Formats
  1. Academic Competition Federation
    Founded in 1990, the ACF is an independently-run non-profit confederation of schools who play on a format that emphasizes the academic nature of questions in academic comepition. The match format is an untimed round of twenty toss-up questions worth ten points each and all thirty point bonuses, with no limit on the number of playing seasons nor on graduate student participation. Georgia Tech's academic team prefers the ACF format and plays most of its regular season in tournaments that feature this format or a slight derivative of it. ACF conducts a national championship tournament in April and awards the Meredith Cup to the national champion, which Tech last captured in 1996.

    1. Official ACF Rules for Invitational Play

    2. Carol Guthrie's Ten Commandments of Question Writing
      One of the ACF's co-founders explains very basically how to write questions correctly for tournament play.

    3. Mark Swisdak's ACF Question Writing Guide
      A former member of U. of Maryland and Colorado U.'s teams details how to write ACF questions correctly.

    4. A sample round of ACF questions for your reference.

  2. College Bowl, Inc.
    In existence since 1959, "the Company" as it is more commonly known first organized radio matches in concert with GE and later brought the game to television from 1959-1970 in the widely-known "College Bowl" TV show. CBI requires memeber schools to pay for affiliating with them and to purchase questions written by them for intramural tournaments. The CBI format stresses quick reaction reflexes in 14-minute matches to notoriously simplistic and pop culture-based toss-ups and for this reason is generally avoided by the Georgia Tech team. CBI conducts 15 regional tournaments every March and randomly selects a second-place team to round out a field of 16 for their national tournament, held every April.

  3. National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC
    Founded in 1997, NAQT is an outgrowth of the Northeastern and Midwestern tournament philosophies, which attempt to strike a balance between the academic ACF and the knee-jerk, expensive CBI formats. NAQT attempts to bring more academic material to a 28-question, timed (usually 18-minute) match format. It is also known for its use of time outs and for awarding extra points (a "power toss-up") for correctly answering a question early in the question. NAQT conducts regionals and an "intercollegiate championship" tournament in April, which is divided into several divisions based on undergrad/grad student representation.
Supplements
  1. Yahoo! QuizBowl Discussion Forum
    Founded by Tech alumnus David Levinson. An excellent forum to find out what's going on in the world of academic competition at all levels.

  2. Stanford U.'s Invitational Question Packet Archive
    A collection of used tournament rounds from the past several seasons. Most of the questions archived here are CBI-slanted (note: some rounds listed as "ACF" on this site are nowhere near the true ACF format).

  3. The Maize Pages
    Maintained by U. of Michigan. Pretty much everything related to competition that's on the web is located here.
Questions
    Tech's 2002 Non Sequitur Invitational (High School)
    Well received for its question quality and notorious for facing every logistical mistake in the book (and a few new ones to top it off), this event was Saurabh's first time writing, editing, and directing a tournament all on his own.