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Basically, lots of links to computery quizbowly stuff. Feel free to edit or help out in any way.
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==Question/packet databases==
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==Tournaments==
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===Search engines===
 
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;[[acfdb|ACFDB]]
 
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:http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5733
 
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;Gyaankosh
 
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:http://www.gyaankosh.com/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6389
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7331
 
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;[[QBDB]]
 
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:http://www.grapesmoker.com/qbdb/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2745
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4891
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5471
 
  
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====Comparison of search engines====
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===Tournament database===
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center; font-size: 85%; width: auto; table-layout: fixed;"
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*[http://hsquizbowl.org/db Quizbowl Resource Database] (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)
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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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! Questions
 
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! Tournaments
 
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! Tagging?
 
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! Rating?
 
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! Types of questions
 
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! Technology
 
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|-
 
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! ACFDB ([http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/ visit])
 
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| [[Carlo Angiuli]]
 
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| June 2008
 
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|
 
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| 13339 [http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/index.php]
 
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| Yes
 
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| No
 
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| [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/archive.php ACF Question Archive] only
 
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| PHP and MySQL
 
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|-
 
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! Gyaankosh ([http://www.gyaankosh.com/ visit])
 
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| Arnav Moudgil
 
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| September 2008
 
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| Late 2010
 
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| 50898 [http://www.gyaankosh.com/search/]
 
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| 99 [http://www.gyaankosh.com/browse/]
 
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| Yes
 
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| No
 
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| Both collegiate and high school
 
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| Django (Python and MySQL)
 
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|-
 
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! QBDB ([http://www.grapesmoker.com/qbdb/ visit])
 
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| [[Jerry Vinokurov]]
 
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| May 2006
 
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| Early 2010
 
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|
 
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| 37
 
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| Yes
 
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| Yes
 
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| Collegiate only
 
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| PHP and MySQL
 
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|}
 
  
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===Tournament writers===
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*[https://qems2.grapesmoker.net/ QEMS2]
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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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*[https://www.packetizor.com/open/ Packetizor]
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*[[NAQT]] has proprietary software called Ginseng.
  
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===Archives===
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===Tournament automation and management===
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;HS QB Packet Archive
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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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:http://quizbowlpackets.com/
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**Packetizing solutions based on qams (or other compatible answerline spreadsheets) include packetizer (not publicly published)
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;Collegiate Packet Archive
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*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26177 Wordcounter] (character/word counting)
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:http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/
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*[https://github.com/aseem-keyal/autoPG autoPG] (pronunciation guides)
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;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]
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*[https://github.com/cvoight/quizbowl-utilities/tree/main/qpd qpd] (pronunciation guides)
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:http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/
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*Packet Cover Sheet Generator (not publicly published)
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;ACF Question Archive
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:http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/archive.php
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:;Superseded
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;[[Wastebin]]
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
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:http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/
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*[https://gitlab.com/alistairgray42/packet-skels Packet Skeletons]
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:http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9100
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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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===Tournament schedulers===
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*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=23356 Quizbowl Schedule Generator]
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===Software for Online Tournaments===
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*[[Qblitz]]
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*[https://www.quizbowlreader.com/demo.html Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)] [https://github.com/alopezlago/MODAQ (source code)]
  
 
==Stats==
 
==Stats==
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;SQBS
 
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:http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/sqbs/
 
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;QBSQL
 
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:http://code.google.com/p/qbsql/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6548
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8486
 
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;Taft
 
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:http://www.taftqb.com/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7251
 
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;BEeS
 
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:http://www.beesqb.com/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7014
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9687
 
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;Tournament Central
 
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:http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx
 
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;QBTPS
 
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:<del>http://qbtournaments.org/</del>
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980
 
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;Tournament Director
 
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:<del>http://www.tournamentdirector.org</del>
 
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:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtd/
 
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:https://github.com/puls/tournament-director
 
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;Livestat
 
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:http://weill.org/livestat/
 
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;JAGUARS
 
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:http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/
 
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;Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
 
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:http://web.me.com/cdcarter/iApps/acf_score/index.html
 
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:https://github.com/cdcarter
 
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;Excel score sheets
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742
 
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:http://sites.google.com/site/hchsquizbowl/Home/excel-scoresheets
 
  
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;NAQT Statistics Database
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===Tournament Statistics===
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:http://www.naqt.com/stats/
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:;[[SQBS]]
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6159
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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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;Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients
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:;[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=22932 Yellowfruit]
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:http://byko.servehttp.com:6174/bqbq/
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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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===Historical Statistics===
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*[https://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/ Quizbowl TDB Search]
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*See also Tournament Results from [https://www.naqt.com/ NAQT]
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===Scoresheets===
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:''Main page: [[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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:;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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===Stats data formats===
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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)]
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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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:*[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]
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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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</div>
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==Questions==
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===Question databases===
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:''Main page: [[question databases]]''
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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/packetsearch.html Google Search]
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:;[[packet archive|HS QB Packet Archive]]
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:*[http://quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
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:;[[packet archive|Collegiate Packet Archive]]
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:*[http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ Home page]
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:;[[QuizDB]]
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:*[http://www.quizdb.org/ Home page]
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:*[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=20407 discussion]
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:;[[Stanford Archive|Stanford Packet Archive]]
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:*[http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/ Home page]
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:;[[Wastebin]]
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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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===Practice tools===
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:;[[Protobowl]]
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:*[http://protobowl.com/hsquizbowl Home page]
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:*[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]]
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:*[https://buzzin.live/ link]
  
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*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9478
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===Packet formats and parsing===
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*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7964
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:;QB Toolbox
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*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3641
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:*http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
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*http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10657
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:;[[QBML]]
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*http://www.pace-nsc.org/?p=651
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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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*LaTeX and Packets http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5560
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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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:;Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)
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:*[https://github.com/alopezlago/YetAnotherPacketParser/releases/ Download]
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:*Used by MODAQ, which calls a YAPP API directly
  
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==Tournament writing/management==
 
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;QED
 
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:http://www.aegisquestions.com/qed/
 
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;Tournament Question Database
 
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:http://www.scobo.net/qdb.aspx
 
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;QB Toolbox
 
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:http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
 
  
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;HSQB Tournament Database
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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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:http://hsquizbowl.org/tdb http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6217
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*Packet formatting rules: [http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/documents/formatting.php ACF], NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.
  
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==Other==
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==Miscellaneous==
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===IRC and stuff===
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===Recording===
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*irc://irc.slashnet.org/#quizbowl
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:;Audio Match Hosting Software
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*irc://irc.slashnet.org/#scobowl
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:*Aug 12, 2005 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1970 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software]
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;TriviaBot
 
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:http://www.aegisquestions.com/triviabot/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8147
 
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:http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~alopezlago/qbbot/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2981
 
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:http://code.google.com/p/qbbot/
 
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;Quizzy
 
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:http://code.google.com/p/quizzy/
 
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8871
 
  
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===AI Quizbowl Player===
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*[[QANTA]]
  
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;"Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
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===No Longer Existing or Maintained===
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
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*For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database, [https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170 ItALX]
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:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364
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*For tournament direction: Taft
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*Packet readers: Abacus
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*Match scorekeepers: WUStL
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*Stats tools: QBStatGen
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*Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings
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*Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, [[Quinterest]], Gyaankosh
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*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
  
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===Study guides===
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===Never Existed===
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*http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/culture/
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*For tournament direction: BEeS
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*http://www.naqt.com/YouGottaKnow/
 
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*http://acequizbowlcamp.com/free-stuff/
 
  
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===Organizations===
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[[Category:Internet]]
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;[[PACE]]
 
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:http://www.pace-nsc.org/
 
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;[[ACF]]
 
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:http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/
 
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;[[NAQT]]
 
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:http://www.naqt.com/
 

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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