fall - 2025 ACF Fall

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The Japanese food botamochi is called ohagi when eaten during this period of time; that food is eaten during [emphasize] Shūbun no Hi, a festival in this (-5[1])period of time (10[1]-5[1])when (-5[1])people engage in tsukimi. (-5[3])During a festival named (-5[1])after this period of time, (-5[1])kids (-5[1])play games called “Encircling (10[1])a Toad” (-5[1])due to there being (-5[1])a three-legged toad (-5[1])in the moon. (10[1]-5[1])That (-5[1])Chinese (10[1])festival (10[1]-5[1])named (10[1])after (10[1])this time (10[1])period (10[6]-5[2])features (-5[3])offerings (-5[4])to the (10[1])moon (-5[2])goddess (10[5]-5[3])Chang’e (10[13]-5[3])(“chang-UH”), during (10[2]-5[1])which (10[1])mooncakes (10[6]-5[4])are (10[1]-5[1])usually (10[1]-5[1])consumed. (10[14]-5[12])During (10[2]-5[2])this (-5[1])season, (-5[1])Día (10[1])de los Muertos (10[5]-5[1])and the related (10[1])All Saints’ (10[1])Day (10[2])and All Souls’ Day (10[2])are celebrated. (10[3]-5[2])For 10 points, in what season (10[2])do people (10[1])celebrate (10[1])All Hallows’ Eve (10[3])and (10[3])Halloween? (10[1])■END■ (10[38]0[1])

ANSWER: fall [or autumn; accept Mid-Autumn Festival; accept fall equinox; accept autumnal equinox; prompt on September or October or November by asking “to what larger period of time does that month belong?”] (Botamochi and ohagi are essentially the same food, but are called differently whether eaten in the spring or fall, respectively.)

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Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Juliette Flatau	Imperial A	Cambridge D	25	-5
Rose Phipps	George Mason B	NYU A	28	-5
Taiki Takahashi	Dartmouth C	MIT B	28	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	British Columbia B	29	-5
Orin Overmiller	Florida Tech B	Florida State A	33	-5
Eugene Kim	Purdue D	Iowa B	33	-5
Nina Bindra	Southampton	Cambridge A	33	-5
Roy Yang	WashU Grolars	Rose-Hulman A	37	-5
Thaddeus Holmes	Durham C	Edinburgh A	42	-5
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA F	43	-5
Tinashe Sandy	South Florida A	ERAU Daytona A	47	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	Claremont A	49	-5
Ba Loc Dinh	Illinois Urbana	Iowa A	53	-5
Thomas Brittain	McMaster C	Queen's A	56	-5
Kushagra Bahuguna	Washington Chinook	Washington Coho	59	10
Jonas Cross	Tennessee Tech	Auburn B	59	-5
Ethen Sun	Toronto C	Waterloo A	60	-5
Lee Huynh	Guelph A	McMaster B	61	10
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Alabama A	62	-5
James Zhao	Vanderbilt C	Mississippi State A	62	10
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	63	10
Johnathan Li	Penn	Vassar B	64	10
Tristan Scarlett	Ottawa D	Ottawa B	66	10
Ty Brennan	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Stanford B	67	10
Kingsley Chen	McGill A	Ottawa A	67	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Waterloo B	67	-5
Liam Buck	St. Thomas	Iowa State	67	-5
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	Boston University B	67	10
Alice Zhang	Dartmouth A	Amherst B	67	10
Eleanor Arron	Williams C	Brandeis Bach	67	10
Olivia Ding	Texas	Arizona State B	67	10
Chris Chang	USC A	Claremont B	68	-5
Sparrow Brotman	NYU B	Rutgers C	68	-5
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Durham D	68	-5
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	UCSD A	69	-5
Hudson Kee	William & Mary B	Duke A	69	-5
Yoyo Liu	British Columbia C	Arizona State A	69	-5
Fionn O’Connor	South Carolina A	Georgia Tech A	69	-5
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Sewanne	71	10
Leo Godbee	Bristol	Cardiff	72	-5
Shlok Dev	LSE	Warwick	72	-5
Hansen Jin	Berkeley Skeleton King	Stanford A	73	10
Hermione Lu	Berkeley Little Prince	UCSC	73	10
Meredie Cohen	William & Mary A	UNC A	73	10
Tishe Sonuga	Chicago B	WashU Grizzlers	73	-5
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Illinois Blue	73	10
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Tufts B	73	-5
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Tennessee B	73	-5
Derek Li	Cornell A	Cornell C	73	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCSD B	74	10
Zhiyu Yan	McGill B	McGill C	74	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Toronto A	74	-5
Chris Wang	Toronto B	Toronto D	74	10
Andrew Lin	Toronto G	Waterloo C	74	10
Leighton Karpinia	Florida Tech A	Florida A	74	10
Alex Randall	Kentucky	Michigan State D	74	-5
Joshua Lam	Ohio State B	Pittsburgh	74	10
Brayden Whitlow	George Mason C	Stony Brook	74	10
Misty Chen	Purdue C	Illinois Orange	74	10
Ben Weng	Macalester	Wisconsin A	74	10
Kenner Bailey	Boston University A	Dartmouth B	74	10
Jaime Wang	Washington Atlantic	British Columbia A	74	10
Niyanthi Yamunan	Georgia Tech E	Georgia A	74	10
Owen Feng	Vanderbilt A	Chipola College	74	10
Ollie Glin-Conway	Imperial D	Imperial B	74	-5
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	Michigan State C	75	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	Virginia Tech A	75	-5
Daniel Lu	Washington Pink	Washington State	75	10
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	Cornell D	76	10
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UC Irvine	77	10
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	Ohio State D	77	-5
Diego Almaraz	UNC C	UNC D	77	10
Fern Fang	VCU A	Virginia Tech C	77	10
Leandro Zhang	Columbia A	Johns Hopkins	77	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Illinois Champaign	77	-5
Alan Cai	Amherst A	Williams B	77	10
Lucas Guan	Brown A	Tufts C	77	-5
Shaya Farahmand	Georgia Tech B	Auburn A	77	10
Honor Mountford	Cambridge C	Birmingham	77	-5
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Sockeye	78	-5
Moses Dong	Georgia Tech F	Emory A	78	10
Noah Scattergood	Brock A	Toronto I	79	-5
Indiana Gee	Toronto I	Brock A	79	10
Adrian Li	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Boss Bandit	80	10
Vivian Fan	Claremont A	UCLA B	80	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UCLA A	80	10
Sarah Silverman	Claremont C	USC B	80	-5
Gerrit Severeid	McGill E	Carleton B	80	-5
Samuel Zheng	Toronto F	Toronto H	80	10
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida B	UCF A	80	-5
Angelo Pan	CWRU A	Michigan D	80	10
Kyle Chua	CWRU B	CWRU C	80	10
Thomas Zhao	Michigan C	Louisville C	80	10
Matthew Lam	Ohio State A	WVU B	80	10
Katie Young	Liberty C	JMU B	80	10
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech B	NCSU A	80	-5
Aaron Henry	Maryland C	Lehigh A	80	-5
Kevin Liu	Maryland A	Princeton	80	-5
Gavin Chen	Vassar A	Rutgers A	80	10
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Maryland B	80	-5
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	George Mason A	80	10
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Boston College B	80	-5
Will Barash	Brandeis Mozart	Vermont B	80	-5
Michael Ai	Williams A	Southern Connecticut State University A	80	10
Steven Pan	Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	80	10
Fintan Thomas	Cambridge E	Oxford	80	-5
Will Barton	Imperial C	Cambridge B	80	-5
Minh Nguyen	Cornell B	Binghamton B	80	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	RIT B	80	-5
Mai Höglund	Claremont B	USC A	81	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	Louisville A	81	-5
Luke Bromley	Indiana B	Chicago A	81	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Clemson C	81	-5
Lindi Blaylock	Tusculum A	NCSU B	82	-5
Uriah Lee	Sheffield B	Edinburgh C	83	-5
Sophia Peng	Rutgers C	NYU B	84	10
Matthew Stall	CWRU D	Michigan State A	87	10
Jonah Chancio	JMU A	William & Mary C	87	10
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Chicago B	87	10
Anurag Shah	Indiana A	Purdue B	87	-5
Joyann Hua	British Columbia B	Alberta A	87	10
Allen Xu	Georgia Tech A	South Carolina A	87	10
Emmet Ewing	Michigan State B	Ohio State C	90	10
Elias Lowrey	Lehigh B	NYU C	92	10
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	Minnesota	93	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	RIT A	93	10
Jonathan Ho	Alberta B	Washington Masu	97	10
Hayley Morris	RIT B	ESF	97	10
Parker Jones	NCSU B	Tusculum A	99	10
Cooper Morris	Columbia B	Rowan	99	-5
Will Demos	Wisconsin B	Wisconsin C	99	-5
James O'Reilly	Arizona State A	British Columbia C	99	10
Miguel Carreira	Imperial B	Imperial D	99	10
Sam Montgomery	Ottawa C	Carleton A	105	10
Atticus Teter	Durham A	Durham B	105	10
Connor Kahn	NCSU A	Virginia Tech B	107	10
Cecile Thomas	Tufts A	UConn A	108	10
Vivienne Ruemler	USC B	Claremont C	111	10
Waverly O'Malley	Iowa A	Illinois Urbana	111	10
Alex Miller	Edinburgh B	York	111	10
AnnaMaria Donnelly	UCF A	Florida B	112	10
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	Boise State	112	10
Megan Rowe	Cambridge D	Imperial A	112	10
Sophia Madrazo	Purdue B	Indiana A	113	10
Michael Zheng	UCLA F	UC Santa Barbara	114	10
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	McGill E	114	10
Miriam Lee	Queen's A	McMaster C	114	10
Blake Kim-Wansbrough	Toronto A	McMaster A	114	10
Susanna Liao	Waterloo A	Toronto C	114	10
Gavin Ge	Waterloo B	Toronto E	114	10
Corey Pope	Florida State A	Florida Tech B	114	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	Kentucky	114	10
Orion Brey	Louisville A	Louisville B	114	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Louisville D	114	10
Andrea Owusu	Duke A	William & Mary B	114	10
Zachary Bornstein	Virginia Tech A	Virginia A	114	10
Alex Grigoriades	Lehigh A	Maryland C	114	10
Tosca Zhang	NYU A	George Mason B	114	10
Vihaan Jim	Princeton	Maryland A	114	10
Sam Millenbach	Rowan	Columbia B	114	10
Asher Lyons	Maryland B	Rutgers B	114	10
David Black	Illinois Champaign	William Woods University A	114	10
Jacob Chaudhry	Iowa B	Purdue D	114	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	WashU Grolars	114	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	St. Thomas	114	10
Vivian Lu	Wisconsin C	Wisconsin B	114	10
Reid Eichberg	Tufts B	Boston College A	114	10
Ethan Erickson	Boston College B	Vermont A	114	0
Julia Austin	Vermont B	Brandeis Mozart	114	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Brown A	114	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Clemson A	114	10
Brandon Hunt	Auburn B	Tennessee Tech	114	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Clemson B	114	10
Jacie Bradley	Clemson C	Montevallo	114	10
James Headon	Edinburgh A	Durham C	114	10
Leo Neve	Durham D	Sheffield A	114	10
Musa Ahmed	Edinburgh C	Sheffield B	114	10
Rick Line	Cardiff	Bristol	114	10
Antara Bhattacharya	Cambridge A	Southampton	114	10
James Mogg	Birmingham	Cambridge C	114	10
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Cambridge E	114	10
Yasmin Campbell	Cambridge B	Imperial C	114	10
Jolie Yeh	Warwick	LSE	114	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	60%	111.60
UK (South)	UK	8	100%	100%	111.88
Northern California	US	4	100%	0%	73.25
Southern California	US	7	100%	71%	88.14
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	20%	85.20
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	56%	91.56
Florida	US	4	100%	50%	86.75
Great Lakes	US	11	100%	27%	89.82
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	44%	92.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	50%	93.42
Midwest	US	9	100%	67%	97.89
North	US	4	100%	50%	98.75
Northeast	US	12	92%	33%	82.73
Pacific	US	8	100%	38%	83.75
Southeast	US	13	100%	38%	86.31
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	20%	83.80