Hello everyone-- after sleeping for about two days straight, I just wanted to note that the official statistics for this year's edition of ACF Nationals should be up on the website, hopefully, by tomorrow at the latest. But this email is mainly about publically acknowledging everyone whose efforts made the tournament go off (virtually) hitch free when it looked kind of hairy. At the risk of sounding overindulgent, it takes a tremendous effort from a lot of people to run a Nationals and this year I had the help and support of many folks so without further ado: So first, I'd like to thank all the teams for coming (especially the dii teams and those teams that have not played ACF for a while) I was impressed with the overall enthusiam and level of competition displayed by everyone at the tourney. Next I' like to thank the University of Maryland for agreeing to host (yet again), providing stats and moderating help (sorry I don't remember some of you all's names), letting us go print off schedules during rounds when a last minute cancellation of a team had us scrambling, and generally having our back all day with the little things that can make or break a tournament. Kudos especially go to Adam FIne who helped us a realize that we had to readjust the playoff schedules on the fly. Now, for all the moderators who were unflappable and (from what I've heard) very good at what they did throughout a long day of reading questions, so, in no particular order I would really like to thank: Rick Grimes, Carol Jordan (?), James Dinan, Dave Goodman, Art Fleming, Mike Starsinic, Tim Young, Josh Allen, Maureen Smith (?), Shaun Hayeslip, Augustine Kim, and hopefully I'm not forgetting anyone, but if I did I really appreciated your help. Charlie Steinhice for running the selection of this year's Carper winners: Gaius Stern and Don Windham. On the editing side of things I'd like to thank some fellow Ann Arborites who came through in a pinch: Craig Barker, Mike Burger, and especially Dave Thorsley, all wrote questions whose number varies from 1 to 20 leading up to the tournament; Dave also helped to format packets for much of Friday morning. Other appreciated folks include Matt Weiner who donated some questions, and the two gentleman from Illinois, Mike Sorice and Andrew Ullspreger (sp?) who doublecheked the science questions and wrote some physics for the playoff rounds. All of your help really meant a lot to the tournament. Finally I'd like to acknowledge my main co-editors: Jason Paik, busted his ass on the science and was on the ball all week, thanks so much. Dave Hamilton who helped edit science and classics, put together the packets with us well into friday morning, and administrated the tourney with his ususal aplomb, Ben Heller who helped me immeasurably by both editing and writing a large number of History questions, and Paul Litvak who edited the philosophy, social science, religion, wrote lit questions, kept me awake, and helped to correct things on the fly numerous times. I think that is it, official results are coming and I will post the packets for free on the same website that I am going to set up for discussing this year's regionals. I'm not going to lie, many of the packets I received were hard if not downright problematic and I think that if question submission style tourneys and ACF in particular are going to thrive that we need to really scrutinize what, how, and why people write what they do. Also, we will announce the editing line-up for next year's set of tournaments, which should begin the transition to a "new generation" of editors and a hopefully a new generation of ACF players. Again, I hope everyone had a good time. see you around, Ezequiel Berdichevsky Chief Editor, ACF Nationals 2004
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