Carthage - 2025 ACF Fall

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A general from this empire took out his eye while marching through the Arno (10[1])marshes. (10[18]-5[1])This empire (10[4])was (10[1])defeated (10[2])at (10[1])the Battle (10[3])of Cape (10[4])Ecnomus, (10[7])likely (10[1])the largest (10[4])naval (10[1])battle (10[1])in history, (10[4]-5[1])due to their enemy’s (10[2]-5[1])use (10[1])of the corvus. (10[6])The Mercenary (10[3]-5[1])War (10[3])broke out (10[1])in this empire (10[3])in response (10[1])to payments (10[1])being (10[1])delayed (10[2])by Hanno the Great. (10[6])Fresh figs (10[3])were once presented in a speech by Cato (10[1])the Elder (-5[1])to cite (10[1])the looming proximity (10[1])of this empire, (10[6]-5[1])which was mythically founded by the (10[1])Phoenician (10[1])queen (10[1])Dido. (10[7])This (10[2])empire won the Battle of (10[1])Cannae (10[2])(“CAHN-eye”) after its army crossed the Alps. For 10 points, (10[1])name this (10[1])North (10[1])African empire whose army was once led by Hannibal. ■END■

ANSWER: Carthage [or Carthaginian Empire; or Qart-Hadasht; or Carthago]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Chicago A	13	10
Thomas Wu	Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Archer Queen	14	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill C	14	10
Dawson Teu	Waterloo A	Toronto G	14	-5
James Xiao	Toronto A	Waterloo B	14	10
Peyton Legg	UCF A	Florida B	14	10
Jayden Ngo	Kentucky	Michigan State B	14	10
Ben Kantsiper	JMU B	William & Mary C	14	10
John Gamble	NCSU A	Virginia A	14	10
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	William & Mary B	14	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	Virginia Tech C	14	10
Nova Sink	Virginia Tech A	William & Mary A	14	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	George Mason C	14	10
John Maupin	Chipola College	Montevallo	14	10
Will Hughes	Auburn A	Georgia A	14	10
Nitish Sudhakar	Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	14	10
TJ Pickering	Auburn B	Sewanne	14	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Auburn C	14	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Emory A	14	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	Cornell A	14	10
Jack Marguiles	Stony Brook	NYU B	16	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Clemson C	16	10
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge B	LSE	16	10
Sam Barrekette	RIT A	Binghamton C	16	10
Eoghan Herriot	Durham D	Durham C	17	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Boss Bandit	18	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	Vanderbilt B	18	10
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Arizona State A	19	10
Gus Morin-Strom	Carleton B	Ottawa C	21	10
Adam Chilbert	Macalester	Wisconsin A	21	10
Jake Scoville	RIT B	Rochester	21	10
Dominic Heffron	Florida Tech A	ERAU Daytona A	23	10
Daniel Huang	Michigan C	Michigan A	23	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Rutgers B	23	10
Ethan Ma	Illinois Blue	Indiana A	23	10
Ty Brennan	Berkeley Mighty Miner	UCSC	24	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCLA E	24	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCLA F	24	10
Aidan Drain	NYU C	Maryland B	24	10
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	WashU Grizzlers	24	10
Ryan Zhang	British Columbia C	Alberta B	24	10
Logan Patil	Georgia Tech F	Clemson B	24	10
Wyatt Johnson	CWRU B	Ohio State B	25	10
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Toronto B	27	10
Thomas Jenkins	Michigan B	WVU A	27	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Purdue B	27	10
Owen Feng	Vanderbilt A	Mississippi State A	27	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	South Florida A	28	10
Nina Bindra	Southampton	Oxford	29	10
Ted Li	Claremont C	Claremont B	31	10
Enina Edosomwan	CWRU A	Louisville D	31	-5
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	Virginia Tech B	31	10
Ben Schindelman	Vassar A	Penn	31	10
Charlie Nicholls	Cambridge C	Imperial D	31	10
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	Michigan State A	35	-5
Merrick Hill	Iowa State	Michigan Tech	35	10
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	British Columbia A	35	10
Hitansh Malaviya	Rutgers C	Princeton	36	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	McMaster C	39	10
Miles Phillips	Florida Tech B	Florida State A	39	10
Teshawn McDonald	Louisville A	Ohio State C	39	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Rutgers D	39	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	Illinois Orange	39	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	British Columbia B	39	10
Sebastien Freitag	UC Santa Barbara	UCSD B	41	-5
David Ropp	Duke A	UNC B	41	10
Alexander DaGrossa	Rowan	Lehigh A	41	10
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Georgia Tech B	41	10
Tianyi Zheng	UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	42	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Waterloo A	42	10
Elliot Earley	Sheffield B	Durham B	42	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	Claremont A	44	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Toronto C	47	10
Brennan Davis	Louisville B	Michigan State D	47	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland A	George Mason B	47	10
Youyou Yu	Imperial A	Bristol	49	10
Liam Markland	Alberta A	Washington Chinook	51	10
Alex Feller	Minnesota	Wisconsin C	52	10
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	Ohio State D	53	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Georgia Tech E	53	10
Scott Sibley	UC Irvine	UCLA C	57	10
Mason Lambert	JMU A	Tusculum A	57	10
Tanmay Mirashi	Maryland C	George Mason A	57	10
Vishnu Sharma	Texas	Washington Coho	57	10
Rory Moloney	Cambridge E	Cambridge A	57	10
Harry Crane	Warwick	Imperial C	57	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	Ottawa A	59	10
Neela Perceval-Maxwell	McGill E	Carleton A	59	10
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Cambridge D	59	10
Alex Hestermann	Washington Sockeye	Washington Masu	67	10
Oliver Thompson	CWRU D	WVU B	69	-5
Abhay Ariyapappillil	Ottawa B	McGill A	71	10
Alexander Rutten	Columbia A	Columbia B	74	10
Serena Salfiti	USC A	USC B	77	10
Vedang Singhal	UNC C	VCU A	77	10
Luke Bromley	Indiana B	Chicago B	77	10
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Illinois Champaign	77	10
Roy Yang	WashU Grolars	Iowa B	77	10
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Boston College B	77	-5
Connor Yu	Cornell C	Binghamton A	77	10
Ethan Enochian	Purdue D	William Woods University A	83	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington Chum	84	10
Will Marcotte	Toronto D	Guelph A	85	10
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto F	McMaster A	86	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	CWRU A	86	10
Nate Brown	CWRU C	Michigan State C	86	10
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	Vassar B	86	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Edinburgh C	86	10
Fia Gale	Edinburgh D	Sheffield A	86	10
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Imperial B	86	10
Saju Ramraj	Toronto I	Queen's A	87	10
Andreas Ktori	Durham A	York	87	10
Aiden Wilson	WVU B	CWRU D	92	10
Surya Donath	Stanford A	Berkeley Little Prince	93	10
Joe Paterson	Michigan State A	Michigan D	93	10
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Southern Connecticut State University A	102	10
Connor King	St. Thomas	Wisconsin B	104	10
Solomon Blecher	Cornell D	ESF	105	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	0%	63.60
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	0%	48.00
Northern California	US	4	100%	0%	37.25
Southern California	US	7	100%	14%	42.71
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	44.80
Eastern Canada (2)	US	8	100%	13%	53.38
Florida	US	4	100%	0%	26.00
Great Lakes	US	11	100%	27%	53.18
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	30.67
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	1	100%	0%	74.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	38.89
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	2	100%	0%	32.00
Midwest	US	9	100%	0%	48.89
North	US	4	100%	0%	53.00
Northeast	US	1	100%	100%	102.00
Pacific	US	8	100%	0%	47.00
Southeast	US	12	100%	0%	21.92
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	0%	46.60