Hello everyone, This newsletter is more like a preview of next year and less of a review of this year. I never got some of the details of a few events I had hoped to summarize for all, so please forgive the omisions. If you are changing your address, please write me (not the list) back to remove your old address and replace with the new. This issue contains: results from this year's ACF events ACF helps get buzzers Invitations to Summer events ACf and newsletter next year some scheduled Fall 98 events Players leaving the West Gaius -------------------- ACF Tournaments 1997-98 Southwest and Plains (Courtesy of Eric Owens) 11/8/97 UT Dallas Does Berkeley at UT-Dallas 1: UT-Dallas A 2: Wichita State 3: Oklahoma A 10/97 Illinois Beyond Zebra 1: R. Hentzel 2: NKVD (ex-Illinois players) 3: Iowa A 3/7/98 ACF Regionals at Oklahoma 1: Oklahoma A 2: Wichita State 3: Oklahoma B 3/14/98 Freeze Your Buzz Off II at Wichita State 1: Oklahoma 2: Missouri 3: Wichita State A West Coast: 10/97 UCLA Cub Cup 1: Berkeley/Stanford 2: Caltech Dale 3: Caltech Bobby 11/97 Berk WIT 5 Veterans JV 1: Stanford Stanford 2: BYU BYU 3: TIE Caltech, Lyceum Berkeley 1/31/98 BYU Perpetual Motion V 1: (tie) City of Berkeley the Academy (R. Hentzel) 2: Caltech/UCLA 3/5/98 ACF West Coast Regionals 1: (Masters team) 2: Stanford 3: Berkeley Nationals: 1: VIRGINIA (repeat from 96-97) 2: Harvard 3: Maryland 4: Oklahoma 5: Ga Tech SUMMER 1998 EVENTS Paul Bunyan Masters At the University of Minnesota the annual Paul Bunyan summer "Masters" will be held on July 11-12 (contact Eric Hillemann ). In the past has been 3 player teams. Every team must submit a round. All the information regarding this year's Paul Bunyan (and an associated singles tournament the next day, the Blue Ox, is available at http://public.carleton.edu/~ehillema/bunyan.html. Bay Area Summer Quizbowl Ultimate Experience II ?? Last word was that no one could be found to volunteer as the central organizer. Anyone interested can write me back, but the event is probably postponed until summer 1999. QuESADILLA 1 Should BASQUE fall through, you can still come to CA to play. Caltech will host QuESADILLA 1 on the weekend of 8 Aug. The contact is Richard Mason . AND ... BYU is sponsoring a post-QuESADILLA trash tournament (currently scheduled for August 8 at Caltech). E-mail Ken Jennings if you'd be interested in writing a packet and fielding a team. The tournament will be guerrilla-style (moderate your own packet) and round-robin. FALL 1998 EVENTS On the East Coast, the QB season begins much earlier than it does in Tx or CA. In 1998, many events will run in October and even Sept, while Berkeley has in the past opened the season out west with the WIT. The following tournaments are tentativel scheduled. If your club would like to cohost an event (preferably on the same weekend) or swap rounds with the East Coast tournament - or even get a free set of questions by submitting a blind round on time, contact the host and ask if you can make such arrangements. Some tournaments might badly need an extra blind round or two. Roanoke College (VA) Possibly in Sept. Roanoke is looking for a good weekend and perhaps a partner who can host a parallel event at a site far away. Each host can gatehr half of the rounds and edit them and then swap with teh other host. Contact John Paul . U-Tenn QB event Weekend of 3 Oct. Not sure if this is U-Tenn Chatanooga or Knoxville. I think it is U-TC. The Tournament director, Charlie Steinhice , is a veteran of the old U-Tenn Knox ACF 1991 Nat. Champion team, so he knows what he is doing. Heinrich Boll III (Atlanta) Georgia Tech is pleased to announce the return of Heinrich Boll, a tournament to be held Friday evening, October 9th and Saturday, October 10th. For more info, write Georgia Tech Academic Bowl Caltech Technophobia III (Pasadena, CA) Currently scheduled for weekend of 7 Nov with a Trash tournament to follow. Contact Richard Mason for more info. UC Berkeley Western Invitational Tournament VI Date to be announced, probably October 24. For any other hosts planning an event, please take the time to go to: http://www.dmk.org/cgi-bin/Webdriver?MIval=qb_index and list your event (choose "Submit information for a new tournament"). ACF HELPED GET TEAMS A BUZZER In the last few years, the ACF has helped several clubs around the country get a buzzer system (or two) by arranging group purchases at a discounted rate and also on occasion a discount for a single purchaser. Below is a list of almost all the teams we helped. If you need a buzzer soon, or if you have comments on the one you bought, please share them with the newsletter. Emory Univ. 2 x Quizwizard II 1990 Maryland Quizwizard II 1990 Swarthmore (?? which buzzer?) 1992 Duke Judge 1994-5 Georgetown College (KY) Quizwizard II 1995-6 VA Tech Quizwizard II 1995-6 (?) UCLA Specialty Design Quik Pro 1996 CA Jr Class League 7 x Quizwizard II 1996 UCSB Specialty Design Quik Pro 1996 Tx A&M x 2 " " 1996 Stanford x2 " " 1996 Fresno St x2 " " 1996 St Thomas (TX) " " 1996-7 = 24 buzzers in all (anyone left of this list please write and correct me) NEW CLUBS IN CA and DEPARTING PLAYERS A warm welcome to new teams from UC-Irvine, Whittier College, and UC-Riverside, who all made occasional appearances at invitational tournaments. If any players from those schools want more info about QB in the West, they can contact the Berkeley club, the newsletter editor, or look at the websites of the other local clubs - Caltech, UC Berkeley, Stanford, etc. Best luck to all next year! With metaphorical tears in our eyes, Berkeley bids a fond farewell to Haggai ELitzur who has run many a Cal Classic and represented us at countless tourneys in the past 4 years. He goes to Michigan. Also graduating is Guy Branum, featured in the Berk Web page for his inflamatory comments about Chelsea and Stanford). Guy goes off the the Midwest. Also leaving the area is 97 grad Ben Craycraft who goes to Columbia. Rachel Marshak is finished at Stanford and goes to NYC where she plans to make money. Alan Tabor is also graduating, off to a job in So CA. BYU says they will be back with the full squad next year and then some. ACF and the NEWSLETTER CHANGES NEXT YEAR The fact that ACF national results have not yet been posted to the ACF website http://www.glue.umd.edu/~maqt/acf/Welcome.html should not be interpreted as a sign that ACF is dying or going under. ACF goes on just as it has in the past with inconsistent spurts of energy. Perhaps later in the summer an announcement will come forth with plans for next year regarding Regionals, nationals, etc. The first issue of the newsletter might summarize any summer announcements. However ,the ACF newsletter will probably undergo several changes. There may be fewer issues. Possibly a different editor will take over the responsibilities if someone can be found (contact me if interested). The scope may move out of the West coast more into the center of the country. Because of my studies, I will be less involved next year and thus would welcome help with the newsletter. Gaius