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Basically, lots of links to computery quizbowly stuff. Feel free to edit or help out in any way.

Quizbowl Resource Center

A good place to start is Hsquizbowl.org, which has forums and a database of tournaments and packets.

Question/packet databases

Search engines

ACFDB: Home page; Jun 05, 2008 ACFDB - a new tossup database
QBDB: Home page; May 18, 2006 Quizbowl tournament database, alpha version; Jan 13, 2008 return (sorta) of the question database; May 03, 2008 QBDB thread
Quizbowl DB (superseded Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database): Home page; GitHub page; ~~Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database home page~~; April 18, 2011 Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database; Jan 23, 2012 Quizbowl Central
Protobowl: Home page; Aug 8, 2012 Protobowl
Quinterest: Home page; Jun 16, 2013 Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search
Gyaankosh: Home page (possibly no longer in existence); Sep 21, 2008 Some new question database; Feb 25, 2009 Gyaankosh?

Comparison of search engines

Name	Creator	Released	Updated	Questions	Tournaments	Tagging?	Rating?	Types of questions	Technology
ACFDB (visit)	Carlo Angiuli	June 2008	24 March 2011	14455 [1]		Yes	No	ACF Question Archive only	PHP and MySQL
Gyaankosh (visit)	Arnav Moudgil	September 2008	Late 2010	50898 [2]	99 [3]	Yes	No	Both collegiate and high school	Django (Python and MySQL)
QBDB (visit)	Jerry Vinokurov	May 2006	Early 2010		37	Yes	Yes	Collegiate only	PHP and MySQL
Quizbowl DB (visit)	Sharad Vikram	April 2011	January 2012	30694	101	Yes	Yes*	Collegiate, high/middle school, Open	GWT (Java, JavaScript)
[Quinterest] (visit)	Rohit Lalchandani, Joshua Duncan, Jacob Reed	May 2013	December 2013		103<	Yes	Yes	Collegiate, high/middle school, Open	Javascript, PHP, MySQL

Stats

Stats programs

SQBS: Home page – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
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
Taft: Home page – discontinued; archived version – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"; Dec 17, 2006 Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software; Jun 15, 2007 Taft: Launching soon; Aug 22, 2007 Taft launching soon...; Feb 11, 2009 Taft now supports playoff brackets; Feb 28, 2010 Shutting down Taft
BEeS: Home page – "integrate an entire quizbowl tournament into one seamless electronic experience"; Jan 03, 2009 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program; Mar 21, 2010 BEeS, Part 2
WUStL: Home page – "online application for real-time quizbowl scorekeeping and stats"; Nov 12, 2011 WUStL Updates Statistics Live!: real-time Web scorekeeping

Scoresheets

Chris Carter's stats iPhone app: Home page; https://github.com/cdcarter
NAQT Scoresheet for Android: GitHub page; Android Market page; Aug 03, 2011 Theres an app for that.
Excel score sheets: Excel Scoresheets on Hunter; Nov 09, 2008 Excel quiz bowl scoresheets; Oct 10, 2011 Virtual Scoresheets?

Old

Livestat: Home page
QBStatGen: Home page – "designed to create a more versatile statistics report from SQBS files"
QBTPS: ~~Home page~~; I needed a database project; Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)
Tournament Director: ~~Home page~~; SourceForge page; GitHub page
JAGUARS: SourceForge page
Tournament Central: Home page

Comparison of stats programs

Name	Creator	Released	Updated	Version	Price	Output formats	Documentation	Platforms	Technology	License
SQBS (visit)	Chris Sewell	2001	February 2010	4.0	Free	SQBS, HTML	[4] [5] [6]	Windows only
QBSQL (visit)	Avram Lyon	October 2008	February 2010	0.7.1	Free	SQBS, HTML	[7]	All; web server required	PHP and MySQL	GNU GPLv2
Taft (visit)	Evan Silberman	January 2007	February 2010	Discontinued	$25 per event	SQBS, HTML		All	Ruby on Rails
BEeS (visit)	Sean Skaar, Andrew Hart	Not yet			TBA

Statistics formats: SQBS; HTML, XML, Excel, etc.

Feb 17, 2007 computer-assisted quiz bowl
May 16, 2008 LaTex and packets
Jun 09, 2009 Better Stats
Feb 14, 2010 Stats programs and you
Oct 05, 2010 statkeeping and online scoresheets (split from ACF Fall 2010)
Mar 16, 2011 LaTeX for quizbowl, again

Rankings

NAQT Statistics Database: 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"; Aug 21, 2008 NAQT Statistics Database
Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients: Home page – "A rating system for high school quiz bowl"
Excelsior Rankings: Home page; Jul 11, 2011 Excelsior Rankings
Harry White's Tournament stats database: Home page

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

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

Tournaments

Tournament writing

Jerome (ca. 2004): ~~Home page~~; Technophobia 9; Aug 09, 2005 Jerome information; May 16, 2008 LaTeX and packets
QED (Question Editing Database): Home page; Jul 4, 2006 Question Editing Database 1.00
Tournament Question Database: http://www.scobo.net/qdb.aspx
Question Mixer: Oct 25, 2008 Question Mixer Program

Tournament management

See Taft, BEeS above

Tournament databases

2005 tournament database: Aug 22, 2005 Tournament database feedback
Quizbowl Resource Database: Quizbowl Resource Database, formerly ~~HSQB Tournament Database~~ from 2008–2011; Aug 29, 2008 New tournament database for all quizbowl events; Aug 29, 2008 TDB help thread

Other

IRC and stuff

TriviaBot: Home page; Google Code page; Index of TriviaBot-formatted question sets; Jul 18, 2009 Portable version of TrivaBot/quizbowl-reading bot; Jul 14, 2006 Scholastic Bowl bot
Quizzy: Google Code page; Nov 10, 2009 Quizzy, an Excuse for you to Try Out Google Wave
Quiz Bowl Tester: Home page; Feb 10, 2011 Money for practicing quiz bowl online
QB Reader: Google Code page; May 31, 2011 QB Reader 2.2 (now with speed adjustment)
Quizbowl Central (see above)

Misc

Audio Match Hosting Software: Aug 12, 2005 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software
"Evan Silberman's technological wankery": http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/; http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364

Study guides

Organizations with ultra-creative acronyms

ACF: http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/
HSAPQ: http://www.hsapq.com/
NAQT: http://www.naqt.com/
PACE: http://www.pace-nsc.org/

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