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Tournaments
Tournament database
- Quizbowl Resource Database (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)
Tournament writers
- QEMS2
- Packetizing solutions based on QEMS2 include QuizDroid PacketBuilder and Gamayun.
- Packetizor
- NAQT has proprietary software called Ginseng.
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- Superseded
- Packet Skeletons
- NSC Sudoku, a manual template for NSC packetization from QEMS2 (used for 2018 and some other number of NSCs)
- Packet Template Generator (used for 2021 Illinois Open)
- Question Mixer
Tournament schedulers
Software for Online Tournaments
Stats
Tournament Statistics
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- Home page – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
- 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
- Main page: scoresheets
- Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
- Official NAQT scoresheet in Excel format
- 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
- Tournament schema
- Tournakit
- Aug 21, 2013 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit
Old or Abandoned
- Livestat
- QBTPS
- JAGUARS
- Tournament Central
- 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
- Home page (archived)
- Jan 03, 2009 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program
- Mar 21, 2010 BEeS, Part 2
Questions
Question databases
- Main page: question databases
- Home page
- deprecated in favor of the packet archive's Trash section
Practice tools
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- 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
Buzzer software
- Main article: Online buzzer
Packet formats and parsing
- QB Toolbox
- 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"
- 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
- Aug 12, 2005 Request For Comments: 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