ACF Fall is an annual ACF tournament held concurrently at multiple locations throughout North America. It traditionally takes place on the first weekend of November, though this may not be true at every site.
History
ACF Fall has been held annually since 2001. Kelly McKenzie suggested the creation of ACF Fall as part of a general initiative in 2001 to make ACF less difficult and more appealing to new players, which had begun with Subash Maddipoti's successful editing of a less-difficult ACF Regionals in January 2001. The inaugural tournaments was well-received by most members of the quizbowl community, though some individuals (such as Craig Barker) maintained that it was still too difficult. In the years since the reputation of ACF Fall has continued to grow, and many teams which were formerly wary of ACF have attended and enjoyed ACF Fall.
Since 2008, ACF Fall has capped all tossups at six lines of 10 point Times-New Roman font.
Editing history:
| Year
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Editors
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| 2001
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Kelly McKenzie
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| 2002
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Kelly McKenzie
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| 2003
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Kelly McKenzie
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| 2004
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Subash Maddipoti and Matt Cvijanovich
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| 2005
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Eric Kwartler, Matt Weiner, Andrew Yaphe, Jerry Vinokurov, and others
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| 2006
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Eric Kwartler, Matt Weiner, Matt Keller, Billy Beyer
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| 2007
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Eric Kwartler, Mike Sorice, Andrew Hart, Jonathan Magin, Jay Sridhar, Dennis Jang, with Jason Loy, Kevin Koai, and Jeremy Hixson
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| 2008
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Andrew Hart, with Rob Carson, Trevor Davis, Ted Gioia, and Gautam Kandlikar
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| 2009
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Gautam Kandlikar, with Evan Adams, Auroni Gupta, Will Nediger, Mehdi Razvi, George Stevens
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| 2010
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Evan Adams, with Dallas Simons, Carsten Gehring, Guy Tabachnick, Will Butler, and John Lawrence
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| 2011
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Carsten Gehring, with Sarah Angelo, Bryan Berend, Matt Bollinger, Matt Hart, Gaurav Kandlikar, and Matt Menard
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| 2012
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Matt Bollinger, with Jasper Lee, Jarret Greene, Diana Gerr, Daniel Hothem, and Stephen Liu
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| 2013
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Stephen Liu, with Tanay Kothari, Ankit Aggarwal, Adam Silverman, Lloyd Sy, Stephen Eltinge, and Alex Gerten
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| 2014
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Gautam Kandlikar and Gaurav Kandlikar, with Jordan Brownstein, Jacob Reed, Max Schindler, Richard Yu, and Ben Zhang
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| 2015
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Gaurav Kandlikar and Richard Yu, with Eddie Kim, Dylan Minarik, Ryan Rosenberg, Andrew Wang, and Nathan Weiser
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