ACF Fall will take place on the weekend of November 8, 2008.

Editors

Head Editor: Andrew Hart

Assistant Editors: Rob Carson, Trevor Davis, Ted Gioia, Gautam Kandlikar

Hosting

As of 26 Sept., the following schools have had their bids to host ACF Fall accepted:

Southwest: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. TD: David John Gagne II.
Midwest: Truman State University, Kirksville, MO. TD: Christopher Stone.
South: Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. TD: Harry Nelson.
North Atlantic: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. TD: Trevor Davis.
West: University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA. TD: Dwight Wynne.
New England: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. TD: Hannah Kirsch.
Florida: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. TD: Justin Byrd.
South Atlantic: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. TD: Matt Weiner.
North: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. TD: Andrew Hart.

Packet Submission

As per the new ACF submission rules, any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2007 is required to submit a packet in order to participate in an ACF tournament in 2008-2009. This includes ACF Fall. Teams required to submit packets who do not submit one by the final deadline will be dropped from the tournament.

This year's submission schedule is as follows:

Packet submitted prior to or on:
Sept 14: -$50
Sept 28: -$25 (-$50 for teams not required to submit packets)
Oct 12: No penalty (-$25 for teams not required to submit packets)
Oct 19: +$25
Oct 26: +$50
After Oct. 26: The editors may grant one or more 24-hour extensions to the final deadline at an additional penalty of $10 per day.

For additional discounts, please refer to this document.

Packet penalties

Teams will incur penalties for the following offenses: Formatting issues, plagiarism, and writing specific types of forbidden questions. Please see this document for more info.

Read this before writing or submitting your packet

Refer to the 2008-2009 ACF Packet and Fee Information document for a more detailed explanation of submission- and fee-related information.