Hinduism - 2025 ACF Fall

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Philosophers from this religion made up six so-called “orthodox” schools of thought. (10[1])A non-dualist (-5[1])school of philosophy named for the “end” of this religion’s holy texts (10[1])identified (10[1])the self with the first principle (10[1]-5[1])of the universe and was introduced (10[1])to America (10[1])at the 1893 Parliament (10[3]-5[1])of the World’s (10[1]-5[1])Religions. (10[4]-5[3])One of this (10[1])religion’s (10[1])“Four (10[2])Great (10[1])Sayings,” (10[1])often translated (-5[1])as “that thou art,” (10[2]-5[2])inspired (10[2]-5[1])Arthur Schopenhauer’s (10[2]-5[1])theory (-5[1])of the will. (10[3]-5[2])A text (10[1])from this religion (-5[2])named (10[1])Chāndogya (10[1])equates Ātman (-5[2])with (10[1])Brahman. (10[7]-5[4])This (10[2])religion’s (10[2])Upanishads (10[8])are (10[1]-5[1])commentaries (10[7])on the (10[3])Vedas, (10[4]-5[1])and it originated (10[1])the concepts (10[4])of saṁsāra (10[2])and karma. (10[3])For 10 points, (-5[2])name this largest religion (-5[1])in (10[1])India. (10[2])■END■ (10[26])

ANSWER: Hinduism [or Sanātana Dharma] (“Orthodox” is the common English translation of āstika. The second sentence refers to Advaita Vedānta, which Swami Vivekananda introduced to America.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	Alberta B	11	10
Tristan Scarlett	Ottawa D	Carleton B	13	-5
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	CWRU B	25	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	Ohio State B	26	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	Ottawa B	32	-5
Gavin Chen	Vassar A	Vassar B	32	10
Luke Sauer	Michigan Tech	St. Thomas	38	10
Jeremy Katen	George Mason A	Johns Hopkins	40	10
Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran	UC Santa Barbara	USC A	44	10
Orin Overmiller	Florida Tech B	UCF A	44	10
Anton Akroush	Michigan State A	Ohio State A	44	10
David Black	Illinois Champaign	Indiana A	44	-5
Theodor Martin	WashU Grizzlers	Iowa A	47	-5
Kushagra Bahuguna	Washington Chinook	Washington Atlantic	47	10
Ty Brennan	Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Little Prince	48	-5
Yousuf Huq	McMaster A	Toronto E	48	-5
Joseph Strom	Louisville B	Ohio State C	48	10
Vedang Singhal	UNC C	UNC A	48	10
Vedh Ramesh	Penn	Rutgers A	48	10
Luke Bromley	Indiana B	Illinois Urbana	48	-5
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Boston University B	48	10
Nathan Redford	Liberty A	Duke A	51	10
Brooks Phillips	Auburn A	Georgia Tech D	52	10
James O'Reilly	Arizona State A	Washington Pink	53	10
Suyog Vibhuti	Washington Steelhead	Washington Coho	53	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Boise State	54	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	Alberta A	55	10
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Rose-Hulman A	57	-5
Aleksa Misic	Waterloo B	Toronto D	61	10
Nathan Woolery	Louisville C	Michigan State C	61	-5
Mahathi Veluri	UConn A	Brandeis Beethoven	61	10
Wesley Stine	Clemson A	Vanderbilt C	61	-5
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Skeleton King	62	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UCSD A	62	-5
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Harvard	62	10
Snehan Saroch	Louisville A	Michigan B	64	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	64	10
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech C	64	-5
Aedan Cooper	Ottawa A	McGill A	65	-5
Annika Larson	Claremont A	UCLA C	68	10
Christina Popov	Queen's A	Toronto G	68	10
Tosca Zhang	NYU A	Maryland A	68	-5
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Tufts B	68	-5
Charles Xin	British Columbia A	British Columbia B	68	10
Sam Alahi	Illinois Orange	Purdue A	70	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Amherst B	73	-5
Jonas Cross	Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech F	73	-5
James Horsley	Iowa State	Macalester	74	10
Margaret Withers	George Mason B	Princeton	75	10
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida A	77	-5
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Tennessee B	77	-5
William Erwin	William & Mary B	Liberty C	78	10
Aditya Koushik	Stanford B	Berkeley Archer Queen	79	10
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	Claremont C	79	10
Venkat Das	WVU B	Louisville D	79	10
Henry Nonnemaker	CWRU C	Pittsburgh	79	-5
Derek Aldridge	William & Mary A	JMU B	79	10
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	Rutgers B	79	-5
Neal Tandon	Columbia B	Maryland C	79	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	Chicago B	79	-5
Alan Cai	Amherst A	Boston College B	79	10
Ayaan Jajodia	Dartmouth B	Williams C	79	-5
Samarth Prajapati	Georgia Tech E	South Carolina A	79	10
Walter Carson	NCSU B	Tusculum A	80	10
Ezra Zareba	UNC B	William & Mary C	80	10
Rishi Mathur	Claremont B	UCLA F	81	10
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Chipola College	81	10
Juan Morales Oropeza	Ottawa C	McGill C	82	10
Thomas Brittain	McMaster C	Toronto A	82	10
Nameer Qadir	Toronto C	Brock A	82	10
Asish Madarapu	UNC D	NCSU A	82	10
Alexander Rutten	Columbia A	Rutgers D	82	10
Salil Jain	Williams B	Dartmouth C	82	10
Devon Kumar	Tufts C	Brandeis Bach	82	10
Veer Vanmali	Mississippi State A	Emory A	82	10
Hafsa Shaikh	Toronto I	McMaster B	83	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Michigan D	83	-5
Surya Donath	Stanford A	UCSC	84	10
Yuv Magan	UCSD B	USC B	84	10
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida B	Florida State A	84	10
Hitansh Malaviya	Rutgers C	George Mason C	84	10
Sriram Koritala	Illinois Blue	Iowa B	84	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	Purdue D	84	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	Minnesota	84	10
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	UC Irvine	86	10
Atreya Mallanna	Brown B	Dartmouth A	86	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	Binghamton A	86	10
Dominic Heffron	Florida Tech A	South Florida A	87	-5
Stella Broome	Virginia A	Liberty B	87	10
Kenner Bailey	Boston University A	Brown A	87	10
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Vermont A	87	10
Isaiah Schmid	Binghamton B	Binghamton C	87	10
Akif Ismail	Williams C	Dartmouth B	90	10
Imtiaz Kidwai	Toronto F	Waterloo C	92	10
Agatha Dahle	WVU A	Michigan State D	92	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Clemson C	92	10
Shivam Saxena	Georgia Tech F	Tennessee Tech	92	10
Jerry Lin	Vanderbilt B	Auburn B	94	10
Danny Cutbill	RIT A	Cornell B	94	10
Zachary Fitzpatrick	Wisconsin B	Wisconsin C	96	10
Ethan Miniard	Montevallo	Sewanne	96	10
Connor Yu	Cornell C	RIT B	96	10
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	Toronto H	99	-5
Derek Li	Cornell A	Rochester	99	-5
Susanna Liao	Waterloo A	Toronto B	103	-5
Eric Cameron	Michigan State C	Louisville C	104	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	Berkeley Mighty Miner	105	10
Eric Lipsutz	Chicago B	Chicago A	105	10
Kevin Hendargo	UCSD A	UCLA B	106	10
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	Ottawa A	106	10
Abhay Ariyapappillil	Ottawa B	McGill B	106	10
Valerie Brown	Carleton B	Ottawa D	106	10
Platon Gorokhov	Toronto E	McMaster A	106	10
Frances Corban	Toronto H	Guelph A	106	10
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	Waterloo A	106	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	ERAU Daytona A	106	10
Addison Wiggins	South Florida A	Florida Tech A	106	10
Varun Ramanathan	Michigan D	Ohio State D	106	10
Zac Stapler	Pittsburgh	CWRU C	106	10
Erin Williams	JMU A	VCU A	106	10
Daniel Abrams	Rutgers B	Lehigh B	106	10
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	NYU A	106	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Canada	106	10
Anurag Shah	Indiana A	Illinois Champaign	106	10
Samarth Majmudar	Illinois Urbana	Indiana B	106	10
Grace Early	Iowa A	WashU Grizzlers	106	10
Roy Yang	WashU Grolars	William Woods University A	106	10
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Southern Connecticut State University A	106	10
Yvonne Pan	Amherst B	Vermont B	106	10
Haylee Weisner	Washington Masu	Washington Chum	106	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Alabama A	106	10
Ronak Kelkar	Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt A	106	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Clemson A	106	10
Kieran Freed	Rochester	Cornell A	106	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
Northern California	US	4	100%	25%	82.50
Southern California	US	7	100%	14%	78.29
Eastern Canada (1)	US	4	100%	75%	100.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	33%	87.33
Florida	US	4	100%	50%	85.00
Great Lakes	US	10	100%	30%	69.40
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	76.78
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	22%	72.44
Midwest	US	9	100%	56%	97.00
North	US	4	100%	0%	73.00
Northeast	US	12	100%	25%	81.33
Pacific	US	8	100%	0%	55.88
Southeast	US	12	100%	33%	87.50
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	20%	93.80