Newsletter Volume I Issue 3 ACF West Coast Newsletter Vol. I Issue 3 Gaius Stern Hello again, everyone I would like to welcome many new clubs to the list of subscribers to the newsletter, including Snow College, Weber State, Notre Dame, and Univ of Saskatechwan. First a brief rehash, If anyone knows information about good durable buzzer systems, please forward that information to me and I will make it available to all. If anyone is interested in hosting a tournament, let me know and I will happily advertise it for you (free) in this newsletter. If you would like to consider running a tournament NEXT YEAR, the earlier you plan it, the better attendence you can guarentee because you will be able to book a space long in advance and be the only tourney that weekend. Let me know if you are interested and we can create a calander. RESULTS FROM BYU PERPETUAL MOTION INVITATIONAL (Jonathon Green from BYU reporting) Here are the results from BYU's Perpetual Motion Invitational of February 5, 1994. Eleven rounds worth of questions from this years tournament, and four from last year's, are being sent to the FTP archive for your enjoyment. __________________________________________________________________ Team Name Won Lost PF PA Ave.PPG Opp.PPG High Cal 12 1 3945 1330 303.46 102.31 430 BYU 1 9 4 3475 2040 267.31 156.92 480 Colorado 8 4 2900 1405 241.67 117.08 380 Stanford 7 5 2160 1950 180 162.5 270 BYU 2 7 5 1750 1805 145.83 150.42 230 BYU 3 6 6 1535 2155 127.92 179.58 215 Weber St. 5 7 1385 2275 115.42 189.58 230 Utah 2 4 8 995 1970 82.92 164.17 145 BYU 4 3 9 965 1975 80.42 164.58 165 Utah 1 0 12 375 2510 31.25 209.17 90 Individual Statistics Name Team Games Ave.PPG TU -5's HIGH 1 Marc S. Colrdo 12 82.92 107 15 145 2 Norm BYU 1 13 44.62 62 8 110 3 Sherman Stnfrd 12 40 57 18 70 4 Lowell Utah 2 12 38.75 52 11 80 5 Matt Cal 13 38.08 57 15 65 6 Biff WebrSt. 12 36.67 52 16 70 7 Darren BYU 1 13 30 43 8 80 8 Phil Cal 13 26.15 39 10 80 9 Gaius Cal 13 23.46 34 7 50 10 Craig BYU 3 12 21.67 27 2 50 ______________________________________ Congratulations are especially owed to Marc Swisdak from Colorado who not only won MVP but led his team to many victories. Marc drove about 10 hours to play at BYU and had a great tournament. STANFORD CARDINAL CLASSIC V this coming weekend in Palo Alto Gerard M. from Stanford reports the following teams will be at CC V: Georgia State Berkeley (3) BYU (3) Vanderbilt (3) Stanford Michigan Davis (2) Fresno (2) Look forward to seeing many of you there. SUBSCRIBE to the QUIZBOWL NEWSGROUP Many of you may not know there is a quizbowl newsgroup to discuss the ins and outs of quizbowl competition. It is alt.college.collegebowl. To subscribe to it, get into your computer account and when you receive the % prompt, type trn. The computer may give you a huge list of possible newsgroups to which you can subscribe. Pickl and choose among them or just type a (capital) N. Then when it gets through the list (the computer may say ignoring ....), type g alt.college.collegebowl. That should make you a subscriber. If I have passed on any incorrect info or just an old fashioned way of getting the account, I welcome correction. Gaius THE ACF REGIONALS and where are ACF NATIONALS ACF will hold simultaneous Regionals around the country on the same questions the weekend of March 3-5. To the best of my knowledge, the 5 sites will be Princeton (North East), Ga Tech (South East), Univ of Oklahoma (SouthWest), Chicago (Midwest) and Berkeley (West). The top 25% or so finishers in each region will AUTOMATICALLY be invited to ACF Nationals. ACF Nationals will be first weekend in April in Knoxville, TN. The hosts will be Don Windham and Carol Guthrie who are very experienced tournament hosts and regulars with the Tennesse Masters every summer. If you are considering attending the Berkeley ACF Regional, please write me at either gaius@uclink2.berkeley.edu OR pinax1@garnet.berkeley.edu to let me know. Eric Bell is running the Southwest Region and his e-mail is eric.bell@oubbs.telecom.uoknor.edu. Berkeley WILL give an early notifaction discount just for telling us you are interested. This discount applies to each team your school wishes to send. Remember we PERMIT multiple teams. This is a roster of those who have already responded. (this list is incomplete and the deadline has not yet come) Berkeley Site: Oklahoma Site: Berkeley 2 Oklahoma Stanford 2 Texas A&M Utah 1 UT-Dallas (maybe) BYU 3 Colorado (maybe) UCLA (maybe) Neither site is filled up, so please sign up!!! WHAT are ACF QUESTIONS LIKE??? The goal of ACF is to get more teams participating. We therefore do our best to cut expenses and encourage teams to "trade entry fees" or put one another up to save money on hotel rooms, etc. This is why we allow multiple teams and strive for equal opportunity on all questions. That means 20 questions per game. This way, one room is not punished by having a slow reader, as could happen in a timed game. Everyone hears the same number of toss-ups. Secondly, ACF questions are by definition mostly academic in nature and contain less questions about Kirk Cobane, OJ Simpson, Godrozny, etc. An effort is still made to keep the questions FUN, even if they are on more academic topics. Third, most (but not all) ACF boni are 30 pointers based on the infamous VVB argument back East. If one team got lots of 20 point boni and got them all while the other team repeatedly got 30 pointers and thus won the game, the distribution of boni would hurt team A. Thus, most (but not all) boni will be 30 pointers at ACF Regionals. ACF questions this year have been designed to begin with a VERY obscure clue and continue with several progressively easier clues until the final clue (indicated by "For ten points ...") should be a give-away for anyone who has studied that field. Such as "For ten points, who was this fifth American president?" There are to be no single clue questions and an effort will be made to encourage brevity. ACF strives for the right balance between rewarding knowledge and keeping in speed as a factor. For some players, the third clue will be the giveaway and those players will race to the buzzer when they hear died on "July 4, 1826" but others will need to hear the last clue "... first Vice-President." DO YOU NEED MORE QUESTIONS TO USE IN PRACTICE? For those who are familiar with it, there is a FTP site into which you can tap with a computer and download many free rounds of questions used at tournaments around the country. I do not know how to do it myself, but I am sure one of my teammates does. If someone else knows what to do, feel free to inform us all. Best of luck at upcoming tournaments and forgive my many typos Gaius CAL Berkeley