Frédéric Chopin - 2025 ACF Fall

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A G minor piece by this composer opens on a Neapolitan chord (10[1])with both hands (10[1])playing the notes [read slowly] “long C, E-flat, A-flat, B-flat, C, A-flat.” A posthumously published (10[2])C-sharp minor piece by this composer (10[2])contains (-5[2])a (10[1])4-against-3 (10[1])polyrhythm (10[4])throughout. (10[3]-5[3])Repeated A-flats (10[3])imitate the title (-5[1])weather phenomenon (10[2])in a piece by this (10[1])composer. (10[9]-5[2])As well (10[2])as writing a piece (10[1])inspired by a dog chasing (10[1])its own (10[1]-5[1])tail, (10[8]-5[7])this (10[1]-5[1])composer (-5[2])wrote (10[1])many (10[1])pieces (10[1]-5[1])in a dance style (10[1]-5[2])from his home (-5[2])country, (10[3]-5[2])including ones subtitled “Military” and “Heroic.” (10[4])Despite its name, (10[1]-5[1])a piece in (10[1])3/4 (-5[1])(“three four”) time by this composer (10[1])takes longer (10[2])than sixty seconds to perform. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this (-5[1])Polish composer (10[2]-5[1])of (10[1])the (10[1])Fantaisie-Impromptu (10[9]-5[1])and (10[2])Minute (10[1])Waltz. (10[3])■END■ (10[31]0[14])

ANSWER: Frédéric Chopin (“sho-PAN”) [or Frédéric François Chopin; or Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin] (The first line is his Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, the second is his Fantasie-Impromptu and the A-flats signify raindrops in his Raindrop Prelude.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Pace Klein	CWRU B	CWRU C	11	10
Taiki Takahashi	Dartmouth C	MIT B	14	10
Mackenzie Tott	Columbia A	Johns Hopkins	27	10
Rob Morris	Durham D	Sheffield A	27	10
Daniel Abrams	Rutgers B	Maryland B	33	10
Jake Markus	Dartmouth B	Boston University A	33	10
Tianyi Zheng	UCSD B	UCLA D	34	-5
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge B	Imperial C	34	-5
Conner Yamnitz	WashU Grizzlers	Chicago B	35	10
Tristan Scarlett	Ottawa D	Ottawa B	36	10
Orin Overmiller	Florida Tech B	Florida State A	37	10
Tosca Zhang	NYU A	George Mason B	37	10
Will Huang	Wisconsin A	Macalester	37	10
Eleanor Dalton	York	Edinburgh B	37	10
Nick Machin	UCLA A	UCSD A	38	-5
Peter Zeng	Ohio State A	WVU B	38	10
David Ropp	Duke A	William & Mary B	38	10
Allen Xu	Georgia Tech A	South Carolina A	38	10
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Sheffield B	38	-5
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Bristol	38	-5
Hansen Jin	Berkeley Skeleton King	Stanford A	40	10
Kevin He	Toronto A	McMaster A	40	10
Jeremy Kim	Toronto F	Toronto H	40	10
Victor Xu	Toronto B	Toronto D	43	-5
Michael Ai	Williams A	Southern Connecticut State University A	45	10
David Xilbille	Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	45	10
Andrew Nucci	UCLA B	Claremont A	50	10
Rebecca Li	Ottawa A	McGill A	51	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	McGill B	51	-5
Gerrit Severeid	McGill E	Carleton B	51	-5
Thomas Brittain	McMaster C	Queen's A	51	10
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	Michigan State C	51	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	Virginia Tech A	51	10
Eleanor Arron	Williams C	Brandeis Bach	51	10
Devin Tharp	Chipola College	Vanderbilt A	51	10
Andreas Ktori	Durham A	Durham B	51	10
Advaith Jagannath	Cambridge C	Birmingham	51	10
Will Hoover	RIT A	Rochester	51	10
Joyann Hua	British Columbia B	Alberta A	53	10
Shaya Farahmand	Georgia Tech B	Auburn A	53	10
Nina Chen	Waterloo B	Toronto E	57	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	William & Mary A	62	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	George Mason A	64	-5
David Black	Illinois Champaign	William Woods University A	64	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Boss Bandit	65	10
Indiana Gee	Toronto I	Brock A	65	10
Deepanshi Matai	Toronto C	Waterloo A	65	-5
Enina Edosomwan	CWRU A	Michigan D	65	-5
Snehan Saroch	Louisville A	Louisville B	65	10
Nico Pascual	Michigan State B	Ohio State C	65	-5
Joshua Lam	Ohio State B	Pittsburgh	65	10
Nathan Sprouse	Virginia Tech B	NCSU A	65	10
Fern Fang	VCU A	Virginia Tech C	65	-5
Vedh Ramesh	Penn	Vassar B	65	10
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	Princeton	65	-5
Rae Meyers	Arizona State A	British Columbia C	65	-5
Brandon Hunt	Auburn B	Tennessee Tech	65	10
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	Georgia A	65	10
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt C	65	-5
Camden Walker	WashU Grolars	Rose-Hulman A	66	-5
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	Binghamton A	66	10
Cole Hennessy	UCF A	Florida B	67	-5
Andrew Harms	Michigan State A	CWRU D	67	-5
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Mighty Miner	68	10
Aaron Bates	Washington Pink	Washington State	69	10
Cliodora Selyuzhitsky	UCSD A	UCLA A	70	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Clemson A	70	-5
Michael Zheng	UCLA F	UC Santa Barbara	74	-5
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	Vassar A	74	-5
Anila Moparthi	Illinois Orange	Purdue C	74	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Berkeley Little Prince	77	-5
Atom Lucenet	Imperial D	Imperial B	77	-5
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	Ohio State D	78	-5
Trenton Burgess	Indiana A	Purdue B	78	-5
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Indiana B	78	10
Zachary Fitzpatrick	Wisconsin B	Wisconsin C	78	10
Antara Bhattacharya	Cambridge A	Southampton	78	10
Daniel Huang	Michigan C	Louisville C	84	10
Rishi Swaminathan	NYU B	Rutgers C	84	10
Francis Dinh	Illinois Canada	Illinois Blue	84	10
Drew Wetterlind	Iowa State	St. Thomas	84	10
Alex Mayernick	Lehigh A	Maryland C	87	10
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Williams B	87	-5
Hermione Lu	Berkeley Little Prince	UCSC	90	10
Matthew Bray	Auburn C	Vanderbilt B	91	-5
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Guelph A	95	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Brown A	97	10
Olivia Ding	Texas	Arizona State B	97	10
Taman Truong	USC B	Claremont C	102	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	Iowa A	102	-5
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	Boston College B	102	10
Jonathan Ho	Alberta B	Washington Masu	102	10
Shaynee Ruffle	Toronto G	Waterloo C	105	10
Addison Wiggins	South Florida A	ERAU Daytona A	107	-5
Jackson Crickard	Claremont B	USC A	109	-5
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Boston College A	109	10
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Cambridge E	109	10
Chris Chang	USC A	Claremont B	110	10
Gabriel Dodds	Liberty C	JMU B	111	10
Denali Tran-Le	McGill B	McGill C	112	10
Nicolaus Derikx	Carleton A	Ottawa C	112	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Florida Tech A	112	10
John Shelly	Rowan	Columbia B	112	10
Yvonne Pan	Amherst B	Dartmouth A	112	10
Bryce Younger	Boise State	Washington Sockeye	112	10
Brendan Liaw	British Columbia A	Washington Atlantic	112	10
Joel Kim	Clemson B	Tennessee B	112	10
Max Lopez	Montevallo	Clemson C	112	-5
Derek Li	Cornell A	Cornell C	112	10
Simon Ronis Tobin	Ohio State C	Michigan State B	113	10
Daniel Chen	Emory A	Georgia Tech F	113	10
Lily Katz	Stony Brook	George Mason C	114	10
Grace Early	Iowa A	Illinois Urbana	115	10
Cecile Thomas	Tufts A	UConn A	115	10
Wesley Stine	Clemson A	Alabama A	115	10
Advai Srinivasan	UC Irvine	UCLA E	116	0
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	UC Irvine	116	0
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA F	116	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	UCSD B	116	10
Stefan Mihai	Carleton B	McGill E	116	10
Henry Siegler	Toronto D	Toronto B	116	10
Susanna Liao	Waterloo A	Toronto C	116	10
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	South Florida A	116	0
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida B	UCF A	116	10
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	CWRU A	116	10
Kieran Fake	CWRU D	Michigan State A	116	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	Kentucky	116	0
Alex Randall	Kentucky	Michigan State D	116	0
Ryan Liu	Ohio State D	Louisville D	116	0
AnnaLee Simpson	Tusculum A	NCSU B	116	10
Halah Cates	UNC C	UNC D	116	10
Antonio LaNave	Virginia Tech C	VCU A	116	10
Jacob Schildkraut	William & Mary C	JMU A	116	10
Renita Tang	NYU C	Lehigh B	116	0
Elias Lowrey	Lehigh B	NYU C	116	0
Vihaan Jim	Princeton	Maryland A	116	10
Eli Young	Vassar A	Rutgers A	116	0
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Rutgers D	116	10
Sophia Madrazo	Purdue B	Indiana A	116	10
Yashaswi Jaishy	Iowa B	Purdue D	116	0
Ethan Enochian	Purdue D	Iowa B	116	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	WashU Grolars	116	10
Virginia Brooks	Minnesota	Michigan Tech	116	0
Alex Matchinski	Michigan Tech	Minnesota	116	0
Penelope Graham	Williams B	Amherst A	116	0
Jack Yesner	Brandeis Beethoven	Boston University B	116	10
Jonathan Schnipper	Brandeis Mozart	Vermont B	116	10
Yoyo Liu	British Columbia C	Arizona State A	116	10
Brandon Wiltse	Washington Chinook	Washington Coho	116	0
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	116	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Georgia Tech D	116	10
James Zhao	Vanderbilt C	Mississippi State A	116	10
Thaddeus Holmes	Durham C	Edinburgh A	116	10
Elliot Earley	Sheffield B	Edinburgh C	116	10
Tom Blythe	Cambridge D	Imperial A	116	10
Siheon Lee	Imperial C	Cambridge B	116	10
Vishrut Pisupati	Imperial B	Imperial D	116	10
Shlok Dev	LSE	Warwick	116	10
Ben Gardberg	Cornell B	Binghamton B	116	10
Astrid Kelley	RIT B	ESF	116	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	20%	69.40
UK (South)	UK	8	88%	38%	100.29
Northern California	US	4	100%	25%	65.75
Southern California	US	7	86%	57%	94.00
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	40%	85.40
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	22%	76.11
Florida	US	4	75%	50%	88.33
Great Lakes	US	11	82%	36%	73.22
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	11%	87.89
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	83%	25%	79.10
Midwest	US	9	100%	33%	88.67
North	US	4	75%	0%	66.33
Northeast	US	12	92%	8%	82.73
Pacific	US	8	88%	13%	94.43
Southeast	US	13	92%	31%	83.75
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	0%	92.20