ACF Finals Format
One of many ACF innovations designed to promote fairness in the game is the "ACF finals format." Used at all official ACF events and most mACF events, but not at NAQT or College Bowl nationals, this finals format involves awarding a tournament title outright to a team which is two or more games ahead in the standings of the second-place team at the end of the tournament proper; playing a one-game, winner-take-all final if two teams are tied; and playing an advantaged final of up to two games, in which the team that is ahead needs to win only one game but the trailing team needs to win two games, if the first-place team is exactly one game ahead of the second-place team.
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