ACF Fall

ACF Fall is a novice-level college quizbowl tournament produced every year by ACF and held concurrently at multiple locations throughout North America and the United Kingdom. It traditionally takes place on the first weekend of November, though this may not be true at every site.

Set production

ACF Fall is a packet submission tournament. Experienced teams are required to submit packets of questions, which are edited by a team assembled by ACF. In recent years, the editing team has consisted of roughly half a dozen relatively new editors, overseen by an ACF member as head editor, occasionally with other senior ACF members providing oversight and guidance. For some time, teams were required to submit an entire raw packet of 24/24 (24 tossups and 24 bonuses). Since 2014, however, ACF Fall has moved to a model based on half-packets of 12/12.

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.

List of ACF Fall tournaments

Year	Announcement	Editors
2001		Kelly McKenzie
2002		Kelly McKenzie
2003		Kelly McKenzie
2004	link	Subash Maddipoti and Matt Cvijanovich
2005	link	Eric Kwartler, Matt Weiner, Andrew Yaphe, Jerry Vinokurov, and others
2006	link	Eric Kwartler, Matt Weiner, Matt Keller, Billy Beyer
2007	link	Eric Kwartler, Mike Sorice, Andrew Hart, Jonathan Magin, Jay Sridhar, Dennis Jang, with Jason Loy, Kevin Koai, and Jeremy Hixson
2008	link	Andrew Hart, with Rob Carson, Trevor Davis, Ted Gioia, and Gautam Kandlikar
2009	link	Gautam Kandlikar, with Evan Adams, Auroni Gupta, Will Nediger, Mehdi Razvi, George Stevens
2010	link	Evan Adams, with Dallas Simons, Carsten Gehring, Guy Tabachnick, Will Butler, and John Lawrence
2011	link	Carsten Gehring, with Sarah Angelo, Bryan Berend, Matt Bollinger, Matt Hart, Gaurav Kandlikar, and Matt Menard
2012	link	Matt Bollinger, with Jasper Lee, Jarret Greene, Diana Gerr, Daniel Hothem, and Stephen Liu
2013	link	Stephen Liu, with Tanay Kothari, Ankit Aggarwal, Adam Silverman, Stephen Eltinge, Lloyd Sy, John Lawrence, and Andrew Hart
2014	link	Gautam Kandlikar and Gaurav Kandlikar, with Jordan Brownstein, Jacob Reed, Max Schindler, Richard Yu, and Ben Zhang
2015	link	Gaurav Kandlikar and Richard Yu, with Eddie Kim, Dylan Minarik, Ryan Rosenberg, Andrew Wang, and Nathan Weiser
2016	link	Gaurav Kandlikar, with Will Alston, Rob Carson, Mike Cheyne, Jonchee Kao, Eddie Kim, Bruce Lou, Rohith Nagari, Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, Kai Smith, and Richard Yu
2017	link	Jonathan Magin, with Adam Silverman, Jason Cheng, Bruce Lou, Evan Lynch, Ashwin Ramaswami, Ryan Rosenberg, and Jennie Yang
2018	link	Nathan Weiser, with Adam Silverman, Rahul Keyal, Olivia Lamberti, Young Lee, Ashwin Ramaswami, Nitin Rao, and Neil Vinjamuri

ACF tournaments
ACF Fall											2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
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