ACF competitions have one major difference from their competitors: teams are required to submit a packet (a round of questions) in order to attend a tournament1. Also, ACF strives to have a more academically rigorous style of play than NAQT and CBI.

For reference, here is a list of the top 4 finishers, as well as the hosting school, in both versions of the ACF since the elder's creation in 19912.

    1991: University of Tennessee
  1. Tennessee A
  2. Georgia Tech A
  3. Maryland A
  4. North Carolina State
1992: No tournament
    1993: University of Maryland
  1. Chicago A
  2. Maryland
  3. Harvard A
  4. Harvard B
    1994: University of Maryland
  1. Chicago A
  2. Maryland A
  3. Brigham Young A
  4. Maryland B
    1995: University of Tennessee
  1. Harvard
  2. Georgia Tech A
  3. California
  4. South Carolina
    1996: University of Tennessee
  1. Georgia Tech A
  2. Maryland A
  3. Virginia A
  4. Illinois A
    1997: University of Illinois
  1. Virginia A
  2. Chicago A
  3. Maryland A
  4. Georgia Tech A
    1998: University of Maryland
  1. Virginia
  2. Harvard
  3. Maryland
  4. Oklahoma
    1999: University of Chicago
  1. Chicago A
  2. Maryland A
  3. Illinois A
  4. California
    2000: University of Maryland
  1. Chicago
  2. Illinois
  3. Harvard
  4. Virginia
    2001: University of Michigan
  1. Michigan A
  2. Virginia
  3. Michigan B
  4. Kentucky
    2002: George Washington University
  1. Michigan A
  2. Kentucky
  3. Princeton A
  4. Virginia

1: There are exceptions to this rule. Normally, teams that have not played at that particular level of competition before are not required to submit a packet. Also, if more than one team from a school is attending, then the additional teams are not required to submit packets, but must be blind to packets their main team creates.

2: Many thanks to the Maize Pages for the ACF winners. (http://www.umich.edu/~uac/mac/maize/)