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===Tournament database===
 
===Tournament database===
[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)
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:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)
  
 
===Tournament writers===
 
===Tournament writers===
[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2]
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:[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2] (see also [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder])
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:[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]
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:[https://www.intlacadcomp.com/packetizor/nhbb/ Packetizor]
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:[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.
  
[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]
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===Tournament schedulers===
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:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]
  
[https://www.intlacadcomp.com/packetizor/nhbb/ Packetizor]
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===Software for Online Tournaments===
 
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:[[Qblitz]]
[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.
 
 
 
===Tournament directors===
 
:''See Taft, BEeS below''
 
  
 
==Stats==
 
==Stats==
  
===Packet readers===
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===Tournament Statistics===
;Abacus
 
:[http://abacusquizbowl.com Home page] – "A web application for quizbowl moderators"
 
:Dec 02, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=15243 Abacus | A web application for quizbowl moderators]
 
;''See BEeS below''
 
 
 
====Packet formats and parsing====
 
;ItALX
 
:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/ItALX/ Home page] – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"
 
:Oct 10, 2006  [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV]
 
;QB Toolbox
 
:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
 
;[[QBML]]
 
:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]
 
:Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]
 
:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]
 
;Alejandro's Packet Parser
 
:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]
 
;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter
 
:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]
 
;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
 
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
 
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364
 
 
 
 
 
*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)
 
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.
 
 
 
===Match scorekeepers===
 
:''See below''
 
 
 
===Statistics viewers===
 
 
;[[SQBS]]
 
;[[SQBS]]
 
:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
 
:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
;Tournament Director
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;Yellowfruit
:[https://github.com/puls/tournament-director GitHub page]
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:[[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Download from here]
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;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]
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[https://neg5.org/ Home page]
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;OphirStats
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:[http://minkowski.space/quizbowl/manuals/scorekeeping/ Home page]
 
;[[QBSQL]]
 
;[[QBSQL]]
 
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"
 
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"
 
:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]
 
:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]
 
:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]
 
:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]
;WUStL
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:<del>[http://young-frankenstein.wustl.edu/ Home page]</del> – "online application for real-time quizbowl scorekeeping and stats"
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===Historical Statistics===
:Nov 12, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12340 WUStL Updates Statistics Live!: real-time Web scorekeeping]
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:[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]
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:See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]
  
 
====Scoresheets====
 
====Scoresheets====
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;Quizbowl DB (see [[#quizbowl_db|above]])
 
;Quizbowl DB (see [[#quizbowl_db|above]])
  
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===Packet formats and parsing===
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;ItALX
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:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/ItALX/ Home page] – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"
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:Oct 10, 2006  [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV]
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;QB Toolbox
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:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
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;[[QBML]]
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:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]
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:Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]
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:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]
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;Alejandro's Packet Parser
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:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]
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;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter
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:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]
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;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364
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*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)
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*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.
  
 
==Miscellaneous==
 
==Miscellaneous==
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;Audio Match Hosting Software
 
;Audio Match Hosting Software
 
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]
 
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]
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===AI Quizbowl Player===
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[[QANTA]]
  
 
[[Category:Internet]]
 
[[Category:Internet]]

Revision as of 06:11, 29 March 2020

Tournaments

Tournament database

Quizbowl Resource Database (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)

Tournament writers

QEMS2 (see also QuizDroid PacketBuilder)
Question Mixer
Packetizor
NAQT has proprietary software called Ginseng.

Tournament schedulers

Quizbowl Schedule Generator

Software for Online Tournaments

Qblitz

Stats

Tournament Statistics

SQBS
Home page – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
Yellowfruit
[Download from here
Neg 5

Home page

OphirStats
Home page
QBSQL
Google Code page – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"
Oct 09, 2008 New web-based quizbowl stats software project
Sep 13, 2009 Round Report on Stats

Historical Statistics

Quizbowl TDB Search
See also Tournament Results from NAQT

Scoresheets

Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
Home page
https://github.com/cdcarter
Official NAQT scoresheet in Excel format
https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx
NAQT Scoresheet for Android
GitHub page
Android Market page
Aug 03, 2011 Theres an app for that.
Excel score sheets
Excel Scoresheets on Hunter
Nov 09, 2008 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets
Oct 10, 2011 Virtual Scoresheets?
Google Spreadsheets
Jun 08, 2013 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping
Nov 01, 2014 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets

Stats data formats

SQBS
SQBS data file
ca. 2009 PHP functions for importing from and exporting to SQBS files
Tournakit
Aug 21, 2013 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit

Old

Livestat
Home page
QBStatGen
Home page – "designed to create a more versatile statistics report from SQBS files"
QBTPS
Home page
I needed a database project
Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)
JAGUARS
SourceForge page
Tournament Central
Home page
Taft
Archived home page – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
Dec 17, 2006 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software
Jun 15, 2007 Taft: Launching soon
Aug 22, 2007 Taft launching soon...
Feb 11, 2009 Taft now supports playoff brackets
Feb 28, 2010 Shutting down Taft
BEeS
Home page – "integrate an entire quizbowl tournament into one seamless electronic experience"
Jan 03, 2009 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program
Mar 21, 2010 BEeS, Part 2

Comparison of stats programs

Name Creator Released Updated Version Price Output formats Documentation Platforms Technology License
SQBS (visit) Chris Sewell 2001 February 2010 4.0 Free SQBS, HTML [1] [2] [3] Windows only
QBSQL (visit) Avram Lyon October 2008 February 2010 0.7.1 Free SQBS, HTML [4] All; web server required PHP and MySQL GNU GPLv2
Taft (visit) Evan Silberman January 2007 February 2010 Discontinued $25 per event SQBS, HTML All Ruby on Rails
BEeS (visit) Sean Skaar, Andrew Hart Not yet TBA

Rankings and stats

NAQT Statistics Database
Home page – "collects results and statistics from past tournaments that used NAQT questions; tracks record-setting performances and provides some quantitative rankings for every team in the nation"
Aug 21, 2008 NAQT Statistics Database
Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients
Home page – "A rating system for high school quiz bowl"
Excelsior Rankings
Home page
Jul 11, 2011 Excelsior Rankings
Harry White's Tournament stats database search
Home page

Questions

Question databases

Unparsed

Quizbowl Resource Database
Home page
Google Search
HS QB Packet Archive
Home page
Collegiate Packet Archive
Home page
Stanford Packet Archive
Home page
ACF Question Archive
Home page
Wastebin
Home page
Dec 19, 2009 Wastebin - A Trash Packet Archive

Parsed

Protobowl packet repository
Github page


Search engines

ACFDB
Home page
Jun 05, 2008 ACFDB - a new tossup database
QBDB
Home page
May 18, 2006 Quizbowl tournament database, alpha version
Jan 13, 2008 return (sorta) of the question database
May 03, 2008 QBDB thread
Quizbowl DB (superseded Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database)
Home page
GitHub page
Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database home page
April 18, 2011 Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database
Jan 23, 2012 Quizbowl Central
Protobowl
Home page
Aug 8, 2012 Protobowl
Quinterest
Home page
Jun 16, 2013 Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search
Gyaankosh
Home page (possibly no longer in existence)
Sep 21, 2008 Some new question database
Feb 25, 2009 Gyaankosh?

Comparison of search engines

Name Creator Released Updated Questions Tournaments Tagging? Rating? Types of questions Technology
ACFDB (visit) Carlo Angiuli June 2008 24 March 2011 14455 [5] Yes No ACF Question Archive only PHP and MySQL
Gyaankosh (visit) Arnav Moudgil September 2008 Late 2010 50898 [6] 99 [7] Yes No Collegiate, high school Django (Python and MySQL)
QBDB (visit) Jerry Vinokurov May 2006 Early 2010 37 Yes Yes Collegiate PHP and MySQL
Quizbowl DB (visit) Sharad Vikram April 2011 January 2012 30694 101 Yes Yes* Open, collegiate, high school, middle school GWT (Java, JavaScript)
Quinterest (visit) Rohit Lalchandani, with Joshua Duncan and Jacob Reed May 2013 December 2013 103< Yes Yes Open, collegiate, high school, middle school Javascript, PHP, MySQL

Practice tools

TriviaBot (IRC bot)
Home page
Google Code page
Index of TriviaBot-formatted question sets
Jul 18, 2009 Portable version of TrivaBot/quizbowl-reading bot
Jul 14, 2006 Scholastic Bowl bot
Quizzy
Google Code page
Nov 10, 2009 Quizzy, an Excuse for you to Try Out Google Wave
Quiz Bowl Tester
Home page
Feb 10, 2011 Money for practicing quiz bowl online
QB Reader
Google Code page
May 31, 2011 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)
Quizbowl DB (see above)

Packet formats and parsing

ItALX
Home page – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"
Oct 10, 2006 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV
QB Toolbox
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
QBML
Jul 09, 2007 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?
Aug 18, 2007 Packet archive project...what you can do to help
May 16, 2008 LaTeX and packets
Alejandro's Packet Parser
Dec 26, 2010 Packet Parser
Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter
Aug 27, 2011 QEMS Question Formatter
"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364


  • 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)
  • Packet formatting rules: ACF, NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.

Miscellaneous

Recording

Audio Match Hosting Software
Aug 12, 2005 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software

AI Quizbowl Player

QANTA