Apollo - 2025 ACF Fall

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During the chariot race at the funeral games of Patroclus, this god tried to sabotage Diomedes (“dye-oh-MEE-dees”). After stopping Patroclus’ three attempts to scale the walls of Troy, (10[2])this god (10[2])dislodged (10[2]-5[1])Patroclus’ (10[1])armor, (10[2]-5[3])allowing (10[2])Hector to kill (10[1])him. (10[4])In the first book (10[1]-5[1])of the Iliad, (10[1])Chryses (10[1])(“CRY-sees”) prays (10[1])to this god, (10[3]-5[3])who has (10[2])the epithet (10[3])“Phoebus” (10[5])(“FEE-bus”), to (10[1])send (10[6])a (10[2])plague (10[7]-5[1])to (10[4])the (10[3])Greeks. (10[12])After (10[2])she rejected (-5[1])his (10[1]-5[1])advances, Cassandra (-5[1])was (-5[1])cursed by this god (10[3])to (10[2])never be believed. (10[3]-5[1])In a temple (10[1])to this (10[1])Olympian (10[2])god of medicine, Aeneas (10[2]-5[2])(“uh-NEE-iss”) was (10[1])healed (10[1])by (10[1])this god’s mother (0[1])Leto. For (-5[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[1])what Greek (10[1])god of prophecy and music (10[1])is the twin brother of Artemis? ■END■ (10[12]0[2])

ANSWER: Apollo [or Apollon]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Andrew Lin	Toronto G	McMaster B	26	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	Ohio State B	26	10
Neal Tandon	Columbia B	Vassar B	28	10
Gabriel Nell	Cornell B	Cornell C	28	10
Noah Fine	UNC D	VCU A	29	10
Misty Chen	Purdue C	WashU Grolars	29	-5
Vishnu Sharma	Texas	Arizona State A	29	10
Aiden Shields	Clemson A	Tennessee A	30	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCLA C	31	10
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Rose-Hulman A	31	-5
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Amherst B	31	-5
Logan Van Pelt	Washington Coho	Boise State	31	-5
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Edinburgh D	31	10
Paige Learoyd	McMaster C	Toronto H	32	10
Atom Lucenet	Imperial D	Imperial C	32	10
Sparrow Brotman	NYU B	Lehigh A	35	10
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto D	Toronto A	36	10
Alice Zhang	Dartmouth A	Tufts A	36	10
Antara Bhattacharya	Cambridge A	Cambridge B	36	10
Sia Kalia	Warwick	Cambridge C	36	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Pink	40	-5
James Haddix	Washington State	British Columbia B	40	10
Connor Tindall	Mississippi State A	Auburn C	43	10
Johanna Bryant	Liberty A	William & Mary B	44	10
Deeksha Easwar	Washington Sockeye	British Columbia A	45	10
Monica Wang	Guelph A	Waterloo B	48	10
Meredith Wiper	CWRU B	Michigan State A	48	10
Arjun Saulnier	CWRU C	Louisville D	48	-5
Isabella Johansson	NYU C	George Mason C	48	-5
Meredith Onions	Iowa B	Indiana B	48	-5
Danny Cutbill	RIT A	Binghamton A	48	10
Jeremy Katen	George Mason A	Maryland A	50	10
Eric Lipsutz	Chicago B	William Woods University A	50	10
David Zaslavsky	Brandeis Bach	Vermont A	52	10
Aditi Nebhwani	Bristol	Oxford	52	10
Rory Moloney	Cambridge E	LSE	52	10
Jackson Crickard	Claremont B	UCSD A	53	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	Claremont C	53	10
Alan Cai	Amherst A	Williams A	53	10
Barkot Belay	Emory A	Georgia Tech B	53	10
Melissa Thai	Georgia A	Auburn B	53	10
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	Tennessee Tech	54	10
Vivian Fan	Claremont A	UC Santa Barbara	55	10
Joshua Garner	Ohio State A	Michigan C	55	10
Zaid Asif	NYU A	Rutgers A	55	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Indiana A	55	10
Salil Jain	Williams B	Boston College A	55	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	British Columbia C	55	10
Angelo Pan	CWRU A	Michigan B	56	10
Becca Wu	JMU B	Tusculum A	56	10
Saju Ramraj	Toronto I	Queen's A	57	10
Justine Hopkins	Liberty C	Liberty B	57	10
Owen Ashbrook	Iowa A	Illinois Champaign	57	10
Kenner Bailey	Boston University A	Tufts B	57	10
Surya Dinesh	MIT A	Dartmouth B	57	10
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Washington Chum	57	10
Will Hughes	Auburn A	Georgia Tech F	57	-5
Eleanor Dalton	York	Durham B	57	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCSD B	58	10
Sophia Madrazo	Purdue B	Purdue A	58	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	58	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	Binghamton C	58	10
Deepanshi Matai	Toronto C	McMaster A	59	10
Bharath Ram	Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	59	10
Astrid Kelley	RIT B	Cornell A	59	10
Serena Salfiti	USC A	UC Irvine	60	10
Susanna Liao	Waterloo A	Toronto B	60	10
Emmet Ewing	Michigan State B	CWRU D	60	10
Sewanth Paudel	Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	60	10
Molly Krallman	Louisville C	WVU A	60	10
Arlene Lopez	Stony Brook	Rutgers D	60	10
Ethan Ma	Illinois Blue	WashU Grizzlers	60	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	60	10
Atticus Teter	Durham A	Durham C	60	10
Elliot Earley	Sheffield B	Sheffield A	60	10
Saleena Livera	Imperial B	Imperial A	60	10
Nina Bindra	Southampton	Cardiff	60	10
Nathan Zhao	Maryland B	Maryland C	61	10
Jaime Wang	Washington Atlantic	Washington Masu	61	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Penn	63	-5
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Waterloo C	64	-5
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	Louisville A	64	10
Michael Shipman	Cambridge D	Birmingham	66	-5
Sonali Srikanth	Georgia Tech D	Clemson C	67	-5
Mackenzie Tott	Columbia A	Rutgers B	71	10
Kate Wisnudel	Brandeis Beethoven	Williams C	71	10
Isaiah Schmid	Binghamton B	Cornell D	71	10
Ellie Wang	Brock A	Toronto F	72	10
Carly Hemani	JMU A	Duke A	72	10
Nick Machin	UCLA A	UCLA F	75	10
Tobias Zajac	Michigan State C	WVU B	75	-5
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Illinois Urbana	75	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Brandeis Mozart	75	10
Margaret Withers	George Mason B	Vassar A	78	10
Fionn O’Connor	South Carolina A	Chipola College	80	10
Ethan Skolnick	WashU Grolars	Purdue C	81	10
Emma Gates	Brown A	Vermont B	81	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	Michigan D	85	-5
Ryan Liu	Ohio State D	Michigan State D	85	-5
Pratham Bhanushali	WVU B	Michigan State C	85	10
Emily Justak	Indiana B	Iowa B	85	10
Zoe Brennan	Virginia Tech C	UNC B	86	10
William Berger	Dartmouth C	MIT B	87	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Clemson B	88	10
Helen Neves	Boise State	Washington Coho	91	0
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	Princeton	93	-5
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Edinburgh B	94	10
Logan Patil	Georgia Tech F	Auburn A	95	10
Eli Zimmerman	Tufts C	Boston College B	97	10
Abbi Tesreau	George Mason C	NYU C	102	10
Elena Thai	Waterloo C	Toronto E	109	10
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	CWRU C	109	10
Varun Ramanathan	Michigan D	Kentucky	109	10
Yutong Han	Michigan State D	Ohio State D	109	10
Leonard Castine	Penn	Johns Hopkins	109	10
Vihaan Jim	Princeton	Lehigh B	109	10
Sophia Peng	Rutgers C	Rowan	109	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Orange	109	10
Bokei Thompson	Amherst B	Southern Connecticut State University A	109	0
Daniel Lu	Washington Pink	Alberta A	109	10
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Chinook	109	0
Sruti Banerjee	Washington Chinook	Alberta B	109	10
Justin Fountain	Clemson C	Georgia Tech D	109	10
Edwin Griffith	Birmingham	Cambridge D	109	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	0%	60.40
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	13%	54.63
Southern California	US	7	100%	0%	55.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	11%	55.44
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	33%	70.08
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	6	100%	0%	57.33
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	25%	72.25
Midwest	US	9	100%	33%	70.00
Northeast	US	12	92%	8%	65.55
Pacific	US	9	89%	22%	63.13
Southeast	US	12	100%	17%	65.17
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	0%	52.80