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==Tournaments==
 
==Tournaments==
  
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===Tournament databases===
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===Tournament database===
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;2005 tournament database
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:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)
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:Aug 22, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1986 Tournament database feedback]
 
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;Quizbowl Resource Database
 
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:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database], formerly <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/tdb HSQB Tournament Database]</del> from 2008–2011
 
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:Aug 29, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6217 New tournament database for all quizbowl events]
 
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:Aug 29, 2008 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6216 TDB help thread]
 
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===Packet submission managers===
 
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None yet exist.
 
  
 
===Tournament writers===
 
===Tournament writers===
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;Jerome (ca. 2004)
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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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:<del>[http://jerome.caltech.edu/ Home page]</del>
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:[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]
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:[http://web.archive.org/web/20041205211442/http://quizbowl.caltech.edu/T9.html Technophobia 9]
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:[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]
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:Aug 09, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1956&p=24809&hilit=jerome#p24809 Jerome information]
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:[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.
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:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560&p=81698#p81688 LaTeX and packets]
 
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;QED (Question Editing Database)
 
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:[http://www.aegisquestions.com/qed/ Home page]
 
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:Jul 4, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2942 Question Editing Database 1.00]
 
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;Tournament Question Database
 
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:http://www.scobo.net/qdb.aspx
 
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;Question Mixer
 
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:Oct 25, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6666 Question Mixer Program]
 
  
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===Tournament directors===
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===Tournament schedulers===
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:''See Taft, BEeS below''
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:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]
  
 +
===Software for Online Tournaments===
 +
:[[Qblitz]]
  
 
==Stats==
 
==Stats==
  
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===Packet readers===
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===Tournament Statistics===
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;Abacus
 
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:[http://abacusquizbowl.com Home page] – "A web application for quizbowl moderators"
 
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:Dec 02, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=15243 Abacus | A web application for quizbowl moderators]
 
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;''See BEeS below''
 
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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.
 
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===Match scorekeepers===
 
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:''See below''
 
−
 
 
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===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"
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;Tournament Director
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;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]
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:[https://github.com/puls/tournament-director GitHub page]
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:[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]
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;[[QBSQL]]
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;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]
 +
:[https://neg5.org/ Home page]
 +
;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]
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;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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: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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====Scoresheets====
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===Historical Statistics===
 +
:[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]
 +
:See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]
 +
 
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===Scoresheets===
 
;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
 
;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
 
:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]
 
:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]
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:Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]
 
:Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]
  
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====Stats data formats====
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===Stats data formats===
 
;SQBS
 
;SQBS
 
:[[SQBS data file]]
 
:[[SQBS data file]]
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:ca. 2009 [https://code.google.com/p/qbsql/source/browse/trunk/functions.php#504 PHP functions for importing from and exporting to SQBS files]
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;Tournament schema
 +
:[https://schema.quizbowl.technology/ Website with technical specification]
 +
:[https://github.com/quizbowl/schema GitHub repository]
 
;Tournakit
 
;Tournakit
 
:Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]
 
:Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]
  
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====Old====
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====Old or Abandoned====
 
;Livestat
 
;Livestat
 
:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]
 
:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]
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;QBStatGen
 
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:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/QBStatGen/ Home page] – "designed to create a more versatile statistics report from SQBS files"
 
 
;QBTPS
 
;QBTPS
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:<del>[http://qbtournaments.org/ Home page]</del>
 
 
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]
 
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]
 
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]
 
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]
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:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]
 
:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]
 
;Tournament Central
 
;Tournament Central
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:[http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page]
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:[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]
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;[[Taft]]
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;Taft
 
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
 
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
 
:Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]
 
:Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]
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:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]
 
:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]
 
;[[BEeS]]
 
;[[BEeS]]
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:[http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page] – "integrate an entire quizbowl tournament into one seamless electronic experience"
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:[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]
 
:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]
 
:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]
 
:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]
 
:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]
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====Comparison of stats programs====
 
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 85%; width: auto; table-layout: fixed;"
 
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|-
 
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! style="width: 12em" | Name
 
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! Creator
 
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! Released
 
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! Updated
 
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! Version
 
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! Price
 
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! Output formats
 
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! Documentation
 
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! Platforms
 
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! Technology
 
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! License
 
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|-
 
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! [[SQBS]] ([http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/index.html visit])
 
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| [[Chris Sewell]]
 
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| 2001
 
−
| February 2010
 
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| 4.0
 
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| Free
 
−
| SQBS, HTML
 
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| [http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/sqbs4doc.htm] [http://www.naqt.com/stats/using-sqbs.html] [http://www.pace-nsc.org/?p=651]
 
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| Windows only
 
−
|
 
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|
 
−
|-
 
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! [[QBSQL]] ([http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ visit])
 
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| [[Avram Lyon]]
 
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| October 2008
 
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| February 2010
 
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| 0.7.1
 
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| Free
 
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| SQBS, HTML
 
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| [http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/wiki/InstallationInstruction]
 
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| All; web server required
 
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| PHP and MySQL
 
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| GNU GPLv2
 
−
|-
 
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! [[Taft]] ([http://www.taftqb.com/ visit])
 
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| [[Evan Silberman]]
 
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| January 2007
 
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| February 2010
 
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| Discontinued
 
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| $25 per event
 
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| SQBS, HTML
 
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|
 
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| All
 
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| Ruby on Rails
 
−
|
 
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|-
 
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! [[BEeS]] ([http://www.beesqb.com/ visit])
 
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| [[Sean Skaar]], [[Andrew Hart]]
 
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| Not yet
 
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|
 
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|
 
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| TBA
 
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|
 
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|
 
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|
 
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|
 
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|
 
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|-
 
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|}
 
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*Feb 17, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3641 computer-assisted quiz bowl]
 
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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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*Jun 09, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7964 Better Stats]
 
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*Feb 14, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9478 Stats programs and you]
 
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*Oct 05, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10657 statkeeping and online scoresheets (split from ACF Fall 2010)]
 
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*Mar 16, 2011 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11302 LaTeX for quizbowl, again]
 
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====Rankings and stats====
 
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;NAQT Statistics Database
 
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:[http://www.naqt.com/stats/ 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"
 
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:Aug 21, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6159 NAQT Statistics Database]
 
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;Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients
 
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:<del>[http://byko.servehttp.com:6174/bqbq/ Home page]</del> – "A rating system for high school quiz bowl"
 
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;Excelsior Rankings
 
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:<del>[http://srivatsa.org/qb/ Home page]</del>
 
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:Jul 11, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11786 Excelsior Rankings]
 
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;[[Harry White]]'s Tournament stats database search
 
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:[http://hdwhite.org/qb/ Home page]
 
  
 
==Questions==
 
==Questions==
  
 
===Question databases===
 
===Question databases===
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====Unparsed====
 
 
;Quizbowl Resource Database
 
;Quizbowl Resource Database
 
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]
 
:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]
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;Collegiate Packet Archive
 
;Collegiate Packet Archive
 
:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
 
:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
 +
;[[QuizDB]]
 +
:[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]
 +
:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]
 
;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]
 
;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]
 
:[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]
 
:[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]
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;ACF Question Archive
 
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:[http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/archive.php Home page]
 
 
;[[Wastebin]]
 
;[[Wastebin]]
 
:[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]
 
:[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]
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:Dec 19, 2009 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9100 Wastebin - A Trash Packet Archive]
 
  
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====Parsed====
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===Practice tools===
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;Protobowl packet repository
 
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:[https://github.com/neotenic/packets Github page]
 
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*Mar 19, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1694 Question Database]
 
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===Search engines===
 
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;[[acfdb|ACFDB]]
 
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:[http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/ Home page]
 
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:Jun 05, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5733 ACFDB - a new tossup database]
 
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;[[QBDB]]
 
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:[http://www.grapesmoker.com/qbdb/ Home page]
 
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:May 18, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2745 Quizbowl tournament database, alpha version]
 
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:Jan 13, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4891 return (sorta) of the question database]
 
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:May 03, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5471 QBDB thread]
 
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;<span id="quizbowl_db">[[Quizbowl DB]]</span> <span style="font-weight:normal;">(superseded [[Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database]])</span>
 
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:[http://www.quizbowldb.com/ Home page]
 
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:[https://github.com/sharadmv/Quizbowl-User-Interface GitHub page]
 
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:<del>[http://quizbowl.tpclubs.com/?page=db Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database home page]</del>
 
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:April 18, 2011 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11421 Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database]
 
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:Jan 23, 2012 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=233987 Quizbowl Central]
 
 
;[[Protobowl]]
 
;[[Protobowl]]
 
:[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]
 
:[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]
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:Aug 8, 2012 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 Protobowl]
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:[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]
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;[[Quinterest]]
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;QuizBug
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:[http://www.quinterest.org/ Home page]
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:[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]
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:Jun 16, 2013 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14574 Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search]
 
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;[[Gyaankosh]]
 
−
:[http://www.gyaankosh.com/ Home page] (possibly no longer in existence)
 
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:Sep 21, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6389 Some new question database]
 
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:Feb 25, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7331 Gyaankosh?]
 
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====Comparison of search engines====
 
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 85%; width: auto; table-layout: fixed;"
 
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|-
 
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! style="width: 12em" | Name
 
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! Creator
 
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! Released
 
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! Updated
 
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! Questions
 
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! Tournaments
 
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! Tagging?
 
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! Rating?
 
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! Types of questions
 
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! Technology
 
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|-
 
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! [[ACFDB]] ([http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/ visit])
 
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| [[Carlo Angiuli]]
 
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| June 2008
 
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| 24 March 2011
 
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| 14455 [http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/index.php]
 
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|
 
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| Yes
 
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| No
 
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| [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/archive.php ACF Question Archive] only
 
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| PHP and MySQL
 
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|-
 
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! [[Gyaankosh]] ([http://www.gyaankosh.com/ visit])
 
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| [[Arnav Moudgil]]
 
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| September 2008
 
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| Late 2010
 
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| 50898 [http://www.gyaankosh.com/search/]
 
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| 99 [http://www.gyaankosh.com/browse/]
 
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| Yes
 
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| No
 
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| Collegiate, high school
 
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| [http://www.djangoproject.com/ Django] (Python and MySQL)
 
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|-
 
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! [[QBDB]] ([http://www.grapesmoker.com/qbdb/ visit])
 
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| [[Jerry Vinokurov]]
 
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| May 2006
 
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| Early 2010
 
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|
 
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| 37
 
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| Yes
 
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| Yes
 
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| Collegiate
 
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| PHP and MySQL
 
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|-
 
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! [[Quizbowl DB]] ([http://www.quizbowldb.com/ visit])
 
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| [[Sharad Vikram]]
 
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| April 2011
 
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| January 2012
 
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| 30694
 
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| 101
 
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| Yes
 
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| <span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="Up/down voting">Yes*</span>
 
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| Open, collegiate, high school, middle school
 
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| [http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ GWT] (Java, JavaScript)
 
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|-
 
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! [[Quinterest]] ([http://quinterest.org/ visit])
 
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| [[Rohit Lalchandani]], with [[Joshua Duncan]] and [[Jacob Reed]]
 
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| May 2013
 
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| December 2013
 
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|
 
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| 103<
 
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| Yes
 
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| Yes
 
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| Open, collegiate, high school, middle school
 
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| Javascript, PHP, MySQL
 
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|}
 
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===Practice tools===
 
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;TriviaBot (IRC bot)
 
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:[http://www.aegisquestions.com/triviabot/ Home page]
 
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:[http://code.google.com/p/qbbot/ Google Code page]
 
−
:[http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~alopezlago/qbbot/ Index of TriviaBot-formatted question sets]
 
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:Jul 18, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8147 Portable version of TrivaBot/quizbowl-reading bot]
 
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:Jul 14, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2981 Scholastic Bowl bot]
 
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;Quizzy
 
−
:[http://code.google.com/p/quizzy/ Google Code page]
 
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:Nov 10, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8871 Quizzy, an Excuse for you to Try Out Google Wave]
 
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;Quiz Bowl Tester
 
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:[http://itm.umiacs.umd.edu/QuizBowl/ Home page]
 
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:Feb 10, 2011 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11154 Money for practicing quiz bowl online]
 
 
;QB Reader
 
;QB Reader
 
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]
 
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]
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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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;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]]
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===No Longer Existing===
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:For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [ItALX http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170]
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:For tournament direction: Taft
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:Packet readers: Abacus
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:Match scorekeepers: WUStL
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:Stats tools: QBStatGen
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:Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings
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:Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh
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:Practice tools: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester
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===Never Existed===
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:For tournament direction: BEeS
  
 
[[Category:Internet]]
 
[[Category:Internet]]

Revision as of 19:02, 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
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
Tournament schema
Website with technical specification
GitHub repository
Tournakit
Aug 21, 2013 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit

Old or Abandoned

Livestat
Home page
QBTPS
I needed a database project
Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)
JAGUARS
SourceForge page
Tournament Central
Home page (archived)
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 (archived)
Jan 03, 2009 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program
Mar 21, 2010 BEeS, Part 2

Questions

Question databases

Quizbowl Resource Database
Home page
Google Search
HS QB Packet Archive
Home page
Collegiate Packet Archive
Home page
QuizDB
Home page
discussion
Stanford Packet Archive
Home page
Wastebin
Home page

Practice tools

Protobowl
Home page
discussion
QuizBug
discussion
QB Reader
Google Code page
May 31, 2011 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)
Quizbowl DB (see above)

Packet formats and parsing

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

No Longer Existing

For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [ItALX http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170]
For tournament direction: Taft
Packet readers: Abacus
Match scorekeepers: WUStL
Stats tools: QBStatGen
Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings
Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh
Practice tools: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester

Never Existed

For tournament direction: BEeS
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