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	Academic Competition Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Academic Competition Federation (ACF) is a decentralized, unincorporated, non-profit organization that produces a fall and spring quizbowl tournament at eight or so regional locations throughout the United States, and hosts a national quizbowl championship, the winner of which is awarded the Meredith Cup.
		The Federation was launched in the summer of 1997 upon the dissolution of a previous organization with the same initials, the Academic Competition Foundation, which had also sponsored a national championship tournament and a nationwide set of regional tournaments between 1991 and 1997.
		In 2005, the University of Michigan beat the University of Chicago in the championship round to become ACF champion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academic_Competition_Federation (270 words)

	USF Quiz Bowl - Resource Page
		NAQT - National Academic Quiz Tournaments This is the club's favorite style of tournament to play and we've been to their national tournament three years in a row, ranking 11th place at the most recent one.
		No tournaments are perfect, but we feel NAQT usually strikes the right balance of challenging and fun questions.
		Their fall tournament is fairly accessible, but be prepared to hear dozens of questions on topics you've never heard of.
	chuma.cas.usf.edu /~rfernand/resources.html (202 words)

	links.html
		Founded in 1997, NAQT is an outgrowth of the Northeastern and Midwestern tournament philosophies, which attempt to strike a balance between the academic ACF and the knee-jerk, expensive CBI formats.
		ACF conducts a national championship tournament in April and awards the Meredith Cup to the national champion, which Tech last captured in 1996.
		NAQT conducts regionals and an "intercollegiate championship" tournament in April, which is divided into several divisions based on undergrad/grad student representation.
	cyberbuzz.gatech.edu /quizbowl/links.html (466 words)

	Columbia University Quiz Bowl
		NAQT - National Academic Quiz Tournaments was founded by CBI and ACF alum for the purpose of supplying questions.
		ACF rules are the basis for many invitational tournaments around the country, which are officially independent of the national group.
		- The Academic Competition Federation was founded in 1991, died, then was reborn under new leadership.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cbowl/Links.htm (509 words)

	Michigan Academic Competitions -- Frequently Asked Questions
		National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) is a mixture of the two above formats.
		Michigan Academic Competitions (MAC) is a University of Michigan student organization devoted to the promotion of academic quiz games.
		Matches are timed as in CBI, but academic material is the main focus of the packets (Current events and popular culture make up about one-fifth of the questions) One of the distinctive features of NAQT is the "power tossup," where tossups are worth 15 points instead of the usual 10 if answered very quickly.
	www.umich.edu /~uac/mac/faq/part1.html (516 words)

	Quiz Bowl at USF - Background
		Academic Competion Federation (ACF): the ACF describes itself as "a loosely centralized non-incorporated, non-profit organization dedicated to providing low-cost, high-quality academic quiz tournaments." ACF questions have the most hardcore academic knowledge and the least "trash".
		Quiz Bowl at USF hosts an intramural tournament at the beginning of the school year to attract new players interested in the Quiz Bowl hobby.
		is an academic competition that allows students to demonstrate a broad range of knowledge in various subject areas such as literature, science, history, arts, current events, and popular culture.
	ctr.usf.edu /quizbowl/background.htm (399 words)

	Carleton College Quiz Team Wins National Championship
		Northfield, Minn. - The Carleton College Academic Quiz Team reached its ultimate goal last weekend by capturing the undergraduate national title at the 1999 National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) Intercollegiate Championships, held April 9-10 on the campus of the University of Michigan.
		Based on results from previous tournaments, the Carleton team knew its one area of weakness was current events, so to prepare for the national championship, they spent hours poring over reference sources that summarized events from the last two years.
		The Carleton team entered the national tournament ranked 12th in the country in the most recent poll of quiz bowl players and coaches.
	www.carleton.edu /campus/newsbureau/pr/quizteam.html (716 words)

	TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
		Watergate High School, relishing in the opportunity to play in its first academic quiz competition, sends two teams, finds a buzzer system sitting in a janitor's closet and gets one of their parents to help out all day.
		As such, the top 15% of the tournament field will qualify for the NAQT National Championship Tournament to be held in early June at a location TBA.
		This is a buzzer style academic competition played amongst teams of 4 students.
	www.stanford.edu /group/CollegeBowl/highschool/2004_nixon_bowl (910 words)

	Quiz Bowl Links
		Academic, with plenty of current events and some pop culture as well.
		The most academic of the 3 major formats.
		All the latest tournament announcements, discussion, and flames from around the country.
	quizbowl.stanford.edu /links.html (49 words)

	Ottawa Quizbowl Tournament 2005
		This tournament is an unofficial event of National Academic Quiz Tournaments, an organization that supplies questions and hosts regional and national tournaments at both the high school and collegiate level.
		As such, the top 15% of the field will be eligible to attend NAQT's 2006 High School National Championship Tournament in Chicago, IL on June 2-4.
		This tournament, tentatively scheduled for Saturday, November 19, will be the first high school quizbowl-format tournament in Canada.
	ca.geocities.com /uotrivia/OQT05.html (1373 words)

	OU Academic Team - How to Talk Quiz Bowl
		Their nationals selection process is the most secretive among the formats, and has understandably caused a fair amount of controversy.
		Words in blue are particular to the Oklahoma Academic Team.
		The questions are very academically oriented, with virtually no pop culture or sports.
	www.ou.edu /student/okacf/talkin-qb.html (2178 words)

	About UWO Quiz Bowl
		NAQT (National Academic Quiz Tournaments): NAQT is the youngest format, having held its first national championship in 1997.
		The Canadian Academic Quiz League, founded at UWO in 1999 and now run by Peter McCorquodale, is an informal organization of the Canadian schools involved in Quiz Bowl.
		Quiz bowl is an academic competition between teams from colleges and universities.
	www.usc.uwo.ca /clubs/quiz-bowl/aboutus.html (431 words)

	Swarthmore College Bowl Basics of Academic Competition
		The other major quiz bowl format is NAQT (or National Academic Quiz Tournaments), an organization founded by former players in 1996.
		NAQT organizes conference championships, sectional tournaments, and a national intercollegiate championship; it also sells intramural packets and high school questions (which are either used for easy college invitationals or for university-run high school events).
		Trash tournaments ofter have unusual rule innovations, such as the "lame rule" or "get out of a -5 free" cards, and eligibility requirements tend to be rather lenient.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /org/collegebowl/basics.html (705 words)

	Penn Academic Demolition Team - Links
		NAQT (http://www.naqt.com): National Academic Quiz Tournaments is one of the three main federations of college quiz bowl competition.
		Their questions combine a mix of academic knowledge and pop culture, and they host or provide packets for a large number of the tournaments we attend.
		ACF (http://www.acf-qb.org): Academic Competition Federation is another one of the big three formats of college bowl.
	dolphin.upenn.edu /~padt/links.html (253 words)

	National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC
		NAQT is now accepting bids from schools to host the 2006 four-year Sectional Championship Tournaments and community college Sectional Championship Tournaments.
		NAQT now offers a discounted package of intramural packets, practice questions, and study materials for colleges and universities that are just starting their quiz bowl teams.
		NAQT now offers a discounted package of warm-up questions, practice rounds, and study materials for high schools that are just starting their quiz bowl teams.
	www.naqt.com (977 words)

	Vanderbilt Quiz Bowl - General
		Question format (or question stucture/content) varies between College Bowl, Inc (CBI), Academic Competition Federation (ACF), and National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT).
		Quiz Bowl (QB) is a game in which two teams face off, earning points by answering questions covering every conceivable category of human knowledge.
		ACF (Academic Competition Federation) is a similar game created a couple of years ago by a few schools, mostly in the Southeast.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /college_bowl/general.html (1231 words)

	Academic Team at the University of South Carolina
		Quiz bowl, academic team, College Bowl (TM), etc., are all different names used to describe what the USCAT is all about.
		NAQT sells practice and invitational questions at much more reasonable prices than CBCI, and these questions are generally of much higher quality, though not perfect by any means, as frequent debates on the Yahoo Quiz Bowl Club and the various listservs will attest.
		Typically, teams which compete in ACF tournaments are required to submit a packet of questions for use during their "bye" round, which places a premium on good question writing and editing.
	web.sa.sc.edu /uscat/whatis.shtml (413 words)

	JEM Designs - "Buzzer" links
		National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC is an organization founded by veterans of the academic quiz competition circuit to provide quality questions and tournaments at the intramural, sectional, and national level.
		ACF stands for Academic Competition Federation, a loosely centralized non-incorporated, non-profit organization dedicated to providing low-cost, high-quality academic quiz tournaments.
		The Canadian Academic Quiz League is a distinct society of students at Canadian universities interested in promoting the growth of academic quiz competition in Canada.
	www.jemdesigns.com /links.html (497 words)

	Academic Competitions for High School Students
		National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC is an organization founded by veterans of the academic quiz competition circuit to provide quality questions and tournaments at the intramural, sectional, and national level.
		The NAQT organizers bring considerable circuit experience to this task and are committed to increasing the quality, quantity, professionalism, and accessibility of academic quiz competition.
		The ACS Chemistry Olympiad is designed to stimulate interest and achievement in chemistry at the high school level through a national competition; and, to identify a team of four students to represent the United States in the International Chemistry Olympiad, held in a different country each year.
	teachertech.rice.edu /Participants/dawsonm/sjscontests.htm (2509 words)

	SF News - Feb. 22, 2001 - Undergrads a wiz at quiz
		The National Academic Quiz Tournaments was created in 1993 by a group of university graduates at the University of Michigan.
		National Academic Quiz Tournament winners Shaun Webb (left), Carlos Hernandez Fisher and Hanson Ho practice for the national championship in April.
		The club is also trying to organize a high school tournament in a bid to raise its profile.
	www.sfu.ca /mediapr/sfnews/2001/Feb22/quiz.html (392 words)

	joinus2.htm
		NAQT (National Academic Quiz Tournaments) and CBI (College Bowl Incorporated) are both commercial companies who run tournaments at various locations and times across the nation.
		ACF (Academic Competition Federation) is a non-profit federation of collegiate players and programs who designed a format of play that has become popular among the nation's largest universities, while not being strictly governed by a central body.
		A game moderator reads questions on academic subjects such as history, science, literature, etc. The player who signals in before anyone else and answers the question correctly wins a certain number of points for their team, and usually receives a team bonus question.
	www.uky.edu /StudentOrgs/AT/joinus2.htm (371 words)

	The Thelion Society -- Links
		NAQT may be the most popular format in quizbowl today.
		Their questions tend to be a mix of academic, pop culture, and current events.
		This is the first place to go if you want to read and participate in discussions about quizbowl.
	www.sa.rochester.edu /thelion/links.html (211 words)

	Activity Groups
		They are members of National Academic Quiz Tournaments, Inc. (NAQT) and compete on the TRASH circuit.
		The team travels to 6-8 tournaments annually, including several national tournaments and invitational.
		This club is similar to Model UN, but instead of mimicking a nation students are mock legislators to a state government.
	department.monm.edu /scotspeak/activities.html (219 words)

	The Daily Californian
		Kagan impugns the professionalism of National Academic Quiz Tournaments by suggesting that they might taint their integrity by providing a copy of them to Steve Kaplan.
		Gaius Stern is a Quiz Bowl coordinator for the West Coast Academic Competition Federation and a UC Berkeley student.
		Kagan should not be surprised that a member of that nationally ranked team is able to defeat a team of less experienced players.
	www.dailycal.org /article.php?id=5123 (310 words)

	College Bowl team reigns at Penn
		Coming up for Chicago are regional and national championships in the two major divisions in which the team competes: the National Academic Quiz Tournaments Intercollegiate Championship on April 4, where Chicago will defend its national title, and the College Bowl Inc. Nationals on April 17.
		Sheahan and Zarren were on last year's champion team, which won the National Academic Quiz Tournaments National Championship in Philadelphia.
		"This wasn't a 'national championship,' but all the top-rated schools compete in it, so it's almost as big a win as the nationals." Chicago currently leads all other schools in national championship wins, with five national titles.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /980205/bowl.shtml (395 words)

	qbasics
		Academic Competition Foundation (ACF) was a formal organization that existed until summer 1997 to run regional and national tournaments.
		This is a basic FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) aimed mostly at those in college new to the sport known as Quiz Bowl, College Bowl, or Academic Competition.
		Quiz Bowl is a game in which two teams compete to answer questions on all topics of human knowledge.
	www.gwu.edu /~trivia/qbasics.html (2521 words)

	Canadian Academic Quiz League - Links
		National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) — NAQT (founded 1996) is a middle ground between ACF and CBCI.
		qb-canada group — Quiz Bowl Canada is a forum for discussing academic quiz competitions in Canada at the high school and university level.
		The Maize Pages — "The unofficial portal for all your academic competitions needs." Hosted by CollegeQuizBowl.org.
	www.caql.org /links.html (513 words)

	UGA News Bureau
		ATHENS, Ga — For the fourth year in a row, the University of Georgia will compete at the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament held by National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) on April 6 and 7.
		Academic quiz tournaments involve players from two teams competing to answer a toss-up question read by a moderator; a correct answer earns the team an opportunity to answer a multi part bonus question.
		Jenkins and Rubin were the tournament's fifth and eighth highest individual scorers, respectively.
	www.uga.edu /news/UGAToday/0104/010402bowl.html (173 words)

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