Andes Mountains - 2025 ACF Fall

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In this mountain range, the “Snow Star” festival celebrates the Pleiades, which are used by farmers to predict low rainfall when obfuscated. Zonda winds are formed by this mountain range, where in 1947 the plane Star Dust crashed by unknowingly (10[2])flying into the jet stream. This mountain range supports the Yungas (10[2])region, (-5[1])namesake of a formerly very (10[1])dangerous (10[2])“Death Road.” (10[2])This (10[1])mountain (10[3])range’s (10[1])northeast (10[1])end (-5[1])helps create the highest (-5[1])frequency lightning on earth (10[3])near Lake (10[2])Maracaibo. (10[9])This mountain range creates (10[1])rainshadows on its (10[1])west in the Atacama Desert (10[2])and on its (10[1])east in Patagonia. (10[1]0[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Mount Aconcagua (10[1])is in what mountain range in South America? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Andes Mountains [or Andean Mountain Range or Anti or Cordillera de los Andes; prompt on American Cordillera] (The “Snow Star” festival is the popular name for Quyllurit’i.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Omer Korkmaz	Johns Hopkins	Vassar A	39	10
Jack Feinberg	Brandeis Bach	Tufts B	39	10
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Brandeis Mozart	50	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Chipola College	50	10
James Haddix	Washington State	British Columbia A	51	-5
Rae Meyers	Arizona State A	Alberta A	56	10
Yun Loh	Penn	Stony Brook	57	10
Lucas Guan	Brown A	Williams A	57	10
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	Columbia A	59	10
Asher Lyons	Maryland B	Maryland A	59	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Tufts A	60	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Williams B	61	10
Gavin Morrow	Washington Steelhead	Washington Pink	61	10
Rick Line	Cardiff	Cambridge B	61	10
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Boston University B	62	10
Anya Srinivasan	Washington Atlantic	Alberta B	63	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Amherst A	64	-5
Daniel Abrams	Rutgers B	NYU B	68	-5
Matthew Bucek	George Mason A	NYU A	72	10
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	Rutgers A	72	10
Alex Forman	Cornell D	RIT A	72	10
David Nickel	Purdue A	WashU Grizzlers	74	10
Kevin Liu	Texas	Washington Chum	74	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Toronto B	75	10
Aidan Drain	NYU C	Columbia B	75	10
Ezra Siegartel	Vassar B	Rutgers C	75	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	Boston College A	75	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Southern Connecticut State University A	75	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	UConn A	75	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	Washington Sockeye	75	10
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	British Columbia C	75	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Sheffield B	75	10
Joe O'Connor	George Mason B	Rutgers D	79	10
Vihaan Jim	Princeton	Lehigh A	82	10
John Shelly	Rowan	George Mason C	87	10
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Harvard	87	10
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Williams C	90	10
Abhinav Madamanchi	NYU B	Rutgers B	93	0
Andy Liu	British Columbia A	Washington State	93	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	Washington Masu	96	10
Isabella DePrimo	Washington Chinook	Boise State	98	10
Luc Vulliez	Amherst A	Dartmouth A	107	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	1	100%	0%	75.00
UK (South)	UK	1	100%	0%	61.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	1	100%	0%	75.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	92%	8%	68.73
Midwest	US	1	100%	0%	74.00
Northeast	US	12	100%	8%	69.83
Pacific	US	9	100%	11%	76.78
Southeast	US	1	100%	0%	50.00
Upstate NY	US	1	100%	0%	72.00