ACADEMIC COMPETITION FEDERATION

The 'Academic Competition Federation' (ACF) is a decentralized, unincorporated, non-profit organization that produces a fall and spring quizbowl tournament at eight or so regional locations throughout the United States, and hosts a national quizbowl championship, the winner of which is awarded the Meredith Cup.
The Federation was launched in the summer of 1997 upon the dissolution of a previous organization with the same initials, the ''Academic Competition Foundation'', which had also sponsored a national championship tournament and a nationwide set of regional tournaments between 1991 and 1997.
In contrast with College Bowl, ACF emphasizes harder answers, harder and more clues, and a rigorous pyramidal style on toss-up questions (harder clues first, followed by easier clues). The questions are more academic and less "general knowledge" or "pop culture" in nature.
While questions must be blind to players before tournaments, ACF uses team submitted questions, which are edited by the tournament staff. The team that submitted the set of questions used in a round receives a bye that round. ACF also makes its questions publicly and freely available on its website after its tournaments, in contrast to other organizations which maintain copyright. (National Academic Quiz Tournaments sells its questions, College Bowl retains the right to reuse its tournament questions).

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Winners of ACF National Tournament

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Winners of ACF National Tournament

Year	Site	Champion	Runner-Up	Third	Fourth
1991	Tennessee	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech A	Maryland A	NC State
1992	''(no championship held)''
1993	Maryland	Chicago A	Maryland A	Harvard A	Harvard B
1994	Maryland	Chicago A	Maryland A	BYU A	Maryland B
1995	Tennessee	Harvard	Georgia Tech A	Berkeley	South Carolina
1996	Tennessee	Georgia Tech A	Maryland A	Virginia A	Illinois A
1997	Illinois	Virginia A	Chicago A	Maryland A	Georgia Tech
1998	Maryland	Virginia A	Harvard A	Maryland A	Oklahoma
1999	Chicago	Chicago A	Maryland	Illinois A	Berkeley
2000	Maryland	Chicago A	Illinois	Harvard	Virginia
2001	Michigan	Michigan A	Virginia	Michigan B	Kentucky
2002	Maryland	Michigan A	Kentucky	Princeton A	Virginia
2003	Georgia Tech	Berkeley A	Michigan A	Kentucky	Texas A&M
2004	Maryland	Chicago A	Berkeley	Texas A&M	Kentucky
2005	Northwestern	Michigan A	Chicago A	Berkeley	Princeton
2006	Michigan	Texas A&M	Michigan	Chicago A	Illinois
2007	Vanderbilt	Chicago A	Brown	Texas A&M	VCU

See also

★ Carper Award

★ College Bowl

★ National Academic Quiz Tournaments

External links

★ ACF Home Page

★ Maize Pages: National Champions list