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Basically, lots of links to computery quizbowly stuff. Feel free to edit or help out in any way.
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==Quizbowl Resource Center==
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==Tournaments==
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A good place to start is [[Hsquizbowl.org]], which has [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/ forums] and a [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ database] of tournaments and packets.
 
  
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==Question/packet databases==
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===Tournament database===
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===Search engines===
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*[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)
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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_central">[[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(superseded [[Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database]])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]
 
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;[[Protobowl]]
 
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:[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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;[[Quinterest]]
 
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:[http://www.quinterest.org/ Home page]
 
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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]]
 
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:[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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===Tournament writers===
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 85%; width: auto; table-layout: fixed;"
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*[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2]
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**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].
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! style="width: 12em" | Name
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*[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]
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! Creator
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*[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.
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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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! [[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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| 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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! [[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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! [[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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| 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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! [[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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! [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14574 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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===Archives===
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===Tournament automation and management===
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;Quizbowl Resource Database
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*[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)
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:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]
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**Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)
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:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]
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*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26177 Wordcounter] (character/word counting)
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;HS QB Packet Archive
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*[https://github.com/aseem-keyal/autoPG autoPG] (pronunciation guides)
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:[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
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*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/qpd qpd] (pronunciation guides)
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;Collegiate Packet Archive
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*Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)
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:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
 
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;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]
 
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:[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]
 
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;[[Wastebin]]
 
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:[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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:;Superseded
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
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*[https://gitlab.com/alistairgray42/packet-skels Packet Skeletons]
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*NSC Sudoku, a manual template for NSC packetization from QEMS2 (used for 2018 and some other number of NSCs)
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*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/Packet%20Templates Packet Template Generator] (used for 2021 Illinois Open)
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*[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]
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*Mar 19, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1694 Question Database]
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===Tournament schedulers===
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*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]
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===Software for Online Tournaments===
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*[[Qblitz]]
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*[https://www.quizbowlreader.com/demo.html Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)] [https://github.com/alopezlago/MODAQ (source code)]
  
 
==Stats==
 
==Stats==
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===Stats programs===
 
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;[[SQBS]]
 
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:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
 
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;[[QBSQL]]
 
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:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"
 
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:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]
 
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:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]
 
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;[[Taft]]
 
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: Home page – discontinued; [http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ archived version] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
 
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: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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:Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]
 
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:Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]
 
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:Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]
 
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:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]
 
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;[[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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:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]
 
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:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]
 
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;WUStL
 
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:[http://young-frankenstein.wustl.edu/ Home page] – "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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===Tournament Statistics===
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;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
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:;[[SQBS]]
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:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]
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:*[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
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:https://github.com/cdcarter
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:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]
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;NAQT Scoresheet for Android
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:*[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]
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:[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]
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:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]
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:[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]
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:*[https://neg5.org/ Home page]
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:Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]
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:;QBSQL
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;Excel score sheets
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:*[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"
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:[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]
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:*Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]
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:Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]
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:*Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]
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:Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]
 
  
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====Old====
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===Historical Statistics===
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;Livestat
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*[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]
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:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]
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*See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]
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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"
 
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;QBTPS
 
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:<del>[http://qbtournaments.org/ Home page]</del>
 
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:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]
 
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:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]
 
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;Tournament Director
 
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:<del>[http://www.tournamentdirector.org/ Home page]</del>
 
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:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtd/ SourceForge page]
 
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:[https://github.com/puls/tournament-director GitHub page]
 
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;JAGUARS
 
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:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]
 
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;Tournament Central
 
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:[http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page]
 
  
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====Comparison of stats programs====
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===Scoresheets===
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 85%; width: auto; table-layout: fixed;"
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:''Main page: [[scoresheets]]''
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:;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
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! style="width: 12em" | Name
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:*[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]
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! Creator
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:*https://github.com/cdcarter
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! Released
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:;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format
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! Updated
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:*https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx
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! Version
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:;NAQT Scoresheet for Android
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! Price
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:*[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]
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! Output formats
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:*[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]
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! Documentation
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:*Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]
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! Platforms
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:;Excel score sheets
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! Technology
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:*[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]
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! License
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:*Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]
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:*Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]
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! [[SQBS]] ([http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/index.html visit])
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:;Google Spreadsheets
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| [[Chris Sewell]]
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:*Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del>
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| 2001
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:*Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]
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| February 2010
 
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| 4.0
 
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| Free
 
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| 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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! [[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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|-
 
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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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| All
 
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| Ruby on Rails
 
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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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| TBA
 
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*Statistics formats: SQBS; HTML, XML, Excel, etc.
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===Stats data formats===
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:;SQBS
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:*[[SQBS data file]]
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:;Tournament schema
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:*[https://schema.quizbowl.technology/ Website with technical specification]
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:*[https://github.com/quizbowl/schema GitHub repository]
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:;Tournakit
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:*Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]
  
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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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====Old or Abandoned====
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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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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
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*Jun 09, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7964 Better Stats]
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:;Livestat
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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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:*[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]
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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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:;QBTPS
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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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:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]
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:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]
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:;JAGUARS
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:*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]
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:;Tournament Central
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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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:*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
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:*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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:*Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]
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:*Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]
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:*Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]
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:*Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]
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:;[[BEeS]]
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:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]
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:*Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]
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:*Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]
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===Rankings===
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==Questions==
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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 (dead link)
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===Question databases===
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:[http://byko.servehttp.com:6174/bqbq/ Home page] – "A rating system for high school quiz bowl"
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:''Main page: [[question databases]]''
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:;[[Hsquizbowl.org|Quizbowl Resource Database]]
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:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]
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:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]
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:;[[packet archive|HS QB Packet Archive]]
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:*[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
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:;[[packet archive|Collegiate Packet Archive]]
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:*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
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:;[[QuizDB]]
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:*[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]
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:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]
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:;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]
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:*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]
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:;[[Wastebin]]
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:*[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]
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:*deprecated in favor of the [[packet archive]]'s [https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/ Trash section]
  
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;Excelsior Rankings
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===Practice tools===
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:[http://srivatsa.org/qb/ Home page]
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:;[[Protobowl]]
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:Jul 11, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11786 Excelsior Rankings]
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:*[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]
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:*[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]
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:*use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it
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:;QuizBug 2
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:*[http://quizbug2.karangurazada.com/ Web page]
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:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]
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:;Geoffrey's [[QBReader]]
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:*[https://qbreader.org/ Home page]
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:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25289 discussion]
 +
:;[[Power QB]]
 +
:*[https://powerqb.org/ Home page]
 +
:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=392954#p392954 discussion]
  
−
;[[Harry White]]'s Tournament stats database
+
===Buzzer software===
−
:[http://hdwhite.org/qb/ Home page]
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:''Main article: [[Online buzzer]]''
 +
:;[[Buzzman]]
 +
:*[https://www.buzzman.live/ link]
 +
:;[[Buzzin.live]]
 +
:*[https://buzzin.live/ link]
  
 
===Packet formats and parsing===
 
===Packet formats and parsing===
−
;ItALX
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:;QB Toolbox
−
:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/ItALX/ Home page] – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"
+
:*http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
−
:Oct 10, 2006  [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV]
+
:;[[QBML]]
−
;QB Toolbox
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:*Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]
−
:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
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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]
−
;[[QBML]]
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:*May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]
−
:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]
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:;Alejandro's Packet Parser
−
: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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:*Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]
−
:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]
+
:;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter
−
;Alejandro's Packet Parser
+
:*Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]
−
:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]
+
:;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
−
;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter
+
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
−
:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]
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:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364
 +
:;Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)
 +
:*[https://github.com/alopezlago/YetAnotherPacketParser/releases/ Download]
 +
:*Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly
  
  
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*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)
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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)
 
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.
 
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.
  
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==Tournaments==
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==Miscellaneous==
−
===Tournament writing===
+
===Recording===
−
;Jerome (ca. 2004)
+
:;Audio Match Hosting Software
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:<del>[http://jerome.caltech.edu/ Home page]</del>
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:*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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:[http://web.archive.org/web/20041205211442/http://quizbowl.caltech.edu/T9.html Technophobia 9]
 
−
:Aug 09, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1956&p=24809&hilit=jerome#p24809 Jerome information]
 
−
:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560&p=81698#p81688 LaTeX and packets]
 
−
;QED (Question Editing Database)
 
−
:[http://www.aegisquestions.com/qed/ Home page]
 
−
:Jul 4, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2942 Question Editing Database 1.00]
 
−
;Tournament Question Database
 
−
:http://www.scobo.net/qdb.aspx
 
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;Question Mixer
 
−
:Oct 25, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6666 Question Mixer Program]
 
−
 
 
−
===Tournament management===
 
−
:''See Taft, BEeS above''
 
−
 
 
−
===Tournament databases===
 
−
;2005 tournament database
 
−
:Aug 22, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1986 Tournament database feedback]
 
−
;Quizbowl Resource Database
 
−
:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database], formerly <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/tdb HSQB Tournament Database]</del> from 2008–2011
 
−
:Aug 29, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6217 New tournament database for all quizbowl events]
 
−
:Aug 29, 2008 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6216 TDB help thread]
 
−
 
 
−
==Other==
 
−
===IRC and stuff===
 
−
*irc://irc.slashnet.org/#quizbowl
 
−
*irc://irc.slashnet.org/#scobowl
 
−
;TriviaBot
 
−
:[http://www.aegisquestions.com/triviabot/ Home page]
 
−
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbbot/ Google Code page]
 
−
:[http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~alopezlago/qbbot/ Index of TriviaBot-formatted question sets]
 
−
:Jul 18, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8147 Portable version of TrivaBot/quizbowl-reading bot]
 
−
:Jul 14, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2981 Scholastic Bowl bot]
 
−
;Quizzy
 
−
:[http://code.google.com/p/quizzy/ Google Code page]
 
−
:Nov 10, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8871 Quizzy, an Excuse for you to Try Out Google Wave]
 
−
;Quiz Bowl Tester
 
−
:[http://itm.umiacs.umd.edu/QuizBowl/ Home page]
 
−
:Feb 10, 2011 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11154 Money for practicing quiz bowl online]
 
−
;QB Reader
 
−
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]
 
−
:May 31, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)]
 
−
;Quizbowl Central (see [[#quizbowl_central|above]])
 
  
−
===Misc===
+
===AI Quizbowl Player===
−
;Audio Match Hosting Software
+
*[[QANTA]]
−
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]
 
−
;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
 
−
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
 
−
:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364
 
  
−
===Study guides===
+
===No Longer Existing or Maintained===
−
*[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/culture/ Chris Sewell's Culture Page]
+
*For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 ItALX]
−
*[http://www.naqt.com/YouGottaKnow/ NAQT's You Gotta Know]
+
*For tournament direction: Taft
−
*[http://aceqb.com/improve/ guides created by ACE quizbowl camp]
+
*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: [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
  
−
===Organizations with ultra-creative acronyms===
+
===Never Existed===
−
;[[ACF]]
+
*For tournament direction: BEeS
−
:http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/
 
−
;[[HSAPQ]]
 
−
:http://www.hsapq.com/
 
−
;[[NAQT]]
 
−
:http://www.naqt.com/
 
−
;[[PACE]]
 
−
:http://www.pace-nsc.org/
 
  
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[[Category:Quizbowl on the internets]]
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[[Category:Internet]]

Latest revision as of 12:15, 15 February 2024

Tournaments

Tournament database

Tournament writers

Tournament automation and management

  • qams and qams² (set completion, contribution tracking, packet templates)
    • Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)
  • Wordcounter (character/word counting)
  • autoPG (pronunciation guides)
  • qpd (pronunciation guides)
  • Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)
Superseded

Tournament schedulers

Software for Online Tournaments

Stats

Tournament Statistics

SQBS
  • Home page – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
Yellowfruit
Neg 5
QBSQL

Historical Statistics

Scoresheets

Main page: scoresheets
Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
Official NAQT scoresheet in Excel format
NAQT Scoresheet for Android
Excel score sheets
Google Spreadsheets

Stats data formats

SQBS
Tournament schema
Tournakit

Old or Abandoned

Livestat
QBTPS
JAGUARS
Tournament Central
Taft
BEeS

Questions

Question databases

Main page: question databases
Quizbowl Resource Database
HS QB Packet Archive
Collegiate Packet Archive
QuizDB
Stanford Packet Archive
Wastebin

Practice tools

Protobowl
  • Home page
  • discussion
  • use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it
QuizBug 2
Geoffrey's QBReader
Power QB

Buzzer software

Main article: Online buzzer
Buzzman
Buzzin.live

Packet formats and parsing

QB Toolbox
QBML
Alejandro's Packet Parser
Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter
"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)
  • Download
  • Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly


  • 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

AI Quizbowl Player

No Longer Existing or Maintained

  • For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, ItALX
  • 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: QB reader (and forum post), TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester

Never Existed

  • For tournament direction: BEeS
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