Quizbowl software

Tournaments

Tournament database

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

Tournament writers

• QEMS2 (see also QuizDroid PacketBuilder)
• Question Mixer
• Packetizor
• NAQT has proprietary software called Ginseng.

Tournament schedulers

• Quizbowl Schedule Generator

Software for Online Tournaments

• Qblitz

Moderator Assistant for Quizbowl (MODAQ)

• Source code

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

Historical Statistics

• Quizbowl TDB Search
• See also Tournament Results from NAQT

Scoresheets

Main page: scoresheets

Chris Carter's stats iPhone app

• Home page
• https://github.com/cdcarter

Official NAQT scoresheet in Excel format

• https://www.naqt.com/downloads/scoresheet-electronic.xlsx

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?

Google Spreadsheets

• Jun 08, 2013 Online spreadsheet scorekeeping
• Nov 01, 2014 Online Scorekeeping with Google Spreadsheets

Stats data formats

SQBS

• SQBS data file

Tournament schema

• Website with technical specification
• GitHub repository

Tournakit

• Aug 21, 2013 Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit

Old or Abandoned

Livestat

• Home page

QBTPS

• I needed a database project
• Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)

JAGUARS

• SourceForge page

Tournament Central

• Home page (archived)

Taft

• Archived home page – "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 (archived)
• Jan 03, 2009 Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program
• Mar 21, 2010 BEeS, Part 2

Questions

Question databases

Main page: 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
• deprecated in favor of the packet archive's Trash section

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

• Web page
• discussion

Geoffrey's QB Reader

• Home page
• discussion

Packet formats and parsing

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

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

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

AI Quizbowl Player

• QANTA

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