Difference between revisions of "Quizbowl software"

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Tournaments

Tournament database

Quizbowl Resource Database (called the HSQB Tournament Database from 2008-2011)

Tournament writers

Question Mixer

Packetizor

NAQT has proprietary software called Ginseng.

Tournament schedulers

Quizbowl Schedule Generator

Software for Online Tournaments

Qblitz

Stats

Tournament Statistics

SQBS: Home page – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
Yellowfruit: [Download from here
Neg 5: Home page
QBSQL: Google Code page – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"; Oct 09, 2008 New web-based quizbowl stats software project; Sep 13, 2009 Round Report on Stats

Questions

Question databases

Quizbowl Resource Database: Home page; Google Search
HS QB Packet Archive: Home page
Collegiate Packet Archive: Home page
QuizDB: Home page; discussion
Stanford Packet Archive: Home page
Wastebin: Home page

Practice tools

Protobowl: Home page; discussion
QuizBug: discussion
QB Reader: Google Code page; May 31, 2011 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)
Quizbowl DB (see above)

Packet formats and parsing

ItALX: Home page – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"; Oct 10, 2006 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV
QB Toolbox: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
QBML: Jul 09, 2007 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?; Aug 18, 2007 Packet archive project...what you can do to help; May 16, 2008 LaTeX and packets
Alejandro's Packet Parser: Dec 26, 2010 Packet Parser
Mike Bentley's QEMS Question Formatter: Aug 27, 2011 QEMS Question Formatter
"Evan Silberman's technological wankery": http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/; http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364

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: Aug 12, 2005 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software

AI Quizbowl Player

QANTA

No Longer Existing

For writing tournaments: Jerome, QED, Tournament Question Database

For tournament direction: Taft

Packet readers: Abacus

Match scorekeepers: WUStL

Team rankings: Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients, Excelsior Rankings

Question archives and search engines: ACF Question Archive, ACFDB, QBDB, Quinterest, Gyaankosh

Practice tools: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester

Never Existed

For tournament direction: BEeS

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 ;SQBS
 :[[SQBS data file]]
-:ca. 2009 [https://code.google.com/p/qbsql/source/browse/trunk/functions.php#504 PHP functions for importing from and exporting to SQBS files]
 ;Tournakit
 :Aug 21, 2013 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=123&t=14786 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit]
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 ;Livestat
 :[http://weill.org/livestat/ Home page]
-;QBStatGen
-:[http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/QBStatGen/ Home page] – "designed to create a more versatile statistics report from SQBS files"
 ;QBTPS
-:<del>[http://qbtournaments.org/ Home page]</del>
 :[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8782 I needed a database project]
 :[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8980 Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)]
@@ Line 73: / Line 69: @@
 :[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaguars/ SourceForge page]
 ;Tournament Central
-:[http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page]
+:[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618155746/http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx Home page (archived)]
-;[[Taft]]
+;Taft
 :[http://web.archive.org/web/20080622002023/http://www.taftqb.com/ Archived home page] – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
 :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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 :Feb 28, 2010 [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9554 Shutting down Taft]
 ;[[BEeS]]
-:[http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page] – "integrate an entire quizbowl tournament into one seamless electronic experience"
+:[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202110605/http://www.beesqb.com/ Home page (archived)]
 :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]