Quizbowl software

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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

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

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
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

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

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, [ItALX http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40170#p40170]
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: TriviaBot, Quizzy, Quiz Bowl Tester

Never Existed

For tournament direction: BEeS