ACF Fall will take place on the weekend of October 31, 2009. (Link to the original announcement.)

Editors

Coordinator: Gautam Kandlikar. Advisor: Seth Teitler

Editors: Evan Adams, Auroni Gupta, Will Nediger, Mehdi Razvi, George Stevens

Hosting

As of 16 Sept., 2009, the following schools have had their bids to host ACF Fall accepted:

Northwest - Boise State University. Contact: Colin McNamara (boiseqb at gmail dot com)
West - Caltech Univeristy. Contact: Micah Manary (manary at caltech dot edu)
South Plains - University of Texas at Austin. Contact: Eric Kwartler (ekwartler at gmail dot com)
Midwest - University of Chicago. Contact: Matt Menard (mmenard AT uchicago DOT edu)
North - University of Minnesota. Contact: Gautam Kandlikar (kand0028 at umn dot edu)
Lower Midwest (Missouri) - University of Missouri. Contact: Charlie Dees (mizzouquizbowl at gmail dot com)
New England - MIT. Contact: Grace Li (graceli at mit dot edu)
Mid-Atlantic - VCU. Contact: Matt Weiner (mattweiner.vcu at gmail dot com)
Florida - University of Florida. Contact: Justin Byrd (hthker88 at ufl dot edu)
Southeast - Georgia Tech. Contact: Adam Leim (liema05 at gmail dot com)

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, 2008 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 19: -$50
Sept 26: -$25 (-$50 for teams not required to submit packets)
Oct 10: No penalty (-$25 for teams not required to submit packets)
Oct 17: +$25
Oct 24: +$50
After Oct. 24: 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

Please refer to the ACF Packet Submission and Fee Information document for a more detailed explanation of submission and fee-related information.