Subject: West Coast ACF newlsetter III.8
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 20:20:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gaius Stern <gaius@uclink2.berkeley.edu>
To: acf-newsletter@uclink2.berkeley.edu
Hello all,
This might be the last issue of the year unless I grind out 3.9 later
in May. Thanks to Richard Mason who pointed out that the Berkeley club
webpage (which is undergoing renovation) is actually at
/quiz-bowl/ links to other pages should
soon be installed.
This issue contains brief coverage of the following stories:
ACF Nats Apr '97 The Future of ACF
Oklahoma tourney results A fall program
ISU tourney results Who deaffiliated? Why?
Tx A&M Anarchy bowl results Summer fun events
access to free questions
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA WINS ACF NATS, CHICAGO SECOND
The University of Virgina took the 1997 ACF crown in Champagne/Urbana,
Illinois last month after defeating Chicago in a close game. Virginia
lost only to Berkeley in the round-robin phase of the tournament. ACF VP
Vishnu Jejjala was TD for the Nationals. This year the 23 teams were
divided into two brackets with the top three advancing to the semi-finals.
The brackets and participants are listed below. Records might perhaps be
in error because they are by memory and Vishnu has yet to forward the
final results. The order of the teams is approximate for the bottom nine
in each bracket, but not necessarilly correct.
Bracket 1: Bracket 2:
Maryland A 9-1 (lost to Ill A) Virg A 11-1 (lost to Berk)
Georgia Tech 9-1 (lost to MD) Chicago A 11-1 (lost to VA)
Illinois A 8-2 (lost GaT, ) Michigan A 9-3 (lost Ch,VA,ISU)
Ohio State 7-3 (lost to top 3) Berkeley 9-3 (lost MDb,Ch,Mich)
Virginia B 6-4 Iowa St A 8-4
Stanford 6-4 Illinois B 7-5
Oklahoma Maryland B
Chicago B BYU
Michigan C Illinois C
Michigan B Carleton
Iowa State B MIT
Texas-Austin
A seeding miscalculation placed the three best teams all in bracket 2 with
Berkeley and Iowa State in what seemed like a Bracket of Death. While the
top six teams played their three counterparts from the other bracket in
the semi-finals, the rest of the pool also divided into three game matches
by division. Berkeley and Illinois B came in 7th and 8th respectively,
ISU was 9, OSU 10, Virginia B was 11 and Stanford was 12. Congrats to VA
and Chicago. The top 10 all stars for the Nats included John Sheahan
(Chicago), Mike Starsnik (Ohio St), Andrew Yaffee (VA), Rob Henzel (Iowa
St), and Eric Bell (Oklahoma) - sorry this is incomplete.
Congrats to all who played.
TEXAS A&M WINS OKLAHOMA ROUTE 66 CLASSIC II
>From Eric Bell, TD of the Oklahoma Tournament:
Texas A&M University defeated the University of Memphis 205-90 to capture
the 1997 University of Oklahoma "Route 66 Classic II: The Wrath of Dan
Beshear" tournament on April 5. Wichita State University A was 3rd.
The masters' team "Loose Cannons" also competed, compiling a 6-2 record in
exhibition play. Congrats to them, and to Memphis and Oklahoma
"Lutheran," the two teams which defeated them.
Final Standings:
1. Texas A&M 7-0 4. TIE Arkansas 3-4
2. Memphis 6-1 7. Wichita State B 1-6
3. Wichita State A 5-2 8. Oklahoma Baptist 0-7
4. TIE: Oklahoma "Presbyterian" 3-4
Oklahoma "Lutheran" 3-4
Congrats also to our high scorers:
1. Seth Kendall (Memphis)
2. Chris Goheen (Loose Cannons)
3. Louis Gill (Oklahoma Presbyterian)
4. Randy (sorry, don't know your last name) (Texas A&M)
5. Dargan Ware (Arkansas)
6. Stephen Gill (Oklahoma Lutheran)
OKLAHOMA WINS TEXAS A&M ANARCHY BOWL
Texas A&M hosted Anarchy Bowl, a trash tournament on April 24 in College
Station last month. A team from Oklahoma won the event, which included a
vampire packet by Candace Benfiel.
Full stats were not available when the newsletter went out.
CARLETON WINS LES ENFANT TERRIBLES
School Wins Losses Total Pts Avr Pts TUs Ints TU/I
Carleton A 8 1 3100 344.44 116 29 4.00
Illinois 8 1 2290 254.44 95 18 5.28
ISU A 5 4 1645 182.78 75 13 5.77
Carleton B 2 7 650 72.22 42 16 2.63
St. J/St.B 4 4 625 78.13 40 9 4.44
ISU B 2 6 725 90.63 46 7 6.57
Wisconsin 1 7 420 52.50 33 6 5.50
School Bonus % Opp Pts Opp Avr Pt Diff
Carleton A 59.91% 775 86.11 258.33
Illinois 50.18% 1030 114.44 140.00
ISU A 42.67% 1380 153.33 29.44
Carleton B 24.60% 2055 228.33 -156.11
St. J/St.B 22.50% 1445 180.63 -102.50
ISU B 21.74% 1435 179.38 -88.75
Wisconsin 12.12% 1335 166.88 -114.38
Player School TUs Ints Total Pts Games PPG TU/I
Rob Illinois 62 14 550 9 61.11 4.43
Tifne ISU A 38 5 355 9 39.44 7.60
Andy Car. A 40 12 340 9 37.78 3.33
Jerry Illinois 33 4 310 9 34.44 8.25
Emily Car. A 33 6 300 9 33.33 5.50
Cheryl Car. A 28 2 270 9 30.00 14.00
Steve Car. B 32 10 270 9 30.00 3.20
Sam St.J/St.B 26 6 230 9 25.56 4.33
STANFORD REOPENS ACCESS TO FREE QUESTIONS
Thanks to Eric Albert of Stanford who has reopened access to the former
Unofficial Collegebowl Archives. The archive site contains approximately
35 tournaments' worth of questions for practice. The site went down
earleir this year, so we are grateful to Eric for reaccessing it. ACF
strongly encourages clubs to make use of the site and to download and
print the rounds for team practice. Please rememebr, however, that the
questions there are not clean. Everyone who reads the newsletter can see
them, so please DO NOT SUMBIT THEM to a tournament as your round.
Tournament submissions should ALWAYS be new questions written by
the team playing. The new address is
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/CollegeBowl/archive.html
THE FUTURE OF ACF AND RETIREMENTS
This year, after ACF Nationals, the top level of the ACF, acting President
Jim Dendy, acting VP Vishnu Jejjala, NATIONALS Editors Carol Guthrie and
Don Windham announced their retirements. Ramesh Kanneppan also be less
involved in the future, so ACF will undergo a personality change over the
summer.
A number of players and second rung administrators move up to take their
places so the spirit of ACF will continue with few changes.
There will again be Regionals and Nationals next year as well as a number
of ACF tournaments whose hosts and winners will automatically qualify to
play at Nationals. The new group is equally dedicated to continuing an
academic game of untimed questions which reward knowledge.
A few things which will change: ACF will put up a website with
rules and regulations. A greater effort will be made to link tournaments,
such as the MD-Berkeley collaboration of Terrapin and WIT. ACF may also
undergo a change of names, in which case the newsletter will also adopt
the new name.
THE FALL CALENDAR
Right now a number of schools have expressed interest in running events.
None of the dates below are verified, so expect some changes. As more
information becomes available, it will be circulated.
Oct 17 or 24 Illinois
10-31-11/ 1 Berkeley-MD
Nov 8 UT-Dallas
Nov 15 NAQT (National at multiple sites)
Nov 22 Caltech
Jan Brigham Young Univ
Feb Stanford
Mar 7? ACF Regionals (natioanl multiple sites)
Spring UCLA
UCLA has mentioned interest in hosting a "new players" tourney in Fall.
WHO DEAFFILIATED and WHY?
Approximately 85 teams from 65 schools played in ACF tournaments this
year. Many of these schools also play NAQT and/or CBI. There is no rule
forcing teams to choose between formats. Many play all three. However,
economics have forced some to deaffiliate from CBI. It is simply too
expensive for them to purchase the requisite $650 of CBI IM rounds and
still attend the local tournaments. Several teams have never affiliated
because CBI is beyond their budget.
Other schools say their reason for deaffiliation is that NAQT provides
them with less expensive IM packets of equal quality. This year Caltech
and Penn ran their IM tourneys with NAQT questions and said they were
pleased to have made the switch because the quality was the same, but the
expense was one quarter of what CBI charges.
Some teams deaffiliate because they prefer a different type of question.
They say that CBI is either too easy, or a test of speed, rather than a
test of knowledge.
The following schools have/will deaffiliate (or never affiliated), but
played the circuit. An * marks recent deaffilaition
NE: Brandeis, Yale, Columbia,
Mid-Atlantic *Swarthmore, Rutgers, UMCP, UMBC, *Johns Hopkins, Penn,
*Penn State, U-NC, Tennessee,
South *Virginia, Emory, Georgia Tech, *Randolph-Macon (?)
Midwest Illinois
West: *BYU, Berkeley, *Caltech, UCSB, *UCLA
NOTE: It is the policy of the ACF newsletter to recommend teams to
participate in every tournament they can afford.
SUMMER TOURNAMENTS 1997
Once again Minnesota will host the Fifth Annual Paul Bunyan All-Onion
Masters Invitational on Saturday, June 21 at the University of
Minnesota. Events include golf (optional) on Friday, June 20 at 11 am; a
new event - a trash tournament to be held Friday at 6 pm or Sunday at 10
am; traditional games from 9 am - 5 pm on Saturday; and a tailgating
barbecue preceding the St. Paul Saints-Winnipeg Goldeyes minor leagure
baseball game (optional).
Teams should consist of three players and if possible one retiree. Write
to Dave Dornan for more details. Please express interest by 1 June and
submit an original packet by 7 June. Dave Dornan can me contacted at
dorma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu.
Carol Guthrie will again run the Tennessee Masters tournament later this
summer at U-Tenn Knoxville. Please contact her at TNMASTERS@aol.com for
more information which was not yet available at this time.
BYU is also considering a summer tournament, Pioneer Day. To confirm
this, contact Craig Harmon (paris@byu.edu) because the BYU webpage is
currently out of date.
The Bay Area Universities have recently decided to host a summer event in
early August (prob. first weekend). Teams are to be of 3 players each
from any mix of schools and dinosaurs (former players) to mazimize the
field unless turnout is high enough to allow 4/team. There is NO entry
fee; teams must BRING a xeroxed set of original questions. No effort will
be made to edit the questions, so participants should self edit for
quality. An award will go to the best written round (free dinner?). The
event will be held at UC-Berkeley, but participants will read their own
rounds and BYE players will keep score. PLEASE e-mail Rachel Marshak
(rache@leland.stanford.edu) to confirm your attendence. All are welcome,
and some housing accomodations will be made for those coming from out of
town.
Lastly, the Berkeley club is happy to again announce summer practices
probably every Wed. pm on our 20 person buzzer. All are welcome. We use
a mix of trash rounds, real games, etc. for the fun of it. Practice is
very informal, it often includes dinner or dessert and will be held at the
residence of resident veteran from Atilla the Hun's army, Mike Bennett
(mikhailb@uclink2.berkeley.edu).
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