Inca - 2025 ACF Fall

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Women in this empire would chew and spit out food to make a fermented purple drink offered to (10[1])freeze-dried (-5[1])royal (10[1])mummies. (10[4]-5[2])People in this (10[1])empire (10[2]-5[1])boiled (10[1])preserved (10[1])potatoes (10[2])from (10[1])storehouses (10[7])situated (10[4])next to (10[2])tiered farms (10[2])in (10[1])places (10[5]-5[1])like (10[5])the (10[5])Sacred (10[3]-5[1])Valley. (10[7])Fish (10[2])and snails were carried through this (10[1])empire (10[2])by chasquis (10[2])(“CHASS-kees”), messengers (10[1])along (10[1])its (10[3])massive (10[3])road system. (10[16])While feasting (10[2])at (10[1])Cajamarca (“ka-ha-MAR-ka”), this (10[1])empire’s (10[1])ruler was captured (10[1])and ransomed for two rooms filled with silver and gold. (10[2]-5[1])This empire, which recorded food stock (0[1])on knotted cords called quipus (10[1])(“KEE-poos”), made ch’arki (10[1])(“CHAR-kee”) meat from alpacas. For 10 points, name this empire once ruled by Atahualpa (10[1])from Cuzco in modern-day Peru. ■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: Inca [or Inca Empire or Incan Empire; or Tawatinsuyu] (The first line refers to chicha.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Jack Marguiles	Stony Brook	Princeton	17	10
Zaid Asif	NYU A	Rutgers C	18	-5
Jacob Goodson	Ohio State A	CWRU A	19	10
Ben Kantsiper	JMU B	Liberty A	20	10
David Nickel	Purdue A	Chicago A	20	10
Francis Dinh	Illinois Canada	William Woods University A	20	10
John Maupin	Chipola College	Mississippi State A	20	10
Niyanthi Yamunan	Georgia Tech E	Vanderbilt C	20	-5
Isy Simpkins	Durham B	Durham D	20	-5
Adam Monusko	Michigan A	Pittsburgh	23	10
Keerthana Krishnan	Texas	Alberta A	24	10
Anirudh Terdal	LSE	Cambridge D	24	-5
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Imperial A	24	10
Tianyi Zheng	UCSD B	Claremont C	25	10
Thomas Jenkins	Michigan B	Kentucky	26	10
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	UCLA B	27	10
Leonard Castine	Penn	Maryland B	27	10
Theodor Martin	WashU Grizzlers	Illinois Orange	28	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	Florida B	29	10
Nova Sink	Virginia Tech A	Duke A	29	10
Charles Miller	William & Mary C	William & Mary A	29	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Rowan	29	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Lehigh A	29	10
Doug Frederick	Auburn A	Clemson A	29	10
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech F	29	10
Galen Mueller	McGill B	McGill C	30	10
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech B	Tusculum A	30	10
TJ Pickering	Auburn B	Vanderbilt A	30	10
Jackson Slaughter	Tennessee A	Emory A	30	10
Sebastian Llaca	Wisconsin A	St. Thomas	32	10
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	Washington Chum	32	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Mighty Miner	34	10
Charlie Nicholls	Cambridge C	Cambridge A	34	10
Nina Bindra	Southampton	Cambridge E	35	10
Brian Hobmann	UCLA F	USC A	36	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill A	36	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	South Florida A	36	10
Elias Lowrey	Lehigh B	Vassar A	36	-5
Ethan Ma	Illinois Blue	Purdue B	36	10
Roy Yang	WashU Grolars	Illinois Champaign	36	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	CWRU C	37	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Iowa B	37	10
Marc Greco	Williams A	Tufts A	37	10
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	South Carolina A	37	10
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Vanderbilt B	37	10
Oliver Thompson	CWRU D	Ohio State D	38	10
Joseph Strom	Louisville B	WVU A	38	10
Vedang Singhal	UNC C	NCSU B	38	10
Stephen Donoghue	Sheffield B	Edinburgh B	38	10
Jake Scoville	RIT B	RIT A	38	10
Vijay Hans	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Stanford A	39	10
Scott Sibley	UC Irvine	Claremont A	39	10
Henry L'Heureux	Minnesota	Macalester	39	10
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge B	Warwick	39	-5
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	Berkeley Skeleton King	40	10
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	Columbia A	40	10
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Illinois Urbana	40	10
Sonya Bates	Washington Atlantic	Washington Steelhead	40	10
Thaddeus Holmes	Durham C	Sheffield A	40	10
Harry Oxley	Imperial C	Bristol	40	10
Aidan Keenan	Rochester	Cornell C	40	10
Mai Höglund	Claremont B	USC B	41	10
Alex Hestermann	Washington Sockeye	British Columbia C	41	10
Peyton Legg	UCF A	ERAU Daytona A	47	10
Graydon Allard	Ottawa A	McGill E	48	10
Julian Thomson-Harris	Vassar A	Lehigh B	48	10
Nitish Sudhakar	Georgia Tech A	Auburn C	50	10
Peter Smith	Binghamton A	Binghamton B	50	10
Gregory Stone	ESF	Cornell B	51	10
Merrick Hill	Iowa State	Wisconsin B	52	10
Orion Brey	Louisville A	Michigan State B	53	10
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Vassar B	53	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Georgia Tech B	53	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	UCLA D	54	10
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	Michigan State D	54	10
Skand Parvatikar	Arizona State B	Washington Chinook	54	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Stanford B	56	10
Bolun Thompson	UCLA C	UCLA E	56	10
Sophia Schlag	Ottawa C	Carleton A	56	10
Meredith Wiper	CWRU B	Louisville C	56	10
Jack Rabaut	Michigan D	WVU B	56	10
William Erwin	William & Mary B	Liberty B	56	10
Max Kurzman	UNC D	Liberty C	56	10
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	VCU A	56	10
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	Virginia A	56	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	NYU C	56	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	Columbia B	56	10
Anurag Shah	Indiana A	Purdue D	56	10
Hanson Hunynh	Boston University B	Southern Connecticut State University A	56	10
Rae Meyers	Arizona State A	Washington Masu	56	10
Daniel Slater	Tennessee Tech	Sewanne	56	10
Solomon Blecher	Cornell D	Binghamton C	56	10
Joe O'Connor	George Mason B	George Mason C	58	10
Luke Bromley	Indiana B	Iowa A	58	10
Jonathan Ho	Alberta B	Boise State	59	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Georgia Tech D	61	10
Dominic Heffron	Florida Tech A	Florida Tech B	62	10
Ollie Glin-Conway	Imperial D	Birmingham	65	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland A	NYU B	75	10
Alex Matchinski	Michigan Tech	Wisconsin C	75	10
Logan Van Pelt	Washington Coho	British Columbia B	75	-5
Michael Shipman	Cambridge D	LSE	81	0
Nayaaz Hashim	Oxford	Imperial B	86	10
Hitansh Malaviya	Rutgers C	NYU A	88	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	York	101	10
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	Washington Coho	107	10
James Zhao	Vanderbilt C	Georgia Tech E	107	10
Jack Disbury	Durham D	Durham B	107	10
Pen Hughes	Edinburgh C	Edinburgh D	107	10
Jolie Yeh	Warwick	Cambridge B	107	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	20%	78.60
UK (South)	UK	8	88%	25%	55.86
Northern California	US	4	100%	0%	42.25
Southern California	US	7	100%	0%	39.71
Eastern Canada (1)	US	4	100%	0%	42.50
Florida	US	4	100%	0%	43.50
Great Lakes	US	10	100%	0%	40.00
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	41.11
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	11	100%	18%	47.27
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	1	100%	0%	56.00
Midwest	US	9	100%	0%	36.78
North	US	4	100%	0%	49.50
Northeast	US	2	100%	0%	46.50
Pacific	US	8	100%	13%	51.63
Southeast	US	12	100%	8%	44.92
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	0%	47.00