electricity - 2025 ACF Fall

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Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. Maasai pastoralists have been displaced by projects providing this service located in Kenya’s Olkaria (-5[1])region. Husk, a company that provides “mini” methods (-5[1])of providing this service, (-5[1])left Tanzania over disputes with TANESCO. (-5[2])Morocco provides (-5[1])this service (-5[1])through complexes like one at Noor, (10[2])which uses a parabolic (10[1])trough collector (10[1]-5[2])as a (-5[1])“concentrated” (10[1]-5[1])facility (10[1])of its type. (10[4]-5[3])This (10[2])service is (-5[1])intended to be supplied (10[1])across Africa (10[1])by the much-delayed (-5[1])Grand Inga (-5[2])infrastructure (10[1]-5[2])project (10[2]-5[4])in (10[1])DR Congo. (10[6]-5[5])In South Africa, Eskom’s failure (10[2])to fully (10[2]-5[1])provide (10[3]-5[1])this (10[1])service (10[10]-5[6])has led (10[1])to (10[1])loadshedding. (10[5]-5[2])For 10 (10[2])points, (10[2])what (10[1])service (10[1])may be conveyed (10[1])as (10[1])HVDC from photovoltaics (10[2])or (10[1])batteries? (10[2])■END■ (10[42]0[1])

ANSWER: electricity [accept power; accept energy; accept being connected to the electrical grid; accept being connected to an electrical minigrid; accept geothermal energy or geothermal power; accept solar energy or solar power; accept concentrated solar power; accept wind power or wind energy; accept hydroelectric power or hydroelectric energy; accept hydropower or water power; accept renewable energy or renewable power; accept nonrenewable energy or nonrenewable power; prompt on CSP; prompt on light by asking “what provided service is allowing that?”; prompt on heating water or heating salt by asking “in order to provide what service to consumers?”]

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida State A	20	-5
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	Columbia B	28	-5
Jas Wang	UCLA F	Claremont B	32	-5
Anton Akroush	Michigan State A	Ohio State A	38	-5
Andrew Stappenbeck	CWRU C	Pittsburgh	38	-5
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Sewanne	40	-5
Bolun Thompson	UCLA C	Claremont A	42	-5
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Ohio State B	48	10
Leonard Castine	Penn	Rutgers A	48	10
Ethen Sun	Toronto C	Brock A	52	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	Carleton B	54	-5
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Rose-Hulman A	54	-5
Wesley Yu	British Columbia A	British Columbia B	54	10
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	Louisville B	56	-5
Suren Grigorian	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Little Prince	57	10
Liam Markland	Alberta A	Arizona State B	57	-5
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	Iowa B	58	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Archer Queen	61	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	USC A	61	-5
Susanna Liao	Waterloo A	Toronto B	61	-5
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Johns Hopkins	61	10
Anurag Shah	Indiana A	Illinois Champaign	61	10
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Boston University B	61	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	Binghamton A	61	-5
Nick Machin	UCLA A	UC Irvine	62	10
James Xiao	Toronto A	McMaster C	62	10
William Kiker	Dartmouth A	Brown B	64	-5
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Vanderbilt C	68	10
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	Ottawa A	70	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Chicago B	73	-5
Mackenzie Tott	Columbia A	Rutgers D	75	-5
James Haddix	Washington State	Alberta B	75	-5
Abhay Ariyapappillil	Ottawa B	McGill B	76	10
Theodor Martin	WashU Grizzlers	Iowa A	76	-5
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	St. Thomas	76	-5
Hansen Jin	Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Boss Bandit	77	10
Seth Allen	McMaster A	Toronto E	77	-5
Mary Kate Vance	Louisville A	Michigan B	77	-5
Sophia Madrazo	Purdue B	Purdue D	77	10
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Southern Connecticut State University A	77	-5
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	South Carolina A	77	-5
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Arizona State A	78	10
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida A	80	10
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	WVU B	80	10
James Mickel	Michigan State C	Louisville C	80	-5
David Ropp	Duke A	Liberty A	80	-5
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	WashU Grolars	80	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Macalester	80	10
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Amherst A	80	-5
Bryce Younger	Boise State	British Columbia C	80	-5
Anya Srinivasan	Washington Atlantic	Washington Chinook	80	10
John Maupin	Chipola College	Clemson B	80	10
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Auburn A	80	-5
Vihaan Jim	Princeton	George Mason B	85	10
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	Washington Masu	85	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	Ottawa C	87	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	87	-5
Wynn Alsko	Auburn C	Georgia Tech B	87	10
Annika Larson	Claremont A	UCLA C	88	10
Liam Henderson	McMaster B	Toronto I	88	10
Taylor Smallacombe	VCU A	JMU A	88	-5
John Halsun	UConn A	Brandeis Beethoven	88	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Cornell A	89	10
Ritisha Dey	Stanford A	UCSC	90	-5
Shreyansh Satapurthy	UCLA D	Claremont C	90	-5
Nathaniel Godfrey	Toronto D	Waterloo B	90	10
Miles Phillips	Florida Tech B	UCF A	90	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	WVU A	90	-5
Stella Broome	Virginia A	Liberty B	90	-5
Connor Kahn	NCSU A	UNC D	90	-5
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	NCSU A	90	10
Vedang Singhal	UNC C	UNC A	90	10
Caedmon Holland	Lehigh B	Rutgers B	90	10
Jack Piros	Illinois Orange	Purdue A	90	10
Alex Smits	Wisconsin A	Minnesota	90	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	Brown A	90	10
Nathaniel Martin	Brandeis Bach	Tufts C	90	-5
Jake Markus	Dartmouth B	Williams C	90	10
Jackson McDonald	Alabama A	Tennessee B	90	10
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Tennessee Tech	92	10
Eli Young	Vassar A	Vassar B	93	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UCLA B	94	-5
Mai Höglund	Claremont B	UCLA F	94	10
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	Ohio State D	94	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	Maryland A	94	10
Ben Stras	Wisconsin C	Wisconsin B	94	-5
Nivedh Mudiam	Arizona State B	Alberta A	94	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	RIT A	94	10
Wyatt Johnson	CWRU B	Michigan A	96	10
Derek Aldridge	William & Mary A	JMU B	96	10
Ethan Altshul	Emory A	Mississippi State A	97	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt A	97	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Queen's A	98	10
Benny Shtutman	South Carolina A	Georgia Tech E	99	10
Suyog Vibhuti	Washington Steelhead	Washington Coho	102	10
Sicheng Jiang	Toronto H	Guelph A	103	10
Johnny Myers	Williams B	Dartmouth C	106	10
Vincent Misterkiewicz	Cornell C	RIT B	106	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	William & Mary B	107	10
Tishe Sonuga	Chicago B	Chicago A	108	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Dartmouth A	108	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Stanford A	109	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCSD A	109	10
Diego Monge	Claremont C	UCLA D	109	10
Yuv Magan	UCSD B	USC B	109	10
Chris Chang	USC A	UC Santa Barbara	109	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	McMaster A	109	10
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	Waterloo A	109	10
Lucas Hall	Waterloo C	Toronto F	109	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	Florida B	109	10
Tinashe Sandy	South Florida A	Florida Tech A	109	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	Ohio State C	109	10
Matthew Wozniak	Michigan B	Louisville A	109	10
Nathan Woolery	Louisville C	Michigan State C	109	10
Joshua Garner	Ohio State A	Michigan State A	109	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	CWRU C	109	10
Chase Moss	WVU A	Michigan State D	109	10
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	Duke A	109	10
Abby Keith	Liberty B	Virginia A	109	10
Kevin Nolan	NCSU B	Tusculum A	109	10
Vivian Adolph	UNC B	William & Mary C	109	10
Erin Williams	JMU A	VCU A	109	10
Neal Tandon	Columbia B	Maryland C	109	0
Brayden Whitlow	George Mason C	Rutgers C	109	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Columbia A	109	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Canada	109	10
Elizabeth Bowling	Indiana B	Illinois Urbana	109	10
Grace Early	Iowa A	WashU Grizzlers	109	10
Zach Majorowicz	St. Thomas	Michigan Tech	109	10
Noah Lang	Wisconsin B	Wisconsin C	109	10
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Boston College B	109	10
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Harvard	109	10
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Tufts B	109	10
Devon Kumar	Tufts C	Brandeis Bach	109	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	MIT B	109	10
Rafael Gómez	Amherst B	Vermont B	109	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Boise State	109	10
Jonathan Ho	Alberta B	Washington State	109	10
Coy Mier	Auburn B	Vanderbilt B	109	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Clemson C	109	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	109	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Montevallo	109	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	ESF	109	10
Ariyan Miah	Binghamton B	Binghamton C	109	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
Northern California	US	4	100%	25%	76.00
Southern California	US	7	100%	71%	97.14
Eastern Canada (1)	US	4	75%	25%	77.67
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	22%	91.11
Florida	US	4	100%	25%	97.00
Great Lakes	US	10	100%	60%	97.20
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	44%	103.11
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	9	89%	22%	86.13
Midwest	US	9	100%	33%	89.00
North	US	4	100%	50%	97.00
Northeast	US	12	100%	33%	99.75
Pacific	US	8	100%	38%	88.88
Southeast	US	12	100%	33%	95.50
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	20%	101.40