configs:
- config_name: tournaments
data_files:
- split: '2023'
path: tournaments/2023-*
- split: '2024'
path: tournaments/2024-*
- split: '2025'
path: tournaments/2025-*
- split: full
path: tournaments/full-*
- config_name: teams
data_files:
- split: '2023'
path: teams/2023-*
- split: '2024'
path: teams/2024-*
- split: '2025'
path: teams/2025-*
- split: full
path: teams/full-*
- config_name: players
data_files:
- split: '2023'
path: players/2023-*
- split: '2024'
path: players/2024-*
- split: '2025'
path: players/2025-*
- split: full
path: players/full-*
- config_name: games
data_files:
- split: '2023'
path: games/2023-*
- split: '2024'
path: games/2024-*
- split: '2025'
path: games/2025-*
- split: full
path: games/full-*
- config_name: tossup_questions
data_files:
- split: '2023'
path: tossup_questions/2023-*
- split: '2024'
path: tossup_questions/2024-*
- split: '2025'
path: tossup_questions/2025-*
- split: full
path: tossup_questions/full-*
- config_name: bonus_questions
data_files:
- split: '2023'
path: bonus_questions/2023-*
- split: '2024'
path: bonus_questions/2024-*
- split: '2025'
path: bonus_questions/2025-*
- split: full
path: bonus_questions/full-*
- config_name: question_placements
data_files:
- split: '2023'
path: question_placements/2023-*
- split: '2024'
path: question_placements/2024-*
- split: '2025'
path: question_placements/2025-*
- split: full
path: question_placements/full-*
- config_name: tossup_responses
data_files:
- split: '2023'
path: tossup_responses/2023-*
- split: '2024'
path: tossup_responses/2024-*
- split: '2025'
path: tossup_responses/2025-*
- split: full
path: tossup_responses/full-*
- config_name: bonus_responses
data_files:
- split: '2023'
path: bonus_responses/2023-*
- split: '2024'
path: bonus_responses/2024-*
- split: '2025'
path: bonus_responses/2025-*
- split: full
path: bonus_responses/full-*
SCOUT: ACF 2023–2025 quizbowl play, anonymized
SCOUT (Skill Composition Of Unseen Teams) pairs quizbowl questions with
recorded tournament play. This repository is an anonymized replica of
mgor/acf-co-23-25@1156b66: ACF Fall, Winter, Regionals, Nationals, and Chicago Open
question sets from 2023 through 2025, with the games, player buzzes, and team
bonus answers played on them. It has the same nine linked configs, splits,
rows, and IDs as the source; only the fields listed under Anonymization
differ.
from datasets import load_dataset
games = load_dataset("mgor/SCOUT-anon", "games", split="2024")
tossups = load_dataset("mgor/SCOUT-anon", "tossup_questions", split="full")
buzzes = load_dataset("mgor/SCOUT-anon", "tossup_responses", split="2024")
Each config has 2023, 2024, 2025, and full splits. full has every
row. Tournament, team, game, placement, and response rows use the tournament
or edition year; a player or a canonical question appears in every year it
occurs, so year splits of players, tossup_questions, bonus_questions
overlap.
Anonymization
| Field | Treatment |
|---|---|
players |
player_id, an opaque p-NNNNN numbered in random order, and name, set to the same ID. Real names, slugs, person IDs, and source record IDs are removed. |
teams.players, tossup_responses.player_id |
The same opaque player IDs. |
teams.name, teams.slug |
A random club pseudonym plus the source suffix (A, B, 2, ...). Entries of one club share the pseudonym, and a team name keeps one pseudonym across tournaments. Novelty team names count as their own club. |
teams.hash |
MD5 (first 12 hex) of the sorted anonymized roster. |
games.packet_name, question_placements.packet_name, question metadata.packet |
A neutral label such as Packet C, Prelims 3, or Packet J (Playoffs 1). Source packet names list writers and submitting teams. |
The mapping uses a secret seed and is not published. Tournaments (names, host sites, dates), question text, and all other IDs are unchanged: they are public event and packet information and name no players.
Configs
| Config | Grain | Key fields |
|---|---|---|
tournaments |
tournament site | tournament_id, level (fall/winter/regionals/nationals/open), field_level, dots (1 to 4 difficulty tier), dates, question_set |
teams |
team entry at a tournament | team_id, tournament_id, name, players (roster of player_id) |
players |
person | player_id, name (= player_id) |
games |
game | game_id, tournament_id, team_a, team_b, round, type, packet_id, tossups_read |
tossup_questions |
canonical tossup | qid, question, answers, clue_spans (character [start, end] per clue), metadata (category, subcategory, difficulty, question set, packet, human_buzz_positions) |
bonus_questions |
canonical bonus | qid, leadin, parts (question, answers, value, difficulty_modifier e/m/h), metadata |
question_placements |
question x packet edition | qid, question_type, packet_id, question_number, is_canonical_qid_placement |
tossup_responses |
recorded buzz | game_id, qid, team_id, player_id, buzz_number, correctness, value, token_position, n_clues_heard |
bonus_responses |
team x bonus part | game_id, team_id, bonus_qid, bonus_part_id, correctness, value, is_scored |
Join teams and games to tournaments by tournament_id, games to teams by
team_a / team_b, buzzes to tossups by qid, bonus responses to bonuses by
bonus_qid, and placements to questions by question_type and qid. A game's
tossups are the placements of its packet_id with question_number up to
tossups_read; tossups with no buzz were read and went dead.
Interpretation
teams.playersis the tournament roster, not the lineup of a game.- Recorded buzzes are observations, not every opportunity to buzz.
token_positioncounts whitespace tokens of the source question, including a leading moderator note that sanitizing removed for some tossups;n_clues_heardis the 1-based clue a buzz is credited to (a buzz at most 5 tokens past a clue's end counts for that clue). - Buzz
valueis normally 15, 10, 0, or −5;correctnessisvalue > 0. - 114 bonus-part rows from 2023 Nationals have
is_scored: false(sourceNA); exclude them from conversion rates. games.typeis set only when the source packet name had an explicit stage label, so null does not imply a stage.