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Fall 2024

Tournament name NAQT Collegiate Novice PLAYTIME! ACF Fall Penn Bowl 2024 ARCADIA DART IV ACF Winter ARGOS IQBT UG Qualifier
Full name NAQT Collegiate Novice Production Licensed for the Academic Year Tendered In a Mental Endeavor! ACF Fall Penn Bowl A Regs-minus Carolina and Duke Invitational of Academia DART IV ACF Winter Autumn-Ready Global Open Set IQBT Undergraduate Championship Qualifier
Slot name “Early Fall Novice” “Fall Medium 1” ACF Fall “Fall Regionals 1” “Winter Medium 1” “Fall Easy 1” ACF Winter “Fall Open” “IQBT Undergraduate Qualifier”
Difficulty (target audience) Easy
●		 Medium
●●		 Easy
●		 Regionals
●●●		 Medium
●●◖		 Easy
●◖		 Medium
●●		 Nationals
●●●◖		 Medium
●●
Eligibility (unless noted) Closed; scoring limits Closed; scoring limits; HS-only mirrors Closed Closed Open
Packet submission Optional Required half-packet if not new team; opt-out fee
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons
  • Collegiate Novice
  • ICCS
  • VCU Novice
  • EACNT
  • C++
  • ACF Winter
  • past ACF Falls
  • past Penn Bowls
  • ARCADIA
  • IKEA
  • 2019 Terrapin
  • MYSTERIUM
  • above HSNCT?
  • past ACF Winters
  • ESPN
  • BHSU
  • FLopen
  • Fall Open
  • PIANO
  • CMST
  • TTIAC
  • “stanford housewrite”
  • George Oppen
  • past IQBT Undergraduate Qualifiers
Announced on
First mirror
(online playtest)
(online playtest)
(online playtest)

2024-11-16
Last mirror
Mirrors 12 (see on map) 7 (see 6 on map) 18 (see on map) 12 (see 11 on map) 6 (see 5 on map) 5 (see on map) 15 (see on map) 5 (see 4 on map) 0
☆ Online playtest
  • Online
☆ Online
  • Overflow
☆ New England
☆ New York
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic
  • Penn State
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic
☆ Upper South
☆ Deep South
☆ Florida
  • Florida Tech
☆ Texas/Louisiana
  • Texas A&M
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California
  • Claremont Colleges
☆ N. California
  • Berkeley
☆ Pacific Northwest
☆ Rocky Mountains
☆ Great Plains
  • Murray State
☆ Missouri
☆ Upper Midwest
  • Minnesota
☆ Central Midwest
  • UIUC
  • Fremd HS
☆ Eastern Midwest
☆ Canada
☆ UK
  • Warwick
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least never confirmed clear
Packets on archive? never 2024 ACF Fall packets

Spring 2025

Tournament name WAO III ACF Regionals NAQT SCT MRNA IV NAQT ICT ACF Nationals
Full name Wang Anshi/Will Alston Open ACF Regionals NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament MRNA IV: Herd Immunity NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament ACF Nationals
Slot name “Spring Open” ACF Regionals NAQT SCT “Winter Medium 2” NAQT ICT ACF Nationals
Difficulty (target audience) Nationals
●●●◖		 Regionals
●●●		 Regionals (or Easy in Div II)
●●● (or ● in Div II)		 Medium
●●		 Nationals (or Med. in Div II)
●●●● (or ●● in Div II)		 Nationals
●●●●
Eligibility (unless noted) Open Closed Qualify at NAQT SCT Qualify at ACF Regionals
Packet submission Required half-packet if not new team; opt-out fee Optional
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons
  • ESPN
  • BHSU
  • FLopen
  • Fall Open
  • PIANO
  • CMST
  • TTIAC
  • “stanford housewrite”
  • George Oppen
  • past ACF Regionals
  • past NAQT SCTs
  • past MRNAs
  • ACF Winter
  • past NAQT ICTs
  • past ACF Nationals
Announced on
First mirror

around February

around March
Last mirror
Mirrors 0 0 0 0 0 1 (see on map)
☆ 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


Summary

Fall 2024

Tournament name Difficulty Known mirrors ≤ ≥
NAQT Collegiate Novice ● 12 1 5 3 2 ˘ 1
PLAYTIME! ●● 5 PT º 1 ˘ 1 1 1 ˘
ACF Fall ● 18 18 º˘³†
Penn Bowl ●●● 11 PT º 3 6 1 º
2024 ARCADIA ●●◖ 4 PT ªº 1 1 1
DART IV ●◖ 5 2 3 ˘
ACF Winter ●● 15 15 º
ARGOS ●●●◖ 3 1 ª 2
IQBT UG Qualifier ●● 0
Total mainstream mirrors 64 1 5 3 1 3 16 4 8 3 15 2 1 2

Spring 2025

Tournament name Difficulty Known mirrors ≤ ≥
WAO III ●●●◖ 0
ACF Regionals ●●● 0 0
NAQT SCT ●●● or ● 0 0
MRNA IV ●● 0
NAQT ICT ●●●● or ●● 0
ACF Nationals ●●●● 1 1
Total mainstream mirrors 1 1

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”); PT = early online playtest mirror; bold = at least 5 mirrors during this week; = date is N weeks after the first mirror. Totals do not count cancelled or TBD mirrors, and “mainstream mirrors” of college quizbowl do not count high school or online mirrors.