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Revision as of 10:46, 21 April 2011
Basically, lots of links to computery quizbowly stuff. Feel free to edit or help out in any way.
Question/packet databases
Search engines
- ACFDB
- Home page
- Jun 05, 2008 ACFDB - a new tossup database
- Gyaankosh
- Home page
- Sep 21, 2008 Some new question database
- Feb 25, 2009 Gyaankosh?
- 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
- Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database
- Home page
- April 18, 2011 Torrey Pines Quizbowl Database
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 | |
| TPQB DB (visit) | Sharad Vikram | April 2011 | April 2011 | 24639 [4] | Yes | No | Collegiate, high/middle school | GWT (Java, JavaScript) |
Archives
- HS QB Packet Archive
- Home page
- Collegiate Packet Archive
- Home page
- Stanford Packet Archive
- Home page
- ACF Question Archive
- Home page
- Wastebin
- Home page
- Dec 19, 2009 Wastebin - A Trash Packet Archive
- Mar 19, 2005 Question Database
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"
- New web-based quizbowl stats software project
- Round Report on Stats
- Taft
- Home page – discontinued; archived version – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
- Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software
- Taft: Launching soon
- Taft launching soon...
- Taft now supports playoff brackets
- Shutting down Taft
- BEeS
- Home page – "integrate an entire quizbowl tournament into one seamless electronic experience"
- Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program
- BEeS, Part 2
- QBStatGen
- Home page – "designed to create a more versatile statistics report from SQBS files"
- Tournament Central
- Home page
- QBTPS
Home page- I needed a database project
- Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)
- Tournament Director
Home page- SourceForge page
- GitHub page
- Livestat
- Home page
- JAGUARS
- SourceForge page
- Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
- Home page
- https://github.com/cdcarter
- Excel score sheets
- http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742
- Excel Scoresheets on Hunter
Comparison of stats programs
| Name | Creator | Released | Updated | Version | Price | Output formats | Documentation | Platforms | Technology | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQBS (visit) | Chris Sewell | 2004 or earlier? | February 2010 | 4.0 | Free | SQBS, HTML | [5] [6] [7] | Windows only | ||
| QBSQL (visit) | Avram Lyon | October 2008 | February 2010 | 0.7.1 | Free | SQBS, HTML | [8] | 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"
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
- Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX
- 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
Tournament management
- See Taft, BEeS above
Tournament databases
- 2005 tournament database
- Aug 22, 2005 Tournament database feedback
- HSQB Tournament Database
- hsquizbowl tournament database
- Aug 29, 2008 New tournament database for all quizbowl events
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
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
- http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/culture/
- http://www.naqt.com/YouGottaKnow/
- http://acequizbowlcamp.com/free-stuff/