--- 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. ```python 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.players` is the tournament roster, not the lineup of a game. - Recorded buzzes are observations, not every opportunity to buzz. `token_position` counts whitespace tokens of the source question, including a leading moderator note that sanitizing removed for some tossups; `n_clues_heard` is 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 `value` is normally 15, 10, 0, or −5; `correctness` is `value > 0`. - 114 bonus-part rows from 2023 Nationals have `is_scored: false` (source `NA`); exclude them from conversion rates. - `games.type` is set only when the source packet name had an explicit stage label, so null does not imply a stage.