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