Brazil - 2025 ACF Fall

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In this country, Sama ran the only asbestos mine in the Americas, (-5[1])which has recently transitioned (-5[1])to mining (-5[1])rare earth (-5[2])elements (-5[1])to compete (-5[1])with China. (-5[4])A public money-transfer system (-5[1])in this country, (-5[1])Pix, has drawn (10[1]-5[1])ire from (10[1])Donald Trump and US (-5[1])tech companies. (-5[4])In 2020, this country’s politician (-5[1])Abraham (-5[2])Weintraub (10[1])made (-5[1])anti-Chinese (-5[1])remarks (10[1])that jeopardized (-5[1])the (-5[2])trade of this country, (10[1]-5[3])the world’s top soybean (-5[1])producer. (10[4]-5[3])The (10[1])2025 (10[4]-5[1])iteration (10[2]-5[4])of the UN’s (10[1]-5[2])climate change (10[1]-5[1])conference, (10[1]-5[1])COP30, (10[2]-5[1])will take place (-5[1])in this country (10[3])where (10[1])political corruption (-5[1])was unearthed (10[1])in (10[1])Operation Car (10[1]-5[1])Wash (10[10])during (10[1])the (10[1])Dilma (10[8])Rousseff (10[2])(“JEEL-muh hoo-SEF”) administration. (10[7])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1]-5[1])what alphabetically-first (10[1]-5[1])namesake (10[2])of BRICS (-5[2])(“bricks”) is (10[1])led by (10[6])Lula (10[7])da (10[2])Silva? (10[7])■END■ (10[39]0[1])

ANSWER: Brazil [or Brasil; or Federative Republic of Brazil; or República Federativa do Brasil]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Anya Srinivasan	Washington Atlantic	Alberta A	11	-5
James Horsley	Iowa State	Wisconsin A	15	-5
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	CWRU D	17	-5
Bolun Thompson	UCLA C	UC Santa Barbara	19	-5
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Williams A	19	-5
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	Texas	20	-5
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	Virginia Tech C	22	-5
Drake Smith	Carleton A	McGill E	24	-5
Leandro Zhang	Columbia A	Princeton	24	-5
Francis Dinh	Illinois Canada	Purdue B	24	-5
Logan Van Pelt	Washington Coho	British Columbia A	24	-5
Benny Shtutman	South Carolina A	Tennessee A	28	-5
Alex Emmert	Maryland B	George Mason A	31	-5
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto D	McMaster A	34	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	Pittsburgh	34	-5
June Miller	Florida A	UCF A	36	10
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Imperial D	40	-5
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	ERAU Daytona A	42	-5
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	George Mason B	42	-5
Jack Marguiles	Stony Brook	Vassar A	42	-5
Alex Coleridge	Durham B	Edinburgh B	42	-5
Suhaan Pastakia	Maryland C	NYU A	47	-5
Jonathan Schnipper	Brandeis Mozart	Boston College A	48	-5
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Imperial B	48	-5
Mai Höglund	Claremont B	UCLA B	49	10
Honor Mountford	Cambridge C	Cambridge E	50	-5
David Nickel	Purdue A	Chicago B	51	-5
John Halsun	UConn A	Boston University A	52	10
Joe Paterson	Michigan State A	Louisville A	54	-5
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Montevallo	55	-5
Jacob Coyne	Durham C	Sheffield B	55	-5
Gary Wang	Michigan D	CWRU C	59	-5
William Kiker	Dartmouth A	Brown A	59	-5
Charles Xin	British Columbia A	Washington Coho	59	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Tennessee Tech	59	-5
Nick Machin	UCLA A	USC B	63	-5
Ty Brennan	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Archer Queen	64	-5
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	Toronto C	64	10
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Indiana B	64	10
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Brown B	64	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	64	-5
Tevin Francis	Southampton	Cambridge A	64	10
Andrew Boardman	Cambridge D	Imperial A	64	-5
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Waterloo B	65	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	Toronto I	66	10
Sam Zavadil	Michigan State D	Louisville C	66	10
John Gamble	NCSU A	William & Mary A	66	10
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	British Columbia C	66	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	RIT B	66	-5
Advai Srinivasan	UC Irvine	Claremont C	67	-5
Galen Mueller	McGill B	Ottawa D	67	10
Brady Hagan	Ohio State B	Michigan State B	67	-5
Alexander DaGrossa	Rowan	Vassar B	67	-5
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Tufts B	67	10
Andrew Heller	Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech F	67	-5
Thomas Wu	Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Little Prince	70	10
Sai Yarlagadda	Ottawa B	Ottawa A	70	-5
Eric Cameron	Michigan State C	Ohio State D	70	-5
Akif Ismail	Williams C	Dartmouth C	72	10
Connor Tindall	Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt B	72	-5
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida Tech A	73	-5
Ben Weng	Macalester	St. Thomas	73	10
Kushagra Bahuguna	Washington Chinook	Washington Steelhead	74	10
Wesley Stine	Clemson A	Chipola College	74	10
Peter Randall	Georgia A	Emory A	74	-5
James Fan	Toronto E	Guelph A	77	-5
Jacob Schildkraut	William & Mary C	Liberty A	80	10
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Durham A	80	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	RIT A	80	10
Shaya Farahmand	Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	81	10
Ritwik Sharma	Arizona State A	Washington Sockeye	83	-5
Harry Oxley	Imperial C	Bristol	85	10
Venkat Das	WVU B	WVU A	86	10
James Xiao	Toronto A	Waterloo A	88	10
Kevin Liu	Maryland A	Rutgers A	88	-5
Scarlet Rutter	Claremont A	UCLA D	89	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UCSD B	89	10
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	Ottawa C	89	10
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	Michigan B	89	10
Trenton Burgess	Indiana A	WashU Grolars	89	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	Iowa State	89	10
Jackson Price	Dartmouth B	Williams B	89	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	89	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Georgia Tech D	89	10
Shlok Dev	LSE	Warwick	89	10
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	Louisville B	90	10
Sam Hewitt	WashU Grizzlers	Chicago A	91	10
Anthony Yin	CWRU A	CWRU B	92	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	Ohio State C	92	10
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	Alberta B	92	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington Masu	92	10
Eoghan Herriot	Durham D	Edinburgh D	92	10
Kieran Freed	Rochester	Binghamton C	92	10
Kieran Freed	Rochester	Binghamton C	92	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	Binghamton B	92	10
Walter Carson	NCSU B	Liberty B	93	10
Finley Campbell	Tufts A	Amherst A	93	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA C	94	10
Christina Popov	Queen's A	Brock A	94	10
Magnolia Schnirman Barría	NYU B	Lehigh B	94	10
Rafael Gómez	Amherst B	Boston University B	94	10
Jack Yesner	Brandeis Beethoven	Harvard	94	10
Miguel Carreira	Imperial B	Birmingham	94	10
Judah Solomon	Imperial D	Oxford	94	10
Kingsley Chen	McGill A	McGill C	96	10
Ben Schindelman	Vassar A	Stony Brook	97	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Clemson C	97	-5
Mason Lambert	JMU A	William & Mary B	99	-5
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	British Columbia B	99	10
Huy Lai	UCSC	Stanford A	100	10
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech E	100	10
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	William Woods University A	102	-5
Will Demos	Wisconsin B	Minnesota	102	-5
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Purdue D	103	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Boss Bandit	105	10
Diego Almaraz	UNC C	UNC B	105	10
Emily Kadolph	Virginia Tech B	Virginia A	105	10
Abbi Tesreau	George Mason C	Columbia B	105	10
Vedh Ramesh	Penn	Rutgers D	105	10
William Henley	Illinois Champaign	Iowa B	105	10
Chris Chang	USC A	UCLA E	106	10
Joseph Cole	UNC A	Virginia Tech A	106	10
Alex Grigoriades	Lehigh A	Rutgers B	106	10
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Iowa A	106	10
Ben Stras	Wisconsin C	Michigan Tech	106	10
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Mississippi State A	106	10
Alex Miller	Edinburgh B	Durham B	106	10
James Zhao	Vanderbilt C	Auburn C	107	10
Derek Li	Cornell A	Cornell D	107	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Mighty Miner	108	10
Aedan Cooper	Ottawa A	Ottawa B	108	10
Cranmer McGinn	McMaster C	Toronto F	108	10
Daniel Luebs	Michigan State B	Ohio State B	108	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Maryland B	108	10
Lishu Wang	Chicago B	Purdue A	108	10
Stephen Donoghue	Sheffield B	Durham C	108	10
Diego Monge	Claremont C	UC Irvine	109	10
Anthony Chen	USC B	UCLA A	109	0
Neela Perceval-Maxwell	McGill E	Carleton A	109	10
Ibraheem Alkrahgholy	Guelph A	Toronto E	109	10
Aris Anton	Waterloo C	McMaster B	109	10
Dominic Heffron	Florida Tech A	Florida B	109	10
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida State A	109	10
Will Massey	Florida Tech B	South Florida A	109	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	Kentucky	109	10
Matthew Stall	CWRU D	Michigan C	109	10
Henry Nonnemaker	CWRU C	Michigan D	109	10
Orion Brey	Louisville A	Michigan State A	109	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Michigan State C	109	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Tusculum A	109	10
Kevin Cronk	Virginia Tech C	UNC D	109	10
William Erwin	William & Mary B	JMU A	109	10
Joe O'Connor	George Mason B	Johns Hopkins	109	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Maryland A	109	10
Henry Bauer	NYU A	Maryland C	109	10
Vihaan Jim	Princeton	Columbia A	109	10
Andrew Sklar	Vassar B	Rowan	109	10
Aidan Drain	NYU C	Rutgers C	109	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	Illinois Canada	109	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Illinois Blue	109	10
Alex Feller	Minnesota	Wisconsin B	109	10
Shining Sun	Boston College A	Brandeis Mozart	109	10
Lucas Guan	Brown A	Dartmouth A	109	10
Matthew Kohn	Williams A	Vermont B	109	10
Liam Markland	Alberta A	Washington Atlantic	109	10
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	Arizona State A	109	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Auburn A	109	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Clemson B	109	10
Andy Truette	Clemson C	Sewanne	109	10
Daniel Chen	Emory A	Georgia A	109	10
Allen Xu	Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	109	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	South Carolina A	109	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Sheffield A	109	10
Rory Moloney	Cambridge E	Cambridge C	109	10
Youyou Yu	Imperial A	Cambridge D	109	10
Jake Scoville	RIT B	Binghamton A	109	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	40%	99.00
UK (South)	UK	7	100%	57%	92.00
Northern California	US	4	100%	25%	95.75
Southern California	US	7	86%	43%	89.33
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	40%	93.80
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	11%	81.89
Florida	US	4	100%	50%	90.75
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	50%	97.33
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	22%	98.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	10	100%	60%	105.50
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	2	100%	50%	107.00
Midwest	US	9	100%	33%	98.22
North	US	4	100%	50%	94.25
Northeast	US	11	100%	27%	86.55
Pacific	US	8	100%	50%	87.50
Southeast	US	13	100%	62%	100.00
Upstate NY	US	6	100%	17%	95.33