ACF Regionals

ACF Regionals is a regular difficulty college quizbowl tournament produced every year by ACF and held concurrently at multiple locations throughout North America and the United Kingdom. It is similar to ACF Fall in terms of format, and packet writing requirements. Regionals typically takes place in late January or February.

Since 2015, Regionals has served as a qualifier for ACF Nationals. Teams can qualify for Nationals by hosting a Regionals site, providing an editor for the question set, winning the overall or undergraduate title at their Regionals site, or obtaining a sufficiently high A-value.

History

ACF Regionals was produced from 1991 to 1997 by the now-defunct Academic Competition Foundation. The Foundation was replaced in 1997 by the Academic Competition Federation, which has edited the tournament ever since.

Difficulty

As of 2018, ACF Regionals is typically considered to lie towards the upper end of "regular difficulty," though this identity has changed over time. It was once the case that "Regionals difficulty" had its own definition above regular, though in the late 2000s Regionals came to be seen as the benchmark for measuring regular difficulty tournaments [1]. ACF Regionals questions got more difficult for several years, but 2008 ACF Regionals was noticeably easier than the 2007 incarnation, and was in fact statistically easier than NAQT Sectionals of the same year. The 2018 iteration was generally considered to be quite difficult, and prompted some to suggest a bifurcation into "standard" and "qualifier" tournaments, with Regionals being the standard-bearer for the latter category.

List of ACF Regionals tournaments

Year	Announcement	Editors
1998		Matt Colvin
1999		David Hamilton
2000		Andrew Yaphe
2001		Subash Maddipotti
2002		Ezequiel Berdichevsky and Dave Hamilton
2003		Subash Maddipoti
2004		Raj Bhan
2005	link	Andrew Yaphe, Mike Sorice, and Jeff Hoppes
2006	link	Matt Lafer, Chris Romero, and Mike Sorice
2007	link	Seth Teitler, Jerry Vinokurov, and Ryan Westbrook
2008	link	Matt Weiner and Matt Keller
2009	link	Jonathan Magin, with Eric Mukherjee
2010	link	Jerry Vinokurov, with Trygve Meade, Chris Ray, Dwight Wynne, and Ted Gioia
2011	link	Rob Carson, with Ted Gioia, Matt Weiner, Jeremy Eaton, and Dwight Wynne, assisted by Andy Watkins and Jerry Vinokurov
2012	link	Trevor Davis, with John Lawrence, Guy Tabachnick, Will Butler, and Auroni Gupta
2013	link	Chris Ray, with Cody Voight, Rob Carson, and John Lawrence
2014	link	Evan Adams, with Carsten Gehring, Matt Jackson, Ashvin Srivatsa, Adam Silverman, and Will Nediger
2015	link	Matt Jackson, with Sarah Angelo, Tommy Casalaspi, Trevor Davis, Stephen Liu, and Sriram Pendyala
2016	link	John Lawrence, with Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, Chris Ray, and Max Schindler
2017	link	Andrew Hart, with Stephen Liu, Nathan Weiser, Benji Nguyen, Cody Voight, and Adam Silverman
2018	link	Auroni Gupta, with Will Alston, Kenji Shimizu, Will Holub-Moorman, and Stephen Eltinge
2019	link	Will Nediger, with Matt Bollinger, Rob Carson, Will Holub-Moorman, Bruce Lou, Graham Reid, Jennie Yang, and Ben Zhang

ACF tournaments
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ACF Winter																			2009	2010										2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
ACF Regionals	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
ACF Nationals	1991		1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019		2021	2022	2023	2024	2025