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==Tournaments==
 
==Tournaments==
  
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===Tournament databases===
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===Tournament database===
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;2005 tournament database
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*[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)
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:Aug 22, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1986 Tournament database feedback]
 
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;Quizbowl Resource Database
 
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:[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database], formerly <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/tdb HSQB Tournament Database]</del> from 2008–2011
 
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:Aug 29, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6217 New tournament database for all quizbowl events]
 
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:Aug 29, 2008 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6216 TDB help thread]
 
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===Packet submission managers===
 
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None yet exist.
 
  
 
===Tournament writers===
 
===Tournament writers===
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;Jerome (ca. 2004)
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*[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2]
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:<del>[http://jerome.caltech.edu/ Home page]</del>
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**Packetizing solutions based on QEMS2 include [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23039 QuizDroid PacketBuilder] and [https://github.com/hbunker/gamayun Gamayun].
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:[http://web.archive.org/web/20041205211442/http://quizbowl.caltech.edu/T9.html Technophobia 9]
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*[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]
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:Aug 09, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1956&p=24809&hilit=jerome#p24809 Jerome information]
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*[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.
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:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560&p=81698#p81688 LaTeX and packets]
 
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;QED (Question Editing Database)
 
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:[http://www.aegisquestions.com/qed/ Home page]
 
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:Jul 4, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2942 Question Editing Database 1.00]
 
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;Tournament Question Database
 
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:http://www.scobo.net/qdb.aspx
 
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;Question Mixer
 
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:Oct 25, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6666 Question Mixer Program]
 
  
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===Tournament directors===
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===Tournament automation and management===
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:''See Taft, BEeS below''
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*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16642 qams] and [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27254 qams²] (set completion, contribution tracking, packet templates)
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**Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)
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*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26177 Wordcounter] (character/word counting)
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*[https://github.com/aseem-keyal/autoPG autoPG] (pronunciation guides)
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*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/qpd qpd] (pronunciation guides)
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*Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)
  
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:;Superseded
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
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*[https://gitlab.com/alistairgray42/packet-skels Packet Skeletons]
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*NSC Sudoku, a manual template for NSC packetization from QEMS2 (used for 2018 and some other number of NSCs)
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*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/Packet%20Templates Packet Template Generator] (used for 2021 Illinois Open)
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*[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113877#p113877 Question Mixer]
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</div>
  
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==Stats==
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===Tournament schedulers===
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*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]
  
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===Packet readers===
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===Software for Online Tournaments===
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;Abacus
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*[[Qblitz]]
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:[http://abacusquizbowl.com Home page] – "A web application for quizbowl moderators"
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*[https://www.quizbowlreader.com/demo.html Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)] [https://github.com/alopezlago/MODAQ (source code)]
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:Dec 02, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=15243 Abacus | A web application for quizbowl moderators]
 
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;''See BEeS below''
 
  
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====Packet formats and parsing====
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==Stats==
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;ItALX
 
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:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/ItALX/ Home page] – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"
 
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:Oct 10, 2006  [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV]
 
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;QB Toolbox
 
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:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
 
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;[[QBML]]
 
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:Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]
 
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:Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]
 
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:May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]
 
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;Alejandro's Packet Parser
 
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:Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]
 
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;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter
 
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:Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]
 
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;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364
 
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*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)
 
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*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.
 
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===Match scorekeepers===
 
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:''See below''
 
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===Statistics viewers===
 
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;[[SQBS]]
 
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:[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
 
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;[[QBSQL]]
 
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:[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"
 
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:Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]
 
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:Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]
 
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;[[Taft]]
 
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:[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
 
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:Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]
 
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:Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]
 
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:Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]
 
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:Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]
 
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:Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]
 
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;[[BEeS]]
 
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:[http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page] – "integrate an entire quizbowl tournament into one seamless electronic experience"
 
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:Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]
 
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:Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]
 
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;WUStL
 
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:<del>[http://young-frankenstein.wustl.edu/ Home page]</del> – "online application for real-time quizbowl scorekeeping and stats"
 
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:Nov 12, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12340 WUStL Updates Statistics Live!: real-time Web scorekeeping]
 
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====Scoresheets====
 
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;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
 
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:[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]
 
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:https://github.com/cdcarter
 
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;NAQT Scoresheet for Android
 
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:[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]
 
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:[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]
 
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:Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]
 
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;Excel score sheets
 
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:[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]
 
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:Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]
 
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:Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]
 
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====Stats data formats====
 
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;SQBS
 
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:Not officially or unofficially documented
 
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:ca. 2009 [https://code.google.com/p/qbsql/source/browse/trunk/functions.php#504 PHP functions for importing from and exporting to SQBS files]
 
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;Tournakit
 
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:Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]
 
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====Old====
 
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;Livestat
 
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:[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]
 
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;QBStatGen
 
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:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/QBStatGen/ Home page] – "designed to create a more versatile statistics report from SQBS files"
 
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;QBTPS
 
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:<del>[http://qbtournaments.org/ Home page]</del>
 
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:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]
 
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:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]
 
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;Tournament Director
 
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:[http://www.tournamentdirector.org/ Home page]
 
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:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtd/ SourceForge page]
 
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:[https://github.com/puls/tournament-director GitHub page]
 
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;JAGUARS
 
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:[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]
 
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;Tournament Central
 
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:[http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page]
 
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====Comparison of stats programs====
 
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 85%; width: auto; table-layout: fixed;"
 
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|-
 
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! style="width: 12em" | Name
 
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! Creator
 
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! Released
 
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! Updated
 
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! Version
 
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! Price
 
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! Output formats
 
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! Documentation
 
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! Platforms
 
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! Technology
 
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! License
 
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|-
 
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! [[SQBS]] ([http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/index.html visit])
 
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| [[Chris Sewell]]
 
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| 2001
 
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| February 2010
 
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| 4.0
 
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| Free
 
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| SQBS, HTML
 
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| [http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/sqbs4doc.htm] [http://www.naqt.com/stats/using-sqbs.html] [http://www.pace-nsc.org/?p=651]
 
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| Windows only
 
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|
 
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|
 
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|-
 
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! [[QBSQL]] ([http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ visit])
 
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| [[Avram Lyon]]
 
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| October 2008
 
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| February 2010
 
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| 0.7.1
 
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| Free
 
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| SQBS, HTML
 
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| [http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/wiki/InstallationInstruction]
 
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| All; web server required
 
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| PHP and MySQL
 
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| GNU GPLv2
 
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|-
 
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! [[Taft]] ([http://www.taftqb.com/ visit])
 
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| [[Evan Silberman]]
 
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| January 2007
 
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| February 2010
 
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| Discontinued
 
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| $25 per event
 
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| SQBS, HTML
 
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|
 
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| All
 
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| Ruby on Rails
 
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|
 
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|-
 
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! [[BEeS]] ([http://www.beesqb.com/ visit])
 
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| [[Sean Skaar]], [[Andrew Hart]]
 
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| Not yet
 
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|
 
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|
 
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| TBA
 
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|
 
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|
 
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|
 
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|
 
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|
 
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|-
 
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|}
 
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*Feb 17, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=3641 computer-assisted quiz bowl]
 
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*May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTex and packets]
 
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*Jun 09, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7964 Better Stats]
 
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*Feb 14, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9478 Stats programs and you]
 
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*Oct 05, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10657 statkeeping and online scoresheets (split from ACF Fall 2010)]
 
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*Mar 16, 2011 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11302 LaTeX for quizbowl, again]
 
  
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====Rankings and stats====
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===Tournament Statistics===
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;NAQT Statistics Database
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:;[[SQBS]]
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:[http://www.naqt.com/stats/ Home page] – "collects results and statistics from past tournaments that used NAQT questions; tracks record-setting performances and provides some quantitative rankings for every team in the nation"
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:*[http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/ Home page] – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
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:Aug 21, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6159 NAQT Statistics Database]
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:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]
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:*[https://github.com/ANadig/YellowFruit/releases/ Download from here]
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:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220 Neg 5]
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:*[https://neg5.org/ Home page]
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:;QBSQL
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:*[http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/ Google Code page] – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"
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:*Oct 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548 New web-based quizbowl stats software project]
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:*Sep 13, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486 Round Report on Stats]
  
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;Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients
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===Historical Statistics===
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:<del>[http://byko.servehttp.com:6174/bqbq/ Home page]</del> – "A rating system for high school quiz bowl"
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*[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]
 +
*See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]
  
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;Excelsior Rankings
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===Scoresheets===
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:<del>[http://srivatsa.org/qb/ Home page]</del>
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:''Main page: [[scoresheets]]''
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:Jul 11, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11786 Excelsior Rankings]
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:;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
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:*[http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html Home page]
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:*https://github.com/cdcarter
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:;Official [[NAQT]] scoresheet in Excel format
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:*https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx
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:;NAQT Scoresheet for Android
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:*[https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Scoresheet-for-Android GitHub page]
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:*[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.naqtscoresheet&feature=search_result Android Market page]
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:*Aug 03, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11872 Theres an app for that.]
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:;Excel score sheets
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:*[http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets Excel Scoresheets on Hunter]
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:*Nov 09, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets]
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:*Oct 10, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12210 Virtual Scoresheets?]
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:;Google Spreadsheets
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:*Jun 08, 2013 <del>[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14525 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping]</del>
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:*Nov 01, 2014 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=16646 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets]
  
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;[[Harry White]]'s Tournament stats database search
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===Stats data formats===
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:[http://hdwhite.org/qb/ Home page]
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:;SQBS
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:*[[SQBS data file]]
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:;Tournament schema
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:*[https://schema.quizbowl.technology/ Website with technical specification]
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:*[https://github.com/quizbowl/schema GitHub repository]
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:;Tournakit
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:*Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]
  
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====Old or Abandoned====
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
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:;Livestat
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:*[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]
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:;QBTPS
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:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]
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:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]
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:;JAGUARS
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:*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]
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:;Tournament Central
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:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]
 +
:;Taft
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:*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
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:*Dec 17, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3455 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software]
 +
:*Jun 15, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4133 Taft: Launching soon]
 +
:*Aug 22, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4340 Taft launching soon...]
 +
:*Feb 11, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251 Taft now supports playoff brackets]
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:*Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]
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:;[[BEeS]]
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:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]
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:*Jan 03, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program]
 +
:*Mar 21, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687 BEeS, Part 2]
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</div>
  
 
==Questions==
 
==Questions==
  
 
===Question databases===
 
===Question databases===
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====Unparsed====
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:''Main page: [[question databases]]''
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;Quizbowl Resource Database
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:;[[Hsquizbowl.org|Quizbowl Resource Database]]
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:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]
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:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/ Home page]
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:[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]
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:*[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/packetsearch.html Google Search]
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;HS QB Packet Archive
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:;[[packet archive|HS QB Packet Archive]]
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:[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
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:*[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
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;Collegiate Packet Archive
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:;[[packet archive|Collegiate Packet Archive]]
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:[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
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:*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
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;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]
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:;[[QuizDB]]
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:[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]
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:*[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]
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;ACF Question Archive
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:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]
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:[http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/archive.php Home page]
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:;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]
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;[[Wastebin]]
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:*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]
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:[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]
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:;[[Wastebin]]
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:Dec 19, 2009 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9100 Wastebin - A Trash Packet Archive]
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:*[http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/ Home page]
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:*deprecated in favor of the [[packet archive]]'s [https://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/ Trash section]
  
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====Parsed====
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===Practice tools===
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;Protobowl packet repository
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:;[[Protobowl]]
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:[https://github.com/neotenic/packets Github page]
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:*[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]
 +
:*[http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 discussion]
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:*use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it
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:;QuizBug 2
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:*[http://quizbug2.karangurazada.com/ Web page]
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:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=21571 discussion]
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:;Geoffrey's [[QBReader]]
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:*[https://qbreader.org/ Home page]
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:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25289 discussion]
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:;[[Power QB]]
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:*[https://powerqb.org/ Home page]
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:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=392954#p392954 discussion]
  
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===Buzzer software===
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:''Main article: [[Online buzzer]]''
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:;[[Buzzman]]
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:*[https://www.buzzman.live/ link]
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:;[[Buzzin.live]]
 +
:*[https://buzzin.live/ link]
  
−
*Mar 19, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1694 Question Database]
+
===Packet formats and parsing===
−
===Search engines===
+
:;QB Toolbox
−
;[[acfdb|ACFDB]]
+
:*http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
−
:[http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/ Home page]
+
:;[[QBML]]
−
:Jun 05, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5733 ACFDB - a new tossup database]
+
:*Jul 09, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4228 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?]
−
;[[QBDB]]
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:*Aug 18, 2007 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4325 Packet archive project...what you can do to help]
−
:[http://www.grapesmoker.com/qbdb/ Home page]
+
:*May 16, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560 LaTeX and packets]
−
:May 18, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2745 Quizbowl tournament database, alpha version]
+
:;Alejandro's Packet Parser
−
:Jan 13, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4891 return (sorta) of the question database]
+
:*Dec 26, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10975 Packet Parser]
−
:May 03, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5471 QBDB thread]
+
:;Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter
−
;<span id="quizbowl_db">[[Quizbowl DB]]</span> <span style="font-weight:normal;">(superseded [[Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database]])</span>
+
:*Aug 27, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11977 QEMS Question Formatter]
−
:[http://www.quizbowldb.com/ Home page]
+
:;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
−
:[https://github.com/sharadmv/Quizbowl-User-Interface GitHub page]
+
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
−
:<del>[http://quizbowl.tpclubs.com/?page=db Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database home page]</del>
+
:*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364
−
:April 18, 2011 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11421 Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database]
+
:;Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)
−
:Jan 23, 2012 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=233987 Quizbowl Central]
+
:*[https://github.com/alopezlago/YetAnotherPacketParser/releases/ Download]
−
;[[Protobowl]]
+
:*Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly
−
:[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]
 
−
:Aug 8, 2012 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=13478 Protobowl]
 
−
;[[Quinterest]]
 
−
:[http://www.quinterest.org/ Home page]
 
−
:Jun 16, 2013 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14574 Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search]
 
−
;[[Gyaankosh]]
 
−
:[http://www.gyaankosh.com/ Home page] (possibly no longer in existence)
 
−
:Sep 21, 2008 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6389 Some new question database]
 
−
:Feb 25, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7331 Gyaankosh?]
 
  
−
====Comparison of search engines====
 
−
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 85%; width: auto; table-layout: fixed;"
 
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|-
 
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! style="width: 12em" | Name
 
−
! Creator
 
−
! Released
 
−
! Updated
 
−
! Questions
 
−
! Tournaments
 
−
! Tagging?
 
−
! Rating?
 
−
! Types of questions
 
−
! Technology
 
−
|-
 
−
! [[ACFDB]] ([http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/ visit])
 
−
| [[Carlo Angiuli]]
 
−
| June 2008
 
−
| 24 March 2011
 
−
| 14455 [http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/index.php]
 
−
|
 
−
| Yes
 
−
| No
 
−
| [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/archive.php ACF Question Archive] only
 
−
| PHP and MySQL
 
−
|-
 
−
! [[Gyaankosh]] ([http://www.gyaankosh.com/ visit])
 
−
| [[Arnav Moudgil]]
 
−
| September 2008
 
−
| Late 2010
 
−
| 50898 [http://www.gyaankosh.com/search/]
 
−
| 99 [http://www.gyaankosh.com/browse/]
 
−
| Yes
 
−
| No
 
−
| Collegiate, high school
 
−
| [http://www.djangoproject.com/ Django] (Python and MySQL)
 
−
|-
 
−
! [[QBDB]] ([http://www.grapesmoker.com/qbdb/ visit])
 
−
| [[Jerry Vinokurov]]
 
−
| May 2006
 
−
| Early 2010
 
−
|
 
−
| 37
 
−
| Yes
 
−
| Yes
 
−
| Collegiate
 
−
| PHP and MySQL
 
−
|-
 
−
! [[Quizbowl DB]] ([http://www.quizbowldb.com/ visit])
 
−
| [[Sharad Vikram]]
 
−
| April 2011
 
−
| January 2012
 
−
| 30694
 
−
| 101
 
−
| Yes
 
−
| <span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="Up/down voting">Yes*</span>
 
−
| Open, collegiate, high school, middle school
 
−
| [http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ GWT] (Java, JavaScript)
 
−
|-
 
−
! [[Quinterest]] ([http://quinterest.org/ visit])
 
−
| [[Rohit Lalchandani]], with [[Joshua Duncan]] and [[Jacob Reed]]
 
−
| May 2013
 
−
| December 2013
 
−
|
 
−
| 103<
 
−
| Yes
 
−
| Yes
 
−
| Open, collegiate, high school, middle school
 
−
| Javascript, PHP, MySQL
 
−
|}
 
−
 
−
===Practice tools===
 
−
;TriviaBot (IRC bot)
 
−
:[http://www.aegisquestions.com/triviabot/ Home page]
 
−
:[http://code.google.com/p/qbbot/ Google Code page]
 
−
:[http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~alopezlago/qbbot/ Index of TriviaBot-formatted question sets]
 
−
:Jul 18, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8147 Portable version of TrivaBot/quizbowl-reading bot]
 
−
:Jul 14, 2006 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2981 Scholastic Bowl bot]
 
−
;Quizzy
 
−
:[http://code.google.com/p/quizzy/ Google Code page]
 
−
:Nov 10, 2009 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8871 Quizzy, an Excuse for you to Try Out Google Wave]
 
−
;Quiz Bowl Tester
 
−
:[http://itm.umiacs.umd.edu/QuizBowl/ Home page]
 
−
:Feb 10, 2011 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11154 Money for practicing quiz bowl online]
 
−
;QB Reader
 
−
:[http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ Google Code page]
 
−
:May 31, 2011 [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)]
 
−
;Quizbowl DB (see [[#quizbowl_db|above]])
 
  
 +
*Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)
 +
*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.
  
 
==Miscellaneous==
 
==Miscellaneous==
 
===Recording===
 
===Recording===
−
;Audio Match Hosting Software
+
:;Audio Match Hosting Software
−
:Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]
+
:*Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]
 +
 
 +
===AI Quizbowl Player===
 +
*[[QANTA]]
 +
 
 +
===No Longer Existing or Maintained===
 +
*For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 ItALX]
 +
*For tournament direction: Taft
 +
*Packet readers: Abacus
 +
*Match scorekeepers: WUStL
 +
*Stats tools: QBStatGen
 +
*Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings
 +
*Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, [[Quinterest]], Gyaankosh
 +
*Practice tools: [http://code.google.com/p/qb-reader/ QB reader] (and [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11566 forum post]), TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester
 +
 
 +
===Never Existed===
 +
*For tournament direction: BEeS
  
−
[[Category:Quizbowl on the internets]]
+
[[Category:Internet]]

Latest revision as of 11:15, 15 February 2024

Tournaments

Tournament database

Tournament writers

Tournament automation and management

  • qams and qams² (set completion, contribution tracking, packet templates)
    • Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)
  • Wordcounter (character/word counting)
  • autoPG (pronunciation guides)
  • qpd (pronunciation guides)
  • Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)
Superseded

Tournament schedulers

Software for Online Tournaments

Stats

Tournament Statistics

SQBS
  • Home page – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
Yellowfruit
Neg 5
QBSQL

Historical Statistics

Scoresheets

Main page: scoresheets
Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
Official NAQT scoresheet in Excel format
NAQT Scoresheet for Android
Excel score sheets
Google Spreadsheets

Stats data formats

SQBS
Tournament schema
Tournakit

Old or Abandoned

Livestat
QBTPS
JAGUARS
Tournament Central
Taft
BEeS

Questions

Question databases

Main page: question databases
Quizbowl Resource Database
HS QB Packet Archive
Collegiate Packet Archive
QuizDB
Stanford Packet Archive
Wastebin

Practice tools

Protobowl
  • Home page
  • discussion
  • use is discouraged due to rampant racism and owners' lack of interest in any attempt at working on it
QuizBug 2
Geoffrey's QBReader
Power QB

Buzzer software

Main article: Online buzzer
Buzzman
Buzzin.live

Packet formats and parsing

QB Toolbox
QBML
Alejandro's Packet Parser
Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter
"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)
  • Download
  • Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly


  • Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (Markdown, etc.; many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX, QEMS (for HSAPQ)
  • Packet formatting rules: ACF, NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.

Miscellaneous

Recording

Audio Match Hosting Software

AI Quizbowl Player

No Longer Existing or Maintained

  • For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, ItALX
  • For tournament direction: Taft
  • Packet readers: Abacus
  • Match scorekeepers: WUStL
  • Stats tools: QBStatGen
  • Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings
  • Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh
  • Practice tools: QB reader (and forum post), TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester

Never Existed

  • For tournament direction: BEeS
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