2023–2024 season

Last updated on July 2, 2023.

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Fall 2023

Tournament name	2023 CREEK+	ACF Fall	ILLIAC II	Penn Bowl	ACF Winter	2023 ARCADIA
Full name	2023 CREEK+	ACF Fall	Illinois Academic Competition II	Penn Bowl	ACF Winter	A Regs-minus Carolina and Duke Invitational of Academia
Slot name	“Early Fall Novice”	ACF Fall	“Winter Medium 1”	“Fall Regionals 1”	ACF Winter	“Winter Medium 2”
Difficulty (target audience)	Easy ●	Easy ●	Medium ●●	Regionals ●●●	Medium ●●	Medium ●●◖
Eligibility (unless noted)	HS-only mirrors on HS version of set	Closed; scoring limits; HS-only mirrors		Closed	Closed
Packet submission		Optional			Required half-packet if not new team
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	SUN Collegiate Novice ICCS VCU Novice EACNT	past ACF Falls	ILLIAC ACF Winter EFT	past Penn Bowls	past ACF Winters	ARCADIA IKEA 2019 Terrapin MYSTERIUM
Announced on	4/29/23		5/9/23	7/2/23		5/12/23
First mirror	2023-09-23	10/14	aiming October	10/21	11/11	planning late November
Last mirror
Mirrors	0	0	0	0	0	0
☆ Online playtest
☆ Online
☆ New England
☆ New York
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic
☆ Upper South
☆ Deep South
☆ Florida
☆ Texas/Louisiana
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California
☆ N. California
☆ Pacific Northwest
☆ Rocky Mountains
☆ Great Plains
☆ Missouri
☆ Upper Midwest
☆ Central Midwest
☆ Eastern Midwest
☆ Canada
☆ UK
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least
Packets on archive?
Participating in EBOL?

Spring 2024

Tournament name	ESPN	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	Booster Shot	COOT	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Full name	Ethan Strombeck’s Pre-Nationals	ACF Regionals	NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament	Booster Shot	Cambridge and Oxford Open Tournament	NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament	ACF Nationals
Slot name	“Spring Open”	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	“Winter Medium 2”	“Spring Open”	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Difficulty (target audience)	Nationals ●●●◖	Regionals ●●●	Regionals (or Easy in Div II) ●●● (or ● in Div II)	Medium ●●	Nationals ●●●◖	Nationals (or Med. in Div II) ●●●● (or ●● in Div II)	Nationals ●●●●
Eligibility (unless noted)	Open	Closed			Open	Qualify at NAQT SCT	Qualify at ACF Regionals
Packet submission		Required half-packet if not new team					Optional
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	BHSU FLopen Fall Open PIANO CMST TTIAC “stanford housewrite” George Oppen	past ACF Regionals WAO MLK VCU Closed	past NAQT SCTs	MRNA II MRNA ACF Winter EFT	FLopen Fall Open PIANO CMST TTIAC “stanford housewrite” George Oppen	past NAQT ICTs	past ACF Nationals
Announced on	5/12/23			6/11/23	5/8/23
First mirror	expecting January	1/27	2/3	aiming 2/24	aiming February 2024	4/6
Last mirror
Mirrors	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
☆ Online playtest
☆ Online
☆ New England
☆ New York
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic
☆ Upper South
☆ Deep South
☆ Florida
☆ Texas/Louisiana
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California
☆ N. California
☆ Pacific Northwest
☆ Rocky Mountains
☆ Great Plains
☆ Missouri
☆ Upper Midwest
☆ Central Midwest
☆ Eastern Midwest
☆ Canada
☆ UK
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least			never			never
Packets on archive?			never			never
Participating in EBOL?

Summary

Fall 2023

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Sep 2	Sep 9	Sep 16	Sep 23	Sep 30	Oct 7	Oct 14	Oct 21	Oct 28	Nov 4	Nov 11	Nov 18	Nov 25	Dec 2	Dec 9	Dec 16	Dec 23	≥
2023 CREEK+	●	0					0
ACF Fall	●	0								0
ILLIAC II	●●	0
Penn Bowl	●●●	0									0
ACF Winter	●●	0												0
2023 ARCADIA	●●◖	0
Total mainstream mirrors

Spring 2024

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Jan 13	Jan 20	Jan 27	Feb 3	Feb 10	Feb 17	Feb 24	Mar 2	Mar 9	Mar 16	Mar 23	Mar 30	Apr 6	Apr 13	Apr 20	Apr 27	May 4	May 11	≥
ESPN	●●●◖	0
ACF Regionals	●●●	0				0
NAQT SCT	●●● or ●	0					0
Booster Shot	●●	0								0
COOT	●●●◖	0
NAQT ICT	●●●● or ●●	0														0
ACF Nationals	●●●●	0
Total mainstream mirrors

Cancelled mirrors this year: 0

The usual numbers of mainstream mirrors per week are conveyed in this plot of all such mirrors since Fall 2017 (as of November 2021).

Key

• Difficulty is rated on the following four-level scale. Read more about the difficulty scale here.

  Dots	Difficulty	Difficulty is most comfortable for			Example (non-definitional)
  		Beginners	Intermediates	Experts
  ●	Easy	✓︎	✓︎		2017 ACF Fall
  ●●	Medium	✓︎	✓︎	✓︎	2020 ACF Winter or 2017 EFT
  ●●●	Regionals	︎	✓	✓︎	2018 ACF Regionals
  ●●●●	Nationals	︎	︎	✓︎	2018 ACF Nationals and above

• Question marks (as in “NAQT Collegiate Novice??”) indicate degree of guesswork/uncertainty because no information/announcement has been posted yet.

• Summary displays all of the season’s known tournaments at a glance, binned by week. All information is subject to change. Symbols: º = at least one online mirror; ª = at least one mirror not on Saturday; * = at least one cancelled mirror; ˘ = at least one mirror with exceptional eligibility; † = set content is not confirmed clear until at least this week; active mirror period; ideal mirror period (or “preferred mirroring window”); early online playtest mirror; bold = at least 5 mirrors during this week. Totals do not count cancelled or TBD mirrors, and “mainstream mirrors” of college quizbowl do not count high school or online mirrors.

• EBOL is an inchoate idea for a “detailed stats league” for college quizbowl. The idea for EBOL is that participating sets will cooperate with Ophir and conform to a relatively consistent direction (such as distribution, difficulty, eligibility, rules, and format). At the end of the regular season, detailed stats from all tournaments will be compared and outstanding achievements will be recognized. Please email Ophir if you want to help organize EBOL.