connector style for detachable handheld activators - they don't tend to fall out like the NEDs or break like the Zeecraft/QuikPros. Available in cylinder button or "slap-pad" styles. Variable volume control.<br />
|Lights on control unit only (no light physically in front of each player).<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.andersonbuzzersystems.com/ Anderson Enterprises]<br />
|Officiator Tabletop<br />
|Yes<br />
|$290<br />
|Generally considered one of the best values for a new buzzer - despite the issues mentioned here you can usually get a few years out of it before sending it in for a cheap repair. Very appealing when looking at long-term cost of ownership. Variable volume control. Since 2020 or so this system has been offered in a miniaturized version that's easier to transport and so far seems to have fewer of the maintenance issues. Anderson has a good reputation for effective customer service & affordable repairs when needed. The cords from the first buzzer in each team chain to the control unit are fairly long and work for almost any room setup without worrying about purchasing extensions.<br />
|Hard-wired connections on both sides of 8 out of 10 activators mean there is no way to pack the system without stressing and, sooner or later, breaking the wires. Reset button can stick. LEDs on activators will often sink into the unit, though this is fairly easy to repair. Power pack is fragile and is subject to the wire breaking/fraying or the pack simply ceasing to work after a period of time. A lot of players have an annoying habit of covering the light on these systems when they buzz, so you will need to remind people not to do that.<br />
|-<br />
|Boling<ref>This company appears to still be in business but their website is non-secure so the link is not included at this time.</ref><br />
|Funbuzzer<br />
|Yes<br />
|$445<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[https://edapi.com/genius-game/?lang=en Edapi]<br />
|Genius Game<br />
|Yes<br />
|~$365<ref>This is a Quebec-based company which lists prices on its website in Canadian dollars. As of December 2022 the base price is CAD$495 which is US$364. Exchange rates vary over time and additional charges related to shipping or customs when ordering from the U.S. may apply.</ref><br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[https://buzzersystems.com/ Novel Electronic Designs/BuzzerSystems.com]<br />
|10-Player Quiz System<br />
|Yes<br />
|$360<br />
|Of the major manufacturers, NED systems are probably the most historically reliable in terms of need for repair per hour of use, and they tend to accumulate less visible wear and tear over time than similarly priced systems.<br />
|The RCA-style connectors used in these systems are imperfect and are too easily yanked out by normal movement or loosened over time. Securing the connections with additional tape etc. is recommended if feasible for your use conditions. This model doesn't have lights in front of the players.<br />
|-<br />
|[https://buzzersystems.com/ Novel Electronic Designs/BuzzerSystems.com]<br />
|High-Visibility Buzzer System<br />
|Yes<br />
|$559<br />
|Same as other NED systems plus larger individual desktop lights.<br />
|Same as other NED systems.<br />
|-<br />
|[https://buzzersystems.com/ Novel Electronic Designs/BuzzerSystems.com]<br />
|Line-Up Chain-Link Quiz System<br />
|Yes<br />
|$645<br />
|Same as other NED systems.<br />
|The handheld activators that go to the desktop units have the same issue as other NED systems with RCA connectors. The other connectors in this system are eight-pin style similar to Anderson connectors.<br />
|-<br />
|[https://buzzersystems.com/ Novel Electronic Designs/BuzzerSystems.com]<br />
|Team-Box Quiz System<br />
|Yes<br />
|$475<br />
|Same as other NED systems.<br />
|Lights on control unit only (no light physically in front of each player). Same issue with RCA connectors.<br />
|-<br />
|[https://buzzersystems.com/ Novel Electronic Designs/BuzzerSystems.com]<br />
|Traditional Buzzer System – BASIC<br />
|Yes<br />
|$339<br />
|Same as other NED systems.<br />
|Same as other NED systems.<br />
|-<br />
|[https://buzzersystems.com/ Novel Electronic Designs/BuzzerSystems.com]<br />
|Who's Next? Buzzer System<br />
|Yes<br />
|$399<br />
|Offers a functionality for determining who buzzed second, third, etc that can be switched on or off as desired.<br />
|Same as other NED systems.<br />
|-<br />
|[https://quizequipment.com/information.htm Quiz Equipment]<br />
|A/G Quizbox<br />
|Yes<br />
|$465<br />
|Quiz Equipment activators are all modular and are available in various form factors including slap-pads and handheld cylinders.<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[https://quizequipment.com/information.htm Quiz Equipment]<br />
|Basic Quizbox<br />
|Yes<br />
|$305<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[https://quizequipment.com/information.htm Quiz Equipment]<br />
|Quizbowl Quizbox<br />
|Yes<br />
|$436<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[https://quizequipment.com/information.htm Quiz Equipment]<br />
|World Bible Quiz system<br />
|Yes<br />
|$535<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[http://quizsystems.com/products.htm QuizSystems]<br />
|QS2000A<br />
|Yes<br />
|$260<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[https://rolls.com/product/GS76RL Rolls]<br />
|GS76RL Game Show Controller<br />
|?<br />
|Lists for $189 new though currently sold out, not sure if more are being manufactured<br />
|Compact but still has individual lights<br />
|The reset button does not clear the system if someone is holding down one of the activator buttons<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.trebisky.com/product-page/trebisky-game-show-buzzer-standalone-system-w-led-light-buttons-8-player Trebisky]<br />
|Game Show Buzzer<br />
|Yes<br />
|$90<br />
|The lowest-priced new system, and is sold through Amazon so has lots of payment options.<br />
| ''Extremely'' fragile system using very cheap components that is likely to arrive with at least one activator already broken. There is no way that this system will stand up to the ordinary wear and tear of travel or game use. The system as designed theoretically meets tournament usability requirements, but in reality is probably not suited for actual quizbowl team needs and is better used for non-quizbowl classroom or entertainment applications.<br />
|-<br />
|[https://tripleqquestions.com/product/8-player-sho-me-smart-light-buzzer-system/ Triple-Q/Sho-Me]<br />
|Smart Light<br />
|Yes<br />
|$450<br />
|The images of this system look identical to the JBQ bar system - possibly the original manufacturer was acquired by Triple Q?<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|UniAsia<ref>This company appears to still be in business but does not have a website that I could find.</ref><br />
|QZ-825<br />
|Yes<br />
|$115<br />
|At this price, if you can get 2 years out of them, it's probably worth it even if they don't last longer than that.<br />
|From pictures, this seems to be basically the same design as the no-longer-made SVBZ buzzers, which proved somewhat fragile and difficult to set up.<br />
|-<br />
|[http://www.zeecraft.com/ Zeecraft]<br />
|Challenger I<br />
|Yes<br />
|$495<br />
|All Challenger models accommodate either the "regular buzzer" (unit with button and small light for each player), the "Showtime handgrip" ("trigger" style buzzer with separate large rectangular light unit for each player), or the "Showtime tabletop" (the smaller square light unit). Loud buzzing tone that's less harsh than the QuikPro.<br />
|RJ11 connectors break easily, though these are fairly simple to repair. The Showtime handgrips have large plastic covers that will probably crack if dropped repeatedly; as with the Quik Pro Deluxe, you should try to secure them to the table when using to avoid this. Properly setting up and repacking the system, including using velcro or tape to avoid damage to the Showtime units, takes longer than any other currently manufactured buzzer (though not as long as the SVBZ).<br />
|-<br />
|[http://www.zeecraft.com/ Zeecraft]<br />
|Challenger II<br />
|Yes<br />
|$610<br />
|Various built-in timing functions; can show a visible countdown for an NAQT-style game clock or rules such as 5 seconds per bonus part, etc.<br />
|RJ11 connectors break easily, though these are fairly simple to repair.<br />
|-<br />
|[http://www.zeecraft.com/ Zeecraft]<br />
|Challenger III<br />
|Yes<br />
|$720<br />
|Adds lights on the control unit to the Challenger II features.<br />
|RJ11 connectors break easily, though these are fairly simple to repair.<br />
|-<br />
|[http://www.zeecraft.com/ Zeecraft]<br />
|Discover<br />
|Yes<br />
|$365<br />
|<br />
|Lights on control unit only (no light physically in front of each player).<br />
|-<br />
|[https://www.andersonbuzzersystems.com/ Anderson Enterprises]<br />
|Officiator Deluxe<br />
|No<br />
|Model discontinued. The similar Officiator Elite is now offered instead.<br />
|Has an LED screen on the control unit to display certain information about buzzing order.<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Creative Electronic Designs<br />
|Quiz Wizard II<br />
|No<br />
|Company is no longer in business.<br />
|Can accommodate 16 players in large practice environments etc. Generally fairly durable; one or two buzzers may go dead but these systems are well over 20 years old and are still seen from time to time. Long cords.<br />
|Everything is hardwired together, which combined with the cord length means it can become tangled, hence "The Knot." No way to do individual activator repairs. This system has no lights at all; when a player buzzes, the moderator must read their buzzer number from an LCD screen. Annoyingly, the buzzers are numbered A1 through A4, B1 through B4, C1 through C4, and D1 through D4, which means you shouldn't use both D and B in a game since those are hard to distinguish. The buzzer numbers inscribed on the activators wear off over time so the only way to determine the numbers is for everyone to remember what comes up at the buzzer check. The additional step of calling out the buzzer number means that these systems should probably not be used in timed games (e.g. official NAQT national events). For a "barebones" system with no special features, the unit is surprisingly large; it takes up about as much space as a Quik Pro Deluxe or other system that uses that space to provide individual light units to each player.<br />
|-<br />
|Educational Technologies<br />
|Inquisitor<br />
|No<br />
|Company is no longer in business.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Electramatic<br />
|The Judge<br />
|???<br />
|Electramatic has always had a very basic and uninformative web presence. It may still be possible to order this system by phone, or not.<br />
|Simple setup (basically just take the single hard-wired mass of equipment out of the case).<br />
|Breaks easily, especially the covers on the lights which protrude from the case and are not protected in any way. Everything being hardwired together with relatively short cords means that there's little flexibility in adapting to room setups and it's extremely easy for one errant move to drag the whole system to the floor. No lights in front of individual players. Confusing "timer" function on the reset switch often causes problems with uncleared buzzers in games.<br />
|-<br />
|JEM<br />
|Buzz Box<br />
|Maybe<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Logitek<br />
|Quiztron<br />
|No<br />
|Company is no longer in business.<br />
|<br />
|Buzzer lights are encased in the most enormous pieces of translucent plastic known in any buzzer system, with twelve panes over a foot long used in each system. This means they are very easily cracked and the remaining examples of these buzzers all look very beat-up.<br />
|-<br />
|[https://buzzersystems.com/ Novel Electronic Designs/BuzzerSystems.com]<br />
|Deluxe System<br />
|No<br />
|Model discontinued. The similar Line-Up Chain-Link Quiz System is now offered instead.<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Paléogénies<br />
|Génies-Box<br />
|Maybe<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Pitsco<br />
|Quiz Wizard I<br />
|No<br />
|Pitsco Education is still in business and will likely be able to repair old systems, but they no longer manufacture new buzzers. <br />
|Very durable, compact, easy-to-set-up system.<br />
|Lights on console only, no individual player lights. The system does a 3-second "self-test" routine every time it is reset rather than just when initially powered up, which is annoying and in timed formats possibly makes it unusable.<br />
|-<br />
|QuizCo<br />
|The Quiz Machine<br />
|No<br />
|Company is no longer in business.<br />
|Can extend lengths with off-the-shelf RCA cords.<br />
|Electronic design of this system is completely dependent on "daisy chain" signal pass-through; one dead activator or cord will make every subsequent unit in the string unusable, so testing and avoiding disturbing the cords throughout the game becomes even more important than usual. System exhibits other weird behavior at times (e.g., touching anything conductive to the cord ports will cause the buzzer to go off).<br />
|-<br />
|SVBZ<br />
|SVBZ System<br />
|No<br />
|Company is no longer in business.<br />
|Both an AC adapter and a battery powered mode (9-volt) are available by default.<br />
|This system uses a huge tree of wires to connect the activators to the control unit and must be totally pulled apart and separated (preferably in individual plastic bags or similar) before being repacked. If you try to pack it up without undoing all the connections even once it will become a hopeless tangle and require 15+ minutes of work to get back to a usable state. Components are cheap and fail often. With SVBZ out of business and the system out of warranty, you should only use this system if you can acquire 2 of them, as that is the only way to have a reasonable shot at pulling enough working parts to make one fully usable system. All connections need to be pushed together as tightly as possible or buzzers will stop working and you will have to hunt through the spiderweb of wires to find the problem. Many people find the buzzing noise on this system to be harsh/unpleasant.<br />
|-<br />
|University Research Company<br />
|Quiz-a-Matic Professional<br />
|No<br />
|Company is no longer in business.<br />
|Adds individual colored lights and a detachable handheld cylinder-button activator to the original Q-a-M design. Branded with College Bowl logo.<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|University Research Company<br />
|Quiz-a-Matic<br />
|No<br />
|Company is no longer in business.<br />
|Very reliable system with many units from 30+ years ago still functioning in quizbowl. Extremely good ergonomics on the button design, and a quaint "bell" sound is used for the buzzing noise.<br />
|Each team side is hardwired together, so there is a possibility of wire stress when packing and it's not possible to replace just one buzzer. With the company defunct, unless you can figure out how to fix the electronics on your own, once the unit goes below 8 working activators it's done for.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Notes on buying used buzzers==<br />
<br />
Buzzer systems fairly often appear on resale websites, primarily eBay but also sometimes Etsy, Goodwill, and government auction aggregators. Often these were buzzers owned by secondary schools which closed and whose movable property was sold as a lot to a dealer, or systems formerly owned by non-quizbowl campus groups such as college activities offices affiliated with now-defunct programs (e.g. ACUI College Bowl).<br />
<br />
*Don't buy a buzzer that won't be usable - the most common system seen here is the Trebisky Game Show Buzzer, which is marketed to a more general audience than quizbowl and primarily uses eBay and Amazon to reach buyers. As mentioned above, while information on this system is included because its technical layout meets the criteria for quizbowl buzzers, it is not a good choice for a quizbowl team and will basically be a waste of money (or time as you return it). The UniAsia QZ-825 also appears on eBay very often; it's possible that this is a more reliable system, but it has not been seen in mainstream quizbowl yet and nothing can be said for sure.<br />
*Extend your search terms- Most people making these sales are not "quizbowl people" and are guessing at what the item is called. Search for "quiz buzzer," "lockout system," "trivia," brand names such as Quik Pro, Zeecraft, etc., and be prepared to scroll past a lot of false positives.<br />
*Read terms- A lot of bulk sellers will, as a policy, not test or guarantee any electronics. Buying an "as-is" buzzer system is a needless risk and should generally be treated as code for "buying a non-working system." Sometimes, smaller sellers will be willing to plug in and test a system if you tell them how to do it - remember, they are not quizbowl people, they will need a little nudge as to what you are looking for.<br />
*The value proposition of a used buzzer is totally different than a new one because you are getting a discount. The reasons that it might not make sense to pay $700 for a Zeecraft become almost irrelevant if someone is selling the same unit for $100. The least expensive new buzzers that are generally expected to be usable over the long term include the $289 QuikPro Basic, the $290 Anderson Officiator Tabletop, and the $360 NED 10-Player. If your budget is lower and you can at least be assured that what you are buying is returnable if it doesn't work, then almost any model of buzzer at substantially less than $289 becomes a good deal.<br />
*Don't be afraid to negotiate, including using eBay's offer system. Most sellers have no idea what prices "should" be and are open to considering lowering prices, especially if the item has been on sale for a while. The inverse of the above point is - if I can get a brand new buzzer for $290 then why would I pay $500 for one that's used, banged up, covered in pieces of tape and writing that says Blahville Middle School, etc? Many sellers will find this persuasive.<br />
*Discuss lowering shipping costs as well. Most systems can be sent through regular USPS for less than $30. If someone insists on charging more and this brings the total cost of the purchase beyond what makes sense, let them know.<br />
*Know what can be repaired on your end - burnt out light bulbs, broken phone jacks, etc. are easy; completely nonfunctional electronic boards aren't. Once you know what you can repair, see what discounted "broken" systems may not be so broken after all. A system that is still supported but is missing one or two working activators might still prove a good deal after calculating the total cost of buying the used system and ordering replacement activators from the manufacturer.<br />
<br />
Overall, buying used can be a great option for those on a very limited budget or clubs looking to buy a second or third buzzer in an open-ended timeframe. You will almost always find something usable for under $200 if you know how to search and have a little patience. The more of these units that are brought back into the mainstream quizbowl ecosystem, the better it will be for the issue of supplying buzzers to tournaments.<br />
<br />
==Purchasing a buzzer system==<br />
<br />
New quiz bowl programs commonly ask how and where to buy a buzzer system. Overtime all buzzers break down, so it is often better to purchase more durable systems such as Andersons, which are the cheapest and provide good warranties, than to a more expensive system because it looks better or you have heard rumors that it is less likely to fail. Local civic organizations are a good place to reach out to if your school division denies funding for a buzzer system.<br />
<br />
There are other concerns about buying a buzzer system for quiz bowl:<br />
*Quiz bowl does not use "self-resetting" systems; you should buy a buzzer with a moderator reset button.<br />
*Wireless buzzer systems are inappropriate for tournament play due to the potential for lag.<br />
*Phone- and tablet-based buzzer systems are inappropriate for tournament play and serious practice due to the potential for distraction or cheating by using such devices' other functions.<br />
*Battery-operated buzzer systems will require you to always keep spare batteries in the case in the event of a mid-tournament battery failure. For tournament use, systems plugging into building power are preferred (it helps to keep an extension cord in the case because some rooms have inconveniently-located power outlets).<br />
*Individual player lights on or next to each player's buzzer make it easier for everyone to recognize who has buzzed in first.<br />
<br />
===[[Matt's Buzzers]]===<br />
<br />
Matt's Buzzers is a charity set up by Sheryl and Mike Cvijanovich, the parents of [[Matt Cvijanovich]]. It awards grants to teams seeking to buy buzzer systems. These grants are given in Matt's honor.<br />
<br />
===Buzzer exhibit===<br />
<br />
The Fondren Library at [[Rice]] University displays three buzzer systems formerly used by the Rice team as part of an exhibit on the history of Rice's quizbowl program.<br />
<br />
===Terminology===<br />
<br />
"Buzzer system" (used in most mainstream quizbowl) and "lockout system" (used in College Bowl) are the most common terms. Game shows such as ''Jeopardy!'' that use similar systems refer to them as a "signaling device." The terms "indicator system," "lockout/indicator," and "quiz box" are seen occasionally.<br />
<br />
The rules of at least two high school leagues in 2022 (one in Ohio and one in Georgia) still use the trademarked model name "Quiz-a-Matic" to refer to buzzers in general, despite the fact that the Quiz-a-Matic has not been manufactured since 1996, suggesting that this system was once so common that its name began to genericize.<br />
<br />
==Official systems==<br />
<br />
While almost all tournaments allow any buzzer that meets their technical requirements and rarely have the luxury of turning away any working buzzers supplied by teams, some models are more common in certain environments:<br />
*[[NHBB]] endorses the [[Anderson]] Officiator to teams and uses that model for their company-owned reserve of buzzers.<br />
*[[NAQT]] owns several dozen [[NED]] buzzers and does, or formerly did, have many company-owned [[Judge]]s as well.<br />
*[[VHSL Scholastic Bowl]] uses a stock of [[Quik Pro]] Deluxe buzzers at its state tournament and endorses Quik Pro for purchase by participating teams. Scholastic Bowl-only programs almost invariably own a Quik Pro Deluxe with the siren-style buzzers; other models appear at regional-level VHSL tournaments only when more active teams that purchased buzzers outside of VHSL's recommendation supply them.<br />
*Off-TV [[College Bowl]] used [[Zeecraft]] Challenger I buzzers at its official events after University Research Company stopped making its prior official buzzer, the Quizamatic, in 1996. The purchase of this model by colleges running intramural tournaments and the subsequent end of the College Bowl campus program may explain this buzzer's frequent appearance on secondhand resale websites.<br />
*The Creative Electronic Designs Quiz Wizard II was the official buzzer used by [[Certamen]] teams. As of 2023, now that the Quiz Wizard II is no longer being made, the NJCL is making and repairing its own systems. As Certamen involves 12 players at a time, not all quizbowl systems are usable for this format. <br />
*Televised high school quizbowl shows that don't build their own custom buzzers through the TV station's engineers often use Zeecrafts with the Showtime activators, which are fairly easily modified to output to a large light in front of a podium.<br />
<br />
The Quik Pro Deluxe "siren" style buzzers provide some advantage in games played before large audiences, as they have by far the largest lights, and the only large lights that are omnidirectional, of any available system. In extreme cases (e.g. national finals games played on stages in hotel conference rooms in front of hundreds of people) there is no out-of-the-box buzzer that lights up brightly enough to overcome the combined effects of the stage lighting and the size of the room, and the audience has to rely on listening to who is answering the question to determine who buzzed. The only way to overcome this is to re-route the light bulb socket in a buzzer that uses lamps (such as certain Zeecraft or NED models) to a larger, more powerful light on the front of the players' table/podium; outside of televised events, this method was once commonly done at the [[National Academic Championship]] and was used for the finals of the 2004 [[PACE NSC]].<br />
<br />
==Gallery of buzzer systems==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Quizco-quizmachine.jpg|Manufacturer: Quizco<br>Model: The Quiz Machine (aka the "QuizDuck" for its unique quack-like buzzing sound).|alt=alt language<br />
File:20playerquizco.jpg|Manufacturer: Quizco<br>Model: The 4-team, 20-player version of the Quiz Machine.|alt=alt language<br />
File:Paleogenies-geh.jpg|Manufacturer:Paléogénies<br>Model: Génies-Box used for [[Génies en herbe]] and related competitions in Quebec|alt=alt language<br />
File:Quizwizard1-pitsco.jpg|Manufacturer: Pitsco<br>Model: Quiz Wizard I|alt=alt language<br />
File:Quizwizardii-ced.jpg|Manufacturer: Creative Electronic Designs<br>Model: Quiz Wizard II aka "The Knot"|alt=alt language<br />
File:Thejudge2.jpg|Manufacturer: Electramatic<br>Model: The Judge|alt=alt language<br />
File:Biblebowl.jpg|Manufacturer:<br>Model: [[Bible Bowl]] system that was produced by third-party builders & also made freely available as a schematic|alt=alt language<br />
File:Quikpro.jpg|Manufacturer: 4 D Designs<br>Model: Quik Pro Deluxe Strobe. Quik Pro offers various "deluxe" models with large lights as seen here.|alt=alt language<br />
File:Qpb.jpg|Manufacturer: 4 D Designs<br>Model: Quik Pro Basic. This has lights on the control unit only; players need to be aware of which color/number light is theirs.|alt=alt language<br />
File:Qpcombo.jpg|Manufacturer: Quik Pro<br>Model: New Combo Quik Pro with ergonomic single-piece buzzers|alt=alt language<br />
File:QPcombo_quikpro.jpg|Manufacturer: Quik Pro<br>Model: Old-style Combo Quik Pro with rounded single-piece buzzers|alt=alt language<br />
File:Anderson-officiator.jpg|Manufacturer: Anderson<br>Model: Officiator with 10 desktop activators|alt=alt language<br />
File:Officiator16.png|Manufacturer: Anderson<br>Model: 32-player version of the Officiator Deluxe (since discontinued and replaced with the similar Officiator Elite). This comes with either the "paddle" or smaller handheld activators.|alt=alt language<br />
File:Ned-buzzer.jpg|Manufacturer: Novel Electronic Designs<br>Model: NED system with one handheld activator set up|alt=alt language<br />
File:Ned-setup.jpg|Manufacturer: Novel Electronic Designs<br>Model: NED system with eight desktop activators set up|alt=alt language<br />
File:Nedchain.png|Manufacturer: Novel Electronic Designs<br>Model: Part of the still-manufactured older design from NED/Buzzersytems.com, which they call the "chain link" system, using Ethernet-style connectors|alt=alt language<br />
File:Zeecraft-challenger1.jpg|Manufacturer: Zeecraft<br>Model: Challenger I|alt=alt language<br />
File:Zeecraft-challenger2.jpg|Manufacturer: Zeecraft<br>Model: Challenger II in the case.|alt=alt language<br />
File:4-1.jpg|Manufacturer: Zeecraft<br>Model: Challenger II view approximating game-usable setup. Note: The distinguishing features of the various Zeecraft models are on the control unit; the different styles of activators are generally interchangeable from one model to another.|alt=alt language<br />
File:S-l1600.jpg|Manufacturer: Zeecraft<br>Model: Challenger II with single-piece style individual light activators. The "BUZZ IN" stickers were applied by the manufacturer and often appear on this model of activator.|alt=alt language<br />
File:Challenger-tabletop.jpg|Manufacturer: Zeecraft<br>Model: Challenger II with the less-often seen large light tabletop units|alt=alt language<br />
File:Challenger3.jpg|Manufacturer: Zeecraft<br>Model: A Challenger III control unit|alt=alt language<br />
File:Svbz.jpg|Manufacturer: SVBZ<br>Model: Full SVBZ system|alt=alt language<br />
File:Svbzblue.jpg|Manufacturer: SVBZ<br>Model: A lit-up SVBZ activator with their most common light design.|alt=alt language.<br />
File:Svbz_round.jpg|Manufacturer: SVBZ<br>Model: Large, round activator used in the last years of SVBZ|alt=alt language<br />
File:Bolling-funb.jpg|Manufacturer: Boling<br>Model: Funbuzzer with two activators visible|alt=alt language<br />
File:Funbuzzer.jpg|Manufacturer: Boling<br>Model: Full view of the Funbuzzer|alt=alt language<br />
File:Shomesmartlight.jpg|Manufacturer: Sho-Me Systems<br>Model: Smart Light|alt=alt language<br />
File:Quiz_equipment_basic_quizbox.jpg|Manufacturer: Quiz Equipment<br>Model: Basic Quiz Box. These systems are modular and are sold with the buyer's choice of control unit/activator unit style combinations.|alt=alt language<br />
File:Buzzer-board-organized.jpg|Manufacturer: Quiz Equipment<br>Model: "Buzzer Board" marketed to Bible Bowl participants|alt=alt language<br />
File:Qz825.jpg|Manufacturer: UniAsia<br>Model: QZ825, a Hong Kong-manufactured system often seen on eBay for a low cost|alt=alt language<br />
File:Trebisky.jpg|Manufacturer: Trebisky<br>Low-cost China-made system of dubious quality heavily promoted online|alt=alt language<br />
File:Ion-electricals-india.webp|Manufacturer: Ion Electricals<br>Model: System used in [[Indian quizzing]]|alt=alt language<br />
File:Nasco.png|Manufacturer: Nasco<br>Model: Classroom Challenger|alt=alt language<br />
File:Quizmaster.png|Manufacturer: Erickson<br>Model: Quizmaster|alt=alt language<br />
File:Quizamatic.png|Manufacturer: University Research Company<br>Model: Classic Quizamatic. The physical bell which produces the sound upon "buzzing" is visible.|alt=alt language<br />
File:8366d3093dc379e431be6e14f8ac7d21.jpg|Manufacturer: University Research Company<br>Model: The Quizamatic Professional, featuring individual player lights and College Bowl branding.|alt=alt language<br />
File:Quizamaticset.jpg|Manufacturer: University Research Company<br>Model: One team set up for the Quiz-a-Matic Professional|alt=alt language<br />
File:Esl-slamsystem.png|Manufacturer: ESL<br>Model: Slam System.|alt=alt language<br />
File:Prod_18222294424.jpg|Manufacturer: Trainers' Warehouse<br>Model: Me First Answer Dome (wireless system)|alt=alt language<br />
File:Quizsystems-QS2000A.jpg|Manufacturer: Quiz Systems<br>Model: QS2000A|alt=alt language<br />
File:Img_1229.webp|Manufacturer: QuizSystems.com<br>Model: Closer view of part of a QuizSystems buzzer system|alt=alt language<br />
File:Img_1232.webp|Manufacturer: Logitek<br>Model: Quiztron|alt=alt language<br />
File:Jembuzzbox.jpg|Manufacturer: JEM<br>Model: Buzz Box|alt=alt language<br />
File:Edapi-questionairre.jpg|Manufacturer: EDAPI<br>Model: Genius Game (showing control unit only without activators)|alt=alt language<br />
File:BigDaddy_10-Player_System_400.jpg|Manufacturer: Affordable Buzzers<br>Model: Big Daddy. These buzzers require connecting to a computer to function and are not considered usable by most mainstream quizbowl.|alt=alt language<br />
File:PowerGrip-wired-full-system-16-9.jpg|Manufacturer: Affordable Buzzers<br>Model: PowerGrip. These buzzers require connecting to a computer to function and are not considered usable by most mainstream quizbowl.|alt=alt language<br />
File:Rollsg76.jpg|Manufacturer: Rolls<br>Model: GS76RL|alt=alt language<br />
File:Jbq.jpg|Manufacturer: JBQ<br>Model: "Bar" system formerly used in Junior Bible Quiz|alt=alt language<br />
File:Tanddenterprisesthequizzer.jpg|Manufacturer: T&D Enterprises<br>Model: The Quizzer in the case|alt=alt language<br />
File:Tdquizzer2.jpg|Manufacturer: T&D Enterprises<br>Model: Another view of The Quizzer|alt=alt language<br />
File:Thequizzr3.jpg|Manufacturer: T&D Enterprises<br>Model: The Quizzer with a lit-up activator|alt=alt language<br />
File:Creative-engineering-gsm-plus.jpg|Manufacturer: Creative Imagineering<br>Model: Lockout Plus|alt=alt language<br />
File:Edinsights.jpg|Manufacturer: Educational Insights<br>Model: Quiz Bowl buzzer set|alt=alt language<br />
File:maplin-quizzer.jpg|Manufacturer: Maplin<br>Model: Quizzer/Priority Quiz Buzzer. This system was published as a schematic in a UK electronics hobbyist magazine in 1993, with instructions on including any desired number of individual activators|alt=alt language<br />
File:Gameshowpro-learningware.jpg|Manufacturer: Learning Ware<br>Model: Game Show Pro|alt=alt language<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Reference for common buzzer parts & repair tools==<br />
<br />
*Anderson power pack - available on their website http://www.andersonbuzzersystems.com/replacementparts.html, if using a third-party power supply, set output to 9V and use the 3.5mm connector (off-the-shelf power packs should come with an assortment of connectors)<br />
*Bulbs for Zeecraft "showtime" activators - #47 or #1847 "bayonet" or "pinball" style such as these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LC968GK (LED) or https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00455IHYM (traditional incandescent filament) Note - Modern LED bulbs placed in older Zeecraft systems will glow faintly whenever the system is plugged in, but they will still clearly get much brighter when the player buzzes and are entirely usable for the purposes of a buzzer. If you can get old incandescent bulbs, they won't do this, but they are more expensive, you will have to replace them more often and, at some point in the future, such bulbs will no longer be made.<br />
*Bulbs for NED systems - while these look superficially similar to the Zeecraft bulbs they are not interchangeable. NED sells replacement LED bulbs here: https://buzzersystems.com/product/light-bulb-long-life-red/ and the specs per their page are 12-14V, 25mA, T 3-1/4 BA9S size<br />
*Fuses for QuikPro systems - 0.5 amp 1" x 1 1/4" glass tube, e.g. these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BXHWAM<br />
*Soldering iron for wire connections - any kind, available anywhere hardware is sold<br />
*Crimping kit for RJ11 ("phone jack") and RJ45 ("Ethernet") tab connectors used by QuikPro, Zeecraft, and other manufacturers - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0756SN86D or any similar kit plus pack of connectors https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008EAK1FM<br />
*Screwdrivers are needed for opening Anderson units to fix sunken bulbs, opening Zeecraft showtime light units to replace the bulbs, and other general repair tasks. These will be included in most crimping kits, otherwise supply your own.<br />
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Keeping the above tools and parts with your buzzer can save a tournament from running short.<br />
<br />
*Buzzer cases: All extant manufacturers sell bags or cases that are intended to fit their buzzers; check the appropriate websites. Otherwise, nearly every system will fit into one of the following options:<br />
**16 or 20 inch toolboxes: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HD60PE or https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0032Y8RIS, also available at any store that sells hardware or fishing supplies<br />
**"Catalog cases" - for example https://www.amazon.com/Solo-New-York-Classic-USLB1514/dp/B000IJ9O8W/ - these are what NED sells for their systems. The difference between a small "catalog case" and a large "laptop case" is somewhat blurry, so look into all options for the dimensions you need.<br />
**Nearly any system besides the full-size Zeecrafts and the Quik Pro Deluxe will fit in an ordinary household storage bin like this: https://www.amazon.com/Tribello-Clear-Plastic-Storage-Containers/dp/B08H8X25XZ which are sold everywhere<br />
**The new miniaturized Anderson system, original-style Quizamatics, and QuizPro basic systems will fit in an average cardboard shoebox.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=22829 So You Want to Buy a Buzzer System]<br />
*[http://www.mattsbuzzers.com/ Matt's Buzzers]<br />
*[http://www.andersonbuzzersystems.com/ Anderson Buzzer Systems]<br />
*[http://www.buzzersystems.com/ BuzzerSystems.com]<br />
*[http://www.quikprosystems.com/ Quik Pro]<br />
*[http://www.zeecraft.com/ Zeecraft Tech]<br />
*[https://www.delcomproducts.com/productdetails.asp?PartNumber=706400-1M Delcom USB Handheld Buzzer]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOMwm8EAXb8 A Quiz-a-Matic buzzer system being tested]<br />
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[[Category: Quizbowl basics]]<br />
[[Category:Buzzers]]<br />
[[Category:Original QBWiki Page]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=How_to_flashcard&diff=63030How to flashcard2024-02-05T16:38:57Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Efficiency matters */</p>
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<div>{{Studying}}<br />
This guide is meant to summarize some specific steps that one can take to effectively [[flashcard]] for quiz bowl.<br />
<br />
Flashcarding is only one facet of [[studying]] and certainly not a requirement for playing, improving, or enjoying quiz bowl - for a broad overview of other approachs, see [[How to study]] and read the [[Study#Guides|guides in the "Study" page]].<br />
<br />
==Overview==<br />
Flashcarding (henceforth referred to as "carding") is a method of retaining information that is common in quiz bowl. This has not always been the case - the popularity of the technique has seen a steady increase over the last two decades, with players in the early 2000’s relying more on other methods.<br />
<br />
There are only a few steps involved in effective carding. In order of importance, they are:<br />
# Reviewing cards with regularity<br />
# Creating new cards<br />
# Amending old cards<br />
There is also a zero-th step, which is "Obtaining a carding program." This guide will start by summarizing each in chronological order from "card creation" to "card retiring".<br />
<br />
Many other players have described their personal preferences with carding - you will likely find many of their insights productive to read through. A few are listed here:<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14099 So You Want to Study Quizbowl] - the classic guide by [[Max Schindler]]<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=348211#p348211 Re: Help studying] by [[AGoodMan]] - advice from [[Jon Suh]]<br />
*[https://youtu.be/Kyibwh6hoL8 How to Study for Quizbowl] - a general guide to quizbowl studying by [[Nick Dai]] that spends some time discussing carding<br />
*[https://youtu.be/3QY1RUR9LN0 How to Study Quizbowl Literature using Anki!!!] - a video on using clozes to study literature by [[Towery McNeil]]<br />
<br />
===Obtaining a carding program===<br />
For many players, the first experience they will have had with flashcards is something they wrote on physical index cards to remember vocabulary words or key terms for one of their classes. Even this rudimentary system is very effective, but its most significant drawback is that it does not scale. As the number of cards increases, the overhead of keeping them organized grows enormously. [https://quizlet.com/ Quizlet], probably the best-known flashcarding software, allows the creation of digital questions on their website. This solves some of the organizational issues and many players may have started with this instead of physical cards. Both of these will suffice but suffer from the subtle issue that reviewing in order is not as effective as reviewing randomly, and both are less effective than an intelligent spacing.<br />
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For this reason, most players will recommend a software that makes use of "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition spaced repetition]". This is a family of algorithms that will delay showing you specific cards that you previously performed well on. There are two major programs which are used for this purpose:<br />
{| class=wikitable<br />
! [https://apps.ankiweb.net/ Anki]<br />
! [https://mnemosyne-proj.org/ Mnemosyne]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
*Much larger community bolstered by med school students (for whom Anki is the carding program of choice)<br />
*Slightly nicer interface, which can be made nicer still by mods<br />
*Paid iOS app available<br />
*Two syllable name<br />
|<br />
*Smaller community, but still active<br />
*More utilitarian<br />
*No iOS app<br />
*Four (three?) syllable name that is hard to pronounce<br />
|-<br />
!colspan=2|Shared features<br />
|-<br />
|colspan=2|<br />
*Free browser app using spaced repetition<br />
*Free Android app which syncs with browser<br />
*Native support for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX LaTeX] for all the science nerds<br />
*Native support for cloze deletion (more on this later)<br />
*Mod support for image occlusion ([https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1374772155 for Anki] and [https://mnemosyne-proj.org/scripts/imageoverlay-script for Mnemosyne])<br />
*Oriented towards language learners (the largest group of normal people who use flashcards)<br />
|}<br />
'''It is strongly recommended that you download one of these programs before you start seriously carding.'''<br />
<div style="font-size:24px">'''It is strongly recommended that you download one of these programs before you start seriously carding!'''</div><br />
<div style="color: red;font-size:36px">'''It is strongly recommended that you download one of these programs before you start seriously carding!!!'''</div><br />
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Downloading either of these free programs takes seconds on a typical internet connection. They are both perfectly acceptable choices - I ([[User:Kevin Wang|Kevin Wang]]) used Mnemosyne while I was in high school and switched to Anki in college, which I still use today. I would say that the only significant difference is that Anki has an iOS app - $25 well spent.<br />
<br />
===Creating new flashcards===<br />
:''See also: [[How to study]]''<br />
The main goal of carding is to retain pieces of information. This begs the question of "where do these pieces of information come from?"<br />
<br />
Typically, carding is a single, typically late, step of a studying pipeline. [[Clue]]s are obtained from various sources, including [[packet study|packets]] or reference materials like textbooks, before being written down and eventually converted into flashcards.<br />
<br />
It is possible to inherit a deck of cards (from a teammate, from a competitor, from online). You are certainly welcome to use these, but I caution you - the process of ''creating'' flashcards can be as significant for retention as ''reviewing'' them. It is very hard to beat someone to a fact with a card that they made. For this reason it is also recommended to have at least stage of review and research between learning information and writing it in a card.<br />
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===Reviewing flashcards with regularity===<br />
Regularity is key.<br />
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Programs using spaced repetition will schedule specific cards to be reviewed at specific intervals from when they were reviewed - a card that was successfully answered on Tuesday may be scheduled for Friday, while one which took two tries may be slated for tomorrow.<br />
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Regularity is key.<br />
<br />
Going through all of your due cards every day will ensure the maximum benefit from the algorithm. More practically, if you don't do your reviews one day you'll have to do them the next so try to avoid letting the backlog getting to big.<br />
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Regularity is key.<br />
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Improvement in any activity is dependent on prolonged, dedicated effort - having a program tell you exactly how much to do each day is just one manifestation of this.<br />
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===Amending old cards===<br />
At every stage of the carding process, it is important to remember that cards are tools meant to improve retention. If you are repeatedly failing to answer a card correctly, it is useful to spend a moment considering whether you truly have not learned the material or if the card has been constructed poorly. Sometimes, it is even appropriate to judge that a card that you wrote is of no utility at all and simply discard it.<br />
<br />
Some things you might do to a card in the middle of a review session:<br />
*Add additional clues on the front to give more context<br />
*Give more information on the back to act as a reminder<br />
*Reorder the words to make it easier to parse<br />
*Correct a factual error<br />
*Mark it as an issue and return to it later<br />
<br />
==Making your first card==<br />
{{Pic|Anki1.png}}<br />
For those who have not carded before, the following is an abbreviated guide to getting started. It should be sufficient for most purposes.<br />
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For more in-depth information about techniques, make sure to read the "[[How to flashcard#Tips, tricks, and aphorisms|Tips, tricks, and aphorisms]]" section.<br />
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===0. Acquire information you wish to remember===<br />
Carding is one step of the process of studying. In general it is more effective if it comes after several earlier stages where one obtains, organizes, and documents the information they wish to learn. This may be short-circuited by grabbing a clue directly from a tossup or bonus - though this is faster, it is less effective in the long term and should be avoided if possible.<br />
<br />
Some heuristics for what to write on flashcards in the beginning:<br />
*Focus on simple, concrete relationships where there are few or no ambiguities about the correct answer ("binaries").<br />
*Aim to incorporate non-trivial information - it should be possible to fail to remember what the backside of a card says.<br />
<br />
===1. Open your carding software===<br />
As mentioned above, it is strongly recommended that you use a tool with spaced repetition; this guide will focus on [[Anki]]. Nevertheless, these steps should be roughly applicable to other programs (and even physical cards, if that is your preference).<br />
<br />
===2. Create a new deck.===<br />
It is generally considered better to have a single deck for all cards with a certain purpose. For instance, one might separate cards for learning Spanish from those for cramming for a math test, but aggregate all your quiz bowl-related cards in one deck. To review a specific subset of darks, there are options to "custom study" based on tags; this means it is straightforward at all your cards labeled "literature" or "philosophy" at once.<br />
<br />
===3. Add a card===<br />
{{Pic|Anki2.png}}<br />
This example will focus on the "Basic" card type - for a discussion of the benefits of different varieties of card, check the section "[[How to flashcard#Learn the types of cards|Learn the types of cards]]".<br />
<br />
The "Front" of the card is what is shown - the "Back" is what is concealed. The most straightforward way to write a card would be like a [[bonus]] (or particularly short [[tossup]]): the front has the clues and the back has the answerline.<br />
<br />
Some additional tips:<br />
*The desired answer should always be obvious. The card should either incorporate a [[pronoun]] or be phrased in the form of a question.<br />
*Be sure to add tags to cards; these are especially useful for subject-specific studying.<br />
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Repeat this as many times as desired.<br />
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===4. Review the new cards===<br />
Return to the "Decks" view and select the deck with new cards in it. Answer cards until the daily limit is reached (or you grow weary).<br />
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Carding software operates on the honor system - the user is expected to self-report whether they remembered the card or not. It does not make any sense to cheat. Giving a higher value demonstrates better retention of a particular card and will produce an appropriately large delay. Low values indicate lapses and often prompt the user for rereview within the next few minutes.<br />
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===5. Adjust settings===<br />
After completing a review, there are several settings which may be worth changing.<br />
<br />
#The number of reviews per day should a comfortable amount - increase it if the current value is easy to complete. If the number ever becomes daunting, lowering it is the best option. Be aware that consistently adding new cards will ultimately require more reviews to get through them.<br />
#Creating an Anki account is necessary to sync cards between different computers, devices, or even people. It is necessary step in using the mobile apps to review on the go.<br />
<br />
==Tips, tricks, and aphorisms==<br />
===Learn the types of cards===<br />
The simplest possible flashcard is the front-back - a piece of information on one side evokes a piece of information on the other. This is likely the format you associate with flashcards, but it is far from the only kind. Knowing the different varieties (or even building your own) can improve your productivity.<br />
<br />
There is technically a distinction between the ''card that you edit'' (called a "note" in Anki) and the ''cards you review'' (just called "cards"). In general, there is at least one card per note, but the precise mapping will vary from type to type. In most situations this difference does not matter and "card" can be used interchangeably. <br />
{| class=wikitable<br />
! Type<br />
! Where this card shines<br />
! Pitfalls<br />
|-<br />
|style="background-color:gold"| '''Basic front-back'''<br />
Your classic, vanilla, milquetoast flashcard. You read one side, think your answer, and flip to see if you're right - bing, bang, boom.<br />
<br />
The standard, both by default and by convention. Good for most situations.<br />
|This card type is designed to retain simple associations: if A, then B. Basically any fact can also be distilled into this format, but some are particularly well-suited. A few examples:<br />
*novel to author<br />
*country to capital<br />
*artwork (either by name or by picture) to artist<br />
|The binary nature of this card type has a tendency to [[reify]] things in the mind of the user. Even clues considered "[[stock]]" because of their strong associations can actually point to multiple answers when placed in different contexts or examined in more detail, so having cards which don't address this nuance can lead directly to [[neg]]s.<br />
<br />
Avoid this by fleshing out cards with context whenever possible - give extra information on the back or write full sentences on the front.<br />
|-<br />
| '''Reverse front-back'''<br />
One step beyond the basic, this card type can be reviewed in either direction. <br />
<br />
Each reverse front-back note has two cards - one for the front to back direction and the other for the reverse.<br />
|One becomes good at what they practice - if one only has cards from A to B, it is much harder to go from B to A. These cards are useful for training that reverse direction.<br />
|There are very few true "binary associations" in quiz bowl. The classic use case for this card would be "word" and "translation" in language learning and most good uses have a similar pattern. One example use could be "technical term" and "definition".<br />
<br />
There has to be enough context on both sides for them both to function, which means twice as much effort per note.<br />
|-<br />
|style="background-color:rgb(212,212,212)"| '''Cloze deletion'''<br />
Clozes (pronounced ''CLOSES'') provide a convenient way to generate a large number of cards from a single note. An arbitrary number of sections of a text can be marked as a "cloze" - for each one, a card will be created that obscures that section and reveals it on the back.<br />
<br />
The preferred card type of science players. <br />
|The strongest advantage of clozes is that they remove the need to copy-paste information while creating related cards, making them much faster to produce large numbers of. They are an efficient way to create cards that aim to capture how pieces of information interact, as well as for testing long lists of information. Very useful for retaining clues ''around'' the clue that the card is focusing on.<br />
|Because every card is derived from a single note, slight issues in how the initial text is phrased can make the resulting cards very confusing. This can be mitigated somewhat by adding notes to a cloze to give context, like the [[pronoun]] that an answerline would have or a hint.<br />
|-<br />
|'''Image occlusion'''<br />
Conceptually very similar to clozes, but rather than selecting regions of text you select regions of an image. This is typically used for labeled diagrams that combine an image with text.<br />
<br />
This form of card is supported in both Anki and Mnemosyne, but only through mods ([https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1374772155 for Anki] and [https://mnemosyne-proj.org/scripts/imageoverlay-script for Mnemosyne]).<br />
|This card type shares many advantages with clozes, but with one large addition: it is generally harder to manipulate images than text. Clozes can fairly simply be replaced with basic front-back cards, but the same is not true of occluded image cards - it is impractical to achieve the same results that the add-ons provide.<br />
|This type of card only works if you have an image on hand which a) is labeled and b) tests something meaningful.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Some of the flashcard types described above perform similar roles. Two quick examples:<br />
<br />
{|class=wikitable<br />
!<br />
! Short note<br />
! Long note<br />
|-<br />
! Card type<br />
! Note(s)<br />
! Note(s)<br />
|-<br />
| Basic Front-Back<br />
| [[File:AnkiBasicExample1a.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:AnkiBasicExample1b.png|300px]]<br />
| [[File:AnkiBasicExample3.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:AnkiBasicExample2b.png|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
| Reversed Front-Back<br />
| [[File:AnkiFrontBackExample2.png|300px]]<br />
| [[File:AnkiFrontBackExample.png|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
| Cloze<br />
| [[File:AnkiClozeExample2.png|300px]]<br />
| [[File:AnkiClozeExample.png|300px]]<br />
|}<br />
The above images were taken in Anki.<br />
<br />
Some analysis:<br />
*The basic card type is not well suited for the simple case: it requires roughly twice as many characters as either the reversed front-back card or the cloze.<br />
*The reversed front-back card type is much better at creating this kind of card. The major downside is that there has to be extra context provided for the reverse direction. However, this information also makes it more obvious what is being asked for.<br />
*The cloze shortens the amount of time required to write the cards but at the cost of some confusion, which is clear in the larger.<br />
*In the simple scenario, the reversed front-back is probably the best but none are particularly far behind - even making two basic cards is quick. Clozes are technically the fastest but they're a little confusing to review.<br />
*In the long scenario, the basic card becomes clearer than the reversed front-back and the utility of the back card is so small that one could probably omit it entirely. The cloze does okay, but its real strength begins to shine through this toy example: adding additional cards for other key terms is as simple as editing the card and selecting the new terms. To replicate this behavior with the other card types would be incredibly difficult.<br />
<br />
===Use images===<br />
There are no pictures in quiz bowl (well, [[visual tournaments|not usually]]) but real life certainly has them. Developing visual associations can help with retention, even if the information is ultimately presented in the form of text.<br />
<br />
There are a lot of fields where there are images could obviously add a lot to a card - [[visual fine arts]] like painting, sculpture, and film stand out as exemplars - but you may be surprised how much a visual aid can add to a card about a book or a person.<br />
<br />
===Efficiency matters===<br />
{{Pic|xkcd1319.png|[https://xkcd.com/1319/ xkcd comic 1319]}}<br />
Flashcarding is a long-term strategy - while it can be used for brief, intense study binges, most of its utility comes from its ability to provide results over the course of months or years. As such, it is important to try to save time whenever possible.<br />
<br />
Several observations:<br />
*In a previous section, cards created using cloze deletion were judged as less robust than simple front-back cards for simple topics but more useful for complicated ones. In both cases, though, creating clozes was faster. Consequently, one could save time by always creating clozes, even when they were not the best choice, and make up for it by creating more cards.<br />
*Both Anki and Mnemosyne allow card templates to be created which can simplify the task of creating cards with specific formations. A potential template for writing questions about chemical reactions could have pre-created fields for the name, reactants, conditions, and products. If a large number of cards with this format were created, the initial time investment would quickly pay for itself.<br />
<br />
There is a point where trying to make a task more efficient costs more than just doing it. For instance, you may be tempted to implement your own Anki/Mnemosyne add-on to facilitate your unique workflow. At that stage, it is important to recognize that you've probably crossed the threshold and stop (and perhaps consider a career as an engineer).<br />
<br />
===Subliminal messaging is bad===<br />
The human mind is amazing - you may not believe it, but it is entirely possible (and quite common) to subconsciously remember the exact layout of the text on a card or instantly read words in your peripheral vision. Both of these can be used to recall the answer, but they don't actually require any mental processing. Remember: the goal is not to answer the most cards but to successfully retain the information.<br />
<br />
Always try to read through the text of your card and process what it says before you answer.<br />
<br />
===Play the game===<br />
Cards are very good for remembering discrete pieces of information; in particular, they are good at linking precisely two facts together.<br />
<br />
In quiz bowl, you will have access to more than just one piece of information. The same is also true in real life, a place you may have heard of in your studies. In both these places, multiple facts are typically presented at the same time and used simultaneously to arrive at an answer.<br />
<br />
Don't be afraid to add a few extra pieces of information on a card, or to make them longer if you think it'll aid your long-term retention. It might be hard to judge this while creating a card, but can be assessed more accurately while reviewing.<br />
<br />
===Know the limitations of cards===<br />
There's no way to read beyond what is written on a card. This seems obvious but it bears reminding: no matter how long a card you write (which really shouldn't be ''that'' long), the content is very finite.<br />
<br />
The implications are two-fold:<br />
*You can't learn things that aren't there<br />
*You can't use things that aren't there to learn<br />
<br />
The platonic ideal of a card is a single binary association which instantly evokes the entire web of intricate relationships between the front and the back, as well as between each side and every other piece of related information. In practice, cards are written to be longer and explicitly include those connections to aid in retention and ensure that no implicit knowledge is lost in the studying process. Even so, it is important to build up a body of knowledge that isn’t yet on a card (though it may someday end up on one).<br />
<br />
The information that ends up written down on any given card will have been distilled down from this larger initial pool. Some of that will linger in the mind but much is eventually lost to the sands of time. Don't expect to always remember that context later - that's what carding is for, after all. Make the effort to replenish that extra context whenever necessary.<br />
<br />
This concept is particularly salient for technical fields like music theory and the hard sciences. It is difficult to test the application of these skills and the intuition that's involved using flashcards. Nevertheless, these are useful skills to cultivate separately, both because of their intrinsic value and their usefulness in retaining your cards.<br />
<br />
===Prepare for lapses===<br />
Though consistency is important, there are a ton of reasons that you may not fill your daily review quota (or miss a day entirely). A great reason is "that you don't want to review that day" - prioritizing mental health and avoiding burnout is a very important part of a study routine.<br />
<br />
It often feels like you are seeing your cards for the first time after some time away. Make it easy for yourself by fleshing out your cards, either when you are first creating them or when you're reviewing them again. The biggest thing to include is that every card lists the [[pronoun]] of the answer: "this book", "this author", "this molecule". If you're using clozes, the [https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/fields.html#hint-fields hint functionality] is your friend.<br />
<br />
===Embrace verticality===<br />
When writing cards with clozes, it is tempting to always write full sentences or to use paragraphs. This becomes unwieldy, especially for cards with a large amount of content, as it becomes difficult to identify what parts of the card contain relevant information for filling in the deleted cloze.<br />
<br />
An alternative format is placing the subject first and all the clauses on separate lines underneath it. The act of splitting up a block of text into shorter sections reduces the amount of scanning that's necessary to determine the context of a given cloze, especially if each clause discusses distinct information.<br />
<br />
An example:<br />
{|<br />
!Before<br />
!After<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:ExampleParagraphCard.png|400px]]<br />
|[[File:ExampleListCard.png|400px]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Another useful tip in the same vein is to intermittently incorporate whitespace - this can aid the eye in focusing on the line with the cloze.<br />
<br />
Most cards of a certain length can be formatted in this way; there is often one "primary" fact on any given card. For example, if you are writing a card that describes multiple characters from a novel, the name of the book is the most likely to be an [[answerline]] and thus can act as the subject line. Don't worry too much about how the resulting lines mesh with the sentence's "subject": these are meant to be read as fragments so you will almost certainly not notice.<br />
<br />
<br />
This advice is less important in conventional front-back cards. The primary benefit of this structure is to allow relevant parts of a card to be read more quickly, but in the case of the basic card type all of the text is relevant. Hence, restructuring text should only be done if it actually aids your reading process.<br />
<br />
===Bad cards produce bad buzzes===<br />
In computer science, the phrase "garbage in, garbage out" is used to describe the results of providing low quality or otherwise flawed data into a system. The principle holds true in many domains.<br />
<br />
There are a lot of ways that a card can end up failing at its job. Some examples of bad cards:<br />
{| class=wikitable<br />
! A bad card<br />
! Explanation<br />
! A better card<br />
! Explanation<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:BadCardExample1a.png|300px]]<br />
|This card suggests that if a player hears "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald]", they should assume the question is referring to the novel ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise This Side of Paradise]''. This is a faulty association on several levels:<br />
#This does not point [[uniquely]] to a single book, as Fitzgerald wrote more than one.<br />
#''This Side of Paradise'' was not Fitzgerald's most famous novel.<br />
#There is no context for the card - the carder must simply infer that the intended answer is a novel, even though there are other aspects of Fitzgerald's life and work could be asked about. This is particularly bad if additional cards on Fitzgerald are added later, as it it then becomes actively confusing.<br />
|[[File:BadCardExample1b.png|300px]]<br />
|This card now gives a [[pronoun]] and uniquely identifying information.<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:BadCardExample2a.png|300px]]<br />
|There are a few subtle issues with this card:<br />
#The first cloze ("Translation") is not pinned to a category, so it is difficult to determine what specific answer is wanted. For example, "ribosome" could reasonably be an answer.<br />
#The second cloze ("the process of creating proteins from mRNA") is very open-ended.<br />
#The third cloze ("chloramphenicol") is not [[unique]]. The antibiotic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloramphenicol chloramphenicol] does indeed inhibit the process of translation, which means this clue works when answering cloze 1, but it cannot stand alone because is not the only answer which could reasonably fill in the space - there are in fact many drugs with the same general target and many other compounds, stimuli, and processes which do the same.<br />
|[[File:BadCardExample2b.png|300px]]<br />
[[File:BadCardExample2c.png|300px]]<br />
|<br />
#Hints were added to the clozes to indicate the desired [[pronoun]]s and let the reviewer know what sort of information is wanted. At least one pronoun has also been embedded directly into the card.<br />
#An additional piece of information has been added to differentiate chloramphenicol from other potential answers. In addition, a picture has been added to help jog the memory, as the fact is rather dry.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Learn the shortcuts===<br />
{{Pic|xkcd1205.png|[https://xkcd.com/1445/ xkcd comic 1205]}}<br />
Anki has various keyboard shortcuts - Mnemosyne does as well. Learn them and learn them well - saving a second every time you type in a cloze or put text in bold saves huge amounts of time over hundreds (or thousands) of notes.<br />
<br />
===Be careful of cardinality===<br />
A natural inclination is towards short cards which have one or two clues and then the desired answer. This is a good idea.<br />
<br />
Another useful idea is to have lots of cards which test an association in both directions, either with a reverse front-back card or clozes. Also a good idea.<br />
<br />
One potential issue arises when you combine these two concepts. Imagine that you have just taken notes on an author. You decide to transfer your notes on one of their books into double-sided cards with a single fact on one side and the novel and the author on the other. When you next review your cards, however, you realize that 50% of the cards you just made have the exact same answer! If you then write more cards about a different novel by that author, 50% of your deck will be cards requiring you to identify that author - this is certainly more than optimal. In a related scenario, your deep dive on an obscure author may result in a significant number of your total flashcards asking you to name something that you're confident you will rarely need to remember.<br />
<br />
Getting around this with basic or reverse front-back cards is a bit finicky and requires being careful about how many cards you make for each answerline and varying what you choose to put on the back of your cards. A simpler solution is to use cloze deletions, which will produce cards with a 1:N ratio of "answerline:clue" rather than the 1:2 ratio of a reverse-front back. Rather than 12 notes for 12 clues, you would create a single (or maybe two or three) note(s) which contained all the clues in clozes, reducing the number of times you will have to remember the answerline to a more modest number. Additionally, every one of these new cards will include the answerline in text, so you will still be able to associate it with your clues.<br />
<br />
Using this solution does mean that your cards will be long and will have other issues of cloze deletions. The former can be mitigated by combining this strategy with the list formatting described [[How to flashcard#Embrace verticality|above]], which can reduce the cognitive load of reviewing them. The latter is, unfortunately, the cost of doing business.<br />
<br />
===Be humble===<br />
One of the most common (and most flawed) heuristics for assessing a clue is the [[fundamental difficulty error]]: "If I know it, it's easy. If I don't, it's hard." Though there is no objective measure of difficulty, it should be pretty clear that this is not a particularly good way of assessing it. In particular, the moment you learn two pieces of information you may begin to perceive them as the same difficulty to you. Remember, though, that you can write a card on literally any piece of information - that doesn't make that clue "[[stock]]" or "easy".<br />
<br />
When trying to apply your new-found knowledge, whether in the game or outside of it, it may be impossible to remember exactly how hard various things you know are. Best to be cautious and avoid looking like a braggart.<br />
<br />
{{c|Quizbowl documents}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=How_to_run_a_practice&diff=63029How to run a practice2024-02-05T15:58:34Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Reading as a skill */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Studying}}<br />
One of the major responsibilities of a [[team]] is to run regular [[practice]]s for their members. In addition to developing a sense of camaraderie amongst teammates, practice is a critical part of developing a player's skill and comfort at the game.<br />
<br />
This page is meant to serve as a guide for a [[captain]] or [[coach]] who is looking for help on how to run effective practices.<br />
<br />
{{Introduction tracker}}<br />
==Preparing the environment==<br />
===Ensure your team feels welcome===<br />
<br />
A quiz bowl team is a social organization and its practices are social gatherings. Its members are competitors but also people. It is the responsibility of every club's leadership to ensure that all members of a team feel welcomed and that none feel excluded.<br />
<br />
Ensure that you and your team do not act in a manner which is exclusionary. Establish a [[code of conduct]] for your club and be prepared to enforce it. If members of your team are acting inappropriately, be willing to confront them.<br />
<br />
===Consider your audience===<br />
<br />
Different teams will have different goals. Some years are meant for rebuilding - some may be intense races to nationals. Both of these attitudes may coexist in the same team, especially if the club is large enough.<br />
<br />
In general, practice should aim to be easier and more relaxed. The reasoning for this is two-fold:<br />
*For casual players, practice may constitute the majority of their involvement with the game. While it is certainly reasonable to expose them to harder sets, many players have little incentive to study and aren't necessarily going to gain it by performing poorly at practice.<br />
*Dedicated players will quickly reach the limits of what practice can achieve. Once improvement becomes a goal, it is much more efficient for a player to [[study]] individually.<br />
<br />
One major source of friction is players of different skill levels expressing interest in [[set]]s of different difficulties. Aim to establish a compromise.<br />
<br />
==Logistics==<br />
Like any other activity, it is important to ensure that practice is held at a time and place that is practical for all those involved.<br />
<br />
===Choosing a time===<br />
:1. Consider how often your team wants to meet, and for how long<br />
A typical practice will last between one and two hours. Dedicated players may be interested in holding longer practices, especially if the social environment is pleasant. Generally, it is simplest to stay after the official end of practice and allow those who have other commitments to filter out as they desire.<br />
<br />
Practice should be held at least once a week - this allows team members to miss a few and still attend many over the course of a year. Some clubs hold it twice - it is known that some teams have practiced up to five times a week.<br />
<br />
:2. Poll your team<br />
Hold an official or unofficial poll of your team. Prioritize times which dedicated members can consistently make. There's no need to please everyone - some members of the team may come infrequently (or not at all) and that's fine.<br />
<br />
:3. Consider backups<br />
Sometimes practice has to be cancelled. Sometimes there will be requests for extra practices. Either way, it's useful to keep in mind what the next best times are.<br />
<br />
===Choosing a place===<br />
Teams which are officially affiliated with an institution should aim to reserve rooms for their chosen times. There should be little reason to hold practice in public spaces unless strictly necessary.<br />
<br />
Room reservations will vary widely in how they are handled. One piece of evergreen advice is "plan ahead": if your practices consistently take place at the same time and place, reserve rooms months or even years in advance.<br />
<br />
==The day of==<br />
Either you or another experienced member of the club should be present at every practice to help organize it.<br />
<br />
Consider what the goal of a given practice is. At the beginning of a year, it may be appropriate to set aside several practices to introduce new recruits to the game and its rules. Later on, it may be time to prepare your [[A team]] for [[nationals]].<br />
<br />
Some other things which can serve as the focus of a practice:<br />
*working on a [[writing]] project, like a [[submitted packet]] or a [[housewrite]]<br />
*getting players experience serving as a [[moderator]] or [[scorekeeper]]<br />
*reading unheard packets for a recently attended tournament<br />
*preparing for an upcoming tournament, whether local or national<br />
<br />
The focus of most practices should be on playing questions. Ideally your club has access to a [[buzzer set]] - one should be brought to practice as often as possible. If not, there are alternatives like [[Quizbowl software#Buzzer software|online buzzers]] or good ol' [[slapbowl]].<br />
<br />
===Reading===<br />
====Choosing a packet====<br />
The main resource for finding packets is [[quizbowlpackets.com]] ([https://quizbowlpackets.com external link]).<br />
<br />
Highschool-level [[NAQT]] packets are available using an NAQT account affiliated with a team. Depending on the age of your club, you may have access to paper copies as well.<br />
<br />
[[Trash]] packets are also available. These are an option that players may appreciate - be careful to avoid making practices entirely themed around pop culture rather than academic quiz bowl, though.<br />
<br />
====Reading as a skill====<br />
Anyone who's gone to a tournament with a moderator who read slowly or struggled with the rules knows that moderation (and reading in particular) is a skill. As with any skill, it can honed and perfected. Practices are a good, low-stakes opportunity for yourself and your players to work on reading skill, especially if your team is planning on hosting a tournament soon.<br />
<br />
There are various aspects of moderation which one can practice:<br />
*Smoothly delivering sentences as you read them<br />
*Reading and incorporating pronunciation guides and other moderator instructions<br />
*Selecting the correct inflection to convey the punctuation and sentence structure of a clue<br />
*Parsing an answerline for prompt instructions<br />
*Not revealing information about whether a buzz is correct while judging it<br />
<br />
Of course, there is a tradeoff - try to ensure that some of each practice is held with moderators who are known to be proficient so that the players can get a good experience as well.<br />
<br />
====Misc====<br />
There is not always a need to keep score - indeed, it is more efficient not to. However, it may be beneficial to run mock games if there are the numbers to support it. This is a good option for improving cohesion on bonuses and trying out new team compositions before a tournament.<br />
<br />
There is a tendency for teammates to chat in between questions. This is good! However, don't be afraid to refocus your players.<br />
<br />
===Incentivizing attendance===<br />
Practice is no good if no one shows up. Though practice is only one part of the game, it is an important one. You should aim to motivate your teammates to come.<br />
<br />
One part of this is discussed in the section on logistics: if practice is held at an inconvenient time, it will reduce attendance.<br />
<br />
Your school may offer a small budget for food early in the year or for events: take advantage of this. Even if they don't, having pizza or snacks at the opening meeting(s) can help hook those who are on the fence about attending. Organize small events and advertise them to your teammates - if passers-by are interested in the goings-on, you may earn a mid-season recruit as well.<br />
<br />
The best way to get teammates to come is to make practice an enjoyable experience for everyone. Only the most dedicated players will want to attend a four-hour slog through [[Chicago Open]] bonuses, so make sure that at least some of the time is set aside for sets appropriate for less-experienced members of the team.<br />
<br />
There are a variety of [[fun practice formats|alternative practice formats]] which exist to spice up gameplay and help involve players who would not normally participate much.<br />
<br />
===Splitting practice===<br />
In the average team, there will be two broad cohorts: the experienced players (minority) and the less experienced players (majority). As mentioned above, practice should aim to focus on the latter. This does not, however, mean that the rest should be ignored.<br />
<br />
In practice larger than six or seven, there is the potential to separate some of the players and run a second sub-practice. If everyone is of comparable skill, there is less reason to do this. When there is only one or two experienced players, it's typically better to trade off reading duties.<br />
<br />
If there are enough resources to handle simultaneous practices (including space to do so), doing so will help ensure that all members of the team get something out of attending.<br />
<br />
===Allowing visitors===<br />
If you are fortunate to be a team at a large school in a major city, you may have people asking to visit your practice. Some common scenarios:<br />
*Local high schoolers wanting stronger competition<br />
*High school seniors on college visits<br />
*Alumni wishing to visit their former teammates<br />
*Nearby open players wanting to hang out<br />
*Visiting students from other schools who want to get some 'bowl in during their trip<br />
<br />
The benefit of visiting players is that it increases the size of a practice and often increases the strength of the group as well. This can be advantageous if your team is preparing for tougher competition, or more generally if they want to see new faces. However, it can also be stifling to be forced to play against players who, on average, have spent enough time in the game to want to play it at an institution they are not affiliated with.<br />
<br />
Ensure that any visitors are aware of your code of conduct and agree to abide by it during their visit. If your school has restrictions on off-campus visitors, make sure to go through the proper channels.<br />
<br />
Any visitors who are under 18 should only attend with the express consent of their guardians - make sure that you have received such permission before they attend. High school and middle school teams should make sure that their coach is informed of any visitors - it is important that adult leadership be involved in decisions of this nature.<br />
<br />
==Beyond practice==<br />
As alluded to above, practice is only one part of the quiz bowl experience. In particular, a player invested in improvement will have to put in additional work outside of practice to improve.<br />
<br />
For more directed advice on how to effectively study, visit the article on [[studying]].<br />
<br />
{{c|Quizbowl documents}}</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=How_to_run_a_practice&diff=63028How to run a practice2024-02-05T15:58:00Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* The day of */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Studying}}<br />
One of the major responsibilities of a [[team]] is to run regular [[practice]]s for their members. In addition to developing a sense of camaraderie amongst teammates, practice is a critical part of developing a player's skill and comfort at the game.<br />
<br />
This page is meant to serve as a guide for a [[captain]] or [[coach]] who is looking for help on how to run effective practices.<br />
<br />
{{Introduction tracker}}<br />
==Preparing the environment==<br />
===Ensure your team feels welcome===<br />
<br />
A quiz bowl team is a social organization and its practices are social gatherings. Its members are competitors but also people. It is the responsibility of every club's leadership to ensure that all members of a team feel welcomed and that none feel excluded.<br />
<br />
Ensure that you and your team do not act in a manner which is exclusionary. Establish a [[code of conduct]] for your club and be prepared to enforce it. If members of your team are acting inappropriately, be willing to confront them.<br />
<br />
===Consider your audience===<br />
<br />
Different teams will have different goals. Some years are meant for rebuilding - some may be intense races to nationals. Both of these attitudes may coexist in the same team, especially if the club is large enough.<br />
<br />
In general, practice should aim to be easier and more relaxed. The reasoning for this is two-fold:<br />
*For casual players, practice may constitute the majority of their involvement with the game. While it is certainly reasonable to expose them to harder sets, many players have little incentive to study and aren't necessarily going to gain it by performing poorly at practice.<br />
*Dedicated players will quickly reach the limits of what practice can achieve. Once improvement becomes a goal, it is much more efficient for a player to [[study]] individually.<br />
<br />
One major source of friction is players of different skill levels expressing interest in [[set]]s of different difficulties. Aim to establish a compromise.<br />
<br />
==Logistics==<br />
Like any other activity, it is important to ensure that practice is held at a time and place that is practical for all those involved.<br />
<br />
===Choosing a time===<br />
:1. Consider how often your team wants to meet, and for how long<br />
A typical practice will last between one and two hours. Dedicated players may be interested in holding longer practices, especially if the social environment is pleasant. Generally, it is simplest to stay after the official end of practice and allow those who have other commitments to filter out as they desire.<br />
<br />
Practice should be held at least once a week - this allows team members to miss a few and still attend many over the course of a year. Some clubs hold it twice - it is known that some teams have practiced up to five times a week.<br />
<br />
:2. Poll your team<br />
Hold an official or unofficial poll of your team. Prioritize times which dedicated members can consistently make. There's no need to please everyone - some members of the team may come infrequently (or not at all) and that's fine.<br />
<br />
:3. Consider backups<br />
Sometimes practice has to be cancelled. Sometimes there will be requests for extra practices. Either way, it's useful to keep in mind what the next best times are.<br />
<br />
===Choosing a place===<br />
Teams which are officially affiliated with an institution should aim to reserve rooms for their chosen times. There should be little reason to hold practice in public spaces unless strictly necessary.<br />
<br />
Room reservations will vary widely in how they are handled. One piece of evergreen advice is "plan ahead": if your practices consistently take place at the same time and place, reserve rooms months or even years in advance.<br />
<br />
==The day of==<br />
Either you or another experienced member of the club should be present at every practice to help organize it.<br />
<br />
Consider what the goal of a given practice is. At the beginning of a year, it may be appropriate to set aside several practices to introduce new recruits to the game and its rules. Later on, it may be time to prepare your [[A team]] for [[nationals]].<br />
<br />
Some other things which can serve as the focus of a practice:<br />
*working on a [[writing]] project, like a [[submitted packet]] or a [[housewrite]]<br />
*getting players experience serving as a [[moderator]] or [[scorekeeper]]<br />
*reading unheard packets for a recently attended tournament<br />
*preparing for an upcoming tournament, whether local or national<br />
<br />
The focus of most practices should be on playing questions. Ideally your club has access to a [[buzzer set]] - one should be brought to practice as often as possible. If not, there are alternatives like [[Quizbowl software#Buzzer software|online buzzers]] or good ol' [[slapbowl]].<br />
<br />
===Reading===<br />
====Choosing a packet====<br />
The main resource for finding packets is [[quizbowlpackets.com]] ([https://quizbowlpackets.com external link]).<br />
<br />
Highschool-level [[NAQT]] packets are available using an NAQT account affiliated with a team. Depending on the age of your club, you may have access to paper copies as well.<br />
<br />
[[Trash]] packets are also available. These are an option that players may appreciate - be careful to avoid making practices entirely themed around pop culture rather than academic quiz bowl, though.<br />
<br />
====Reading as a skill====<br />
Anyone who's gone to a tournament with a moderator who read slowly or struggled with the rules knows that moderation (and reading in particular) is a skill. As with any skill, it can honed and perfected. Practices are a good, low-stakes opportunity for yourself and your players to work on reading skill, especially if your team is planning on hosting a tournament soon.<br />
<br />
There are various aspects of moderation which one can practice:<br />
*Smoothly delivering sentences as you read them<br />
*Reading and incorporating pronunciation guides and other moderator instructions<br />
*Selecting the correct inflection to convey the punctuation and sentence structure of a clue<br />
*Parsing an answerline for prompt instructions<br />
*Not revealing information about whether a buzz is correct while<br />
<br />
Of course, there is a tradeoff - try to ensure that some of each practice is held with moderators who are known to be proficient so that the players can get a good experience as well.<br />
<br />
====Misc====<br />
There is not always a need to keep score - indeed, it is more efficient not to. However, it may be beneficial to run mock games if there are the numbers to support it. This is a good option for improving cohesion on bonuses and trying out new team compositions before a tournament.<br />
<br />
There is a tendency for teammates to chat in between questions. This is good! However, don't be afraid to refocus your players.<br />
<br />
===Incentivizing attendance===<br />
Practice is no good if no one shows up. Though practice is only one part of the game, it is an important one. You should aim to motivate your teammates to come.<br />
<br />
One part of this is discussed in the section on logistics: if practice is held at an inconvenient time, it will reduce attendance.<br />
<br />
Your school may offer a small budget for food early in the year or for events: take advantage of this. Even if they don't, having pizza or snacks at the opening meeting(s) can help hook those who are on the fence about attending. Organize small events and advertise them to your teammates - if passers-by are interested in the goings-on, you may earn a mid-season recruit as well.<br />
<br />
The best way to get teammates to come is to make practice an enjoyable experience for everyone. Only the most dedicated players will want to attend a four-hour slog through [[Chicago Open]] bonuses, so make sure that at least some of the time is set aside for sets appropriate for less-experienced members of the team.<br />
<br />
There are a variety of [[fun practice formats|alternative practice formats]] which exist to spice up gameplay and help involve players who would not normally participate much.<br />
<br />
===Splitting practice===<br />
In the average team, there will be two broad cohorts: the experienced players (minority) and the less experienced players (majority). As mentioned above, practice should aim to focus on the latter. This does not, however, mean that the rest should be ignored.<br />
<br />
In practice larger than six or seven, there is the potential to separate some of the players and run a second sub-practice. If everyone is of comparable skill, there is less reason to do this. When there is only one or two experienced players, it's typically better to trade off reading duties.<br />
<br />
If there are enough resources to handle simultaneous practices (including space to do so), doing so will help ensure that all members of the team get something out of attending.<br />
<br />
===Allowing visitors===<br />
If you are fortunate to be a team at a large school in a major city, you may have people asking to visit your practice. Some common scenarios:<br />
*Local high schoolers wanting stronger competition<br />
*High school seniors on college visits<br />
*Alumni wishing to visit their former teammates<br />
*Nearby open players wanting to hang out<br />
*Visiting students from other schools who want to get some 'bowl in during their trip<br />
<br />
The benefit of visiting players is that it increases the size of a practice and often increases the strength of the group as well. This can be advantageous if your team is preparing for tougher competition, or more generally if they want to see new faces. However, it can also be stifling to be forced to play against players who, on average, have spent enough time in the game to want to play it at an institution they are not affiliated with.<br />
<br />
Ensure that any visitors are aware of your code of conduct and agree to abide by it during their visit. If your school has restrictions on off-campus visitors, make sure to go through the proper channels.<br />
<br />
Any visitors who are under 18 should only attend with the express consent of their guardians - make sure that you have received such permission before they attend. High school and middle school teams should make sure that their coach is informed of any visitors - it is important that adult leadership be involved in decisions of this nature.<br />
<br />
==Beyond practice==<br />
As alluded to above, practice is only one part of the quiz bowl experience. In particular, a player invested in improvement will have to put in additional work outside of practice to improve.<br />
<br />
For more directed advice on how to effectively study, visit the article on [[studying]].<br />
<br />
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<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
*[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
*[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2]<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on QEMS2 include [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder] and [https://github.com/hbunker/gamayun Gamayun].<br />
*[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]<br />
*[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament automation and management===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16642 qams] and [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27254 qams²] (set completion, contribution tracking, packet templates)<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26177 Wordcounter] (character/word counting)<br />
*[https://github.com/aseem-keyal/autoPG autoPG] (pronunciation guides) <br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/qpd qpd] (pronunciation guides)<br />
*Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)<br />
<br />
:;Superseded<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> <br />
*[https://gitlab.com/alistairgray42/packet-skels Packet Skeletons]<br />
*NSC Sudoku, a manual template for NSC packetization from QEMS2 (used for 2018 and some other number of NSCs)<br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/Packet%20Templates Packet Template Generator] (used for 2021 Illinois Open)<br />
*[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
*[[Qblitz]]<br />
*[https://www.quizbowlreader.com/demo.html Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)] [https://github.com/alopezlago/MODAQ (source code)]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
:;[[SQBS]]<br />
:*[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]<br />
:*[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:*[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
:;QBSQL<br />
:*[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:*Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:*Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
*[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
*See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
:''Main page: [[scoresheets]]''<br />
:;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:*[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:*https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
:;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:*https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
:;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:*[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:*[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:*Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
:;Excel score sheets<br />
:*[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:*Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:*Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
:;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:*Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:*Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
:;SQBS<br />
:*[[SQBS data file]]<br />
:;Tournament schema<br />
:*[https://schema.quizbowl.technology/ Website with technical specification]<br />
:*[https://github.com/quizbowl/schema GitHub repository]<br />
:;Tournakit<br />
:*Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
:;Livestat<br />
:*[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
:;QBTPS<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
:;JAGUARS<br />
:*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
:;Tournament Central<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
:;Taft<br />
:*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:*Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:*Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:*Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:*Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:*Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
:;[[BEeS]]<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:*Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:*Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
:''Main page: [[question databases]]''<br />
:;[[Hsquizbowl.org|Quizbowl Resource Database]]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
:;[[packet archive|HS QB Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[packet archive|Collegiate Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:*[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
:;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
:;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:*[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
:*deprecated in favor of the [[packet archive]]'s [https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/ Trash section]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
:;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:*[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:*[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
:*use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it<br />
:;QuizBug 2<br />
:*[http://quizbug2.karangurazada.com/ Web page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
:;Geoffrey's [[QBReader]]<br />
:*[https://qbreader.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25289 discussion]<br />
:;[[Power QB]]<br />
:*[https://powerqb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=392954#p392954 discussion]<br />
<br />
===Buzzer software===<br />
:;[[Buzzman]]<br />
:*[https://www.buzzman.live/ link]<br />
:;[[BuzzIn.live]]<br />
:*[https://buzzin.live/ link]<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
:;QB Toolbox<br />
:*http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
:;[[QBML]]<br />
:*Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:*Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:*May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
:;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:*Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
:;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:*Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
:;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
:;Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)<br />
:*[https://github.com/alopezlago/YetAnotherPacketParser/releases/ Download]<br />
:*Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
:;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
:*Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
*[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing or Maintained===<br />
*For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 ItALX]<br />
*For tournament direction: Taft<br />
*Packet readers: Abacus<br />
*Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
*Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
*Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
*Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, [[Quinterest]], Gyaankosh<br />
*Practice tools: [http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ QB reader] (and [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 forum post]), TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
*For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
<br />
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<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
*[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
*[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2]<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on QEMS2 include [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder] and [https://github.com/hbunker/gamayun Gamayun].<br />
*[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]<br />
*[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament automation and management===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16642 qams] and [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27254 qams²] (set completion, contribution tracking, packet templates)<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26177 Wordcounter] (character/word counting)<br />
*[https://github.com/aseem-keyal/autoPG autoPG] (pronunciation guides) <br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/qpd qpd] (pronunciation guides)<br />
*Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)<br />
<br />
:;Superseded<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> <br />
*[https://gitlab.com/alistairgray42/packet-skels Packet Skeletons]<br />
*NSC Sudoku, a manual template for NSC packetization from QEMS2 (used for 2018 and some other number of NSCs)<br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/Packet%20Templates Packet Template Generator] (used for 2021 Illinois Open)<br />
*[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
*[[Qblitz]]<br />
*[https://www.quizbowlreader.com/demo.html Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)] [https://github.com/alopezlago/MODAQ (source code)]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
:;[[SQBS]]<br />
:*[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]<br />
:*[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:*[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
:;QBSQL<br />
:*[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:*Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:*Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
*[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
*See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
:''Main page: [[scoresheets]]''<br />
:;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:*[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:*https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
:;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:*https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
:;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:*[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:*[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:*Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
:;Excel score sheets<br />
:*[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:*Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:*Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
:;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:*Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:*Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
:;SQBS<br />
:*[[SQBS data file]]<br />
:;Tournament schema<br />
:*[https://schema.quizbowl.technology/ Website with technical specification]<br />
:*[https://github.com/quizbowl/schema GitHub repository]<br />
:;Tournakit<br />
:*Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
:;Livestat<br />
:*[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
:;QBTPS<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
:;JAGUARS<br />
:*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
:;Tournament Central<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
:;Taft<br />
:*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:*Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:*Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:*Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:*Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:*Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
:;[[BEeS]]<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:*Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:*Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
:''Main page: [[question databases]]''<br />
:;[[Hsquizbowl.org|Quizbowl Resource Database]]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
:;[[packet archive|HS QB Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[packet archive|Collegiate Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:*[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
:;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
:;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:*[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
:*deprecated in favor of the [[packet archive]]'s [https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/ Trash section]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
:;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:*[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:*[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
:*use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it<br />
:;QuizBug 2<br />
:*[http://quizbug2.karangurazada.com/ Web page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
:;Geoffrey's [[QBReader]]<br />
:*[https://qbreader.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25289 discussion]<br />
:;[[Power QB]]<br />
:*[https://powerqb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=392954#p392954 discussion]<br />
<br />
===Buzzer software===<br />
:;[[Buzzman]]<br />
:*[https://www.buzzman.live/ link]<br />
:;[[Buzzin]]<br />
:*[https://buzzin.live/ link]<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
:;QB Toolbox<br />
:*http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
:;[[QBML]]<br />
:*Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:*Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:*May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
:;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:*Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
:;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:*Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
:;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
:;Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)<br />
:*[https://github.com/alopezlago/YetAnotherPacketParser/releases/ Download]<br />
:*Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
:;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
:*Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
*[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing or Maintained===<br />
*For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 ItALX]<br />
*For tournament direction: Taft<br />
*Packet readers: Abacus<br />
*Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
*Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
*Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
*Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, [[Quinterest]], Gyaankosh<br />
*Practice tools: [http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ QB reader] (and [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 forum post]), TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
*For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
<br />
[[Category:Internet]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbowl_software&diff=63025Quizbowl software2024-02-05T15:56:39Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Packet formats and parsing */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
*[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
*[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2]<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on QEMS2 include [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder] and [https://github.com/hbunker/gamayun Gamayun].<br />
*[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]<br />
*[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament automation and management===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16642 qams] and [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27254 qams²] (set completion, contribution tracking, packet templates)<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26177 Wordcounter] (character/word counting)<br />
*[https://github.com/aseem-keyal/autoPG autoPG] (pronunciation guides) <br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/qpd qpd] (pronunciation guides)<br />
*Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)<br />
<br />
:;Superseded<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> <br />
*[https://gitlab.com/alistairgray42/packet-skels Packet Skeletons]<br />
*NSC Sudoku, a manual template for NSC packetization from QEMS2 (used for 2018 and some other number of NSCs)<br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/Packet%20Templates Packet Template Generator] (used for 2021 Illinois Open)<br />
*[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
*[[Qblitz]]<br />
*[https://www.quizbowlreader.com/demo.html Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)] [https://github.com/alopezlago/MODAQ (source code)]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
:;[[SQBS]]<br />
:*[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]<br />
:*[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:*[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
:;QBSQL<br />
:*[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:*Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:*Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
*[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
*See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
:''Main page: [[scoresheets]]''<br />
:;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:*[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:*https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
:;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:*https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
:;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:*[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:*[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:*Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
:;Excel score sheets<br />
:*[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:*Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:*Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
:;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:*Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:*Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
:;SQBS<br />
:*[[SQBS data file]]<br />
:;Tournament schema<br />
:*[https://schema.quizbowl.technology/ Website with technical specification]<br />
:*[https://github.com/quizbowl/schema GitHub repository]<br />
:;Tournakit<br />
:*Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
:;Livestat<br />
:*[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
:;QBTPS<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
:;JAGUARS<br />
:*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
:;Tournament Central<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
:;Taft<br />
:*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:*Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:*Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:*Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:*Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:*Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
:;[[BEeS]]<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:*Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:*Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
:''Main page: [[question databases]]''<br />
:;[[Hsquizbowl.org|Quizbowl Resource Database]]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
:;[[packet archive|HS QB Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[packet archive|Collegiate Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:*[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
:;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
:;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:*[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
:*deprecated in favor of the [[packet archive]]'s [https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/ Trash section]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
:;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:*[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:*[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
:*use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it<br />
:;QuizBug 2<br />
:*[http://quizbug2.karangurazada.com/ Web page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
:;Geoffrey's [[QBReader]]<br />
:*[https://qbreader.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25289 discussion]<br />
:;[[Power QB]]<br />
:*[https://powerqb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=392954#p392954 discussion]<br />
<br />
===Buzzer software===<br />
:;[[Buzzman]]<br />
:*[https://www.buzzman.live/ link]<br />
:;[[Buzzin]]<br />
:*[https://buzzin.live/ link]<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
:;QB Toolbox<br />
:*http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
:;[[QBML]]<br />
:*Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
:*Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
:*May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
:;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
:*Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
:;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
:*Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
:;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
:;Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)<br />
:*[https://github.com/alopezlago/YetAnotherPacketParser/releases/ Download]<br />
:*Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
:;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
*Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
*[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing or Maintained===<br />
*For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 ItALX]<br />
*For tournament direction: Taft<br />
*Packet readers: Abacus<br />
*Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
*Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
*Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
*Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, [[Quinterest]], Gyaankosh<br />
*Practice tools: [http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ QB reader] (and [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 forum post]), TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
*For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
<br />
[[Category:Internet]]</div>Kevin Wanghttps://www.qbwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Quizbowl_software&diff=63024Quizbowl software2024-02-05T15:56:26Z<p>Kevin Wang: /* Buzzer software */</p>
<hr />
<div>__TOC__<br />
<br />
==Tournaments==<br />
<br />
===Tournament database===<br />
*[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)<br />
<br />
===Tournament writers===<br />
*[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2]<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on QEMS2 include [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder] and [https://github.com/hbunker/gamayun Gamayun].<br />
*[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]<br />
*[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.<br />
<br />
===Tournament automation and management===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16642 qams] and [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27254 qams²] (set completion, contribution tracking, packet templates)<br />
**Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26177 Wordcounter] (character/word counting)<br />
*[https://github.com/aseem-keyal/autoPG autoPG] (pronunciation guides) <br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/qpd qpd] (pronunciation guides)<br />
*Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)<br />
<br />
:;Superseded<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> <br />
*[https://gitlab.com/alistairgray42/packet-skels Packet Skeletons]<br />
*NSC Sudoku, a manual template for NSC packetization from QEMS2 (used for 2018 and some other number of NSCs)<br />
*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/Packet%20Templates Packet Template Generator] (used for 2021 Illinois Open)<br />
*[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
===Tournament schedulers===<br />
*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]<br />
<br />
===Software for Online Tournaments===<br />
*[[Qblitz]]<br />
*[https://www.quizbowlreader.com/demo.html Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)] [https://github.com/alopezlago/MODAQ (source code)]<br />
<br />
==Stats==<br />
<br />
===Tournament Statistics===<br />
:;[[SQBS]]<br />
:*[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]<br />
:*[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]<br />
:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]<br />
:*[https://neg5.org/ Home page]<br />
:;QBSQL<br />
:*[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"<br />
:*Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]<br />
:*Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]<br />
<br />
===Historical Statistics===<br />
*[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]<br />
*See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]<br />
<br />
===Scoresheets===<br />
:''Main page: [[scoresheets]]''<br />
:;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app<br />
:*[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]<br />
:*https://github.com/cdcarter<br />
:;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format<br />
:*https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx<br />
:;NAQT Scoresheet for Android<br />
:*[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]<br />
:*[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]<br />
:*Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]<br />
:;Excel score sheets<br />
:*[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]<br />
:*Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]<br />
:*Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]<br />
:;Google Spreadsheets<br />
:*Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del><br />
:*Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]<br />
<br />
===Stats data formats===<br />
:;SQBS<br />
:*[[SQBS data file]]<br />
:;Tournament schema<br />
:*[https://schema.quizbowl.technology/ Website with technical specification]<br />
:*[https://github.com/quizbowl/schema GitHub repository]<br />
:;Tournakit<br />
:*Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]<br />
<br />
====Old or Abandoned====<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
:;Livestat<br />
:*[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]<br />
:;QBTPS<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]<br />
:;JAGUARS<br />
:*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]<br />
:;Tournament Central<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]<br />
:;Taft<br />
:*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"<br />
:*Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]<br />
:*Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]<br />
:*Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]<br />
:*Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]<br />
:*Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]<br />
:;[[BEeS]]<br />
:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]<br />
:*Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]<br />
:*Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]<br />
</div><br />
<br />
==Questions==<br />
<br />
===Question databases===<br />
:''Main page: [[question databases]]''<br />
:;[[Hsquizbowl.org|Quizbowl Resource Database]]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]<br />
:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]<br />
:;[[packet archive|HS QB Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[packet archive|Collegiate Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]<br />
:;[[QuizDB]]<br />
:*[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]<br />
:;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]<br />
:*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]<br />
:;[[Wastebin]]<br />
:*[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]<br />
:*deprecated in favor of the [[packet archive]]'s [https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/ Trash section]<br />
<br />
===Practice tools===<br />
:;[[Protobowl]]<br />
:*[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]<br />
:*[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]<br />
:*use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it<br />
:;QuizBug 2<br />
:*[http://quizbug2.karangurazada.com/ Web page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]<br />
:;Geoffrey's [[QBReader]]<br />
:*[https://qbreader.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25289 discussion]<br />
:;[[Power QB]]<br />
:*[https://powerqb.org/ Home page]<br />
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=392954#p392954 discussion]<br />
<br />
===Buzzer software===<br />
:;[[Buzzman]]<br />
:*[https://www.buzzman.live/ link]<br />
:;[[Buzzin]]<br />
:*[https://buzzin.live/ link]<br />
<br />
===Packet formats and parsing===<br />
:;QB Toolbox<br />
*http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/<br />
:;[[QBML]]<br />
*Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]<br />
*Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]<br />
*May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]<br />
:;Alejandro's Packet Parser<br />
*Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]<br />
:;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter<br />
*Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]<br />
:;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"<br />
*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/<br />
*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364<br />
:;Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)<br />
*[https://github.com/alopezlago/YetAnotherPacketParser/releases/ Download]<br />
*Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly<br />
<br />
<br />
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)<br />
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.<br />
<br />
==Miscellaneous==<br />
===Recording===<br />
:;Audio Match Hosting Software<br />
*Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]<br />
<br />
===AI Quizbowl Player===<br />
*[[QANTA]]<br />
<br />
===No Longer Existing or Maintained===<br />
*For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 ItALX]<br />
*For tournament direction: Taft<br />
*Packet readers: Abacus<br />
*Match scorekeepers: WUStL<br />
*Stats tools: QBStatGen<br />
*Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings<br />
*Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, [[Quinterest]], Gyaankosh<br />
*Practice tools: [http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ QB reader] (and [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 forum post]), TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester<br />
<br />
===Never Existed===<br />
*For tournament direction: BEeS<br />
<br />
[[Category:Internet]]</div>Kevin Wang